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London, England, 1852-12-15 00:00:00

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Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at
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POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY.
FALSE HOODS.—A handbill, produced avowedly to injure the
' Post-dike London Directory,' signed 'F. W. Watkins,' and re-
plete with misrepresentation, is now in course of distribution in Lon-
don. This handbill charges nineteen omissions and fourteen other
errors—in all thirty-three actual mistakes in a work containing up-
wards of ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND distinct
names or firms. In the handbill 'F. W. Watkins' charges the ' Post-
office London Directory for 1853,' with having improperly omitted,
in Cannon-street, City, the names of various persons or firms, which,
in truth (although inserted as at Cannon-street in Watkin's Directory
for 1653), are not to be found in Cannon-street at all. And by the
somewhat extraordinary process of multiply;ng the one thousand
five hundred and eighty-four columns of print in the Post-office
' Street Directory,' by these blunders in Watkins's Directory, lie
arrives at the conclusion, and actually gepgsei4lat there are thirty
TTioaftfifice London Directory

nonSala if''eTitTl- -ofriligs!on• in tne
for 1853.' The following are extracts from F. W. Watkins's band.

bill :
" Names omitted in Cannon-street, City, in the Post Office Lon-
den Directory for 1853. See page 174."
19. British Colonial Sugar Company.'
Of this 'omission' the following Certificate will sufficiently dis-
pose :—" In a handbill now in course of circulation, and having the
signature 'F. W. Watkins,' it is alleged that the offices of the
British Colonial Sugar Company' are at 19, Cannon-street, City.
Such is not the fact. These offices remain, as stated in the ' Post
Office London Directory for 1853,' at 10A,-King's Arms-yard, Moor-
gate- street. The entry at page 70, of Watkins's Directory for 1853
—' British Colonial Sugar Company, R. Smith, sec., 19, Cannon-
street,' is therefore erroneous.
" (Signed) GEORGE F. SMITH, for IL SMITH.
" 10A, King's Arms-yard, 9th Dec., 1852."

Another firm, charged as omitted' in the Post Office Directory,
is thus stated in the handbill:—
. 64. Perkins and Sharpus, tin and japan manufacturers.'
How F. W: Watkins could blunder as to the locality of this emi-
nent firm is not easy to conjecture. But the following Certificate
will prove the accuracy of the Post Office Directory':—" We have
seen a handbill signed F. W. Watkins,' in which an attack is made
on the Post Office London Directory for 1853' for not having given
the address of our firm at 64 Cannon-street, City. It is not true that
our establishment is, or is intended to be, at 64 Cannon-street: it
remains, as stated in the 'Post Office Directory fer 1853,' at 6, W' ell-
court.
" The insertion of our firm in Watkins's Directory for 1853, at 64,
Cannon-street is, therefore, a blunder.
" (Signed) PRaurrs & SHAUN:TS.
"6, Bell court, 9th Dec. 1852."

Another well-known firm, charged to be omitted in the ' Post
Office Directory,' is thus stated in the handbill:—
'23. Sterry, Merry & Co., wholesale oilmen and drysalters.'
Thus disposed of by the following Certificate :—" When the col-
lector for the ' Post Office Directory' called here, we directed that we
should be described for the year 1853 at this address, where we still
carry on our business. STERRY, STEIIRT & CO.
" 143, Boro' High-street, 18 Dec. 1852."

Another name, charged by F. W. Watkins' as improperly omitted,
at 64, Cannon-street, in the Post Office Directory for 1853,' is thus
stated in his handbill :-
64, Shindler, Robert, solicitor'
This Use charge is disposed of by the following Certificate:—
"There is no person of the name of Robert Shindler in practice as a
solicitor, or holding offices at all in this house.
" 64, Cannon-street, City, 9 Dec., 1852. (Signed) B. PERKINS."

In the belief that we have, for the present, sufficiently disposed of
F. W. Watkins's' calculation as to the 30,000 mossioss, we pass
to some others of his statements included in the THIRTY-THREE
names. It is within the knowledge of every one possessing any
experience in commercial affairs, that many firms or trades, after
the decease of the original proprietors, continue to be carried on in
the same names—as Coutts & Co.,' Child & Co.,' &c., &c., &c.
" Aston I, box and ivory rule maker, 25, Old Compton Street, dead
eight years ; still this name appears in the Post Office London
Directory for 1853."
Certificate thereupon:—" In a circular recently issued by F. W.
Watkins,' it is stated that the name of I. Ashton, 25, Old Compton-
street,' is an error. I hereby state that it was inserted by my
authority, the business being, like many others (such as Pickford &
Co.), carried on in the original name.
" (Signed)
" 25, Old Compton-street, 6 December, 1852 "

GEOROE 31ANDE8.

Another statement in the handbill is the following :
" Conne Nicholas, glass engraver, 33, Princes-street, Leicester-
square, dead two years; still this appears in the' Post Office London
Directory for 1853: "
Certificate—" Having observed that it is stated in a circular re-
cently issued by the proprietor of Watkins's Commercial Directory,'
that the name of N. Conne is inserted in error in tba ' Post Office
London Directory,' I beg to state that it was inserted at my particu-
lar request, the business being still carried on under that name by
myself and the executrix,

" (Signed)
33, Princes-street, 6th December, 1852."

W. S. GOODWIN,

The following is another of the statements in the handbill :
Leo. Chas. E. academy, 18, Goodge-street, dead twelve months ;
till this name appears in the ' Post Office London Directory for

1853."
Certificate—" It was at my request that my husband's name was
kept in the ' London Post Office Directory for 1853.'
" (Signed) LAURA E. LEO.
" 18, Goodge-street, 9th December, 1852."

It will doubtless be generally considered that we have herein dealt
sufficiently with the mendacious handbill ; should F. W. Watkins
further circulate it in the teeth of the foregoing certificates.
we shall make a far more thorough exposure of its sophistries and
falsehoods.

KELLY and CO.
19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar,

14th December, 1852.

MISREPRESENTATION-WATKINS'S
DIRECTORY.—We have, for about a month past, observed
in several newspapers, prefixed or affixed to our announcemesnts of
the " Post Office London Directory for 1863," an advertisement in
whieh it is al eged that " ' Watkins's General London Directory and
Court Guide for 1853' contains upwards of 127,000 names, being
27,000 more than will be found in any other Directory of London
ever published." It is not the fact that " Watkins's Directory for
1853" contains 27,000 more names than the "Post Office London
Directory for 1853," or even so many names as that work. The
arrangement, termed in the Post Office " STREET DIRECTORY," and
in Watkins's " STREET Street Directory" in the
Post Office Directory contains 114,048 names or firms, while
Watkins's contains but 113,410. In the other divisions of the work,
containing names distinct from those in the Street Directory, or
information of a different character, the disproportion is more
marked. In the names of Government Officers, for instance , the Post
Office has 7,000 names, while Watkins's has very much less than
3,000, and Watkins's contains no Alphabetical List of, or Index to
these names, so that one name cannot be found without wading
through the entire. In the Postal division the disproportion is still
greater, while in Watkins's Directory this division is devoid of any
Index; nor is there any Index to the Street Key, or to the List of
Trades. or to the Legal Directory. We should not have made this
announcement but for the misrepresentation that " Watkins's Direc-
tory for 1853" contains 27,000 " more names than any other Direc-
tory of London ever published." Such a statement repeated so fre-
quently as it has been in public advertisements, might, if allowed to
pass uncentradicted, obtain some amount of credence.
Kelly & Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court.-14th December, 1852.

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