CAPTAIN LEICESTER VERNONsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. Gentleman the Under Secretary for War whether the list published of the names of the recipients of the Victoria Cross was final, and whether it contained all the Crimean recommendations deemed worthy of decoration; and whether, in such case, there would be any objection to publishing the names of the officers and privates who have been recommended and rejected, with the details of the services for which they were recommended?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEEL,in reply, said, that the list was final as regarded 2120 officers and men at home; but the names of those recommended for the distinction, who were serving with regiments abroad, had not yet been received. It did not contain the names of all those who had been recommended, because some of their cases did not come within the scope of the warrant, which the hon. and gallant Member knew was exceedingly stringent in its provisions, and to the relaxation of which there would be great objections.