HC Deb 17 February 1876 vol 227 c398
MR. ARTHUR MILLS

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Royal Commission alluded to in the Speech from the Throne as about to inquire into all Treaty engagements and International obligations bearing on the action of British National Ships in the territorial waters of Foreign States, will also be instructed to report on the expediency or otherwise of further Imperial Legislation on the subject of the Slave Trade?

MR. DISRAELI

In answer to the Question of the hon. Member, I must remind him that the instructions to the Commissioners will necessarily be of a very wide character, and it certainly does appear to me that one of those instructions will be to fulfil the duties to which the Question of the hon. Member refers.