The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9,

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THE VICTORIA CROSS.

•
EPPS'S COCOA.—Epps, homceopathic chemist,
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been adopted by the general public, can now be had of the
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homoeopathic chemist, London.

(b.om the Court
_Circular.)

Her Majesty the Queen distributed the Victoria
Cross at 11 o'clock yesterday morning within the
quadrangle of Buckingham Palate.y
.Aodetachment of six conapailieS of the-Grenadier
and Coldstream Regiments of Foot Guards lined
three sides of the quadrangle, and were commanded
by Col. Lewis, Field Officer in Brigade Waiting.
The band of the Coldsteam Guards were on duty.
The Queen and Prince Consort entered the space •
formed by the troops. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, General Commanding in Chief,
and Major-General Peel, Secretary of State for War,
stood on her Majesty's right.
Lieut.-General Sir George Wetherall, Adjutant-
General to the Forces ; Major-Gen. Lord Rokeby ;
Sir E. Lugard, K.C.8., Secretary for Military
Correspondence, War Department, were also in
attendance upon her Majesty, together with the
Equerries in Waiting.
The following had the honour of being presented
to the Queen to receive the Cross :
Commander Thomas James Young, Royal Navy,
for gallant conduct at a 24 pounder gun at Luck-
now, 16th of November, 1857. _

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Commander Nowell Salmon, for conspicuous
gallantry at Lucknow, 16th of November, 1857.
Lieut.-Col. Sir H. Marsham Havelock, Bart.,
late Lieutenant 10th Foot (now 18th Foot), for
leading on the 64th Regiment to the capture of the
last reserved gun, a 24 pounder, at Cawnpore, 18th
of August, 1857.
Major James Leith, late 14th Dragoons, now of
2d Dragoons, for conspicuous bravery at the Bet wah,
on the Ist of April, 1858, in rescuing Capt. Need
when surrounded by rebel infantry.
Major Frederick Miller, Royal Artillery, for per-
sonally attacking three Russians at the battle of
Inkermann, and with the gunners of his division
preventing the Russians from doing mischief to the
guns_ which they had surrounded on the sth of
November, 1854.
Staff-Surgeon Anthony Dickson Home, late of
the 90th Regiment, now of a depot battalion, for
persevering bravery and admirable conduct in
charge of the wounded mcn left behind the column
when the troops, under the late Major-Gen. Have-
lock, forced their way into the Residency of Luck-
now, on the 26th of September, 1857.
Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Bradshaw, late of the
90th Regiment, now of 32d Foot, for intrepidity and
good conduct in removing the wounded men left
behind the column that forced its way into the Re-
sidency of Lucknow, on the 26th of September, 1857.
Thomas Hancock, late private of the 9th Lancers,
for excellent conduct when Brigadier Grant, com-
manding Cavalry Brigade, had his horse shot down,
Delhi, June 22, 1857. _ _

Lance-Corporal Abraham Boulger, 84th Regi-
ment, for distinguished bravery and forwardness as
a skirmishe{• in all the 12 actions fought between
July the 12th and September the 25th, 1857.
Private David Mackay, 93d Regiment, for great
personal gallantry in capturing an enemy's colour
after a most obstinate resistance, at the Secundra
Bagh, Lucknow,,on the 16th of November, 1857.
Captain Fredk. Robertson Aikman, Bengal Na-
tive Infantry, commanding 100 of the 3d Sikh
Cavalry, attacked and utterly routed 500 rebel in-
fantry, 200 horse and two guns, capturing two guns,
March 1, 1858.

Lieut. F. S. Roberts, Bengal Artillery, for cutting
down a standard bearer and taking the standard at
Khodagunge, January 2, 1858, also cutting down
another .-;epoy, who was standing at bay.
Lieut. Hastings Edward Harington, -Bengal Ar-
tillery, elected with others for the Cross, for con-
spicuous gallantry at the relief of Lucknow, 14th to
22d November, 1857.
Lieut. J. Watson, 28th Bombay Native infantry,
for running through with his sword and dismount-
ing the Ressaldar in command of the revel cavalry,
on the 14th of November, 1857, and with his men
utterly routing the party.
Lieut. Thos. Adair Butler, Ist Bengal European
Fusileers.—" Of which success the skirmishers on
the other side of the river were subsequently ap-
prised by Lieutenant Butler, who swam across the
Goomtee, and, climbing the parapet, remained in
that position for a considerable time, under a heavy
fire of musketry, until the work was occupied."—
Extract of memorandum from Lieutenant-General
Sir J. Outram, 9th of Alaroh, 1858.
The Queen placed the Victoria Cross, suspended
from a red riband, on the left breast of each officer
and soldier. _ •

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, the Princesses Alice, Helena, Louisa, and
Beatrice, with the ladies of the Court, witnessed
the ceremony.
After the investiture the Queen and Prince Con-
sort, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge,
passed to the middle of the south side of the quad-
rangle, the band occupying the centre of the square.
The troops then marched past in slow and quick
time, and aftewards quitted the Palace, the band
playing " See the Conquering Hero Comes."

Hale), the Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, the I pendant. Nearly tb.e•whole.,of the force of the
Adjutant in Brigade Waiting, the Command- dockyard, as well as. a large number of the newly
ing Officers of the Grenadier, Coldstream, entered sbipivrightfs, &c., 'are put on the different
and Scots Fusilier Guards, the Commanding ships at Sheerness ordered t.) be broUght forward
Officers, of the lst, 2d, and 3d battalions of Grena- for immediate active service.
dier Guards and three Officers of each, battalion,
the Commanding Officers of the Ist and 2d batta-
lions of Coldstream Guards and three Officers of
each battalion, the Commanding Officer of the Ist
battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards and three officers
of the battalion, the Commanding Officer Ist Life
Guards and four Officers, the Commanding Officer
2d Life Guards and four Officers, the Commanding
Officer Royal Horse Guards, and four Officers, the
Commanding Officer of the 15th Hussars and three
Officers, the Commanding Officer Royal Artillery
and four Officers, the Commanding Officer Royal
Engineers and four Officers, the Commanding
Officer Royal Marines and three Officers, the Com-
manding Officer of the division of Royal Marines
at Portsmouth; the Captain, the Commander, and
the First Lieutenant of the Royal yacht ; the om-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, the Major-General
Commanding the South West-District, Portsmouth,
the Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershott, the
Officer Commanding the Royal Engineers, the
Major-General Commanding the Cavalry Brigade
and the Major-General Commanding the 3d in
fantry Brigade at Aldershott.

THE AR21117.

Lieut.--Col. W.. 0. Lennox, R.E., who was ordered
home from India to take the adjutancy of the Royal
Engineers from Major Nugent, has arrived at
'headquarters, Chatham, but, owing to his promotion
to be Lieut.-Col., •he is prevented taking the adju-
tancy, and has been replaced by Capt. Gordon. It is
expected that Capt. Gorden will be ordered to Ports- .
mouth to assist in the Royal Engineer duties there.
• In our notice in The Sun of. the 7th inst of
the subscription, lists opened at Portsmouth by
the " military authorities" and the inhabitants of
the town, for the reliercf the soldiers, their Wives
and families, who came home by the unfortunate
ship Eastern MOnarch, we ought to have said by
the " military and naval authorities," &c. An in-
quiry will be held as to the loss of the ship by order
of the Board of Trade, at the Guildhall, Portsmouth,
to-morrow, at 10 a.m.

The 'Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty
Rifles, commanded. by Lieutenant-Colonel Ross,
hafi-e been ordered to assemble for trainingat Ding-
wall on the 10th inst. They will probably be
quartered at Fort George during the training.

THE NO- CONFIDENCE RESOLUTION.

tile Standard.)

—Just substitute " want of place" for " want of
confidence," and you have the whole gist of the new
factious amendment. Mr. Disraeli demolished it
completely on Tuesday night. There never was a
piece of opposition so bald and miserable, so lame
and impotent, as this carefully-hatched resolution.
It has not even a pretext to go upon. The noble
mover, who really showed some pretensions to a
faculty for special pleading, could do nothing with
his case. It was cruel to make him the mouth-
piece of so much contradiction and absurdity. The
Government, forsooth, had experienced so many
failures iu the last Parliament, that it would be only
wise and constitutional to prevent their succeeding
in this. The dissolution was reckless ; and yet
Lord Derby had recourse to it in order to ascertain

the opinion of the country on his Administration.
Of course it was convenient to forget that the
daring and loose measure was provoked by the
celebrated Whig dodge and by that only. Then
there was the inability to preserve peace between
France and Sardinia and Austria, while it was
admitted that the documents which alone could
decide this question were not before the house,and
generally stated, that not even the noble lord him-
self or the great continental peacemaker, the mem-
ber for Tiverton, could prevent the belligerents
from quarrelling if they had predetermined to
quarrel: Not even the combined genius of a Pal-
merston, a Russell, an Aberdeen, and a Clarendon,
backed by the House of Commons, could
save the country from war with Russia. If a vote
of want of confidence is to be the fate of the
Ministers of the Crown, who, unable to persuade
antagonistic states to settle their differences- by
peaceful negotiation, stand aloof from' the conflict
in dignified defence and preparation, what penalty
should be inflicted on that Cabinet of diplomatists
who allowed the country to glide imperceptibly
into a war which produced no good result, but cost
England her prestige, her best blood, and one
hundred millions of money? It was a woful slip
of judgment, that of founding a vote of want of
confidence on the foreign policy of the' present
Ministers. " As yet they have saved us from war,
and they have put the country in the best position
to assure its peace. But do these manufacturers of

parliamentary flimsy believe that Englishmen so
soon forget who brought about peace and harmony
with France, when that country, her Emperor, and
colonels, had succeeded in frightening Lord Pal-
merston into the infamous Conspiracy Bill ? Is
this proverbially grateful and generous nation quite
oblivious of the Minister who released Parke and
Watt from the Neapolitan, dungeons, where the
Whigs had allowed them to languish for nearly six
months, and who effected_ this with an adequate
compensation to the sufferers, and a special and
honourable recognition of England in the subtle
and complicateecontroversy. Have they ceased
to think of the suppression of the great Indian
revolt? of the adjustment of the petty diffe-
rences with America ? and of, those much-
lauded treaties 'of peace and amity with China
and Japan, which at all events were made under
the auspices and direction of the present Govern-
ment ? Do they no longer bear in mind the mission
of Lord Cowley, and -what kind of interference
rendered it, though virtually successful, ultimately
of no avail in staving off war ? Have they no
recollection of the improved passport regulations
and the remodelling of our consular system ? In
one word, have they ignored the policy of concilia-
tion with honour—the special stamp and character
of Earl Malmesbury's administration of our foreign
affairs ? Let the Whig-Radical faction be assured
that the country has not passed over one jot of all
this good service in the cause of order and peace,
but that it is registered in their memory as the
distinguishing feature of the Derby Government.
It was then most anal-apropos in the grumblers
to touch at all on the foreign administration of the
Conservative Cabinet. But the time has not yet
arrived for the full and clear vindiCation of our re-
cent negociitions for peace. Before Parliament can
discuss them' he documents must be on the table of
the house. When this'necessary preliminary ground
be taken, if there be gratitude amongst Englishmen,
and a sense of dignity and justice in the House of
Commons—not, in deed, a factious vote of want of con-
fidence,but a special declaration of thanks and satis-
faction, will mark this comprehensive and accurate
knowledge and consideration of affairs, in themselves
most trying and complicated, but rendered almost
enigmatical by the strange conduct of the leading
continental powers concerned. No wonder the
Cabal should be in a hurry, and thrust in their
amendment before' they could obtain an iota of
regular and formal information. Every Old Bailey
lawyer knows the value of keeping back the prin-
cipal witnesses till the trial is over. It cannot be
said that the Marquis of Hartington, however
young and inexperienced, is at all behindhand in
one of the chief requisites of a criminal advocate.
But what of all this ? Granted that the new
Parliament should not be made answerable for the
failures of the old one ; granted that the dissolution
was necessary ; granted, too, that we have not the
evidence essential to found a just opinion on recent
foreign negotiations, but that the country cordially
approves of the former acts of Lord Malmesbury :
suppose all this, and much more than this, inevi-
tably conceded, is there not that awkward Reform
Bill ? "There, indeed, is the rub." How can a
Conservative Government deal with it ? Is it not
the constitutional hobby of that statesman with
one constitutional idea—and one only—Lord John
Russell ? Of course, we are to forget all about
"finality," postponement of reform, impracticable
attempts at reform, pooh-poohed bills and promises
sine die—these are all to be buried in that Lethe
where Whig lords renew themselves, every lustrum,
and the root and stem of the Opposition, are to
spring from the only Reform Bill, shapeable and
practicable, which has been proposed for the last
30 years, and which would have added 500,000
voters to the election list, very many of these being
the Whig-despised working classes. But we have
only told half the tale. The Conservative Govern-
ment do not arrogate to themselves the total mono-
poly of a Reform Bill ; they think that the Parlia-
ment of the United Kingdom, in that committee of
the whole house ought in its full and true collective
wisdom to decidet his great constitutional question.
Mr. Disraeli again repeats to a new House of Com-
mons this comprehensive and national view of re-
form. The Speech from the Throne suggests such
a unanimous course. The measure which it would
be impossible, in the present crisis, and with so
much to be provided for and against, to consider
maturely and for a permanent and stable purpose
within the current sultry months, is to be left to
the deliberations of next session. If the hot Re-
formers of 1859, who have moistened through a
thirty years tepidity into combustion, can in their
eagerness propose a sensible and sound plan to be
carried in the present short session, there is no let
or hindrance to their doing so. Government, we
believe, will interpose no objection. The obstruc-
tion will come from within. There can be no doubt
that when the Government joint is laid on the table
of the house, cut into it as they will, the Opposition
will find substantial slices for every class of the
community, not even forgetting the fastidious
appetite of a Cavendish.
As to Sir James Graham, he ought at once to
profess himself a monk, he bears whipping so well
and looks so sleek under the castigation. The cat
of the First Lord and War Secretary were strokes
of gossamer to the lashes of Disraeli. The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer was merciless. In the
extreme of cruelty he would place a young head on
old shoulders. But gloss and furbish it as we will,
England revolts at calumny. The wholesale bribery

slander stinks in his nostrils, and Sir James Graham
will never recover, from. the blow his character has
sustained, as a statesman and a gentleman, by his
maleVolent and unfounded charges against the pre-
sent Government. Mr. Disraeli relieved the, dulness
and inanity of the amendment by a stroke at the
meeting atVillis's. It was almost a mercy to give
point to so stolid and tame an affair. Almaek's, in.
future, will not be famous for old dowagers and
young beauties, for waltz, mazurka, and quadrille,
and the strict exclusiveness of the set, but as .the
meeting-house and omnium gatherum of the new
political Quakers, who,• guided, by the spirit of John
Bright, entered into a conspiracy to shake the
confidence of the House of CommUns and the 'coun-
try in: the best working Administratibu of the nine-
teenth century. • i
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