§ MR. EWART, in reference to the Alien Bill, asked if the noble Lord could possibly state any particular circumstance which called for so extraordinary a measure?
§ LORD J. RUSSELL: My answer to the question is, that our bringing forward the Alien Bill is the result of information which we have received from various quarters. I think it is an Act opposed to the general policy of the country, and that no such Bill ought to exist in ordinary times; but there are certainly circumstances (which I do not know that I could state to the House) which lead the Cabinet to the conviction that they ought to introduce such a Bill at the present time. It is a temporary Bill.