Diplomatic Department.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., has received Instructions from the Earl of Clarendon, to the effect that no British Vessel is to be permitted to depart with Chinese Emigrants for any Foreign Country, until she shall have proceeded to Hongkong, where the Emigration Officer will be charged to ascertain that the Conditions of the Chinese Passenger Act have been fulfilled: and Her Majesty's Consular Authorities are required to notify these Instructions of the Secretary of State in their several jurisdictions.
Her Majesty's Naval Commander-in-Chief will instruct all Officers under his authority to assist the Consul in giving effect to the orders of Her Majesty's Government.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th March, 1856.
G. W. CAINE,
In the absence of the Off. Secretary to H. B. M.'s Plenipotentiary.