HC Deb 26 May 1879 vol 246 c1238
MR. W. E. FORSTER

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Anti-Slave Trade Treaty with Turkey has yet been concluded, which he informed the House last February had then been not only submitted to the Porte, but had passed the Council of Ministers?

MR. BOURKE

Sir Henry Layard, when in England, undertook that when he returned to Constantinople he would lose no opportunity and no time in pressing on the Porte the subject of that Treaty, and we hope to hear shortly that it has been signed.