§ MR. BRETTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, considering the great increase of the slave trade in the Soudan, since the appointment of the present governor of that province, Her Majesty's Government will consent, first, to make further representations to the Khedive on the subject; and, secondly, to appoint British Consuls at Khartoum and Suakim?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, Her Majesty's Government lose no opportunity of urging the Khedive to do all in his power to put down the Slave Trade in his Dominions, and have reason to believe that His Highness is sincerely desirous of hastening its abolition. The appointment of additional Consular officers is under consideration; but it has not yet been finally decided whether Khartoum and Suakim are the places at which it would be most desirable that they should be posted.