The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

311excHEsTEat, Aug. 16.—There has been a little more
activity in the market for shipping yarns to-day, and we
have bad a general business doing for all markets except
those of India. In some few cases an advance of id. per lb.
has been paid on Friday's prices. This branch of the mar-
ket was strong at the close, with a tendency to advance.
In home-trade yarns we have also had a veryttrong market.
Prices are pretty much the same as they were before the
late depression. Fine numbers still maintain their position,
the only signs of weakness being confined to yarns made
from the commoner qualities pt Surat cotton, Only a
moderate amount of business is repotted, and in the absence
of any activity in the cloth market manufacturers are not
disposed to anticipate their wants. There is a more cheerful
feeling in the cloth maeKet. There has been a pretty general
inquiry after goods, tat buyers seem to have turned their
attention a good deal more than they have for some weeks
past to the actual testing of prices, and though few offers
have been made and but business has resulted manu-
facturers hold very firm:y to their quot--*911?. The only
cases in wlelele Lay weakness h' - a manifested
has been where stocks had lea, ro accumulate
inconveniently. In such instances dee:a have not been
transactions at lower prices, so far as we can hear, but there
can be little doubt, if purchasers were actually to present
themselves, offers at rather lower rates would be accepted.
Shirtiogs and printers of good quality still command rela-
tively the best prices; while longeloths, T-cloths, and do-
mestics, not meeting with a demand at all proportioned to
the present much-increasing supply, are rather weaker.
LEEDS, 16th.—There has been a moderate attendance of
buyers and sellers in the cloth-halls this morning, and the
tone of the market, though rather quiet, was satisfactory.
Winter goods, with autumn fabrics, have been purchased
to a fair extent by the home houses, but the demand for
exportation is rather slack. In good plain blacks and unions
there is a fair business doing. The manufacturers are well
..00..y.a throughout the district. Woo! :s firmly held at
Taut week's quotations.
NOTTINGHAM, 16th.—The attendance at this Exchange-
hall today was about as usual, but there was a very dull
demand for lace yarns at prices similar to those of last week.
The inquiry for hosiery yarns was also inactive, at little or
no alteration in prices. silks are realising very high price e.
In brown nets there was very little doing, owing to the ex-
treme dearness of the raw material.
ROCHDALE, 15th.—In all respects the flannel trade keeps
brisk and prices rise. The attendance of buyers was not
large, to-day, but sufficient for the supply, which keeps
small, owing to the continuance of orders direct to the
manufacturers. Both plain and fancy goods sell well, and
there is an increase in the demand for the thicker kinds. In
Yorkshire good kerseys, plaids, linseys, and scourers are
all in fair request at fully late prices.

TEE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the London Gazette of last Evening,)

WAR OFFICE, Aug. 16,

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
the under-mentioned officer, whose claim to the same has
been submitted for her Majesty's approval, for his gallant
conduct in New Zealand, as recorded again .t his name, :
Lieut. Colonel John CarstairslTNeit, 107th Regiment—
For the valour and presence of mind which he displayed
in New Zealand, on tire 20th March, 1864, which is taus
descritect by Private Vesper, of the Coios.ial Defence
Force : Private Vosper states that he %VS sent
on that day with erivate Gibson, of the same
Force, as art escort to Alajor (now Lieutenant
Colonel) M`Neill, Aide-de-Camp to be Lieutenant-Gen.
Sir Duncan Cameron. Lieutenant-Colonel INDNeill was
proceeding to Te Awamutu on duty at the time. On
returning from that place, and about a mile on
this side of Ohanpu, this officer having seen a.
body of the enemy in front, sent Private Gibson
back to bring up infantry from Ohanpn, and ho and
Private Vosper proceeded leisurely to the top of a rise to
watch the enemy. Suddenly they were attacked by about
50 natives, who were concealed in the fern close at hand.
Their only
chance of escape was by riding for their
lives, and as they turned to gallop, Private Vesper's
horse fell and threw him. The natives thereupon rushed
forward to seize him, but Lieut.-Col. M'Neill, on perceiving
that Private Vosper was not folio wing him, returned, caught
his horse, and helped him to mount. The natives were
firing sharply at them, and was so near that, according to
Private Vesper's statement, it was only by galloping as
hard as they could that they escaped. He says that he
owes his lite entirely to Lieutenant-Colonel M.'Neill's
assistance, for he could not have caught his horse alone,
and in a few minutes must have been

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

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LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening,

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, AUG. 16.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General Sir Richard
I)ac:es, K.C.8., to be Colon/a-Commandant vice Lieu.
tenant-General Sir William Brereton, K. C. 13., deceased.
4th Hussars—Lieutenant John Barrett L. Nevi:, eon to be
Instruetor ut Musketry, vice Lieutenant Russell England,
promoted.
10th hussars—Cornet John Cecil Ruseell to bo Lieute-
, by purchase, vice Arthur Wyatt .Edgell, who re-
tires.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
William Henderson to be Colonel, vice Fiude, removed
RFa nri
ced
lade rea,rr removediacr
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as a general officer—Captain Henry John Bannatyne
d
Macleod to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Frederick Alex-
ibeetaaotrient the
ot Brbeeemn :va ledSttoafft
heC Lieutenant-Coloneloßrposm—bay C,aps‘t;aiallicret
Corps—Captain and Brevet Major Alexander Cameron
C o ion Captain
e l and
vice Breveteel
Brevet-Colonela j o r
Gleig, on the seconded List, to be Lieutenant-Colonel--
11- He nld "eeriroyn to_ bee Lo
ni Lieutenant-
Colonel, t t m atna
in
nsint
and Adjutant J. B. Hardy to be Ca ptai ,
viceth Baird to be
Convbeare--
&coact Captain and Adjutant James
Captain, vice Edward Thomas Fasken e
oved to the
Madras Staff Carps—Second Captain c' removed
ell Cameron
to be Captain, vice Charles Elliot, c. 13 movedr to the
Madras Staff Corps—Second Captain
Walter Delane to
be Captain, vice Macleod Second Captain Cecil Brooke
Le Mesurier to be Captain, vice Brevet hiajui Veeev—
Lieut. George Grant Gordon to be Second Captain,
vice'
Delane—Lieut. John Thomas Leiehtnan to be Second
Captain, vice Hardy—Lieut. John Charles Taylor to b
Second Captain, vice Baird—Lieut. William Parer Greve
to be Second Captain, vice Cameron—Lieut. John
M‘Neill to be Second Captain, vice Horatio Biden re-
moved to the Madras Staff Corps—Lieut. Henry Mont-
gomery k'inlay to be Second Captain, vice Robert Lam-
bert Flayfair, removed to the Mad:as Staff -Corps—Lieut.
John Hoyes to be Second Captain, vice Malcolm Bandinel
Sabin Lloyd, removed to the Madras Staff Corps—Lieut.
`William H. Nl'Causland to be Second Captain, vice Fre-
derick Lyon Flayfair, removed to the Madras Staff Corps—
Lieutenant Penton '1 hcmson to be Second Captain, vice
John Hayes Grant, removed to the Bengal Steil Corps—
Lieutenant Edward Sidney Barnett to be Sea)enl Cap-
tain, vice Le Mesurier—Gentleman Cadet George Clement
Wynne to be Lieutenant, vice Gordon— Gentleeian Cadet
Francis John Millman to be Lieutenant, vice Thomson—
Gentleman Cadet George Herbert Nutting to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Robert Henry Palmer, removed to the Bengal
Staff Corps—Gentleman Cadet Joseph Albert Curtin to
be Lieutenant—Gentleman Cadet George Marius Ken-
nedy to be Lieutenant, vice Taylor—Gentleman Cadet
Paul Frederick Michael Baddeley to be Lieutenant, vice
Grey—Gentleman Cadet Edward Thomas Browell to be
Lieutenant, vice McNeill—Gentleman Cadet Constantine
Henry Hamilton to be Lieutenant. vice Finlay—Gentle-
man Cadet Robert Rae done V,ril:Oughby Plunkett to be
Lieutent, vice Hoyes—rila et 'seem Cadet Thomas naris-
brooke Penny to be Lieutenant, vice McCausland—Gen-
tleman Cadet Barry Francis Doraville to be Lieutenant,
vice Leishman--Gentleman Cadet Philip Henry Bawn
to be Lieutenant, vice Burnett—Sergeant-Major Henry
Bacchus to be Riding-Master, by augmentation.
3d Regiment of Foot—Waldron Edward Roper Kelly,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Frederick Wm.
Vans Leckie, transferred to the 55th Foot.
10th Foot—Staff-Surgeon William Sinclair to be Surgeon,
vice Henry Bowles Franklin, M.D., who exchanges—
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Fitzgerald Edward Scanlan to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice John Mackenzie, hI.D., who
exchanges
12th Foot—Lieut, Gilbert de Lacy Lacy to be Captain, by
purchase, vice John Soame Richardson, who retiree—
Ensign Arthur Henry Brittain to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Lecy—John Campbell Robertson Glasguw to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice-B•ittain.
14th Foot—Surgeoe-Major Benjamin Swift, M.D., from
96th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice George SmythKing,
M:D., who exchanges.
16th Foot—Captain John Octavius Chichester to be Major,
without purchase, vicb Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Jelin
Henderson, who retires upon full pay—Lieut. George
Street to be Captain, without purchase, vice Chichester—
Ensign George Grid:lithe, to be Lieutenant: without pur-
chase, vice Street—Hillyard Henry Angus Caneerun,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Herbert William.
Thompson, promoted, by purchase, in the 3d West India
Regiment.
25th Foot—Lieutenant George Terry Luder earwig= to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Theodore Gordon, who re-
tires—Ensign Charles Dewrock Swete to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Carwithen—Charles Wildam Maxwell
Coote, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice S were.
30th Foot—Cecil Roughsedge Hornby Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Henry Granville Snarp,, who retires.
56th Foot—Lieutenant George Stainer Gubbins, to bo
Captain, by purchase, vice Charles Russell Colt, who
retires—Ensign William Barnett to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Gubbins—Ensign Fred. William Vans
L?ckie, from the 3d looteto be Ensign, vice Barnett.
62d Foot—Ensign Frank Crossnian Clarke to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Charles Mesham, who retire:—
Gentleman Cadet Charles James Gordon Inglis, front
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Clarke.
85th Foot—.. Ensign Henry Chuldleigh Wilmer to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. Frederick Holmes,
A'Court, who retires—Robert George Stone Maunsell,
Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wilmer.
01st Foot—Ensign William Cecil Hinton, to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Robert Butt Wesley, who retires
—Gentleman Cadet Hugh Thornton Cuninghaur Dealtry,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur.
chase, vice Hinton.
90th Foot—Surgeon George Smyth King, M.D., from the
14th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon Major Benjamin
Swift, who exchanges.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign and Adjutant Leopold Victor
Swains, to have the rank of Lieutenant—Ensign Thos.
Lander Mitchell-Innes to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice James Edward Vaughan, who retires—Gentleman
Cadet Cecil Harley St. Paul, from the Royal Military
College. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mitchell-Innes.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Beaufort Henry Vidal
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Robert Eyre, who
has retired.

3d West India Regiment—Ensign Herbert Wm. Thomp-
son, from the ltith Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Henry P. Bluett, who has retired.
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY (Woolwich).—Lieutenant
ohn Arthur Tillard, Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant
of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets, vice John Charles
Taylor, promoted.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Ensign Basil Porter, 76th
Foot, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissary General, to
be Deputy Assistant Commissary General.
MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Superinten-
dent of Stores William Lanyon Penno to be Superinten-
dent of Stores, vice Pearce, placed up the retired list—
Assis!ant Superintendent cf Stores William Henry
Horatio Scott to be Deputy Superintendent of Stores,
vice Penno—Deputy 'Assistant .1/4,,:7e:intendent of Stores
Peter Warwick to be Azs:stant Su2.7rintendent of Stores,
vice Scott.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—St:E.,O::: Henry Bowles Frank-
lin, M.D., from the 10th Foct, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice
William Sinclair, who excb.a:Tos— Assistant-Surgeon
John Mackenzie, M.D., from the luth Foot, to be Staff.
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fitzgorald Edward Scanlan,
who exchanges.
BREVET.—Major-General Francis Rawdon Chesney,
Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-General, vice Sir
ZVtiietn Brereton, K.C.8., deceased—Colonel Thomas
Paters Flude, from the Royal Artillery, to be Msjor-
Cxeneral, vice Chesney,