§ MR. FORREST FULTON (West Ham, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is true, as stated by the correspondent of the Times, of 30th July, that the Russian Government have ordered the enforcement of supposed obsolete laws, which would compel all Jews in Russia now engaged in agriculture to abandon their occupations and migrate into the towns; to force all Jews living throughout Russia to migrate into 16 specified countries; to deny them any educational advantages; and to prevent their following the literal professions, such as the law and medicine; and whether, if this report be true, the Government will take steps, either alone or in conjunction with the other great Powers, to protest against such an exercise of arbitrary power upon the unoffending members of an important nationality, many of whom are domiciled in the British dominions?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONAccording to information supplied by Her Majesty's Charge d' Affaires in St. Petersburg last month, no measure depriving the Jews of such privileges as they now enjoy in the Russian Empire was intended.