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

" NOTICE.

" His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner is pleased
bo 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. DRUMMOND WOLFF,
44 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 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 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 feces •
sary directions herein accordingly.
" ARTHUR HELPS.'

PROCLAMATION.
Whereas we have thought fit, by awl with the ad-

vice of our Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of
the power in us in that behalf vested by the Constitutional
Chart of the United States of the lonian Islands, to dis-
solve the present Parliament of the said islands; we do for
that end publish this our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby
dissolve tho said Parliament accordingly.
" ' Given at our Court at Windsor tho 20th day of No-
vember, 1861, in the 25th year of our reign.

" ' God Save the Queen' "

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

WINDSOR CASTLE, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Queen has passed a quiet night, and slept
several hours.
Her Majesty continues calm.

(From the Court Circular.)
WINDSOR CASTLE, MONDAY, DEC. 16.

11 A.M.

The Queen has had some quiet sleep during the
night, and remains as calm as under her affliction
can be expected.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
the Castle in the afternoon for London.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary arrived from Kew in the
afternoon.

Major-General Seymour, Equerry to the Queen,
has lelt England for the Continent, to attend her
Serene Highness Princess Hohenlohe, who is ex-
pected over immediately.

The bulletin issued at Windsor Castle yesterday
morning, 'announcing that " the Queen has had
some quit sleep during the night, and remains as
calm as under affliction can be expected," was ex-
hibited to the nobility and gentry at Buckingham
Palace.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey went to Wind-
sor Castle yesterday morning, and returned to Lon-
don in the afternoon.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert
was made ready for sea yesterday, and according to
present orders will proceed to Antwerp at daylight
this morning, to convey to Osborne tho Crown
Prince of Prussia on a visit to the Queen during
her retirement at Osborne.