§ MR. S. SMITHI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti- 489 Slavery Society in the Times of Friday last, alleging that in February of this year a caravan of 2,000 slaves, 1,200 of which were girls, arrived at Tendouf, and were sold at the fair to Morocco dealers; and whether the Government will draw the attention of Her Majesty's Minister in Morocco to this statement, with a view to the more effectual suppression of this slave traffic?
§ BARON H. DE WORMS (for Sir J. FERGUSSON)Attention has been drawn to the statement in the Times. It is unfortunately the fact that, notwithstanding the promises made to Sir John Hay in 1884, sales of slaves by public auction continue in Morocco. Sir Charles Euan Smith will be instructed to endeavour to secure the observance of those promises, but it would be unfair to the late Sir W. Kirby Green not to mention his exertions in a matter in which he took great interest.