§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the reports are correct that the Slave Trade is still active in Morocco and the other towns of that State, and that the slave dealers have quite recently hawked their human victims about the streets, chiefly children and young negresses, offering them for sale; and, whether the Government will use 1644 its influence with the Sultan of Morocco to check this practice?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Her Majesty's Government regret that the Slave Trade still exists in Morocco, and that an open market for the disposal of human beings is held twice each week in Morocco city. The presumption, therefore, is that the trade is also active in the Provinces. Her Majesty's Minister has standing instructions to do what he can in discouragement of the practice; but active interference with it is not possible.