HIGH WATER. The following List, showing the difference of Time between London and the Out-ports of the United Kingdom, as well as a few foreign Ports, is derived from Local Tide Tables, and the best books on Navigation. Bantry Bay Blakeney Harbour Blexen. Boulogne Brest Harbour . add 4 39 -0 Kingstown Harbour 4 Hull Ilfracombe 41 Jersey (St. Aubyn) King's Road Kinsale Harbour Leith 16 Lerwick Harbour Lough Foyle (Londonderry) add 2 24 Margate sub. 2 2 Bristol. Buchan-ness Calais. Campbeltown. add 5 10 Milford Haven, entrance to Cape Clear Cardigan Bar. Newhaven Carmarthen Bay. Cherbourg Christchurch Harbour Cork Harbour (Cove) Cowes 3.46 add 3 49 add 1 54 4 39 - 3 52 sub. 3 21 Newport (Isle of Wight) Ostend Peel Harbour, Isle of Man Pembroke Dock-Yard Plymouth Dock-Yard Port Glasgow Eyder, Mouth of the Falmouth Harbour Flushing (Walcheren) Folkestone Fort George Galway Glenluce Bay Gravelines sub. 2 26 Sligo Bay Southend and Sheerness add 4 19 Southampton sub. 2 26 Tynemouth Bar Waterford, Hook Point of West Scheldt, entrance 0 44 -3 4 3 154 sub. 1 31 add 1:24 Texel Road. 26 Torbay Greenock 2 41 1 24 Wells Harbour. Havre de Grace Whitby Hellevoet Sluys Holyhead Harbour Wigton Bay. 42 Horn Point 2 16 Wranger Oog To find the time of High Water at the above Places, it will be necessary to add or subtract the numbers in the above Table, according to the directions here given, to or from the time of High Water at London, as given in the Calendar for the day required. For example:-On the 9th of January, the afternoon High Water at London Bridge is at 4h. 35m.; the High Water at Dover Harbour is 2h. 56m. earlier; subtract, according to the direction, 2h. 56m. from 4h. 35m., and the time of High Water at Dover Harbour on that day will be found to be at 1h. 39m. in the afternoon. May 31, MOON totally eclipsed, visible November 10, SUN partially eclipsed, earth generally at 10h. 29 9m. This eclipse will only be visible in a small portion of the Great Southern Ocean. November 24, MOON totally eclipsed, visible at Greenwich. Begins at 8h. 36 9m. P.M., mean time at Greenwich; middle at 11h. 44.5m; ends 25th at 2h. 52 1m. A.M. Magnitude of the eclipse (Moon's diameter = 1), 1·435, on the southern limb. December 9, SUN partially eclipsed, invisible at Greenwich. Begins on the earth generally at 6h. 18 6m. P.M., mean time at Greenwich; ends on the earth generally at 9h. 44m. This eclipse will be visible in the North Pacific Ocean, and in the greater part of North America. TERMS AND RETURNS. HILARY TERM begins 11th January-Ends 31st January. The first General Return Day for every term is the fourth day before the first day of the term, both days being reckoned in the computation. In Hilary Term, therefore, the first General Return Day will be January 8; Easter Term, April 12; Trinity Term, May 19; and Michaelmas Term, Oct. 30. There were also three other General Return Days in the term upon which certain writs were returnable; but now, by the statute 1 Wm. IV., cap. 3, sec. 2, "all writs now usually returnable before any of his Majesty's Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, respectively, on General Return Days, that shall be made returnable after the 1st of January, 1831, may be made returnable on the third day exclusive before the commencement of each term, or on any day (not being Sunday) between that day and the third day exclusive before the last day of the term; and the day for appearance shall, as heretofore, be the third day after such return, exclusive of the day of return; or, in case such third day shall fall on a Sunday, then on the fourth day after such return, exclusive of such day of return." When the terms themselves commence on a Sunday, the term is dated from such day, although the sittings do not commence till the following day. In the calendar the duration of the term is marked by a strong line. OXFORD TERMS. Ends. CAMBRIDGE TERMS. Mich....Oct. 10... Nov. 12, m.... Dec. 16 TERMS IN ENGLAND This term, in Scotch leases, does not depend upon the inoveable Feast of Whitsuntide, but is permanent. TRANSFER DAYS. The Transfer Days are now Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Dividends are due at the following dates, and are receivable at any time subsequently. 34 per Cent. 1818....... 'Annuities for Terms of Apr. 5, Oct. 10 Tickets for preparing Transfer of Stock must be given in at each Office before 1 o'clock.-At the East India House before 2. Private Transfers may be made at other times than as above, the Books not being shut, by paying at the Bank, India House, and South Sea House 2s. 6d. extra for each Transfer; but no Transfer can be made after 1 o'clock on Saturdays. Transfer at the Bank must be made by half-past 2 o'clock; at India House by 3; at South Sea House by 2. Expense of Transfer in Apr. 5, Oct. 10 Bk. Stock, 251. & under, 9s.; above that sum, 12s. Jan. 5, July 5 Jan. 5, July 5 Ind. do. 101. 14. 10s.; 11. 10s. 123. S. Sea do. if under 1001, 9s. 6d. ; The expense of a Power of Attorney is tween Oct. 10 and Jan. 4 Apr. 5, Oct. 10 17. 1s. 6d. for each Stock separately, but for Bank, India, and South Sea Stock, 17. 11s. 6d.; and when required to be made out on the same day, half-past Twelve o'clock is the latest time for receiving orders. The boxes for receiving Powers of Attorney for Sale close at Two o'clock. All Probates of Wills, Letters of Administration, and other proofs of decease, are required to be left at the Bank, &c., for Registration from two to three clear days, exclusive of holidays. HOLIDAYS KEPT AT THE PUBLIC OFFICES IN 1844. By an Act of Parliament passed in 1834, much of the money business of the Exchequer is removed to the Bank of England. At the ExCHEQUER all holidays are abolished except Christmas Day and Good Friday. CUSTOM-HOUSE, EXCISE, STAMPS AND TAXES OFFICES. Good Friday, April 5. Prince of Wales's Christmas Day, Dec. 25. Birth-day, Nov. 9. All the above days are also ordered to be kept as holidays by the officers and servants of the Dock Companies of the United Kingdom. At the Stamps and Taxes Office, the Restoration of Charles II., May 29; Whit Monday and Tuesday, are kept in addition. BANK OF ENGLAND. Good Friday, April 5. Christmas Day, December 25. And, in the Transfer Offices, 1st May and 1st November in addition. N.B.-Whenever the 1st May or 1st November falls on a Sunday the holiday will be kept on the Monday following. SOUTH SEA HOUSE.-Same as Bank of England. BRITISH MUSEUM. The Public are admitted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, between the hours of Ten and Four, from the 7th September to the 1st May; and between the hours of Ten and Seven from the 7th May to the 1st September. The Museum is closed between the 1st and 7th January, the 1st and 7th May, and the 1st and 7th September, and on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Christmas Day. Any Special Fast or Thanksgiving Days ordered by Authority are kept in addition by all the above establishments. QUARTER-SESSIONS IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES. "By the act 1 Will. IV., c. 70, it is enacted that "in the year 1831, and afterwards, the justices of the peace in every county, riding, or division, for which Quarter-Sessions of the Peace by law ought to be held, shall hold their general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace in the first week after the 11th of October, in the first week after the 28th of December, in the first week after the 31st of March, and in the first week after the 24th of June." The following list has been computed according to this rule. The Act 4 and 5 William IV. cap. 47, allows a discretionary power to the Justices of Peace as to the time of holding the Spring Quarter-Sessions, and empowers them to alter the day for holding the Sessions, so as not to be earlier than the 7th of March, nor later than the 22d of April. BEDFORD-W. Jan. 3, April 3, July 3, BERKS-Tu. Reading, April 2 and Oct. CORNWALL-Bodmin, Tu. same as Berks. at Carlisle, April & Oct. at Cockermouth. DERBYSHIRE-April Sessions at Chesterfield, the others at Derby, Tu. same as Berks. DEVONSHIRE-Exeter, Tu. same as Berks. -Exeter City, on preceding Monday. DORSETSHIRE-Dorchester, Tu. as Berks. DURHAM-M. same as Cheshire. ELY, Isle of-W. as Bedford, at Wisbeach, or Ely. ESSEX-Colchester and Harwich, M. same LINCOLNSHIRE July 6 18 Spilsby. Tu.. 9 Tu. 22 Oct. 19 Bourn and Boston, Tu. as Berks, Sleaford and Spalding, Th. Jan. 4, April 4, July 4, Oct. 17. MIDDLESEX-Clerkenwell, Tu. Jan. 2. General and Adjourned Sessions are also held at other intervening periods. The particular days for holding the Clerkenwell Sessions, and also those for holding the LONDON Quarter Sessions, have not been fixed in time to be given here. MONMOUTHSHIRE-Usk, M. as Cheshire. NORFOLK Shire House, Norwich, W. same as Bedford; City of Norwich the day before. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - Northampton, Th. as Sussex, West Div. Peterborough, W. as Bedford. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE:Nottingham, M. as Cheshire. Newark, F. as Cambridge. East Retford, M. as Cheshire. Town of Nottingham-Two days after the County Sessions. Ban NORTHUMBERLAND-The County Sessions are held alternately at Newcastle-onTyne, Morpeth, Hexham, and Alnwick. Th. same as Northampton. Town of Newcastle, W. previous. OXFORDSHIRE-Oxford, M. as Cheshire.Oxford City, preceding Monday. bury, the preceding Saturday. RUTLANDSHIRE-Okeham, Tu. as Berks. SHROPSHIRE-Shrewsbury, Tu. as Berks. For the Town, the Monday preceding. SOMERSETSHIRE-Wells, M. Jan. 1, April 1, Bridgewater, July 1. Taunton, Oct. 14. Bath, on the following Monday. STAFFORDSHIRE-Stafford, W. as Bedford. SUFFOLK-Beccles, M. as Cheshire, Woodbridge, W. as Bedford, Ipswich, F. as Cambridge; and Bury M. following. SURREY-New Sessions House, Newington, Tu. Jan. 2. Reigate, April 2. Guildford, July 2. Kingston, Oct. 15. SUSSEX-Eastern Division: Lewes, M. same as Cheshire. Western Division: Petworth, Th. Jan. 4, and April 4. Horsham, July 24. Chichester, Oct. 17. WARWICKSHIRE-Warwick, Tu. as Berks. Coventry, on preceding Monday. WESTMINSTER-City, are generally held on the Thursday preceding the Quarter Sessions for Middlesex. WESTMORELAND-Appleby, W. as Bedfd., and by adjournment at Kendal. WILTSHIRE-Tu. Devizes, Jan. 2. Salisbury, April 2. Warminster, July 2. Marlborough, Oct. 15. WORCESTERSHIRE-Worcester, M. same as Cheshire. Worcester City the day following. YORKSHIRE-York City, F. as Cambridge. St. Peter's Liberty, S. as Lincoln City. EAST RIDING: Beverley, Tu. as Berks. WEST RIDING: Knaresborough, M. Jan. 1. Wakefield, W. Jan. 3. Sheffield, M. Jan. 8. Pontefract, M. April 1. Skipton, Tu. July 2. Bradford, W. July 3. Rotherham, M. July 8. Knaresborough, Tu. Oct. 15. Leeds, W. Oct. 16. Doncaster, M. Oct. 21.-NORTH RIDING: Northallerton, M. as Cheshire. The Quarter Sessions through NORTH and SOUTH WALES are held by the same rule as the foregoing, the magistrates determining the day of the week on which the sessions shall commence. |