§ MR. GOURLEYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Convention made between Italy and the United Kingdom, on the 21st December last, relative to the Convention entered into by Egypt, on the 4th August 1877, for the suppression of the Slave Trade is to be enforced, or remain comparatively a dead letter?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. BRYCE)The document to which the hon. Member refers is not a Convention, but a Declaration recording the adhesion of Italy to the Convention of the 4th of August, 1877, between Great Britain and Egypt. Under the provisions of the Slave Trade Act of 1873 the Declaration must be applied by Order in Council. The Order is in course of preparation, and as soon as it is issued the Declaration as regards this country will enter into force.