FOURTH SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
APPOINTED TO MEET 31 MAY, 1859, AND FROM THENCE CON-
TINUED TILL 6 FEBRUARY, 1862, IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
OF THE REIGN OF
HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.
THIRD VOLUME OF THE SESSION.
HOUSE OF LORDS,
Tuesday, May 27, 1862.
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Amendment: Local Government Supplemental.
THE SLAVE TRADE.
TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES.
OBSERVATIONS.
Spanish subjects should be made piracy and capitally punishable. The noble and learned Lord was understood to say that certain Spanish officers were believed to have received bribes for conniving at the slave trade.
EARL RUSSELL said, he would look into the papers on this subject, and make a statement on Friday on both the points referred to by the noble and learned Lord. With respect to Marshal Serrano, he believed that he was incapable of receiving bribes to permit the prosecution of the
LORD BROUGHAM said, he had never
ORD BROUGHAM said, he wished to refer to the reply of the noble Earl the Foreign Secretary, on the previous evening, that there was a difficulty in applying heard that Marshal Serrano had been the law respecting the slave trade to a charged with or even in any way suspected of such conduct. On the contrary, he had foreign ship fitting out in an English port, for the purpose of stating that he had rebeen most pure and honourable in his goferred to the Acts of 1811 and subsequent vernment, and, as an instance of that, he Acts, and was obliged to confess that he had actually suggested that slave trading could see no difficulty; but, at all events, should be declared piracy and those enhe trusted that measures would be taken gaged in it pirates, as the best mode of now to repress that abominable trade. He suppressing that abominable traffic.
desired to urge strongly upon the noble
Earl the Foreign Secretary that our Am- ACT OF UNIFORMITY AMENDMENT BILL.
bassador at Madrid should be directed to urge upon the Spanish Government the propriety of adopting the suggestion of Marshal Serrano, Captain General of Cuba; namely, that slave-trading on the part of VOL. CLXVII. [THIRD SERIES.]
Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
LORD EBURY* (having presented numerous petitions in favour of the Bill) pro