The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

The following official documents have been
pubtiabed

On the part of his Excellency Sir Henry Knight Storks,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
St. Micheal and St. George, Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, a major-general in her
Majesty's army, and her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner
in and for the United States of the lonian islands, &c. His
Ercelleocy the Lord High Commissioner is pleased to pub-
lish forgeuend information the following proclamation by her
Majesty io Council, dissolving the Femme parliament of these
States, which is consequently dissolved from the present data.
The Lord High Commissioner has :received her Majesty's
commode to all the solemn attention of the lonian people
to the reseals which have induced her Majesty to dissolve
the twelfth parliament of the lonian States. Her Majesty
the Protecting Sovereign his declared her readiness to con-
sent to the union of the loniso Islands with Greece ; Ind it
is with a view to consult in the most formal and authentic
manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the lonian Islands
am to their future destiny that her Majesty is pleased to
dissolve the present ,parliament. The Louisa people will
fully appreciate the responsibility which rests on them is
choosing their representatives. They are called upon to
decide by this choice on the momentum question now sub-
mitted to them, and the only wads of her Majesty is, that
they may be guided to a wine decision, by which their hap-
piness and prosperity may be secured on a solid foundation.
Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St. George, Corfu,
this6th day of August, 1863.—8 y his acelleacy's command,
R. DRUMMOND WOLFF,
Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner.

At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of June, 1863
present. the Queen's Most Exceßeat Majesty ; Lord Presi-
dent, Earl Russell, Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Milner Gibson.—
Whereas, by the constitutional chart of the United States
of the lonian Islands, it is amongst other things provided
that the power of dissolving the parliament of the said
United States on any special emergency shall be solely
vested in her Majesty by so order in council ; and whereas
there bath this day been laid before her Majesty io council
the draft of a proclamation to be promulgated in the said
States for the dissolution of the said parliament (a copy
whereof is hereunder written), her Majesty is therefore
pleased, by and with the advice of her privy council, to
approve the said proclamation, and to order, and in pur-
suance and in the exercise of the authority so reserved to
Ibex Majesty as aforesaid, it is hereby ordered that the said
proclamation shall be promulgated by his Excellency Sir
Henry Knight Storks. Knight Commander of the Most
'Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight Grand Cross of
the most distiished order of St. Michael and St. George,
her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and for those
islands, and that upon, and from and after such promulga-
tion thereof, the said parliament shall be dissolved acoord-
I ingly. And the most noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of
her Msjeaty's principal Secretaries of State. is to give the
necessary directions herein sooonlingly.
ARTHUR HELPS.