ALMANAC,   ECLIPSE,   ETC.
 

Police New York
Population of the City .
Post Office—Rales of ~
Public Porters       ,
Railroad Companies
Rates of Cartage
Rates of Coaches
Rates of Exchange
Rates of Porterage
Rates of Weighing
Real and Personal Estate
Receiving Reservoir
Rechabites   .
Rockland Cemetery
Savings Banks
Schools
Sheriff and Deputies    .
 

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. 69
. 53
57
140
. 128
. 138
. 137
. 128
. 140
. 1.35
. 65
. 55
. 117
. 97
. 70
. 119
. 69
 

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Societies and Institutions . 102
Sons of Temperance            . 113

Station Houses, Police.        .    69

Steamboat Lines .              . 127

St. John's Park or Hudson Sq. 54
Street Directory . . .147
Tares Allowed . . .136
Taxes, Collection of . .65
Telegraph Stations . . 74
Theatres . . . .130
Trinity Church Cemetery . 99
Union Place         .       .        .54

Undertakers, pp. 96, 98,100
Ward Schools             .       . 119

Washington Square . . 54
Weighing .... 1.35
Wilson C.            ...   61
 

ALMANAC FOR  THE YEAR 1848.

Being Bissextile, and until the Fourth of July, the 72d year of the
Independence of the United States.

CUSTOMARY NOTES, &c., FOR THE YEAR 1848.

1.  Venus ( 9 ) will be Morning Star until July 22d, then Evening
Star till May I2th, 1849.

2.  The Moon will run highest, this year, about the 2d degree of
(j) Cancer, and lowest about the 2d degree of (Y3) Capricornus.

3.  Lutitude of Herschel (IJl) about 38' south this year.

4.  Longtitude of the Moon's Ascending Node (Q) in the middle
of this year, 5 signs, 25 degrees, or 175 degrees.

5.  Mean Obliquity of ibe Ecliptic, in the middle of this year, 23°
27' 32 6".   True obliquity, same time, 23° 27' 22-8."

MOVABLE   FEASTS.
 

Easter Sunday,               April 23   Whit-Sunday,

Rogation Sunday,            May 28   Trinity Sunday,

Ascension Day,                June 1    Advent Sunday,

EQUINOXES  AND   SOLSTICES.          D.

Vernal Equinox...........March................ 20

Summer Solstice..........June.................21

Autumnal Equinox........September............. 22
 

Winter Solstice.
 

June 11

June 18

Dec. 3

H. M.

6 23 morn.

3 19 even.

5 23 morn.

.December.............2111  4 morn.
 

ECLIPSES  IN   THE  YEAR 1848.

There will be four Eclipses of the Sun and two of the Moon this
year.

I. Sun eclipsed on the northen limb, March 5, visible only in the
north-eastern parts of N. America.

II.   Moon eclipsed March 19, invisible at N. Y., visible for a few
minutes at Boston.

III.   Sun eclipsed April 3, visible only in the South Pacific.

IV.  Sun eclipsed August 28, invisible.

V.   Total eclipse of the Moon, at N. Y. commencing at half-past
11 on the evening of September 12, and ending at 3 o'clock next
morning.

VI.   Sun eclipsed September 27, invisible in America.

Note.—All the calculations in this Almanac are in Clock Time.