§ THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD (the Marquess of Breadalbane)read the following Gracious Reply by Her Majesty to the Address of the House on Thursday last on the subject of African Emigration:—
I have received your Address on the subject of African Emigration, and you may be assured of my earnest desire to discourage all schemes for the Emigration of Negroes from the African Continent by any means likely to promote a traffic in Slaves.The noble MARQUESS also read the following Gracious Reply to the Address of the House on Friday last, on the subject of the National Survey:—I have received your Address, praying that a Royal Commission may be appointed to inquire into the whole subject of the National Survey, and upon the scale or scales on which it should be made, and on which it should be published; and, having taken your Address into consideration, I have directed that a Commission shall issue for the purposes which you have requested.