The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-28 00:00:00

PASSPORTS TO ME CONTINENT.

FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 21, 1858.
Notice is hereby given, that in order to facilitate
still further the obtaining of passports by British
subjects desiring to proceed to the Continent; pass-
ports will henceforth be issued to any British sub-
ject who shall produce or send to the Passport De-
partment of the Foreign-office, or to any one of
the undermentioned agents at the outplrts a
certificate of his identity, signed by any mayor,
magistrate, justice of the peace, minister of
religion, physician, surgeon, solicitor, or notary,
resident in the United Kingdom. Every such cer-
tificate must bear the signature of the person in
whose behalf it is granted ; and when it is for-
warded to the Foreign-office by post it must, if it be
required that the passport should be sent by return
of post to the person who granted the certificate,
in order that he may deliver it to the applicant for
the passport, be accompanied by a Post-office order
for the am, unt of the fee ; or if forwarded by post
to an agent at an outport, the postage must be
prep Aid. But an agent at an outport will only
deliver passports to persons applying for them there
in pursu'nce of such certificate, and will not send
them by post to any persons whatever. The appli-
cation for the passport, if addressed to "her
M=jesty's Secretary of State, Foreign Office, Lon-
don," should have the word "Passport" conspicu-
ously written upon the cover. The names of the
agents who hare been appointed to issue Foreign
Office passports at the under-mentioned ports are:—
At Dover Samuel Metcalfe Latham, Esq.
At Folkestone Francis M. Faulkner, Esq.
At Southampton W. J. Le Feuvre, Esq.
At Liverpool Nathan Licherland, Esq.
The certificate of identity should be worded in
the following form, and must be signed and sealed
by the person giving it :

(Date of place and day of the month.)
The undersigned,
Mayor of
Magistrate for
Justice of the:Peace for
Minister
Physician
Surgeon
Solicitor
Notary
Residing at
hereby certifies that A. B. [Christian and surname
to be written at length], whose signature is written
at foot, is a British subject

a naturalised British subject
and requires a passport, to enab!e him to proceed to
------- [accompanied, as the
to travel on the Continent

case may be, by his wife and children, with their
tutor, named C. D. [Christian and surname to be
written at length], a British subject

a naturalised British subject,
and governess, and maid servant [or
servants], and man servant [or servants:,
named E. F., a British subject [or subjects.,
and a courier, named G. H., a naturalised Britis..`t
subject,

Signed
[with the usual signature.]
[Seal.]
Signature of the above-named
If the applicant for a passport be a naturalised
British subject, his certificate of naturalisation,
with his signature subscribed to the oath printed
on the third page of it, must be forwarded to the
Foreign Office with the certificate of identitygranted
on his behalf ; and his certificate of naturalisation
will be returned with the passport, to the person
who may have granted the certificate of identity,
in order that he may cause suck naturalised British
subject, not being a servant included in his em-
ployer's passport, to sign the passport in his pre-
sence. But the agents at the outports are not
authorised to grant passports to naturalised British
subjects, nor to citizens of the lonian States.
The charge on the issue of a passport, whatever
number of persons may be named in it, is, for the
present, six shillings, and that sum is to be paid on
the delivery of the passport ; or if it is desired that
tbe passport should be sent by post, then that sum
must be forwarded with the application for the
passport, by Post-office order, made payable to the
" Chief Clerk of the Foreign-office,' at the Post-
office, Charing-cross.
The necessary instructions upon this point have
been sent by the General Post-office to every
money-order office throughout the kingdom.
But any person whose certificate of identity
has been received from the country may obtain
his passport by calling for it at the Foreign-
office on the day following the receipt of the
application, either in person or by deputy—
toe deputy, in the latter case, exhibiting a signed
authority from his principal, in order that the sig-
nature may be compared with the signature in the
certificate ; but in this case the wor is "Passport
will be applied for at the Foreign-office," must be
added to the certificate for identity.
The form of application heretofore adopted by
banking firms will continue to be used by them.
The general regulations for passports as now
amended are as follows :

1. Applications for Foreign-office Passports must
be made in writing, and inclosed in a cover ad-
dressed to " Her Majesty's Secretary of State,
Foreign-office, London," or to an agent at one of
the specified outport3, with the word " Passport"
conspicuously written on the cover.
2. The charge on the issue of a passport, what-
ever number of persons may be named in it, is, for
the present, 65., which sum includes os. stamp
duty._

3. Foreign-office passports are granted only to
British-born subjects, or to citizens of the lonian
States, or to such foreigners as have become natu-
ralised either by act of Parliament or by a certifi-
cate of naturalisation granted by the Secretary of
State for the Home Department. When the pasty
is a "naturalised British subject," he will be eo
designated in his passport ' • and if his certificate of
naturalisation be dated subsequently to the 24th of
August, 1850, his passport will be marked as good
for one year only ; but this regulation will not pre-
clude any person whom it affects from obtaining, at
any future period, on his producing his old pass-
port, a fresh passport for a further limited period
of one year, without being required to pay a fresh
charge.
4. Passports are issued ab the /foreign-office,
between the hours of 11 and 4, on the day follow-
ing that on which the application for the passport
has been received at the Foreign-office ; but the
passport wilt be issued at the outports immediately
on application, accompanied by the production of
a certificate of identity, within such hours as may
be fixed with regard to the convenience of persons
desirous of embarking for the Continent.
5. Passports are granted to all persons either
known to the Secretary of State, or recommended
to him by some person who is known to him, or
upon the application of any banking firm established
in London, or in any other part of the United
Kingdom; or upon the production of a certificate of
identity, signed by any mayor, magistrate, justice
of the p,ace, minister of religion, physician, sur-
g,.on, solicitor, or notary, resident in the United
Kingdom.

6. A passport cannot be sent by the Foreign-
Office, or by an agent at an outport, to a person
already abroad ; such person should apply for one
to the nearest British Mission or Consulate.
7. Foreign-Office passportsmust be oeiniersigned
at the Mission in London, or at some Consulate in
tbe United Kingdom, of the Government of the
country which the bearer of the passport i*tends to
visit.*

8. A Foreign-0 ffice passport granted to a Britisb-
born subject, or to a citizen of the lonian States,
or to a " naturalied'British subject" whose certi-
ficate of naturalisation is dated previously to Aug.
21, 1850, is not limited in point of time, but is
tivailable for any time, or for any number of
journeys to the Continent, if countersigned afresh
by the Ministers or Consuls of the countries which
the bearer intends to visit ; but a passport granted
to a "naturalised British subject" whose certifi-
cate is dated subsequently to the 24th of August,
1850, is only available for the period for which the
passport was originally granted.
Foreign-office, April 21, 1858.

List of the principal Foreign Passport Offices ix
London, where Foreign-office Passports are to be
vised.
Austrian Legation, Chandos-house, Cavendish-
square.
Bavarian Legation, 3, Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
13,14iau Consulate, 53, Graeechurch-street.
French Consulate, 36, King William-street, City.
Netherlands Consulate, 201-, Great St. Helen's.
Portuguese Consulate, 5, Jeffrey's-square.
Itus'.ian Consulate, 32, Great Winchester-street.
Sicilian Consulate, 15, Cambridge-street, Edgware-
.
real.
Spanish Legation, 17, Hereford-street, Park-lane.
Turkish Embassy, 1, Bryanston-squat e.

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4' It is requisite that the bearer of every passport
granted by the Foreign-Office should sign his passport be-
fore he sends it to be vised at auy Foreign Mission or Con-
sulate in England; without such signature either the 111.4 d
may be refused, or the val dity of the passport questioned
abroad. And Travellers who may have any intention of
visiting tho Austrian States at any time in the course of
their travels on the Continent, are particularly and ear-
nestly advised not to quit England without having their
pa,W.rts vised v.t the Austrian Mission in London; but
there is no necessity for the visa to a Foreign-Office Pass-
port of either the Prussian or Sardinian authorities in. UN
United Kingdom.