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London, England, 1829-11-07 00:00:00

On the 17th of November will be published, stitched in a
Cover, price 2s. 6d.
THE ENGLISHMAN'S ALMANACK;
or DAILY CALENDAR of GENERAL INFOR.
MATION for the UNITED KINGDOM, for 1830.

This Almanack comes before the public with entirely
new and important claims on their attention. The num-
ber of its pages is now extended to 72 ; and by skill in
condensation, aided by close and elegant printing, the
Editors have been enabled to compress, within its dimen-
sions, a quantity of matter far greater than could naturally
be expected in a work of the same size.
Amongst the improvements introduced into the Calendar '
department will be found, for the first time in an English
Almanack, the periods of the Moon's rising and setting for
each day. One of the most interesting novelties, however, '
contained in the ENGLISHMAN'S ALMANACK, is the
Series of Instructions for the Treatment of Persons ap-
parently dead from Drowning or other causes, or who have
taken any of the known Poisons. This is a species of in-
formation which cannot be too extensively diffused in a
country where, from the great commercial activity of the
people, the casualties incident to life are so multiplied ;
and where, above all, the facilities for procuring poison
are so strangely abundant. The list of the House of Peers
has been arranged upon the novel plan of adding the date
of his birth, and description of his crest, to the name of
each Nobleman, so as to form in a great measure, a ready
substitute for the expensive works on the Peerage. The
list of the House of Commons is followed by the far more
convenient one of all the places represented, and the Mem-
bers who sit for them. Not content with the dry enu-
meration of offices and functionaries to which Almanacks
have been hitherto limited, the Editors of the Englishman's
Almanack have combined with a copious register of such
necessary information, illustrative details, which will be
found valuable and curious. This Almanack, therefore,
for the first time in England, presents the amount of
salaries, or parliamentary allowances of the members of the
royal family, and the various great officers of state, toge-
ther with the expenses of the chief state establishments,
civil, judicial, military, naval, &c. Under the head of
Police are given the streets of the metropolis over which
the different offices have jurisdiction respectively, whereby
vast trouble and inconvenience may be saved to numbers
of its inhabitants. The Post Office arrangements, and the
Days of Transfer at the public offices, are presented in a
novel and convenient manner for reference. The intel-
ligence respecting the leading institutions throughout the
country connected with Education, is more minute than
esti be found in any other Almanack :—the Exhibitions to
the Universities by most schools and by the London Com-
panies are set forth ; and this department is completed by
ample information for persons desirous of embracing the
Legal or Medical Professions. The utility of the numer-
ous list comprehended under Commerce is considerably
enhanced by those of the States with which England has
concluded Treaties of Reciprocity, and of the Warehousing
Ports of the British Islands. The Tables of Stamp Duties
and Assessed Taxes, and the regulations for the various
modes of conveyance in London, are given in a considerably
enlarged form.
Considering the multiplicity of important matters which'
pressed for a share of their pages, the Editors of the Eng-
lishman's Almanack confess that they have not had space
far any cf those sagacious axioms and pregnant brevities
which are sometimes to be found in Almanacks, to the ex-
clusion, as they think, of what is infinitely more appro-
priate. Entirely aloof from all factious sympathies, either
in politics or literature, the Editors profess only to offer to
the public a work which, whilst it affords assistance to
those engaged in the practical business of life, tends also to
promote a universal disposition to mutual kindness, in
diffusing a knowledge of the means by which oftentimes
that disposition may be best carried into effect.
Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by
George Greenhill, at their Hall in Ludgate-street.