§ MR. DONALDSON-HUDSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is true, as stated in the "Times" of May 30th, that a large slave trade is carried on between the Islands under the dominion of the Sultan of Zanzibar and the interior of Africa; and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government will take steps towards the suppression of the traffic?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, all the information on the subject in the possession of Her Majesty's Government is contained in the Blue Book on slave-trade matters presented to Parliament this year, from which it will be seen that Her Majesty's Government are taking all the steps in their power to suppress the traffic.