§ MR. HENRY SAMUELSONsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the circumstances which led to the passing of the Act 8 & 9 Vict. c. 122, for the suppression of the African Slave Trade in Brazilian vessels, have not ceased to exist; and whether it is the intention of Government to take measures for the repeal of the said Act, with a view to rendering more intimate our relations with the Brazilian Empire?
MR. GLADSTONEsaid, in reply, that it was the intention of the Government to take measures for the repeal of the Act in question, commonly known as the "Aberdeen Act;" and he believed that his noble Friend (the Earl of Clarendon) had on the preceding evening introduced a Bill into the House of Lords for that purpose.