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Authority issuing the warrant or order, and who

is or is supposed to be in China or Japan, and

the warrant or order is produced to any Court,

the Court may back the warrant or order; and the

same when so backed shall be sufficient authority

to any person to whom the warrant or order was originally directed, and also to any constable or other officer of the court by which it is

backed, to apprehend the accused at any place where the court by which the warrant or orderis backed has jurisdiction, and to carry him to and

deliver him up in Her Majesty's Dominions accor- ding to the warrant or order".

A warrant for the apprehension of Walter

Jackson was duly issued by a police magistrate in Hong

Kong; and an officer of police charged with the war-

rant left for Shanghai by the first steaner. Mean-

while the Superintendent of Police in Hong Kong by

telegraph requested the head of the police in Shanghai to apprehend Walter Jackson on the arrival of the "Nankin, " informing him that, the felony had been

that committed the warrant issued and the officer had been

or would be despatched by the first steamer.

The police at Shanghai upon this telegram

apprehended Walter Jackson, who however proved to be

an American citizen, and the warrant was dropped.

Credible information has since been received by the

Hong Kong police that the Court at the above Port, declines to acknowledge the sufficiency of the tele- gram for the apprehension and detention of a prismer.

It