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EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCT 29, 1151. Tax` COURT of DIREOT(AS of the EAT INDIA COMPANY ec hereby give notice, Tliat the TRANSFER BOOKS of the said Company's Stock vtill be SHUT on THURSDAY, the 4th December next, at Three o'clock, 4, 4 13 PE-N111) urain on 711111IISDAY, the 15th January, 1852. ..,_lituat the Warrantrfor the Dividends on th e sa id S toc k, pa y a ble on 4 L' 114 13', tke 6th January, 1852, under the 11th sec. of the Act 3 and Wuli. IV., cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. AUSTRALASIAN, COLONI XL, and GENE RAT. LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COMPANY. The Directors of the Company hereby give NOTICE, that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 1, Leadenhall-street, on FRIDAY, the 16tirday of January, 1852, at Twelve o'clock precisely, in conse guinea of a requisition having been addressed to the Directors in writing, under the hands of seven shareholders, holding in their own right, in the aggregate, more than two hundred shares in the capital of the Association, requiring theca to call an extraordinary general Ineetiog ssolvi , for the express purpose of cons id er i ng the expediency of ding the Association, and the object of the said m ethig is to Consider the expediency of dissolving the Association accordingly. By Order of the Board, E. RYLEY, Actuary and Accountant. Ist January, 1852. NOTICE is hereby given, that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the AUSTR A LASIAN, COLONIAL, and NER LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COMPANY, conereting of the Shareholders, Assured, and Annuitants, qualified to vote at such meeting, will be held at their House, in Leadenhall street, on FRIDAY, the itth day of January instant, at One o'clock precisely. By Order of the Board, E. RYLEY, Actuary and Accountant. 1, Leadenhall-street, Jan. 1, 1852. Office of the Gas-Light and Coke Company, 19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, Dec. 30, 1851. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Court of Directors of the GAS-LIGHT and COKE COMPANY do hereby declare that a Vacancy has occurred in the Court of Direc tor., by the election of Benjamin Hawes, Esq. (Deputy-Governor), to the oflice of Governor. Notice is hereby also given, that a Special General Court of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at this Office on TUESDAY, the 27th day of January neat, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the Election of a Deputy-Governor, to supply the said vacancy; and that, should a ballot be required. it will continue open for four hours from Its commencement. By Order of the Court of Directors, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. N.B.—The chair will be taken at Twelve o'clocK precisely, and none but proprietors admitted. B RITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW-ROAD, LONDON. Notice is hereby given, that Mr. MOSES LINDO is the only agent appointe I by us for the sale of Morison's Pills, the Vegetable Universal Medicine, la the Distil °Mangos, West Indies. '(Signed) MORISON AND CO. Dec. 26, 1651. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY may be obtained of all respectable spirit dealers in town an I Country. 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He may be consulted with advan through secret aces c onstitutions may have become debilitated Pr later Ye•rs. whererticea acquired in youth, or by the excesses of Marriage frustrate47.the Pleasures of life are marred, the objects of Ma rnis , ry and re,er',-.lln existence itself rendered a term of unceits- Publlthed by the 4:',,' tiester-row ; Hannay:t6ll3or, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater- RaYniarket GOrdou, 1 4 i and may ; Starie , Titchbome-street, a_ Zee by pest tel ferti,..LAß-adenhall-street; Mann, 23, Ceruhill ; wo may be ootod otrr..aulltanaps, from the author's residence. A kola Tmi tip Twooliirele, disorders personally. or by letter" --• 1 14.°131 tia till nat. - • N°.18,495.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING The following are Reviews of the New Edition, which have already appeared In the leading Metropolitan Journals : SIIN, OCTOBER 17, 1851. This is the fifty-third annual publication of the " Post Office Lon don Directory ; and if untiring enterprise or unerring accuracy in the collection of materials, or unequalled ingenuity in the classification afterwards, so as to afford the greatest possible amount of informa tion in the smallest possible amount of space, be worthy of being con si iered a work of art and industry, then is the " Post Office London Directory" a work of art and industry quite worthy of a foremost place in the Great Exhibition, and then should the Messrs. Kelly have awarded to them a mark of honorary distinction for the pro duction of this unsurpassed and unsurpassable production. It is the microcosm of the metropolis of the world ; no information concern ing London, its inhabitants, its topography, its public buildings, its Institutions, its palaces. its docks, its trade, and its commerce, can 1 3 : possibility be required, which the " Post Office Directory" can not at once supply. To the commercial man it is invaluable, for not only does it supply the names and addresses of the heads of firms, but the nam e o f every j unior partner in every firm is to be found in the proper alphabetical position of his own name, and with reference to the firm. The work is illustrated by an accurate Map of London, corrected up to the present moment, and drawn upon a scale of three inches to the mile; in this Map the position of everyone of the new streets recently built in London or the suburbs, is accu rately laid dower; and we find, on reference to the Map, that it shows the positions of many streets which are scarcely yet completed. It is classified, as usual, into s" Official Directory," a " Street Directory," a " Commercial-Directory," a " Trades' Direc tory," a "Law Directory," a "Court Directory," a "Par liamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " City Direc tory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory." It furnishes also full and accurate information regarding the various assurance and other joinst-stock companies, and the latest informa tion with regard to the recent postal arrangements. The man of fashion will find in the " Court Director 7," that the same tninute accuracy has been observed, and the same untiring diligence exer cised, in procuring information relating to the fashionable world, as has been exercised in compiling, arranging, and classifying the commercial portion of this great encyclopmdia of the metro polis ; whilst, to the politician, the " Official" and the " Parlia mentary" Directories furnish all the information he can desire on the subjects of which they treat. This information is brought down to the latest moment, It was only on the 7th instant that Lord Dunsandle was elected an Irish Representative Peer, to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Earl of Charleville, and that the electors of the East Riding of Yorkshire returned Captain Duncombe as their representative, in the room of the late Mr. Broadley; both these changes appear in the present edition of the Directory ; and the present Lord Stafford, who only succeeded to the title about a week since, appears as the Peer, with Christian and mum= at length. In the list of Peers appears the full Christian and Surname of the present Earl of Donoughmore, who only succeeded to the title in the course of last month ; whilst, in the " Postal Directory," at page 1,761, the accele ration of the delivery of the papers by day mail appears, under the head " Delivery of Letters in London ;" the first day on which all the mails arrived, so as to admit of the complete carrying out of the arrangement, being Saturday last, the 11th ult. The proprietor is fully justified in his belief that this work has kept pace with the re quirements of the metropolis to which it is devoted, and he explains in his preface how he has been able to accomplish this great labour, and to bring the work to its present high state of per fection. He says :—" Accuracy and appropriate classification, so that everything which may reasonably be expected in such a book, may not only be found, but found without difficulty, are indispen sable to perfection. These advantages can, in any Directory, only be attained gradually, and not completely, until the work enjoys the entire circulation. While rivals existed, patronage was divided between books which were, or should have been, coun terparts of each other ; the public, therefore, had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to submit to inferior pro ductions ; the total receipts not being sufficient to sustain two Directorie. of London, each as complete as the present. This is quite certain ; as, for the many years during which this work has enjoyed the entire circulation, its profits would have paid •but a small proportion of the expense necessary to the production of another equally complete. A second Directory of London would be about as prudent an undertaking as a second railroad to Brighton ; all the expenses would have to be incurred a second time for the same objects ; and it must be manifest, that if both paid their ex penses, the profits on two capitals, instead of one, must be paid by the public. The present state of this work is a sufficient proof of the advantage to the public—of their having to pay bat for one collection of the information—one compilation —one setting of the type, &c. &c. This volume, to say nothing of accuracy, classifica tion, and general arrangement, contains about double the quantity of mere letter-press contained in the closing volume of its latest annual competitor, and is published at a lower price. There can, therefore, be no question that the public, as well as the proprietor of the 'Post Office London Directory,' benefit by the circumstance that the work has been so long without any competition. Firmly established as this Directory is in public favour, it can only be ne cessary that an amount of diligence equal to that which has led to so gratifying a result, be continued, in order to sustain it ; on this the public may, with confidence, rely." Judging of the future by the past, we confidently rely on the energy, the abilities, the talent, and the resources of Messrs. Kelly, and believe that for years to come the " Post Office London Directory" will continue to enjoy, because it will deserve, the undivided patronage of the public. TIMES, OCTOBER 21, 1851. Far-seeing sages have been busy prophesying all manner of results • from the Great Exhibition. We have one before us—one which none of them ever dreamed of. The Great Exhibition, amid the other wonderful effects it produced, exhausted the " Post Office DI , rectory" for 1851 ;an I lest the whole commercial world of London should be left without its guide and friend, the proprietors of that valuable work have at this unusually early period issued their volume for the year that is to come. Armed with this infallible weapon— , for. Indam, it sesuraey is se groat pa to de,el ru 112111.0 coo a, anything of the kind—one may pierce the remotest fastnesses of London, and count its Smiths, Joneses, Johnsons, and Browns. For one who has the time it is worth while to scrutinise the atnasing cor rectness with which this volume discriminates the whole mass of London life into some 2,500,000 names, and how it depicts and takes co pieces the minutest works or the vast machine that fills the valley of the Thames. The book is one of our standing wonders. In utility, excellence of typography, care, and trustworthiness, it can not be surpassed; and not the least remarkable feature about it is the very recent ch anges recorded in its pages. For instance, here in this volume of more than 2,000 pages, which was printed on the 13th of October, we find inserted in the " Parliamentary Directory," at pp. 1,738 and 1,749, the name of the Hon. Captain A. Duncombe, R.N., who was elected as Member for the East Riding only six days previously —namely, on the 7th of October ; and in page 40, in the list of the Privy Council Office, the name of Lord Liverpool is struck out, though his death was not recorded in the " Times" till the 6th of October. To the commer cial world it would be quite as necessary to deliver a lecture on the general benefits of sunshine, as to speak of the merits of the " Directory," and to all Londoners who want to know anything of the world they live in it is inestimable. The present volume is dis tinguished by the same internal and external advantages as those which have so long characterised its predecessors. [The fact above adduced, that in the "Directory" the name of Lord Liverpool, whose death had been recorded only on the 6th of October, was struck oat in page 40, in the list of Privy Council, is a happy illustration of the rapidity with wisick the information con tained in the work is compiled and published. So striking an example of the excel:enee of the " Directory" has naturally cau,ed some comment; and the present appears a fitting opportunity of calling attention to the entire facts of the case :—An Earl, who is a Privy Councillor, appears in the " Post Office London Directory," Ist, in the list of Privy Council; 2d, in the '• Street Directory;" 3d, in the " Court Directory ;" 4th, in the list of Earls ; sth, in the Alphabeacal list of Peers; 6th, in the Alphabetical list of the Surnames of Peers ; 7th, in the titles of the Eldest Sons of Peers. The corrections, rendered necessary by the death of the Earl of Liverpool, only recorded on the 6th of October, were actually carried into five of these seven parts (the two others having before been printed off), in a Work consisting of 2,090 Imperial Octavo pages ; and the book was printed, bound, and distributed, so that the Reviews of it in the newspapers commenced on the 14th of the same month. Although we believe that it is not possible to adopt mea sures which shall ensure greater promptitude or accuracy, we should not have called public attention to a matter which, with our ar rangements, is a mere thing of course, but for comments which have been made on this particular point. It was Oil account of the acknowledged impossibility of competing with our arrangements that the Proprietors of " Robson's Directory" took leave, of their sub- i scribers in the following terms : GLOBE, OCTOBER 18, 1851. Among the many interests affected by the Great Exhibition is that of the " London Directory;" the demand for the edition of 1851 being so great, in consequence of the crowds congregating to the metropolis, that it was deemed advisable to have an early publica tion of that for 1852. The comparatively early appearance of the work will, however be found to have derogated little, if at all, from its accuracy and excellence, as every change that has taken place up to the last few days is carefully recorded in its pages. As in stances, we may state that the Hon. Arthur Duncombe is given as the Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, for which county he was elected as late as the 7th instant; and that the present Lords Stafford and Bolingbroke are named as the possessors of their re spective titles, although they succeeded to them only within the cur rent month. In every respect the edition for 1852 is quite equal to its predecessors. . Indeed, when one considers the immense amount of information in the work—the perfect accuracy which charac terises it—and the excellent classification adopted, by which any piece of information required can be pounced on in a moment, the " London Directory" seems little short of a marvellous work, and one which could only have been put together by the most indefati gable perseverance and scrupulous care. It would have been indeed worthy of a place in that noble collection of the monuments of the industry and intelligence of the world, which we have but a day or two since looked on for the last time. STANDARD, OcTom 21, 1851. The fifty-third annual publication of this extraordinary volume is now before us. The projector of such an opus magnum must have been a bold man, but ne one can observe its singular completeness without coming to the conclusion that it has been the work of many years to bring to perfection such a guide-ook to the first city in the worl t. The labour and diligence which must have been bestowed on Messrs. Kelly's book is quite inconceivable, and the proprietors must be gratified that their efforts have been appreciated by the public. Every merchant's house, every place of business in London, or even in the country, has its " Post Office London Directory." The enormous circulation thus attained has enabled thd proprietors to offer it for sale at a price that no book less universally purchased could be sold for. Upwards of two thousand closely-printed pages, comprising the most extensive and miscellaneous information in one volume, an i sold at the price at which it is offered, is a triumph of skill and diligence of which the proprietors may well feel proud. They who look further, may see, in the success of the " London l'ost Office Directory," the foreshadowing of results yet more im portant to the community even than the accurate knowledge of the persons, occupations, and things, so skilfully set before us in this vo lume, of the busy metropolis. It is unnecessary to recommend the " Directory ;" such a book is always itself its own best recom mendation. " Bowtrell and Co:, Proprietors and Publishers of Robson's London Directory,' beg to acquaint their subscribers, that with the volume for the present year that work has terminated. " It has been found impossible longer to contend with the 'Post Office Directory,' a work combining large capital, with un equalled resources of every kind requisite for the proper production of a Directory of the metropolis. These advantages place that work on anch an elevation that further competition with it would be as i njurious to Bowtell and Co. as it would be unjust to their subscribers " And since this was put forth, the arrangements under which the " Post Office Directory" are conducted have, as is well known, been very fnaterially strengthened.—Editors of "Post Office London Directory."] SNIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE, OcTong 18, 1851. The annual volume of this stupendous work appears with pre scriptive punctuality. The plan originally laid down is carried out with increased completeness in the publication for 1852, which, like its predecessors, is a signal monument of method, enterprise, and per severance. It is not possible that any work devoted to London and its statistics can furnish so clear and definite a record of the per sonal and commercial contents of the metropolis as this mammoth book, the swelling bulk of which denotes that it keeps pace with the increase of population and the several developments of industry. No one can turn over its pages without being struck with the im mensity of labour which its compilation must have entailed upon those engaged in it. Every line is the record of a specific fact—a fact In every case liable to change, and, consequently, involving periodical justification throughout. The machinery devised by the Messrs. Kelly for securing this annual revision is now as perfect as it is possible to make it ; and the corrections are brought down to the latest date. The separate Directories embrace the usual fields o linfortnation. Trades and tradesmen, professionals and officials, streets and conveyances, banking-houses and post offices, are here regulated to their particular heads, and, besides the mere catalogue of names, enriched with every sort of collateral information which the exigencies of business or curiosity may require. Our former commendations may be repeated now. The accuracy aimed at by the editors half a century ago has been severely tested since the book has been in existence; and it not only repels accusation on this score, but challenges fresh panegyric as every succeeding volume emerges from the press. The counting-house of the merchant and the trader could now as ill spare the almanack as the "Post Office Directory." MORNING CHRONICLE, OCTOBER 15, 1851. In an age prolific of books this is the u m s o ef s u t l extraordinary, and we y ll — ed a to m s i z e , l t e h e e of human skill a proof of the o fe f el al human almost t i n c f all. It is a miracle tri umphs resulting from an ultimate combination d om us p tr e of the temporary di vision of labour—an argument for the superiority of London over every c tend in the world —and an example to all publishers, catalogue makers, and book compilers whatsoever. This is the fifty-third an nual publication; it enjoys all the advantages of its proprietors' fifty-two years of experience. The c l assification, on ce eomf almost to Bradshawism, is now so admjrably managed, that every information such a work may be expected to afford can he re b• t , fouvul, and found without difficulty, by persons to whom the search is a novelty, and the volume unknown. The stranger may here be guided, and the Londoner, at each year's end, refresh his in formation as to the whereabouts of his old friends. The statist, too, suddenly called upon for his figures, may joyfully find refuge by ready access to his Directory, where he will learn how many churches and how many schools. how many clergy and how many lawyers, how many bakers and how many butchers, are re quired in this mighty metropolis to satisfy the spiritual, intellectual, and physical wants o f it s t wo m i ll i on and a half of inhabitants. The teetotaller may recreate himself by marking i at each corner of a street, and in every n each street parish, the appearance or disappearance Of some public house Pa ' ouse ; he may compare 1851 with 1841, with 1831 ; see where P temperance has progressed, And where gin -palaces are still in the ascendant; he may trace back " mine host " from hotel to inn, from inn of so to beer-shop. and point the moral Rome future speech by fortunes gained, extracts of the evidence here given of the liquor.. The the fortunes also lost, by the sale of intoxicating which he topographer may correct his chart by the information g thought his must hence derive, that new streets have arisen since he tuations In abours concluded ; the historian may the P•, ulati note where flue serve that here, from some o 'clan may commerce and and her a cause which he must try to disc v positions—that there i attendant man are restless, and seeking new et.' of a new system, hitgesome attraction rapidly becoming the g ce a nt ew e of the times generall rto not called into operation. The student elation occupying a house fi nd, occasionally, an operatives' asso anything like a state of equaufmaittood street, and be only brought to that great slop-shops, ana other EY again by a discovery of the fact, ther way vrestwards, if not at a greater jr"' at any rate with more the Christian Socialists. If the inquirhir trading establshments of the district of the Temple, the result s4fmind penetrates, in print, number of old names gone, reflections en thebe astonishment at the immutable of professions, and a discovery, if the search of the most in, that the lost barristers are not de e d , ' but it be persevered if, f i na lly (which, share the world localises in the provinces : contemplative, ' seems not improbable) the generally is not er Wants discover an address, he may do so in a i m inute,andthat _only to unless the object of his solicitude be very flighty, "i it tit correctre, we, at least, assure him that it would have been so up to witi fortnight of the publication of the volume before us. "Ex uno ' ell ' s a omnes." The death of Lord Stafford was but a week Sice noticed in our columns: in the Parliamentary department of this Directory we find the full Christian names of the new Lord, with such other change of particulars as the circumstances required. Yet the volume kept thus minutely accurate contains more than two thousand closely printed pages. Who shall conceive the watchful diligen ce bestowed upon its every-day revisal? But we sired not insist upon qualities which cannot be denied ; we need not recommend as useful what recommends itself as indispensable. Good classification, and incessant carp in marking alterations, are the essential qualities of a Directory; and both these qualities this Directory has to per fection. public wnrk notice that, and presenting any patronage. otother e t r h e source.s a T m h e e WEEKLY DISPATCH, OCTOBER 19, 1851. "hand-book to the commerce ph l a t se is s, d h iffi as c s ul o t o t f o te r n em lai a d rk cl u a p im on t a . fifty-third annual volume is now before us; and, as heretofore, it embodies (certainly in a very bulky form) an amount of useful in- I fo t r i m s, a i t n io f n ac zh as ich th m e i p g r h e t fa b c e e s s o t u a g t h es t , f a or2n ha v n a d t of the first commercial city in the World." " As usual, th e volume contains, among other information, an Official Directo r y," a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a "Law Directory," a "Court Directory," a "Parliamentary Directory," a "Postal Di rectory," a "City Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," a "Bank ing Directory," and a finely-executed Map of London and its en virons. The work, alike indispensable to the commercial man and to individuals unconnected with trade, reflects great credit upon the proprietor for his industry and untiring perseverance, and is an ho nour to the country in which it appears. The whole is printed in a clear, distinct type, and on excellent paper, and the "getting up" altogether is unexceptionable. While such care and zeal continue to be exerted, to render the boot in its several departments com plete, and make it really and truly a hand-book of commerce, it need not fear any rival. EXAMINER, Gerona 18, 1851. Mr. Kelly's giant Directory takes the field a month earlier than usual this year. This is accounted for by the fact of the great de mand for last year's impression consequent on the crowds at the Great Exhibition ; and certainly our visitors could not do better than resort to Mr. Kelly's compilation for a proper impression of the magnitude and wonders of the city they were visiting. We possess no other record of them to compare with it. Two thousand closely printed pages of streets, trades, professions, and persons, express better than the most eloquent phrases what a mighty mass of human beings are now congregated in the spot called London, and what in finitely vast varieties of human existence and interests have come to be comprised within that name. Often we have had occasion to say, and may now repeat, that this book of Mr. Kelly's is not one, but a dozen Directories. Its clear and succinct art angement adapts it to the use of every class that may be supposed likely to have need of such information. There is a ' Street Key," of nearly 500 pages, containing the names of more than a hundred thousand people. 1 here is an Alphabetical Directory, containing in the same number of pages nearly the same number of names. There is a classification of more than two thousand trades. There is a Court Guide to some 25,000 of what are called the whateverand i nnthroughout a person e t a h n e be s gentler classes. There is a Law Guide; a Parliamentary Guide; a Guide to all the Public Offices; a Directory of Post- Towns and Postages all over the world; a list of all the chief hotels countryupposedan to have hunder any separate p needar a t e to know Directories, re agencies city buildings, companies, churches, chapels, publications, and , or about assurance companies, banking houses, and conveyances of all kinds from, to, or in the metropolis. A mass of various matter so unexampled in balk and extent depends obviously upon arrangement, and facility and completeness of r eference, for its practical worth and v a l ue in a readily available sense, The book before us seems quite a model of such arrangement. It con tains nothing that may not at once be found--not a street, trade, profession, or Person, which the easiest search does not bring into • curse, a nd as tar as we have been able to j u d ge, with unerring ac- view y. , Though it is hardly the middle of Octob er w h en we have it now before us complete, we yet fled proofs of a scrupulous cer.; redness of revisi on th a t must haTO dated so recently ae the close of MORNING HERALD, OCTOBER 17, 1851. The punctuality with which this huge record makes its appearance at the close of the year is not one of its least recommendations. Certainly, it is proof that the diligence :and energy which have always characterised its production experiences no ab dement, notwithstanding the perpetual extension of the field of labour, and the vast increase of those details which an insidiously-growing population must necessarily generate. We have oftea before been afflict upon to compliment thd enterprise of the proprietors, and we have little to add upon the present occasion. Every ono who has been in the habit of turning to the " Post Office Directory," is aware of its faultless accuracy; and to praise it on this score is superfluous. The changes to which such a multitude of localities are exposed by the accidents of life, are duly provided for; and we can but marvel at the excellence and completeness of the machinery by which the entire surface Of Loudon 14 annually explored, and eyery shifting Just bli hed price 315., embellished with a MAP of LONDON , act detected and corrected. The union of forethought with in- Corrected to this date, the Complete Edition of the genuity —of comprehensive method with inflexible perseverance p OST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY was never more eminently display e d— an d th a t, h app il y, i n a cause of the highest and most ca th o li c u tility. Th e " P ost Offi ce D i rec- For 1 8 2, , tory" has now become a metropolitan necessity. The gallery of Being the Fifty-third Annual Edition, volumes which have been published exhibit, in the gross, a me- Comprising, among other information, morable and curious monument of private industry; while to the statl,t they unfold, with a plain and naked truth, the g OFFICIAL DIRECTORY ; STREET DIRECTO RY ; rdul deve lopment of the resources, both personal and commer a cial, a of the COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY ; greatest capital of Europe. Rivalry has long since been extinguished TRADES' DIRECTORY; LAW DIRECTORY; by the great superiority of the present publication; and it is as well COURT DIRECTORY; that it should be so, for the editors affirm, with reason, in their PARLIAMENTARY DIRECTORY, preface, that when " patronage was divided between books which were, or should have been, counterparts of each other, the public POSTAL DIRECT3RY ; CITY DIRECTORY; had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to CONVEYANCE DIRECTORY; submit to inferior productions; the to al receipts not being BANKING DIRECTORY; sufficient to sustain two Directories of London each as complete as &c. &c. &c. the present." The rivals alluded to have, however, not been with out their use. They have, no doubt, stimulated the proprietors of the " l'ost Office Directory" to that kind of prompt and vigilant exertion from which perfection alone can spring ; and we have now a book of reference as uniqua in its characteristics as in its worth. The divisions of the book are the same as they have hitherto been. The separate Directories amount to twelve ; by a hich arrangement any particular search may be achieved, either by reference to the name of the person sought for, the street he lives in, or the occupa tion he follows. We have, thus, a Directory of Government officials ; of streets ; of tradesmen ; of trades ; of law ; of fashion ; of Parliament ; of the Post Office ; of the City ; of conveyances ; of banking-houses ; and of the assurance offices. These are again subdivided where necessary; and every conceivable facility is afforded to the inquirer, by means of sectional indices, &c., to save both his time and trouble. But we need not further particularise. The " fifty-third publication" of the " Post Office Directory" more than equals any of its numerous predecessors; and when we say this, the amount of labour bestowed upon it, the diversity of its classifications, the variety of its information, and its uniform exact ness, will be at once appreciated. Every sort of specific knowledge that it concerns the merchant, the trader, the professional man, the idler, or the artisan, to be acquainted with, may here be found; rind that the corrections come down to the latest date, may be inferred from suet, entries as the elections of Lord Dunsandle and Captain Duncombe, both of which took place no further back than the 7th instant. MORNING POST, OCTOBER 22, 1851. This remarkable volnme has attained its fifty-third year, and now contains 2,085 closely printed pages. In this immense mass of in formation, the most searching scrutiny will find nothing useless or unnecessary ; and the extreme accuracy which is observable in the most minute details, renders . the "Post Office London Directory' one of the marvels of the age. Its early publication is accounted for by the circumstance that the edition for 1851 is out of print. and the proprietors have taken great care that all necessary cor rections should be made up to the latest moment. We have been at some pains to t est the accuracy of the present edition, by reference to instances of recent change within our own knowledge, and in no single case have we found any mistake. The insertion of Lord Dunsandle, whose election took place in Septenkber, amongst the Irish representative Peers, and the alterations rendered necessary by the death of Lord Donoughmore, on the 12th September, are two, amongst many, proofs of the diligence and care with which this in valuable work has been prepared. Even the minor official changes, such as the appointment of Queen's counsel, police magistrates, and the like, are also noted with unfailing correctness. The arrange ment and distribution of the several parts of the work afford the utmost facilities for reference; so that the labyrinth of this vast metropolitan population is threaded as readily as the population of the most insignificant village, and official situations, trades, profes sions, residences, as easily discovered. It is not surprising that such a work, so useful to all, and so indispensable to those engaged in business, should find a demand proportioned to the labour bestowed upon it. It has now, we conceive, reached the highest pitch of perfection of which such a production is capable; and it will unques tionably continue to receive that large share of public patronage by which it has hitherto been deservedly supported. Not even the Great Exhibition itself could convey to foreigners a grander or more just idea of the vast resources of British capital and enterprise; and certainly no guide book in the world could give half as accurate a notion of the wealth, industry, and pursuits of the Londoners as is contained in this imposing and instructive volume. The obligation which the public owe to Messrs. Kelly is certainly not confined to the mere counting house utility of their labours. They have collected an amount of statistical information, the quantity of which is only equalled by its value ; and it affords us sincere pleasure to bear our testimony to the merits of their present edition. MORNING ADVERTISER, OCTOBER 22, 1851. The fifty-third annual impression of this wonderful and ever increasing book is before us. On the present occasion it is marked by a more early appearance than usual—a proef of increased dili gence in compiling the immense lists of names, trades, and profes sions, as well as a further enhancement of its value and accuracy. For it must be evident, upon reflection, that the nearer in point of time to the completion of information so varied, evanescent, and perpetually changing, the issue of the work containing it shall be, so will its faithfulness be increased. Death, bankruptcy, retirement, sales, emigration, mere removal, prevent the permanency of such information, in the recency ,f which lies its Whole value. Now, living ourselves in this current of change, and of necessity observant of many mutations, we have applied to the " Pest Office Directory" the severest of tests, by a reference to a few of the most recent fluc tuations in the world of London and of commerce. This it has stood triumphantly. In this vast mass of matter (over 2,000 pages), in all parts of the ponderous volume, is the same actuality of present truth fulness. Official appointments and promotions, changes of firms, removals, alterations of postal times, of mail routes and arrivals, of steam-packets, the evictions and changes consequent upon street widening', &c., &c., &c., are all noted, so as, in poetic phrase, to " Fix the flying Cynthia of the minute ;" or, rather, to render, so far as modern Babylon is concerned, " the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure." Among the notabilla of the world's metropolis, this record of its actual state is one of the most useful and wondrous. DAILY NEWS, Ocrom 14, 1851. The " Post Office Directory" for 1852 has been published, un usually early this year. The portly volume is now before us. The proprietors thus explain their reasons for this earlier issue of their volume:—" The Exhibition having occasioned a demand greater than usual, the edit on for the current year became exhausted; to prevent the inconvenience of the work being. out of print, every exertion has been made to produce the new edition at the earliest period compatible with accuracy." That this has not been sacrificed to speed, a scrutiny will amply show ; and in proof that the cor rections have been made to the latest possible period, they instance the acceleration of papers by the day mail, under the head of "delivery of letters in London," at page 1761. The first day on which the mails arrived so as to admit of the complete carrying out of the arrangement was on Saturday last, the 11th instant. The insertion, too, in the " Parliamentary Directory" of the Christian names of the present Lord Stafford, whose father's death was an nounced La. *mono seyeral ,VHI it might be adduced to sho w h ow c l ose l y t h e corrections nave been made up to the moment of issue. :4, , 7., ,1„77:-.z:*4.14-.08111- 17144.`‘ ;4 -4tr,T,,.:•:'_o:-T: 47"2"',1/: -,-:',-;:' ''' I. ,:- 4 : - :" . 7 i i. . - .. - - 1 J 7 - Th--......) , A ..___ . ~ •., Vs ' • CA 44. f *V •. ; - , ~, -r . ',. • 4'i ~. V tAlltn.1 ri . . -.. .. i., , + '‘,. 4.!' • - N IEL , 9 • •,• vk, , ~. .< •". •.-. ......-Y 1 Aillik , ~ % :_,,rN•-•:, 1,„ •,5 d ib.,.. - +. :-: . .. k 4.,, , -,..,,a )' .3 5 0 14 '.- - i. , . 4.- • " 25b10 ~.,.sue„ - "1 '''-. .DIE S I ,' 4 1 4 V ..• • , . January. February March.... April , May....; .. June .61171181 S N, JANUARY 1, 1852. JOHN BULL, OCTOBEX 25, 1851. The accelerated sale of the last edition of thi s s t upendous reper tory of London statistics, occasioned by the Great Exhibition, has induced the enterprising publishers somewhat to anticipate the usual period of annual republication. In doing this, great pains have been taken to bring down the alterations to the very latest date, as is attested by the fact that the result of the recent election for the East Riding, and the succession to the Earldom of Stafford, both having occurred within the present month are duly registered. The Map, likewise, keeps pace in its enlargements with the additions which are being made in every direction to the houserooms of the metropolis. Of the abstract merits of Messrs. Kelly's publication it is unnecessary for us to speak; we can only reiterate the opinion which we have before expressed—that the volume is one of the most comprehensive, most complete, and well digested, and, for its size, one of the cheapest manuals of reference ever offered to the public. ATLAS, Ocroaxa 18, 1851. The " fifty-third edition" of a work would scarcely appear to re quire a critical notice, and yet this fifty-third edition of the " Post Office Directory," is so essentially a new b oo k , that i t is impossible to allow its publication te pass over without bestowing on it a larger share of a tentlon than any mere new edition of an established work could possibly demand. Like the great metropolis, this Direc tory has, year by year, increased in value a n d i mportance ; year by year the number of indi v iduals it enumerates, classifies, and de scribes, has become larger and the book more bulky ; in the same proportion the care and labour necessary for its careful production have increased; and yet every year has seen it in some degree better than its predecessor, ant more valuable to the public. It is no slight praise to say that the present edition of the " Post Office Directory" is an improvement on the last. The competition with which Mr. Kelly is threatened, appears to have determined him te produce a volume which shall defy all rivalry, and it will be a diffi cult task fur a publisher to bring out a work which can in any way compare with it for accuracy, classification, and price. There appears to be nothing wanting in this Directory to render it com plete of its kind. During the number of years we have used it for reference, we have never met with an error in it of any magnitude, or one which affected its great usefulness, and if it is continued with the same skill which has marked its editorship while it has been in the hands of Mr. Kelly, we think he may safely trust to its well known excellence to protect him against the consequences of any competition. MINING JOURNAL, OCTOBEI 25, 1851. Tae fifty-third annual edition of this useful work has just appeared, and judging from its contents, is by no means inferior to its prede cessors, and fully sustains the reputation it has so well earned, as being rnrrert a' to tut , names and addremaeg pt tisa f - veral trades and professions in this 'rust metropolis. As a work' bf reference, it is decidedly most useful and necessary to the man of business. No banking or merchants' office should be without it. A smaller edition has likewise been published, which, though not so comprehensive as the larger, contains an immense mass of useful in formation ; and both the works are eminently entitled to the name of " handbooks to the commerce of the first commercial city in the world." LITERARY GAZETTE, OCTOBER 18, 1851. One of the first symptoms of the decling year is presented In the publication of the fifty-third edition of tha " Post Office London Di rectory." Mr. Kelly is the first in the field, with his very neat and ponderous volume, comprising upwards of two thousand v ery closely-printed pages ; and his machinery is so we ll organ i sed, that he Is enabled, with astonishing runty, to correct every departm en t of it to within a f ew days of its publication. ' What a model for Mr. Panizzl, for the publication of a printed catalogue of the books in the British Museum, is the construction of this eminently useful volume." BRITANNIA, OcTopaz 18, 1851. LONDON AS IT IS. London Is a wide labyrinth, in which those who are uninitiated in its topographical intricacies must, without the aid of guide or clue, become hopelessly b ewildered. Every years adds thousands and tens of thousands t o the enormous amount of its population. Squares, streets, and terr aces, which would elsewhere constitute flourishing cities, are periodi cally annexed to its already unequally extent of buildings, and it is impossible to calculate the breadth of area which its encroaching Wings threaten eventually to overshadow with their vastness. If its ratio of increase in respect of extent, during the ensuing century, shall equal what it was in the last, the surface of the county in which it stands will be toe circumscribed to contain its limits. Its inhabitants, who in the reign of Queen Anne numbered only three hundred thousand, have increased by the last census to nearly two millions and a half—a population equal to that of the whole of Scotland ; and when we reflect that these teeming num bers are ail domiciled, clothed, and fed, in this human hive, the sumptuary arrangements necessary for the purpose seem almost in comprehensible to the human mind. Yet such is the extraordinary elasticity of our external and internal resources, that the supply has always kept pace with the demand, and the daily wants of the two mil ions and a half of human beings who are sheltered and fed in our capital, are supplied with an ease and a regularity unknown In the days ashen London contained but a tenth part of its present Population. A survey of the number of the "Post Office London Directory" for the year 1852, which has just been publishe 1, will give some notion of the difficulty which the numeroas foreigners and strangers in London, Who have lately been sojourning amongst us, would have experienced in tracing amongst these thousands o streets, and almost countless thousands of inhabitants, the desig nation and abodes of their friends and entertainers, but for the timely aid of some such accurate and comprehensive record. The mind can scarcely realise to itself a position of greater perplexity and difficulty, than that of a stranger to our land and our language, l aunc hed for the first time, with out guinance of any kind, in the b e wildering mazes of o ur metropolitan streets. Our English no menclature sounds so strangely to continental ears, that, without an laterpreter, an Italian, or a Spaniard, in confabulation with a cab man or omnibus conductor, would have as much chance of mutual intelligence, as with the denizen of another planet. To such, then, the study of a faithful record of all that mighty London, in its multitudinous' divisions and snhdlvisions, contains, will be of incal culable advantage. That which seems, when viewed en masse, to be of a complexity utterl y inextricabl e , th roug h th e i ngen i ous arrange mentsofourcourt: Guides and London Directories, among which Kelly's is the oldest and the best, has been made easy of comprehen sion to all who can read the Roman character. The foreigner, with this Directory in his hand, while he contemplates with wonder both the size of the volume and the amount of information it contains, will admire the judicious mode of compilation, by the assistance of to single out all th at is most worthy of his observation, and which he is enabled to th read his way through the labyrinth of a comprehensive notion of the statistics, wealth, power, and ' of the first city of the w or ld . extent ox streets tfeonr mt The Smaller Edition of the Work, and which includes Map of London, comprises, amongst other information—Official Directory— Commercial Directory—Court Dir ectory —Parliamentary Directory —Postal Directory--Banking Directory, &c., &c., Price 155., may now be had. Kelly and Co., " Post Office Directory Offices," 1! and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar, London ; and all Booksellers. SEASONABLEFESTIVITIES. At this festive period of the year Me following unr i va ll ed dis coveries for the cal led into i ncreased requisition, namel TOILET y— are ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for creating and sustaining a luxuriant head of hair, ROWLANDS' KALYDOR , for rendering the Skin soft, fair, and bloomi ng. ROWLANDS' ODONTO ; or, PEARL DENTIFRICE, for Imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the T eeth. and ROWLANDS' AQUA D'o ito, a fragrant and spirituous Perfume, an esse ntial accompaniment to e of places of public amusement and pu an s dc ri ro o w us ided Assemblies. Beware nutations. The only Genuine of each bears the na m "Rowlands" pre ceding that of the Article on the Wrapper or Label. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Ilatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. DISMISSAL OF LORD PA.LMERSTON. about matters which do not The Foreign Secretary who has served under many Ad iset of his Lordship's separation ministrations has at length ceased to hold office, and every body giving a different reason for the separation. Some attribute it to the turn of affairs in Franco, some to his Marylebone friends, with their address and resolution and his Lordship's answer, some to a from the rest of the Cabinet is much regr e tt ed b y many. We are pcoemneontoallight all differenceat once , wi t h Earl bu t the Carey naturally sorry to part from old servants, and there are some ser vices which cement parties together stronger the older they be come. Of this kind of service is that rendered by E. MOSES and SON, who have for many years caused a reduction in the expendi ture for dress of more than one aM the longer we are used to this the less we could do without it. In the y ear 1851 not less than half a million of money was saved to the pub l i c b _ _ r.. y MOSES and SON, and although it can be clearly shown that ev ery art i cle reaches the public at half-price, they challenge the whole world to a com parison of quality. They, by means of a lar ge capital, and a staff of workmen and designers perfectly u nequalled, kave surpassed everybody in quality, and intend to keep the lead by a system which the pith' c fully appreciates. _ • E. MOSES and SON, London City Establishment, 154, 155, 15 6, and 157, Minories, 83 44, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 587, 508 , New Oxford-street, 1, I, 4nd 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradflird Yorkshire Branch, 19, Bridge-etreet. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, driers, Boat and Shoe nakers , and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Sat - r lays when business is mimed till Twelve o'clock. The New Book, entitled " The Exhibition for All Nations," in Three Languages, viz.:—English, French, and German, and contain ing fall directions for self measurement, can be had gratis, on appli cation, or forwarded post free to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac, for the year ending 1852, can be had grata, en application. Id I'on pada Franeatse. Qut Ed pada Italiano. Bier spricht man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espanol. the first week in October. But we have said enough to commend a volume which we cannot but regard as a marvel of compilation most creditable to every one engaged in Its pieduction, and which has doubtless now become indispensable to all that hate ever had occasion habitually to resort to it. RTOBilt 18, 1851. That gigantic voIume,SPECTATO " Th ,e OC Post Office Directory." maintains its character as a fitting representative of the largest city in the world ' • excelling all books i n b u lk, as L on d on excels i n towns. And as the Metropolis contains various other districts besides the City, so does the Directory contain many directories, yet all an swering some specific purpose. There is the " Official Directory"— and, by-the-bye, it is curious to see how often the same name oc curs together, as if public employment were too good a thing to let out of the family. There is ti.e "Street Directory," where we may find the man if we know his residence, but have forgotten his name . the " Commercial Directory," where we may And the name if the residence has escaped us ' • then there are the " Trades'," " Law," and " Banking" Di re ctories, where it is possible to hunt up a man if we know his vocation, but cannot, without assistance, recall either his name or address. There are also other directing classi fications—as Court, Parliamentary, Conveyance, Ito,stal ; forming an unparalleled work, which, however, has been three-and-fifty years growing to its present size. The present volume appears early; the demand, Owing to the influx of strangers, consequent upon the Great Exhibition, having exhausted - the current edition for 1851 ; and what would London be without a Directory ? Great exertions, tis stated, have been made to„bring down the changes to the latest moment; as a proof of it, the alterations consequent upon the death of Lord.Llverpool may be instanced. ' ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, OCTOBES 25, 1851. The Great Exhibition has had its effect upon the sale of this leviathan Directory, and h as helped to exhaust the year's edition sooner than usual. W e are not surprised at this, seeing that - the London season has been one unbroken round of visits; - and an un precedently large number of persons has flocked to the metropolis, the majority requiring the class of information so well conveyed in the " Post Office London Directory." Accordingly, the volume for the coming year has been produced thus early; it maintains the high character of the series fbr accuracy,, appropriate classification, and ready reference. The corrections of. tke Peerage, and other lists, have been made to the latest possible period; and altogether, the work is recommended, as heretofore,, by its .completeness in every department, attainable only *the proprietor's long course of experience and popularity. , ; lIERAPATH'S RAILWAY JOURNAL, OCTOBEA 18, 1851. The way in which Messrs. Kelly produce their " Post Office Directory" renders competition useless. Such a work contains no matter of opinion, and advocates no particular interest. If the Messrs. Kelly do their duty well] and spiritedly, what more can be desired? We only want a Directory that is as full, as accurate, and as complete, up to the time, as possible. Now, as far as our know ledge of the Directory extends —and from our making frequent use of it we know a good deal about it —we think the work is admir ably kept up. In the present edition is found the very latest infor mation, and the whole of the work bears evidence that the greatest degree of attention is paid to its proper production. For some time past the " Post Office Directory" has had no competitor. During this time it has been a better work than it ever was before. The absence of competition, producing increased gains, seems to have enabled the work to reach its maximum merit. The present edition makes an earlier appearance than usual, which, we believe, is due to the Great Exhibition having created " a run" upon the Directory. BELL'S WEEKLY CHRONICLE, Octonsit 25, 1851. 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Packets, with advice, to be had at the Xsta bliskment oRIY, by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, argeona, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, London, from Eleven till Two. and Five to Eight; on Sun days from Eleven to One RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS LONDON AND NOILTE-WBSTERN RAILWAY. —Return 0 Traffic for the week ending'Dec. 28:— Passengers, parcels, mails, &c. £26,094 12 11 Merchandise ... ... 14,914 10 9 Cattle .. 670 12 2 IMO ... Total ... £41,679 15 10 Corresponding week last year ... 41,653 0 1 Aggregate, 1850 X 1,201,492 0 1 1851 ... 1 ,412,171 11 10 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of th 6 traffic of the liuddersfieldCanal and Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending Dec. 28 £15,820 7 10 Corresponding week last year... 14,844 0 2 THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAT,-. (Miles in work, 241* —Return of Traffic for the Week ending Dec. 21, 1851: Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and mails ... £5,523 9 9 Merchandise and minerals ... 6,092 13 4 Cattle ... ... 217 6 4 Total .. ... ....C11,838 9 5 Corresponding week, 1850 (236 miles): — Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £5,187 10 5 Merchandise, Cattle,&c. ... 3,117 14 0 --- Total ... ... ... £8,305 4 5 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAT.—Amount of Traffic for the week ending Dec. 28 : Passenger 3 Goods ••• ••• ... £7,092 18 10 ••• ... ... 1,361 13 5 Total ... £9,054 12 3 Corresponding week last year... 9,587 4 1 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles open.)—Traffic for week ending Dec. 28 £15,997 6 6 Corresponding week in last year (260 miles open) .. ....£13,456 6 1 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles open,ll2.) Return of traffic for the week ending Dec. 21 : Railway and canal ... £4,735 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,628 0 0 Note. —The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY..TrAffiC for the week ending Dec. 28:— MAIN LINK. Passengers ... Parcels, H. C. and D. Goods, cattle, &c. Mails ... ... Total ... £l,OBl 8 1 ... 86 6 7 ... 474 19 11 ... 600 0 0 - ... £2,242 14 7 MOLD. Passengers ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ••• ••• Total ••• ••• . STEAM-BOATS• £46 7 3 3 5 5 77 2 4 ... £126 15 0 Passengers ••• Parcels, U. C. and D. ... ••• ... £lO5 11 11 17 2 8 _~ 1 Total ... ... £172 14 7 Snnorsmaz Umoie RAILWAY.—(Open 2 9 miles: _ ) Traffic for the week ending Dee. 28: — Passengers, parcels, Svc. ... Goods and live stock ....£321 13 2 ... 182 12 5 Total .. ... .. £574 5 7 Corresponding week last yea r ... 499 5 51 CA L IDONIAN RAILW.T.•••• (189 i miles opened.) —Return of ,raflic for the week ending Dee. 21 : Passengers, em —. Goods, /ie. ....£2,947 3 8i ... 5,033 15 3i --- Total .£7,930 19 0; Corresponding week l a st y ear ... 7 ,527 0 10 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, DEC. 31. STOCK EXciaNGE.—There was an improved feeling ex hibited in the share market to-day, and a g oo d b us i ness has been done at advanced prices. The transactions reported were—Great Western, Original Stock, Bs—Bristol and Exeter 81. 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" Those who have relished the racy humour of the Clockmaker will flnd a dish of equally ludicrous and amusing Traniatlaatic wit in the Tolutnes before us."—Herald. • Colbum and Cp., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This day is published; in 2 vols. Svo., price 305., A Second Edn of T HE .LIFE OF JOHN,itioDUKE OF MARL ..m„. BOROUGH. With some account of his Conteinporaries, and the War of the Succession. By ARCHIBALD ALISON, LL.D., Author of the " History 'of Europe." With Portraita and Maps. In this Edition the Author has endeavoured to convert the Military Sketch, which alone was attempted in the First, into a more complete History. No pains have been spared in consulting tho bbst authori ties on the subject, both in Great Britain and on the Continent; and an account is intreduced, - not only of the domestic events of the period, but in the campaigns of Germany, Italy, and Spain, by Prince Eugene, the Duk e o f B erw i ck, and Lord Pete rborough, bearing on Marlborough's career. William Blackwood and Spnil, Fglinburgit and London. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31. Srocx EXCHANGE.—The share market opened fair this, morning. and continued steady throw t ransactions were as f o ll ow :—Aberdeen, 1 the day, The Lancashire, and Cheshire, 11 3 / 4 dis.--2%—Birkenh'ead, Caledonian, 18%— Chester and Holyhead, 215 A—East Lancashire, 16—Lanca, shire and Yorkshire, 61 X—Ditto, Fifths, 7 9-16 dis.—London and North-Western, 113 1 ,4—Ditto, New Quarters, 34,c. p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Li nco l ns hi re, 3.1% M idland, 6£04 —North U n i on (A ), 177—South-Eastern and M ,p, 21%—Y or k and North Midland, 23%—Great Soutkern over and Western, 35%. MANCHESTER, Dao. 80. has been done t STOCX EXCHANG--A consirable amount of business o-da E. y, without de material alteration in price& The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, 16%—Eastern Counties, 7—East Lancashire 15 1 3-16--London and North- Western, 1 1754—York and North Midland, 22% —West Riding Union, 54, dis. — Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61 1 A Ditto, Fifths. 7 9-16 dis. —Midland Stock, 58X—Seuth. Eastern and Dover, 2 1 3 4—Birkenh ea d, L ancashire, and Ch eshire Junction, 1 1 9-16 dis. • • BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 31 . the share mar k et to-da STOCX EXCHANGE. —There was littl e or nothing done in Shrew sbury and Birmin h am (B The only sale repo r t e d wai— ALMANAC FOR 1852. CHRONOLOG Golden Number, or Lunar Cycle lO The Epact 9 Solar Cycle ... Dominical Letter Julian Period..... r . 3"7 m, - a 11 = . N c 2 21 i- i &.4m 111 41 51 ! 12 13 1 , 8 19 20 2: (CAL NOTES. Shrore Tuesday.-- Feb. 24 Easter Sunday...,, April 11 Holy Thursday .. . May 20 Whit Sunday.... .. May 30 Trinity S unday..... June 6 Advent unday..... Noy. 23 - 2 3 7 8 9 10 Vuly 4 15 16 17 1 22 23 24 8 29 30 31 S 45 6 ! 11 12 13 1 , 18 19 20 2 25 26 27 21 12512612; 11 2 3 8 9 10 1. 15 16 17 11 22 23 24 2; 2 3 8 910 1 5 16 17 1 122 23 24 2 4 51 qSeptember 29 30,31 1 12 13 8 19 4 5 6 7 'August .1 12 13 14 8 19 20 21 15 26 27 28 1 7 81 9111 14 15 16 11 2 22 23 - 2 28 29 30 3; 41_bI 6j 51 6 7 2 13 14,1 9202112 2 3 1 1 I;October . 126 27 1 28,2 81 910 5 16 17 22 23 24 29 30 31 41 5 10 11 12 1 17 18 19 21 24 25 26,2! i 6 7 811N ovember 13 13 14 15 20 1 21 22 27128 29 1 71 8 91 4 15 1611 , 21 22 23,2. 3 4 51December128 29 30 0;11 12, [ 1 113 6 114 7 11 19 2 0,21 2: 6 27128 2: 1 24;251261 11121131 8 19 20 1 2 125126127] 2 3 4 9 10 11 16 17 18 23 24 25 30 31 61 71 ! 13 14 15 11 20 21 22 2; 127 1 281291 ECLIPSES IN 1852. Jan. 6. Total eclipse of Moon, visible at Greenwich, begins 4h. 21m. morning; total 6h. 6m., ends at Bh. Jan. 21. Partial eclipse of Sun, invisible at Greenwich, begins sh. 33m. morning, ends Bb. 52m. June 17. Partial eclipse of Sun, invisible at Greenwich, begins 2h. 56m. afternoon, ends 7h. 2m. July 1. Total eclipse of Moon, invisible at Greenwich, begins lh. 37m. afternoon, ends bh. 14w. Dec. 11 Total eclipse of Sun, invisible at Greenwich, begins lh. 26m. morning, ends sh. 55m. Dec. 26. Partial eclipse of Moon, invisible at Greenwi c h, begins lth. 33m. mo r ni ng , en d s 2h. 32m. CHARGE of MURDER on the HIGH SEAS. Two Italian seamen, named Francisco Moraty and Burto Mayo Argenti, were brought before Mr. Yardley, at the Thames Police- office, yesterday, charged under the 58th section of the General Mer chant Seamen's Act, the 7th and Bth Viet., cap. 112, with the wilful murder of Peter Getland, or Gotland, at Mobile, in the United States of America, in April, 1850, while the prisoners and the deceased belonged to and were seamen of the British ship Albuta, of Liverpool. The prisoners have been in custody one year a, nine months, and the circu ms t ances w hi c h l e d to their being brought to England were of a somewhat ex traordinary hature. The alleged murder was com mitted in the harbour or roadstead of Mobile, in April, 1850. The British consul, having taken the depositions of the master and crew, sent the prisoners ip irons to Quebec, to which place the Albuta was bound. The case was again investigated at Quebec, before a magistrate, who committed the prisoners for trial for wilful murder, and in due course of time a true bill was found against them, on which they were arraigned, but their counsel took an objection to the jurisdiction of the tribunal (the Court of Queen's Bench at Quebec), and, after a long argument, the Chief Justice of the colony decided in their favour. The colonial authorities, how ever, determined that the alleged murders should not escape, detained the men until they received instruc tions from the Home Government, by whom orders were given to transmit the prisoners to England. They arrived here in the ship Lady 13ulwer on Tues day, in the custody of two Quebec constables named Michael Barrett and James Station. Several wit nesses accompanied them. The Quebec officers took their prisoners to several station-houses, but the in spectors on duty would not receive the charge. At last the constables presented themselves at the Thames police-station in Wapping, where Mr. Evans, the superintendent, at once entered the charge on the police sheet, and detained the prisoners. Mr. Powell, of the Treasury Solicitor's office, appeared for the prosecution on the part of the Go vernment, and handed to the magistrate the deposi tions taken before the British consul and the autho rities at Quebec, and other documents. The prisoners were described as Anthony Bruto Urgent and Frank Murray in all the papers, hut M. Gazes, the inter preter, gave their proper appellation. Both can talk English tolerably well, but Mr. Yardley gave instruc tions that everything should be translated to them in their own language. Mr. Powell briefly stated that the papers now produced had been transmitted to the Colonial-office, and that the prisoners had been sent to this country by an order of the Court of Queen's Bench in Qv bec. The prisoners were the same parties as were described on the papers. Mr. Yardley said it did not matter how they came here, so long as he bad jurisdiction. James Colwell, a seaman, deposed that he s bipped on board the Albuta, at Liverpool, in the capacity of steward, on the 30th of January, 1850. The prisoners and Peter Getland, or Gotland, the deceased, shipped at the same time in the capacity of able seamen. o n the 15th of April following the ship entered Mobile after itllteEr,ng svlhanicdh. Bay, where she came t o an anc hor. Two days wards one of the men came aft, and asked for a p i ece of candle for the purpose of sealing a le he intended to send home to his friends In a few minutes he went ,forward with a piece of candle, which he gave to a man at the for ecastle door. Peter Getland was then seated on the windlass, and quietly smoking a pipe. The prisoners were sitting on the night heads (small upright pieces of wood), right forward on each side of the bowsprit. He was talking to Getland about bo arding-houses, and the deceased ask d e him if he co uld recommend hi m one, when he saw the prisoner s , who had advanced about three yards from the place where be first observed them, standing on the above Getland. top- allant f e ust Befor e he co g uld give the deceased warning, Argenti ra i sed a large adze,. witha hjsi be struck Getla n d a blow on theskull with the sharp end of the weapon. Getland fell streami ng with blood, w hi ch flowed copiously from the gash. He uttered some exclamation and staggered against the foremast. Argenti made a second blow at witness with the a d ze, b ut he avoided it by stooping, and ggered against Getland. The crew came from both sides of the vessel to seize the prisoners, when Argenti raised his adze, apparently intending to cut down any one who came near him, and Moraty flourished his knife. The crew then began to arm themselves, on which the Italians ran up the fore rigging, one on the starboard and the other on the larboard side, and remained aloft. Assistance,: how ever, was obtained from other ships in the bay, whose people armed themselves, and blank shots were fired at the prisoners in the rigging to induce them to come down, but they would not stir. Sentry was kept all night, but the prisoners would not come down until the officers and crew of an American revenue cutter came on board. The captain of the revenue cutter allowed the prisoners five minutes to decide, and called to them that if they did not come down at the end of that time he would shoot them down. The Italians submitted, descended the rigging, and, directly they reached the deck, were made prisoners, and conveyed to prison. Some days afterwards they were again brought on board the [Albuta, and taken to Quebec in irons. In answer to questions from Mr. Yardley, Colwell said that Moraty was a little on the left side of Ar genti when the deceased received the blow, and both were on the top-gallant forecastle, right above Get land's bead. Getland was conveyed into the cabin and the wound was dressed, and he was afterwards . taken to the hospital i n M o bil e , w h ere he died in seven days. Getland wa s e ith er a S w ede or a iNor wegian. Mr. Yardley, looking at a paper before him, said the prisoners were charged with feloniously assaulting ,/~`~~t~ [PRICE 51'3.. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday an adjourned meeting of the proprietors was held at the Nine Elms, to receive the declaration of the poll with regard to the projected central and coast lines. The chair was taken by Mr. Reed. The result of the poll was declared to be as follows : For the motion 4,095 For the amendment Majority ---970 The effect of this decision was, of course, to sanc tion the recommendations given by the committee in their report. The CIIAIRMAN wished to explain, in a few worde, he reason why he had taken a poll both on the mo tion and on the amendment. Had the poll been taken on the amendment only it would have been competent to any one afterwards to demand a second poll ; and to avoid that he thought it best to take the poll on both together. He could assure the meeting that the board were quite willing. to abide by the decision of the shareholders.— (Cheers.) A PROPRIETOR hoped the course which had been pursued in this case with regard to the poll would not be drawn into a precedent. The CHAIRMAN observed that the case was quite an exceptional one. A Proprietor having [risen ,to propose a vote of thanks to the chairman, Captain Moonsom said the chairman had stated on a former occasion that there was great risk of the company's having their traffic taken from them. Now, one means of preventing that was to carry out a suggestion contained in the report, and which, if no further notice were taken of it, would remain a dead letter. The CHAlRMANundinetresrtratnipdtiendg CaptainWas,that the poll j us t Moors om t o r declniark a ed sanctioned every part of the report, and that the matter should be carri e d on.—(Bear, hear.) e remark Captain Alooßsom Was glad to hear that declara tion. li e would now ask whether the directors, in conseq d to confer uence of th e d e intende► cision which h a d b een a d opted, the :promoters of the coast line? The CHAIRMAN hoped that such would be the re sult. As h e h a d formerly explained, some negotia tions must b e entered into with reference to the great latitude whi c h the promoters of the coast line had i taken n their notices as rest e;ted the future disposal of the line. Security must be taken that the line would not ultimately be taken out of their bands. Captain Mooasom said the promoters of the coast line thought they might be of use to this company by relieving them of the burden or some unfinished lines. They were ready to give a guarantee that the line should be connected with the South-Western line, and further they were quite prepared to work the line themselves. At the same time he would tell the pro prietors that if they did not do their duty in this mat ter they could not reap the advantages now held out to them. A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the direc tors intended, in accordance with the recommendation of the committee, to carry out the line to Andover ? The CHAIRMAN replied that the Andover line would be carried out immediately. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was again being proposed, when - A PROPRIETOR said be wished to ascertain from the baard whether or not they had given up all idea of the central line bing carried out ? Mr. SmiTti, a director, said that, notwithstanding the decision of a majority of shareholders, be was still of opinion that the central line was most import ant to the interests of the company. lie held no Great Western shares, and h a d no l oca l i ntere st, but he thought the line, if constructe d , wou ld prove beneficial to them as a body. Mr. CASTLEM AN as k e d C ap t a i n M oorso m whether the promoters of th e coas t li ne were pr epared to go to Parliament i n th e ensu i ng sess i on . Captain Moonsou sa id a ll th e steps necessary f or that purpose h a d b een t a k en by the directors up to that day; but at the same time he begged to tell the meeting that they had not a m oment to lose if they wished to support the line. A PR OPRIETOR , from Liverpool, said he diff ered from M r . S m ith as to the propriety of bringin g for ward the central scheme, and considered it disgrace ful to the directors to have drawn shareholders from the country for such a purpose. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, though not without a previous abortive attempt on the part of a proprietor to c onfine its application to his conduct that day. _ Th e meeting tnenseparated. M a. ELIOT WARIIURTON'S Nzw N0V.111., " DAR IEN , oa, THE T PP.INCE."—Few writers have so many admirers as Mr. arburton. His " Crescent and the Cross is on e of the standa r d works of the English language, and we s h a ll be disa ppointed:if the charmin g s t ory of" Dal ien " does not ?Wain. an equal d egree o f success. The yiscissitudes and stirring aurentures of the hero, forming such a marvellous episode of real life, the beauty and striking characteristics of the heroine, and the vein of pathos and romance that per vades the whole tale, give the book a peculiar and irresistible charm. By those who love excitement it will be read with breathles s i nterest. Mr. Warburton, is in the delinea tion of those incidents which call up, ,ia first powers of the novelist, and enc h a i n t h e sympathies of the reader. His situations are admirably conceived and wrought out with singular skill. His characters are strongly marked, and show :the felicitous touch of a master, .—C 7 A 0 . 41 21fagazinc. Getland with intent rge of murder. to murder him; but h ere was a The examination of Colwell was continued at great length, and from his statement it would appear there was a settled design on the part of the Italians to kill the deceased. Two days befor e the deceased was struck with the adze there had been El fight between the Italians and some others of the crew, by whom sticks were used to defend themselves from the pri soners, who were armed with knives. One of the bands sung out, " They have got knives," and Captain Benson, the master of the Albuta, gave order s for them to be taken away, and the Italians made fast. Moraty had a knife sharpened at the end like a lance, and Argenti a large sheath knife, vyhich he had concealed under his shirt. Both knives were taken from them. While the prisoners were' aloft after •Getland was wounded, they:removed from the fore-top to the fore-top. gallant-mast cross-trees, and directly afterwards a knife was thrown by one of them at the people keeping guard below. It fell close to one of the men. Mr. Yardley—Whose knife was that ? Col well— It was a knife which had been lent to the mate, and the mate lent it to Moraty. Mr. Yardley—What time was it when the blow was struck ? Colvill—lt was about fire or ten mi nutes past seven, just beginning to get dusk. Argenti attempted to cut me down directly he had cut down the deceased. The foremast hands picked up what they could to protect themselves. If they had not done so, more blood would have been spilled. Getland was quite insensibl e when he was taken into the cabin. Mr. Yardley —I suppose, Mr. Powell, you cannot complete this case to-day ? Mr. Powell—Not at all, sir. I intent to ask for a remand. Mr. Yardley directed the interpreter to ask to what country the prisoners belonged. He said in reply that Moraty was from Ancona, in the Papal States ; and Argenti was a Tuscan. On which the magistrate inquired if the prisoners could obtain any assistance here ;he meant a legal adviser—an advocate to defend them. The interpreter said the prisoners had declared they i O - ei could not obtai n any ass i stance, or any a d vocate. •Fr,-;.( 7 . 1 Mr. Yardley-Ira., end-they h ave sa id someth i ng 9 about the consul o f th e i r country just now in Italian. e, s Have you been instructed by the Treasury to conduct 12 3 this case, Mr. P owe ll ? Mr. Powell—No, sir, by the 8 910 Home -office. 15 16 17 Mr. Yardley recommended that a communication 22 23 24 should be made to the consuls of the states to which 29 30 31 the prisoners belonged, who would probably employ 5 6 7 a solicitor to conduc t t h eir defence. The charge was 12 13 14 one of a most serious n a t ure, and it was necessary :',19 20 21 sorre one should watch th e interests of the tit o 1 26 27 28 foreigners. He believed the case had undergone an inquiry in Quebe c . Mr. P owe ll—Y es, it has under -91011 2 3 4 gone an inquiry. 16 17 18 Mr. Yardley—H as any compe t en t t r ib unal tried 23 24 25 these people before ? Mr. Powell—No, sir, they 130 were not tried. A nolle prosequi was entered on the 1 2 part of the Crown. 78 914 15 16 Mr. Yardl e y, a dd ress i ng Mr. Powell, was under -21 22 23 stood to say th e pr i soners had actually been arraigned 28 29 30 and had counsel to defend them in Quebec, but the Court decided it bad no jurisdiction, for the reasons 4 5 6 that the offence was not committed on the high sees, 11 12 13 but in the harbour of Mobile. That was the ground 18 19 20 25 26127 on which th e pr i soners were sent to England, he be lieved. Mr. Powell—Yes, sir, I believe that is so. 23 4 Mr. Yardley --It has been assumed the offence was 9 wll committed on th e hi g h seas; but, as far as I can ga le 17 / 1 8 ther, the offe nce was committed within the dominions 23,2425 of the United States. Be that as it may, the provi sions of the Act of Parliament give me jurisdiction, and, consequently, the Central Criminal Court has jurisdiction. If an offence is committed on board a British ship, whether at sea or in harbour, I have ju risdiction. I may be wrong, but according to the evidence of Colwell, the offence was committed within the limits of a port of the United States. Colwell explained that the ship was in the Bay of Mobile, 23 miles from the town and three miles from any land, when Getland,was cut down. The roadstead was not landlocked. Mr. Yardley—There is no doubt about my juris diction, and on this evidence I shall remand the pri soners on the charge of wilful murder. You must prove the Albuta is a British ship. Mr. Powell--I shall have no trouble in doing that; but the Albuta has not yet arrived. The witnesses were taken out of her and sent home. Mr. Yardley then remanded the prisoners till 'Wed nesday next. A large adze, carefully packed up, was produced by the Quebec officers, and delivered into the charge of .f Mr. Evans, of the Thames police. nd !12512614 t~- .. c MI .