The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

111BE7ING OF PARLIAMENT.

(From the London Gazette of last Evening.)
A PROCLAMATION BY THE QUEEN.

VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliaments stands
prorogued to Thursday the 15th day of December
next ; we, with .the advice of our Privy Council,
do hereby publish and declare, that the said Par-
liament shall be further prorogued, on the said 15th
day of December next, to Tuesday, the 24th day of
January next; and we have given orders to our
Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom
called Great Britain to prepare a Commission for
proroguing the same accordingly: and we do hereby
further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal
will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall,
on the said Tuesday, the 24th day of January next,
assemble and be holden for the despatch of divers
urgent and important affairs : and the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and
Burgesses, and the Commissioners of shires and
burghi of the House of Commons, are hereby re-
quired and commanded to give their attendance ac-
cordingly, at Westminster, on the said Tuesday, the
24th day of January next.
Given at our Court at Windsor, this 24th day of
November, in the year of our Lord, 1559, and the
23d year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

MANNING TIE NAVY.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of No-
vember, 1859,

PRESENT,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty i❑ Council.
Whereas her Majesty was graciously pleased, by
her royal proclamation bearing date the 13th day
of April last, to promise and declare that the
bounties of £lO for every able seaman, and £5 for
every ordinary seaman, fit for her Majesty's service,
shall be paid in the manner thereby directed, to
every such able and ordinary seaman not above the
age of 45, nor under the age of 20 years, who should,
on or before the 15th day of June then following,
enter themselves to serve in her Majesty's Royal
Navy, either with the captains and lieutenants of
her Majesty's ships, or officers employed in ten-
ders, or at rendezvous on shore for raising men for
the service of the Royal Navy : and whereas her
Majesty was also graciously pleased by her said
proclamation to declare that all able-bodied lands-
men, not above the ago of 25, nor under the age of
20 years, who should so enter themselves as afore-
said, should receive the sum of 40s. each man as
her Majesty's royal bounty :
And whereas the time limited for payment of the
said bounties, so far as they relate to able seamen and
ordinary seaman was, by Order in Council of the
11th day of June last, prolonged and extended from
the said 15th day of day of June to the 31st day of
July last; and whereas by two other Orders in
Council, the said bounties have been since reduced
to £8 and £4 respectively, and lastly to £5 and £3
respectively ; and the time limited for the payment
of the said-last-mentioned reduced bounties was
prolonged and extended to the 30th day of Nov.,
inst. ; and it being judged expedient for her Ma-
jesty's Service that such bounties should, so far as
they relate to able seamen and ordinary seamen, be
continued .to be paid for some time longer, her Ma-
jesty, with tho advice of her Privy Council cloth
therefore order, and it is hereby accordingly or-
dered, that the time limited for payment of the said
bounties of £6 to able seamen, and of £3 to ordi-
nary seamen, be prolonged and extended from the
Ist day of December next to the 31st day of January
next inclusive ; whereof all persons concerned are
to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Wm. L. BATHURST.