§ MR. MUNTZwished to ask the noble Lord the President of the Council a question, the answer to which might very much influence the Vote which he and other hon. Members might give on the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill, which stood for a second reading that night. The question he wished to ask was whether, before introducing the Foreigners Enlistment Bill, Her Majesty's Government had endeavoured to induce the Emperor of the French to send out an increased number of troops to the Crimea, and whether such troops were to be partly or wholly paid by this country?
§ LORD J. RUSSELLsaid that the Emperor of the French had at all times 499 shown a willingness to send out troops to the East, and that, when an occasion arose lately for an additional supply of troops, he displayed the greatest readiness to send out as many as he could possibly get together. In point of fact, the only limit to the number of troops despatched by the Emperor of the French was the means of transporting them to the Crimea. But the British Government had never proposed to the Emperor of the French, neither should they think it advisable to propose to him that he should receive any payment for the services of any French troops to be employed against Russia in the present war.