LORD BROUGHAMsaid, he had yesterday presented a Petition praying for the suppression of a gross abuse that existed in India, that of parents leasing out their children, and had stated that it was a practice destructive of all morality. He hoped, by returns, for which he meant to move, to show fully the infamous character of this description of slavery. The specific evil to which he referred was that of individuals leasing out their female children, of eight, nine, or ten years, for ninety-nine years, for purposes of prostitution; and leasing out their male children for purposes of mutilation. He hoped that steps would be taken to put an end to this monstrous evil, to alter the law, if that was found necessary; but if no alteration of the law was required, to have it declared in such a way as to make it known to the people of India.