The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-27 00:00:00

TIIE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the Gazette of last Evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 26.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to confirm the
grant of the Decoration of the Victoria Cross to the under-
mentioned Private Soldiers of her Majesty's Army, which
Decoration has been provisionally conferred upon them by
the Commander-in-Chief in India, and by Major-General
James Hope Grant, K.C.8., respectively, on account of
Acts of Bravery performed by them in that country, as
recorded against their several names : viz :
Private James Shaw:, Rifle Brigade (3d Battalion) for the
act of bravery recorded in a despatch from Major-General
James Hope Grant, K.C.8., Commanding the Lucknovr
Field Force, to the Deputy Adjutant-General of the Amyl
of which the following is an extract :—" An armed rebel
had been seen to enter a tope of trees. Some officers and
men ran into the tope in pursuit of him. This man was a
Ghazee. Private Shaw drew his short sword, and with
that weapon rushed single-handed on the Ghazee.
Shaw received a severe tulwar wound, but after a desperate
struggle, he killed the man."
75th Regiment—private Patrick Green, for having, on
the 11th September, 1857, when the picquet at Koodsia
Baugh, at Delhi, was hotly pressed by a large body of the
enemy, successfully rescued a comrade, who had fallen
wounded as a skirmisher.

Private Patrick Carlin, 13th Regiment, for rescuing, on
the 6th of April, 1858, a wounded Naick of the 4th Madras
Rifles, in the field of battle, after killing, with the Naick 's
sword, a mutineer sepoy, who fired at him whilst bearing
off his wounded comrade on his shoulders.

Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to confer
the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned
non-commissioned officer of her Majesty's army, who has
been recommended to her Majesty for that decoration, en
account of an act of bravery performed by him in the
Crimea, during the late Near, as recorded against his name,
viz.
Sergeant-Major Charles Wooden, 17th Lancers, for
having, after the retreat of the Light Cavalry, at the Battle
of Balaclava, been instrumental, together with Dr. James
Mouat, C. 8., in saving the life of Lieut.-Colonel Morris?
C. 8., of the 17th Lancers, by proceeding, under a heavy fire,
to his assistance, when he was lying very dangerously
wounded, in an exposed situation.

ALARMING OCCURRENCE WHILE HUNTING.--*
On Saturday, a good day's sport with the Aspull harriers
had well nigh been marred by an occurrence of a very pain-
ful and fatal character. Mr. k S. Kearsley, of The Height,
near Bolton, was one of " the field," and when the scent
was in the neighbourhood of Standish, near Wigan, that
gentleman jumped some rails on the bank of a collierY
railway, when his horse's hind legs went through some old
rotten timber, grown over with grass, which concealed the
mouth of an old colliery shaft. For a few seconds the
noble steed struggled desperatelyto obtain firm footing, but
he was unable to do so, and at last a portion of the surface
embankment giving way, he fell backwards to the bottom
of the pit, and was killed on the spot. Most miraculouslY,
Mr. Kearsley himself escaped. He adroitly managed to
alight from his horse over his hind quarters, and succeeded
in obtaining a solid footing one single instant before the
Wiwi], fell a 4 was to pieces.