Foreign Territories Exercising Jurisdiction, Although the writ had been issued by a Stipendiary Magistrate in obedience to a Mandamus from the Supreme Court of the Colony.
Fawcett directed by Lord Salisbury to observe that the former instructions on their subject, which are referred to by the Governor, were representations founded on the opinions given from time to time by the Officers of the Crown; but the judgment of the Supreme Court of Hongkong was based on an actual decision of the High Court of Admiralty, which in the recent case of the Parlement Belge, decided that the privileges of Vessels of War could not be imparted to private vessels by a Postal Convention. To attempt to deprive private persons of their legal rights and remedies against such vessels, without the support of an Act of