IMPERIAL ALMANACK.-A new ...
tMiPERIAL ALMANACK.-A new almaniack, witlh the above title, has been publishied, like all other alinanacks, tnder the patronage of the Company of Stationers. Pro- ferssinig to be more accurate than foimer publications of the same sort, in every point essential to an almanack, it ex- cludes statements or predictions caleutlated to mislead, and embraces useIXil infhrmatioi on various tolpics of tlaily oc- currence, hitherto omitted. Accordingly, we are treatedr to no bad rhymes, no prognestics of the weather, nor pre- dictions respecting the states of Europe, as in F'rancis Moore's Vox Stellarim, or Loyal Alnzanack; nor with any directionis about pbysic and blood-letting as in the British Merlin, but we are instructed on the divisions of time among diffi-rent nations, and have a brief explhnation of the origin of the different festivals of our church, together with sundry other pieces of information equally interesting. T'his new almanack resemblcs in many respects the An- nutaire, published in France under the authority of the Board of Longitude, andwe wi-hit had been a moreaccurate copy of its modlel. The Ananaire is obtained for a franc (ten. pence); the price of the Imperial A7n4nack is 4s This, al- lowing for the price of the stamp, is an immense difference. The Annuaire generally contains nearly 900 pages-the al- raanack only 72. The Annuaire has commonily upwards of forty articles of popular interest er useful information-the Imperial Almanackc does not appear to contain more than half of that number. If it be said, that several articles of the Annuaire are only remotely conuccied with the calendar, so are several articles of the new almanack. We do not see, for ilnstance, what the amounit of our revenue dluring the last year-the list of ouir Ambassadors at foreign courts-or the last census of the population of Ireland, have to do with saints' days, moveable feasts, solar eclipses, or planetary motions. We even questiom whether the Jewish and Mahometan calendars, though useful perhaps at Jerusa- lem or Constantinople, are so interesting to an English farmer, as an account of the fixed and maoveable fairs of Great Britain, which he may see in Mfoore's Aimanacik, or in the British Merlin. We wvoulcl tlherefore advise the edit6' in his next year's publication, to adopt a leaf frein these popular works,and to imitate more closely the French za.nuaire, by introdtucing a little more variety into his pages. What he has done, so far as el have examxined Ilc work, has been well lone. The following is the exact copy of a direction on. a par- cel whieh arrived.a few days sinc at. the Belle Satxvage Ift ;-For lises-Keays, No.30 S,hortrea l,ane, necar PoatreecaTrt*.-il, Neer lal,t'icrs Whith AU1 Speead.~-4opdon.