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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Dec. 21 



ON SATURDAY, THE 4th OF JANUARY, 1845, 



Will be Published, Stamped for free transmission by post, price Sixpence (to be continued Weekly J, 



No. I. op 



AN ORIGINAL JOURNAL 



OF 



AMILY EVENTS, NATIONAL AND PRIVATE BIOGRAPHY, LIFE AND 



HEALTH 



GENERAL NEWS 



TO BE CALLED THE 



UNDER THE SANCTION, AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE, OF VARIOUS 



Tn importance to the welfare of society of the three great events of Human 



Life 



23irtf), illarnage, anfc Deatl), 



has led the Government to establish a Public Department for their Registra- 

 tion. In order to carry out the same views more extensively and usefully, 

 ilfjc pustoriral Register, under the sanction of the Registrar- General and 

 tarions Public Departments, will lay before the public, every Week, a compre- 

 hensive, accurate, and well-digested Register of such events, and all the 

 interesting circumstances connected with them. 



The Conductors of £f>e p>tstortraI ISc^St:!* have the satisfaction of 

 announcing, that, to accomplish this object, the most complete arrangements 

 have been o mised with the official Registrars of Births, Marriages, and 

 Deaths, throughout England and Wales. 



With Birth and Marriage the associations are obviously many, important, 

 and interesting; and it is only necessary here to state that ZtjC historical 

 Urgc'stcr will be a most extensive record of such events, and of all matters 

 incidental to them which interest the Public. 



With Peath is associated one of the most important features of £f)c ffns- 



torical l^rgtstcr, viz. 



Kattona! 23(cgrapl)g 



Of all persons, of any distinction whatever, their friends wish for some Biogra- 

 phical .Aiemoir ; of all eminent men, the nation requires a Biography: there 

 is, however, at present, no publication which furnishes this information sys- 

 tematically, — which gratifies public curiosity at the time it is excited ; and 

 there are very few in which, at any time, are found accounts of more than a 

 mere fraction of the interesting lives which should be recorded. This, there- 

 fore, is an entirely new field, which Cfje historical Bcgtster is about to 

 occupy. It will give full and accurate 



Biographies of all Public Characters, and shorter Memoirs of Private Persons 



of Worth and local mark. 



Social, as distinguished from Political Life, has hitherto had no journal to 

 record and discuss the numerous circumstances tending to its advancement or 

 retarding its progress. €!)? P>ifitoriraI Twister will now supply this want. 



Historical Events will be recorded briefly, clearly, and impartially ; in such 

 a manner that {Tfje pustortcal Register may be referred to hereafter for 

 an accurate statement of the History of the, Period. 



The Literature of the day, so far as it refers to its special topics, will come 



within the scope of Cfje historical Register. 

 The History and Personal Constitution of the 



©foil Btpartmcnts of (Sobcrnmcnt 



Are now about to be treated for the first time; a History of each Public De- 

 partment will be drawn up from the earliest period, and the Appointment, 

 Resignation, and Promotion of all Functionaries will be registered from time 

 to time as they happen. These details, of an analogous nature to the contents 

 of the "Army List," will be compiled, by Authority, from authentic information. 



The general character of Cfje historical Register will be best understood 

 by a brief enumeration of the subjects which it will comprehend : 



The Registration of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths of the upper and middle classes, 



on a more comprehensive and systematic scale than has hitherto been attempted. 

 Biography— General, National, and Private. 

 Social Condition and Domestic Life. 



The Insertion of Abstracts of Wills and Administrations of Public Interest. 

 Judicial Proceedings relative to Divorce, Pedigree, &c. 

 The Operation of the Registration Acts. 



Life and Fire Insurance. 



Public Health ; and the various circumstances in respect of Buildings, Drainage, Venti- 

 lation, Sepulture, Epidemics, Unwholesome Employments, ke. which affect it. 

 Information will be obtained from official and other sources respecting all Public 

 Works for the Improvement of Towns; the Proceedings of the Health of Towns 

 Commission, and all Societies for improving the Physical Condition of the People. 

 The Weekly Reports of Mortality in the Metropolis, and Quarterly Reports of Health 

 throughout England and Wales, will be published, under the authority of the Regis- 

 trar. General, in The Historical Rkgisteb. 



In addition to the above, its own peculiar topics, €U historical Register 

 will be especially a 



FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 



In which an ample and impartial Chronicle, free from political party bias, will 

 be given of all the important Events of the Week. 



It may confidently be expected that Clje pjistorital Register will become 

 the especial organ for the announcement and recording of Births, Marriages 

 and Deaths, and the chief public source in which searches after them will be 

 made ; thus investing the Journal with great genealogical value for the protec- 

 tion of hereditary rights. 



«• It is the Personal," says a popular writer, « that interests mankind, that 

 fires the imagination, and wins their hearts ;" and we beg the reader to bear m 

 mind that it is to the Personal, distinguished from the scandalous, tliat c 5 c 

 historical Ucgistcr mainly devotes itself. 



CSc historical Agister will consist of 16 folio pages, or 48 columns, 



stamped for free transmission by post 



CSe historical Register will be arranged in four parts, so that *JW 



read by four persons at one time, in a form convenient for binding [and p 

 servation. . 



Cte historical Kcgistcr will be published every Saturday, in time for i 



morning mails. 



tS- The First Nosibeb of (Eftc historical Register will appear on Ban.™.,, 



the 4th of January, 1845. 

 (Only a very limited number of Advertisements will be admitted.) 

 % . Announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths will be ^inserted a a 

 very moderate rate, and a copy of W historical Krgtstcr will ^ (^' 



without charge, to the persons making the insertions. 1 he clerks 



Price Sixpence. 





without cnarge, i« i«e j/«o™. — ? — M^riiccs in 



parishes, with the sanction of the clergy, receive the notices of **£*? 

 L Established Church ; and the various Registrars throughout the .Kmgdo , 

 with the sanction of the Registrar-General, receive the notices of other 

 riages, and the notices of Births and Deaths. 



Office for Advertisements and Communications, 7, Catherine-street, Strand, London. 



, **. ^m, wh .„ tsjsyj*; «22t^-SSS;S«J5SiJl»^ •* 



Printed by Wxuiam Bradbuxt, of No. 6, York-place, Stoke Newinffton, and Frkdhrick Muuir Evaicb, of No. 7, Church-row, Stoke Newinjrton, both ln ™*Jr™? th ; §aid w unty, 

 in thp precinct*, of Whiufrian, in the City of Londen; and published by them at the Oftce, No. 5, Charles-rtreet, in the rarieh of St. Paul'-, Corent-fcrniaen, L iu * 



manicatiom ar« t»,' be .addressed t« tha Editor.— S^tardav, December 21, 1844. _ w , 



