HC Deb 08 July 1872 vol 212 cc797-8
MR. A. JOHNSTON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether advantage will be taken of the change of Ministry at Madrid to renew the representations of Her Majesty's Government with reference to a fulfilment of the Treaty Obligations of Spain relative to the Slave Population in Cuba?

VISCOUNT ENFIELD

On the formation of the new Government in Spain, Mr. Layard, Her Majesty's Representative at Madrid, brought under the notice of Senor Martos, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the question of the abolition of slavery, and received assurances on that head of a hopeful character.