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I ( 1 1/ /0011019 4: 1 ? I 11.01 .----41 O' t 4 mtr, ,•• • o. ll r *iv • 4 2,4 • • •.- , • ' ,05° t. /le _ , 4 .Vg l mat. 4 4 :11 7 : 0 4:1;141 ' -)Cjr' ' 7ll:" • .;41 ": It4): : •4i;;77, DIEN . .71.4 f THE Cotinnissioners of the Metropolis Turnpike their„joals north of the Thames, will hold a Special Meeting at th e . ri u ,, ft i cc, 0.22, Whitehall-place, in the parish of Saint Martin in- Ja m ,: l s , in the City of Westminster, on FRIDAY, the 16th day of Con su l r ,T. lBs2 , at the hour of One in the Afternoon, for the purpose of if„,. l ng as to the erecting upon, across, or upon the side of the ta - 4 1 e' one and Finchle.y Turnpike-road of any Toll -gate or Toll %rat' Sidebar or Side-bars, and in what situation or situations the shall be placed. By order of the Commissioners, liet t • J. L. PANTE R, Chief Clerk and Secretary. oPehs Roads Office, Whitehall-place, December 24, 1851. THE Commissioners of the Metropolis Turnpike their ° loads north o f th e Thames, will hold a Special N Meeting . at nee, No. 22, Whitely - 111-place, in the parish Saint .lartin-m -ids. in the City of Westminster, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of Of c o a ... rY ' 1852 at the hour of One in the Afternoon, for the purpose tie.°.sulthig whether y and which of the several Toll -gates and ie t i d 4 rs now placed on and by the sideof the Ninth District of the an d . ?etropolis Turnpike-roads north of the Thames shall be removed m e : l aced elsewhere, or discontinued ; and whether any other Toll th and Side-bars shall be erected on or by the sides of the roads e 'lid District, and in what situations the same shall be placed. By order of the Commissioners, lietro . J. L. PANTER, Chief Clerk and Secretary. Polls Roads Office, Whitehall-place, December 24, 1851. Aitt. THOMAS HOLTBY, (late Coachman of N or , the London and Edinburgh Mail,) begs leave to inform h's min Friends, that his LISTS are now OPEN on all the , forth- Po i r events for the ensuing year, viz., CHE , T Elt ItAv l'A N STAKES NO STAKES, NEW:MARKEL " DI CAP DERBY,. & Tattersall. Oddslaiden c a . ll the above events. IZ tmissions promp Executed o receipt of Cash. I littl ' 'C'ffice Orders made payable to Mr. Thomas Holtby , E bor ng Office, 30, Feasegate, York.—References on application. ...., Office Hours from Eleven till Four P.M. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY co u „, r raaT be obtained of all respect ible spirit dealers in town and a„,, Y. in single bottles, protected by the patent metallic capsules antic es not less than two gallons or one dozen, in jars, at 165., —4 ' in bottles at 18s. per gallon, At the DISTILLERY, 7, SMITHFIELD-BIRS. Glass bottles and cases included, and not returnable. • seorrisa WIDOWS' FUND and Lib' ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Founded A.D. 1815. (ki s i n , CAPITAL OF TIIE SOCI ETY, ~. 1 solely from the Accumulation of the Members' Premiums) TAU MILLIONS exceeds THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. ANNUAL REVENUE exceeds THREE HUNDTV.D THOUSAND POUNDS. _This is the Oldest Life Assurance Office in Scotland. The WHOLE PROFITS BELONG to the ASSURED. • - Rat y information may be obtained at the S ociet y 's Head Offic e,4,l l: of the Agencies. • SPECIAL NOTICE. I HE "T SEPTENNIAL INVE STIGATION TAKES PLACE 31 sT DECEM H. BER, 1852. POLICIE S OPENED WITH THE 80 CIETY PREVIOUS TO 31st DECEMBER NEXT (1851), ovt ' V E THE ADVANTAGE OF A FULL YEAR'S STANDING WILL I t THOSE DELAYED BEYON D THAT DATE, AND rp.: TIE ENTITLED TO RANK FO R TWO YEARS' ADDI '.S AT THE INVESTIGATION. 41Z A , ------•----- `•,-, OFFICE, EDINBURGH-5, St. Andr ew-s q uare. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. WILLIAM LINDESAY, Secretary. LOMIn,„. ---.. OFFICE-4, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS. HUGII M`KEAN, Agent. TIoNA L LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY, • 26, CORNIIILL, LONDO N. 'LI N!ecember 20, 18 51 . -...e 0,7 , D ~ hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on Ile r _ ,ILTAL STOCK of this SOCIETY, at the rate of 5 per C l e s n t t h . tiay - Z 1 ro, due on the 31stwillbecome PAYABLE on the this °l ke, , anu arY next, and Proprietors may receive the same at aim e n that or any subsequent day, between the hours of Eleven tet 4 v e 'clock. And nctice is also hereby given, that the Trans %X e rn ' s °f the Society will Close on the 31st December instant, n so until the 16th January next. By order of the Court of Directors, -------- W. S. B. WOOLIIOIJSE, Actuary. -------- COLOSSAL GLOBE.—Mr. WYLD'S Great ti'Extl „,.. , iODEL of the EARTH, Leiceste r-s q uare, will be RE 'ollll—'' TO-MORROW, December 26, 1851, from Ten n the ng till Ten at Night. b e „Explanatory Lectures on the following Subjects:- 2, . °eriPtion of the Earth 4-retle potsions and the ;1.0,111er Dscoveries. presumed cours of Sir John Franklin, deposit d throughout the World. Admission, Is. ; Schools, 111°TLecture by a C eo HRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. AL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. 1it 4 , 1 Le Ch ' colUtne rge Barker, Esq., on the Ballad Music of Eingh „ risti n ,.. nein with his celebrated Entertainment, "An Eng is 'lclo t k . '-', ' every bye' . ng for a fortnight, except Saturday, at Eight Sub roo.rine L _Lecture H. Pepper, Esq., on Ward's I .7 l etutfi c 4in „P. — Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on the l'lt C li o e s Yr ophy c of mora t ,,„ Recreation.—Numerous Prize Models, Works of Arr,_az .., LAI ter " Great Exhibition will be explained by Mr. Crispe.---olni "ver .„, ect : ..in Dissolving Views, Microscope, Chronatrope, &c.— uLkilud-W Diving Bell, &c., &c. Prie e '" °; Is.; SchoolsandCisildren under Ten years of age, 4 ._ vet t 4 .' 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Itali ee 'Ved, In French, English, lb POW., ' x COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. h Spanish, and I 'Dr 1, 0 ,4' n a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6,1., or post-tree from the Anthor S E..y.twostan,,pg, German, Date , LdiP.P IiESERIT ATION; ha keret / 11 „„e -Cal Treatis tir ed '',.firrnities th Phrtiolovy of Marriage, and on t ac e i• I o d a nodf enfeeblelif e , t._44ellitila,,' an early period Dl orders of Youth and Matarity, usually a and .ellet v°trers, diminish nil the vitalnatural feelings, and ex lit- certain preventioneneries of Manhood ; with Practical whicthiedestro y the physical Observations on ).01seee-4'and Constitutional Weakness, , 7 , 1,,,,„, and successfld Treatment of Nervous Debi and all ;Lalle and derangements do ted rea it em, R . en s resulting t from Indiscretion, as a p Syphilis, Stricture, 1.), ee. -.., ictord, and other eminent members of the family of ;,.•43111 0 1,___"Itil Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anst a to , T n y g , 4 etir etr - y, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, exP' I 44 Pree e e e l Nca, uses and functions, and the various injuries that '-‘4 in then; by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. be et t 7 . n.. BY SANIVEL LA'MERT, M.D. If h r of 14...' I) . r 0 R D-S QUA R E, L 0 D 0 N• ° Ell 11 "" lel ne , Matriculated Member of the University of Edin- Lte,,„', onorary Member ~_..y itti contains a ;"Llate of A of the London Hospital Medical Society, ,r,Zkocal Societ Pothecarles' Hall, London, Member of the liunterian t e," l° work Yof Edinburgh eee,,,,,_1? Physiology of the reproductive organs, andd of their rela 1 Plain and complete description of the a t n y st e - Itih e ' a l t O ll n health d Ike , medical h * l l ‘ 4Be rted i ' diplomas and testimo an disease. Dr. La'Me o has taken the honours as evidenced by the ° hat - n the work, is the only legally qualified medical man natre e tz eltisively, and f many years, devoted his studies to the :ate t, t of the se 1 4 11 Y all complai ° n r ts He may be consulted with xduvatend -ittZ eer th ej " Whose constitut ons years, prated,Practices acquired in youth, or d by the excesses o % i may have become debit a f la, age fluereby the pleasures of life are marre he objects of toiser; and existence itself rendered a term of unceas ..llbileh",,,,ild regret. rte- r 4 4 . 14 Y the Author, and may be had of J. Gllbert, 49,ne ter or4httarket'. liann aY, 63, Oxford-street ; Starlc, Titchbor ornPstare.e.t; fr ee , Gordon, 146 Leadenhall-street ; Mann, 23, C. _ li , V e 11.1, 4 ',lel be f or f , rt -t ' w tamps from the author s reside , --,,, fi.; ' e consulted on these disorders P -.........._ r n Ten till Two. and from Six till Eight_ ersonallY, or bY letter, ____-----. THE SILENT' FRIEND. 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IS A,.... lirs • 7 till rive, _, Evenln64► Reitat-Mistsgi DECEMBER 25, 1851: ssr•Fmo,••awo.mm•RioiW........"•a•••mma•m acs _ N°. 18,489.] LONDON, THURSDAY ,- • .•• k - 9 S N Just published, price 35e., embellished with a MAP of LONDON * , Corrected to this date, the Complete „Edition of the LOST -OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY, For 1 8 5 2, Tieing the Fifty-third Annual Edition, Comprising, among other information, OFFICIAL DIRECTORY ; STREET DIRECTORY; COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY ; TRADES' DIRECTORY ; LAW DIRECTORY; COURT DIRECTORY; PARLIAMENTARY DIRECTORY, POSTAL DIRECTORY ; CITY DIRECTORY ; CONVEYANCE DIRECTORY; BANKING DIRECTORY; &c. &c. &c. already The following are Reviews of the New Edition, which have appeared in the leading Metropolitan Journals : SUN, OCTOBER 17, 1851. This is the fifty-third normal publication of the " Post Office Lon don Directory ; and if untiring enterprise or unerring accuracy in the colieCtion 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 beingonlo con sidered a work of art a nd industry, then is the " Post of a foremost Office Ln Directory" a work of art an d industry quite worthy place in the Great Exhibition, an i then should the Mesrrs. Kelly have awarded to them a mark of honorary distinction for the pro d action of this unsurpassed and unsurpassable production. It is the microcosm of the is etropolis 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 commerc , , can b > passibility 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 name of every junior 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 po-ition of everyone of the new streets recently built in London or the suburbs, is accu rately laid down , 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 RR "Official Directory," a ' " S t reet Directory.", a " Commerc ial Directory," a " Trades' i tory," a "Law Directory," a " Court Directory," a" City Dire"Tc ar. l i amen t a ry Directory," a " P o stal Directory," It a tory," a " Conveyan ce Directory," and a " Banking Directory." 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. same minute The man of f as hion will find in the " C o urt Director:•," that the 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 encyclopedia 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 he Peer, to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the death Earl of Charleville, and that the electors of the East Riding of Yorkshire returned Captain Duncombe as their rep changes appearresentative, in in the room of the late Mr. Broadley; both these 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, wth Cris3n and Surname at length. In he list of Peers appears the h fullti Christian and Surname of the t 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 Delivery of Leteers 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 nit. 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 expla iu ins 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 which may reasonably be t d expected in such a book, may not onlyeverything fo be found, but found withouifficulty, are indispen sable to perfection. These advantages can, in any Directory, only be attained gradually, and not completely, until the work an njoy was s th e entire circulation . While riv existed, patronage als d i v ided between books w hich were, or s hould 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 sustain D i rec tories of London, each as complete as the present. This two 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 London the production of anot her equally comple te. A second Directory of 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 but p ro one collection of the information —one compilation—one setting of thp type, Sec. Ste. This volume, to say nothing of accuracy, classifica tion, and general arrangement, contains about double t of its latest he quantity o f mere lette r- p ress contained in the closing volume 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 favour any co mtpetition. can only Firmly esta bli s hed as this Directory is in public ,i be ne cessary that an amount of diligence equal to that which has led to so gratifying a result, be continued, in order to sustainthis the public may, with confidence, rely." Judging of the future by the past, we confidently rely on the energy, the abilities, the talent, and thet, resources of Messrs. Kelly, and believe that for years to come the " Post Office London Directory" will continue to enjoy, b eca use it will d es erve, the undivided pat rona g e of the public. TIMES, OCTOBER 21, 1851. Farseeing sages have been busy prophesying all manner of results from the Great Exhibition. W e have Greaone before u ti —one whi ch s t n one of them ever dreamed . of. The t on, m ot her wonderful effects it produced, exhausted the " Post Office Di rectory" for 1851 ; an 1 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. Arm. d with this infallible weapon for, indeed, its accuracy is so great as to deserve the name as much a • anything of the kind—ne may pierce the remotest fastnesses of London, and count its Smiths, Jonoees, Johnsons, and Browns. For one who has the time it is worth while to scrutinise the amasing cols. redness with which this volume discriminates the whole mass of London life into some 2,500,000 names, and how it depicts and takes to pieces the minutest works or the vast machine that this 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 trot the least remarkable feature about it is the very recent ch anges recorded in its pages. For instance, here in this volume of more tins ,000 psges, which was printed on the 13th of October, we find erted 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 be a nd in page 40, in the list of the Privy Council Office, the name o r Lor d Liverpool is struck out, though his death was not O "'times" till the 6th of October. To the commer wleould be q uite as necess ar y to deliver a lecture on creiaclorwdoerdld in the ti the general benefits of sunshine, as to speak of the merits of the " Director and to all Londoners who want to t 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 5o long characterised its predecessors. [The fact above adduced, that in the " Directory" the name of Lord Liverpool, whose death had been recorded only cm the 6th of Octowr, was struck their page 40, in the list of Privy Council, is oaf happy illustration of t apidity with which the information con tained in the work is compiled and published. So striking an example of the excellence 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 'Londeet Directo ry on Directory, ;" " Ist, iri the list of Privy Council; 2d, in the Str 3d, in the " Court Directory ;" 4th, in the list of Earls ; sth, in the Alphabetical list of Peers; 6th, in the Alphabetical list of the Surnames of Peers ; 7 th , i n the titles of the Eldest Soils of Peers. Y Th e corrections, render e d necessary b the death of the Earl of Liverpool, only recorded on the Gth of tw O o c others w e re 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, butt orw as cpm on ments which hathe ve b een made on th is particular point. acknowledged impossibility of competing with our arrangemerts that the Proprietors of " Robson's Directory . ' took leave of their sub scribers in the following terms : " llowtrell and Co., Proprietors and Publishers of ` Robsoris 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 such an elevation that further competition with it would be as injurious to Bowtell and Co. as it would be unjust to their subscribers " And since t his was put forth, the arrangements un der which the " Post Office Directory" are conducted have , as is well known, been very materially strengthened .—Editors of "Post Office London Directory.") MORNING CHRONICLE, OCTOBER 15, 1851. In an age prolific of books this is the mo st extraordinary, and we f ee l almost comp elled to say, the most useful of all. It is a miracle . of human industry—a miracle of human skill—a proof of the tri umphs resulting from an ultimate combination of the temporary di vision of labour— an argument for the superiority of London over every city in the world—and an example to all publishers, catalogue makers, and book compilers whatsoever. This is the fifty-thiryears of experience. The classification, aged, that an nual publication; it enjoys all the advantages of its proprirs' fifty-two almost tonrhawis is now so admirably managed, that every informatio .such a work may be expected to afford can here be tonal), and.found without difficulty. by persons to whom the search is a novelty, and the volume unknown. The stranger may here be may joyfully find refuge guided,' and the Londoner, at each year's end, refresh his figures, may he will learn how formation as to the whereabouts of his old Mends. The statist, tboyo,rsetdyenlyacccesallsedtoupown fporlieheitsortlyg, many churches and how many schools. how many cle rgy and how many lawyers, how many bakers and how many butchers are re quired in this mighty metropolis to satisfy the spiritual, intellectual, and • thysical wants of Its two million and a half of inhabitants. The teetotaller may recreate himself. by marking in each street at cacti corner of a street, and in every parish, the appearance or disappearance of some public-house ;he may compare 1851 with 1841, with 1831 ; see where temperance has progressed, and where gin-palaces are still in the ascendantmay trace back " mine hest " from hotel to inn, from inn to beer-shop. and point the moral of some future speech by extracts of the evidence here given of the fortune s gained, the fortunes also lost, by the sale of intoxicating liquors. The topographer may correct his chart by the information vrhich he must hence derive, that new streets have arisen since he thought his labours concluded ; the historian may note where fluc tuations in the pvulation have occurred; the politician may ob serve that here, from some cause which he must try to discover, commerce and her attendant man are restless, and seeking new positions—that there is some attraction rapidly becoming the centre of a new system, hitherto not called into operation. The student of the times generally may find, occasionally, an operatives' asso ciation occupying a house in a good street, and be only brought to anything like a state of equanimity again by a discovery of the fact, that great slop-shops, and other East-end abominations, are making the r way westwards, if not at a greater pace, at any rate with more show and circumstance, than the humbler trading establishments of the Christian Socialists. If the inquiring mind penetrates, in print, the district of the Temple, the result will be astonishment at the number of old names gone, reflections on the mutability of the most immutable of professions, and a discovery, if the search be persevered in, that the lost barrist ers are no: dead, but only localism. in the provinces ; if, finally (w hich* since the world generally is rwt contemplative, seems not improbable), the scrutineer wants only to discover an address, he may do so in a minute, and he may be sure, unless the object of his solicitude be very flighty, that it is correct — we, at least, assure him that it would av u he been so p to within a fortnight of the publication of the volume before us. "Ex uno disco omnes." The death of Lord Stafford was but a week since noticed ced in our columns: in the Parliamentary department of this Dir we find the full Christian names of the new Lord, with s he volumeuch other change of particulars as the circumstances required. Yet t accura te contains closely printed pages. more than two thousand kept thus minutely Who shall conceive the watchful diligence bestowed upon its every-day revisal ? But we need not insist upon qualities which cannot be denied ; we need foodmmen a. useful incessant care in marking what recommends itself as indispensable . classification, and a Directory; and both these alterations, - ;re the essential qualities of qualities this Directory has to per fection. MORNING HERALD, ()groom 17, 18 51 . The punctuality with which this huge record makes its appearance at the close of the year is not one of its least haverecommendaons Certainly, It is proof that the, diligence :and energy which, 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 often before been called upon to compliment the enterprise of the proprietors, and we have little to add upon the present occasion. Every one 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 %ion mace Qf xmadols Anzuvaly oxgroa, and every act detected and corrected. The union of forethought with in genuity —of comprehensive method with inflexible perseverance — was never more eminently displayed—and that, happily, in a cause of the highest and most catholic utility. The " Post Office Direc tory" has now become a metropolitan necessity. The gallery of volumes which have been published exhibit, in the gross, a me morable and curious monument of private industry; while to the statht they untold, with a plain and naked truth, the gradual deve lopment of the resources, both personal and commercial, of the greatest capital of Europe. Rivalry has long since been extinguished by the great superiority of the present publication; and It is as well that it should be so, for the editors affirm, with reason, in their preface, that when " patronage was divided between books which were, or should have been, counterparts of each other, the public had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to submit to inferior productions; the to al receipts not being sufficient to sustain two Directories of London each as complete as the present." The rivals alluded to have, however, not been with out their use. They have, no doubt, stimulated the proprietors of the " Post Office Dlrectery" to that kind of prompt and vigilant exertion from which perfection alone can spring; and we have now a book of reference as unimit 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 w hich arrangement any particular search may be achieved, either by reference to the name of the person sought fur, 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 affor led 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 equ ris 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; and that the corrections come down to the latest date, may be inferred from sucl, entries as the elections of Lord Dunsandle and Captain Duncombe, both of which took place , no further b ack 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 thai all necessary cor rections should be made up to the latest moment. We have been at some pains to test the accuracy of the present edition, by reference to instances of recent change within our own kn owledge, and in no single case have we found any m'stake. The insertion of Lord Dunsandle, whose election took place in September, 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 p it. It has now, we conceive, reached the highest ptch .of perfection of which such a production Is capable ; and it willunques 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 is notion of the wealth , in dustr y , and pursuits of the Londoners as 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 aflords 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 tins wonderful and ever increasing book is before us. On the present occaslon it is marked by a more early appearance than usual—a proof 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 cf 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 " Pcst 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., 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 notabilia of the world's metropolis, this record of its actual state is one of the most useful and wondrous. DAILY NEWS, OCToBER , 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 Vital 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 " Parlianentary Directory" of the Christian names of the present Lord Stafford, whose father's death was an nounced on the 6th instant, is ano her instance, among several Which might be adduced to show how closely the corrections have ,been made up to the moment of issue. GLO 3E, 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 inetr.molls, 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 buncombe is given as the Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, for which county he was elected as late as the ith 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 i. 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 pit together by the most indefati gable perseverance and scrupulous care. 1t 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, OCTOBER 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 no 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-took to the first city in the worl 1. 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 conntry, has its " Post Office Londo n Director y ." The enormous circulation thus attained has enabled the 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 post 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 w, lume, of the busy metropolis. It is unnecessary to recommend the " Directory ;" such a book is always itself its own best recom mendation. SNIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE, OCTOBER, 18, 1851. The annual volume of this stupendous work appears with pre scrip,ive punctuality. The plan originally laid dowa is carried out with increased completeness in the publication for 1852, which, like its predecessors, is a signet monument of method, enterprise, and per severance. It is not possible that auy 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 lino is the record of a specific - fact—a fact in every case liable to change, and, consequently, involving periodical ju.stification 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 Jinfodmation. 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 benexistnce it not only repels accusation on is score, e butchallenges fresh panegyric asp c succeeding volume emerges from the press. The counting-house of the the " merchant and the trader could now as ill spare the almanack as Office Directory." • WEEKLY DISPATCH, OCTOBER 19, IsentinBsl. the same It is difficult to remark upon a w ork that, preg phases, has so often laid claim to public notice and patronage. The fifty.third annual volume is now before s; and, amoun as t of heretofore l it other e mbodies (certainly in a ver y bulky form) an use sourcefh 'in formation which might be so u g ht for in vain at any . It is, in fact, as the preface es, a"h statinanworld." d-boo ks kto usual the the commvolume erce of the first commercial city the , contains, among other information, an "Official Directory," a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a " Court Directory," a "Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal Di rectory," a "City Dirtor," 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,redd it up on ho on the proprietor for his industry and untiring perseveranc ais nour to the country in which it appears. The whole is printed in a Year, distinct type, and on excellent paper, and the "getting up" altogether is unexceptionable. While such care and zeal continue to be xerted, to render the book in its several departments com plete,e and make it really and truly a hand-book of commerce, it need not fear any rival. EXAMINER, Ocvoßzi 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 Exhib tion ; 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 14 not one, but a dozen Directoi ies. Its clear and succinct arrangement 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. I 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 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 and inn throughout the country ; and, under separate Directories, whatever a person can be supposed to have any need to know re specting city buildings, companies, churches, chapels, publications, and agencies, 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 bulk and extent depends obviously upon arrangement, and facility and completeness of reference, for its practical worth and value 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 view, and, as far as we have been able to Judge, with unerring ac curacy. Though it is hardly the middle of October when we .baye it now before us complete, we yet find proofs of a scrupulous col redness of revision that must have dated so recently as the close of 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 production, and which has doubtless now become indispensable to all that have ever had occasion habitually to resort to It. SPECTATOR, OCTOBER 18, 1851. That gigantic volume, " The Post Office Directory," maintains its character as a fitting representative of the largest city in the world ; excelling all books in bulk, as London excels in 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 employ went were too good a thing to let out of the family. There is the "Street Directory," where we may find the man if we know his residence, but have forgotten his name ; the " Commercial Directory," where we may find the name if the residence has escaped us ; then there are the " Trades'," " Law," and "Banking" Directories, 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, Postal ; forming an unparalleled work, which, however, has been three-and-fifty years growing to its present size. The present volume appears early; the demand, swing 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, , t is stated, have been made to bring down the chanties to the latest moment; as a pros' of it, the alterations consequent upon the death of Lord Liverpool may bo instanced. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, OCTOBER 25, 1851. The Great Exhibition has had its effect upon the sale of this leviathan Directory, and has helped to exhaust the year's edition sooner than usual. We 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 for accuracy, appropriate classification, and ready reference. The corrections of the 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 by the proprietor's long course of experience and popularity. _ - 4 4 TIgIiAPATII'S RAILWAY JOURNAL, OCTOBER 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 treated " a run" upon the Directory. BELL'S WEEKLY CIIRONICLE, Ocroina 25, 1851. We have, on more than oae occasion, expressed our opinion of the merits of this voluminous and astonishing work, the fifty-third annual impression of which is now before us. By most of our mercantile and trading readers, the work is known to be too useful, and is also too highly prized, to render a word of commendation from us necessary ; but, as itis possible that some parties engaged in business may not hitherto hare possessed the volume, we can only say, that to understand its Table they must examine the work for themselves—a work which is alike remarkable for the vast mass of information which it contains, and for the admirable manner in which that information is arranged. , BUIL, Ocrossat 25, 1851. The accelerated sale of the' last editien of this stupendous 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 thealterations 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 which are being made in every direction to the houserooms of the Map, likewise, keep pace in its enlargements with the additions 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 expresseil—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, OCTOBER 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 book, that it is Impossible to allow its publication to 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 and importance ; year by year the number of individuals 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 to 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 wlth 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, OCTOBER 25, 1851. T e 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 the only correct key to the names and addresses of the se veral trades and professions in this vast metropolis. As a work of reference, it Is decidedly most useful and necessary to the man of business. No banking or merehant%! ()Mee should be without it. A smaller edition has likewise been published, which, tnough not so comprehensive as the larger, contains an immense mass of useful in— formation ; and both the works 4re eminently entitled to the name of " handbooks to the commerce of the first commercial city in the world." LITERARY GAZETTE, OCTOBER IS 1851. One of the first symptoms of the decling year is presented in the publication of the fifty-third edition of the " 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 very and his machinery is so well organised , that with ae a s stonishing fvilty, to correct every department hcolfe°lltesitYeloiwParbiitlnheidiedii p a few days of its publication. What a model for Mr. panizzi, for the publication of a printed catalogue of the books in the British Museum, is the construction of this eminently useful volume." BRITANNIA, &Tons& 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 bewildered. Every years adds thousands and tens of thousands to the enormous amount of its population. Squares, streets, and terraces, which would elsewhere constitute flourishing cities, are periodically annex e d to its already unequally extent of buildings, and it is impossibl e to ca l cu l a te the breadth of area which its encroaching wings threaten even tually to overshadow with their vastness. If its ratio of i ncrease I n r espect of extent, during the ensuing century, shall e qua l what it wa s in the last, the surface of the county in which it sta n d s will be t oe circumscribed to contain its , limits. Its inhabitants, wh o in tint reign o f Q ueen Anne numbered only three hundred thous an d , h ave i nc reased by the last census to nearly two millions and a half_a popu l a tion equal to that of the wjaole, of Scotland ; and wh en we teffect that t hese teeming num bers are all domiciled, clothed and fed, in this h uman hive, the sumptuary arrangements necessar3i for the purpose seem almost in comprehensible to the human mind, Y e t such is the extraordina r y elasticity of our external and internal resources, that the supply has always kept pace w ith the sleraand, and the da il y wants of the two mil ions and a h a lf o f human be i ng s who are sheltered and fed in our capital, are s u p p li ed with an ease and a regularity unknown In the days when L on d on contained bu t a tenth part of its present population. -A survey o f t h e num b e r of the " Post Office London Directory" for the year 185? w hiih has just been pnbilshe 1, will give some notion of the difficulty which the numerous 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 strand to our land and our language, launched for the first time, without guinance of any kind, in the bewildering mazes of our metropolitan streets. Oar English no menclature sounds so strangely to Coatincntal ears, that, without an interpreter, an Italian, or a Spatula/i f in confabulation with a cab man or omnibus co n d uc t or, would have as much chance of mutual intelligence, as with the de n i zen o f an other planet. To s uch, then, the study of a faithf u l record of all that mighty London, in its multitudinous' divisions and sn bdi v i s ons, contains , will be of Weal culable advantage. That w hi ch will s, w hen viewed en masse, to be of a complexity utterly inext r i ca bl e , through the ingenious arrange ments of our Court: Guides and Lonion Direc tories, among which Kelly's is the oldest and th e best, has b e en made easy of comprehen sion to all who can read th e R oman c haracter. The forei g ner, wit h this Directory in his hand while he matelot)lates with wonder both the size of the volume and the amount of informa tion it contains, will admire the judiciou s mo d e of co H a tton, by the assistance of which he is enabled t o th read his VA Y through the labyrinth of streets, to single out all that is most liartisY of his observation, and to form a comprehensive no t ion of thaiatistics' wealth, power, and extent of the first city of the world. T. DirectdrY, The Smaller Edition of the Wort, —Postal Directory—Banking London, comprises, amongst other infbrmation—Official Directory— Commercial Directory—Court Directory—Parl'amentary Directory and which includes Map of now be had. Price 155., may Kelly and Co., " Post Office Directory Offices," 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar, London ; and all Booksellers. CHRISTMAS - pRESENTS. At this festive period of the ye►r more than usual anxiety Is created for— PERSONAL ATTIACTION , and the following unrivalled discoveries for the TOILET are called into increased reputation, namely— ROWLANDS' MACASSA.R OIL, for creating and sustaining a luxurianthead of hair, ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, for rendering the Skin soft, fair, and bisoming• ROWLANDS' ODONTO ; or, PEARL DENTIFRICE, for imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the Teeth. and ROWLANDS' AQUA D'ORO, ani - ment a fragrant and spirituous Perftne, an essential accomp places of public amusement and crowded assemblies. Beware of Spurious Imitations. The only Genuine of each boars the same of " Rowlands' " pre ceding that of the Article on the Wrapper or Label. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hafton-garden, London, and by Chemists.and Perfumers. CHRISTMAS gRESENTS. Thousands of pounds are expended very ridiculously in resents for youth, and the greater part in articles not valued, be cause not adapted for display, and too frequently not for use ; how much more gratifying would be an article that could be worn? Give a girl a new tippet, cloak, or muff, or a boy a new top-coat or a suit of clothes, and there is something to gratify the pride, something to boast of among their acquaintances, something to last them the season, and do them a real service. Those, therefore, who make presents, and particularly to their own children, should bear in mind that they would be infinitely more delighted at an article of dress as a Christmas present than with any toy, or book, or useless play thing, even if it only anticipated the period at which they would have had it a few weeks. Messrs. E. MOSES and SON have laid them selves out in anticipation of this being generally done by all thought ful parents and relations ; and they respectfully invite all classes to take their children to the Monarch Mart, in Aldgate ant the Minortes, or their West-end Branch Establishment, corner of Hart street, New Oxford-street, where they will see the finest assortment of dresses for all ages and conditions, made of the best materials, of the newest fashions, and the most exquisite workmanship, and where the gorgeous fittings-up andiconvenient rooms for dressing and fitting on, form a complete exhibiton. Moreover, they will see the price marked on every article of dress, and be convinced at once that it is less than half that charged by ordinary tailors for inferior goods. E. MOSES and SON, London City EstabliihMent, 154, 155, 158,'nd 157, Minories, 83, 44, 85, and 86, Aidgate , opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 587, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 11, ind 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford Yorkshire Branch, le,Bridge-street Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Tailors, Clothiers, natters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boat and Shoe xakers. and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on So to r lass when business is rearmed till TWelve o'clock. 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Dedicated, by express permission, to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, HOW to EMPLOY CAPITAL in WESTERN IRELAND : being Answers to a few Practical Questions upon the Manufacture of Beet Sugar, Flax, and Chicory, In con nexion with a Land Investment in the West of Ireland. By WILLIAM DIGBY SEYMOUR, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. London : John Hearne, 81, Strand ; James Ridgway, 169, Picca dilly; and Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-street. REVOLUTION in FRANCE.—This Fearful Event was Foretold for November, at page 40 of ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1852, (price Gd.) It contains the Destiny of France, Italy, Rome, Ireland, &c., and important events in England, India, &c. Published by A. Hall and Co., Paternoster-row. N.B. Now ready, An ESSAY on LOVE and MATRIMONY. By ZADKIEL. One Shilling. A Christmas Gift. DU BA RR Y'S HE ALTH-RESTORING FOOD FOR INVALIDS AND INFANTS. 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The 101 b. and 121 b. carriage free on receipt of post•offce order. —Da Barry and Co., 127, New Bond street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Ma jesty, Piccadilly; Hedges and Butler, Regent-street ; North and Co. ; Crosse and Blackwell; Petty, Wood. and Co , 13, King W;lliam•strest, City ; also at 60, Gracechurch-street ; 49, Bishopsgate-street Within; 4, Cheapside ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 5, Eccleston-street ; 5, Curzon street, Mayfair ; Gunter, corner of Motcomb-street ; 54, Upper Baker street at the I'ost•office, Camden town ; 24, Dlotcomb-street ; and through all respectable Grocers and Chemists. Caution—Beware of Spurious and Injurious Imitations under closely similar names. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE ALDERS- GATE STREET DISTILLERY. Yesterday morning, at a few minutes after eight o'clock, the inhabitants of Aldersgate-street, City, were throWn into a state of the utmost confusion, owing to a fire breaking out in the extensive range of premises belonging to Mr. William Burbidge, the distiller, situate at No. 74, in the before -named thoroughfare, and extending in depth almost as far as the back of the houses in Barbican. From the fact of there being such a large stock of spirits on the premises, and sundry lofty buildings abutting upon the distillery, a most terrible conflagration was at one period expected. The flames originated in the still house from the following cause : A man named William Elliot, employed as the still-man, was engaged " damping " a still, charged with 1,269 gallons, when all of a sudden an adjoin ing still, containing between 300 and 400 gal lons, overflowed, and the spirit running into the furnace became ignited, and caused the contents of the larger still also to take fire. The still man did all he possibly could to extinguish the flames, but was unable, and whilst so doing he nearly lost his life, for the blazing spirits at length rolled over the floor, firing in rapid succession sundry casks, &c., and burning him over the face. The man, to save his life, was obliged to rush out of the building, and jump into a cask of water, which extinguished the tire about the lower portion of his trowsers. Infor mation of the disaster having been sent to the va• rioui fire stations, with all possible speed, several en gines of the London brigade and West of England Company arrived, when the firemen found the flames rising through the roof of the distillery, high above the housetops in the neighbourhood, threatening to lay in ruins every building near. Fortunately a splendid head of water was produred from the pains of the New River Company, and the engines were worked with great vigour by a number of hired auxiliaries, whilst the firemen entered the premises with the branches from their engines, and by that expedient were enabled to prevent the adjoining buildings from becoming ignited. Some time, how ever, was necessarily lost before the main body of flame could be extinguished, and at one time a worm cooler, a vat of great magnitude, and containing some thousand gallons of liquor, was burning on the out side with great vehemence, but owing to the copious streams of water distributed over the flames, they were eventually extinguished. The damage done is roughly estimated at 2,000/. or 3,0001, but until the stills are properly examined, it will be almost impos sible to tell the precise amount of loss. Fortunately Mr. Burbidge was insured for the stock in trade in the Imperial Fire-office, and the premises were reported to be insured in the Law Fire.office. The whole of the roof is burned off the distillery, and the grain store is seriously damaged by fire and water. A great crowd attended whilst the fire was raging, but owing to the exertions of the police, no accidents occurred. MONEY MARKET.—The quotation of gold at Pails is about 1 per mills prem. (according to the new tariff), 'which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 19id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.141 ; and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25.171, it follows that gold is about 0.12 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4261 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.5 A ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.61, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1161 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.80 per cent. in favour of England ,• and, after making allowance for difference of interest and charges of transport, the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold from the United States. THE ROYAL BARON OF BEEF.—This noble old English joint was brought into the royal kitchen , at Wind sor Castle, on Tuesday ; the proce ss o f roasting at eleven o'clock on the morni ng o f that day,and was not completed before eleven o'clock at night. The baron, cut from a handsome Devon ox, was supplied by Mr. Minton, the royal butchar at Windsor ; it weighed 4301b5., aad will be placed cold on a sid e t a bl e at the roya l banquet on Christmas-day. The fellow ox was bought by Mr. Minton, with other choice beasts to be slaughtered this Christmas; but, its symmetrical points being so very perfect, it was pur chased by General Wemyss for his Royal High ness Prince Albert, and sent t o th e Flemish farm for the purpose of being fed for the cattle ahoy of l icit year. [PRICE SD, EARL F ITZWILLIAM AND MR. LAYARD AT NORTHAMPTON. THE EXCAVATIONS AT NINEVEH. On Tuesday week a soiree, upon a grand scale, was held in the Corn Exchange of Northampton, to commemorate the opening of a new suite of buildings destined for the occupation of the Northampton and Northamptonshire Mechanics' Institute. The com pany, who were in full dress, could not have been less in number than 800, and included the principal ❑obility and gentry resident in the neighbourhood, the families of the higher and middle classes, and those of a great number of the operatives in the town. Earl Pitz William, K G-., presided. Mr. Lay ard, the distinguished traveller, was present. Earl FITZWILLIAM stated that, at the commence ment of the present century, the population o f Northampton did not exceed 7,000, while, :at the last census, it amounted to no less than 28,000; that was to say, in the course of half a century the popu lation of Northampton had been quadrupled, one of the greatest instances, he believed, known of the in crease of inhabitants in a town. But what, he would ask, were 28,000 material human beings, unless informed and animated by the divine mind breathed into them by their Creator ? The Noble Earl expressed the lively interest he felt in the improvement and advancement of the workiug classes, and stated that the meeting were to be addressed by a gentleman who had devoted a large portion of his life to the investigation and elucidation of the antiquities of one of the most ancient of empires: and the his tory—not the doubtful history of modern times, but the undoubtedly true history with which the ancient world had made them acquainted.—(Cheers.) He need scarcely say the gentleman to whom he adverted was Mr. Layard, the distinguished investigator of the ruins of Nineveh.—(Cheers.) And if it were ever permitted to them to say that any addition could be made to their confidence in truth of the sacred Scrip- tures, it might be said that the illustrations which he had been able to make would have added to that which already wanted no addition.—(Cheers.) He (Lord Fitz william) said it wanted no addition, be cause he trusted there were few—he hoped, indeed, there were none—in that room who entertained a single particle of doubt upon any of those truths, historic or other Wise, which were delivered to them in the sacred Scriptures ; and when he had adverted to the desire which he, in common with all others, entertained to see the population of this great empire raise their thoughts from matter to mind—from earth to heaven—he said, there were no writinga of ancient philosophers, no writings of mediaeval scholastic literature, or of modern philoso phy, which were half so well calculated to elevate the human mind from earth to heaven as those which were given to them in the sacred volume.—(Cheers.) There fore it was, that when he would wish to awaken the minds of those who were too much chained to the desk, the anvil, or the awl, he would desire to impress on them that, if they were anxious to improve their minds, there was no literature which they could peruse with so much advantage as that which was contained in the Word of God himself.—(Cheers.) He entirely repudiated the mistaken notion which had been enter tained by some, that institutions of that kind had a ten dency to enfeeble the faith of men, and to make them doubtful of those truths which it was their greatest interest to believe. Ile could not believe that even the study of what was called secular truth had a tendency to shake their faith in the Divine Word. Mr. LAYARD stood forward to address the meeting at the invitation of the chairman, and was received with rounds of enthusiastic cheering and waving of handkerchiefs. He said those who, like himself, had been absent for some years from his native country, were deeply impressed with the great change that bad taken, and was still taking, place in the moral, social, and political characteristics of England. He was proud to say that that change was all for the better and not for the worse. It was a change which was visible 62 every department of English society—visible alike in the mansion and cottage—and, above all, visible, and he thought that was its great result, in the better feel ings which existed among the different classes of the community.—(Cheers.) That progress he would fain attribute to the diffusion of education throughout the country, and especially among the humbler orders, by means, chiefly, of the formation of institutions and societies such as one of which they were members. The people of this country had a great social question to determine, and the one which they. should solve as soon and as full as possible. They had given the very best education to all classes of the community, and those whom they had so educated and taught to thirst after knowledge and to love it, were now at- taining that position in which they would demand the grat,fication of that love. The question, then, was, how they were to do it ? Was that passion for know ledge to be turned to the advantage and benefit of the community, or to its injury and detriment ? The answcr to that question was to be found in such insti- buta aal a s possibl e, a d pei t shou ld lohciswesyioobi Isieud, their hut behl beneficialideer tutious as that Whose members he had then the honour self-supporting ye i, rSta() acquirements,ac h nads gs institutions er le fa -trwtne ago nrusdutl ahbemtesxiwitnotraegernnr:tet. fortunes,i t also address. n:se etihv Sympathy acid assistance of all those who, by their ainidfl.uenllcee, would d d s g a i y ve on th e e ex tend the operation of those institutions as much as possible. Whilst enabling them to convey know ledge to the people of all classes, be would also aim at making them, if possible , and elevating their taste. W hilst collecting libraries, he would also store those in s t i t utions with works of art, with models of the finest sculptures, and copies of the works of the greatest masters. — (Cheers.) The Greeks who, above all other nations, understood the influence of the beautiful, not only _ . on the happiness of mankind but in the regulation of society, rightly appreciated the influence of art on the community. Such of their countrymen as excelled in any branch of art, whether of painting, poetry, music, or sculpture, received their cordial support and en couragement, and were regarded by them in the light of benefactors to the State. The people of England did not fully understand the influence of art on the happiness and prosperity of a country. He believed the Government of this country might do a great deal more than it did in that direction. For himself, he looked anxiously for the time when some small part of the tens of thousands of pounds annually spent in the pursuit of war, and the repres sion of crime would be given to the diffusion of art, which, he believed, would do far more than any other thing to prevent slaughter and repress crime. A vulgar prejudice had long prevailed in this country that its labouring classes had no taste for the beautiful, and that if they had free access to the exhibition of works of art they would destroy them. He thought that one at least of the many results of the Great Ex hibition had been to explode that vulgar error: He might mention, whilst talking on that subject, that during the time the Crystal Palace was open, no less than 3,000,000 of persons, by far the greater part of whom might be presumed to belong to the lower classes, had access to the British Museum,and in the whole of that period not one single accident of any kind whatever happened, nor was any misdemeanour committed in the institution in consequence of the admission of that vast mass of visitors.—(Cheers.) He did say that was a great fact. He himself had the honour— and he did think it was an honour—to conduct over the British Museum two hundred working men, from the mines, who came to London to see the Eithibi tion ; and the interest which that body of j men evinced in the works of art which there came under their inspection was to him, above all things, gratify ing and promising, inasmuch as it proved that:there was in the lower classes of society a foundation on which the philanthropists might work to any extent. Speaking of the British Museum led him to make a few remarks connected with his individual pursuits, which might possibly interest them more. He was about going to regions where there were no mechanics' institutes, but where men, still w ild, wandered over the face of the earth. Those men, however, wandered among the remains of great c iti es , the existence of which indicated a state of civilizationwawshaichsoeleq if it did not excel, our own . T hat • re flection. In speaking o f th e ruins of Babylon • As syria, o r n i a u , they m en t s m s u u s e t h n o a t s pi c e t r u e r e t o f v ast mounds of to o tethseemenseilrlstatleymples and earth, somethi ng lik e the ancient barrows to . be found Those this count ry, e ruins, on the cont rary, consisted three thous a nd and occupied many yards in lengt h, and some of t h em were as much as square acres of groun d. Those v ast mounds were literally the heaps to which the prophet Isaiah referred when speaking of the ultimate fate of those cities which were in his days as flourishing, as great, and es w or ds which the pr.op Populous as our own h L e o t n udsoend inw e a a t k i p u r g e s u e f n ii t . e T v h e h e in particular had literally been fulfilled, so much so, that if he (Mr. Layard) wished to convey to them a correct idea of the present state of the ruins of Ba bylon and Assyria, he could not do so to greater advantage than by quoting the very words propheti cally employed in the holy Scriptures.—(Hear, hear.) Those vast heaps had always been objects of great and melancholy interest to the traveller. 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" The book is worthy of perusal. and will be particularly welcome to the students of mesmerism."—Weekly Times, Dec. 21, 1851, London : Piper, Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row. LAURENT'S CASINO. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season. Laurent's well-known and celebrated Band, principal Cornet-a- Piston, M. Boulcourt. The New Redowa every night at Eleven o'clock. . . . . _ _ During the recess the Rooms have been re-decorated, and many improvements made, under the sole direction of Mr. G. F. Bryer. Doors open at Ilaif-past Eight, to commence at Nine o'clock. _ _ Admission-ONE SHILLING. exploration. He had - enabled to do so chiefly by the great e ncouragement which had been extend e d t o hi m by Sir Stratford Canning— which he should l with the deep es t gratitude. They pronounce must remember that the . mounds to which he had referred consisted of vast platforms o f ear th, b eneath which the palaces lay entombed. Th e mo d e of consterrreuescmtioainnesmof ployed in tho se e difi ces accounted for the p of their ruins. Th ey were c hi e fl y erected in the midst stae of great plains, wh ere th e want o f stone rendered masonry exceedingly diffi cu lt an d expensive. s olidtl The consequence was, that the builders were driven to the us 3 of mere mud in the erection of those palaces, mixing it up with chopped straw, and making it into bricks, which they dried in the sun. Those temples were used as great national records. Upon these walls the people of those days engraved the history of their na tioaal exploits. The artof prioting being unknown, they were compelled to record their history on the walls of their public edifices. With that view the lower storeys of those edifices were built of alabaster, a sub stance exceedingly well calculated to perpetuate the pictorial representations of their great national events, and the explanatory descriptions with which they were accompanied. The upper parts of the building were constructed entirely of the sun-dried bricks which he had described, and the consequence was, that when in the lapse of time the' materials of the upper storeys decayed, they eventually fell in and buried in their debris the imperishable memorials beneath. So soon as the sun-dried bricks which had once formed part of the masonry were exposed to the atmosphere, they returned to their original state, Which was nothing but earth; and thus those heap s of ruins became covere d w ith a ki nd of soil susceptibl e of various kinds of cultivation adapted to the wants of the p o pulation. That would explain to them the s t ate of those ruins, and would also account for the excellent preservation of the monuments which were found beneath them. Excavation at last esta blished th e existence ofihose monuments ; and the meeting might conceive the gra tification and pleasure he experie nce d when on the - vere art, which of reaching a mag nificent sp ec i men of ancient i, Lich showed him that he bad at l as t f ound one of r the monuments of the people for whose remains he had instituted a search. — (Cheers.) (Th e enterprising ra then gave an interesting account of o v f e th ll e e i r en h a e n a d an nst t a i le l e u n . a ..n y b r y . oil the Colonel Rawlins on an d hi mself t de; pem goal inscriptions, & c ., f ound er the trih h. orials which were excavated, and o f the beautifullabyrinthine chambers discovered among the ruins.) The result of those discoveries had been comple tely to silence the common remark, th a t th ere was no human confir mation of many of th e hi s t or i c facts related in the Bible. They possessed now a valuable collection of contemporary records, executed at the time when many of the most import an t events mentioned in the Scriptures were performed, inscribed by those who were actors in those events, and completely tallying with the facts described by the sacred historians. In conclusion, they would allow him to say be was convinced that institutions like that with which they were identified tended more than any other to advance the progress of human knowledge among all the classes of the community, and therefore it was that he felt proud to be called on to move the resolution which had been put into his bands :—" That the best results had arisen from the formation of mechanics' institutions, as is shown by their tendency to soften the inequalities of condition, by the influence they lend to harmonize discordant opinions, and by their assisting to unite together the great family of mankind in the bonds of mutual confidence and love."_(cheers.) Mr. CHARLES; KNIGHT, in speaking to one of the resolutions, after passin g an eulogium on the late Lord Spencer, with whom he was intimately associated during the existence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and who had taken an especial interest in .the welfare of the Northampton Me chanics' Institution, proceeded to ref er to a sentiment which fell from Mr. Cobden recently at a public meeting in Manchester, in which he advised the young men of that city to read newspapers, and not to trouble them selves much with the perusal of books. No man could respect the newspaper press more highly than he (Mr. Knight) did as a great instrument of civili sation, but he thought the advice given by the Hon. Member for the West Riding on that occasion was, to say the least, narrow and injudicious. He (Mr. Knight) moat sincerely believed, that if their reading was confined to newspapers, excellent as was that reading, various as was the information they gave, and infinite as were their resources to convey knowledge, a man's mind would be narrowed, de based, and degraded by being so limited.—(Hear, hear.) He believed, moreover, if that bad been the general tone of the mind of this country, and if the reading of newspapers had superseded the reading of all other literature,' the newspapers themselves could nut have been what they were, but must, on the contrary, have been greatly deteriorated. Leav ing that point, he would say, in reference to the general question, that knowledge was in a great de= gree happiness, and that the man who had a taste fur reading had got an instrument in his power that would stand him in the place of many a vain and empty pleasure, preserve him from many a tempta tion, serve as a satisfaction to him under every cala mity, and, in connexion with that higher cultivation which belonged to religion, lift him up to his proper position in this world, both in reference to his Creator and to his fellow-men. With regard to the presence of Mr. Lay ard that evening, he (Mr. Knight) might, in conclusion, be permitted to relate a little incident. He had the happiness and honour of a spring morning walk with the great poet Words worth, in the vicinity of his own Rydal, a few months before his death, and, talking of literature, the poet said, " Sir, I have only read one modern book during the last two years, and that is Mr. Layard'a Nineveh,' which has given me more pleasure than any book I have read in my life."— (Cheers.) The meeting was subsequently addressed by .Mr. V. Smith, M.P., Mr. George Cruikshank, Dr. Co nolly, Lord Henley, the Hon. G. Fitzwilliam, Lord Wodehouse, Earl Aboyne, the Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton, the Mayor of Northampton, and several of the local clergy. LOST ON THE MOORS. A young man residing in Sheffield had a very narrovr escape last Sunday night of perishing by a very miserable death. His name is Charles Strat ford, by trade a silver plater, lodging with his bro ther in Pitt-street, West-street. On Sunday morn ing he and a companion of the name of James Blythe walked over from Sheffield to Hathersage. Late in the afternoon they set out from Hathersage to return home. Instead of keeping to the main road they at tempted to cross the moors by a footpath. At five o'clock in the evening, it being then dusk, on coming to the head of a brook, they disagreed as to which was the proper side of the stream to take, and they separated, having first agreed to meet at Ringinglow. Bly the soon found his way to the high road, and arrived in due time at Ringinglow. Stratford was not so fortunate. He had not been alone but a short time when he found himself enveloped in darkness, rendered complete by a dense fog. Not fancying a night's lodging in such an inhospitable region, he made great efforts to find a tangible track, or to at tract the attention of some passer-by. But forced marches to and fro and loud shouts were unavailing. Hour after hour passed away, seeming in length like so many days, but no relief came, nor any change except an increasing sense of fatigue and hunger, accompa nied by an evil omen—drowsiness. Not daring to accept the cold damp ground as a couch, lest his weary frame and heavy eyelid s s h ould enter on their last long sleep, he rambled about the live long night, now tumbling over a hillock and bruising himself, then walking up to his vaist in a quagmire, and with great difficulty dragging out his stiffening limbs by the aid of adja cen t tufts of ling. The hope e f es " cape during the continuance of the darkness gradu ally became weaker. Devoutly therefore did the poor fellow wish for the return of daylight. Some time about 4 o' c l oc k i n the morn i ng be heard at a dis tance the n o i se o f a ve hi c l e , and he hailed it b wia He cry of " L os t ! l os t !" ; was e heard y the man with the vehicle, Who coal replied be bad that he might th go had no desire to v i s it. to -- ---a certain place which like length appeared more an unhappy A night whose h came to an end, but not so the op lifetime at length About 9 o'clock in the morning, op pressive darkness. P wheels of a cart, he summoned his re maininghearing the strength and shouted lustily. The driver of the cart heard him, .and shouted in reply. As it was impossible to see each other the man with the cart told him to remain still and be would send his dog to him. The sagacious dog soon found the way to the weary rambler, and brought the two men together. The humane owner of the dog assisted Stratford into the cart, and conveyed him to the public-house at Ringinglow, where he alighted in a truly wretched plight from the combined effects of cold, fatigue, hunger, and bruises caused by frequent falls. The inhabitants of the locality consider his preservation almost miraculous. None but a strong frame could have survived. The people at the inn quickly pre pared him some hot ale, of which ha drank freely, but his limbs were so, benumbed that they dared not per mit him to rest. He was compelled to continue skip ping about the room for a considerable time, andbeinl quite overcome by f a ti gue an d drowsiness fell be hurt one of his e lb ows very severely. ,Theinfluence restored of heat, aid e d b y f r i ct i on to the limbs in time. s hi n to his usual state. th© young man to an approxiala ht, and after a period He remained at the inn all n n e S d to Sheffield on Tires of refreshing sleep he returned r satisfaction of his friends, day morning, to the g reat ed a bsence had been a source to whom his utiexplain We understand that his frame of much uneasiness. is so much affected that he is unable to work. The time that he was r am blimg about on the moor alone was between 16 and 17 hours. — Sheffield Times, 10 0 ald rot roir, Jots et° 0 1 !it' 'Da ill" AO 0 V' o f o