MR. GILPINasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the Government have taken any, and what steps, towards carrying out the recom- 654 mendations of the Committee of last Session on the East African Slave Trade?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, in pursuance of the recommendations of the Committee of last Session on the East African Slave Trade, the Governments of Germany, France, America, and Portugal have been invited to co-operate with Her Majesty's Government in the suppression of the slave traffic; and both the United States and France have expressed their willingness to assist in the work. The German Goverment expresses sympathy with this object, and has referred the matter to the Hamburg Senate for a Report, as the merchants of that place are chiefly interested in the Zanzibar trade. From Portugal no answer has yet been received.