with the local authorities a person who in the waters of this Colony, and under the protection British Laws. He was further informed that the proper course would have been for the Officer claiming a deserter from the Prussian Navy to have taken him before the sitting Magistrate and to have obtained from that functionary an order for the extradition of the Offender; Inclosure A 3. and hope was expressed that he would see the propriety of advising the Commander of the "Albe" to adopt this course. With this suggestion the Consular agent declined to comply, justifying the course adopted by the Commander of the "Albe" mainly, as it appeared to me from his letter, on the ground that the man had voluntarily surrendered himself on board the "Albe"