TRANSFER DAYS. The Transfer Days are now Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Dividends are due at the following dates after an interval of one day, or if a Sunday intervenes of two days. AT THE BANK. Bank Stock ............ ....... fer Loan........... Tickets for preparing Transfer of Stock must be given in at each Office before 1 o'clock.-Private Transfers may be made at other times than as above, by paying 2s. 6d. extra for each Transfer; but no Transfer can be made after 1 o'clock on Saturdays. For Transfer of Bank or East India Stock the books are shut for at least ten days before the dividends become due; in all other Stocks the Transfers can be made at any time (except on the holidays); but a month before the dividends become due they are made ex dividend. An important alteration as to the receipt of dividends was made in August, 1869. Under this arrangement any holder of stock in the public funds, residing within the United Kingdom, may have the dividend warrants forwarded by post, upon making application to that effect to the chief accountant of the Bank of England, not later than one month and five days before the date on which the dividends are due. HOLIDAYS KEPT AT THE PUBLIC OFFICES IN 1871. At the EXCHEQUER all holidays are abolished except Christmas Day and Good Friday. EXCISE, STAMPS, AND TAXES OFFICES. Good Friday, April 7. Day appointed to be kept as the Queen's Birthday. Coronation Day, June 28. Prince of Wales's Birthday, Nov. 9. Christmas Day, Dec. 25. All the above days are also ordered to be kept as holidays by the officers and servants of the Custom House and the Dock Companies of the United Kingdom, except the Prince of Wales's Birthday and the Coronation Day. At the Stamps and Taxes Office, the Restoration of Charles II., May 29; Whit Monday and Tuesday (May 29 and 30) are kept in addition. Good Friday, April 7. BANK OF ENGLAND. Christmas Day, Dec 25. And in the Transfer Offices, 1st May and 1st Nov. in addition. Whenever the 1st May or 1st November falls on a Sunday the holiday is kept on the Monday following. N.B. Any Special Fast or Thanksgiving Days ordered by Authority are kept in addition at all the above establishments. TERMS AND RETURNS. HILARY TERM begins 11th January-Ends 31st January. Ends. Lent Term ........Jan. 14......Apr. 1 •Ends. Lent....Jan. 13..Feb. 20 midn. Mar. 31 The Commencement will be June 20. 25 March TERMS IN ENGLAND Usually taken in Leases. Lady Day. 24 June.................................. Midsummer Day. 29 Sept. ...... Michaelmas Day. 25 Dec................ Christmas Day. IN SCOTLAND. 1. British Museum closes for a week. MONTHLY NOTICES. 1. Leipzig fair-manufactured goods and pleasure (the business commences 3 or 4 days earlier). + Quar. Sess, commence this week. 5. Hall-yearly dividends on some kinds of Stock become due. See Table of Transfer-days, p. 13. 8. British Museum opens, 10 till 4; Reading Room, 9 till 4. 8. Fire Insurance due at Christmas must be paid by this day, or the Policy becomes void. 12 & 13. Denbigh-cattle, horses, sheep; 2nd day, general. 26. Brunswick-miscellaneous, including manufactured goods. cause Registration. - Births Persons should their children to be registered within forty-two days after birth, by giving personal notice to the registrar of their district, without any fee whatever. Deaths.-Intimation should be given of deaths in the same manner as births. This should be done within 5 days, as the undertaker has to give a certificate to the rainister who reads the funeral service, who, if he buries the body without a certificate, is bound to give notice forthwith to the registrar. As the cause of death is to be entered, sound discretion should be exercised in ascertaining the real nature of the deceased's death, for winch important purpose every facility should be given. Year Sundays and 22 3 Sunday after Epiphany. 17 Tu 17 22 .. ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA. Mercury, in the constellations Capricornus and Sagittarius, is visible as an evening star about the 2nd, at greatest elongation, 19° 22′ E. On the 18th, at ib ism A.M., in inferior conjunction with the Sun. Venus, in the constellation Capricornus, is an evening star. On the 15th, passes the meridian at Uh 49m P.M., and sets at 5h im P.M. Mars, in the constellation Virgo, is visible in the mornings. On the 15th, rises at ich 35m P.M., and passes the meridian at 4h 45m A.M. Jupiter, in the constellation Taurus, is a magnificent evening star. On the 15th, passes the meridion at 9h 26m P.M. Saturn, in the constellation Sagittarius, is near the Sun. Uranus, in the constellation Cancer. On the 15th, passes the meridian at 0h 11m A.M. Neptune, in the constellation Pisces. On the 15th, passes the meridian at 5h 84m P.M. a The Moon, on the 2nd, at 4b Om A. M., in Apogee; on the 3rd, at 6h 38m P.M., in conjunction with Tauri (Aldebaran) at 2° 44' S.; on the 4th, at 2h 43m P.M., with Jupiter, at 1° 32′ N.; on the 5th, at 8h 36m P.M., with Geminorom, at 00 14'S.; on the 7th, at 1h 7m P.M., with Uranus, at 00 50' S.; on the 10th, at 2h 4m A.M., with a Leons (Regulus), at 30 37' S.; on the 12th, at 7h 11m P.M., with Mars, at 289 S.: on the 16th, at 9b 35m P.M., with Bi Scorpii, at 20 20′ S.; on the 18th, at 6h 0m A.M., in Perigee; on the 19th, at 4h 19m A.M., in conjunc tion with Saturn, at 00 16' N.; on the 2ist, at 7h 16m P.M., with Venus, at 10 25′ N.; on the 29th, at midnight, in Apogee; on the 31st, at 2b 27m A.M., in conjunction with a Tauri, at 20 48′ S. ; at 6h 27m P.M., with Jupiter, at 1° 44' N. The Constellation Canis Major will be on the meridian about midnight in the beginning, and Gemini and Canis Minor about the middle of the month. Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. First Satellite. On 2nd Em. at 5h 14m 12-8 A.M.; 3rd Em. at 11h 42m 56 8s P.M.; 5th Em. at 6h 11m 48:48 P.M.; 11th Em. at th 38m 11.99 A.M.; 12th Em. at 8h 7m 5-6s P.M.; 18th Em. at 3h 33m 34-88 Conversion of St. Paul.A.M.; 19th Em. at 10h 2m 30-3 P.M; 26th Em. at 11h 58m 18s P.M.; 28th Em, at 6h 26m 53 is P.M. Princess Royal m. 1858. Second Satellite. On 2nd Em. at 7h 23m 58-68 P.M.; 9th Em. at 9h 59m 53°1s P.M.; 17th Em. at 0h 35m 45-08 A.M.; 24th Em. at 3h 11m 348s A.M. 29 4 Sunday after Epiphany. ........ 31 To 31 Hilary Term ends. Jan. 1 8 The bet. Jan. 18 Shawall, 23 1 Dhu'lkadeh. dians. MONTHLY NOTICES. 2. Candlemas-day. Scotch quarter-day. reward the attesting witnesses, he must do it some 15. Last day for objecting to owners' votes for Guar- other way than by bequeathing them anything: for legacies to attesting witnesses, or to the wife or Tenancy.-A yearly tenant must take care that husband of an attesting witness, are void. No perhe gives notice to quit his premises half a year son under twenty-one can make a valid will. Wills before the time of the expiration of the current are revoked by subsequent marriage; otherwise year of his tenancy. If, by agreement, a quar-a will can only be revoked by destruction, or by ter's notice is to be sufficient, such notice must the making of a new one; and alterations in wills also expire with the tenancy, if that is yearly. must be made in the same manner as a will is Wills.-All wills made in England after Jan. made. Wills are to be construed as if made im1838, come under the provisions of the Wills Act, mediately before the death of the testator, unless of which an abstract was given in British Almanac a contrary intention is expressed; and profor1838. By it, all property may be disposed of by perties bequeathed in general terms include all will; a will must be in writing, and must be signed property in the possession of the testator at his at the bottom or end by the testator, or, if he is un-decease, whether acquired before or after the will able, by some person on his behalf, by his direc- was made. tion, and in his presence; and two, or more, at [If persons make their own wills, without legal testing witnesses (who must be present at the same assistance, let them express themselves in a plain time) must also sign the will in the presence of the simple way, avoiding roundabout phrases, or attestator. If the testator wishes to acknowledge or tempts to imitate legal phraseology.] 1950 Quinquagesima Sunday. 15 W 46 16 TH 47 17 F 48 18 S 20 M 51 21 Tu 52 Mercury, in the constellations Sagittarius and Capricornus, is visible as a morning star about the 11th, at greatest elongation, 260 1' W. star. Venus, in the constellation Aquarius, is an evening On the 15th, passes the meridian at 1h 19m P.M., and sets at 6h 42m P.M. Mars, in the constellation Virgo, is visible in the mornings. On the 15th, rises at 8h 48m P.M., and passes the meridian at 2h 56m A.M. Jupiter, in the constellation Taurus, is a conspicuous evening star. On the 15th, passes the meridian at 7h 20m P.M. Saturn, in the constellation Sagittarius. On the 15th, rises at 4h 51m A.M. Uranus, in the constellation Cancer. On the 15th, passes the meridian at 9h 59m P.M. Neptune, in the constellation Pisces. On the 15th, passes the meridian at 3h. 34m. P.M. The Moon, on the 2nd, at 4h 32m A.M., in conjunction with μ Geminorum, at 00 16' S.; on the 3rd, at 7h 35m P.M., with Uranus, at 00 43' S.; on the 6th, at 9h 0m A.M., with a Leonis (Regulus), at 30 84' S.; on the 9th, at 8h 17m A.M., with Mars, at 1° 55' S.; on the 13th, at 3h 40m A.M., with 81 Scorpii, at 2012 S.; at 7h 0m P.M., in Perigee; on the 15th, at 4h 40m P.M., with Saturn, at 00 26 N.; on the 20th, at 9h 40m P.M., with Venus, at 30 44' N.; on the 26th, at 9h 0m P.M., in Apogee; on the 17th, at 10h 44m A.M., in conjunction with a Tauri (Aldebaran), at 30 0 S.; on the 28th, at 3h 33m A.M., with Jupiter, at 1° 36′ N. The Constellations Ursa Major, Leo Minor, and Leo, will be on the meridian about midnight, after the middle of the month. Eclipses of Jupiter': Satellites. First Satellite. On 3rd Em. at 1h 53m 39-2s A.M.; 4th Em. at 8h 22m 32'0s P.M.; 11th Em at 10h 18m 14.98 P.M.; 19th Em. at 0h 14m 1-3s A.M.; 20th Em. at 6h 43m 1.3 P.M.; 27th Em. at 8b 38m 50-6s P.M. Second Satellite. On 3rd Em. at 7h 5m 14'0s P.M.; 10th Em, at 9h 40m 56-9s P.M.; 18th Em. at ch 16m 37.38 A.M. Third Satellite. On 6th 1m. at 9h 18m 85:48 P.M.; Em. at 11h 52m 13-3s P.M.; 14th Im. at 1h 18m 59-78 A.M. |