A CLEAR COMPLEXION!!! GODFREY'S EXTRACT OF ELDER FLOWERS Is strongly recommended for softening, Improving, Beautifying, and Preserving the SKIN, and giving it a blooming and charming appearance. It will completely remove Tan, Sunburn, Redness, &c., and by its Balsamic and Healing qualities render the skin soft, pliable, and free from dryness, &c., clear it from every humour, pimple, or eruption; and by continuing its use only a short time, the skin will become and continue soft and smooth, and the complexion perfectly clear and beautiful. Sold in Bottles, price 2s. 9d., by all Medicine Vendors and Perfumers. STEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS, For Children Cutting their Teeth. THE value of this Medicine has been largely tested in all parts of the world and by all grades of society for upwards of fifty years. Its extensive sale has induced SPURIOUS IMITATIONS, some of which, in outward appearance, so closely resemble the Original as easily to deceive even careful observers. The Proprietor therefore feels it due to the Public to give a SPECIAL CAUTION against the purchase of such imitations. All purchasers are therefore requested carefully to observe that the words "JOHN STEEDMAN, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey," are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each Packet, IN WHITE LETTERS ON A RED GROUND, without which none are genuine. The true STEEDMAN is spelt with two EES. Prepared only at Walworth, Surrey, and Sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors in packets ls. 1d. and 2s. 9d. each. LOUGHS TRADE LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE OUCHE TRAD Is found pre-eminently beneficial in preventing and curing SMALL POX, by Purifying, Invigorating, and Vitalizing the Blood. Any person who has already this complaint should take it, and be kept in a cool and darkened room to prevent its leaving any trace on the features. SICKNESS, HEADACHE, and NAUSEA are in most cases immediately relieved by taking a teaspoonful in a tumbler of cold water. This can be repeated once or twice in two hours, if needful. SEA VOYAGES:-It is a very valuable accompaniment, and should on no account be omitted. It instantly allays the sea or bilious sickness. For BILIOUS CONSTITUTIONS, giving rise to vitiated secretions, Indigestion, and Eruptions on the Skin, a teaspoonful should be taken daily, with the dinner, in a tumbler of water, and the same quantity on going to bed. "RAWUL PUNDEE, PUNJAB, INDIA, 28th March, 1871. "On the recommendation of several officers, who had some of your Saline, in the West Indies, all of whom speak in the highest terms of it, we were induced to try it for the first time in this Province. Solely from the ascertained merits of your preparation after use in the fever-stricken districts by which we are surrounded, we firmly believe that the use of your Pyretic Saline will do more to PREVENT fever than all the Quinine ever imported can cure. We write thus strongly because both from personal experience and observation, we believe we have at length found a remedy against the ever-present fevers of these parts, which costs the British nation hundreds of valuable lives in Peshawur alone. "We are now willing to enter into special terms for large and continued supplies, &c." CAUTION.-Worthless imitations are now being offered to the Public, the only merit of which is a label and wrapper with a transposition of the sentences and words of mine-a colourable imitation; in fact, a fraud on myself and the Public MAY BE OBTAINED OF THE PROPRIETOR, H. LAMPLOUGH, Consulting Chemist, 113, Holborn, E.C., SECOND DOOR FROM HATTON GARDEN, AND OF ALL RESPECTABLE CHEMISTS. H. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. BOND'S MARKING INK. The Proprietor of this most valuable Marking Ink has removed the business from No. 11, Nile Street, to No. 6, Bevenden Street, East Road, City Road, N., where all orders should be addressed, or to any of his Agents, he having no longer any connexion with Nile Street. The public should observe the "Oak Tree" is the only genuine Trade Mark. No other person can manufacture H. BOND'S MARKING INK. C. & E. LAYTON, Wholesale Agents, Fleet Street, London. POOR DR. ROBERTS'S MAN'S FRIEND! Is confidently recommended to the public as an unfailing remedy for Wounds of every description, Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Scorbutic Eruptions, Sore and Inflamed Eyes, &c. Sold in pots 1s. 1d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 11s., and 22s. each.-Also his PILULA ANTI-SCROPHULE, OR ALTERATIVE PILLS, FOR SCROFULA, LEPROSY, AND ALL SKIN DISEASES. Proved by sixty years' experience to be one of the best Alterative Medicines ever offered to the Public. They may be taken at all times without confinement or change of diet. Sold in boxes, 1s. 1d., 2s. 9d., 11s., and 22s. each. Sold Wholesale by the Proprietors, BEACH and BARNICOTT, Bridport; by the London Houses; and Retail by all respectable Medicine Vendors. Royal Insurance Company, ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL, & LOMBARD STREET, LONDON. "We hereby certify that we have carefully examined the Account Books, &c., also the Bank Books and Vouchers, and that the Balance Sheets represent fully the Financial Position of the Company on 31st December last. We have also examined every Security, and have found all correct and in perfect order, and that the present aggregate Market Value is in excess of the amounts in the said Balance Sheets." -Extract. LIFE DEPARTMENT. During the past year 1,406 New Proposals were made to the Company. Of these, 1,099 were accepted and completed for £514,638, the New Premiums thereon being £17,271 2s. 9d. The result of the operations for the year is that, after payment of all Claims, Annuities, and Expenses of every description, £168,747 Os. 4d. has been added to the Life Funds, making the total accumulations of the Life Branch of the Company £1,761,523 11s. 11d. JOHN H. McLAREN, Manager. CHAS. G. FOTHERGILL, Sub-Manager. BRITISH ALMANAC 12383 MISCELLANEOUS IN- London School Board 84 .84 85 AT THEIR HALL, LUDGATE HILL. OMINI. MANET-IN-ET Price One Shilling; or, Four Shillings bound in cloth with the "Companion."' EXPLANATORY NOTICES. Thermometrical Register. Each THE Thermometrical Register, showing the highest and lowest temperature of the corresponding month of the preceding year, has been resumed in the British Almanac this year at the request of numerous correspondents. These registers are copied from those made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. They show the highest and lowest ranges within each twenty-four hours, from self-registering thermometers. month is placed with its corresponding month, as affording the most ready and advantageous means of comparison, although by this arrangement the register of the last three months of 1873 follows the nine months of 1874, which are all that can be given up to the day of publication. Equation of Time. In this Almanac the calculations are all made for mean time (given by the clock), instead of apparent time (given by the sun-dial), which latter had been used up to the year 1833. It must be obvious that, for all practical purposes, mean time is the most useful; and to obtain it from apparent time, the columns in the Almanac headed "Equation of Time" should be used. The column "Equation of Time" ought, for example, to be consulted when persons are desirous of setting their clock by a sun-dial. When clock after sun is written above the number of minutes and seconds opposite to the day, then the clock ought to be set so much slower than the sun-dial, and the contrary. Moonlight. THE "Moon's age" is set down in days and the nearest tenths of days from the time of change. Thus it is New Moon on the 6th of April at 6h. 36m. morning, and therefore at noon of that day she is 5h. 24m. old, which is set down as two-tenths. The fraction of the day of course continues the same throughout the lunation. See also the table on page 10 showing the duration of moonlight. VARIATION OF THE COMPASS, or the declination of the magnetic or mariner's needle from the meridian or true north and south line at the undermentioned places in the United Kingdom, estimated for the year 1875. N.B.-The variation is westerly, that is, the magnetic pole is west of the true north pole, and is found to be decreasing in the United Kingdom about 9' annually. Scilly Islands, 21° 44'; Falmouth, 21° 26'; Plymouth, 21° 0'; Portland, 20° 14'; Portsmouth, 19° 44'; Brighton, 19° 12'; Dover, 18° 37'; London, 19° 16'; Yarmouth, 18° 49'; Sunderland, 21° 10′; Edinburgh, 22° 37'; Glasgow, 23° 24'; Liverpool, 21° 34'; Pembroke, 22° 4'; Holyhead, 22° 29'; Dublin, 23° 31'; Belfast, 23° 49'; Galway, 24° 59'; Cork, 24° 6'. AUXILIARY TABLE FOR FINDING THE TIME OF SUNRISING AND SETTING. " The time of Sunrise and Sunset in the British Almanac ' is adapted to the parallel of latitude in which London is situate-viz., 51° 30'. THE table, pages 3-4, has been constructed to show the variations of time through the United Kingdom-namely, between the latitude of 58° and 50° 10' N. The times of sun-rising and sun-setting are computed for the instant that the sun's centre is even with the horizon of the sea. The number of minutes found in this table under the month-day, and in the required latitude, are to be applied to the time of sun-rising and setting found on that day in the Almanac; the result will be the time of his rising and setting at the place required.-Ex. At what time will the sun rise and set on May 21 at Edinburgh? The times of sunrise and sunset on that day in the Almanac are 4h. 2m. A.M., and 7h. 51m. P.M. In the table, in parallel of 56°, in which (p. 3) Edinburgh is found, and under May 21, are 23 minutes; which, subtracted from 4h. 2m., leaves 3h. 39m. for time of sunrise; and, added to 7h. 51m., gives 8h. 14m. for time of sun-setting. But at those places where instead of mean time at place* railway time is now used, which in Great Britain is Greenwich mean time, and in Ireland Dublin mean time, to the times of sun-rising and sun-setting, as deduced by the auxiliary table, the longitude in time must be applied thus:-For places in Great Britain whose longitude is west of Greenwich, to the time of sunrise or sunset add the longitude in time, and for places whose longitude is east of Greenwich, subtract the longitude in time, the result will be the railway or Greenwich time that the sun rises or sets. N.B.-Longitude in arc, indicated by the signs °" (degrees, minutes, and seconds) is converted into longitude in time by reckoning 360° 24 h., 15° 1 h., and 1° 4 m. Example:-On June 21st at Penzance, in latitude 50° 7' N. and longitude 5° 31′ W., what will be the railway time that the sun rises and sets? * See above, Explanatory Notices, Equation of Time. |