Tu Spectator discusses the French Decree against immigration in a long article in which it recalls, but dismisses as "trivial and unreal" the outcry against the admission of Polish Jews into the East end of London, but says that it must never be forgotten that Prince Bismarck has within the Inst few years not only forbidden immigration into Posen, but has actually expelled from Prussian territory many thousands of Poles who had already taken refuge in the Province along the Russian border. Of course the action taken by the French Government is more important then that of Prussia in Posen, and is due to the intolerance of immigration among the rising, has, since the appearance of the last French people, which, having been; gradually census, become so serious as to oblige the President of the Republic, acting under the advice of his Government, to issue this Decree. The figures which have so alarmed or excited the French are curiously small to have caused the people and governanent so much concern as they must have felt before the issue of the Decree.
"Tu 1886, when the last census was take the total number of foreigners residing in France was 1,126,531. 3 per cent. of the total population." The foreign population hes
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