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

says: --

The Union Company's steamer Roman, Captain
Strntt, from Table Bay, with the Cape mails, put
in here to coal, and sailed on the 20th instant for
Southampton via Plymouth.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 24.
The Union Company's steamer Roman, with the
above mails, has arrived here.
She left Table Bay on the 20th nit., SF. Helena
on the 29th, and Ascension on the Ist inst. She
brings 60 passengers.
The Briton arrived out on the 11th August, and
the Cape Parliament Wa3 prorouged on the 26th
July,
The Legislative Cauncil had passed a resolution
for the annexation of British Ka'raria.
The Ksffrarians had petitioned her Maj s'y to
withhold her consent to the measure.

The Gov3rnor was in Kaffraria, and about to
proceed to the Free State.
A clerk in the General Post-office at Cape Town
had been committed on a charge of robbing the
Government of £1,700.

The Hon. Richard Southey had been appointed
Colonial Secretary in the room of the Hon. Rawason
Rawson, pending her Majesty's approval.
The prospect of a good harvest in the colony
continued.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS,
MALTA, SIFT. 23.
The Euxine will leave with the above mails for
Marseilles at 8 p.m. to-day.

The Victoria Cross.

(From the Gazette of Friday,)

WAR OFFICE, Sept. 22.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify
her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria
Cross on the undermentioned officers and drummer
of her Majesty's army, whose claims to the same
have been submitted for her Majesty's approval, on
account of acts of bravery performed by them in
New Zealand, as stated against their names,
viz :

Assistant-Surgeon William George Nicholas Manley,
Royal Artillery, for his conduct during the assault on the
rebel pah near Tauranga, 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 tke pah.
Assistant Surgeon William Temple and Lieut. Arthur
Fredk. Pickard, Royal Artillery, for gallant conduct during
the assault on the enemy's pasition, 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
Stagpoole, 57th Regiment, fur their conduct at Pontoko, on
the 2d of October, iu rescuing a wounded comrade from the
rebel Maorics. They succeeded in bringing in tho wounded
man, who was lying at about 50 yards from the bush, al
though 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 rebel nitives, and Ensign Down and Drummer
Stagpoole responded to the call t f 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 Stagpoole for the
energy and devotion which he displayed on the,,2sth of
September, 18G3, at the affair near Kaipakopako, in having,
though wounde 1 in the head, twice volunteered and brought
in wounded men.

REPRESENTATION OF HASIINGS.—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.

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EXTRAORDINARY DEATII.—A IeNV days since
Mr H. Leggatt, of the firm of Hayward and Leggatt, of
Cornhill, inadvertently swallowed a small iron nail which
had by accident got mixed with the food he was eating.
Mr Leggatt expired yesterday morning from the accident,
after tuadergoing intenee euffaing: