SIR FOWELL BUXTONsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the treaty with the Imaum of Muscat, concluded 10th September 1822, is considered to be in force so far as it relates to the territories of the Sultan of Zanzibar, now that his dominions are independent of Muscat?
LORD STANLEY, in reply, said, the treaty with the Imaum of Muscat of September 10, 1822, and subsequently confirmed in 1839, having two years ago been referred for the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown, the question had been decided by the then Government in the affirmative.