The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-04 00:00:00

CORN EXC RANGE.

A very moderate supply of English wheat was on sale
here, to-day, chiefly in poor condition. Limited samples
of both red and white moved off steadily, at full quotations.
Inferior parcels ruled dull, but not cheaper.
We were fairly supplied with foreign wheat ex granary.;
but the imports continue on a limited scale. The transac-
tions were wholly confined to small parcels, yet prices
generally well supported.
Barley was in short supply, and good request, at full
quotations.

Fine malt moved off steadily, at very full prices. Se-
condary kinds were dull.
There was only a limited demand for oats, , beans and
peas, at Monday's curvncy.
The flour trade was heavy, yet no change took place in
prices.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat.' Barley. Malt. I Oats.
English ..... I 1,160 1,120 3,810
Irish,..

Flour.
1,24 d

Foreign.,.., 1 1,670 14,090

890
10,980

BOROUGH HOB.
Most kinds of hops are in moderate supply, and fair re•
quest, at fall prices.

WHITECHAPEL.
The trade generally ruled very firm, as follows :—Beef
from 3s 4d. to 43 6d ; mutton, 38 8d to 58 ; veal, 4s to
53; pork, 3s 8d to 5s 44 per 8110 by the carcase.

CRIMEAN MEDALS.—Yesterday, Stephen Cotter, the
keeper of the Albion beershop, Tothill•street, West-
minster, was charged before Mr. Arnold with having in
his possesion two Crimean medals. The magistrate
fined him 51., the cost, three times the value of the
medal in one case, and bound him over to come up fcr
judgment in the other when called upon. The magistrate
said it was his determination to inflict the full penalty,
viz. a fine of 201., in all future cases.
THE QUEEN Or THE BEGGING LETTER WRITERS.
Yesterday this notorious character was placed at the
bar of the Marylebone police-court, charged with having
in the most artful manner obtained Leon, v fr„m
Brook::, of Doctors'-connuous. Slie appeakci to tile fet-1-
lugs of the prosecutor on behalf of her daughter, who
was about to undergo a very painful operation. He
tale, of course, turned out an entire fabrication,
wan not to prisou for throe months, She

THE commissioNEßs TO THE CRIMEA.

The fnili)vving correspondence has been Bent us for
publication :

" To SIR JOHN 7.I.I'NEIL, G.C.B. , AND COLONEL TULLOCH,
LATE COMMISSIONERS OF INQUIRY IN THE CRIMEA,
FROM THE MAYOR AND PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS Or
PRESTON.

" To discover how it happened that a British army per-
forming prodigies of valour, gaining victory in every en-
gagement, and suffering little from the weapons of the
enemy, became in a few months almost annihilated for
want of raiment, shelter, and even food, and, by ascer-
taining the cause, to prevent the recurrence of such a
calamity, you were sent to the Crimea.
" Your mission required high intelligence, matured ex-
perience, discreet zeal, and a degree of moral coinage not
ordinarily possessed ; that all these qualities were exer-
cised the Premier warmly declared in Parliament soon after
your return, and the Secretary for War, after a longer in-
terval for reflection, has, in a place hardly less public,
fully acknowledged.

"'Our gracious Sovereign has with her own hand placed
badges of honour on the breasts of many survivors of this
dreadful campaign, and long may they wear the distinc-
tions they have thus honourably won; but we have not
yet heard that your services have received any public re-
ward.

" We are unwilling to believe that if your report had
spoken smooth things, and had contained less truth, it
would have been more acceptable; we would rather think
that, official forms affording no reward for extraordinary
services such as yours, our governors have been restrained
by an adherence to that routine which proved so fatal
in the scenes of your inquiry. However that may be, we,
the undersigned magistrates of Preston and its vicinity,
j, in in this expression of our gratitude, and thus make
known to our countrymen our desire to concur in some
more substantial proof of it, in case of your services failing
to meet a cite reward from the Government which required
them.

" Granton-house, Feb. 21,
" Gentlemen,—You have done me the honour to send
me, through Mr. Parker, your representative in Parliament,
an address from the Mayor and magistrates of Preston and
its vicinity, in which you convey to me and to my colleague
(Colonel Tulloch) your thanks for the manner in which we
performed the duties required of us as Commissioners in
the Crimea. Allow me to assure you that I have received
with much satisfaction and gratitude this spontaneous ex-
pression of approbation from gentlemen to all of whom I
am a stranger, and whose intelligence and information
both enable them to form a well-founded opinion and en-
title them to announce it.

" You appear not to be aware that any steps have been
taken by her Majesty's Government to mark their recogni-
tion of our services; and Tat seem to doubt whether any
such are contemplated 2 • I therefore consider it due to them
as well as to you to put you in possession of an official com-
munication which I have recently received on the subject;
and of my answer, copies of which are enclosed.

" I have honour to he, &c '
" JOHN M'NEILL.
" Law. Spencer, Esq., Mayor • T. B. Addison, Esq.,
Recorder, &c., Preston."

" War-office, Pall-mall, Feb. 20.
" Gentlemen,— -I have the honour to acquaint you that
her Majesty's Government have decided to mark the ser•
vices rendered by you in the discharge of yourdutieslin the
Crimea by tendering to each of you the sum of 1,0001.
" This grant is intended, not as a mere pecuniary equi-
valent for the roults of your inquiries, but to convey like-
wise, in the manner whi.•h appears to them most proper,
the recognition by her Majesty's Government of the zeal
and ability with which those inquiries were conducted, to
which Levi Palmerston, in his place in Parliament, has
already borne testimony.
I have reason to believe that you have felt hurt by the
omission made on my part of the usual official acknowledg-
ment of so important a document as the report laid by you
before the Government. I at once admit the ground of
this complaint, and express my personal regret that it
should have existed, but the fact was that, having ac-
cepted the report from the hands of one of the Commis-
sioners at a personal interview, without, so far as I can
trace, any formal letter accompanying it, and my mind
being much occupied by important affairs at the time, I
omitted that formal acknowledgment of your services
which courtesy and my own opinion of their value re•
quired.

" With this explanation on my part, and tendering to
You the thanks of her Majesty's Government and my own
for your services in the discharge of en arduous and im-
portant duty, "I have the honour to be, &0.,
PANMITRILa
" Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, &c."

" Granton-house, Edinburgh, Feb. 21. "My Lord—This evening I had the honour to receive.
your lordship's letter of tho 20th inst., and I beg leave to
assure you that it afford 9 me great satisfaction to be put in
possession of a document containing an official acknow-
ledgment of the services of that commission which I con-
ducted to the Crimea two years ago. It is a source of still
greater gratification to me to receive at the same time the
thanks of her Majesty's Government and of your lordship
for the manner in which those services were conducted.
" I can readily conceive bow the circumstances alluded
to by your lordship may Lave accidentally led to the omis-
sion of the usual official acknowledgment of the report of
the Commissioners, at least until the 18th of April, when
official intimation was conveyed by your directions to Col.
Tulloch, for the information of the Board at Chelsea, that
there was no document at the War Department approv
the report.
"Your lordship informs me that her Majesty's Govern
wont have been pleased to grant me 1,0001., and you add
this grant is intended not as a mere pecuniary equiva-
lent for the results of your inquiries, but to convey like-
wise, in the manner which appears to them most proper,
the recognition by her Majesty's Government of the zeal
and ability with which those inquiries were conducted, to
which Lord Palmerston in his place in Parliament ha
already borne testimony'
" If I rightly understand this statement of the grounds
on which the grant is tendered to me, it means that the
sum of LOA/. is intended to be considered not merely as a
recognition by her Majesty's Government of the manner
in which tho duty was performed, but likewise as the Re.
cuniary equivalent of the results of the inquiry—that is,
the money value of the advantages which the country has
derived from those result..

" This estimate alone is sufficient to lead me, withou
further consideration, at once to decline a proposal which,
as explained by your lordship, appears to me to involve
tho admission that the results of my labours have been so
insignificant as to be almost without appreciable value to
the public. The thanks which your lordship has done me
the honour to convey to me would have been far more
acceptable if they hail been unconnected with such an
estimate.
" Had it been considered expedient to adopt the course
which Lord Palmerston seems to have believed was actu-
ally in progress, I might perhaps have been spared the
pain of formally declining what your lordship has proposed,
but the letter which I am now answering is the first com-
munication which I have received upon the subject.
" Your lordship is well aware that I have never sought
to obtain for myself any reward or remuneration. Her
Majesty's Government have till now, apparently considered
my services in the commission as gratuitous, and I am quite
ready, as I have always been, so to consider them ; I shall
bo amply rewarded by the consciousness of having freely
given them at a time of difficulty and anxiety to the Go.
vernment and to the public, but I am not prepared to
forego that reward for any consideration the acceptance
of which would be disparaging, or forfeit the good opinion
of the country.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
" Joint Dr/gin/L.
"The Right Hon. the Lord Panmure."

The following is Colonel Tulloch's reply to the Preston
address :

" 63, Eaton-square, Feb. 27.
`• Gentlemen,—lt has afforded me the highest satisfaction
Townley
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Preston which you have done me the honour of forwarding
i theve through
address
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thea r and magistrates
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Parker,threce
through that channel, and I beg to assure you that this
mark of your attention at a time when it is so appropriate
will ever be remembered by me with the deepest gratitude.
" I regret that I cannot inform you that the services en
which you have placed so high an estimate, and to which
such ample testimony has been borne by the Premier in
Parliament, have led to those rewards to which your refer.
The only proposed recognition on the part of her Majesty's
Government has been in a form which I could not accept;
but the highest of all rewards has been attained in the con
sciousness of having done my duty honestly and fearlessly
and that my conduct has met with the approbation of my
countrymen.
" I am, gentlemen, yours, &a.
"L. Spencer, Esq., Mayor ; T. B. Addison, Esq.,
Recorder, &c., Preston."