The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR, —ln your clever article on the returns of the
counties you have entirely omitted Herefordshire,
where the Liberals have achieved a great victory.
In 1852 Lord Bateman succeeded in ousting Mr.
Lewis, the Free-trader (Sir G. C. Lewis), by means
of his nominee and brother, Captain Hanbury.
Lord Bateman's fattier was a Whig ; but the lord
lieutenancy of the county becoming vacant just as
Lord Derby was Prime Minister, the young Lord
Bateman waited upon Lord Derby and proposed
net only to rat himself, but to eject Mr. Cornesvall
Lewis from the county, and to return in his stead a
thick-and-thin Protectionist in the person of his
own brother, Captain Hanbury. The bargain was
struck. Lord Derby made Lord Bateman the
lord lieutenant, and Lord Bateman made his
brother a member for Herefordshire.

Since that time the county has felt its degrada-
tion in being a kind of nomination borough of
Shobdon Court ; so last week the constituents
read Lord Bateman a lesson by ejecting his brother
and returning a Liberal in his stead by a majority
of 877 !

The population is 115,000, the county registry
*umbers 7,000.

Ross, April 9.

AN ENGLISHMAN.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent joined the royal party at Buck-
ingham Palaco after dinner on Wednesday evening.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess of Hobenlohe Langenburg, took a drive in an
open carriage and four yesterday afternoon. Lord Alfred
Paget and Captain Du Plat attended on horseback.

The Prince rode on horseback with the Prince of
Wales in the forenoon, attended by Captain Du Plat.
The Princess Royal visited the Duchess of Kent yes-
terday at Clarence House, St. James's. Her Royal
Highness paid a visit t,) the Duchess of Gloucester
at Gloucester House, on Wednesday.
The Princess Feodore of Hohenlohe Langenburg, the
Marquis of Breadalbane, and Viscount Palmerston
dined with the Queen in the evening.
Lord Cremorne has succeeded the Earl of Caithness
as Lord-in-Waiting to her Majesty.
The Duchess of Kett took a carriage drive yesterday

There is a rumour of Austria having proposed a league
offensive and defensive with Modena and Parma, which,
if confirmed, would be of the most serious importance,
for it would amount to the perpetual occupation of those
states by Austrian garrisons, or, in other words, their
virtual subjugation. The object is, of course, to menace
Piedmont: As regards Modena, the conduct of Austria
is rendered the more suspicious by the dying state of
the reigning duke, who is childless.
The Teviot takes out 87,0001. in gold to the Brazils ;
the Alhambra 28,000/. in specie for the Peninsula.
The Produce Market will re-open on Wednesday, and
the next quarterly sales of indigo are announced for the
12th May.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq.,
was chosen chairman, and Sir F. Currie, Bart., deputy
chairman, for the year ensuing.
His Excellency Ferukh Kahn, the Persian ambassa-
dor, and suite honoured the exhibition of Madame Tus-
saud with a visit on Monday evening last.
The Abd-ul-Medjid has arrived from Shanghai with
499,4001 b. of tea and 195 bales of silk.

The amount paid into the treasury of the East India-
house for bills on India between the 26th of March and
the Bth inst. was 178,8141.
The Abbe Coquereau, Chief Chaplain to the Fleet,
will leave Paris on the 15th for Toulon, to attend the
official reception of his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Constantine.
Count Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador, will like-
wise prooeed to Toulon to receive the Grand Duke.
The steam corvette Laplace, which is being fitted out
for sea at Toulon, is to be sent to the Chinese seas to re-
inforce the French fleet there.
The
approaching departure of Monseigneur Guille
min, Bishop of Canton, for the Indian Seas, is an•
nounced.
MR. DIGBY SEYMOUIL—We hear that the friends of
Mr. Digby Seymour, one of the defeated candidates at
the late election, are making a subscription for the pur-
pose of presenting that gentleman with a testimonial in
the shape of the receipt of his election expenses. We
are informed that two of Mr. Seymour's principal sup-
porters have oontributetd 251. each, and that the total
amount raised up to the present time exceeds 1001.
We believe that Mr. Seymour's share of the election
expenses would amount to about 3001.—Eastern Conn-
ties _Herald.
LAuiscri.—A splendid launch took place yesterday, at
West Hartlepool, from the yard of Messrs. John Pile
and Co., of a beautifully-naodelled clipper-ship, of 700
tons. She was christened by Mr. James Park, and was
safely launched within an hour. She is a similar ship to
the Spirit of the Age, the Message, and other China
clipper built by those gentlemen, and is intended for
the same trade. The shipbuilding trade of West Halide-
pool is rapidly increasing, and, as a commercial port, its
general import and export business is being extended n
a most satisfactory manner.
THE STATUTE LAW COXIIISSION.—The report of the
(late) Select Committee on the Statute Law Commission
was issued to the public yesterday. The committee exa-
mined several witnesses, and had made some progress in
the inquiry, but having regard to the then impending
dissolution of Parliament, they did not feel in a position
to cffer any definite opinion to the expiring House of
Commens. The evidence is reported at length, and Ells
a space of 110 pages, besides appendices. The witnesses
examined were Mr. Walter Coulson, Q.C., Mr. G. K.
Rickards, Mr. H. Bellender Ker, Mr. Erskine May
and Mr. G, Coode.

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, APRIL 9.

Accounts from Naples of the 6th state that the
King of Bavaria arrived there on the 3d. ile
was to leave on the 6th for Palermo, whence he
would proceed to Greece and France.