ing their residence beyond the precincts of the capital, they ar bound to maintain in the capital an office which shall be regularly open every day, except Sunday, for at least 3 fixed and known hours, between 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

An Attaché, or other proper person duly authorized, must be constantly in attendance at that office during those hours, for the purpose of countersigning passports, and performing such other duties as British subjects abroad are entitled to expect at the hands of their Minister.

And as it is necessary that, with regard to the legalisation of documents of certain descriptions, the parties should appear before the Chief of the Mission or the Secretary of Legation, the office in question must be visited at certain known and appointed times by one of the persons competent to sign such documents; and a public notification should be made to that effect.

With regard to documents which require the signature of the Minister himself, without the personal attendance of the party desiring such signature, the Minister, while living out of town, must make arrangements for such documents being forwarded to him at least once in 24 hours, and free of expense to the party sending, from the British Office in the capital; and he must send the papers back to the office, at the latest, on the day succeeding his receiving them, in such manner as shall insure the punctual reception of them in sealed covers by the parties interested.

I am, &c.

MALMESBURY.

BRITISH CIRCULAR respecting Etiquette and Precedence between Consuls and Naval Officers.-Admiralty, April 18, 1848.

IT has been arranged between the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that, when a Captain of one of Her Majesty's ships of war (not being a Captain in charge of a division of a station or squadron, or in command of more than one rated ship) shall signify, in writing, to a British Consul, his arrival at a port at which a Consul resides, the Consul (or Vice-Consul in a port where there is a Consul-General), shall take the earliest opportunity of waiting, in person, on such Captain, and of affording him any assistance he may require.

Captains, not in charge of a division of a station or squadron, or in command of more than one rated ship, are on their arrival at a

port where an Agent and Consul-General or a Consul-General resides, to wait upon such Agent and Consul-General, or such Consul-General, and Commanders to wait upon Her Majesty's Consuls; but Captains, Commanders, Lieutenants, or Masters commanding Her Majesty's ships are to be waited upon by ViceConsuls and Consular Agents, according to the foregoing regulation.

It is understood, of course, that Agents and Consuls-General, Consuls-General, and Consuls, &c., shall, in all cases, wait upon Flag Officers and Commodores wearing broad pendants; and Consuls-General (not being Agents and Consuls-General) and Consuls, &c., on all Captains in charge of a division, or station, or squadron or in command of more than one rated ship, on their arrival at the port of their residence, without waiting for any previous communication.

And that such Flag Officers, Commodores, Captains, Commanders and Lieutenants, or Masters commanding, shall furnish a boat to convey the Agents and Consuls-General, Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents, as the case may be, on board, and re-land them, on the said officers notifying their wish to have a boat so sent for them.

And the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, command me to signify the same to the respective Flag Officers, Commodores, Captains, Commanders, and other officers commanding Her Majesty's ships and vessels for their information and guidance; and that the Memorandum on this subject, dated 11th July, 1827, is to be no longer in force.

By command of their Lordships.

W. A. B. HAMILTON.

ACT of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Colony of St. Christopher and Anguilla, "for facilitating the Apprehension of certain Offenders escaping to this Colony from any Foreign Territory or Dominion, in order that such Offenders may be delivered up to Justice."

[No. 679.]

[October 3, 1848.]

WHEREAS the reciprocal surrender of suspected criminals escaping from one jurisdiction to another greatly tends to the furtherance of public justice: we, therefore, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the officer administering the Government of your Majesty's islands of Saint Christopher and Anguilla, aud the council and assemby of your Majesty's island of Saint Christo

pher, do pray your most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted and ordained:

I. And be it, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, that, in case requisition shall at any time be made by the executive authority of any foreign territory or dominion, to deliver up to justice any person who, being charged with the crime of murder, or of an attempt to commit murder, or of arson, or of rape, or of robbery, or of forgery, or of the utterance of any forged security for money, committed within the jurisdiction of such territory or dominion, shall be found within the islands of Saint Christopher or Anguilla, or their dependencies, it shall be lawful for the officer administering the Government of this colony, if he shall think fit, but not otherwise, by warrant under his hand and seal, to signify that such requisition has been so made, and to require all justices of the peace, and other magistrates and officers of justice within their several and respective jurisdictions to govern themselves accordingly, and to aid in apprehending the person so accused, and in committing such person to gaol for the purpose of being delivered up to justice; and thereupon it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, or magistrate, in this colony, to examine, upon oath, any person or persons touching the truth of such charge, and upon such evidence as according to the law of this colony would justify the apprehension and committal for trial of the person so charged, if the crime or offence with which he or she shall be so charged, had been committed within this colony, to issue his warrant for the apprehension of such person, and also to commit such person to gaol, there to remain until delivered pursuant to such requisitions as aforesaid.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, that in any such case, copies of the deposition or depositions upon which the original warrant for the apprehension of the offender issued by the magistrate, or other authority, in such foreign dominion or territory was granted, certified under the hand and seal of the office of the executive officer of such foreign dominion or territory making such requisition as aforesaid, to receive the person so committed, and to convey such person to the place where the crime or offence with which such person is charged was committed, there to be tried for such crime or offence; and such person shall be delivered up accordingly, and it shall be lawful for the person or persons authorized as aforesaid, to hold such persons in custody, and take him, or her, to the place where such crime or offence was committed; and if the person so accused shall escape out of any custody, to which he or she shall be committed, or to which he or she shall be delivered as aforesaid, it shall be lawful to retake such person in the same muner as any person accused of any felony committed within the colony may be retaken upon an escape.

IV. And be it enacted, that when any person who shall have been committed under this Act, to remain until delivered up pursuant to requisition as aforesaid, shall not be delivered up pursuant thereto, and conveyed out of this colony within 2 calendar months after such committal, it shall, in every case, be lawful for the chief justice of this island, upon application made to him by, or on behalf of, the person so committed, and upon proof made to them, or him, that reasonable notice of the intention to make such application has been given to the Attorney-General, to order the person so committed to be discharged out of custody, unless sufficient cause shall be shown to such judge why such discharge ought not to be ordered.

V. And be it enacted, that this Act shall commence and take effect, in respect of each of such foreign dominion or territory when, and so soon as the officer administering the Government of this island shall, by proclamation under his hand and the public seal of this island, declare and proclaim that the legislative authority of such said foreign dominion or territory hath severally made sufficient provision, by law, for the apprehension of offenders escaping to any place within such foreign territory or dominion, who may be charged with having committed within this colony any of the crimes or offences hereinbefore mentioned.

CONVENTION between Great Britain and New Granada, for the liquidation of the Claims of a British Subject (Mr. Mackintosh).- Signed at Bogotá, December 13, 1851.*

(Translation.)

MANUEL MURILLO, Secretary of State for Finance, expressly authorized by the Executive Power, on the one hand, and on the other Daniel F. O'Leary, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, specially instructed by his Government to arrange and settle the claim respecting the credit of the English subject, James Mackintosh, have agreed, with the object of bringing to a close this question, to the following:

ART. I. The Government of New Granada recognises as floating debt due by it, with 6 per cent. annual interest, in favour of James Mackintosh, merchant of London, the half of the capital stipulated by M. Manuel José Hurtado, in the Convention which he concluded in London with the said James Mackintosh, on the 27th of December, 1825,† recognized by the Assembly of Plenipotentiaries by their Agreement of the 6th of May, 1839; deducting what has already been paid.

* Signed in the English and Spanish languages.

+ Page 656.

II. The Government of New Granada also recognizes as a debt due to James Mackintosh, proceeding from the interest of that capital, the half of the sum which the said M. Hurtado recognized for it in the said Convention, and the sum resulting from the liquidation at 6 per cent. of the capital expressed in the preceding Article, from the 7th of December, 1825, to the 31st of December, 1851.

III. The Government of New Granada binds itself to extinguish the capital spoken of in Article I of this Convention, and the interest which the said capital may produce, at the rate of 6 per per cent. per annum, from the 1st of January, 1852, with 10 per cent. of the import duties collected in the coast and inland Custom Houses of the Republic. The said redemption shall be carried into effect by admitting in payment of the 10-100ths part of the said import duties, the bonds payable to the bearer, which shall be delivered to James Mackintosh or to his order, for the amount of the capital expressed in Article I, with intesest at 6 per cent. per annum, from the 1st of January, 1852, excluding from this 10 per cent. any other paper than the bonds expressed, or hard cash.

IV. The bonds spoken of in the preceding Article shall be issued in sufficient number, so that each bond may represent the sum which the creditor or his agent or person holding his power in this capital may think proper to fix; but none of them shall be of smaller amount than 1,000 reals. The capital of each bond being extinguished, the interest thereof shall also be extinguished.

V. In order that the issue of bonds in favour of Mackintosh may take place, it is indispensable that he restore, in the manner which the Executive Power may determine, all and each of the bonds which his brother John Mackintosh received in his name in the year 1839, as well those of consolidated debt at 6 per cent. with all the coupons delivered, the 1st whereof were payable in the month of February, 1840, as those called deferred for the unpaid Colombian interest. If by any event there should be wanting in the delivery here stipulated, any one or more of the said bonds, the nominal value thereof shall be deducted from the sum to which the capital recognized in Article I may amount, if it should be of the consolidated bonds at 6 per cent.; or it shall be deducted from the interest recognized in Article II, if it should be of the coupons or deferred bonds.

VI. If the import duties should be abolished in New Granada or be substituted by others, the bonds issued agreeably to Articles III and IV of the present Convention, shall then be admitted, for their nominal value and for capital and interest, in payment up to 1,000,CCO reals in all the revenues and taxes, excepting those of manumission, which enter into the national treasury.