The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA.

At the Court at Windsor, the 2d day of February,
1857, Present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council. Whereas, by au Order of her Majesty
in Council " for the government of her Majesty's
subjects, being within the dominions of the
Emperor of China, or being within any ship or
vessel at a distance of not more than a hundred
miles from the coast of China," bearing date the
thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty.three, her Majesty was
pleased, amongst other thingS, to order that
if any party charged with an offence committed
against the treaties, or rules and regulations
therein referred to, should escape or remove
.from the consular district within which such
offence was committed, and should be found within
another consular district, it should be lawful for
the Consul within whose district -the party should
be found to proceed against him in the same man-
ner as if the offence had been committed within
such district ; and whereas, in
.and by the said
order in council, provision was made for the man-
ner in which British subjects, convicted of crimes
and offences, committed within the dominions
of the Emperor of China, or being required
and being unable, or wilfully omitting to
give sufficient security to keep the peace, or to
find security for their good behaviour, might be
sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China
to the colony of Hong Kong, and also for the
manner in which the expenses of so sending such
persons to the said colony of Hong Hong should
be defrayed. And whereas, it is expedient to
make further provision in respect of the matters
aforesaid

I, Now, therefore, in pursuance of the several
Acts of Parliament in the said Order in Council of
the 13th day of June, 1853, recited and referred
to, and in execution of the powers thereby in her
Majesty in Council vested, her Majesty is pleased,
with the advice of her Privy Council, to
order, and cloth hereby order, that the Chief
Superintendent or Consul within whose juris-
diction any party charged with committing any
offence against such treaties, or such rules or-regu.
latious as aforesaid, or who shall have escaped or
removed from the consular district within which
such offence was committed, shall be found, may law-
fully, if such Chief Superintendant or Consul shall
think fit, cause such party to be taken into custody
and sent back to the consular district from which
he shall so have escaped or removed, to be there
dealt with according to the provisions of the said
Order in. Council on the 13th day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
it is further ordered, that all removalS
whatsoever of prisoners or other parties from or to
the said colony of Hong Kong, or from or to any
port or place in China, under the authority of the
said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of
June, cue thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three, shall be effected, and the expenses
of all such removals shall be defrayed
in like manner, as by Articles 20. 21. 22,
and 23, of the said Order in Council of the
thirteenth, day of June; one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty three, is provided with respect to the
embarking, conveying, delivering, commitment,
and expenses of persons deported under the
authority of the said articles respectively, so far as
the provisions thereof respectively shall be ap-
plicable to the circumstances of each particular
case.

111. And it is further ordered, that this order
shall be read and construed with and as being a
part of the sail Order in Council of the thirteenth
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.

IV. And it is further ordered that this order
shall take effect from and after the thirtieth day of
April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
And the Right Honorable the Earl of Claren-
don, the Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, two
of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to
give the necessary directions herein as to them
may respectively appertain.

C. C. GREVILLE.

MILITARY AND NAVAL FLOGGING.—One lash in the navy
is considered to be equal in severity to several in the army,
because of the naval lash being given by the practised
strong arm of a boatswain's mate, and from the nine cords
of the cat being separated at each lash, so that each cord
acts; and the military lash given by the unskilled arm of
a drummer lad, who merely sweeps the cat round and
inflicts the punishment as he would with a whip. "Topsy"
said, " Miss Feely whip I—wouldn't kill a skeeter, her
whippin's. Oughter see how old mas'r made the flesh
fly ; old mas'r know'd how." So Topsy would say were
she to witness on British land the difference between a
military and a naval flogging. " Law, dem drummer
boys flag I—wouldn't kill a 'osse fly, der whippin's; but
dem old bosin mates scratchee de blood vvid der nine long
tailed eats; dem man-o -war-critters know bow to
flog niggers and sailors."— United 'Service Gazette for
February.