The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-24 00:00:00

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Assistant-Surgeon William Gaorge Nicholas Manley,
Royal Artillery, for his conduct during the assault on the
rebel pah near Tourer ga, New Zealand, on the 29th April
last, in most nobly risking his own life, according to the
testimony of Commodore Sir William Wiseman, C. 8., in
his endeavour to save that of the late Commander Hay, of
the Royal Navy, and others. Having volunteered to accom-
pany the storming party into the pah, he attended on that
officer when he was carried away mortally wounded, and
then volunteered to return in order to see if he could find
any more wounded. It is stated that he was one of the
last officers to leave the pab.
Assistant Surgeon William Temple and Lieut. Arthur
Fredk. Pickard, Royal Artillery, for gallant conduct during
the assault on the enemy's position, at Rangiriri, in New
Zealand, on the 20th November last, in exposing their lives
to imminent danger in crossing the entrance of the Maori
keep, at a point upon which the enemy had concentrated
their fire, with a view to render assistance to the wounded,
and more especially to the late Captain Mercer, of the
Royal Artille:y. Lieut. Pickard, it is stated, crossed and
recrossed the parapet, to procure water for the wounded,
when none of the men could be induced to perform this
service, the space over which he traversed being exposed
to a cross fire; and testimony is borne to the calm-
ness displayed by him and Assistant Surgeon Temple
under the trying circumstances in which they were placed.
Ensign John Thornton Down and Drummer Dudley
Stagpoolo, 57th Regiment, fur their conduct at Pontoko, on
the 2.1 of October, in rescuing a wounded comrade from the
rebel Maories. Thoy succeeded in bringing in the wounded
man, who was lying at about 50 yards from the bush, al
th..ugh the enemy kept up a very heavy fire from the bush
at short range, and also from behind fallen logs close at
hand. The man had been wounded during an engagement
with the rcbei natives, and Ensign Down and Drummer
Stagpoule responded to the call (.1 the officer commanding
the detachment of the regiment for volunteers to bring him
in. The medal for distinguished conduct in the field has
already been conferred on Drummer Stagpoolo for the
energy P id devotion which he displayed on the 25th of
September, 1863, at the affair near Kaipakopako, in having,
though wounded in the head, twice volunteered and brought
in wounded men.

REPRESENTATION OF HAS lIN GS.—The Speaker
has issued his writ for the election of a member for the
borough of Hastings, the representation of which became
vacant through the elevation of Lord Harry Vane to the
House of Peers.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.—A low days since
Mr 11. Leggatt, of tho firm of Hayward and Leggatt, of
Cornhill, inadvertQntly swallowed a small iron nail which
had by accident gut mixed with the food he was eating.
Mr Leggatt expired nt,terday morning from the accident,
after undergoing iutenso suff4ing;

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 23.--Shipping yarns still keep de-
pressed, and to effect sales lower prices must be taken. Even
at a decline from the low rates of yesterday, very little
business is offering. Among sellers for export there is an
impression that prices must now have nearly reached the
bottom. The fall in this class of yarns since this day week
may be stated at fully 2d per lb. In home trade yarns there
is no abatement in the depression which has now so long
prevailed, and the decline is fully Id to 2d per lb, since
Tuesday. Some reports stated the fall in prices on Tuesday
as lid to 2d por lb. as compared with last Friday, and pro
bably some accounts will give the decline since Tuesday in
excess of what it is hero stated at ; but, in fact, the market is
very irregular at a time like the present, and values partake
too much of a ncminal character to average the decline very
accurately. In the cloth market the long continued decline
has a tendency to make buyers rather timid, and to-day we
have had a me re depressed market than even that of Tuesday.
On Tuesday the holders of cloth began to recognise the
great decline necessitate I by a falling cotton market more
fully than they had hitherto done. The consequence was
that they manifested a more general desire to realise than
before, and offered goods more freely. This continued on
Wednesday and yesterday, and has led to a not inconsider-
able business. To day there seems to be an almost universal
desire to sell, and consequently goods aro offered at very low
prices. This pressure to sell seems to have had the effect of
increasing the timidity above referred to on the part of
buyers. Depressed as prices are, but few of the purchases
have been large, only a few of the larger operators being in
a position to effect purchases, owing to money tightness and
other causes. The actual business of the day has probably
not been so large as it otherwise would from this cause ; at
all events it has not been large.

BRADFORD, Sept. 2.2.—There was great dulness in the
market to-day, and it was manifested in every branch of the
trade. The suspension of the Leeds Banking Company ap-
pears to be creating more uneasiness than was at first appa-
rent. The report as to the enormous quantity of paper
afloat filled many with apprehension, and every one was
asking his neighbour, " Who has discounted with this
bank ?" The quantity of wool which changed hands was
exceedingly small, and purchased for immediate consump-
tion, The prices of wool were tally 3d per lb. below the
extreme rates current at the early part of the season. Still,
those who can hold their stocks did so with great determi-
nation to make no concession, believing that the downward
tendency will be only temporary. In worsted yarns there
was an entire suspension of business. The foreign houses
made inquiry as to prices, but more with a view to test them
than to operate. The demand on the part of home houses had
dwindled considerably, manufacturers having received no
fresh orders from merchants. The same inactivity ruled
in the piece-market. Neither home nor foreign merchants
did business. Quotations generally were lower. Alpaca
lustres, which continued in good demand, were an excep-
tion to this, The concessions amounted to 5i to 7 per cent.
Many looms are standing, and short time is being resorted
to.

CARDIFF, 22d.—There is a large business doing in the
steam coal trade, and the activity which has characterised
it for some weeks is fully maintained, The quantity sent
inland is increasing, owing in a great measure to the re-
quirements of the Staffordshire works consequent upon the
strike there. The continental inquiry is also active, and
prices are as a rule well maintained, there being hardly any
complaints of underselling.. House qualities command a
brisk sale, and buyers are now purchasing largely against
the winter months. Coke shows no material change, and
patent fuel is in demand for exportation. The irenmasters
have many orders on their books, and they are well placed
for some time to come. Quotations are about the same as
last week, the tendency of the market during the last few
days being rather in favour of makers. Rails are quoted
£7 to £7 19s free on board, and bars £7 to £7 ss.

Lord Kinnaird's Quarrel with a Lady.

(From. the &Osman.)

Lord Kinnaird's arbitrary conduct in preventing, not
many days ago, a match at cricket between the Inchmartine
and Rossie Clubs, which was to be played upon his pro-
perty, on the ground that mischief was apt or likely to
come of the too free use of spirituous liquors attending the
matches of tho Inchmartine Club, has aroused a consi-
derable amount of feeling among the members of the
Inchmartine Cricket and Curling Clubs. His lordship
refused, when applied to by the office-bearers of the
clubs, to give any further explanation of his conduct
than that to be derived from a study of the " specific
reasons" alleged in his original note forbidding the
match, In consequence, a joint meeting of the clubs was
called, at which a lette, addressed by the secretaries to Lord
Kinnaird was read, defying his lordship to substantiate his
charges against the clubs, and demanding a public witls-
drawal of, and apology for, those charges; in default of which
his lordship could not appear on either the Inchmartine
curling pond or cricket-field, while the clubs would take no
part in any match in which Lord Kinnaird was engaged.
Strongly-worded resolutions, generally to the same effect as
the letter, were agreed to—the only difference of opinion in
the meeting being as to whether even stronger language
should not be used.—Mr Sime stated that, as Mrs Fer-
gusson Blair, of Inchmartine, was the principal person
implicated (she having behaved with kind hospi,ality when-
ever a match took place), he thought that she ought to be
informed of the resolutions they had come to. He would
therefore move that Mrs Fergusson Blair be invited to
attend the meeting to hear the resolutions read. This
was unanimously agreed to. On receiving the invitation,
Mrs Blair said blue would be happy to comply with the
wishes of the clubs. On entering the hall of meeting,
Mrs Fergusson Blair was received with the most marked
respect by all present. The course of the proceedings
having boon explained, and the resolutions read to her
by the Secretary, Mrs Fergusson Blair said—Gentlemen,
it is unusual for a female to take part in meetings of
this nature, but mine is at all times an unusual and
anomalous position. Sole guardian of my son, and manager
and trustee of his large property, I am often called upon to
assume duties quite foreign to my feminine nature. But
on this occasion I felt it not only my du y but my pleasure
to appear amongst you at your request. I wish to express
vices voce my opinion of Lord Kinnaird's most unwarrant-
able and ungentlemanlike attack upon the members of the
Inchmartine Curling and Cricket Clubs. Nothing emanat-
ing from that quarter could injure you or me in the estima-
tion of our neighbours ; but unfortunately this accusation,
through the medium of tho public prints, has gone over the
length and breadth of the land ; and his lordship has thus
shown the will to do us harm, though he lacks the power.
Who but Lord Kinnaird would have tried to cast a slur
upon the actions of a laay—alone—without a protector save
her son, a boy I Time was when ho (Lord Kinnaird)
would not have dared to breathe my name but in terms of
deepest respect; and it will not add to the small modicum
of good-will borne towards him that he now tries to
insult a lady in my unprotected state. I can, however,
boldly face his lordship, and, armed with the breastplate
of truth, can deny his accusations made to cover his dis-
appointment on another subject. Lord Kinnaird's politi-
cal views have been long known to me, but only lately has
he been enlightened as to mine. You will all agree with
me that my son is much too young to have any political
bias whatever, and I fondly trust that he will never follow
in Lord Kinnaird's footsteps. None of you will blame me
for refusing to allow my boy to become a tool in his hands.
I can well afford to dispense with friendship only to be re-
, tained on such terms. I speak strongly, for I feel strongly
that this paltry accusation was trumped up to cover

far deeper schemes than a mere game of cricke
and to this may be attributed this sudden burs
of teetotal virtue. Lord Kinnaird'a antecedents should
have prevented his trying to throw doubt upon the re-
spectability and honour of men in all respects of unim-
peachable character. He has, as I said before, done you
no harm—the only one ho has injured is the poor youn
man he alludes to (who belongs to himself, not to us
whose name he has brought forward so prominently iu
this matter, and who may well now say," Save me from
my friends." Had Lord Kinnaird acted like a Christian—
which he professes to be—and as a gentleman—which he
ought to be—he would have written to me in a friendly
manner, stating his own peculiar views; for we have
always been on the most intimate terms till now, when
he has chosen to take umbrage at my doing what was only
my duty. This clearly shows the animus which has
prompted this insult.—(The delivery of this speech was
greeted with loud and frequent cheering.)—The meeting
shortly after broke up,

An official circular ha'y ing been recently issued from Pall- I
mall, announcing the desire of Government to receive
tenders and propositions for converting the Enfield rifle into
a breach-loading arm, it was yesterday announced at Wool
with that no fewer than 34 different methods had been sub-
jected to the War Department by British and foreign gun-
makers and others, the whole of which aro now under the
consideration of a committee of officers of great experience.
The time allowed to inventors having expired, no other
propositions will be received.
Col. H. D. Harness, C,B , director of the Royal Engineer
establishment, Chatham, has received a lengthened leave of
absence from the Horse Guards prior to his relinquishing the
command of the Engineer establishment, and his retirement
from the service wi, h the honorary rank of major-general.
Among the oflloera mentioned as being likely to succeed Col.
Harness are Col. J. W. Gordon, 0.13., commanding Royal
Engineers at Portsmouth, and Col. J. L. A. Simmons,
Cal., attached to the Star at Aldershot Camp. Pending the
appointment of a successor to Col. Harness, the command
of the Royal Engineer establishment devolves on Lieut.-
Col. T. B. Collinson.
Messrs. Higgn and Co. having terminated their building
contract with the War Department for the present term,
Mr Thomas Seward, their agent in Woolwich Arsenal, has
been presented with an elegant silver goblet by the men it
his employ, as a token of their esteem and regard.
PLUNDERING A FOUNDATION STONE.—A young
man named Sowden has just been arrested at Bodmin,
Cornwall, on suspicion of being concer Lied in a novel species
of robbery. It appears that on Tuesday the foundation
stone of some new national schools now being built in Bod-
min was removed and the bottle containing coins and other
articles, deposited in the stone at the time the ceremony was
performed, stolen.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 22.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
walked in the grounds of the Castle yesterds9
morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess
Helena, Prince Alfred, and Prince Elimar of O:den•
burg, drove to the Lynn of Dee.
Her Royal Highness Princes 3 Louise, attended
by the Hon. Harriett Pnipps., went out riding.

PRINCE HUMBERT OF ITALY.—At midday yes'
terday his Royal Highness, accompanied by his Excellea)?
the Italian Minister and suite, left the legation to visit Et.
Paul's, the Bank of England, B relay and Perkins's
Brewery at Southwark, &e. Early in the evening Os
Royal Highness honoured Madame Tussaucl's with his pre-
sence. Later in tho evening the members of the suite old
the members of the Legation had the honour of dining
with the Prince.
A number of the Orleanist ex-Royal family of
France are stopping at the Hotel d'Angleterre, Constana-
nople. They consist of the Prince and Princess de Join'
vill, the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, and two sons of the
latter, baring the names of the Prince de Conde and the
Duke de Guise, with several attendant members of their
suite, Their Royal Highnesses are on a tour to Egypt and
the Holy Land.

The Earl and Countess of Cardigan left Portman"
square yesterday for Deane Parke, Northampton.
The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and the
Ladies Ashley are expected in town shortly from the Conti•
nent, on their way to St Giles's, Dorsetshire, where theY
intend to receive a succession of visitors.

The Marquis of Exeter has left town for Learn'
ington for a few weeks.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have rol
turned to Broadlands from Wilton.