OCCULTATIOŃS OF PLANETS AND FIXED STARS BY THE MOON, VISIBLE AT GREENWICH. Reappearance. Angle Anale Star's Name. Magnitude. from of the Month. N. Point, Pertex. Star Setting. A near approach. * Star below the horizon. + Admiralty, Court of 466 Aldermen, Dublin 469 Linen Hall 479 Apothecaries' Hall. 478 Lord Lieutenant's Household 464 Archdeacons .. 472 | Lord Lieutenants 465 Arins, Office of. 463 Magistrates of Dublin 469 Banks... 479 Maynooth College 476 Baronets 462 Metropolitan Court of Armagh 471 Bishops 459 Newry and Mourne, exempt Board of Education 473 Jurisdiction of 472 Castle Chapel 464 Ordnance Office 465 Chamber of Commerce. 479 Peers 447 Civil Service, Paymaster of .. 469 Peeress. 459 Commissioners, Ecclesiastical. 473 Physicians, College of. 477 of Education. 473 Police Courts 469 Encumbered Post-Office 470 Estates 472 Prerogative Court 471 Poor Law 473 Privy Council 446 for Endowed Public Works, Board of 472 Schools.. 472 Queen's Counsel and Sergeants 467 for Trade and Uuiversity 474 Manufactures 472 475 Consistorial Court 471 Record Office 469 Courts of Law.. 466 Register-Office 468 Crown Solicitors 468 Royal Irish Academy 478 Custodes Rotulorum 465 Royal Dublin Society. 478 Customs.... 469 Royal Academy of Painting .. 479 Deans.. 471 Royal Hibernian Mil. School 479 Engineer Depart. Royal 466 Sheriffs . 468 Excise 470 Staff Officers, 465 Free-Masons 480 Stamp-Office.. 470 General Survey and Valuation State-Officers 464 of Ireland...... 472 Surgeons, College of 478 Inland Revenue Office 470 University of Dublin 473 Insolvent Debtors, Commiss.. 467 COLONIES AND ISLANDS. Antigua 488 Gold Coast .. 495 Newfoundland .. 484 Australia 492 Grenada 487 New South Wales. 490 Bahama Islands .. 486 Guernsey. 491 New Zealand 492 Barbadoes 486 Guiana.. 489 Nova Scotia 484 Bengal.... 473 Heligoland 482 Pr.Edward's Island 487 Bermuda . 489 Houduras 486 Sierra Leone 495 Berbice 489 Hong Kong. 492 St. Christopher 488 Bombay 374 Ionian Islands 482 St. Helena 494 British Guiana 489 Jamaica 485 St. Lucia 487 Canada..... 483 Jersey 481 St. Vincent 486 Capeof Good Hope 493 Labuan 495 Tobago 487 Ceylon 490 Madras 374 Trinidad 487 Demerara and Es Malta 482 Turks and Caicos sequibo 489 Man, Isle of 481 Islands........ 486 Dominica 489 Mauritius 494 Vancouver'sIsland 485 Falkland Islands. . 495 Montserrat 488 Van Diemen's Land 491 Gambia 495 Nevis 488 Victoria .... 491 Gibraltar 481 New Brunswick.. 464 Virgin Islands, ... 488 BRITISH ALMANAC OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 185 6, BEING BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP YEAR. Page Foundation Schools ... 69 Scotch Universities 70 Dublin University 71 Queen's University and Colleges .. 71 Maynooth College 72 Bellast lontitution.....72 Inns of Court .... 72 Scientific Institutions ... 72 Ofices .. Page PRELIMINARY NOTES. Esplanatory Notices. 2 sich 1856... Ting and Sun-setning 3, 4 the London Docks for .6,7 10 Notes for the Year. Eclipses in 1856. . 11 The Four Quarters of the Year 11 Terms and Returns 11 Transfer Dass 12 Holidays at Public Offices 12 Quarter-Sessions ..... 13 TIIE CALENDAR ... 14-37 llebrev and Molamine dan Calendars ...14-36 MISCELLANEOUS REGIS TER. 38 Chief Othicers of the Queen's Household .. 38 Prince Albert's Household 38 Prince of Wales's do.. 39 Duchess of Kent's do. 39 The Ministry .... 39 List of House of Peers . . . 40 Lut of House of Commons . 44 Alphabetical List of Members 49 MISCELLANEOUS INFOR. MATION. Table of Kings and Queens 76 Circuits of the Judges .. 76 Central Criminal Court . 76 Law and other Public 77 Iron-Masters Quarterly Meetings... .79 Hackney Carriage Pares . 79 Allowance to witnesses.. 80 Metropolitan WaterComps, 80 Gas do... 80 Fire-Engine Stations 80 General and Twopenny Post Office أن Page 54 Foreign Ministers in Eng. land, and Queen's Minis. ters abroad ....... 54 Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London ... 35 SCOTLAND 56 IRELAND. .... 57 COLONIES 60 COMMERCE. Bauk Directory 62 Branch Banks. 62 East Ludia Directors 62 Bankers in London 62 Army Agents 63 Navy Agents 63 Cambridge . 65 6.5 .... 69 East India Coll.,llaileybury 69 Royal Veterinary College 69 80--63 Mail Routes. 83-87 Principal Club Houses . . 47 Fire and Life Insurance Companies B-90 Exhibitions, &c, open to the Publie kratuitously. 90 Cost of Licenses . 00 Stamps . Assersed Taxes 94 Ruleforcalculating interest 95 Table to calculate Wages. 95 Weights and Measures .. 95 Weight of English Coins. 96 Memoranda for 1637. ... 96 .... 92 LONDON: Price One Shilling, stitched in a wrapper; or, bound in cloth with the Companion 10 the Almanac, Four Shillings. LONDON : PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SOXS, STAMFORD STREET AND CIARINO CROSS. EXPLANATORY NOTICES. Explanation of the column headed “ Thermometrical Register." The Thermometrical Register commences with Nov. 1854, and closes with Oct. 1855, inclusive. These registers have been carefully copied from those made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and which are also deposited with the Royal Society. They show the highest and lowest ranges within each twenty-four hours, from twelve different readings. Each 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 two months of 1854 follows the ten months of 1855, which are all we can give up to the day of publication. Erplanation of the columns headed “Length of day," Day's increase or decrease," "Day breaks," and “ Twilight ends." The column headed “Length of day" contains the number of hours and minutes between sunrise and sunset. The column headed “Day's increase expresses the number of hours and minutes which the day has increased since the shortest day; and, where the column is headed “Day's decrease," it expresses the number of hours and minutes which the day has decreased since the longest day; for example, the length of the longest day in 1856 is put down in the column “Length of day" at 16h. 3-1m.; and on the 6th of July following we find that the length of the day, or the number of hours and minutes between sunrise and sunset, is set down at 16h. 23m. ; hence the day has decreased 10m. since the longest day, and, accordingly, in the column “ Day's decrease," we find opposite July the 6th Oh. Ilm. 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 7th of January at Ilh. 17m. afternoon, and therefore at noon on the 8th she is 12h. 43m. old, which is set down as five-tenths. The fraction of the day of course continues the same throughout the lunation. LIST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERAS WITH THE YEAR 1856. [In those Eras which begin with the Christian year, the year alone is stated; in those which begin at a different scason, the month in which the 1st of January, 1856, occurs is also giren.] Correspondence Abbre. with 1836, viations, Roman Year 2009 AU.C. Year of the World (Constantinopolitan account) 7304 A.M. Const. Ditto (Alexandrian account) 7349 A.M. Alex. Ditto (Jewish account). 23rd Thebet 5616 A.M. Era of Nabonassar 8th Pharmuti 2004 Ær. Yab. Egyptian ....... 25th Cohinc 2602 A. E. Julian Period 6369 Jul, l'er. Dioclesian, or of Martyrs 25th Cohiac 15.2 Er. Diocl. Seleucides, or Grecian .. Audynaus 2167 Er. Seleuc. Death of Alexander 3d month of 2179 A. Mor. Alex. Era of Tyre Audynæus 1980 Ær. Tyr. A dynnus 1904 Cæs. Ant. .. Canun II. 1903 Era of Abraham .. 4th month of 3871 Er. Abr. Spanish, or of the Cæsars 1494 A. Caes. Persian Era of Yezdegird III. (Parsee account) 1223 A. Pers. Armenian common year.. ...5th Kaghots 1305 An Arm, Ditto occlesiastical year ........... 12th Kaunots 1301 Hegira 22nd Rabiu II. 1272 А.Н. Kaliyug... Poos or Viargaly 4957 Cal. Salivahana Ditto 1778 Saca. Vikramaditya Ditto 1912 Samvat. |