volume. An article on the comparative cost of government in England and in this country affords results which will probably be new to most of our readers. The obituary record, the lists of officers under the National and State governments, the register of colleges and of the theological, law, and medical schools, and the other ordinary articles of the work, will be found as full and accurate as in former years. The thanks of the editor are particularly due to the Hon. A. C. Flagg, Hon. E. R. Potter, Hon. David G. Burnett, Digby V. Bell, Esq., Joseph T. Thomas, Esq., Thomas H. Dewitt, Esq., Edward T. Tayloe, Esq., and many other contributors and correspondents, to whom the work is indebted for a great part of its value. A continuance of their favors is respectfully solicited. A work embracing such a multitude of facts must necessarily contain some errors; persons who detect any are earnestly requested to communicate them to the editor. It is a matter of some public interest that a periodical which circulates so widely both in Europe and America, and which is so universally trusted as a manual for reference, should be rendered as accurate as possible; and this end can be obtained only by the coöperation of many individuals. Communications may be addressed to the "Editor of the American Almanac, Boston." Boston, Mass., October 1, 1846. INDEX. Comets, Catalogue of,. Commercial importance of other Powers, 131 Jewish Calendar,. Elections, State,. European States,. .... Abstracts of Public Laws,.. Articles imported in 1845, Commerce,. Congress, Connecticut, Consuls, Foreign, in United States,. Corn Laws, British, in 1846,. Cost of Government,. Countries whence goods are brought,. Darkness of the Nights,. Delaware,. Departments, Officers in the,. Discs of Venus and Mars,. District of Columbia,. Duties, Tariff of, in 1846, Eclipses in 1847,.. Ephemeris of the Sun,. Executive Government,.. .99 Massachusetts, Statistics of,. Page 174 151 ....5 ..178 .199 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of,·· ..53 ..281 Florida,. .264 131 Flowering of Fruit Trees,. ..81 .171 Foreign Goods imported,· 171 .174 Foreign Ministers,. .121 .322 ..311 France, Naval Force of,. ...129 ..262 10 Government, Cost of,. .152 ..187 .191, 193 Great Britain,. ..314 193 Great Britain, Naval Force of,129 346 Great Britain, Railroads in,.. .163 4 Great Britain, Tariff of, in 1846,. .318 5 Holland, Naval Force of,.. .130 .192 Illinois, 301 ..113 Import, Articles of, in 1845,. 171 185 Imports for 56 years,. .151 102 Independent Treasury Bill, .207 -180 Indiana, .298 .82 Intercourse with Foreign Nations,. 116 .306 .5 New Jersey, New York, State Census of,. Observatories, Lat. and Long. of,. Oregon Convention,. Parallax in Altitude of the Sun,. Pole Star, Places of the,.. Post-Office Establishment,. Railroads in the United States,· Russia, Naval Force of,.. Satellites of Jupiter, Eclipses of,.. |