The Sun. — 1860-12-31 (London, England)

COUNT TELEKI.  (From thg Paris Correspondent of the, Times.) I have much satisfaction in stating that the Emperor Napoleon has caused the matter of Count Ladislaus Teleki to be taken up in a manner that does him great credit. lam assured that strong remonstrances have been made both to the Austrian and Saxon Ministers here, and the conduct of the Government represented by the latter has been commented upon in terms of special reprobation. The French Ministers at Vienna and Dresden have doubtless by this called the attention of the respective Courts to the subject, and the explanations they get are probably the same that have been given here. They aro to the effect that Count Teleki's case came within the scope of the Extradition Treaty, and that he was, to all intents and purposes, a criminal ; that Austria was legally justified in claiming him, and that Saxony, bound by treaty, had no choice but compliance.  Now, setting aside for the moment the mere question of humanity and honour, to which neither of the two kidnapping Governments would Probably attach any weight, the act was, strictly speaking, illegal. Count Teleki quitted Hungary at the close of 1848, and had no direct part in tho overthrow of the Hapsburg dynasty. He came to Paris, where he acted as the representative of the new Government established in his native country ; and the penalty of death adjudged against a man for diplomatic service to a de facto Government is as rare as it is cruel,  Again, the Emperor of Austria, by his Patents of October last, has, in point of fact, admitted the illegality of the exceptional system which prevailed in Hungary from 1850 to 1860 ; and this repudiation should first of all apply to the military tribunals, which, in contempt of all justice, and especially of the ancient laws of Hungary, pronounced sentence of death on so many distinguished and patriotic men, and at the top of the list is the sentence of which Saxony offers herself to be the executioner.  Even had Count Teleki been judged with all the forms of judicial procedure, Austria would not be justified in demanding his extradition ; and Saxony would have less right to comply. The Bth article of the Federal Convention of June, 1833, on which the Dresden Government doubtless relies, is applicable to the Germanic Confederation only, and to the disorders which may menace the internal security of a Confederate State. It is true the Emperor of Austria is one of the Confederate Sovereigns ; but Hungary forms no part of the Germanic Confederation ; and the regulations which were adopted in the interests of the Confederation do not apply to Hungary or its populations. Of this there can hardly be a doubt ; the Germanic Confederation did not consider it had the rights nor was under the obligation of intervening in 1849 in support of Austria against the Hungarian revolution, nor did the Confederation intervene ten years later to maintain Austrian rule in Lombardy. The Confederation has nothing to do with the political events taking place in Hun gary or any other non-confederate State. The word " criminal" in the Convention refers to robbers, money clippers, coiners, murderers and malefactors, of the kind, and not to political refugees; and the Saxon Government was so impatient to exhibit to the world her base and gratuitous vassalage that it did not even examine the Convention by which it alleges it is bound, to see whether the Hungarian patriot, who sought the hospitality of its soil, was comprised in such a list. As it is still affirmed on excellent authority that Count Teleki was at Dresden on no political business, his arrest and betrayal into the hands of the Austrian police was not only an outrage on humanity, but a flagrant violation of law and justice.