The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

BIINKRUPTS.

Thomas Kemp, corn merchant, Loose, Kent, to surren-
der, Nov. 5, at two, and Dec. 10, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Joshna Hill, builder, Fairfield, near Liverpool, Nov. 5,
and 30, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Edwin Collins, gardener, Old Kent-read, Nov. 6, at
eleven, and Dec. 10, at half-east ektv.n, -t
Bankruptcy.
vi unam Gun ISIZoii; bill broker, 41, Upper Berkeley-
street, West, Connaught-square, Nov. 5, at one, and Dec.
10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Mills, watchmaker, Tamworth, Nov. 12 and
Dec. 3, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court.

Edward Hunn Bunting, draper, Wells, Norfolk, Nov. 5,
at half-past twelve, and Dec. 7, at twelve, at the Court of:
Bankruptcy.
Lydia McLellan, innkeeper, Llandudno, Carnarv.:mshire,
Nov. 8, at twelve, and Nov. 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court.
it John Boxell, commission agent, sllephzibah-terrace,
Grange-road, Dalston, Nov. 4, at halft-past twelve, and
Dec. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
George Holden, sen., and Geo. Holden, jun., pencil case
manufacturers, Manchester, Nov. 10, and Dec. 6, at ien, at
Birmingham Distrsct Court.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Alexander Burns, grocer and spirit dealer, Airdrie.
James Holm, sen., farmer, residing at Park, Kilmalcolm.
James Holm, jun., farmer, East lilbride, Kilmalcolm.
Kerr, Whitehead, and Company, merchants, Glasgow.
;John Blackie, spirit merchant, Edinburgh.
Neil Campbell Duff, provision merchant, Edinburgh.
William, Fraser, innkeeper, Houston and Killellan,
Renfrewshire.

TILE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the Gazette of this 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 Jame 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 Lueknow
Field Force, to the Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army_
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 to 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
straggle, 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, on
account of an act of bravery performed by him in the
CArrs.e, &Irina the Into yr.:), oa 3rooordod 0.6 &aunt 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.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tiiis DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 17 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels
25 271 25 35
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto ............ 3 Months. 25 32 25 37 i
Marseilles _ 25 32 25 37
Frankfort on Maine
47
41
i '25 52
i
119
Vienna
Trieste
1 Petersburgh
Madrid
Cadiz — 49 49
Leghorn. , — 29 7
Genoa,
Naples
___ 411
1? ravaa o —122 i
ssina — 123 1231
52k
10 5
Oporto
Lisbon -__
110011457 10 8
10 10
1
t 29 92
_
52 t
521 49
t
123
ivi
521
Rio Janeiro
tiO days st.
New York

.. . • •
E.I. Co's his. nOllSe bt5.410,1
Co.'s
Calcutta,
23
—26 k
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto 6
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 2-ith ult. to
the Bth inst.
Bengal .................. £1,201 5 0
Madras .................. 00 0
Bombay ................
..0 0 0
...--

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....
per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars ..............., 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) .......... 0 0

The Rev. John Goodwin, incumbent of St. Mary
mag,docue's, Bantry,
.Yorkshire, and late curate of Madeley,
Salop, has been unanimously elected to the incumbency of
St. James's English Episcopal Church in Aberdeen.
Baron James Rothschild breakfasted at St. Cloud
with theltmporor and Empress of the French, on Friday
last.