DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.

BY THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION,

For Dissolving the present Parliament, and declaring the calling of another.

Victoria, R.

WH

HEREAS We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament which stands prorogued to Friday, the fifteenth day of July next: We do, for that end, publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby 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 Commons, are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said Friday, the fifteenth day of July next: And We, being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our people, and to have their advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our loving subjects Our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a new Parliament; and do hereby further declare, 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 Parliament. 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 respectively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons who are to serve in the said Parliament to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in, Our said Parliament on the fourth day of August next, which writs are to be returnable in due course of law.

Given at Our Court at Windsor, this twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and in the fifty-sixth year of Our Reign.

BY THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION,

In order to the Electing and Summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland.

Victoria, R.

WHEE

HEREAS We have in Our Council thought fit to declare Our pleasure for summoning and holding a Parliament of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on Thursday, the fourth day of August 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 charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood House, in Edinburgh, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of July next, between 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 said 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 being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing duly signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and proxy being qualified according to law); and the Lord Clerk Register, or the two Principal Clerks of the Session appointed by him to officiate in his name, are hereby 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 other the Magistrates of the said city, to take especial care to preserve the peace thereof during the time of the said election, and to prevent all manner of riots, tumults, disorders, and violence whatsoever. And We strictly charge and command that this Our Royal Proclamation be duly published at the Market-Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland, ten days at least before the time hereby appointed for the meeting of the said Peers to proceed to such election.

Witness Ourselves at Windsor, this twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and in the fifty-sixth year of Our Reign.

GOD save the QUEEN.

OF THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY, K.G., AT THE OPENING OF THE SESSION ON THE 4TH AUGUST, 1892.

THE CABINET.

Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Most Hon. Marquess of SALISBURY, K.G.

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Financial Secretary to the War Department Hon. W. St. JOHN BRODRICK.