§ MR. T. BAYLEY (Derbyshire, Chesterfield)I beg to ask the Attorney General whether Her Majesty's subjects can legally own or employ slaves in the British Protectorate of Zanzibar?
§ SIR J. RIGBY(who replied) said: As a protest on the part of the Law Officers and of the Foreign Department against questions of this kind being given without sufficient notice, I must ask that further notice be given. The answer may not, in my opinion, be open to much doubt, but it ought not to be given without reference to numerous Orders in Council, Treaties, and other documents which there has not been time to consult.
§ MR. T. BAYLEYI will postpone the question with pleasure.