§ MR. THOMAS BAYLEY (Derbyshire, Chesterfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign 1132 Affairs when he will lay upon the Table the correspondence giving Mr. Hardinge the instructions of the Government in fulfilment of their undertaking to abolish the legal status of slavery in the island of Zanzibar?
MR. CURZONThe instructions will be laid in due course, but I cannot at the present moment name a date.