§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, during the last three years, any attempt has been made by Her Majesty's Government to get a Treaty for the suppression of the slave trade negotiated with Turkey, so as to give us better control of the traffic from Africa by the Red Sea and elsewhere?
§ MR. BOURKESir, Her Majesty's Government have been in communication with the Government of Egypt on the subject of the slave trade in the Red Sea, and the draft of an anti-Slave Trade Convention has been prepared. It will probably be sent to the Consul General at Cairo in the next few days. Negotiations with the Turkish Government on the same subject were begun some time ago, but have been temporarily suspended for the last 18 months in consequence of the state of political affairs.