CAPTAIN PRICEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is the fact, as stated in the newspapers of yesterday, that a Treaty has been concluded with the Sultan of Zanzibar for the suppression of the Slave Trade within the Sultan's dominions; and if he can give the House any further information on the subject?
§ MR. BOURKE,in reply, said, that within the last day or two the following telegram had been received at the Foreign Office from the Resident at Aden, dated May 14—
"From Zanzibar Consulate, dated May 6.—Have negotiated with Sultan. Abolition of all slave routes by land, and no caravan to fit out for purchase of slaves or slave hunting in the interior of Africa. All slaves coining to coast to be seized and confiscated, and all land caravans seized. Dealers to be imprisoned."