§ MR. MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been directed to the following observation, reported in the Dublin Daily Express of the 25th instant, to have been made by Mr. Montagu Williams at the Thames Police Court the previous day, and characterised in that journal as a piece of silly impertinence—
I expect there are a good many strangers from Ireland in this country; for my part, I wish they could all be sent back;and will he call the attention of the Lord Chancellor to the language alleged to have been used by Mr. Williams?
§ *MR. MATTHEWSI am informed by the learned Magistrate that he made use of no such language as is imputed to him by the Dublin Daily Express. A man applied to the Magistrate for money to pay his journey to his own country, stating that he was an Irishman, The Magistrate replied to the effect that he had no funds for such a purpose; that a large fund would be necessary if all foreigners in London were to be sent home; but that an Irishman was not a foreigner, and was in his own country here.