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

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

The following proclamation and documents con-
nected with the cession of the lonian Islands have
been published in the Ogicial Gazette at Corfu :
" Henry Knight Storks—On the part of his Excellency
Sir Henry Knight Storks, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a
Major-General in her M.jesty's army, and her Majesty's
Lord High Commissioner in and for the United States of
the lonian Islands, &c.
" His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner is pleased
to publish for general information the following proclama-
tion by her Majesty in Council dissolving the present Par-
liament of these States, which is consequently dissolved
from the present date.
" The Lord High Commissioner has received her Ma-
jesty's commands to call the solemn attention of the lonian
people to the reasons which have induced her Majesty to
dissolve the twelfth Parliament of the lonian States. Her
Majesty, the protecting Sovereign, has declared her readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands with
Greece, and it is with a view to consult in the most formal
and authentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny that her Majesty
is pleased to dissolve the present Parliament.
" The lonian people will fully appreciate the responsibi-
lity which rests on them in choosing their representatives.
They are called upon to decide by this choice on the
momentous question now submitted to them, and the only
wish of her Majesty is that they may be guided to a wise
decision, by which their happiness and prosperity may be
secured on a solid foundation.

" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St George,
Corfu, this day o:Angust, 1863.
" By his Excellency's command,
" IL DRUMMOND WOLFF, Secretary to the
"Lord High Commissioner."

" At the Court of Windsnr, the 11th day of
June, 1863.
" Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty ; Lord
President, Earl Russell; Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Milner
Uibson.

" Whereas, by the constitutional chart of the United
States of the lonian Islands, it is among other things pro-
vided that the power of dissolving the Parliament of the
said United States on any special emergency shall be solely
vested in her Majesty by an Order in Council ; and whereas
there hath this day been laid before her Majesty in Coun-
cil, the draught 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 there-
fore 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
her 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 Crow: of
the Most Distinguished 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 pro-
mulgation thereof the said Parliament shall be dissolved
accordingly.
" And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly.
" ARTHUR HELPs."