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T and CITY NEWS.

rO PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

CITY FRIAY EVENING.
TIMES.—At the General Court, of the South Sea Com-
pany held to-day, the recommendation to make the transfer
days of the stock and annuities the same as at the Bank, viz.,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, was adopted.
The Sub-Governor stated, that a letter had been received from
Sir James Graham in reply to the address voted at the last
Court. The purport of it was, that he could not advise her
Majesty to accept the office of Governor of the Company. The
deficiency to be supplied for the half-year is 4,4711. 9s. id.
This must be paid by Government.
The commercial summary of the Calcutta Englishman
notices the great abundance of money as having led to in-
creased shipments of produce, and predicts that the indigo crop
will prove the largest ever known in the country, the estimated
quantity being 165,000 reminds for shipment, and that of a
better quality than usual. The productive powers of the
island of Java are attracting general attention, but the Calcutta
journalist expects a trial of strength with that island. A re-
duction of the transit duties through the Bhaugulpore terri-
tories had been announced in a Government notification, and
had excited interest, not so much from its importance, as be-
cause it was a proof that the Government was turning its atten-
tion to the removal of commercial obstacles. The steam-ship
Ilindostan, which left Calcutta on the morning of the 15th of
November, had on board, according to the Caine summary,
several parcels of silk, for transmission by the Overland route.
This, it is said, is the first instance of goods being sent to Eng-
land direct across the Isthmus of Suez ; but the example is ex-
rectt•tl to be followed, the additional celerity of the voyage
more than compensating for the extra freight of 151. per ton.
There have also been shipments of rags to the London market,
and this opens a trade which has hitherto been monopolised by
the Italian States. Both the silk and the rags were shipped, it
is said, by Messrs. Aylmer and Co., of Calcutta.
As the readers of the Calcutta Englishman, perceiving the
indigo to be there estimated at 195,000, may think the esti-
mate has been misquoted here, they should be informed that,
according to a letter from the editor of that journal, 165,000
is the right figure, and the other is a misprint.
The letters from India of the Ist of December, via Mar-
seilles, were received in town to-day, having come from Alex-
andria to Malta on the 27th ult. by her Majesty's steamer
Alecto. The remaining letters, via Southampton, are ex-
pected in London on or about Wednesday next, and in all pro-
bability the Alecto will bring them to Southampton, that
vessel having been ordered by Admiral Sir E. Owen to be
ready to start for England from Malta on the day after her
arrival.
The statement published by the Bank of France, which was
inserted in the Times of Thursday last, contained the official
account of its position and operations for the last quarter, end-
ing the 26th of December, 1843. From this statement it ap-
pears that the specie in the Bank amounted to 247,230,050 f. ;
the bills discounted, including the branch banks, to 98,845,493 f.;
the advances on bullion to 3,197,800 f. ; and the loans on public
securities to 5,733,766 f.

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The other side of the account shows that the amount of notes
in circulation was 232,88.5,0(X)f. ; the balance due to the Trea-
sury in account current 109,746,276 f. ; and the balances due
on private deposit accounts 43,092,732 f.
On a comparison of this account with the preceding quarter,
ending the 26th of September, it appears that there is

F.
An increase in the amount of specie of 2,735,516
A decrease in the amount of bills under discount 12,104,277
An increase in the advances on bullion of ... 629,100
A decrease in tha advances on public securities of 388,200
On the other side of the account, there is F.
An increase in the notes in circulation of .. .. 6,717,55 0
A decrease in the Treasury account current of ... 21,857,555
An increase in the private deposit accounts of ... 3,298,449
The private accounts current, as specified in the total ope-
rations of the quarter, show an increase of 69,767,918 f. in the
receipts, as compared with the precedirg three months ; the
total sums received and paid on these accounts each amount to
about 39,500,000/. sterling.
The amount of bills under discount is about 18 times as large
as the advances on stocks, the first being 3,900,0001., and the
latter 220,0001.

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The specie held by the Bank of France is about 9,700,0001.
sterling, against an issue of notes of about 9,100,0004 steel
POST. —Ali extraordinary committee ( for general purposes)
of the Stock l'achange was summoned to-day to take into coo-
sideration khe propriety of keeping the house open to-morrow
(Saturda'y) after the accustomed hour, on account of the late
notice is sued by the Bank of England, relative to the time
alloweJ, for making transfers in the stocks about to open,
name) y, Consols and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ;
when the following resolution was agreed to :
" Idesolved—That, in consequence of the notice from the
Banl: of England, that transfers may be made in Consols and
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. till halt. past two o'clock on
Saturday, the 6th instant, this house will be kept open till fear
o'clo ck.—By order of the Committee,
(Signed) G. W. YOUNG."
It should be observed that the presetting announcement ap-
plies only to the present occasion, the opening of the stocks
particularised falling upon a Saturday ; the public might other.
wise be betrayed into the supposition that either the Stock Ex-
chwriEe or the Bank of England will be kept open beyond the
tirm t specified by the late regulations.
The broker for the Commissioners made this morning the
largest purchase he has done at all in the course of the series.
It v ras in the Three per Cent. Reduced market. The price
give n was 98, the jobbers generally evincing an anxious desire
to fucrnish the sum wanted. The quotations at the close of
busi mess were even a shade better than what was named as hav-
ing ingulated the dealings after four o'clock yesterday.
It may be proper to mention, for the guidance of the public,
that the whole of the Funds will now be open, and that the
salesi and purchases in Consols and the New Three-and-a-Hal
per Cent. Stock may be made until the 17th instant, upon tite
pays writ of 2s. 6d. fur private transfer.
Tl* dividends will be paid to the public on Tuesday next.
SUN.—The English Funds left off steady, a limited business
having been done, as the revenue accounts will appear to-
merino w, and parties will then know what chance there may be
of
,a neduction in the rate of interest. Consols closed at 97A ;
Bank Stuck receded to 1851.
Tlnerc were very few further operations in the Foreign
markt t, Spanish Threes closing at 30k; the Fives at about
211-7, t. 22; Peruvian for Account at 24 ; Dutch New Fives at
99i ;-. and Colombian at
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The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
theso:.:—Eastern Counties were 12i ; Brighton, tie ; Green-
wich, 7A; Midland Counties, 12; North Midland, 10; and
South Eastern, 14i discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow New,
2i ; Hull and Selby, 91 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 14 ; South
Wes tern, 33e; and Northern and Eastern, 73j premium.
Australasia Bank Shares were 2 premium ; and Colonial, 121
disco nnt.

TI ►ere was a general decline in the rates of the Foreign ex-
chan, ges. _ _

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We. have no news yet of the steamer from :the West Indies,
rather Anxiously looked for by the Mexican bondholders.
CA*O.URSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsteirdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar .. .... 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7i Genoa . ... 26 to
Antwerp
Ham burgh . M. B. 14 0 Venice
Altotia ... ..... . 14 Oi'Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 118
Ditto, 3 m0nth5......... 25 95 I isbon
Marseilles ... ..... ... . 26 5 Oporto s2i
Bour deaux `)6 5 Rio Janeiro .23
Frani Sort on Maine ...122 Bahia
Petersturgh, 3 U 5..... 36i Buenos A-

.yr es
New York, 21 days sight 46i
Philadelphia 46
PRICKS OF BULLION, PER OZ,
Foreign Gold, bars .£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0

New Dollars... ...... ...0 0 0
Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 111

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAJIZIRIDGE, JAN. 5. —THE HULSEAN PRIZE.—This pci
(1001.) has just been awarded to Charles John Ellicott, B.A.
St. Jaw's. The subject was—" The obligation of the Sab-
bath, with a history of the institution, and its influence from
the earliest times to the present day."
The subject fur 1844, just announced, is as follows :—" The
lawfulness and obligation of oaths in a Christian community,
and the influence which they have had upon society at different
periods."
THE SEATONIAN PAUL—The subject; just announced is
Esther.
THE MATIItmArricAL Txtros, 1844.—The examination for
honours commenced on Wednesday morning; there were 141
candidates.

EXAXINATION OF THE QUESTIONISTS NOT CANDIDATES
FOIL HONoUßs.—This examination begins next Wednesday,
and continues seven days. There are in the first division 87
candidates, and in the second 84.
CLARE HALL.—The 'following gentlemen have been re-
cently elected Junior fellows of this Society:—J. Hulbert
Glover, 8.A., Itev. Joseph Power, M.A., a graduate of this
college, but afterwards elected Fellow and Tutor of Trinity
Hall.

ST. KATHERINE'S HALL.—John 'Furrow, one of the last
exhibitioners from St. Peter's School, York, has been recently
elected to the Yorkshire Scholarship at this college.
TaixiTY COLLEGE. —Tho Rev. Sampson Kingsford, 13. A.,
has been appointed to the Mastership of the Seven-oaks School.
TILE Ciruncir.—The following appointments have taken
place :—The Rev. Lord John de la Poor Beresford, M.A., of
Trinity College, to the living of the Union of Baronstown,
value 300/. The Rev. William Lucius Coghlan, M.A., of
Trinity College, to the vicarage of St. Mary-de-Lode. Glou-
cester, value 7641. The Rev. Charles Granville Wheeler
Stuart Menteath, m . A., of Trinity College, to the vicarage of
Ranceby, Lincolnshire, value 165/. The Rev. Algernon
Wodehouse, B. A., of Trinity College, to the rectory 01 Carle-
ton-Forehoe, Norfolk, value 1201. The Rev. William Bor-
ten, 8.A., of Caius College, to the rectory of Thornton-le-
Moors, Lincolnshire, value 3191. The Rev. Thomas Sandon,
M.A., of Queen's College, to the perpetual curacy of Barlings,
value 551.

HORRIBLE INFANTICIDE.—The Court of Assizes
of Bouches-du-Rhone was occupied en the 2d ult. with the
trial of the widow Clavelly, aged 62 her daughter Marie
Clevelly, aged 31, and the aunt of the 'latter, Rosalie Ducros,
aged 60, for having, on September the 22d, murdered a new-
born child by pouring boiling-water down its throat. It
appeared from the evidence that the prisoners all lived together
at Aix, in great respectability, with the mother of the two
elder prisoners, an old woman of 90, whom they treated with
the most filial affection. On the night of the murder the
younger prisoner was suddenly taken ill, and, after an hour
passed in great pain, confessed to her mother and aunt that she
was in labour, and would be soon delivered. The two elder
prisoners were horror-struck at the disgrace thus about to be
thrown en the family, and they determined to kill the child.
As soon as it was born they poured hot water down its throat,
and then pressed the windpipe until life had fled. They
informed the younger prisoner that the child was dead, and the
aunt went and laid it in the street. Some persons in passing
found it there, and the authorities having been informed of the
circumstance, immediately instituted an investigation, which
brought to light the fact that the younger prisoner was ill, and
had lately been delivered of a child. The family were taken
up on suspicion, and the two elder prisoners confessed that the
child had been made away with by them as stated above. On
the trial, when asked what could have tempted them to commit
such a crime, they declared that "they had lost their senses to
a certain degree in seeing their family dishonoured. They bad
not been moved by my fear of the justice of God, though they
had dreaded the opinion of men." The jury considering that
nothing had been proved against the younger prisoner acquitted
her, and she was set at liberty after a very affecting address
from the Court. The two other prisoners were found guilty,
and sentenced to imprisonment for ten yeah, with bard labour
and exposure.
FRIGATE.—A fine youth, grandson of
on the pillory.— Galignant's Messenger.
TILE F o
Earl Grey, and son of John C. Belted, Esq., Fleet House,
Devon, and Lady Elizabeth Milted', died on Sunday morning
n There
frigate, to which vessel he was attached as midshipman. of the Fox.
are several eases of epidemic amongst the crew
well mounted,
at Tarbert (Lower Shannon), of searletina,en board the Fox
gallant captain, Sir 11. Blackwood,
their way to Tarbert, to visit their
Stephen:-day, oLa
ins tt royw oeif, hern St.
onon hearing of their arrival, sent two of his boats to bring them
on board the frigate, where they
w'rehnet rroruygtle;
were plentifully regaled with
substantial fare.