The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-01 00:00:00

NEW ALMANACKS.

THE ROYAL NAVAL and MILITARY AL-
161ANACK for 1850.
THE ARTIST'S ALMANACIC for 1850.
Mess rs. Ac kermann have just issued two beautifully
executed almanacks of a novel design for the coming year.
The one is more especially dedicated to the votaries of
Captain Sword and the other to those of Captain
Pen, but both are full of interesting and useful know-
ledge, and matter of entertainment for the general
reader. The Naval and Military Almanack contains
of course, like all other almanacks, a calendar for
year, and with this is incorporated a list of the dates
of various naval and military engagements, and
the births and deaths of conspicuous naval and
military characters. In parallel columns we find a
variety of anecdotes and bits of information, for the
most part connected with naval and military subjects.
The Artist's Almanack is arranged after the same
fashion, the chief dates, anecdotes, and reminiscences
having, ot course, references to literary, artistic, and
scientific subje els. Many of the anecdotes and brief
chronicles here contained are full of interest and
suggestive of profitable reflections. To the Artist's
Almanack is appended a list of living painters,
architects, lithographers, &c., with full particulars
concerning public libraries, artists' funds, &c. &c.
On the other hand, the Naval and Military
Almanack gives similar particulars concern-
ing matters of naval and military interest, and
both almanacks necessarily contain the ordinary alma-
Deck information concerning the Royal Family, the
Ministers, Houses of Parliament, &c. The price of
each is one shilling, the Naval and Military Almanack
possessing the additional attraction of illustrations.
The illustrations consist of portraits of Viscount
Hardinge, the Dew an Moolraj, Garibaldi, Georgey,
and Cavaignac ; the Siege of Moultan; Gallant
Conflict of the 14th Light Dregoons with the Seikh
Troops near Ramnugger ; View of Civita Vecchia;
French Soldiers Storming the Barricades of Rome ;
Battle of Novara; the Wreck of the Avenger; and
the Chase and Capture of a Slaver ; many of which
are executed with much ability. Useful as these
almanacks are calculated to be to the classes for
whom they are more specially intended, they will;
perhaps, be more actually beneficial to other readers
who are less acquainted with the various facts of
which they treat, but to whom those facts, as thus
detailed, will prove not only useful but highly inte-
resting.

FURTHER MEASURES FOR RELIEVING SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.—We are informed on good authority, that
with the view of undertaking some further steps to
ascertain the fate of Sir John Franklin and his gal-
lent companions, a committee of officers experienced
in Arctic navigation—namely, Captains Sir William
E. Parry, Sir John Back, and F. W. Beechey, asso-
ciated with the Admiralty hydrographer, Rear-Ad-
miral Sir Francis Beaufort, were yesterday sun--
mooed together to consider the most advisable means
for carrying out the wishes of the Government. These
gallant and distinguished efficers are each expected to
furnish on Monday next their opinions with reference
to the probable position of Sir John Franklin and
their recommendations as to the new expedition which
it is intended to organise.

SERVANTS IN AMERICA.--Complaints were often
made to us of the difficulty of finding, or of keeping
when found, good servants in the States; and amusing
anecdotes were told of the independence of American
helps in this " land of liberty :" thus, " a green mountain
boy" of Vermont engaged himself to a family in town;
there was an evening party at the house, and he came in
with a tray: seeing seme ladies sitting talking in a
corner which he could not conveniently reach, he called
out, " Hullo, girls! how are you off there for cream and
sweetinin?" Being directed to light a fire in the morn-
ing in the parlour for the children, when the mistress
came down she found the set vant sitting in a chair, with
his feet up, and reading the newspaper; without rising,
he cried. pointing at the fire, "Isn't that a roarer?"—
Sir J. Alexander's "Acadie."

A man is valued as he makes himself valusblc.—
Eliza Cook's Journal.

ALLEGED CURE FOU ACUTE RHEUMATIBM.—By
dissolving one ounce of saltpetre in half a pint of
vinegar, letting it simmer near the fire until reduced to
about half the quaLtity, and afternards applying it to
the parts affected, a certain and speedy cure will be the
yeeuli,-..(.4ffrospondent of Livcrpool Mercury.