The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-16 00:00:00

FIRE IN. HANOVER STREET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Permit me to correct a few errors in a
paragraph in your impression of Friday last
In the first place the fire was not " extensive,"
for the damage will not amount to £7O ; in the
second, it did not break out in the premises of
" Penn, Smith, and C 0.," but in those of Mr J. W.
Hunt, my sueeessor in the gas-fitting manufactory,
(to whose works my own warehouse is contiguous) ;
in the third, neither Mr. Hunt nor myself are
insured in the " Unity" Office, but in the Atlas
and Defender
I beg leave to correct these points in which your
reporter is in error. and at the same time to con-
firm, as strongly as possible, his statement that
had it not been for the remarkable vigour and
promptitude of the fire police, a large amount of loss
must have been sustained, not only in Mr Hunt's
valuable assortment of chandeliers, and my own
larLYl stock of copper, &e., but to a vast amount of
other property in the same pile —I am, Sir, your
obedient servant, W. PENN SMITH

Liverpool, March 14, 1857.
[Our report of the fire above referred to was
written immediately after the occurrence,_ and from
informa=tion obligingly supplied by the fire autho-
rities.—En. N. T.]

SIR JOILV M•NEILL AND COL. TULLOCH

On Siturday there was issued a copy of the
correspondence between the government and Sir
John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, with reference
to the offer of a thousand pounds made to them.
The letter of Lord Panmure conveying the offer,
and Sir John M‘NeilPs reply, have already been
published. The following letters complete the
correspondence :-
63, Eaton square, 24 February, 1857.
Lord,—ln acknowledging the receipt of your lord-
ship's letter of the 20th inst., I have the honour to express
my obligation to her Majesty's government for the recog-
nition of the services rendered by Sir John M'Neill and
myself, and for the expression of your opinion of their
value.
It affords me also the utmost satisfaction to find, that
after the severe and very tmususl test to which the report
of my colleague and myself has been exposed, it should at
length have been honoured by the appl'obation of her
Majesty's government.
As, however, it would neither be in accordance with the
motives which induced ma to undertake this sfrviee, nor the
high opinion you have expressed of its value to accept any
reward of the nature proposed, I beg respectfully to decline
any pecuniary r,comnense whatever,—l have, &c.
(Signed) ALEX M. TIILLOCIf, Col.
The Eigh lion. Lord Panmure, &c.

War Office, Feb. 28, 1857.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your letter of
the 21st instant, in reply to mine of the 20th.
I should not have thought it necessary to add to this
correspondence had it not ben for the interpretation which
you have put upon a passage in my letter, and which I feel
it to be due both to you and myself to correct.
I certainly hid no intention whatever to place a money
value on the advantages derived from your renort, and, on
a careful perusal of my letter to you, I cannot help consider
ing that such a construction of its terms is somewhat
strained and hypercritical.
All tbst f aimed at was to convey to you, in the moat
courteous manne7, the offer of the government, and to
signify my regret for my* own personal omissions in this
matter. —I have, &c. (Signed) P4NMURB.
Sir John M'Neill.

Granton House, Edinburgh, 2nd March, 1857.
My Lord,-1 had the honour to receive this morning
your lordship's letter of the 28th February, in which you
inform me that. ell you aimed it in y.oir letter of the 20th
ultimo, was to convey to me, in the most courteous manner,
the offer of the government, aid to signify your regret for
your own personal omissions in this matter.
This assurance has afforded me the rr otest satisfaction ;
and I deeply regret that the proceedings in regard to the
commission with which I was connected have not been such
as would have entitled me to assume that your lordship's
intentions were friendly or courteous, though the terms in
which vou expressed them appeared to imply a different
meaning. I have the honour &c.
(Signed) JoHN M'NEILL.
The Right lion. the Lori pannvire. G C. 8., &c.