The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE.

In the North and East hidings during the past
week the progress of harvest work has been rapid.
There has been very little interruption from thl3
weather, only a truffitig shower or two having
fallen. The temperature of the week has been
low, with a keen north-easter blowing and frotsy
nights, on Friday night, in low districts, even
damaging the dahlias and vegetable marrows, &o.
The crops during the week have not ripened much,
and farmers, fearing rain, have mown them rather
green in some cases. Wherever it has been practi-
cable the fields have been cleared, and a journey
through the district now chows new wheat stacks
more frequent than is generally supposed. As more
acquaintance is being made by farmers with the
actual character of the crops, there are very few of
them who now grumble about the deficiency, but as
a rule they admit the wheat to be an average crop.
Barley, on all hands, is stated to be the best. Oats
however are generally reported light. Potatoes are
small, but little will be done among them till the
corn harvest is out of the way. The turnips have
made no progress, and the deficient crop is a great
cause of anxiety upon sheep farms especially. One
wold farmer has not an acre left out of 90—all arc
killed by the drought. The pastures are so brown
and burnt up that at a distance they can with diffi-
culty be distinguished from the corn atubblea. The
want of water necessitates,leading from the rivers
for stock, and new oats are being used as fodder for
cattle in some places. The first fall of rain of any
value to the root crops and grass lands was during
Saturday night and Sunday, when very nice showers
fell, and there is every indication of more. Rain to
the pastures end roots would far more benefit the
farmer than any temporary interruption to the her•
vest would do him damage. At the time of writing
the atmosphere is very still and moist for the first
time for many weeks.

Charing-Cross Railway Refreshment Rooms.

One portion of the extensive pile of building for the
Charing-cross Hotel is now so far completed as to bo ready
for opening in a few weeks. It consists of a noble room on
the ground floor in the Villiers-street front connecting with
the railway station, and it is to be appropriated to refresh-
ment rooms. In connection with this department the di-
rectors entertain opinions which will be considered as
heterodox by some other boards—they think that a refresh-
ment room at a railway station should be what its name
implies, and not a mt. ekery and a delusion to railway tra-
vellers. We believe that the public will regard with no
small favour this bold innovation upon a state of things
which has already existed too long. It is strange that it
should have required the experience of so many years to
convince sensible men, as directors of railways are generally
presumed to be, of the absurdity of a system which con-
demned travellers to the alternative of hunger or
indigestion, and which was alike mischievous to the
revenues of the companies, and to the health and
comfort of travellers. All this, we are glad to say,
is now to be changed ; brighter days are in store
for the traveller on the South• Eastern, and let us hope that,
their example followed by other lines, we may soon witness
a complete reform in the matter of refreshment rooms. The
experiment of supplying good, wholesome, and nutritious
food and drink is about to be made at Charing-cross by
Messrs. Spiers and Pond, who come to us from the Anti-
podes. These gentlemen, who were enterprising enough
to engage the team of cricketers and took them out to
Australia, who have been negotiating for some time
with Mr Charles Dickens for a series of readings in
the gold and wool producing colonies of Australia,
and who, it is rumoured, have designs of a similar
character upon either Mr Spurgeon or Tom Sayers, will not,
we are assured, be found wanting in the enterprise neces-
sary for a railway refreshment room at Charing-cross. The
same firm have, we believe, also entered into arrangements
with the London, Chatham, and Dover Company for the
supply of refreshments at all stations on their lino. The
arrangements made are mutual in character, the companies
receiving, instead of a fixed rent for the stations, a certain
percentage of the gross receipts, thus giving to each party
to the contract an interest in the extension of the business
to be done. The contractors will endeavour to attract
customers by the quality and price of their goods supplied,
and the companies will assist by giving facilities for carry-
ing on the business.—Railteay News.

Course of Exehange,--This Day.

Amsterdam
Short. 11 18 1i 19
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 lf
Antwerp
Brussels .—. 26 65 25 70
Hamburgh
Paris ... Short. 25 25 25 30
Ditto s. 3 Months. 25 66 25 70
Marseilles — 25 65 26 70
Frankfort on Maine .— 120 k 1201
Vienna
Trieste
Petereburgh — 31 31a
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz — 474 48j
Leghorn — 25 75 2bBo
Milan ~ 25 771 25 80
Genoa — 25 773 26 80
Naples
Palermo.. — 25 771 ' 26 80
Messina — 25 773 25 80
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......per oz., L 3 17 9
Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 0 9

THE ABBE CHATAIGNON.—The Civil Tribunal of
Angouleme has just given judgment in the action
which was brought by the Abbe Chataignon against the
officers of the ctat-civil of the communes of Plassac-Rouf-
fine and of Mouthiers, for refusing to publish and celebrate
his marriage. The Court has decided that as the Catholic
Church imposes celibacy on the priests; that as conse-
quently a citizen who enters into holy orders engages never
to marry, and that as it is on the faith of such engagement
that the Church authorises him to exercise his ministry and
to receive confessions, which he might abuse if he.had not
laid aside all hope of ever again returning into the world,
the officers of the etat-civil of the said communes were jus-
tified in refusing to comply with the application made to
them by the Abbe; the plaintiff, therefore, is nonsuited and
condemned to pay all the costs.—Galignanr,
THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE CORPS OF COM-
MISSIONAIRES. —ln March last the captain an-
nounced that for this purpose a sum of £B,OOO was neces-
sary, although men of business allege that the institution
is more than self-supporting. From March to August, the
amount subscribed towards this £B,OOO, is less than £360,
of which at least one-half must have been absorbed by the
cost of advertisements in the Times, of xhich the captain's
brother is the chief proprietor, and which has had a mono-
poly of the advertisements.—The Comet.
THE GAME SEASON.—Partridge shooting com-
mences on Thursday next, Sept. 1, and there is every pro-
spect of good sport for the gunner. In consequence of the
dry weather the season has been very favourable for
hatching and rearing both pheasants and partridges. The
latter are numerous and strong, and the former are alto
plentiful and strong on the wing. Some covies in Wor-
cesterehire could fly well before the end of June. The
great scarcity of cover, however, has made the birds un-
usually wild, and sportsmen will have to walk a good deal
in order to make up a " bag." Hares and rabbits are plen-
tiful, the season being also favourable for their increase.
'The harvest is finished everywhere, so that there will be
no interruption to the sport,

LONDON GAZETTE--This Evening.

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of August, 1861.
Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty• in Council that the
Parliament which stands prorogued to Thursday the 13th
day of October nest, ba further prorogued to Friday, the
11th day of November next.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Auo. 30.

31 Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Thomas Sutton
Kirkpatrick, from the Military Train, to be Captain, vice
Elliot. who exchanges.
10th Hussars—Henry John Lindley Wood, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Cecil Russell, pro-
moted.
20th Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Edward Kensit to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and
Brevet-Colonel William James Smythe to be Colonel,
vice John Noble A. Freese, C. 8., retired upon full-pay—
Captain and Brevet-Major Ste,pylton Robinson to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Smythe—Captain and Brevet-Col.
Michael A. Shrapnel Biddulph to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Frederick J. Travers, retired upon half pay—Second
Captain Henry Sheridan Elliot to be Captain, vice Brevet
Major Robinson—Second Captain Henry Plantagent
Prescott Phelips to be Captain, vice Brevet-Colonel Bid-
dulph—Lieut. Fitzroy Somerset Talbot to be Second
Captain, vice Ehiot—Lieat. Francis Duncan to be Second.
Captain, vice Phelips—Gentleman Cadet D'Arcy Bow-
man East, from the Royal Military Academy, to be
Lieutenant, vice Duncan—Gentleman Cadet Albert
Beauchamp Astley Cooper, from ditto, vice Alexander
Day, who has been permitted to resign his Commission
from the 17th August, 1864—Gentleman Cadet Henry
Vaughan, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Richard Thomas Roberts, who has been
permitted to resign his Commission from the 23d August,
1864—Second Captain Huber:. Le Cocq to be Adjutant,
vie Maclachlan, promoted—Second Captain Francis
Duncan to be Adjutant, vice James Barton, who resigns
the Adjutancy only.

Coast Brigade of Artillery—Second Captain James Scott
to be Captain, vice M'Gillivray, placed upon temporary
half-pay—Lieutenant Robert Kettle to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Scott—Quartermaster-Sergeant John Revill to
be Lieutenant, vice Kettle. _ _ _

Corps of Royal 'Engineers—Second Captain and Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Graham to be Captain. vice
Andrew Clarke, seconded—Lieutenant William New-
some to be Second Captain, vice Brevet Lieut.-Colonel
Graham—Gentleman Cadet Henry Rhodes Gilbert
Georges, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu-
tenant, with temporary rank, vice Newsome—Second
Captain John Mervin Cutcliffe Drake to bo Instructor of
Musketry, vice Captain Lempriere, who has been at-
tached as Captain Instructor to the School of Musketry,
at Fleetwood.

Military Train—Captain Philip Herbert Elliot, from the
3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Kirkpatrick,
who exchanges.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William James Massy
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major John
William Percy, who retires—Ensign Henry Augustus
Brudenell Bruce to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Massy—Herbert Conor, Gent., to bo Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Bruce.
21st Foot--Lieutenant John Dunbar, from the tiBLh Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Coots, who exchanges.
22d Foot—Ensign John Banks Linley to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, %ice Haworth Peel Massy, who retires ;
George Arnold Christian, Gent,, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vise Linley.
53d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Richard Godman remplo Cot-
ton, from tho Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice John Seymour Wynne Finch,
trausterred to the GOth Foot.

57th Foot—Ensign Archibald Kennedy Douglass to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Parkinson, who re-
tires; Ensign Kenneth Douglas, from the 50th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice
_Andrew Balfour Duncan, deceased;

George Garnett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Douglass.
68th Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Eyre Coote, from the
21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dunbar, who exchanges ;
Staff Assistant-Surgecn Hunt Johnson Bailey to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice William Barry, placed upon

half-pay.
60th Foot—Ensign the Honourable Ralph Albercromby
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice John Miller,
deceased—Ensign John t•-l'eytnour "Wynne, Finch, from

the 53d Foot, to be Ensign, vice the honourable 'Ralph
Abercromby.
63d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Edward
O'Loughlin, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Alexander
Thorburn McGowan, whose transfer from the Staff as

stated in the (JazAte of 28th June, 1864, has been can-

celled.
72d Foot—Paymaster Christopher Myers Dawes, from the
Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia, to bo Paymaster,
vice George Fowler, who has resigned.
09th Foot—Ensign Charles John Greenham to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Henry Richmond Sayce, who re-
tires—Arthur Collingwood Jenkins, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Greenham.
4th West India Regiment—Lieu!enant Thomas John
Gray, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Parr Wai.
K ingsmill, deceased—Ensign Wm. Fowler to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Gray.
sth West India Regiment—Captain Henry John Fane has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
commission.

UNATTA.CILED.—Lieutenant John Mould, from the 7th
Hussars, to be Captain, without purchase.

BREVET.

Colonel John Noble Arbuthnot Freese, C. 8., on the
Retired Full-Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Major-
General, the rank being honorary only.
Lient-Colonel William Robert Maxwell, Royal Marines,
having completed the qualifying service in the rank of
t;eut-Colonel, to bo tit:done', under the Order in Council of
No.: 13, 1858.
pavoastcr Georgo Pringle, of the Royal Engineers, to
have the
.honorary rank of Captain:
MEMORA.7DUM.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
William Broo::es, half-pay, late nth Foot, has been per-
mitted to retire 2.-om the service by the sale of his commis-
sion, under the con.:itions of the Horse Guards' Circular
Memorandum of the le;th February, 1861.
The Odviie contains a Zumber of promotions and alters-
flans of rank amongst the
9cers of the Staff Corps and of
her Majesty's Indian Military Forces.