§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy, &c.)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the Secretary of State will cause to be prepared and presented to Parliament, after the coming Recess, a précis, showing in brief the information obtained by the Foreign Office as to the extent and character of the Slave Trade now carried on in the interior of Africa; also as to the number of slaves exported, the parts of the coast from which they are exported, the countries to which they are exported, and the way in which they are dealt with in those countries; the persons by whom, and the means by which, the traffic is carried on; and the degree to which repressive measures are effectually used or fail of effect?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)The Foreign Office already give all the information possessed by them on the subject in the Annual Report on the Slave Trade, which is presented to Parliament; the further details asked for by the hon. Member are plainly impossible to furnish, and any such statistics could only be founded on speculation.