The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

The official Gazette of the Government of the
lonian Islands publishes the following documents
dissolving the lonian Parliament

" NOTIFICATION.

" The Lord High Commissioner publishes for general
information the following instructions addressed to the
Residents of his Excellency :
" Sir,—You will receive by this mail a copy of the Pro-
clamation publishing an Order by her Majesty in Council
dissolving the Eleventh Parliament.

" The Lord High Commissioner desires me, at the
same time, to convey to you his Excellency's instructions
carefully to abstain from any interference, direct or indirect,
in favour of or against any candidates, either before or
during the ensuing general election.
" You will also give strict orders in the same sense to the
employes in the different departments placed by the Consti-
tution under the special control of the Lord High Commis-
sioner, and further inform them that any infringement of
his Excellency's injunctions on this point will be attended
with instant dismissal from the public service.
" I need scarcely add that the foregoing instructions are
not intended to restrict any public employe from the free
exercise of the elective franehise.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" ' H. DRUMMOND 'WOLFF,
ci Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner.
" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St. George,
Corfu, this 7th day of December, 1861.'

" NOTICE.

" 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.
" H. DRUMAIOND WOLFF,
" Sec. to the Lord High Commissioner.
" Palace of St. Michael and St. George,
Corfu, December 7, 1861.
" At the Court at Windsor, the 20th day of Nov., 1861.
Present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

" 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 ..tates 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 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 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 Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St.
George, her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and for
these 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 neces
sary directions herein accordingly.
" ARTHUR HELPS.'

" PROCLAMATION.
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