LORD BROUGHAMsaid, he had received a letter from his noble Friend, Lord Howden, complaining that when, in the observations he made the other evening in reference to the Cuba slave trade, he accused the Spanish Governors of Cuba generally of having taken bribes and encouraged the slave trade, he made no exception of General Dulce. The fact was, however, that he did state on the occasion referred to, that General Dulce formed an exception, and ten days before, in contrasting the conduct of the Government of Spain with that of Brazil, he bore testimony in favour of General Dulce, and the noble Earl the Foreign Secretary had also commended General Dulce's conduct. But praise did not penetrate the walls of that House as vituperation did, and the reason was that the former did not bear the same price in the market. If all the Spanish Governors had been but half as good as General Dulce, the slave trade would now be probably at an end. Lord Howden had expressed a strong opinion that the Aberdeen Act ought no longer to be maintained, because the Brazilians had entirely abolished the slave trade. Lord Aberdeen himself in 1856 declared that either in the event of the slave trade ceasing, or the Convention being renewed, he would be disposed to move for the repeal of that 1782 Act. Though not liable to the charge of having neglected to praise General Dulce, he had made an omission of which the Jamaica petitioners complained, and that was that he had not given Admiral Hope the credit so justly due to him. Admiral Hope was a gallant officer who had in every respect performed his duty with respect to the Cuban slave trade, and had also distinguished himself in the East. It was with the greatest pleasure that he bore testimony to his merits, as he was the son of a revered friend, the late President of the Court of Session in Scotland.