MR. W. WILLIAMSsaid, he wished to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether there is any truth in the rumour that, in compliance with an application from the Government of France, the Government of this country will expel some of the French Refugees who have sought an asylum in this country?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONMy answer to the hon. Member is, in the first place, that no such application has been received from the Government of France; and, in the next place, something like the excuse of a village for not ringing a peal in the time of Charles II., that they had no bells to ring—that we have no power by law to grant any such application.