§ THE PARLIAMENT which had been prorogued successively to the 6th November and 17th December, was summoned to meet this day by the following Proclamation:—
§ VICTORIA R.
§ Whereas Our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday the Seventeenth Day of December next: And whereas, for divers weighty and urgent Reasons, it seems to Us expedient that Our said Parliament shall assemble and be holden sooner than the said Day; We do, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, hereby proclaim and give Notice of Our Royal Intention and Pleasure that our said Parliament, notwithstanding the same now stands prorogued as herein-before mentioned to the said Seventeenth Day of December next, shall assemble and be holden, for the Despatch of divers urgent and important Affairs, on Thursday, the Third day of December next: And the 2 Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their Attendance accordingly at Westminster, on the said Third Day of December next.
§ Given at Our Court at Windsor, this Sixteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and in the Twenty-first Year of Our Reign.
§ God save the QUEEN.
§ The Session of PARLIAMENT was opened by the QUEEN in Person.