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

THE SUN, LOTMON.- TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 1861.

Some particulars of the death of Count TELEKI
have reached this country. They are of a kind to
render suicide possible; still the evidence is any-
thing but conclusive. It seems wonderful that a
pistol should have been fired in the house, which
must apparently have been the case, as the ball
had penetrated from the heart to the spine, with-
out any one hearing what he could recognise as
the report. A noise, which a servant took to be
the slamming of a door, was all that was heard.
The pistol which lay by him was the Count's own ;
he was half-dressed ; the bed had been recently
slept in ; and, it is said, that his mind had been
somewhat unhinged. He had been seen en-
gaged at his desk till eleven o'clock, and what
appears to be quite incompatible with the proba-
bility of, at least, premeditated suicide, is that he
was engaged in preparing and revising his speech
for the important debate on the Address in reply
to the Imperial Speech, which was coming on the
next day. The subject is regarded at Pesth as a
mystery ; and it certainly is one. Nothing is known
which could have led the Count to commit the act ;
but it is known that his combined eloquence, and
firmness for the undeniable rights of Hungary,
with the influence of his character and position,
rendered him one of the most formidable antago-
nists of the Viennese reactionists. Count TELEKI'S
voice is silenced for ever ; the Court of Vienna gets
the sole advantage of the deed. He did not love it
so well as knowingly to confer such a benefit upon
it. Did he, however, do it in an inexplicable fit of
mental aberration, or did treachery invade the
patriot's chamber P Perhaps we shall never know
till the Day of Judgment.

The Prince of Wales got an uncomfortable duck-
ing while boating on the Cam on Friday. The Prince and
Capt. Grey, one of his equerries, were amusing themselves
in a "tub," when the small craft was upset. His Royal
Highness and Capt. Grey were precipitated into the water,
but were soon got out, nothing the worse for their mishap.
His Excelletcy the Hon. Charles Francis Adams,
the newly-appointed Minister from the United States, and
family, have arrived in town, and are staying at Maurigy's
Hotel, Regent-street.
The Duchess of Athole has arrived at the St.
George's Hotel.
The Earl and Countess Craven and family come
to town to-morrow, from Ashdowne Park, Berks, for the
season.

The Countess of Winchilsea has left the St.
George's Hotel.
The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs.
Cowper left town yesterday morning for Brighton, on
receipt of intelligence of the serious illness of Lady
Tollernache.
MUNICH, May B.—The Count di Trani, brother
to the ex-King of Naples, arrived here yesterday evening,
and was met by the Duke Maximilian, who conducted his
Highness to the Royal palace, where the Duchess Louise
presented to him his destined bride, the Duchess Mathilde,
sister to the Empress of Austria and to the Queen of
Naples. This evening a courier left Munich fi•r Rome
with the marriage contract, in order that it might there re-
ceive the " royal assent." Previous to the departure of the
courier, a formal demand of the hand of the young duchess
' had been made by the Count.
Listz, the pianist, has arrived in Paris after an
absence of several years.
General Miramon, ex-President of the Mexican
Republic, has also arrived in Paris, accompanied by
Madame Miramon, his children, and several other mem-
bers of his family.
Paris was visited by a heavy thunderstorm on
Saturday afternoon, and the rain for some time fell in tor
rents. The lightning was most vivid, and the electric fluid
fell on the house of a baker on the Boulevard de l'Etoile,
and entering the bakehouse, set fire to some faggots. The
flames were soon extinguished.
The appeal of Mule. Bonaparte-Patterson and
her son againgt the decision of the Civil Tribunal in the
affair of the former's marriage with the late Prince Jerome,

will be heard by the Imperial Court in the beginnin,gei
June. M. Devienne, first President, is to preside, and M.
Chaix d'Est Ange, Procureur-General, will oppose the
appeal.

_
no Court of Cassation, presided over by M.
Vaisse, has rejected the appeal_ of the Abb6 Grelat, of St.
Germf,in-sur-l'Aubois, against the sentence of the Court of
Assizes of the Cher, which condemned him to 15 years'
hard labour for criminal assaults on young girls.

An Imperial decree in the Moniteur authorises
the Treaty of Commerce between France and Belgium,
concluded on the 27th Feb., 1854, and which expires on the
12th inst., to remain in force, until
.the new treaty signed
between the two countries on the Ist inst. shall come into
operation.
M. Thouvenel has, it is said, addressed a circular.
to the French consular agents in America, recommending
them to observe the strictest neutrality in the events which
are now taking place in that country.

It is rumoured that M. de Lesseps has just re-
turned from Egypt to Paris, to raise further funds for the
prosecution of Suez Canal. According to some accounts
about £300,000 has already been spent without adequate
result, an expensive dyke on the Mediterranean side hav-
ing been washed away.

As the telegraphic wires from Constantinople to
Bagdad have at length been nearly completed, the Calcutta
Chamber of Commerce have requested the Indian Govern-
ment to take advantage of the first steamer leaving Bom-
bay for the Persian Gulf to test the speed with which a

message to England can be transmitted by that route.
The Great Ship Company propose to raise £35,000
in debentures having 12 months to run, at 10 per cent., to
pay off existing claims. The security will be a first mort-
gage of the vessel. If the money is not raised within a few
weeks, the ship will be Sold to meet the demands now
standing over.

A large number of envelopes of letters now used
the Northern States of America have " God bless the
Union" printed on them. Many havo on them also the
flag of the United States, the stars and stripes printed in
colours, with transverse black stripes to represent the re-
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man stating that the directors courted the fullest
investiga-
tion. A long and miscellaneous discussion ensued, in the
course of which a motion was made for a committee of
investigation. Upon this an amendment was proposed,
postponing the discussion upon the question of the charges
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bably be difficult for the North to overrun and hold
the whole State; Kentucky, Missouri, and
Tennessee dare not move on account of
their slaves so easily running away ; it
would probably, therefore, not be difficult to coerce
the Border Slave States before long into the Union.
One great difficulty, however, lies in President
LINCOLN'S way. He and his supporters have
hitherto only demanded to veto the farther terri-
torial extension of slavery. They have not only
not declared against slavery, but have been willing
to accept the accursed Fugitive Slave Law itself as
a necessary result of the Federal constitution. If
they retain Maryland and other border states in the
Union, they must also continue to uphold that law
for their sake; they must make the Union still the
slave of slavery. Why could not the Government
take at once the bold course of henceforth severing
all connection with slavery ? Indeed, had Mr.
LINCOLN'S first act been to proclaim that if any
state revolted, for that State henceforth there was
no mire rendition of fugitives for freedom, he
would have embarrassed all the border states with
the fear of desertion. Had he added, that the next
step would be a determined effort to deliver the
captive, hardly a State would have dared to move.
Probably the North was not prepared for such
measures, yet they would have been right in them-
selves, and would soon have brought to an issue
the great question, whether the Union, if pre-
served, should be a Union for slavery or for free-
dom. Should the struggle proceed, the North may
under the teaching of necessity learn lessons on
freedom far in advance of its present notions. At
present the battle of the North is not for freedom
but only for supremacy.

Li A E r Nux, --
EA IS,

AMERICA.

(PER COLITMPp, VIA GALWAY AND ST. JOHN'S.)
NEW YORK, MAY 4.
The blockade of the South= ports is to be en-
forced immediately.
Fifty vessels, with steam transports and 20,000
men, are ready.
The North Carolina Legislature has been con-
vened.

The State is virtually out of Union, and is

equipping for war.
Maryland and Western Virginia are true to the

Union.

Kentucky will maintain a neutral position.
No attack has yet been made on Fort Pickens.
An insurrection has broken out at Yucapatan.
Fifteen British officers were killed.
A regiment has left Ruatan for the scene of
action.

The Columbia left Boston on the 30th April, and
St. John's on the 6th inst. She brings the mails
and 108 passengers.

ture 15'y a ♦iolent proceeding. The general opinion
entertained at Vienna and Pesth is, that those pro-
positions will be adopted unanimously, and the
Austrian Government would then find itself placed
under the alternative of either placing Hungary
out of the unitary law of the 26th February, or of
employing force to put down resistance.