Court capable of taking cognizance of the matters to be dealt with according to Law; and that if it appears to the Court, before which the case is brought, that the seaman or apprentice has been conveyed on board or taken before the Court on improper or insufficient grounds, the master, mate, owner, ship's husband, or consignee, as the case may be, shall incur a penalty not exceeding 207., but such penalty, if inflicted, shall be a bar to any action for false imprison

ment.

If a seaman or apprentice to the sea service intends to absent himself from his ship or his duty, he may give notice of his intention, either to the owner or to the master of the ship, not less than 48 hours before the time at which he ought to be on board his ship; and in the event of such notice being given, the Court shall not exercise any of the powers conferred on it by section 247 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854."

Subject to the foregoing provision of this section, the powers conferred by section 247 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," may be exercised, notwithstanding the abolition of the imprisonment for desertion and similar offences, and of apprehension without

warrant.

Nothing in this section shall affect section 239 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854."

11. The 13th section of "The Employers and Workmen Act, 1875,"* shall be repealed in so far as it operates to exclude seamen and apprentices to the sea service from the said Act, and the said. Act shall apply to seamen and apprentices to the, sea service accordingly; but such repeal shall not, in the absence of any enactment to the contrary, extend to or affect any provision contained in any other Act of Parliament passed, or to be passed, whereby workman is defined by reference to the persons to whom "The Employers and Workmen Act, 1875," applies.

12. The enactments described in the Second Schedule to this Act shall be repealed as from the commencement of this Act within the United Kingdom.

Provided that this repeal shall not affect―

(1.) Anything duly done or suffered before the commencement of this Act under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(2.) Any right or privilege acquired or any liability incurred before the commencement of this Act, under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(3.) Any imprisonment, fine, or forfeiture, or other punishment incurred or to be incurred, in respect of any offence committed before the commencement of this Act, under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(4.) The institution or prosecution to its termination of any investigation or legal proceeding, or any other remedy for prosecuting any such offence, or ascertaining, enforcing, or recovering any such liability, imprisonment, fine, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid, and any such investigation, legal proceeding, and remedy may be carried on as if this repeal had not been enacted.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

(17 & 18 Vict., cap. 104, in part.)

"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," in part, namely:

In section 243, sub-section (1), the words "to imprisonment for any period not exceeding 12 weeks with or without hard labour; and also". . . In section 243, sub-section (2), the words "to imprisonment for any period not exceeding 10 weeks with or without hard labour, and also at the dis cretion of the Court."

Section 246.

In section 247 the words "instead of committing the offender to prison."
And section 248.

BRITISH CIRCULAR, notifying the Accession of the "Compagnie Française du Télégraphe de Paris à New York" to the Telegraphic Convention of July 22, 1875.*-London, February 28, 1880.

Foreign Office, February 28, 1880.

I TRANSMIT to you herewith a copy of a note from the French Ambassador at this Court, notifying, on behalf of his Government, the desire of the "Compagnie Française du Télégraphe de Paris à New York" to be admitted to the Telegraph Union.

I have to request that you will notify this adhesion to the Government to which you are accredited, in conformity with *Vol. LXVI, Page 19.

Article XVIII of the Telegraph Convention of St. Petersburgh. The Postmaster-General, to whom the above note has been referred, has stated that he sees no objection to the admission of the Company in question to the Union. I am, &c.,

SALISBURY.

(Inclosure.)-Admiral Pothuau to the Marquis of Salisbury.
(Received February 13.)

M. LE MARQUIS,

Londres, le 11 Février, 1880. DEPUIS quelques mois une Compagnie Française, dont M. PouyerQuertier est le Président, a établi entre Paris et New York une ligne télégraphique sous-marine, qui a été mise récemment en exploitation.

L'Article 7 du Cahier des Charges de cette Compagnie, qui a été créée sous le nom de "Compagnie Française du Télégraphe de Paris à New York," porte qu'on appliquera sur la ligne concédée les règles de la Convention et du Règlement Télégraphique de SaintPétersbourg ou de tous autres actes internationaux par lesquels ils seraient ultérieurement remplacés.

Je suis, en conséquence, chargé par mon Gouvernement de faire connaître au Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique que la "Compagnie Française du Télégraphe de Paris à New York" demande à être admise dans l'Union Télégraphique, et qu'elle a adhéré formellement, par lettre du 19 Décembre dernier, à la Convention Internationale de Saint-Pétersbourg.

Je serais reconnaissant à votre Excellence de vouloir bien, conformément à l'Article XVIII de la dite Convention, notifier cette adhésion à tous les États de l'Union.

The Marquis of Salisbury.

Veuillez, &c.,

POTHUAU.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, applying to Khelat, Muscat, Zanzibar, Cochin, Travancore, Kutch, and Kattyawar, the Regulations of 14th August, 1879,* for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea.-Balmoral, September 6, 1880.

At the Court at Balmoral, the 6th day of September, 1880. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made in pursuance of "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862 [cap. 63],† and Vol. LXVI. Page 682.

*Vol. LXX. Page 307.

dated the 9th day of January, 1863,* Her Majesty was pleased to direct

1. That the Regulations contained in the Schedule to the said. Act should be modified by the substitution for such Regulations of certain Regulations appended to the said Order:

2. That the said Regulations appended to the said Order should, on and after the 1st day of June, 1863, apply to French ships, whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas, by several Orders in Council subsequently made, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that the Regulations appended to the said Order of the 9th day of January, 1863, should apply to ships of the countries specified in the said Orders, whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the 30th day of July, 1868,† Her Majesty, on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, was pleased to make certain additions to the Regulations appended to the said first-recited Order in Council, for the purpose of explaining Articles 11 and 13 of the said Regulations, and of removing doubt and misapprehension concerning the effect of the said two Articles :

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the 14th day of August, 1879, Her Majesty has been pleased to direct that on and after the 1st day of September, 1880, the said Regulations and the additions thereto shall be annulled, and that there should be substituted therefor the new Regulations contained in the First Schedule thereto, and that the same shall from and after the said 1st day of September, 1880, apply to ships of the countries mentioned in the Second Schedule thereto, whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the following Governments, that is to say:

The Government of Khelat;
The Government of Muscat ;
The Government of Zanzibar;
The Government of Cochin;
The Government of Travancore;

The Government of Kutch; and

The Government of Kattyawar,

are willing that from and after the said 1st day of September, 1880, the said new Regulations, a copy whereof is hereunto appended, contained in the First Schedule of the said recited Order in Council of the 14th day of August, 1879, shall, with the exception of

*Vol. LIII. Page 338.

+ See "Hertslet's Treaties," Vol. XII. Page 1113.

Article 10 thereof, apply to ships belonging to their respective countries when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the said recited Act,* and by and with the advice and consent of her Privy Council, is pleased to direct,

That from and after the 1st day of September, 1880, the said New Regulations for preventing collisions at sea, a copy whereof is hereunto appended, contained in the First Schedule of the said recited Order in Council of the 14th day of August, 1879, shall, with the exception of Article 10 thereof, apply to ships belonging to the following countries, that is to say:

Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea, referred to in the foregoing Orders.

[See Vol. LXX. Page 309.]

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, applying to Brazil, Equator, Hawaii, Japan, and Turkey, the Regulations of 14th August, 1879,† for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea.-Windsor, November 27, 1880.

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of November, 1880. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made in pursuance of "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862" [cap. 63],‡ and dated the 9th day of January, 1863,§ Her Majesty was pleased to direct

1. That the Regulations contained in the Schedule to the said Act should be modified by the substitution for such Regulations of certain Regulations appended to the Order:

2. That the said Regulations appended to the said Order should, * See "Hertslet's Treaties," Vol. XII. Page 1113.

+ Vol. LXX. Page 307.

Vol. LXVI. Page 682.

§ Vol. LIII. Page 338.