The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1853.

SITAR '.: MARKETS--(THIS DAY).

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

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lAberdeen .......
Ambg. Nottng.
& Pastn. Juno
Belfast & Ballymena
Birmng. Wolverh. &
Stour Valley
Birkenhd. Lancsb. &
Cheshire Junct
Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O & £25 Cons
Do., £2O. ........
Blyth & Tyne original
£25 (iss. at £45)
Bristol & Exeter
Caledonian.
Chester & Holyhead
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Black. & Pass
Cornwall
Dublin&Belfast June
Dundee Perth &Aber-
deen Junction
Do. New
East Anglian (£25 L
& E. & L. & D.)
Do., (£lB E. & H.)
Eastern Counties
EasternUnion,A. stk.
Do., do. 8..... ..
Do.NewA(lateTli—h:ds)
East Lancashire
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Edinb. and Peebles
Edinb. Pith. &Dundee
Forth and ClydeJunc.
Glasgow & S. Western
Great Northern Stk
Do., A. Stock
Do., B. Stock
Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.)
Great Western
Trielh South.Eader2
Lancaster &Carlisle
Do., Thirds
Lancash. &Yorkshire
Do., Fifths
Do., Wst. Riding Un.
Leeds Northern :
Liv. Crsby. &So utbpt.
London & Blackwall
Lond. Tilb. & Sthend.
Loud. Bright & S. Cst.
London & N. Western
Do. Fifths
Do. ,IG/.5h.,M&8...0
Do. Eighths
London & S. Western
Do., £5O. ........
Do. £4O
Lndndrry.&Coleraine
Lndndrry. & Ennisk.
Manch. Shef. &Lincln.
Do., Man. &Lin. Un
Midland
Do. Birming. & Derby
Midland G.West.(lr.)
Do. Shares
Newcastle &Carlisle
Newmarket
Do. Bury Extensions
Newpt.Aberg.&lltfd
Newry & Enniskillen
Newry Warrenpoint
& Rostrevor
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Northn. Counties Un
North British

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Do., No. 2
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Do., i B Guaranteed.
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North Staffordshire..
North Western..
N. & S.Westrn. Jane
Nuneaton, Hinckley,'
and Leicester

Oxford Worcester &
Wolverhampton
Portsmouth

Scottish Central
Scottish Mi dland
Shrewsbury & Birmg
Do., L. & N. \Vesta
Guaranteed Stock
Shrewsby. & Herold
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Do. Halves, do
Do. Oswestry

Shropshire Union
Do. A, B,C, &D, fully
paid up at per cent.
ISouth Devon
'South Eastern
South Wales.
S. Yorksh. River Dun

Do.
Staines,Wok.,&Wok.
Stockton & Darling..
Stockton & Hartlepl.
Taff Vale ,
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Waterford&Limerick
West Cornwall..
West End of London
and Crystal Palace
West London

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York Newctl. &Berw.
Do. Extensions
Do. G.N.E. Purchase
York & N. Midland

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FOREIGN.
10 5 Antwrp &Rotterdam 24 —14 d 1
5 3 Belgian East. Junct. 11
20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 3 1 d
... Central of Italy
20 all Charleroi & Erquelin 13 14
171 all Demerara
20 10 Dijon and Besnon ll -22 P
20 8 Dutch Rhenish
20 all East Indian 3l -- 3iP
20 2 Do, Extension p P
5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula —11 P
20 10 Gd. Junct. of France 2.1 2 p
10 Gd. Trunk, of Canada
Shrs. and Bonds 3l - ata
20 8 Gt. Central of France B p
201 201 Gt. Westn. of Canada
Shares 2 lid
Do. bonds(l i55.)1857
Do. bonds (2 i55.)1873
201 101 Hamilton & Toronto ...
1: 0 all Do. 6 per cent
20 5 Lake Const. & Basle
5 4 Lucca and Pistoja, 5
per cent. pref. — id
20 15 Lu
10 13 Do.exembourg (Railway) 6 - 161
5 6 / 61
5 2Do la -- la
5 3 Do. (Canal) —
10 5 Do. 6p. cent. pref. id 4p 544
20 12 Lyons & Mediterran.
20 101 Madras lll,
33/ 29 Maria Antonia
10 10 Do. New
20 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry
20 all Namur & Liege (with
interest 7l 8 71.
20 all Do. (ex interest) —
16 all Northern of France 344 —34 a 14 1
20 all Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds
(fmy.B.&Ams.Shs ] -. 13
10 all NorwegianTrnk. Pre; 7a 8i
20 10 Paris and Lyons l6l —164 p
40 40 Do. bonds
20 all Paris and Orleans
20 all Paris and Rouen 4O —42 41
20 all Paris and Strasbourg 371 —37 i 1 1
20 4 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. - 2 4 p
104 104 Quebec & Richmond 3 1 d
20 all Rouen and Havre
20 9 Royal Danish ld par
5 2 Royal Swedish l/ d
20 all Sambre and Meuse B4 9 9181 9
10 6 Do. 51 per cent. pref.
20 2 S.E. of France - par
20 6 Southern of France , A 4 p
20 6 St. Andrews &Quebec
20 2s. Upper India Scrip
8i all West Flanders 4 41
20 10 Do. 54 per c. Pref , ...d
20 10 Western of France 74 SiP
1G 4 West. of Switzerland 11 ld
20 2 Wiesbaden
20 12 iZealana
.... 34 3 d

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MINES.
1 all Agna Fria .- . p
1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold d ... par
[Os. all Anglo Californian * d— par
10 2 Australasian lf d
20 6 Australian 3i 3.4 444
1 all Australian Cordillera 4 d
1 all Australian Freehold. . d
1 all Ave Maria § 2 d
1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) I dis— par
50 all Blrenarvon Iron and
Coal
1 all British Austrin. Gold d
20 13.5 British Iron 7 9
35 244 Brazilianlmp.(issued
at £5 pm 64— 7 7. 7461
30 all Do. Cocaes & Cniada 24 3
20 15 Do. St. John Delßey 36 38
1 4 Carsona's Creek id par
40 all Cobre Copper 4l 43 424
5 1 Colonial Gold 4
... 15 Copiapo. l.ll 121
St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 55 65
25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. 5 7pxd
5 all English and Austin.
Copper Smeltg. Co. 21c 3 d
20 all General l- —l6
2 all Gt.NuggetVeinScrp # d • $p 24
2 Do. Registered
34 all Great Polgooth 24 2 d
1 all Lake Bathurst — d
1 all Liberty 4 d
3 all Linares . ll ... 13 12
1 all Lond.&Ca/iforn.Gold
Quartz Crush. Co —
1 all Mariquita .. ... id par
10 9 Mexican&S.A.merien. 64 7 61
1 all New Granada is - par
1 all New Linares Mining
and Smelting Co ...
1 all Nouveau Monde ip 14
20 all Pontgiband Silver
Lead Min. & Smelt.
5 1 Port Philip —
1 all Quartz Rock * (1— par
50 all Rhymney iron 8 30
15 15 Do. New —
30 ll Santiago de Cuba 4 5 4?;
1 all South Australian..., d
10 7 Tin Croft .
284 all United Mexican 34 3i 3
1 all Waller — d
1 all West Granada
1 all West Mariposa 4 (I
1 12s. Worthing Mining of
Australia
1 all Ynba 4 d

POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
FOR 1854. KELLY AND COMPANY.

It is something wonderful to observe, year after
year, in this remarkable volume, the steady advance
of improvement on improvement. Manifest though
this advance has undoubtedly been hitherto, it has
never been so conspicuously displayed as in the
present instance, that of its fifty-fifth annual pub-
lication. It evidences more than ever the perfect-
ing consequences of unremitting application and
of a protracted experience. It reveals this in the
union of many excellences until now deemed in-
capable of combination in a work purporting to
supply the public with a really complete and accu-
rate London Directory. Already the Messrs. Kelly
and Company had actually distanced the most en-
terprising of their competitors. They have now ren-
deredit preposterous for any other compiler to dream
of emulating their,extraordinary enterprise. It is
by no means our intention to enter into the merits
of a controversy which has latterly been carried on
not without occasional displays of asperity and of
petulance, through the medium of pamphlets,
broadsheets, and advertisements. Considering the
contention to be, as the imperturbable Q'Trigger
phrases it, " a very pretty quarrel as it stands,"
we cannot consider ourselves called upon in any
way to decide between the claims of the prominent
disputants. Nevertheless, it must be admitted,
promptly, candidly, and without the smal-
lest circumlocution, that, whatever the situa-
tion at this moment of the contest here
intimated whether, to employ an expres-
sion now generally recognised as idiomatic,
it may, perhaps, in several particulars, be six on
one side and half-a-dozen on the other, six on the
side of F. Kelly and half-a-dozen on the side of F.
Watkins—it must, we repeat, promptly, candidly,
and without the smallest circumlocution, be ad-
mitted that the community has long since pro-
nounced its verdict with some degree of significance.
Everybody recognises to whom has been awarded
the palm of popularity. Scarcely any unprejudiced
observer but perceives at a glance which work
is the one allowed on all hands to be au-
thoritative. It is with Kelly's Post-office Lon-
don Directory only in a degree proportioned to its
magnitude and comprehensiveness, as it is with
manyanother favourite compendium of information. •
Precisely, for example, as the continental tourist,
at every emergency consults " Murray's hand-
books"—precisely as the railway traveller turns to
his " Bradshaw"—precisely as " Dod" is invariably
recognised as the surest guide to both houses of
the Imperial Parliament—the masses are accus-
tomed to revert for intelligence in regard
to all that concerns the metropolis, not here
to one and there to another authority, but
habitually, and under all circumstances, to what
may be designated without exaggeration, as at
once the Dod, the Murray, and the Bradshaw of
the English capital—Frederick Kelly's " Post-office
London Directory." In this the proprietor of the
Post-office Directory is only reaping the reward of
pertinacious industry, unflagging enterprise, and
indomitable perseverance. A well-sustained effort
of upwards of half a century's duration, has in
this manner rewarded with unexampled success the
meritorious toils of the originator. Insomuch that
the wealthiest, if not the most populous among
the chief cities of the earth, has in this ex-
traordinaiy volume a kindred index and an
appropriate repiesentative.
London, in faci;, is here displayed for the ap-
preciation, it may be of remote races, and even
one might conjecture of some distant genera-
tion, in all its present power, vastness, and en-
terprise. Its pride and its riches, the varied
avocations of its inhabitants, the extent of its
streets, the multiplicity of its productions, the
continuousness of its traffic, the unexampled im-
portance of its political position, and the unparal-
leled diversity and magnitude of its commercial
operations are here clearly and succinctly portrayed
under a series of suggestive and significant depart-
ments. A dreamer, long ago associated with
this journal, once favoured such as might
happen to delight in similarly fantastic visions of a
possible futurity, with an account of " London in a
Thousand Years," such an account at least as might
be afforded through a vague poetic description.
The ingenious Mr. Roche would hardly, however,
have ventured, we may conjecture, to indulge in
those sinister anticipations as to the fate of our
metropolis, as to its gradual decline and ultimate
decadence, had he been enabled in his eccentric pre-
visions to turn over the phantom pages of the
" Post-office Directory for 1854," the work here
distinguished by its fifty-fifth annual publication. He
would scarcely have indulged so readily in the
vagaries of his morbid and lugubrious imagination.
He would hardly have ventured to foresee so very
distinctly the grass sprouting luxuriantly from the
chinks of the city pavement, the ivy mantling the
ruins of St. Paul's, the reeds clustering among the
broken arches of London Bridge, and those other
signs of decay and solitude, through the delineation
of which he anticipated, by so many years, Mr.
Macaulay's memorable pen-and-ink vignette, in,
perhaps, the most eloquent of his " Essays" in the
Edinburgh. Briefly let us avow that, in poring
over this extraordinary volume of more than 2,400
pages, closely printed and compactly arranged—
the extraordinary volume epitomising the capital of
England, as it is at this period, in the middle of
the nineteenth century—we cannot, for an instant,
conceive, except as the dimmest of all hypothetical
entities, the existence of that scarcely pc3sible New
Zealander. To sympathise with us in,our hopeful
anticipations as to the protracted prosperity of our
metropolis, it is only necessary to corm for a while
the various sections of this surprising compilation.

JOINT-STOCK. BANKS.
40 all Australasia 75 77 77 6
40 all British Colonial Bank ... ...
and Loan Company
50 all British N. American ... ... 60
20 2 Chrtd. Buk.of India,
Austral. and China 4d Idis
25 5 Chrtd. Bilk. of Asia. 13 ldis
100 25 Colonial
100 20 Commercial of Lond ... ...
20 10 English Scottish and
Australian Chrtd l3 1(1 8L; 9
20 15 London Chrtd. Bnk
of Australia i 1p 15/ 164
50 20 London and County ... ...
50 10 London Joint Stock ... ...
100 20 Lond.andWestminst .... ...
100 35 National Provincial
of England
20 10 Do. New — •••
50 223 National of Ireland ... ...
20 all New South Wales
25 all Oriental Bank Coy
poration
100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 49
10 all Do. New — ...
5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg
and Gold Imp. Co 4d— par
25 25 South Australia — ...
25 all Union of Australia 74 76 75 41
23 Do. New 7:l Si
50 10 Union of London
40 all Union of Madrid
MISCELLANEOUS.
5 5 Aubin Coal and Iron ... ...
25 174 Australian Agricult. 42 -- 44 43 2i 31 21
20 14 Australsn.Pcific.3l3.il ... ...
10 8 .Australn. Royal Mail ... _
... 3i
10 24 Berlin Water Works ... ____
50 3838 rit. American Land 58 62
5 31 Brit. & Coln. Smelts.
and Reduction Co ... _
...
100 324 Canada Company ... _
...
5 5 Crystal Palace l— 11 p 6/ 1
5 13 Do. New I i 2
420 23
EC r ya s
ts
et Crystal P
salt
e. oai
nf F. ra...n. . ce . ... . : .... L. .. .
25 20 Electric Telegraph(A) 17 i:6
25 15 Do. (B) l2 14
1 1 Electric Tel. of HO ...
...
15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... _
...
20 18 General Screw Steam ...
... 131
20 74 Irish Beetroot Sugar „. ____
...
20 6 Magdalena St. Navig.
... _
...
1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel ... _
10 4 Netherlands Land l4 Ad
2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter-
Stem. Nay. Co ... ...
1 all N. B. Australasian i il,p iv}
1 3 Do. New
... ...
20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeStsam . -..• ...
& i
5 all Peel Rr. Ld. Minrl. --/ par 51 /3
50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... ...
50 25 Do.
2 all Portland Iron Co ••• --- •••
100 60 Royal Mail Steam .. • -
1 all Scot. Austral. Invest l4 lip
25 25 South Austral. Land 36 38 37
l all Submarine Telegraph ... . .
100 284 Van Diemen's Land 15 16

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. _mLoeasing Closing Prices Business
t.; pans. this day. this day.
50 all Bedford and Ln.&N.W.
Bletchley
St. 100 Buckghamsh L. &N.W. 99 101
50 all Cl7desdaleJe Caledon... 49 51 152
St. 100 E.Lincoln. gr
6p. cent ... . Gt.Northn 140 145
25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian.
Neils. Direct.
••• •••
25 all Do. New Do . . •• •
25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Rt.Westn 3O 32
100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New
Railway & Berw.. •••
50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 108 109 108
25 all Do. i Shares Do 54 55
12 all Do. 1 Shares. Do — 27,
12 all Lon.4Greenw S.Eastern —14 A-20
-20 all Do. Preference Do 24A-256 ad z d
St. 100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent.,. Norfolk
St. 100 Do. 6 per ct... Do
N all Maneh•Batou. Ln.&N.W
and Matlock & Midld 2/ 3
50 all Middlesbro' & Stckton &
Redcar
100 all Midld.Bmdfd Midland... 98 100 99 100
50 all Northern and
Easternsp.c., E. Count.. 60 62 61i
50 all Do. 6 per et. Do
50 all Do.Fixedsp.e Do .. .
25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &Is. W
&Ln& Yk
12i 12 Do. Shares. Do
St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. Gt.Northn 140 145 141
St. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do l4O 145 140
25 18g Shef. Roth. & Lancash.&
Goole g.5.p.c Yorksh d
12 94 S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean 2 lAd
50 alliWearValleygr Stockt. &
6 per cent Darling
25 all Do.. Do 3o} '3li 31k
St. 100 Wilts&Somrst (R.Westu 97 91 99

It will be perceived thereupon, aca glance, how
many securities for that prolongation of pre-
eminence are compacted together in this sur-
vey of the complicated systm of society, as it
actually is in London nowadays. The British
metropolis being here revealed under its several
departments : its political authority in the " Official
Directory" its enormous dimensions in the
" Street Directory"—its abounding wealth in the
" Commercial Directory"—its industrial activity
in the " Trades' Directory"—its contending inte-
rests in the " Law Directory"—its luxurious re-
finement, its gaiety, and its splendour in the
" Court Directory"—its importance as an arena for
ambition in the " Parliamentary Directory"—its
incessant and almost bewildering pertinacity of oc-
cupation in the " Postal Directory"—its monetary
strength in the " Banking Directory"—its ceaseless
and wonderful activity in the " Conveyance Di-
rectory." Out of the apparently unavoidable con-
fusion consequent
.upon the diversity of that sub-
jects thus requiring to be catalogued, we find on
a careful examination of the portly volume under
notice, that there has been evolved a really admir-
able lucidity of arrangement. The advantage
thereby secured has been one, of course, remark-
able for its gradual and perceptible development.
Year by year the work has in this manner appre-
ciably ripened. It has so ripened, indeed, in that
particular, that in its present issue for 1854—
namely, as already observed upon the occasion of
its fifty-fifth annual publication, " The Post-office
London Directory" constitutes adetailed account of
the whole of the inhabitants of our gigantic metropo-
lis, so classified. in streets, and trades, and appropriate
departments that almost any name may with the
utmost facility be found when required. Added to
which the information here compacted together is
brought down to the very latest period practicable
before the day of publication. It should he remem-
bered, in reference to this merit of the compilation,
that a singular variety of difficulties has to be en-
countered by those engaged in the minute and
punctilious labours of revision. It must especially
be borne in recollection, for example, how perpe-
tual are the fluctuations observable in this mass of
every day, every hour, by death, by
two millions of human beings crowded together in
,eko'r by promotion. Upon all these changest
the capital of Great Britain—fluctuations caused
of the " Post-office Directory" are
lawlleesd to keep a watch of unwinkingly vigilant
observation—ready, compilers
removals, or
up to the latest moment,
to interpolate all kinds of unexpected emendations.
In illustration of this, it will be only necessary to
refer to the following particulars—namely, to the
ri
ee
taor
rdy
nCeo Court t"DRi
iantsper.tlio9n62ofinthetnilae
and again
J.
M atP
SOD, J., . .5
p.
2030 and 2037 in the
Parliamentary
Directory, as
well as the insertion at
p. 45 of the Official Direc-
tory, of the names of the Charitable Trust Commis-
sioners, besides that of " John Parker," at
among the numbers of the Privy Councillors,
although it was only as recently as in the Gazette
of the 25th ultimo that there was any official noti-
fication of those appointments. Thus ex ttno
disce omnes—down to the end of the chapter,
the production is benefitted by the latest in-
formation received from different directions in-
discriminately up, so to speak, to the eleventh
hour and three-quarters prior to the moment of
publication. Nevertheless, it must neeessaili.lny_su?
happen occasionally, in spite of the ted most_.lePrcelatndi
precautions, that errors are committed
there in consequence of the recent nature of
some among the alterations
kind requiring to be
in fact,
notified. Casualties of this ,
a work of this pecu-
may be pronounced,
ilner u
for inavoidable. Where-
liar description, altogether
nstance, that two
fore it cannot be surprising,ok place
which to towards the
or three changesn the Prison Department,
close of October I
manner specified at p. 57 of the
are in no man h. h
Official Directory. Everyt thine however that can

PROBABLE OFFICIAL INQUIRY AT THE GENERAL
POST-OFFICE.-It is stated that preparations are being
made at the Chief-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, for
the accommodation of the commissioners appointed to
inquire into the best mode of providing for the increased
and increasing amount of business in this department of
the public service, and with the view of obtaining infor-
mation as to the practicability of carrying out a modi-
fied rate of ocean postage. It is also said that the
inquiry will embrace an investigation into the existing
modus operandi of the office. Further particulars have
not yet transpired, with the exception of the 12th of the
present month being named for the commencement of
the inquiry.

be effected is effected by the promptitude of
those entrusted with the responsible and em-
barrassing task of minute emendation. Another
'meritorious peculiarity of the Post-office London
Directory is in a particular manner deserving of
consideration. It is the circumstance that while
the whole of the present edition, an edition not far
short of 10,000 copies altogether, was being printed
off, the numerous indices scattered through the
volume were compiled and incorporated with the
undertaking. A single instance of the benefit accruing
to the publicfrom this arrangement will be sufficient
to point out the extent of the advantage to the appre-
ciation of the least observant—as where it may be
remarked that the Trades' Index from p. 1725
to p. 1737 will be found to refer to every
trade specified between p. 1289 and p. 1724
in the Trades' Directory. Besides which, it
is observable that in this same Directory (the
Trades' Directory), for 1854, no less than
about sixty new trade headings have been classified
—and this, of course, in consequence of certain
new articles of commerce which have only very re-
cently been introduced : ex. gr. Railway Wheel
Makers, Railway Strap Bag and Belt Makers, Rail-
way Woven Badge Makers, cum cceteris paribus. Au
improvement of a differentkmdis especiallynotieeable
by the way in the Court and Street Directories, where-
in will be found distinguished by their respective
initials, as F.R.S., or F.S.A., or F.G.S., or
F.R.G.S., the members and associates of the
dif-
ferent scientific and other institutions. A com-
prehensive catalogue, moreover, of the beneficed
and officiating clergymen and Dissenting minis-
ters, with their churches and chapels, and
private residences will be found at p. 2142,
this list having been judiciously comprised for the
new year among the different sections of the City
Directory. It is by no means astonishing that with
these and other remarkable additions, too nu-
merous to be here specified seriatim, the work has
ex tended considerably beyond its customary
dimensions. So considerably, indeed, as to have
advanced from 138 to 151 s' heets constituting
anincrease of 208 pages additional. Notwith-
standing which, and notwithstanding the en-
laiged volume for 1854 being printed with entirely
new type, it is creditable to the enterprise of the
proprietor that the work is issued to the public at
no extra cost whatsoever. According to the satis-
factory 'explanation of the prospectus accompany-
ing the volume, it
i would appear that the last-men-
tioned circumstance s attributable to the advancing
popularity of the " Post-office Directory" and to
' its rapidly increasing circulation. It may be
observed, before closing our notice of this remark-
able volume for 1854, that reference to its contents
will be found to have been greatly facilitated
by a simple but very ingenious contrivance
ink brands upon the edges of the leaves,
indicating, when the book is closed, the
particular portion in which may be found
any department that may chance to be required—
Assurance, Banking, City, Official, Postal, Street,
Trades, Law, Court, Commercial, Conveyance, or
Parliamentary. Further comment upon the work
were unnecessary. Panegyric would be superfluous.
Having analysed the nature of this remarkable
enterprise ; having intimated the diversity of the
facts accumulated in these 2400 pages double co-
lumned, and closely printed ; having defined
to some extent at least the scope of the under-
taking, the accuracy of its information, and
the lucidity of its arrangement—leave we with-
out further comment this miracle of laborious
compilation, the reflex of London, the epitome of
the wealth, the power, and the grandeur of the
world's metropolis.

LITERATURE.

CRUIKSHA.NK'S FAIRY LIBRARY.

Hop o' my Thumb and the Seven League Boots.
Edited and Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
D. Bottle.
Glorious news for the Nursery ! A Fairy Li-
brary edited and illustrated by George Cruikshank !
Why, that simple announcement sounds like the
most pretentious of all puffs preliminary. Wel-
come, therefore, must we accord perforce to this
new adventure of our Hogarth of the etching-
needle. From the specimen before us we cannot
but augur admirably as to its successful develop-
ment. " Hop o' my Thumb" gives promise of
marshalling a long and gorgeous procession—a
procession of the inimitable heroes of the romance
of childhood. The dainty little mannikin heralds
the way, we cannot but conjecture, to an extended
succession of the worthies of the fables of infancy,
the inhabitants of the beautiful fairyland of youth.
After he has passed by, we 'shall expect to see
trooping before us, in rapid sequence—Jack with
the speckled seedling of the magic Bean-stalk—
Tom (named like Hop o' my) Thumb, peeping out
of the crust of the royal pasty—Jack there doubt
able Giantkiller, trailing at his heels the cadaverous
head of the grizzly Blunderbore ! Together with
a protracted series of similar phantasies—familiar
to us all as "household words"—the golden nug-
gets picked up by each in the familiar diggings of
dreamland—the shells, and pebbles, and pre-
cious stones washed on shore with us at our
first landing on the terra firma of existence. What-
ever the charm of the dear old stories in their
original simplicity, when unadorned by the blazon-
ries of illustration—those charms are enhanced
by the pencil of Cruikshank to a delectable and
scarcely resistible fascination. If we could ever feel
disposed to question the accuracy of the poet's dic-
tum, that " men are but children of a larger
growth," we must acknowledge our doubts in the
matter, dissipated by our sense of the attractions
compacted into the thirty pages of this delightful
little gem of a publication. Grandfather White-
head was never more of a child, with his pocketful
of toys and playthings, than the man (we don't
care who he may be) who turns over these leaves of
" Hop o' my Thumb," edited and illustrated by
George Cruikshank. Supposing him (the reader)
b be the veriest curmudgeon imaginable, we
would augur that, before he puts dow,ii the
first volumette of the " Fairy Library,, the
down-turned corners of his sardonic mouth
will
be twisted up into a grin, that the corrugations
of his brow will be smoothed away into a beaming
hilarity of countenance, and that for once in a
way he will think lovingly of the good old days of
his boyhood—somewhat as we may suppose old
Ebenezer Scrooge did in the phantom school-
room of the second stave of " The Christmas
Carol," when he cried out, " Why, it's Ali Baba !
It's dear old honest All Baba ! Yes, yes, I know.
One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child
was left hero all alone, he did come, for the first
time, just like that. Poor boy ! And Valen-
tine," said Scrooge, " and his wild brother Orson
there they go ! And what's his name who was
put down in his drawers asleep, at the gate of
Damascus ; don't you see him ! And the Sultan's
groom turned upside down by the genii ; there he
is upon his head ! Serve him right. I'm glad
of it. What business had he to be married to the
Princess." Precisely as it was with Ebenezer
Scrooge it is with us in glancing over these
storied pages of the " Fairy Library," illu-
minated into even more than their wonted
lustre by the light of the pictorial additions
from the hand of our incomparable and inexhaus-
tible George Cruikshank. There the " old familiar
faces" flit by, one after another, and not only faces
but figures, and many of them genuine " figures of
fun," too—conjured again before us by the wizard-
skill of the congenial illustrator. It is not extra-
vagant to say that a fresh interest is imparted to
these fairy legends, by the exquisite fancy and the
ingenious inventiveness of the etching needle of
Cruikshank. We say this, however, exclusively in
commendation of the artist's labours in the present
instance as an illustrator. For honestly we would
venture to whisper in his ears that we have a grim
little crow to pluck with him in reference to his
conduct as editor of "Hop o' my Thumb." As
conscientious critics, we can't for the life of us
countenance the liberties taken here and there i
by our daring innovator with that text which he
should have deemed sacred from any such presump-
tuous tampering with its integrity. Temperance
is all very well, vegetarianism, in theory,
respect your
really delightful, and we cannot but rersel
d brave-
at least, is
enthusiasm about the former, merr
spoken,- large-hearted George CruikshankinYurse3ery!legßenudt
it can scarcely be tolerated thatfto
diffusionnfor oe
should be rendered the vehicle for
f
such crotchets, and for their mtoo rieefftelicetul
him for the enter-
ment. Indebted as wo aret_
from the press so
cannot conceive
prise which has poured for ftw 0
many bewitching cirtisi°ns'
Thumb is the appropriate place
that "Hop o'
for an eulogistimeyalThisioomi to its excellent publisher,
allusion
the remark (p. 25)
as, where the editor ventures
was very fond of
storT. aboutpuhli ~.haedpablir.
that
fat Seven League had read
r"ealidttla e lion
a boo
Boots, in capitraelabdoinogi:
seller and worthy man, Mr. David Bogue, of
ree-
86,
Fleet-street." Nay, veteran and enthusiastic F
traders though we are, we
of anpar-
t' even in that
ticular admit the propriet allusion at page
29 to the admission of foreign corn duty free, which
must inevitably be distasteful
to the agriculturists
in bib and tucker, the boy .farmers, or juvenile
protectionists. Enough
of this, however—we have
entered our stately
of the protest against the rash inter-
polationseditor in the original text of " Hop
o' my Thumb"
—ahem !—and now turn we with a
genial air to the six etchings from his hand in his
other capacity as illustrator. The title-page is the
epitome of it 11
a —the hovel above, with the five
brothers slumbering in a row, while Hop is vigi-
lantly observant at tlic edge of the coverlid—the
-
forest below, where the six are lost by their
natural parents on either hand the