The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-01 00:00:00

N°.18,495.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING

The following are Reviews of the New Edition, which have already
appeared In the leading Metropolitan Journals :

SIIN, OCTOBER 17, 1851.
This is the fifty-third annual publication of the " Post Office Lon-
don Directory ; and if untiring enterprise or unerring accuracy in the
collection of materials, or unequalled ingenuity in the classification
afterwards, so as to afford the greatest possible amount of informa-
tion in the smallest possible amount of space, be worthy of being con-
si iered a work of art and industry, then is the " Post Office London
Directory" a work of art and industry quite worthy of a foremost
place in the Great Exhibition, and then should the Messrs. Kelly
have awarded to them a mark of honorary distinction for the pro-
duction of this unsurpassed and unsurpassable production. It is the
microcosm of the metropolis of the world ; no information concern-
ing London, its inhabitants, its topography, its public buildings, its
Institutions, its palaces. its docks, its trade, and its commerce, can
13: possibility be required, which the " Post Office Directory" can-
not at once supply. To the commercial man it is invaluable, for
not only does it supply the names and addresses of the heads of
firms, but the 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 position of everyone
of the new streets recently built in London or the suburbs, is accu-
rately laid dower; and we find, on reference to the Map, that it shows
the positions of many streets which are scarcely yet completed. It is
classified, as usual, into s" Official Directory," a " Street
Directory," a " Commercial-Directory," a " Trades' Direc-
tory," a "Law Directory," a "Court Directory," a "Par
liamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " City Direc-
tory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory." It
furnishes also full and accurate information regarding the various
assurance and other joinst-stock companies, and the latest informa-
tion with regard to the recent postal arrangements. The man of
fashion will find in the " Court Director 7," that the same tninute
accuracy has been observed, and the same untiring diligence exer-
cised, in procuring information relating to the fashionable world,
as has been exercised in compiling, arranging, and classifying
the commercial portion of this great encyclopmdia of the metro-
polis ; whilst, to the politician, the " Official" and the " Parlia-
mentary" Directories furnish all the information he can desire
on the subjects of which they treat. This information is brought
down to the latest moment, It was only on the 7th instant that
Lord Dunsandle was elected an Irish Representative Peer, to fill
up the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Earl of
Charleville, and that the electors of the East Riding of
Yorkshire returned Captain Duncombe as their representative, in
the room of the late Mr. Broadley; both these changes appear in
the present edition of the Directory ; and the present Lord Stafford,
who only succeeded to the title about a week since, appears as the
Peer, with Christian and mum= at length. In the list of Peers
appears the full Christian and Surname of the present Earl of
Donoughmore, who only succeeded to the title in the course of last
month ; whilst, in the " Postal Directory," at page 1,761, the accele-
ration of the delivery of the papers by day mail appears, under the
head " Delivery of Letters in London ;" the first day on which all
the mails arrived, so as to admit of the complete carrying out of the
arrangement, being Saturday last, the 11th ult. The proprietor is
fully justified in his belief that this work has kept pace with the re-
quirements of the metropolis to which it is devoted, and he explains
in his preface how he has been able to accomplish this great
labour, and to bring the work to its present high state of per-
fection. He says :—" Accuracy and appropriate classification, so
that everything which may reasonably be expected in such a book,
may not only be found, but found without difficulty, are indispen-
sable to perfection. These advantages can, in any Directory, only
be attained gradually, and not completely, until the work enjoys
the entire circulation. While rivals existed, patronage was
divided between books which were, or should have been, coun-
terparts of each other ; the public, therefore, had to pay more
than they need have done, and, besides, to submit to inferior pro-
ductions ; the total receipts not being sufficient to sustain two
Directorie. of London, each as complete as the present. This is
quite certain ; as, for the many years during which this work has
enjoyed the entire circulation, its profits would have paid •but a
small proportion of the expense necessary to the production of
another equally complete. A second Directory of London would be
about as prudent an undertaking as a second railroad to Brighton ;
all the expenses would have to be incurred a second time for the
same objects ; and it must be manifest, that if both paid their ex-
penses, the profits on two capitals, instead of one, must be paid by
the public. The present state of this work is a sufficient proof of
the advantage to the public—of their having to pay bat for one
collection of the information—one compilation—one setting of the
type, &c. &c. This volume, to say nothing of accuracy, classifica-
tion, and general arrangement, contains about double the quantity
of mere letter-press contained in the closing volume of its latest
annual competitor, and is published at a lower price. There can,
therefore, be no question that the public, as well as the proprietor
of the 'Post Office London Directory,' benefit by the circumstance
that the work has been so long without any competition. Firmly
established as this Directory is in public favour, it can only be ne-
cessary that an amount of diligence equal to that which has led to
so gratifying a result, be continued, in order to sustain it ; on this
the public may, with confidence, rely." Judging of the future by
the past, we confidently rely on the energy, the abilities, the talent,
and the resources of Messrs. Kelly, and believe that for years to
come the " Post Office London Directory" will continue to enjoy,
because it will deserve, the undivided patronage of the public.

TIMES, OCTOBER 21, 1851.
Far-seeing sages have been busy prophesying all manner of results
• from the Great Exhibition. We have one before us—one which
none of them ever dreamed of. The Great Exhibition, amid the
other wonderful effects it produced, exhausted the " Post Office DI-
, rectory" for 1851 ;an I lest the whole commercial world of London
should be left without its guide and friend, the proprietors of that
valuable work have at this unusually early period issued their volume
for the year that is to come. Armed with this infallible weapon—
,
for. Indam, it sesuraey is se groat pa to de,el ru 112111.0 coo
a, anything of the kind—one may pierce the remotest fastnesses of
London, and count its Smiths, Joneses, Johnsons, and Browns. For
one who has the time it is worth while to scrutinise the atnasing cor-
rectness with which this volume discriminates the whole mass of
London life into some 2,500,000 names, and how it depicts and takes
co pieces the minutest works or the vast machine that fills the valley
of the Thames. The book is one of our standing wonders. In
utility, excellence of typography, care, and trustworthiness, it can-
not be surpassed; and not the least remarkable feature about it is
the very recent ch anges recorded in its pages. For instance,
here in this volume of more than 2,000 pages, which was printed
on the 13th of October, we find inserted in the " Parliamentary
Directory," at pp. 1,738 and 1,749, the name of the Hon.
Captain A. Duncombe, R.N., who was elected as Member for the
East Riding only six days previously—namely, on the 7th of
October ; and in page 40, in the list of the Privy Council Office, the
name of Lord Liverpool is struck out, though his death was not
recorded in the " Times" till the 6th of October. To the commer-
cial world it would be quite as necessary to deliver a lecture on
the general benefits of sunshine, as to speak of the merits of the
" Directory," and to all Londoners who want to know anything of
the world they live in it is inestimable. The present volume is dis-
tinguished by the same internal and external advantages as those
which have so long characterised its predecessors.
[The fact above adduced, that in the "Directory" the name of
Lord Liverpool, whose death had been recorded only on the 6th of
October, was struck oat in page 40, in the list of Privy Council, is a
happy illustration of the rapidity with wisick the information con-
tained in the work is compiled and published. So striking an
example of the excel:enee of the " Directory" has naturally cau,ed
some comment; and the present appears a fitting opportunity of
calling attention to the entire facts of the case :—An Earl, who is
a Privy Councillor, appears in the " Post Office London Directory,"
Ist, in the list of Privy Council; 2d, in the '• Street Directory;"
3d, in the " Court Directory ;" 4th, in the list of Earls ; sth, in the
Alphabeacal list of Peers; 6th, in the Alphabetical list of the
Surnames of Peers ; 7th, in the titles of the Eldest Sons of Peers.
The corrections, rendered necessary by the death of the Earl of
Liverpool, only recorded on the 6th of October, were actually
carried into five of these seven parts (the two others having before
been printed off), in a Work consisting of 2,090 Imperial Octavo
pages ; and the book was printed, bound, and distributed, so that the
Reviews of it in the newspapers commenced on the 14th of the same
month. Although we believe that it is not possible to adopt mea-
sures which shall ensure greater promptitude or accuracy, we should
not have called public attention to a matter which, with our ar-
rangements, is a mere thing of course, but for comments which have
been made on this particular point. It was Oil account of the
acknowledged impossibility of competing with our arrangements that
the Proprietors of " Robson's Directory" took leave, of their sub- i
scribers in the following terms :

GLOBE, OCTOBER 18, 1851.
Among the many interests affected by the Great Exhibition is that
of the " London Directory;" the demand for the edition of 1851
being so great, in consequence of the crowds congregating to the
metropolis, that it was deemed advisable to have an early publica-
tion of that for 1852. The comparatively early appearance of the
work will, however be found to have derogated little, if at all, from
its accuracy and excellence, as every change that has taken place
up to the last few days is carefully recorded in its pages. As in-
stances, we may state that the Hon. Arthur Duncombe is given as
the Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, for which county he
was elected as late as the 7th instant; and that the present Lords
Stafford and Bolingbroke are named as the possessors of their re-
spective titles, although they succeeded to them only within the cur-
rent month. In every respect the edition for 1852 is quite equal to
its predecessors. . Indeed, when one considers the immense amount
of information in the work—the perfect accuracy which charac-
terises it—and the excellent classification adopted, by which any
piece of information required can be pounced on in a moment, the
" London Directory" seems little short of a marvellous work, and
one which could only have been put together by the most indefati-
gable perseverance and scrupulous care. It would have been indeed
worthy of a place in that noble collection of the monuments of the
industry and intelligence of the world, which we have but a day or
two since looked on for the last time.

STANDARD, OcTom 21, 1851.
The fifty-third annual publication of this extraordinary volume is
now before us. The projector of such an opus magnum must have
been a bold man, but ne one can observe its singular completeness
without coming to the conclusion that it has been the work of many
years to bring to perfection such a guide-ook to the first city in the
worl t. The labour and diligence which must have been bestowed
on Messrs. Kelly's book is quite inconceivable, and the proprietors
must be gratified that their efforts have been appreciated by the
public. Every merchant's house, every place of business in London,
or even in the country, has its " Post Office London Directory."
The enormous circulation thus attained has enabled thd proprietors
to offer it for sale at a price that no book less universally purchased
could be sold for. Upwards of two thousand closely-printed pages,
comprising the most extensive and miscellaneous information in one
volume, an i sold at the price at which it is offered, is a triumph of
skill and diligence of which the proprietors may well feel proud.
They who look further, may see, in the success of the " London
l'ost Office Directory," the foreshadowing of results yet more im-
portant to the community even than the accurate knowledge of the
persons, occupations, and things, so skilfully set before us in this vo-
lume, of the busy metropolis. It is unnecessary to recommend the
" Directory ;" such a book is always itself its own best recom-
mendation.

" Bowtrell and Co:, Proprietors and Publishers of Robson's
London Directory,' beg to acquaint their subscribers, that with the
volume for the present year that work has terminated.
" It has been found impossible longer to contend with the 'Post
Office Directory,' a work combining large capital, with un-
equalled resources of every kind requisite for the proper production
of a Directory of the metropolis. These advantages place that
work on anch an elevation that further competition with it would
be as injurious to Bowtell and Co. as it would be unjust to their
subscribers "
And since this was put forth, the arrangements under which the
" Post Office Directory" are conducted have, as is well known,
been very fnaterially strengthened.—Editors of "Post Office
London Directory."]

SNIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE, OcTong 18, 1851.
The annual volume of this stupendous work appears with pre-
scriptive punctuality. The plan originally laid down is carried out
with increased completeness in the publication for 1852, which, like
its predecessors, is a signal monument of method, enterprise, and per-
severance. It is not possible that any work devoted to London and
its statistics can furnish so clear and definite a record of the per-
sonal and commercial contents of the metropolis as this mammoth
book, the swelling bulk of which denotes that it keeps pace with the
increase of population and the several developments of industry.
No one can turn over its pages without being struck with the im-
mensity of labour which its compilation must have entailed upon
those engaged in it. Every line is the record of a specific fact—a
fact In every case liable to change, and, consequently, involving
periodical justification throughout. The machinery devised by the
Messrs. Kelly for securing this annual revision is now as perfect
as it is possible to make it ; and the corrections are brought down to
the latest date. The separate Directories embrace the usual fields
o linfortnation. Trades and tradesmen, professionals and officials,
streets and conveyances, banking-houses and post offices, are here
regulated to their particular heads, and, besides the mere catalogue
of names, enriched with every sort of collateral information which
the exigencies of business or curiosity may require. Our former
commendations may be repeated now. The accuracy aimed at by
the editors half a century ago has been severely tested since the
book has been in existence; and it not only repels accusation on
this score, but challenges fresh panegyric as every succeeding
volume emerges from the press. The counting-house of the merchant
and the trader could now as ill spare the almanack as the "Post
Office Directory."

MORNING CHRONICLE, OCTOBER 15, 1851.
In an age prolific of books this is the
umsoefsutlextraordinary, and we
yll—edatomsize,ltehee
of human skill a proof of the ofefel al
humanalmost ti
nc f all. It is a miracle
tri-
umphs resulting from an ultimate combination
domusptre
of the temporary di-
vision of labour—an argument for the superiority of London over
every c tend
in the world —and an example to all
publishers, catalogue
makers, and book compilers whatsoever. This is the fifty-third
an-
nual publication; it enjoys all the advantages of its proprietors'
fifty-two years of experience. The classification,
once
eomf
almost to Bradshawism, is now so admjrably managed, that every
information such a work may be expected to afford can here b•t,
fouvul, and found without difficulty, by persons to whom the search
is a novelty, and the volume unknown. The stranger may here be
guided, and the Londoner, at each year's end, refresh his in-
formation as to the whereabouts of his old friends. The statist,
too, suddenly called upon for his figures, may joyfully find refuge
by ready access to his Directory, where he will learn how
many churches and how many schools. how many clergy and how
many lawyers, how many bakers and how many butchers, are re-
quired in this mighty metropolis to satisfy the spiritual, intellectual,
and physical wants of its two million and a half of inhabitants.
The teetotaller may recreate himself by marking i
at each corner of a street, and in every n each
street
parish, the appearance
or disappearance Of some public house Pa
'
ouse ; he may compare 1851 with
1841, with 1831 ; see whereP
temperance has progressed, And where
gin-palaces are still in the ascendant; he may trace back " mine
host " from hotel to inn, from inn of so to beer-shop. and point the moral
Rome future speech by fortunes gained, extracts of the evidence here given of the
liquor..
The the fortunes also lost, by the sale of intoxicating
which he topographer may correct his chart by the informationg
thought hismust hence derive, that new streets have arisen since he
tuations In abours concluded ; the historian may
the P•, ulati note where flue-
serve that here, from some o 'clan may commerce and and her a cause which he must try to disc v
positions—that there i
attendant man are restless, and seeking new
et.'
of a
new
system,
hitgesome attraction rapidly becoming the gceantewe
of the times generall rto not called into operation. The student
elation occupying a house
find,
occasionally, an operatives' asso-
anything like a state of equaufmaittood street, and be only brought to
that great slop-shops, ana other EY again by a discovery of the fact,
ther way vrestwards, if not at a greater
jr"' at any rate with more
the Christian Socialists. If the inquirhir trading establshments of
the district of the Temple, the result s4fmind penetrates, in print,
number of old names gone, reflections en thebe astonishment at the
immutable of professions, and a discovery, if the search
of the most
in, that the lost barristers are not deed, '
but it be persevered
if, finally (which, share the world localises in the
provinces :
contemplative,
' seems not improbable) the generally is not
er Wants
discover an address, he may do so in aim inute,andthat
_only to
unless the object of his solicitude be very flighty, "i
it tit correctre,
we, at least, assure him that it would have been so up to witi
fortnight of the publication of the volume before us. "Ex uno 'ell's a
omnes." The death of Lord Stafford was but a week Sice noticed
in our columns: in the Parliamentary department of this Directory
we find the full Christian names of the new Lord, with such other
change of particulars as the circumstances required. Yet the volume
kept thus minutely accurate contains more than two thousand
closely printed pages. Who shall conceive the watchful diligence
bestowed upon its every-day revisal? But we sired not insist upon
qualities which cannot be denied ; we need not recommend as useful
what recommends itself as indispensable. Good classification, and
incessant carp in marking alterations, are the essential qualities of
a Directory; and both these qualities this Directory has to per-
fection.

publicwnrk noticethat,
and presenting
any
patronage.
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source.s aTmh ee
WEEKLY DISPATCH, OCTOBER 19, 1851.
"hand-book to the commerce
phlatseiss,dhiffiascsulototfoternemlaiadrkcluapimonta.
fifty-third annual volume is now before us; and, as heretofore, it
embodies (certainly in a very bulky form) an amount of useful in-
Ifotrims,aitniofnaczhasichthmeipgrhetfabceessotuagthest,faor2nhavnadt
of the first commercial city in the World." " As usual, the volume
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 Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," a "Bank-
ing Directory," and a finely-executed Map of London and its en-
virons. The work, alike indispensable to the commercial man and
to individuals unconnected with trade, reflects great credit upon the
proprietor for his industry and untiring perseverance, and is an ho-
nour to the country in which it appears. The whole is printed in a
clear, distinct type, and on excellent paper, and the "getting up"
altogether is unexceptionable. While such care and zeal continue
to be exerted, to render the boot in its several departments com-
plete, and make it really and truly a hand-book of commerce, it
need not fear any rival.

EXAMINER, Gerona 18, 1851.
Mr. Kelly's giant Directory takes the field a month earlier than
usual this year. This is accounted for by the fact of the great de-
mand for last year's impression consequent on the crowds at the
Great Exhibition ; and certainly our visitors could not do better
than resort to Mr. Kelly's compilation for a proper impression of the
magnitude and wonders of the city they were visiting. We possess
no other record of them to compare with it. Two thousand closely-
printed pages of streets, trades, professions, and persons, express
better than the most eloquent phrases what a mighty mass of human
beings are now congregated in the spot called London, and what in-
finitely vast varieties of human existence and interests have come
to be comprised within that name. Often we have had occasion to
say, and may now repeat, that this book of Mr. Kelly's is not one,
but a dozen Directories. Its clear and succinct art angement adapts
it to the use of every class that may be supposed likely to have need
of such information. There is a ' Street Key," of nearly 500 pages,
containing the names of more than a hundred thousand people.
1 here is an Alphabetical Directory, containing in the same
number of pages nearly the same number of names.
There is a classification of more than two thousand trades.
There is a Court Guide to some 25,000 of what are called the
whateverand i nnthroughout
a person e tahne
be s
gentler classes. There is a Law Guide; a Parliamentary
Guide; a Guide to all the Public Offices; a Directory of Post-
Towns and Postages all over the world; a list of all the chief hotels
countryupposedan
to have
hunder
any separate p
needar a t eto know Directories,
re
agencies city buildings, companies, churches, chapels, publications,
and , or about assurance companies, banking houses, and
conveyances of all kinds from, to, or in the metropolis. A mass of
various matter so unexampled in balk and extent depends obviously
upon arrangement, and facility and completeness of r eference, for
its practical worth and 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
•
curse, a nd as
tar
as we have been able to judge, with unerring ac-
view
y. , Though it is hardly the middle of October when we have
it now before us complete,
we yet fled proofs of a scrupulous cer.;
redness of revision that
must haTO dated so recently ae the close of

MORNING HERALD, OCTOBER 17, 1851.
The punctuality with which this huge record makes its appearance
at the close of the year is not one of its least recommendations.
Certainly, it is proof that the diligence :and energy which have
always characterised its production experiences no ab dement,
notwithstanding the perpetual extension of the field of labour, and
the vast increase of those details which an insidiously-growing
population must necessarily generate. We have oftea before been
afflict upon to compliment thd enterprise of the proprietors, and we
have little to add upon the present occasion. Every ono who has
been in the habit of turning to the " Post Office Directory," is aware
of its faultless accuracy; and to praise it on this score is superfluous.
The changes to which such a multitude of localities are exposed by
the accidents of life, are duly provided for; and we can but marvel
at the excellence and completeness of the machinery by which the
entire surface Of Loudon 14 annually explored, and eyery shifting

Just bli hed price 315., embellished with a MAP of LONDON, act detected and corrected. The union of forethought with in-
Corrected to this date, the Complete Edition of the genuity —of comprehensive method with inflexible perseverance
p OST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
was never more eminently displayed—and that, happily, in a cause
of the highest and most catholic utility. The " Post Office Direc-
For 1 8 2,
,
tory" has now become a metropolitan necessity. The gallery of
Being the Fifty-third Annual Edition, volumes which have been published exhibit, in the gross, a me-
Comprising, among other information, morable and curious monument of private industry; while to the
statl,t they unfold, with a plain and naked truth, the g
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY; STREET DIRECTORY; rdul deve-
lopment of the resources, both personal and commeracial,a of the
COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY ; greatest capital of Europe. Rivalry has long since been extinguished
TRADES' DIRECTORY; LAW DIRECTORY; by the great superiority of the present publication; and it is as well
COURT DIRECTORY; that it should be so, for the editors affirm, with reason, in their
PARLIAMENTARY DIRECTORY, preface, that when " patronage was divided between books which
were, or should have been, counterparts of each other, the public
POSTAL DIRECT3RY ; CITY DIRECTORY;
had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to
CONVEYANCE DIRECTORY; submit to inferior productions; the to al receipts not being
BANKING DIRECTORY; sufficient to sustain two Directories of London each as complete as
&c. &c. &c. the present." The rivals alluded to have, however, not been with-
out their use. They have, no doubt, stimulated the proprietors of
the " l'ost Office Directory" to that kind of prompt and vigilant
exertion from which perfection alone can spring ; and we have now
a book of reference as uniqua in its characteristics as in its worth.
The divisions of the book are the same as they have hitherto been.
The separate Directories amount to twelve ; by a hich arrangement
any particular search may be achieved, either by reference to the
name of the person sought for, the street he lives in, or the occupa-
tion he follows. We have, thus, a Directory of Government
officials ; of streets ; of tradesmen ; of trades ; of law ; of fashion ;
of Parliament ; of the Post Office ; of the City ; of conveyances ;
of banking-houses ; and of the assurance offices. These are again
subdivided where necessary; and every conceivable facility is
afforded to the inquirer, by means of sectional indices, &c., to save
both his time and trouble. But we need not further particularise.
The " fifty-third publication" of the " Post Office Directory" more
than equals any of its numerous predecessors; and when we say
this, the amount of labour bestowed upon it, the diversity of its
classifications, the variety of its information, and its uniform exact-
ness, will be at once appreciated. Every sort of specific knowledge
that it concerns the merchant, the trader, the professional man, the
idler, or the artisan, to be acquainted with, may here be found; rind
that the corrections come down to the latest date, may be inferred
from suet, entries as the elections of Lord Dunsandle and Captain
Duncombe, both of which took place no further back than the 7th
instant.

MORNING POST, OCTOBER 22, 1851.
This remarkable volnme has attained its fifty-third year, and now
contains 2,085 closely printed pages. In this immense mass of in-
formation, the most searching scrutiny will find nothing useless or
unnecessary ; and the extreme accuracy which is observable in the
most minute details, renders. the "Post Office London Directory'
one of the marvels of the age. Its early publication is accounted
for by the circumstance that the edition for 1851 is out of print.
and the proprietors have taken great care that all necessary cor-
rections should be made up to the latest moment. We have been
at some pains to t est the accuracy of the present edition, by reference
to instances of recent change within our own knowledge, and in no
single case have we found any mistake. The insertion of Lord
Dunsandle, whose election took place in Septenkber, amongst the
Irish representative Peers, and the alterations rendered necessary
by the death of Lord Donoughmore, on the 12th September, are two,
amongst many, proofs of the diligence and care with which this in-
valuable work has been prepared. Even the minor official changes,
such as the appointment of Queen's counsel, police magistrates, and
the like, are also noted with unfailing correctness. The arrange-
ment and distribution of the several parts of the work afford the
utmost facilities for reference; so that the labyrinth of this vast
metropolitan population is threaded as readily as the population of
the most insignificant village, and official situations, trades, profes-
sions, residences, as easily discovered. It is not surprising that such
a work, so useful to all, and so indispensable to those engaged in
business, should find a demand proportioned to the labour bestowed
upon it. It has now, we conceive, reached the highest pitch of
perfection of which such a production is capable; and it will unques-
tionably continue to receive that large share of public patronage by
which it has hitherto been deservedly supported. Not even the
Great Exhibition itself could convey to foreigners a grander or more
just idea of the vast resources of British capital and enterprise; and
certainly no guide book in the world could give half as accurate a
notion of the wealth, industry, and pursuits of the Londoners as is
contained in this imposing and instructive volume. The obligation
which the public owe to Messrs. Kelly is certainly not confined to
the mere counting house utility of their labours. They have collected
an amount of statistical information, the quantity of which is only
equalled by its value ; and it affords us sincere pleasure to bear our
testimony to the merits of their present edition.

MORNING ADVERTISER, OCTOBER 22, 1851.
The fifty-third annual impression of this wonderful and ever-
increasing book is before us. On the present occasion it is marked
by a more early appearance than usual—a proef of increased dili-
gence in compiling the immense lists of names, trades, and profes-
sions, as well as a further enhancement of its value and accuracy.
For it must be evident, upon reflection, that the nearer in point of
time to the completion of information so varied, evanescent, and
perpetually changing, the issue of the work containing it shall be,
so will its faithfulness be increased. Death, bankruptcy, retirement,
sales, emigration, mere removal, prevent the permanency of such
information, in the recency ,f which lies its Whole value. Now,
living ourselves in this current of change, and of necessity observant
of many mutations, we have applied to the " Pest Office Directory"
the severest of tests, by a reference to a few of the most recent fluc-
tuations in the world of London and of commerce. This it has stood triumphantly. In this vast mass of matter (over 2,000 pages), in all
parts of the ponderous volume, is the same actuality of present truth-
fulness. Official appointments and promotions, changes of firms,
removals, alterations of postal times, of mail routes and arrivals, of
steam-packets, the evictions and changes consequent upon street-
widening', &c., &c., &c., are all noted, so as, in poetic phrase, to
" Fix the flying Cynthia of the minute ;"
or, rather, to render, so far as modern Babylon is concerned, " the
very age and body of the time, its form and pressure." Among the
notabilla of the world's metropolis, this record of its actual state is
one of the most useful and wondrous.

DAILY NEWS, Ocrom 14, 1851.
The " Post Office Directory" for 1852 has been published, un-
usually early this year. The portly volume is now before us. The
proprietors thus explain their reasons for this earlier issue of their
volume:—" The Exhibition having occasioned a demand greater
than usual, the edit on for the current year became exhausted; to
prevent the inconvenience of the work being. out of print, every
exertion has been made to produce the new edition at the earliest
period compatible with accuracy." That this has not been sacrificed
to speed, a scrutiny will amply show ; and in proof that the cor-
rections have been made to the latest possible period, they instance
the acceleration of papers by the day mail, under the head of
"delivery of letters in London," at page 1761. The first day on
which the mails arrived so as to admit of the complete carrying out
of the arrangement was on Saturday last, the 11th instant. The
insertion, too, in the " Parliamentary Directory" of the Christian
names of the present Lord Stafford, whose father's death was an-
nounced La.
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might be adduced to show how closely the corrections nave been
made up to the moment of issue.