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BRITISH PROCLAMATION, prohibiting the Export of Gunpowder, Saltpetre, Nitrate of Soda, and Brimstone."Windsor, November 29, 1861.

VICTORIA R.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS in and by a certain statute, made and passed in the Parliament held in the 16th and 17th years of our reign, and intituled "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," it is, amongst other things, declared and enacted as follows; that is to say:

"The following goods may, by Proclamation or Order in Council, be prohibited either to be exported or carried coastwise: arms, ammunition and gunpowder, military and naval stores, and any articles which Her Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man, and if any goods so prohibited shall be exported from the United Kingdom or carried coastwise, or be water-borne to be so exported or carried, they shall be forfeited."

And whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to prohibit either to be exported or carried coastwise, the articles hereinafter mentioned (being articles which we judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores), we, therefore, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, and by this our royal Proclamation, do order and direct that, from and after the date hereof, all gunpowder, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, and brimstone, shall be, and the same are, hereby prohibited either to be exported from the United Kingdom or carried coastwise.

Given at our Court at Windsor, this 30th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1861, and in the 25th year of our reign. God save the Queen.

* "London Gazette" of November 29, 1861.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, prohibiting the Export of Gunpowder, Saltpetre, Nitrate of Soda, and Brimstone from the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and the Isle of Man.*—Windsor, November 30, 1861.

At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of November, 1861.
PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it has appeared expedient and necessary to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to prohibit the articles hereinafter mentioned to be exported or carried coastwise from the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, except as hereinafter provided. Her Majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the publication of this Order in the said islands respectively, the following articles, namely, gunpowder, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, and brimstone, shall be and the same are hereby prohibited to be exported or carried coastwise from the said Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man, respectively, except with the licence of the Lieutenant-Governor or other officer administering the government of such islands respectively for that purpose first had and obtained.

And the Lieutenant-Governors of Her Majesty's Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, for the time being, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may appertain.

ARTHUR HELPS.

BRITISH PROCLAMATION, prohibiting the Export of Arms, Ammunition, and Military Stores.†-Windsor, December 4, 1861.

VICTORIA R.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS in and by a certain statute made and passed in the Parliament held in the 16th and 17th years of our reign, and intituled "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853" [cap. 107], it is, amongst other things, declared and enacted as follows; that is

to say:

*Supplement to the "London Gazette" of November 29, 1861.
+"London Gazette Extraordinary" of December 4, 1861.

"The following goods may, by Proclamation or Order in Council, be prohibited either to be exported or carried coastwise: arms, ammunition, and gunpowder, military and naval stores, and any articles which Her Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man, and if any goods so prohibited shall be exported from the United Kingdom or carried coastwise, or be water-borne to be so exported or carried, they shall be forfeited."

And whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to prohibit either to be exported or carried coastwise, the articles hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: arms, ammunition, and military stores (including percussion caps and tubes), and also lead (being an article which we judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores), we, therefore, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, and by this our Royal Proclamation, do order and direct that, from and after the date hereof, all arms, ammunition, and military stores (including percussion caps and tubes), and also lead, shall be and the same are hereby prohibited either to be exported from the United Kingdom or carried coastwise.

Given at our Court at Windsor, this 4th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1861, and in the 25th year of our reign. God save the Queen.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, prohibiting the Export of Arms, Ammunition, and Military Stores.*-Windsor, December 4, 1861.

'At the Court at Windsor, the 4th day of December, 1861.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it has appeared expedient and necessary to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to prohibit the articles hereinafter mentioned to be exported or carried coastwise from the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, except as hereinafter provided. Her Majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the publication of this Order in the said islands respectively, * "London Gazette" of December 4, 1861.

the following articles, namely, arms, ammunition, and military stores (including percussion caps and tubes), and also lead, shall be and the same are hereby prohibited to be exported or carried coastwise from the said Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, except with the licence of the Lieutenant-Governor or other officer administering the government of such islands respectively for that purpose first had and obtained.

And the Lieutenant-Governors of Her Majesty's Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively for the time being, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may appertain. ARTHUR HELPS.

CORRESPONDENCE relating to the Civil War in the United States of North America; the proposed Recognition of the so-called Confederate States; the non-Reception by Great Britain of Commissioners from the Southern States; the Proceedings of Confederate Agents in Canada; the Enlistment in Canada of Men to Serve in The United States Army; the Arbitrary Arrest of British Subjects (Messrs. Patrick and Rahming); the Pursuit of Deserters from United States into Canadian Territory; the Reception of Confederate Vessels in British Ports; Privateering; the Blockade of Southern Ports; the Neutrality of Great Britain; the non-Admission of Armed Vessels or Privateers with Prizes into British Ports; Cases of the Peerless, Winnefred, Peter Marcy, and Sumter.*-1860-1862.

No. 10.-Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell.—(Rec. January 8, 1861.) (Extract.) Washington, December 24, 1860.

On the 20th instant the Convention at Charleston passed unanimously an Ordinance declaring that the "union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the 'United States of America,' is dissolved."

The secession of South Carolina has been for some time regarded as certain. The formal accomplishment of it has, therefore, not in itself produced much sensation.

Lord J. Russell.

LYONS.

* For Correspondence between The United States and Netherlands, respecting the Sumter, see page 137.

No. 12.-Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell.-(Received January 28.) (Extract.) Washington, January 15, 1861. The events which have actually occurred during the last eight days would seem to indicate a rapid progress in disunion.

Three more States, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama, have formally seceded.

Forts, arsenals, and other Federal property, have been seized by the State authorities in States which are still nominally members of the Confederation.

A steam-vessel, the Star of the West, despatched by the Federal Government with reinforcements to Major Anderson at Fort Sumter, has been fired into from the batteries in the hands of the South Carolinians, and has retreated to New York. Lord J. Russell.

LYONS.

No. 13.-Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell.—(Received February 6.) (Extract.)

Washington, January 21, 1861. THERE seems to be an undefined impression that the prospects of this country are rather less gloomy than they were a week ago; it has probably been occasioned by some appearances of hesitation in various Southern States, and by symptoms that even in those States which have already seceded the people are neither so enthusiastic nor so unanimous in favour of disunion as they were represented to be by the party leaders.

It can hardly, however, be thought that the actual events of the week are calculated to inspire increased confidence.

The State of Georgia has formally seceded; the Ordinance was passed by the Convention, the day before yesterday, by 208 votes to 89.

The proceedings of the Legislature in Virginia, the most important of the slave-holding border States, are less reassuring than was expected.

The House of Delegates in that State has, indeed, passed a resolution inviting all the States, slave-holding or not slave-holding, which "are willing to unite with Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the present unhappy controversies .. so as to afford to the people of the slave-holding States adequate guarantees for the security of their rights, to appoint commissioners to meet on the 4th day of February next, at Washington, similar commissioners appointed by Virginia to consider, and if practicable, to agree upon some suitable adjustment." It is to be feared, however, that the Legislature of Virginia will not consider anything to be an adequate security for the rights of the slave-holding States, which does not amount to a complete surrender by the North of all points in dispute

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