The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-13 00:00:00

MApRCCH 13, 1857.

citizens—let us at least, we repeat, " strike home" 1
with it, promptly and energetically l That Flag
has been grossly outraged--that property has
been 'wantonly destroyed—those lives have been
barbarously and inhumanly sacrificed. All which
crimes must be expiated by their perpetrators,
and so expiated that England shall have the best
security against their repetition. Wherefore it
is—again we repeat—that, viewing this -new war
with China in its true aspect, we do earnestly
demand at the hands of Lord PALMERSTON and of
his Government its rapid and energetic prosecu-
tion. Demanding this again and again, be it
said, in the name of Humanity and of Prudence.

Yesterday the House of Commons undid by
one magnanimous vote the whole of the miserable,
bungling, and complicated Farce of the Chelsea
Commission. As How ? By agreeing unani-
mously, or at any rate without any division, to
this very significant resolution :—" That Sir
JOHN WNEILL and Colonel TULLOCH ably fulfil-
led the duty entrusted to them of inquiring into
the arrangement and Management of the Commis-
sariat Department ; and that, considering the
able services rendered by Sir JOHN WNEILL and
Colonel TuLLoos, as Commissioners in the Crimea,
the high testimony in their favour by Her MA-
JESTY'S Government, an humble Address be
presented to Her MAJESTY, praying that some
especial mark of approbation be conferred
upon them !" So—Justice has been at
length done effectually, though tardily,
by the Representatives of the People, to men
whose good services to their country have been
grossly overlooked and depreciated by the Advisers
of the SOVEREIGN ! Men whose eminent services,
have not only been overlooked and depreciated,'
but who have been themselves actually insulted
as well as unrewarded ! Insulted by the vulgar
offer of the bounty of 1,000/. a-piece I A
species of recompence coming literally within the
same category, if not absolutely as that including
what is called " blood-money," at any rate as that
embracing within it items such as the cash given
to an Informer, or the free pardon accorded
to a Queen's Evidence I And yet a species of re-
ward that Ministers, wonderful to relate, actually
had the effrontery to proffer to gentlemen of dis-
tinguished character—one of them an eminent
officer in her MAJESTY'S Army, the other an able
and veteran Diplomatist. Happily, however, as
we have seen, this insulting bounty having been,
as a matter of course, scornfully declined by Sir
JOHN M`NEILL and Colonel TuLLocn—the House
of Commons, exercising its high prerogative, has
at length come in to the rescue, tardily, it is true,
but effectually and magnanimously. At the in-
stance, it ought to be remembered, of Mr. PALK'S
original motion as amended by the Right Hon.
SIDNEY RERZERT So that the services of the
Crimean Commissioners have at last been formally
recognised by the popular branch of the Legisla-
ture r and not only this, but that recognition of
them has been accompanied by the recommenda-
tion of the whole case to her MAJESTY, with a
view to the ultimate and fitting reward of Sir
Joint 111‘.1•TEILL and Colonel TuLLoca by the
SOPEREIGN.

It is to be regretted that this decision, this
generous and just decision of the House of Com-
mons, was retarded as much as it could possibly
be retarded by her MAJESTY'S Ministers, and par-
ticularly by the Noble Viscount the First Lord of
the Treasury. Vainly, we rejoice to say—but
we grieve to observe at the same time most per-
versely and disingenuously. The case, however,
was in itself altogether so gross and unjustifiable
that—as in tho instance of Mr. ROE-
BUOK'S Crimean Committee—Lord PALMERSTON,
after ungraciously interposing, was at length com-
pelled as ungraciously to waire his utterly futile
opposition. At any rate, his yielding in the
matter even thus, is a concession on his part to
public feeling, which is entitled, we conceive, to
recognition. As in a more genial manner we
feel at once that the sane is due to the last Act
of Grace of the Doomed, or, as the Leader of the
Opposition calls it, the Moribund Parliament.
The incident is one, we rest assured, which will
be hailed with particular satisfaction " out of
doors" by all classes of the community.