HC Deb 26 March 1877 vol 233 c495
MR. ANDERSON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he has observed a letter in the "Army and Navy Gazette," from Captain W. R. Kennedy, R. N., stating that, a few days after the Egyptian Government sent a ship of war down the Red Sea for the suppression of the slave trade, there was a sale of slaves in Cairo, at which some 300 women wore sold; if Her Majesty's Government has any information on the subject, and whether, in point of fact, that sale was at the instance of the Egyptian Government itself; and, if Her Majesty's Government has remonstrated or will remonstrate strongly with the Khedive on such inconsistency?

MR. BOURKE,

in reply, said, that the Consul General in Egypt had been directed to send a Report on the subject as soon as possible; but it had not yet arrived.