The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-15 00:00:00

FROM 2IfE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Staff
Assistant-Surgeon James Joseph M'Carthy, M.D., her
Majesty's Royal license and permission that he may accept
and wear the Insignia of the Imperial Order of the Legion
of Honour of Ihe Fifth Class, which his Majesty the Em-
peror of the French has been pleased to confer upon him,
as a mark of his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his ser-
vices, while under fire, to the French soldiers wounded dur-
ing the recent operations in China, and especially to the
late Admiral Protet at the moment when he was mortal),
wounded.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 5.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Wil-
liam Lowther, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Berlin, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy
at Berlin.

DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 12.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Reginald John
Corbet, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of
the Island of Ceylon.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Vener-
able Archdeacon George Meade Gibbs, M.A. Joseph
Henry Boon, Esq., and Thomas Berkeley Hardt-
man, Esq., to be Members of the Executive Council of the
Island of St. Christopher ; Antonio Mathe, Esq., to be a
Member of the Executive Council of the colony of Hondu-
ras ; and John Alexander Iles and George Webbe Daniell,
Esqs., to be Members of the Executive Council of the
Island of Nevis.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint David
William Gibbs, Esq , and the Rev. Clarke Augustus New-
sam to be Members of the Council of the Island of Gre-
nada.

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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 161 11 161
Antwerp
. 25 375 25 425
Brussels . . .... • 25 375 25 425
Hamburgh — 13 65 13 61
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine - 1185 119
Vienna
12 45 12 50
Trieste
12 40 12 50
Petersburgh — 34} 35
Berlin —. Madrid
49 —' —1
49 491
Cadiz
Leghorn
25 55 25 60
Milan .... 25 55 25 60
Genoa
25 55 25 60
Naples
Palermo .. 119 Mt
Messina ............ 1191
Lisbon .............. 525 521
Oporto .............. 525 521
9
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), 0 0 9
per oz
£3 17
Mexican Dollars

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.— The principal
cases of prize medal shawls contributed by the Paisley roi-
-1 uefnatc toufr ers
Messrs.have this Far day baenedn
Rogers, in
to the est ablish-
where they will be sold at a great reductiionn rgriencet:
Times remarked, a few days since, that " the cheap and
Regent-street,
et,
beautiful shawls sent from Paisley were constantlyreferred
to as instances of the high charges in the French Court
for fabrics of no better quality, though more than double
the price ; and Paisley comes out of the oompetition against
the shawls of Paris, Vienna, and even India, with a higher
reputation than ever. The best Paisley shawls are now
scarcely to be distinguished from the best French goods of
the same class, though the price of the latter is from £25 to
£3O, of the former from £6 to £9." The shawls made
anespde
pciearlslyonf
Bordeexsihriobui
desirous d
asreecuorfinngecaessapiteyeilmimeinteodfinthrs
a quantity
exquisite manufacture should lose no time in applying to
Nags. Farmer and Rogers.