The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-05 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock.

CHE3TER RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
GROSVENO R STAK ES.
Gem di Vergy

Drumour.

Fisherman
3
Six ran. Won by a head. Half a length between second
and third.
CHESTERFIELD STAKES.
Special License
'''Kenerdy
Ma Mie colt

2

Eight ran. Won by half a length.
MOSTYN STAKES.

Longrnnge....
Jack Horner..

Seven ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CHESTER CUP.
9to 2 agst Leamington (taken)
9to 1 agst Dulcamara (offered)
12 to 1 agst Mincepie (Offered)
14 to 1 agst Warlock (taken)
15 to 1 aget Gemma di Verity (taken)
20 to 1 agst Van Dunck (taker.)
30 to 1 agst Bay Hilton (raken)
50 to 1 agst Lance (taken)
50 to 1 agst Cumberland
66 to 1 aget Early Bird (offered)
DEE STAKES.
2to 1 on the field.
4to 1 bar one

DERBY.
,13 to 1 agst M.D. (taken)
40 to 1 agat Strathnaver (taken)
An accident has happened to Dulcamara's van, but be
is not hurt.

NAVAL APPOINrmENTS.—(This Day.;
The following appointments were mioe at the Admi-
ralty this afernoon :
Captains—Frederick Hutton to be Naval Officer in
Charge of Stores, &c , at Bermuda ; Woodford J. Wil-
liams, to the Royal WiNam, vice Hutton.
Commander—Arthur Wilmshurst, to the Racehorse,
vice E. K. Barnard, promoted.
Lieutenant—J. W. Armstrong to the Cyclops.
Staff-Surgeon—William Dines to the Boscaw en.
A4B:sant-Surgeons—George V. ll‘Dononh and John
T. B. Torrance, to the Boscamen.

THE VICTORIA CROSS.
(From the Gazette of this eventng.)
WAR OFFICE, MAY 5.
• The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross
on the undermentioned officers of her Maj sty's army,
who have been recommended to her Mejesty for that
decoration,—in accordance with the rules laid down in
her Majesty's warrant of the 29,h Jan., 1856,—0n
account of acts of br.very perfermed by them before
the enemy during the late war, as recorded against their
several names, viz. :
Grenalier Guards—Colonel Hon. Henry Hugh Man-
Vera Percy—At a moment when the Guards were at some
distance from the Sand Bag Battery, at the Battle of
Inkerman, Col. Percy charged singly into the battery,
followed immediately by the Guards ; the embrasures
of the Battery, as also the parapet, were held by the
Russians, who kept up a most severe fire of musketry.
At the Battle of Inkerman Colonel Percy found him-
self with many men of various regiments, who had
charged too far, nearly surrounded by the Russians, and
without ammunition. Colonel Percy, t.y his knowledge
of ground, though wounded, extricated these men, and
passing under a heavy fire from the Russians then in
the Sand Bag Battery, brought them safe to where am-
munition wan to be obtained, thereby savin e some fir y
men, and enabling them to renew the combat. He re-
ceived the approval of his Royal Highness the Duke or
Cambridge, for this action, on the spot.---Colonel Percy
was engaged with, and put hors de combat, a Russian
Col tier,
7th Regiment--Lieutenant Win. Hope—After the
troops had retreated on the morning of the 18th of June,
1855, Lieutenant W. Hope being informed by the late
Set-pant-Major Wm. Bacon, who was himself wounded,
that Lieutenant and Adjutant Hobson was lying outside
the trenches badly wounded, went out to look for him,
and found him lying in the agricultural ditch running
towards the left flank of the Redan. He then returned,
and got four men to bring him in. Finding, however,
that Lieutenant Hobson could not be removed without
a stretcher, he then ran back across the open to Eger-
ton's Pit, where he procured one, and carried it to
where Lieutenant Hobson was lying. All this was done
tinder a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries.
7th Regiment— Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Egerton
Bale, M.D.—First : For remaining with an officer who
was dangerously wounded (Capt. H. M Jones, 7th Re-
giment), in the filth parallel, on the Bth Sept., 1855,
when all the men in the immediate neighbourhood r‘•
treated, txcepting Lieut. IV. Hope and Dr. Hale ; and
for endeavouring to rally the men, in conjunction with
Lieut. W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers. Secondly : For
having, on 8 h Sept., 1855, after the regiments had re-
tired into the trenches, cleared the most a ivanced sap of
the wounded, and carried into sap, under a heavy fire,
several wounded men from the open ground, being
assisted be Sergeant Charles Fisher, 7th Fusiliers.
Coldstream Guer,ls (late of the 49th Regitnent)—Brevet-
Major John Augustus Conolly. In the attack by the
Russians against the position held by the Second Division,
Oct. 26, 18e4, Major Conolly, thee a Lieutenant in the
49th Regiment, while in command of a company of that
regiment, on outlying picket, made himself moat conspi-
CllOll4 by the gallantry of his behavitur. He came pat ti-
cularly under the observation of the late Field-Marshal
Lord Raglan, while in personal encounter with several
Russians, in defence of his post. He ultimately fell, dan-
gerously wounded. Lieut. Conolly was highly praised in
General Orders, and promoted into the Coldstream Gnarls,
as a reward for his exemplary behaviour on this occasion.

LONDON GAZETTE-(This Evening.)

HORSE GUARDS, S.W., MAY 4
Her Majssty does not require that the officers of the
army should wear any other mourning, on the present
melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, than a black crape round
the left arm, with their uniforms.
By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Oh ief,
G. A. WETHERALL,
Ai j u tant-General.

MAY 4.
Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the
fleet or Royal Marines should wear any other mourning,
on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her
late Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, than a
black crape round the left aral, with their uniforms.

R. 0.513011.&E.
The Gazette of this evening states that, the officers and
men of the Royal Navy and Marinle, who have received
her Majesty's pirmimion to wear the French Legion of
Honour, must apply for the same to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, Whitehall, between the hours of 12 and 4 daily,
and for the army to the War Glee, Horse Guards at the
same time.