The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT,

(From a Supplement to the London Gazette of
Friday, March 20.)

[The following appeared in our late edition of Saturday
evening

By the QUEEN.—A: PROCLAMATION.
For Dissolving the present Parliament and De-
claring the Calling of another.
VICTORIA, R —Whereas We have thought fit,
by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to
dissolve this present Parliament, which was this day
prorogue.] and &ands prorogued to Thursday, the
thirtieth day of April next : We do for that end
Publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do here-
by dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights,.
Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for,
shires and burghs, of the House of Common, are
discharged from their meeting and attendance on
the said Thursday, the thirtieth day of April next :
and We, being desirous and resAved, as soon as
may be, to meet Our people, and to have their ad-
vice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all
Our loving subjects Our Royal will and pleasure
to call a new Parliament : and do further hereby de-
clare, that, with the advice of Our Privy Council, We
have given order that Our Chancellor of that part'
of Our United Kingdom called Great Britain, and
Our Chancellor of Ireland, do, respectively, upon
notice thereof, forthwith issue out writs in due
form, and according to law, for calling a new PAK-.
liameut : and We do hereby also, by this Our
Royal Proclamation under Our Great Seal of Our
United Kingdom, require writs forthwith to be
issued accordingly by Our said Chancellors respec-
tively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral and Commons, who are to serve in the said
Parliament, to be duly returned to, and give their
attendance in, Our said Parliament ; which writs
are to be returnable on Thursday, the thirtieth day-
of April next.

Given at Our Court 'at Buckingham Palace, this
twenty-first day of March, in the year of our
Lord ono thousand eight hundred and fifty-
Elven, and in the twentieth year of Our reign,
GOD save the QUEEN.

By the QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.
In 6rder to the Electing and Summoning the Six

teen Peers of Scotland.

VICTORIA, R.—Whereas We have in Our Coun-
cil thouaht fit to declare Our pleasure for summon-
ing and holding a Parliament in Our United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, on Thursday the
thirtieth day of April next ensuing the date
hereof ; in order, therefore, to the electing and
summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland, who are
to sit in the House of Peers in the said Parliament,
We do, by the advice of Our Privy Council, issue
forth this Our Royal Proclamation,, strictly charg-
ing and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to
assemble andmeet at Holyrood-house, in Edinburgh
on Tuesday the fourteenth day of April next, be-
tween the hours of twelve and two in the afternoon
to nominate and choose the Sixteen Peers, to sit
and vote in the House of Peers in the slid ensuing
Parliament, by open election and plurality of voices
of the Peers that shall be then present, and of the
proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies be
ing Peers, and producing a mandate in writing,
duly signed before witnesses, and both the con-
stituent and proxy being qualified according to
law), and the Lord Clerk Register, or such two of
the Principal Clerks of the Session as shall be ap-
pointed by him to officiate in his name, are here' y
respectively required to attend such meeting, and
to administer the oaths required by law to be taken
there by the said Peers, and to tAke their votes ;
and immediately after such election made and duly
examined, to certify the names of the Sixteen Peers
so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the
presence of the said Peers the electors, and return
such certificate into Our High Court of Chancery
of Great Britain. And We do, by this Our Royal
Proclamation, strictly command and require the
Provost of Edinburgh, and all the other Magistrates
of the said city, to take especial care to pre-
serve the peace thereof during the time of th•
a.(.1 election, and to prevent all manner of riote,

tumults, disorders, and violence whatsoever. And
We strictly charge and command that this Our
Royal Proclamation be duly published at, the Mar-
ket-Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county
towns of Scotian 1, ten days, at least, before the
time hereby appo'nted for the meeting of the said
Peers to proceed to such election.
Witness Ourselves at Westminster, this twenty-
first day of March, onothousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Our
reign.