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THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

RIGHTS OF BELLIGERENTS
IN BRITISH PORTS.

ront the GazetTs of this evening.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 31.
COPY OF A LETTER PROM EARL RUSSELL TO THE LORDS
COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY.
M Foreign-office, Jan. 31, 1862.
y Lords,—Her Majesty being fully determined to ob-
serve the duties of neutrality during the existing hostilities
between the United States and the States calling themselves
the Confederate States of America, and being, moreover,
resolved to prevent, as far as possible, the use of her Majes-
ty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within her
Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike pur-
poses of either belligerent, has commanded me to commu-
nicate to your Lordships, for your guidance, the following
rules, which are to be treated and enforced as her Majesty's
Orders and Directions. -
Her Majesty is pleased further to command that these
rules shall be put in force in the United Kingdom and in
the Channel Islands on and after Thursday, the 6th Feb.
next, and inher Majesty's territories and possessions beyond
the seas, six days after the day when the Governor or other
chief authority of each of such territori s or possessions re-
spectively shall have notified and published the same, stat-
ing in such notification that the said rules are to be obeyed
by all persons within the same territories and possessions.
I. During the continuance of the present hostilities be-
tween the Government of the United States of North Ame-
rica, and the States calling themselves " the Confederate
States of America," or until her Majesty shall otherwise
order, no ship of war or privateer belonging to either
of the belligerents shall be permitted to enter, or re-
main in the port of Nassau, or in any other port, roadstead,
or waters of the Bahama Islands, except by special leave of
the Lieutenant-Governor of the Bahama Islands, or in
case of stress of weather. If any such vessel should
enter any such port, roadstead, or waters, by special
leave, or under stress of weather, the authorities
of the place shall require her to put to sea as soon as pos-
sible, without permitting her to take in any supplies, be-
yond what may be necessary for her immediate use.
If, at the time when this order is first notified in the Ba-
hama Islands, there shall be any such vessel already
within any port, roadstead, or waters of those Islands, the
Lieutenant-Governor shall give notice to such vessel to
depart, and shall require her to put to sea, within such
time as he shall, under the circumstances, consider pro-
per and reasonable. If there shall then be ships of war
or privateers belonging to both the said belligerents
within the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty, in or near
the same port, roadstead, or waters, the Lieutenant-Gover-
nor shall fix the order of time in which such vessels shall
depart. No such vessel of either belligerent shall be per-
'milted to put to sea until after the expiration of at least
twenty-four hours from the time when the last preceding
vessel of the other belligerent (whether the same shall be a
ship of war, or privateer, or merchant ship) which shall
have left the same port, roadstead, or water, or waters ad-
jacent thereto, shall have passed beyond the territorial
jurisdiction of her Majesty.
11. During the continuance of the present hostilities be-
tween the Government of the United States of North
America, and the States calling themselves " the Confede-
rate States of America," all ships of war and privateers of
either belligerent are prohibited from making use of any
port or roadstead in the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, or in the Channel Islands, or in any of her Ma-
jesty's colonies or foreign possessions or dependencies, or of
any waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of the Bri-
tish Crown, as a station or place of resort for any warlike
purpose, or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities of
warlike equipment ; and no ship of war or privateer of either
belligerent shall hereafter be permitted to sail out of or
leave any port, roadstead, or waters, subject to British
jurisdiction, from which any vessel of the other belligerent
(whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer, or a
merchant ship), shall have previously departed, until after
the expiration of at least 24 hours from the departure of
such last-mentioned vessel beyond the territorial jurisdic-
tion of her Majesty.
111. If any ship of war or privateer of either belligerent
shall, after the time when this order shall be first notified
and put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel
Islands, and in the several colonies and foreign possessions
and dependencies of her Majesty, respectively, enter any
port, roadstead, or waters belonging.to her Majesty, either
in the United Kingdom, or in the Channel Islands, or in
any of her Majesty's colonies or foreign possessions or de-
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roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of weather, or
of requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence
of her crew, or repairs ; in either of which cases, the authori-
ties of the port, or of the nearest port (as the case may be),
shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the
expiration of such period of 24 hours, without permitting
her to take in supplies, beyond what may be necessary for
her immediate use; and no such vessel, which may have
been allowed to remain within British waters for the pur-
pose of repair, shall continue in any such port, roadstead,
or waters, for a longer period than 24 hours after her neces-
sary repairs shall have been completed :—Provided, never-
theless, that in all cases, in which there shall be any ves-
sels (whether ships of war, privateers, or merchant ships) of
both the said:belligerent parties in the same port, roadstead,
or waters within the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty,
there shall be an interval of not less than twenty-four hours
between the departure therefrom of any such vessel (whe-
ther a ship of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship), of the
one belligerent, and the subsequent departure therefrom of
any ship of war or privateer of the other belligerent ; and
the times, hereby, limited for the departure of such ships
of war and privateers respectively, shall always, in case of
necessity, be extended, so far as may be requisite for giving
effect to this proviso, but not further or otherwise.
IV. No ship of war or privateer of either belligerent
shall hereafter be permitted, while in any port, roadstead,
or waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of her Ma-
jesty to take in any supplies,
ituprepgliueiss,ee forxcep the tprosvuisbisoinstsenancedofsuhcehr
other things as may be
crew ; and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to
carry such vessel to the nearest port of her own country, or
to some nearer destination ; and no coal shall be again sup -
plied to any such ship of war or privateer, in the same
or any other port, roadstead, or waters subject to the
territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty, without special per-
mission, until after the expiration of three months from
the time when such coal may,have been last supplied to her
within British waters as aforesaid.-- I have, &c.
(Signed) RUSSELL,
Note.—A similar letter has been addressed to the Secre-
taries of State for the Home, Colonial, War, and India De-
partments, and to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury.

LONDON GAZETTE.—(Thas'Eventng).

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAR. 29.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
John Stevens es Consul at Malta for his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

WHITEHALL; JAN. 31.
The Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one of
the Lords of Session in Scotland, to Robert Macfarlane,
Esq., Advocate, in the room of Alexander Wood, Raw,
resigned.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Tex.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Lewis Pax to be
Boyle, removed to the
Second Captain'
at Lieutenantel-wcolinilliampaßsioeyok, eptloacbede
half-pay; Lieutenant Robert David Dewar Hay
been
has h
permitted to resign his Commission ; Assistant-
Second Supernumerary Cap t a , List;
g
upon
Surgeon George Sharp has been permitted to resign his
Commission.
The second christian name of Lieutenant Turnbull is
Wilmot, not William, as stated in the Gazette of Jan. 7.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Edward Coysgarne Sim to
be Second Captain, vice Lonsdale Augustus Hale, placod
on the Supernumerary List.