The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-28 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE .RITTURNL

The official returns of the trade and navigatioa of tke
United Kingdom for the moati endiug June 30 hare
been issued.
The comparison of iinperts for tie paoatk is as
ander :

1856. 1855
Live animals me. 9,314
Coosa lbs. 1,206,f5•29
Coffee lbs. 8,257,570
Wheat qrs. 211,068
Barley qrs. 21,902
Oats qrs. 83,502
Indian corn qrs. 196,200
Flour cwt. 446,679
Cochineal swt. 256 .....• 5,126
Tnais-..
Flax cwt. 223
Currants cwt.. 4,693
Guano tons 20,083 ...... 26,593
Hemp cwt. 25,941
Mahogany tens 3,226
Oil, palm cwt. 27,768
Opium lbs. 4,650
Prwri &ions cwt. 109,178
Quicksilver lbs. - 360,0C3
Rice cwt. 407,993 ...... 276,321
Saltpetre cwt. 18,062
Silk, raw lbs. 651,321
Cassia Lignsa lbs. 92,231
1 Cloves lbs. 131,867
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Peppsr lbs. 681,952
Rum proof gallons 584,245
Brandy- proof gallons 353,805
Geneva proof gallons 9,703
Unrefined sugars ... ...... cwt. 819,933
Tallow cwt. 53,630
Tea lbs. 7,426,706
tobacco lbs. 2,151,266
Wino gallons. 1,016,151
Cotton wool cwt. 1,168,564
Sheep's and lambs' wool 1b5.11,762,432
The declared value of souse of the principal exports,
compared with that for the same articles during the °or•
responding month of last year, was as fellows :--
1856. 1856,-
S 0
Beer and Ale 131,729 .... . . 140,918
Coottilsonannidacuouhf:etures
Cotton yarn
Earthenware 260,080 ~..... _ 275i1w
2,003,687 .... • . ;',1,.:„,,0
608;267 .....• eiiii) za,
117,611 ......
235'014
Haberdashery and millinery 339,66° ***"' 2.43'5978
Hardwares and cutlery
Linen yarn
Machinery and millwork
72,441
191,840
Silk manufactures
Silk Thrown. ......................48,233
. 103,410
Woollen xnannfactures ... • ~... 1, '25,557
Woollen yarn ..................... 184,73'3 , 165,m
Tie totaldeclared YltitlO of all the enumerated exports
In the month way 10,661,037 k, which;cosapared with, the
corresponding ponied if liii; shows &A iicrooso of
2492)4824 '., , • ._, 1
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both Houses we shall stand acquitted of any
tendency to extol it from interested motives. This
" Paper " contains the names of the non-commis-
sioned officers and soldiers who have been selected
for recommendation to the Emperor of the French
to receive the French military war medal. As
many persons as desire to mitigate the feelings of
disgust which they must have felt on
perusing the
proceedings of the Chelsea Board Would do well to
turn to this proud bead-roll of heroic achievement.
Here we have the names of the men who did the
work, while, in too miry instar,eF,, the so-called
leaders looked on and left the army to its f te.
Nor must it bs taken as any reflection upon the
conduct and courage of the many thousands ofgal-
lant soldiers whose names are necessarily unmen-
tioned in a record of this kind. The praise of dis-
tinguished valour could only be assigned to those
who had conspicuous cpp-o-'-nuity for display.
It was impost ibio to lay 13.--‘fore the French Govern-
ment the names of all the individuals iu a regiment
who may have distinguished themselves by peculiar
gallantry in the field or by extraordinary endurance
under the extremities of human suffering. These
few words we write lest there should be any sore-
, ness of feeling among the many stout soldiers
whose deserts were great, but for whose names no
place could here be found. We should aid that
these are the names of the living—rot of the dead.
There is no French medal for the men who
toiled up the hill at the Alma, for those who saved
the allied armies from destruction upon the
terrible day of Inkerruan, and then succumbed.
They sleep in their Russian graves. Of the living
we will now give a few names—we can do no more,
for they occupy 34 closely-printed pages of a Par-
liamentary paper:
Serjeant Seth Bond, of the 11th Hus'ars, served
, iu. .P.te Bulgarian campaign of II 1.% He bore his
part its the affair of Boulganak and in the- battles
of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman—that is to
say, in all the principal actions in which a cavalry
soldier could bear a part throughout the war.
-44-At thcr-Alma,--when-orderted--to .pureue-and-ersp- ----
ture prisoners, he exhibited great subordination in
sparing (at the suggestion of a staff officer) a Rus-
sian who had wounded him ; and also at the action
of Balaklava his coolness and gallantry were no-
ticed." Might not Colonel Peel have found a bet-
ter word than " subordination" to characterise
such an action ? A man who could so conduct

himself was not likly to act inhumanly even to an
enemy who had wounded him. Serjeant Seth
Bond, of the 11th Hussars, served in the whole of
the campaign from 1854 to 1856. Driver Robert
Smeaton, R.H.A., was present at the battles of
the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, the Tchernaya,
and throughout the siege of Sebastopol. "On the
25th Sept., 1854, this man gallantly jumped into
the river Belbek, and succeeded in saving the life
of a French soldier, who would have been drowned
but for the timely assistance rendered by Driver
Smeaton." Here is a pretty little incident of Gun-
ner and Driver John M'Ardle of the same regi-
ment :---" On the 18th of June, during the storm-
ing of the Redan, Gunner Glass left the advanced
trenches of the right attack with a few men,
and advanced towards the Redan. On getting
about half way he was badly wounded in three
places. 6-unner M'Ardle crept out of the
trenches on his hands and knees, managed to
get Gunner Glass on his back, and brought him
back into the trenches." Bombardier Angus
Sutherland in the first bombardment of Sebastopol
was severely wounded in both legs by the bursting
of a shell. This untoward incident, however, does
not seem to have slackened the zeal of the gallant
Bombardier. We find him serving again in the
April and subsequent bombardments. "At the
explosion of the French gun-park he was one of
the first men to volunteer to carry away a number
of live shells and carcases." This article should
consist of extracts, and yet so uniform is this record
of courage and devotion that we are utterly at a
loss to establish-any principle of selection. We find
that Colour-Serjeant Charles Sergeant, of the
Grenadier Guards, embarked with the battalion in
February, 1854, and served throughout the whole
campaign without intermission. No urgent pri-
vate affairs claimed the presence of the worthy
Colour-Serjeant in England. He served at the
battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman,
where he was wounded, and was present through-
out the siege and at the capture of Sebastopol.
This is to say a good deal in a very few words. We
earnestly trust this brave soldier has returned in
health and strength to England, and is at this mo-
ment resting happily from the toils of war. Pri-
vates Philip Balls and Charles Tutt joined the first
battalion of Coldstreams in Turkey in July, 1854.
They were actually engaged at the Alma and In-
kerman, "and did duty in the trenches without any
intermission throughout the siege." Corporal Jo-
seph Coulter, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, " parti-
cularly distinguished himself at the Alma, continu-
ing to fire on the enemy after being severely
wounded." Corporal Horsfall, and Privates
Daniel Moran and James Culver, of the Ist
(Royal) Regiment, are recommended, for con-
tinual faithful service in the trenches during the
whole of the siege operations. Corporal John
Clarkson, of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment, was
at head-quarters during the whole of the Eastern
campaign, " zealous and active in' the performance
of his duties in the trenches ; twice wounded,—
viz., on the 14th of April and 22d of June, 1855."
A short note tells us that Colour-Serjeant John
Watts, of the 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment,
landed in the Crimea on the 14th of September
with his regiment, and remained with it until the
war was at an end. Here is a note of this brave
soldier's achievements :—" Was engaged at the
Alma, and brought the company out of action
engaged with the enemy on the 26th of October,
1854, also at Inkerman on the sth of November,
1854, and brought the company out of action ; at
the taking of the Quarries and both the assaults on
the Redan ; never absent from his regiment."
We can only regret that considerations of space
forbid us to extract more names and notes from this
glorious record.
This Parliamentary document is as interesting
as any novel or romance, and has the merit, more-
over, of containing simple truth. It is highly de-
sirable that every publicity should be given to it,
in order that the brave men whose names are men-
tioned, and whose achievements are so briefly
summed up in it, should feel that the remembrance
of filar deeds will not perish from the memory of
their countrymen. In remarks of this kind Ire
can do nothing more than take the regiments in
order as they are set down, and pick a name or
two from each, not as being the names of the most
distinguished where the services of all are so emi-
nent, but in order to call public attention to the
existence of the list. The publication of such a
list may be the beginning of a better system. We
admit that it is fair and reasonable that every
soldier actually engaged in a victorious conflict
with the enemy should receive some mark of his
presence in the conflict. Nothing, however, would
excite greater emulation among the soldiers than
the knowledge that those among them who showed
themselves most conspicuous for courage and forti-
tude would also be most distinguished by the ad-
miration of their country.

"The storm of Thursday morning," says the Siecle
"appears to have raged with great violence at Nantes.
Toward 4 nikkight a looking glass manufactory at
Sautron, four storeys high, belonging to M. MlOZe, was
struck by lightning, and set on fire. A wall speed►ly
crumbled away, and was followed by the fall of the entire
building. The premises were insured for only 30,000 f."

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
CIVIL SERVICE.—The Admiralty : Mr. A. D. William-
son has been appointed one of the assistant clerks to
the Commissioners of Incometax tor the Naval Depart-
ment, in the vacancy in the department of the Account-
ant-General of the Navy, caused by the promotion of
of Mr. W. E. P. Hoope ... University of London : Mr.
Fergusson, Professoe of Surgery in King's College, has
been appointed examiner in surgery at the London Uni-
versity, vice Mr. Hodgson, appointed examiner at the
Royal College of Surgeons. Mr. T. H. Huxley, of the
1 Government School of Mines, has been appointed Exa-
miner in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the
University of London, vice or. Carpenter, appointed
registrar. Customs : -Mr. T. Smart bas been appointed
clerk in the Receiver• General's Office in London. Mr.
H. E. Webster has been appointed clerk for general
business in London. Mr. F. G. Wheeler has been ap-
pointed supernumerary clerk in the Receiver-General's
Office in. London. Mr. James Baxter has been ap.
pointed a olerk in the Long-room at Liverpool. Coast-
Guard :lair. Hugh Dymond Beach has been appointed
a chief officer. Mr. W. T. Nownham, lieutenant com-
mandingi' has been removed from Sheerness to Lyme,
vice Mr. M`Kerlie, previously removed. Mr. Horatio
Hill Garrett, chief officer, has beeu removed from
Haven Bale to Barking Creek, vice Mr. Willis, R.N. ,
supersede& t," Inland Revenue Department, Excise
Branch-,---liessis, F. S. Johnson, officer of Paisley fifth
division, Ayr collection ; George Compton, officer of
Glasgow, elevetith"division, Glasgow collection; J. P.
.`::,ibthorpe, officer of Glasgow seventh division, Glasgow
collection ; E. Birchnell, officer of Haddington division,
Haddiogton collection ; and J. S. Hall,' of Hull, have
been promoted to the' t arik of examiner at Somerset-
houso. Eaet Indies.—Mr... Elijah Laney, of the Barn-
, bay Mcdical Establishment, has been appointed Post-
,.
master-General
.of Bombay. Mr. Cudbert Boneley
laernbill has been appointed to officiate as Secretary to
G-overnalezt, North-Western provinces. Lieutenant E.
St. George bas been appointed to officiate as Secretary
to the BONI of EileaMerit'afg -656444 gagfie•

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