PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 394, 12 May 1849, Page 4

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday, December 19, being the day to which Parliament stands prorogued, their Lordships met for the purpose of further proroguing it till the Ist February next, upon which day it is to meet for the despatch of business. Shortly after 2 o'clock the Lord Chancellor, Lord Langdale, and Lord Campbell took their seats below the Throne, robed as Lords Commissioners, for the purpose of further prorogueing the Parliament. Mr. Pulman, the Deputy-Usher of the j Black Rod, was then de&ired by their Lordships to summon the Commons to the bar to hear the Commission for proroguing the Parliament read, and in a few minutes Mr. H. Ley, accompanied by several officers of the House and only a single member, the honorable Mr. Campbell, appeared at the bar. IPhe commission for proroguing the Parliament having been read by the Chief Clerk al the table. The Lord Chancellor, in Her Majesty's name, and by Her Majesty's command, declared the Parliament prorogued to Thursday, the Ist of February, to be then holden, and it m* prorogued axcordipgly.

Army. — 58th Foot. — Lieutenant G. Damerum, from half-pay 104 th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hely, appointed Paymaster 11th Light Dragoons ; Ensign G. H. Wynyard to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Damerum, who retires ; J. Duncan, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Wynyaid. The Falkland Islands. — We stated some time since that for the better protection of these islands, the Admiralty had ordered a man-of-war to visit the islands occasionally. A body of military pensioners are about to be sent there to form the police of the island, but, in the meanwhile, it has been deemed advisable to order a man-of-war, with some marines from Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert's squadron at Monte Video, to take care of the is'ands until their arrival. In such remote places as the Falklands, the absence of a British pendant is too often the excuse for the indulgence of lawless conduct on the part of discontented and ill disposed, as it affords also an opportunity for reckless and insolent, merchantmen of all nations to break through the the rules and regulations of the island with impunity. No inlands of the extent of the Falkland Islands, in any part of the British dominions, should be without a man-of-war pendant occasionally flying in one or other of their ports. — United Service Gazette.