whose favour the same shall be given shall, before the execution thereof, enter into good and sufficient security, to be approved by the said Court, for the due performance of such judgment or order as Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall think fit to make upon such appeal.

In all cases security shall also be given by the party or parties appellant in a bond or mortgage or personal recognizance, not exceeding the value of 5007. sterling, for the prosecution of appeal and the payment of all such costs as may be awarded to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or by the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, to the party or parties respondent; and if such last-mentioned security shall be entered into within three months from the date of such motion or petition for leave to appeal, then, and not otherwise, the said Court shall allow the appeal, and the party or parties appellant shall be at liberty to prefer and prosecute his, her, or their appeal to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in her or their Privy Council, in such manner and under such rules as are or may be observed in appeals made to Her Majesty from Her Majesty's Colonies and plantations abroad.

2. It shall be lawful for the said Supreme Court, at its discretion, on the petition of any party who considers himself aggrieved by any preliminary or interlocutory judgment, decree, order, or sentence of the Supreme Court, to grant permission to such party to appeal against the same to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in her or their Privy Council, subject to the same rules, regulations, and limitations as are herein expressed respecting appeals from final judgments, decrees, orders, and sentences.

3. Nothing herein contained doth or shall extend or be construed to extend, or take away, or abridge the undoubted right and authority of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, upon the humble petition of any person or persons aggrieved by any judgment or determination of the said Court, at any time to admit his, her, or their appeal therefrom, upon such terms and upon such securities, limitations, restrictions, and regulations, as Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, shall think fit, and to reverse, correct, or vary such judgment or determination, as to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall seem meet.

4. In all cases of appeal, allowed by the said Court, or by Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, the said Court shall certify and transmit to Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, in her or their Privy Council, a true and exact copy of all evidence, proceedings, judgments, decrees, and orders had or made in such cases appealed, so far as the same have relation to the matters of appeal, such copies to be certified under the seal of the said Court, and the said Court shall also certify and transmit to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in her or their Privy Council, a copy of the reasons given

by the Judges of such Court, or by any such Judges, for or against the judgment or determination appealed against, where such reasons shall have been given in writing; and where such reasons have been given orally, then a statement in writing of the reasons given by the Judges of such Court, or by any of such Judges, for or against the judgment or determination appealed against.

5. The said Court shall, in all cases of appeal to Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, conform to and execute, or cause to be executed, such judgments and orders as Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall think fit to make in the premises, in such manner as any original judgment, decree, or decretal order, or other order or rule of the said Court, should or might have been executed.

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL..

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, annulling the Order of 26th February, 1867,* establishing the West Africa Court of Appeal.-Balmoral, October 23, 1877.

At the Court at Balmoral, the 23rd day of October, 1877.
PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold.

Lord President.

Lord Chamberlain.

WHEREAS by an Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 26th day of February, 1867, after reciting (among other things) that Courts of Civil and Criminal Justice had been established by Ordinances in Her Majesty's Settlements on the Gambia, on the Gold Coast, and of Lagos, in Western Africa, and that it was expedient to provide a Court of Appellate Jurisdiction, to hear and determine appeals from the said Courts, it was ordered that the Judges for the time being of Her Majesty's Supreme Court of the the Settlement of Sierra Leone should be a Court of Record to receive and hear appeals from the Courts of Her Majesty's said Settlements on the Gambia, on the Gold Coast, and of Lagos, to be styled "The West Africa Court of Appeal," and to proceed as in the said Order mentioned:

And whereas Her Majesty's Settlements on the Gold Coast and of Lagos have been erected into one Colony, with a separate Supreme Court for such Colony:

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And whereas the Supreme Court of the Settlement of Sierra Leone now consists of one Judge only:

And whereas by an Order of Her Majesty in Council bearing even date herewith* provision is made for the hearing and determination of appeals from the Courts of Civil and Criminal Justice of the Settlements on the Gambia:

It is therefore ordered by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, as follows:

1. The above-recited Order of Her Majesty in Council establishing the West Africa Court of Appeal, and bearing date the 26th day of February, 1867, is hereby repealed, revoked, and annulled, except in respect of anything lawfully done thereunder, and of any proceedings which may have been commenced thereunder before the date at which this Order is published in the Settlement in which such proceedings were commenced.

2. Any proceedings so commenced may be completed, and any appeal to Her Majesty in Council in respect of such proceedings may be had, prosecuted, and completed as fully and effectually as if this Order had not been made.

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, applying "The Slave Trade Act of 1876" to certain parts of Asia and Africa (Khelat, Muscat, Beloochistan, Persian Gulf, Arabia, Tribes near Aden, Zanzibar, &c.).—Windsor, April 30,

1877.

At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of April, 1877. PRESENT; THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 39th and 40th years of Her Majesty's reign [cap. 46],† intituled "An Act for more effectually punishing Offences against the Laws relating to the Slave Trade," it is, amongst other things, enacted that:

If any person being a subject of Her Majesty, or of any Prince or State in India in alliance with Her Majesty, shall, upon the high seas or in any part of Asia or Africa which Her Majesty may from time to time think fit to specify by any Order in Council in this behalf, commit any of the offences defined in Sections 367, 370, and + Vol. LXVII. Page 597.

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371 (in the Schedule to this Act respectively cited) of Act 45 of 1860, passed by the Governor-General of India in Council, and called "The Indian Penal Code," or abet, within the meaning of the 5th chapter of the said Penal Code, the commission of any such offence, such person shall be dealt with in respect of such offence or abetment as if the same had been committed in any place within British India in which he may be or may be found:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and by virtue of the said recited Act of Parliament, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the said Act shall apply to the several parts of Asia and Africa hereinafter specified, that is to say:

(a.) The territories of the Khan of Khelat and of the Sultan of Muscat in Mekran and Arabia.

(b.) The coast of Beloochistan, and of the Bunder Abbass districts, and the shores of the Persian Gulf.

(c.) The coast of Arabia from Ras Mussendom to Cape Bab-elMandeb.

(d.) The territories of the following tribes near Aden, namely:

(e.) The coast of Africa from Ras Sejarme to Delagoa Bay. (f.) The territories of the Sultan of Zanzibar.

(9.) The sea and islands within 10 degrees of latitude or longitude from such coasts and shores respectively.

And the Right Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury and the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. L. PEEL.

CONVENTION between the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the General Post Office of Egypt.*-Signed in London, November 14, 1877.

ART. I. There shall be a regular exchange of correspondence between the Post Office of the United Kingdom and the Egyptian Post Office, in conformity to the provisions of the Treaty of Berne,† and of the subsequent Conventions annexed to that Treaty.

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II. The two offices shall by mutual agreement decide upon the measures necessary for the execution of the present Convention. *Signed also in the French language.

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It is understood that these measures may be modified whenever the two offices shall agree that an alteration is necessary.

III. The exchange of money orders between the two offices shall be regulated by the Convention of the th December, 1873,* and the 2nd paragraph of Article I of that Convention shall be cancelled.

IV. The Egyptian Government undertakes to convey from Alexandria to Suez, and from Suez to Alexandria, the British mails to and from the East Indies, Australia, and other of Her Britannic Majesty's Colonies or Possessions, or to and from China, Japan, or any other foreign country.

It also undertakes to convey between Cairo and Alexandria the sealed bags containing the despatches and official correspondence of Her Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt.

The Egyptian Government guarantees the safety of the British mails while passing through Egypt, except in the case of force majeure. V. The time occupied in conveying the British mails from Alexandria to Suez shall not exceed 16 hours, counting from the time when the last package is handed over to the Egyptian authorities at the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's wharf adjoining the railway station at Alexandria, to the time at which the last package is delivered alongside the packet at the Suez docks; and the time occupied in conveying the mails from Suez to Alexandria shall be 13 hours, counting from the time at which the last package is handed over to the Egyptian authorities at Suez to the time at which the last package is delivered to the agent of the British Post Office at the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's wharf at Alexandria, for embarkation on board the British mail-packet.

VI. The Egyptian Government shall provide the means of placing the mails on board the packet lying alongside the wharf in the Suez docks, after they have been checked by the agent of the British Post Office, or by his clerks.

VII. The mails may be forwarded by a passenger, goods, or mixed train, provided always that the stipulations contained in Article XIII of this Convention are strictly observed.

VIII. If the time stipulated for the conveyance of the mails between Alexandria and Suez, or vice versâ, shall terminate during the night, say between 6 P.M. and 6 A.M., then the time for delivery of the mails, either at Alexandria or Suez, shall be extended to 6 o'clock on the following morning.

IX. The British Post Office shall have the right to maintain agencies at Alexandria and Suez, and to send its own messengers with the mails.

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