POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
All doubts respecting the rumoured dissolution of Parliament are set at rest by the fiat of the Council held yesterday-afternoon at Windsor Castle. It was tiere ordered, that Parliament should be further prorogued from the 11th of December until the 31st of January, and that a proclamation should,be bunked inunmoning Parliament to meet on the 31st of January for the despatch of public business.
At an audience preview, to the Council, the Duke of Argyll bad de- livered to her Majesty the Privy Seal; and at the Council the Queen placed it in the keeping of the Earl of Harrowby, who took the oath and his place at the board. Mr. Mathew Talbot Baines took the oath of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Pahuerston and Sir George Orey had audiences of the Queen.
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