The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

THE DEATH OF COUNT T.ELEKI,

VIENNA, MAY 10.
The debate on the address was to have begun in
the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies at 10 o'clock
in the morning of Wednesday last, but the news of
the violent death of Count Ladislaus Teleki pro-
duced such a painful impression on the House that
it was unable to attend to business, and adjourned
until Monday the 15th inst. At eight in the morn-
ing of the first-mentioned day the galleries in the
Museum* began to fill, and half an hour later they
were crowded to excess. Shortly before nine it
was rumoured in the city that something had hap-
pened to Count L. Teleki, and the report speedily
found its way to the Chamber of Deputies. The
public was for some time ignorant of what had
happened, but suddenly there was a great stir in
the galleries, which was accompanied by a loud
and hasty demand .for " water." Several ladies
had fainted, and, as the entrances to the upper-parts
of the House were so crowded as to be totally im-
passable, the water required was handed up to the
galleries from the floor of the House. For a time
the confusion was great, but as soon as M. von
Ghiczy, the President, entered, order was restored.
M. von. Ghiczy, who appeared to be deeply affected,
said—
" Honourable Members,—Last night Count Ladislaus
Teleki, our patriotic, lespected, and beloved colleague, de-
parted this life. (General movement and exclamations of
grief.) I feel the pain which my communication must
cause, and therefore ask whether you are inclined to begin
the important debate which is on the order of the day."
(A loud and general cry of " Impossible I")
M. Desk then rose, and thus addressed the
House :
" I do not seek for words in which to express my grief,
but at once declare that this heavy blow has had such
an effect on my mind that I am unable to take part in the
debate. Hungary has suffered a heavy loss, and I have
lost the f•ithfnl frfrmel of my ynnth_ It wss my intention
to speak at the beginning of the debate, but when matters
of high importance are at issue peace of mind and calmness
are necessary. The honoura!le House will therefore allow
me to express a wish that the debate may be postponed
until Monday next. It may perhaps be well to adjourn
immediately, as it is not probable that any one can wish to
enter into discussion." (General assent.)
Before the Deputies left the House M. von Ghiczy
informed them that a private conference would be
held at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The representa-
tives of the Hungarian nation assembled at the hour
appointed, and before they separated came to the
conclusion that Count L. Teleki had committed

suicide.
The Count retired to his bedroom soon after ten
o'clock on the evening of the 7th inst., and an hour
later some of his relatives saw him sitting at his
writing-desk. Count Julius Teleki, who returned
home at midnight, hear " his uncle walking to and
fro in the adjoining room. Another inhabitant of
the house was roused during the night by a "crack,"
but is unable to say at what hour. When his valet
entered the Count's room at eight o'clock in the
morning he saw his master lying dead on the floor.
The captain of the city was immediately sent for,
and he soon made his appearance. The body was
lying with its feet towards the bed, and on one foot
was a slipper. The other slipper was found on the
bed froth which the Count is supposed to have risen
towards morning. The only articles of clothing on
the body were a shirt, a pair of stockings, black
Hungarian trousers, a black neckcloth, and a
slipper. The pistol with which the Count shot
himself was found on the ground. A second
pistol, which was not loaded, was lying in its case on
a small table near the head of the bed. On the same
table were a teacup, which was half-full, a half-
smoked cigar, and a book entitled " Magyarovszag
Alaptorveney " (Fundamental Laws of Hungary).
It is supposed that the unfortunate man pulled
the trigger of the pistol with the forefinger of
the left hand, as the right hand was forced in be-
tween the belt of the trousers and the body. The
left hand covered the region of tha heart, near
which the bullet passed. So little blood escaped
from the wound that there was none on tne floor.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the Bth inst. there
was the customary medical examination of the body,

and the bullet was found near the spine. Ttle
family of the defanct noble wished to have the body
taken to Szirak on the 9th, but the rumour that
Teleki had been assassinated was so very prevalent
that the members of the Diet expressed a wish that
the mortal remains of their colleague might not be
removed from Pesth until the following day. This
morning the corpse was taken to the Museum, and at
4 o'clock it will be sent to Szirak. As Count Teleki
left no letter behind him, it is impossible positively
to say why he committed suicide. The Austrians
say that he feared he should be arrested on a charge
of having conspired with the French and Sardinians
to sever Hungary from the empire, and many of
the Hungarians think he took his own life because
he had become aware that he should not receive
.the
foreign assistance which had been promised
My own opinion, which is based on communications
received from persons residing at Pesth, is, that poor
Teleki was not in sane mind when he committed the

rash act.
As soon as it was resolved that the debate on the
Address should be postponed, M. Deak desired the
printer not to send his speech to press, but it must
be concluded that his instructions were not obeyed,
as the leading features of the document arc eery
generally known. According to this celebrated
jurist, the only tie between Hungary and Austria
is that one and the same muarch reigns over both

countries. In the fundamental laws of the king-
dom of Hungary there is no trace of a " real" union.
Had there been one, Hungary would not have been
allowed to retain her constitution. During the
minority of the heir to the Hungarian throne the

Palatine is at the head of affairs, but in the other

parts of the empire the next male relative is
guardian to the Imperial minor. If the family of
Hapsburg Lorraine should he extinct, Austria and

* The Lower Chamber hold* its sittings in the N4tioual
Ngseui,

Hungary would be separate countries, "as there is
no other tie between them than a personal one."
When the Constitution is de facto restored, and a
responsible Ministry formed, the coronation can
be discussed, but not before. It was Francis Joseph
I. who convoked the Hungarian Diet, and to him
that Assembly has to communicate its wishes. An
address must be presented, as a resolution (hatarozat)
would not be admissible unless both
,parties were
under arms and on the eve of hostilities. The oppo-
nents of the address are of opinion that Francis
Joseph I. is not the lawful heir to the Hungarian
crown, because in the act of abdication no special
mention is made of King Ferdinand V. of Hun-
gary, but de facto the throne is vacant, and his
Majesty, in virtue of the Pragmatic Sanction, has
a just claim to it. Although such are the opinions
entertained by M. Deak, the leader of the Moderate
party in Hungary, the Austrians still flatter them-
selves the Hungarians will eventually ri cognise
the validity of the Fundamental Laws published
by the whole empire on the 27th of February. The
forcible levy of taxes continues in Hungary, and
Deak recommends his fellow•-countrymen to pay
what is demanded of them. Poor Teleki is sadly
reviled here because he did not keep the promise
which he made to the Emperor. " The man who
makes a solemn promise and breaks it is a scoundrel
(churl.;)," said a person to me yesterday. The
gentleman in question is well intentioned, but he is
over fond of forcible language, and is besides for-
getful of the past. The Emperor has granted an
audience to the Croato-Slavonian deputation, and
told it that he will for this time (dermalen) permit
the inhabitants of the military frontiers to send
deputies to Agram. His Majesty, however, declared
that the maintenance of the military frontier system
was necessary to the wellbeing of the empire, and
also that he did not intend to force Dalmatia into
a union with Croatia and Slavonia.
Both the Chambers of the Austrian Reichsrath
have drawn up their addresses to the Emperor, and
will bring them forward on Saturday next, on which
day there will be public sittings. On Wednesday
there was a great soiree in the apartments inha-
bited by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. All the
members of the Iteichsrath were present, and
almost all the foreign Ministers.
KING-'8 COLLEGE HOSPITAL.

A remarkably commodious, substantial, and ele-
gant structure, which has been in course of erection
during the last three years, at a cost of about
£40,000, is now on the eve of completion, destined,
with the extensive wing built in a similar style a few
years ago, to be the future habitation of this noble
institution, which, besides being a refuge on a large
scale for the sick and destitute poor, is also a medi-
cal school of high repute. Little more than 20
years ago King's College Hospital was established
with the view of affording hospital accommodation
to the densely inhabited district between Holborn
and the Strand, the population of which in 1851
was estimated at 400,000, and which until 1839 was
entirely dependent for medical advice and assist-
ance upon a single dispensary. The Council of
King's College, to promote the efficiency of their
medical school, cordially aided the efforts of influ-
ential inhabitants of the district and other benevo-
lent persons to establish an hospital for the relief
of the sick and destitute poor. The eminence of
the medical and surgical staff of the hospital con,
tinued to attract patients in large and constantly
increasing numbers, from not only all the surround-
ing parishes, but from other parts of London and
the suburban districts, and from the country many
miles round. In 1840 the patients amounted to
4,834, but the number during the past year has
reached 33,153. Since the establishment of the
institution 462,685 patients have been admitted to
the benefits of the charity, of whom 26,464 were
in-patients, 426,991 out-patients, and 9,234 poor
married women attended in their confinement at
their own homes. About 150 beds are in constant
use, accommodating on an average between 1,400
and 1,500 patients annually. The old workhouse
of the parish of St. Clement Danes, in which the
hospital was originally located, and where for years
it was " cribb'd, eabin'd, and confined," was soon
found inadequate both in the extent and character
of the accommodation, and the governors, assisted
by the generosity of the public, purchased ground
and buildings and ere, ted a portion of a new hos-
pital, still retaining the partial use of the old build-
ing, by which the accommodation for in-patients
was extended, while convenience was supplied for
out-patients resorting to the institution, and num-
bering about 500 a-day. In 1857 the managing
committee, urged by continually growing demands
for further accommodation, and having regard to
the dilapidated state of the old building, made an
effort to raise £40,000 for the completion of the hos-
pital, by an appeal to the public, which was com-
pletely successful. The second and larger portion
of the new edifice is now finished and ready for oc-
cupation ; the old building will be shortly pulled
down, and the continuation of the Carey-street wing
proceeded with ; and the entire new building is ex-
pected to be completed in the summer of next year,
when the hospital will accommodate 200 patients,
and in respect of convenience and comfort will bear
comparison with any similar institution in the
country. The institution is to all intents and pur-
poses a free hospital ; all cases of (accident and
urgency are at once admitted to the utmost limit of
the accommodation, and no patient is ever turned
away for want of a letter of recommendation. Of
the in-patients fully two-thirds are admitted free,
while out of the half a million out-patients relieved
since the establishment of the hospital, not more
than 10,000 have presented governors' letters. This
vast amount of relief afforded to sickness and suffer-
ing is administered at a cost of between £6,000 and
£7,000 a-year ; and the hospital, being unendowed,
is entirely de pendent for support on the annual
donations of its governors and the voluntary con-
tributions and bequests of benevolent persons. The
nursing department of the hospital is conducted by
the ladies and nurses of St. John's-house, an insti-
tution established for the special purpose of train-
ing nurses in a proper knowledge of their duties.
The nurses are young, active women, trained to the
work, who live in the hospital, and, like Miss
Nightingale, devote themselves to nursing. The
hospital is also an important .medical school.
Since its commencement 1,300 students have ac-
quired professional experience within its walls and
within a few years the institution has acquired
a distinguished reputation. The new edi-
fice just completed is altogether six stories high,
including basement. It is built principally of brick,
with an imposing entrance from Portugal-street,
to which a flight of steps of Portland stone leads.
On the ground floor is a series of reception-rooms
for patients, with a bath room, and two lifts com-
municating with the wards on every story above,
by which means a patient is gently transported
to the lccality assigned him. A portion of the same
floor is devoted to offices for the authorities and to
a board-room. Each of the floors above, three in
number, consists of a ward 85 feet loog by 24 feet
wide, admirably ventilated, lighted by nine win-
dows ; the top of the building is appropriated to
bed, bath, and general sitting rooms for the lady
nurses. Access i 3 had to the whole of the upper
portion of it by a vast staircase ; and the floors are
all fire-proof. The builders are Messrs. Lucas; the
architect, Mr. Bellamy.

GRAND CIVIC BANQUET TO THE MEMBERS OF
TILE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.—:The present Lord
Mayor is resolved to impart to the hospitalities of the Man-
sion-house that character of generous and almost profuse
hospitality which distinguished it in the days when Sir
Win. Curtis was its chief magis.rate, and possessed so much
influence in the management of city affairs. At the inaugu-
ral dinner of the Royal Academy, an invitation to the
Mansion-house was given by the Lord Mayor to the whole
of the Royal Academicians, which has been accepted. The
banquet will take place on Saturday, the 25th instant.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND RAILWAY COM-
missioN.—Yestarday the commissioners appointed by the
Crown to inquire into and report upon this question, re-
assembled at the offices of the commission in Victoria-
street, Westminster. Plans were placed before the com-
missioners, and explained by Mr. J. Sewell, C.E. ; Sir W.
Worsley, of Hovingham Hall, York; Mr. T Page, C.E.,
the architect of new Westminster-bridge ; Mr. Bazalgette,
engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works; and Mr.
Btu ze.

TILE UNITED STATES AMBASSADORS IN LIVER-
POOL.--The following members of the United States diplo-
matic body arrived yesterday in Liverpool, by the Niagara,
from Boston :—The Hon. Cassius M. Clay, United States
Minister to Russia, Mrs. Clay, two Misses Clay, and three
children; the Hon. C. F. Adams, United States Minister
to England, Mrs. Adams, Miss Adams, and Messrs. H. P.
and B. Adams; the Hon. J. L. Haldemann, United States
Minister to Sweden, Mrs. Haldemann. and two ehildren.
THE ROMANTIC SUICIDE ON PRIMROSE-lIILL.--
VERDICT, FELO DE SE."—Last evening Mr. G. S. Brent,
deputy coroner for the western division of Middlesex, and
the jury empannelled on Monday last, re-assembled at the
Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden .town, pursuant
an inquest on
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the 4th instant, as reported in our columns. Several addi-
tional witnesses were called, with the view to ascertain the
condition of deceased's mind immediately preceding death
after which tio jury
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