A memorial has been presented to the Foreign Secretary by
some of the highest mercantile firms in Liverpool, pointing out the danger that will arise to England from the interpreta- tion now given to the Foreign Enlistment Act in case England should be belligerent, and other neutral powers (as, for example, the United States), should fit out Alabamas for her enemies to prey upon her commerce—a course against which, if Baron Pollock's judgment is correct, we should have no international remedy. Lord Russell replies that the Act, in his opinion, is quite adequate to all reasonable purposes, pro- vided adequate evidence can be got of the acts which violate it, which is a very safe answer as respects the evidence ; and as respects the ends, shows that Lord Russell is much more reasonable than the Liverpool merchants.
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