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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY RvENING, NOVEIM:BEIV. 10, 1855.

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woundeJ 631, The townspeople, who also fought with
spirit, lost 101 men.
Hit Excellency the Mushir has reported to his Go-
vernment those cificeri Nch,) particularly distinguished
themselves ; difficult tak in an army which has shown
such desperate valour throughout the unusual period of
seven hours of uninterrupted combat.--I have, &c ,
(Signed) W, F. WILLIAKS.
The E irl of Clarendon, &c.

Naval aud Ter'litTry Tntellt,rence.

Lieutenftzit-Colcnel the Ron. P,31-cy 1-Icrbeit will suc-
ceed Sir R. Airey Quarterraßs!er-General of the
British Army hi the Ei,st. C.-10nel Tierf.x.rt.serced with
the 43d in the L,E;t Catiro war. lnd as AFsisto,nt-Qlarter-
master-Genrai to the Second Di iisien hi the Crioia. up

::TAT OFFICE, Seven o ' Clo ck.

to Vie time of his appt.intruent to the very inrcortant
place which he n')`•Y fill. 0,)lonel Herbert is a most,
z:alous and intelligent officer, and we believe that his ap-
pointment will be universally approved by the army.
It is reported that 'Major-General Sir. B. Airey,
K. 0.8., will, on his return to London, succeed Major-
Generel James Preeth as Quartermaster-General at the
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The Sampson, 6, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain
Hand, is progressing fast with her rigging in the steam
basin at Portsmouth, and has entered good seamen to
the extent of half her complement. The whole of her
lower rigging is fitted,
The Polyphemus, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander Warren, is also progressing rapidly with her
rigging in the fitting balin at Portsmouth, where four of
the mortar vessels are under refit.
The screw blockships Hawke, 60, Captain E. Omman- '
ney, and Hastings, 60, Captain E. C. Fanshawe, ure
ordered to be hastened as much as possible in their refit
at Portsmouth, as they are wanted for service imme-
diately.
The Salamander, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander Mecham, has had her defects made good, and
undergone a thorough refit at Portsmouth, and is being
prepared for sea with all despatch.
The Perseverance screw steam-transport, No. 7, Capt.
Harris, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Queenstown
with the Armagh Regiment of Militia, whom she went
into harbour to land at the dockyard, whence they were
escorted by the staff of the garrison and the bands of the
80th Foot and South Lincoln Militia to the quarters
lately vacated by the 4th Middlesex Militia, in Clarence
Barracks, Portsmouth.
The Essex Indiaman mid the Oriental packetship
sailed from Spithead yesterday—the former for Madras
and Calcutta, and the latter for Auckland and Canter.

THE RUSSIAN ATTACK ON KARS.

General Williams's Despatch.
(From a Supplement to Friday's Gazette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 10.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.

(Before Chief Justice Jervis, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr.
Justice Erie, Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice
Wales.)

The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from
Major-General Williams, her Majesty's Commissioner
with the Turkish Army in Asia, of which the following
is a copy :

Kars, October 3, 1855.
My Lord,—l had the honour to announce to your
Lordship, on the evening of the 29th ultimo, the glorious
victory gained on the morning of that day by the Sul.
tan's troops on the heights above Kars, over the Russian
army commanded by General Muravieff, and I now beg
to furnish your Lordship with the principal incidents of
that sanguinary battle.
Your lordship will perhaps recollect that, in my de-
spatch No. 123 of the 28th June, I stated that the Rus-
sian General, after his second demonstration against the
southern face of our entr,ncliments, which is flanked by
Hafiz Pasha Tabia and Katili Tabia, marched south, and
established his camp at Bugah Mine, a village situated
about four miles from Kars. Knowing that General
Muravieff raved in the army whieh took Karr in 1823,
I conceived his last manceuvre to be preparatory either
to a reconnaisance, or an attack upon the heiAts of
Tahmasb, from whence the Russians successfully pushed
their approaches in the year above cited.
Whilst, therefore the enemy's columns were in march
towards Bugah Tikm6, I visited those heights with
Lieut.-Culonel Lake, and after studying the ground de-
cided upon the nature of the works to be thrown up ;
these were planned and executed by Lieut.-Colonel
Lake with great skill and energy. I enclose for your
lordship's information a plan made by that officer of the
town and its neighbouring heights, which are situated
on the opposite side of the river of Kars Chai, over
which three temporary bridges had been thrown to keep
up our communications. As all verbal descriptions, or
bird's-eye views, of ground convey but an imperfect
idea of any locality, I beg to enclose a sketch made
by Mr. Churchill, which will, I trust, tend to elue',date
my description.

bury, New Zealand.
The screw corvette Malacca, 17, Captain Farquhar,
left Spithead yesterday for Bermuda.
The Queen Victoria steam transport, No. 1, with huts
and other stores for the Crimea, left Portsmouth harbour
yesterday, but brought up at Spithead.
The City of London paddlewheel transport, with 300
sets of harness, a number of carts and waggons, ammu-
nition, and general stores for the Turkish Contingent,
passed Woolwich yesterday morning from Deptford,
bound for Kel tch. Several officers newly appointed to

Your lordship will observe that whilst our camp and
magazines in the town were rendered as safe as circum-
stances would allow, the hills above Kars commanded
all, and were, therefore, the keys of our position,
The intrenchments of Tahmasb, being those nearest
the enemy's camp, demanded the greatest vigilance from
all entrusted in their defence. General Ninety, a gal-
lant Hungarian officer, commanded the division which
occupied this eminence ; he was assisted by Major-
General Hussein Pacha and my aide-de-camp, Major
Teesdale, who has acted as his Chief of the Staff.
Throughout the investment, which has now lasted
four months, the troops in all the redoubts and intrench-
meets have kept a vigilant lookout during the night,
and, at their appointed stations, stood to their arms long
before day-dawn. In my despatch, No. 155, of the 29th
ult , I informed your lordship of the arrival of the news
of the fall of Sebastopol, mad of the landing of Oincr
Pacha at Batoom. I also acquainted your lordship with
the fact that the Russian General was engaged in send-
ing, off immense .trains of heavy baggage into Georgia,
and showing every inlication of a speedy retreat • this
in nowise threw us off our gaurd, and Lieutenant-Colo
nel Lake was directed to strengthen many points in our
extensive and undermanned lines, and amongst other
works the tabia bearing my name was constructed.
At four o'clock on the eventful morning of the 29th
the enemy's columns were reported to be advancing on
the Ta.hrnasb front. They were three in number, sup-
ported by 24 guns ; the first or right column being di-
rected on Tahrnasb Tabia, the second on Yukseh Tabia,
and the third on the breastwork called Rennison Lines.
As soon as the first guns announced the approach of the
enemy the reserves were put under arms in a central
position, from which succours could be despatched either
to Tahniasb or the English lines.
The mist and imperfect light of the dawning day in-
duced the enemy to believe that he was about to sur-
prise us ; he advanced with his usual steadiness and
intrepedity ; but on getting within range he was saluted
with a crushing fire of artillery from all points of the
line. This unexpected reception, however, only drew
forth loud hurrahs from the Russian infantry as it
rushed up the
,bill on the redoubts and breastworks.
These works poured forth a fire of musketry and rifles,
which told with fearful effects on the close columns of
attack, mora especially on the left one, which, being
opposed by a battalion of 450 Chasseuis, armed with
Minie rifles, was, after long and desperate fighting, com-
pletely broken, and sent headlong duwu the hill, leaving
850 dead,:on the field, besides those carried off by their
comrades.

that corps took passage by the City of London to join
there, and some horses belonging to General Dixon.
The Hooper transport bas gone dowi: the river from
Woolwich to test her fitness for sea, and is to proceed
thence to Deptford to embark huts for the Crimea.
The Caradoc is still off Woolwich dockyard, awaiting
her orders for sea. Yesterday morning a large quantity
of Lord Canning's baggage was shipped on board.
The Phoenix, 6, screw steam-sloop, was taken into the
basin at Sheerness yesterday for a general overhaul of
hull and machinery. All the five years' service seamen
on board her whose period of service has expired have
memorialised the Admiralty, or rather demanded their
discharge. They all state that it is not from a desire to
leave the service, but entirely owing to the dangerous
rolling qualities of the Plicenix when becalmed in a
heavy seaway, at which time it has been repeatedly
proved that she has rolled her masts over the side. The
memorial has been received by the Commander-in-Chief
to be forwarded to the Admiralty, each seaman stating
the ship he last served in previous to joining the Phoenix.
They all speak in the highest terms of their officers. The
men are willing to volunteer (immediately on receiving
their discharge) fur some other ship in active service.
The Chatham sheer-hulk, having raised the boilers
and machinery of the screw steam-ship Mars, sunk io
the Waterwitch in the fitting-basin, Sheerness (as re-
portedl, was taken out, and towed to Chatham yester-
day. She is in the stone dock, preparing far commis-
sion. She is having her bottom coppered. Her timber
is well seasoned, she having been lying in the River
Medway for about eight years. She will go out of dock
to-morrow, and will immediately Le towed away by two
steamers to Sheerness, to have her boilers put in place.
The dock which this ship lies been in is being consider-
ably lengthened, as much as 60 feet, so as to make it
available to receive ships of the largest class ; and the
dock from which the Chesapeake was put out is also to-
be lengthened 60 feet. The dock hat been built for
many years, and the wood with which it was erected is
completely rotten. It is to be rebuilt with stone. A
large number of workmen are employed in removing the
mud, to get a foundation to work upon.
The Otter, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant.
Commander John H. Glover, has had her defects re-
paired, and was put out of the fitting-basin, Sheerness,
yesterday.
The new screw steam-frigate Chesapeake, of 50 guns,
is ordered to be towed from Sheerness to Chatham, to
be fitted for commission ; she is to be brought forward
immediately.
The Ranown, 90, sorew steam ship, which commenced
building in December, 1854, is orlered to be brought
forward for launching as soon as possible. She is the
longest war :hip in the Royal service, being in length
244 feet 9 inches between the perpendiculars ; her ex•
treine breadth 54 feet 4 inches, with a tonnage of
3,317 12.94 of now measurement.
The Severn, 50, sailing frigate, designed byJ. Finchaw,
Esq., late master sbipwright of Chatham Dockyard, is
out of the hands of the workmea. Her launch is up for
launching, and ski, is only waiting for an order from the
Admiralty. She is a splendid-built ship. She is sister
ship to the Raleigh, with the exception she is lengthened
in her bow four feet, which will increase her sailing qua-
lities, and give additional room for stowage. She com-
menced building on the slip No. 3, in August, 1849.
The Elk, 12, was put out of dock on the 9th inet., for
commission. She is painted and fitted up, and will go
into dock to be masted and rigged to-morrow.
The Heron, 12, was taken into dock to-day to befitted
for commission.

The central column precipitated itself on the redoubts
of Tahmab and Yuksek Tabias, where desperate fighting
occurred and lasted for several hours, the enemy being
repulsed in all his attempts to enter the closed redoubts,
which mutually flanked each other with their artillery
and musketry, and made terrible havoc in the ranks of

the assailants-; and it was here that Generals Kmety
and Hussein Pacha, together with Major Teesdale, so
conspicuously displayed their courage and conduct.
Lieut. General Kereen Pacha also repaired to the scene
of desperate strife to encourage the troops, and was
wounded in the shoulder,•and had two horses killed un•
der him.

The right column of the Russian infantry, supported
by a battery, eventually turned the left flank of the in-
trenched wing of the Tahmasb defences, and whilst the
Russian battery opened in the rear of the closed re-
doubt at its valiant angle, their infantry penetrated con-
siderably behind our position.

Observing the commencement of this movement,
and anticipating its consequences, Lieutenant-Colonel
Lake, who ha .1 taken the direction of affairs in the
English Tabias, was instructed to send a battalion
from Fort Lake to the asistance of the defenders of
Tahmasb, and at the same time two battalions of
the reserves were moved across the fling bridge
and upon the rocky height of Laz Jepp6 Tabia.
These three reinforcing columns met each other at
that point, and being hidden by the enemy by the
rocky nature of the ground, confronted him at a most
opportune moment ; they deployed, opened their fire,
which stopped and soon drove back the enemy's reserves,
which were then vigorously charged with the bayonet,
at the same moment when General Kmety and Major
Teesdale issued front the redoubts at Tahmasb and
charged the assailants. The whole of that portion of
the enemy's infantry and artillery now broke and fled
down the heights under a murderous fire of musketry ;
this occured at half•past eleven, after a combat of seven
hours.

The Cadmus, 20, screw corvette, building in No. 1
dock, is ordered to be got ready for launching on the Ist
of February next. A large number of hands from the
Severn are put on this ship to expedite her build. She
is nearly skinned over, and she will be ready by the time
ordered by the Admiralty.
The brig Alexander has discharged at the Arsenal-
wharf, at Woolwich, 1,900 13-inch shells, the Lively
schooner 1,100, and the Arica schooner 189 tons of
mixed shells, from the Vauxhall foundries, at Liverpool.
The number of men and boys now employed at the
Arsenal exceeds 9,000.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—John Way, Master, to the Horatio ;
John D. Switzer, Second-Master, to the Sampsnn ; and
D. M. Anderson, Midshipman, to the Pulyphemu4
The annexed circular memorandum has just bees is-
sued to officers commanding depots and regiments of
cavalry and infantry at home and abroad :

In this part of the field the enemy had, including his
reserves, 22 battalions of infantry, a large force of dra-
goons and cossacks, together with 32 guns.
Whilst this struggle, which I have attempted to
describe, was occurring at Tahmasb, a most severe
combat was going on at the eastern position of the line,
called the English Tabias.
About half-past five o'clock, a.m., a Russian column,
consisting of 8 battalions of infantry, 3 regiments of ca-
valry, and 16 guns, advanced from the valley of Tehak-
mak, and assaulted those small redoubts, which after as
stout a resistance as their unavoidably feeble garrisons
could oppose, fell into their hands, together with the
connecting breastworks, defended by townsmen and
mountaineers from Lazistan, whose clannish flags ac-
cording to their custom, were planted before them
on the epaulmenss, and, consequently fell into the
enemy s hands ; but ere the firing had begun ',in
this portion of the field, Captain Thompson had re-
ceived orders to send a battalion of infantry from
each of the heights of Karadagh abd Arap Tabia
to reinforce the English lines. This reinforcement
descended the deep gully through which flows the
Kars River, passed a bridge, recently thrown across it,
and ascended the opposite precipitous bank by a zigzag
path which led into the line of works, named by the
Turks, Ingliz Tablas (the
.English Batteries). Their
arrival was as opportune as that of the reserves directed
towards Tahmasb, which I have had the honour to de-
scribe in the former part of this despatch ; these batta-
lions, joined to those directed by Lieutenant-Colonel
Lake, gallantly attacked and. drove the Russians out of
the redoubts at the point of the bayonet, after the artil-
lery of the enemy had been driven from those lines by
the cross fire directed from Fort Lake and from Arab
Tabia and Karadagh, by Captain Thompson. This
officer deserves my best thanks for having seized a
favourable moment to remove a heavy gun from the
eastern to the western extremity of Karadagh, and with
it inflicted severe loss on the enemy. •
After the Russian infantry was driven from the Eng-
lish redoubts, the whole of their attacking force of ca-
valry, artillery, and infantry retreated with precipi:a-
tion, plied with round shot from all the batteries bearing
on their columns. During their temporary success, how-
ever, the enemy captured two of our light guns, which
the mortality amongst our horses from famine prevented
our withdrawing from their advanced positions. He also
carried off his wounded, and many of his dead ; yet be
left 363 of the latter within and in front of these en-
trenchments ; and his retreat occurred at least an hour
before the assailants of Tahmasb were put to flight.
During this combat, which lasted nearly seven hours,
the Turkish infantry, as well as artillery fought
with the most determined courage ; and when it is
recollected that they had worked on their intrench-
ments, and guarded them by night throughout
a period extending to nearly four months, I think your
Lordship will admit that they have proved themselves
worthy of the admiration of Europe, and established an
undoubted claim to be placed amongst the most dis-
tinguished of its troops.
With regard to the enemy, as long as there was a
chance of success he persevered with undaunted cour-
age, and the Russian officers displayed the greatest gal-
lantry. Their loss was immense ; they left on the field
more than 5,000 dead, which it took the Turkish infan-
try four days to bury. Their wounded and prisoners in
our possession amount to 160, whilst those who were
carried off are said to he upwards of 7,000.
As the garrison was afflicted with cholera, and I was
apprehensive of a great increase of the malady, should
this melancholy duty of the burial of the dead be not
pushed forward with every pos,ible vigour by our fa-
tigued and jaded soldiers, I daily visited the scene of
strife to encourage them in their almost endless task ;
and I can assure your lordship that the whole battle-
field presented a scene which is more easy to conceive
than to describe, being literally covered with the ene-
my's dead and dying.
The Turkish dead and wounded were removed on the
night of the battle. The dead numbered 362, the

" Horse Guards, Oct. 31.
"It appealing that the promotions of non-commissioned
officers at the depots of regiments serving in the East have
in several instances taken place without the previous ap-
proval of the officer commanding the regiment abroad, con-
trary to the instruction contained in the circular memo-
randum of the 6th of December, 1854, which directed that
the provisional promotions, intended for carrying on the
duties of the depots, were to be subject to the approval of
the aforesaid regimental authority, the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief reminds the officers commanding
depots that all such promotions are to be considered as act-
ing only pending the approval and confirmation thereof by
the officer commanding the service troops or companies.

"` By command, -
" G. A. WETHERALL."
Twenty-eight non-commissioned officers and privates
of the Royal Artillery arrived at Woolwich, from Sheer-
ness, yesterday morning. They were immediately ad-
mitted into the Military Hospital, and will be submitted
to an examination by the medical board at the quarterly
meeting about to take place. Some of these men had
zustained severe injuries at the commer.cement of the
war with Russia, and are stiil in a very weak state of
health ; one of them has completely lost his sight.
A number of new cartridge-sheds are in the course of
construction at the extremity of the Royal Arsenal-yard,
Woolwich.

t POST-OFFICE LOHDON DIRECTORY
leo,. 1856.

A wonderful work, becoming every successive
year more and more wonderful—altogether the
hugest and the most accurate of all our popular
compilations—at once official, commercial, postal,
legal, political, and topographical ! Extraordinary
as the book is, however, as a detailed and micros-
copic Index to LONDON, it is scarcely surprising,
after all, that it should be so, considering the en-
terprise lavished upon the undertaking by itc pro-
prietor—one who has, from first to last, shown
himself to be altogether as energetic and adven-
turous as he has at length proved himself to be
triumphantly successful. Frederick Kelly's Post-
(Ace London Directory for the year of our Lord
1856, being the " fifty-seventh" of its annual pub-
lication, appears now wholly without any rival
whatsoever. It walks over the course without a
competitor. It long ago " turned the Corner," as
the phrase is, leaving the rest of the field at first
in the nick, and at last, nowadays, tailed away
"nowhere." Consequently it wins the race
easily enough henceforth, coming iu at a canter,
without ever turning a hair, and always,
as we umpires (the reviewers) are compelled to de-
clare in the most beautiful condition. And this
although carrying weight, remember I the weight
of 2,650 octavo pages—printed, some of them in
double columns, some triple, some actually quad-
ruple ! The mere "reading "of the work (techni-
cally) is something quite bewildering to contem-
plate, to say nothing of the compositor's labour of
massing all these millions of types together in duo
order—minion, brevier, bourgoise ; putting, be-
sides, entirely out of account the vast preliminary
toil of revision, of scrupulous and minute revision,
every year, in regard to each atom of information
conveyed to the public through the medium of this
enormous tome under the twelve ample divisions
into which its contents are now very judiciously
apportioned. Prior to the commencement of these
twelve remarkable divisions, however, there
are no less than xxviii. precursory pages, within
whose limits are condensed extraordinary con-
geries, so to speak, of eminently useful and ac-
ceptable intelligence. Comprising among them,
for example, in the particular volume now lying
before us for examination, an almanac for the
ensuing year leap year, as it happens —1856.
Followed by a "General Index" of the most com-
prehensive character, together with a page of
notes upon the matter of " Bill and Receipt
Stamps," as recently modified by the Imperial
Legislature, besides an astonishingly extended
catalogue of the principal hotels and inns through-
out England and Wales, mentioning the names of
the occupiers, and particularising, according to
the records of last census, the precise amount
of the local population. Beyond which another,
.the last, of these precursory pages of memo-
randa gives a list of the forty-four English,
Irish, and Scotch " Chambers of Commerce."
Then " comes the tug of war "—the Post-
Office London Directory, beginning at length in
real earnest with the first of its twelve broad
divisions. The Post-Office London OFFICIAL Di-
rectory for 1856—comprising an alphabetical list
of persons holding situations under the Crown, in
the East India House, in the Bank of England, in
the various law, city, and all other public offices.
A catalogue, including within it every official per-
son in the land, from the highest to the lowest, from
the Lord High Chancellor, in his solemn and almost
awful responsibility as keeper of her Majesty's con-
science, down to the obscurest clerk in a back room
at Somerset-house, nibbing his pen, cracking his
knuckles, or yawning over his newspaper. After-
wards a catalogue of the "Royal Family," fol-
lowed by another of the "Princes and Princesses,"
and then in proper sequence by a list of " Her
Majesty's Chief Officers of State"—a list display-
ing two notable blanks, yet to be filled up,
opposite the title of " Postmaster Gene-
ral" and that of "Secretary of State for the
Colonial Department :" posts vacant, as we most of
us grieve to remember, by reason of the death of
Sir William Molesworth and of the nomination
of Viscount Canning to the great proconsulate of
Hindostan. "Her Majesty's Household" affords
the materials for the next extended catalogue—
after which follow the "Privy Councillors," and
after these in turn the various "Lords-Lieutenant."
Subsequently come the " Government and other
Public Offices" alphabetically arranged—a cata-
logue extending from the occupants . the Adju-
tant-General's Office down to those in the
different offices embraced within the category
of the War Department. Whereupon succeed, in
duo course, lists (.4 Ambassadors, and of Consuls,
and particulars worthy of remembrance in regard
to Passports and to Foreign-office Regulations.
Immediately afterwards we have the secon portion
of this gigantic and elaborate compilation—The
Post-office London STREET Directory for 1856
alphabetically leading us through all the mazes of
our vast metropolis, from Abbey-lane, West Ham,
to Zoar-place, East Brixton. Next we have the
largest Directory in the volume, spreading over a
surface as extended as from page 813 to page 1,501
—The Post-office London COMMERCIAL Directory
for 1856—from one, Benjamin Aaron, a watch-
maker, to another, Nicholas Zygomalas, a corn
merchant. Afterwards comes the fourth instal-
ment—The Post-office London TRADES' Directory
for 1856—beginning with acadamies and makers of
accordions, and ending with zycographic printers
and lithographers, reminding us of the babel of
the industry of our ever-toiling population
of two millions and a-half—the clash and
clang and roaring din and hubbub resounding
from all kinds of strangely-diversified avocations.
Fifthly, there spreads out before ns the sufficiently
ample catalogue of—The Post-office London LAW
Directory forlBs6—embracing within it, Attorneys
and Solicitors, Barristers-at-Law, Sergeants,
Queen's Counsel, Recorders, and Judges, ascend-
ing the rungs of the ladder indeed from among
a throng of court-keepers and train-hearers—up
from the junior aspirants, fumbling at the first, to
the topmost round of all, where, perched on the
ample cushion of the woolsack, sits in ermine, and
scarlet, and gold, the dingy student of law glori-
fied into Chancellor. Sixthly, we have—The Post-
office London COURT Directory for 1856—encum-
bered with all the pomps of the alphabet, inti-
mated through such potent initials as are the re-
cognised symbols of dignity in civilised life—
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., G.C.8., H.R.H.,
and the like stars of honour, and ribbons of cour-
tesy, the tags and spangles of personal distinction.
Subsequently, and seventhly, comes—The Post-
office London PARLIAMENTARY Directory for
1856—giving us the House of Lords from the
Chancellor downwards, and the House of Com-
mons from the Speaker to the very door-keepers.
Eighthly, we have The POSTAL Directory—ninthly,
The CITY Directory—tenthly, The CONVEYANCE
Directory—eleventhly, The BANKING Directoru—
and, twelfthly and lastly, The ASSURANCE Direc-
tory for 1856—completing the entire work up to
the advertisements appended under the title of
"Miscellaneous." Such, rapidly epitomised, is
Kelly's Post-Office London Directory for the ensu-
ing year of grace, 1856, the only London Directory
published for 1856—" Watkins's Directory" having
been at length definitively abandoned, after a loss,
it appears, more serious than has over before been
experienced in the futile endeavour to establish a
publication of this particular kind. The utter
inutility of any such attempt, supposing it to have
proved in the end successful, is vividly enough
forced upon the popular apprehension by the re-
mark here put forth by the Messrs. Kelly to the
effect that Two London Directories, if both were
accurate and comprehensive, would be, after all,
nothing more nor less than counterparts of
o
each other. Arguing from which point
is
observed, not unreasonably, that theeffort
establish another nowadays, with Kelly to
firmly established as at present uponbe thels idle, in :
broad and
solid basis of its reputation, would
re-
gard to any notion of such an effort Pe rnodvoi
ang
env
construct tuo-
nerative, as would be a
quixotic
London toßrighton
construct a second railway
his huge volume
parallel with the costly and sufficient line already
Remembering that t
in existence.
of from 2,000 to closely-printed pages, in,
columns of letterpresst,rspolme,etimes, as we have said,
and sometimes even
double, sometimes trip
our hands yesterday evening,
quadruple, came!
the 9th
somewhat astonishing to learn
from the "Preface"instant,
that the whole vast tome has
and bound since the sth
been entirely printed
It
is
especially
observable, in addition to
ultimo I
we have already remarked upon the magni-
tudewhat the same time the •
at
and yet minuteness of
this astonishing publication, that the extinction of
all opposition consequent upon the non-continu-
ance of " Watkins's Directory " does not appear to
have in any way relaxed the efforts made by
the proprietor of Kelly's Post-office London Direc-
tory to sustain the reputation of his unrivalled pub-
lication for novelty and exactitude of intelligence.
In testimony of which it is b o servable that the open-
ing of the West Eud Branch of the Bank of Eng-
land, has caused alterations in the Street Direc-
tory, p. 204 ; Commercial ditto, p. 842; Banking
ditto, p. 2,458, and official, p. 43. The establish-
ment of the "Jews' College," ou the IstOctober, iu
Finsbury-square, being notified in the Street Direc-
tory, p. 340, in the commercial ditto, p. 1,146, and
in the Trades, p. 1,887. The death of Lord Dela-
as the
mere—mentioned in The Sun as recently .
4th of October—being intimated here by
c2ll2aBll*getst inat
the Parliamentary Directory at page 9
of John Hardy, Esq., a retired Q.O•--announced
in The Sun, also on the 4th of October—erasing
his name from the Street Directory, p. 618 (as
lace) and from the Court
occupant of 3, Portland-place)