The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

POST- OFFICE T. oNDONT DIRECTORT
for 1249, being the Fifti,th Annuli P:ll,h•ation, is nowpni,

fc.,,t royal oetavo pa4<.s. price ; Lail a-a ,
It has already received the following highly gratifying notice in
the leading Metropolitan Journals :
SUN, NOVEMBER 30, 1848. •
The year 1849 is the jubilee of this most useful, most meritorious,
and most carefully compiled work of reference. It-is now just half a
century since the " Post-office Landon Directory" first became a
candidate for public favour, and for many years it waged an unequal
war with other publications of a similar character. Fortunately,
however, for the public, it became, in 1836, the property of its pre-
sent proprietor, who, with that energy and enterprise which, in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, commands success, determined
to make it in reality what it was in name—a directory and guide to
the streets, the professions, and the trades of London—to make it a
mirror of the metropolis of the commercia world. To accomplish
this, neither pains nor expense were spared ; the work was extended
to nearly doable the usual size, accuracy was secured by establishing
a system of collecting information, and a system of checking and
comparing the results of the information thus collected. A map of
Loudon was added; aid thus the " Post-office London Directory,"
theke greater extent and greater accuracy of its information, and by
more lucid arrangement of its contents, was enabled to drive
every rival from the field.

THE TIMES, NOVEMBER 30, 1848.
The volume for the'aPProaching year. 1849, being the 50th volume
f this publication has just been published by Messrs. Kelly and Co.,
Of Old Bosvrell-conrt. This volume contains all the matter which
enriched those of the present and preceding years, with all such lin-
P ovetnents as increased activity as
research and careful isvestiga-
tion can supply.' It appears to be as accurate a compilation for the
offices, trades, occupations, and residences of thousands of persons
as the most minute inquiry and the most methodical arrangement
can furnish. Perhaps no book more effectually answers the purposes
for which it is intended than this does. It is necessarily a balky
volume ; but its bulk, contrary to the general role, is an advantage,
and it may be said to contain no superflifous pages whatever. It is
well printed, and well got up, and has a map of London prefixed to
it, which will be found usetlil. The proprietor has had for many
years an arduous task in carrying out his object, but his labours have
`enninated in complete success. He has conferred a benefit on the
nnhlic, and it is their duty, as well as their interest, to patronise his
Rte.

MORNING HERALD, NevENBER 30, 1848.
This stupendous and indispensable book has, with honourable
punctuality, again made its appearance, having completed 50 years
.of its existence—a lapse of time that has imperceptibly added to the
experience of those who have been engaged in its productiOn, and
given it, by the accumulation of resources, every conceivable feature
• .of utility. Although comprising such a myriad of Isolated facts, il-
lustrative of the commercial and professional pursuits of the inhabi-
tants of this vast metropolis, we do not remember any case of error,
and the care which has thus been bestowed upon its preparation has
established it as an authoritative Directory of the capital of Great
Britain, laughing ',nary to scorn. How such an enormous body of
specific intelligence could be got together at all is a matter of wonder,
but how the masses of detail brought in from the army of labourers
employed to collect it could have been so adroitly digested, and placed
In a shape so immediately adapted for reference, is more surprising
There, however. is a book of upwards of two thousand royal
octavo pages, taking the whole of London within its grasp, aid exhi=
tain; its streets and the avocations of its residents, in treble alpha-
bet, whereby_ the convenience of the searcher after an unknown
"whereabouts" is met at all points. The " Post-office Directory" is,
!It short, a monument of most valuable enterprise, and achieved, as
It now is, by private machinery, without the aid that was f-,rmerly
accorded it by the .etter -carriers, presents a matchless example of
- well-directed diligence and perseverance.
The arrangements of the present volume are similar to those which
: have distinguished the work for the last two or three years, the com-
- pleteness whick.the proprietor has accomplished hardly admitting of
any further extension. We find, however, that the entire surface of
the -metropolis has been revised, and such alterations made that
changes of address and the. opening of new establishments rendered
necessary.- white the suburban neighbourhOods, which are generally
swelling into importance and becoming fresh hives of :human exist-
ence and human industry, are vigilantly detected and submitted to
the governing modes of analysis.

MORNING CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 1, 1848.
This valuable work is so well known and appreciated, that it would
In a work of supererogation to enter into any explanation as to it,
nature and merits. It is sufficient to state that this is the fiftieth
annual publication under the a'tove title, and it contains a mass of
information• which can nowhere else be obtained, relative to the
commercial, professional, and other interests in this gfeat metropolis,
ao as to render it, possession almost absolutely necessary to any one
residing in London, and who takes an active part in the business of
life. The.present volume extends to upwards of 2,000 pages ; but not-
withstanding its bulky appearance, it contains such an enormous
quantity of details, as really to render it surprising hew it conid be
condensed into such A compass, and at the same time be so admirably
digested and arranged, that any reference may be found out with the
greatest facility. When this publication was first started, it was little
More than an alphabetical list of names and addresses ; but-within
the last few years the whole plan has been so expanded as to corn-
Prise not less than twelve separate parts, under the titles of the Offi-
cial, the Street, the Commercial, the Trades, the Law, the Court, the
. Parliamentary, the Postal, the City, the Conveyance, the Banking,
and the Assurance Directories. Under each of these heads every re•
intsite information is given, so that any fact which can properly
come under any one of these categories can at once be ascertained.
The arrangement of the present volume is similar to those which
have been published for the last three or four years, bat the whole of
the contents have been carefully revised, and such alterations have
been made slime last year as the changes which have taken place in
the residences, appointinents, and arrangements under the classes
Which we have mentioned have rendered necessary to secure ac-
, e,uracY. There has also been a considerable extension in many of its
departments. An extremely well-engraved n,w map of London,
Prepared expressly for this work, faces the title-page.

. _
MORNING POST, NOVEMBER 30, 1848.
- It is jut half a century Mike the " Post-office London Directory"
Frst made its appearance. But how small, how limited in its objects,
bow inefficient in its attainments it then was, compared with what
it now is ! London itself, with its commerce, its extensions, its
Population, its improyements of all sorts, does not so far outstrip
the London of 1800 as, the " Pest-office Directory" of 1849 does
that of the first yearn( its publication. To the energy, the enter-
prise, and the unwearying exertions of the Messrs. Kelly this great
Metropolis is indebted tor having a directory worthy of the gigantic
interests contained within its circumference. Such a directory no
other city-in the world ban boast of possessing. It is really amazing
t° °Pea this huge volsme and contemplate the mass of information
contained therein ; and when its- accuracy is tested by referring to
details within oar own personal cognizance, it is impossible to
withhold the eXpressicm of our admiration for the stupendous corn •
Dilation, and of our belief in its general truthfulness. The classifica-
tion is most complete, and under the heads of " Official," " Street,"
▪ Commercial.'," Trades," " Law," " Court," " Parliamentary,"
" Postal," " Conveyance," " Ranking," &c., all the per-
sonal and other information which the most copious directory can
Impart is found with the greatest facility. This work is really a
E-
ne monuritent ef our country's commercial greatness and persever-
ing industry-

MORICTITC4 ADVEItTISEIt, DECEUSER 2, 1848.
This remarkable, .balky, roll well-known work, with the publica-
tlOn for 1549.(05w-on_the eve of being issued), reaches its fiftieth,
or jubilee yA4t ; ttud, as if duly to celebrate that signal event,
Messrs. Kelly (for the proprietor) appear to have made,. if possible,
not only extra but extraordinary exertions to distinguiSh it, by pre-
senting indisputably the amplest, the most clearly arranged, and the
Most coaspierions and • utilitarian compilation of the kind that 'is
known to the world: Its multifarious merits are such that it is an
essential, not only to the commercial community of London, and
all the
millions who are in communication or connexion with this
great merc'snit centre of that world; but must be in continuous
request whereVer parties have communications with England—and
where is the civilized, or half civilized land that has not such inter-
coarse ? To describe its contents and peculiarities at this advanced
Period of its-history, would be a very uncalled for claim upon the
reader's attention. Still we cannot forbear to mention that, since
therapidly improved' work has -fallen into the hands of the present . management,
It
beat all competitors out of the field,
,11d is become as valuable, correct, and (comparatively speak-
ing) aS compact, and yet as full and complete a work, as
the merchants, bankers, commercial -and trading community, could
'"lre• In fact, it leaves no directorial want unsupplied. It is a
marvellous publication, as any one must admit who is competent to
edge of the vastness and peculiarities of this metropolis. In its
; lintiteness, it is an astenishing.reality. What is it? It is a Direc•
....or" arid guide to the 'streets, the profession., the trades, &c., of
4) ;itis a just reflection of the capital and community of the
commerciala world. To achieve this great object, no labours seemt o
121!1°e daunted 9r tired, and, no watchfulness or expenditure appear,*
to have impeded those who were engaged in preparing this volural-
fthe and perfei.A• " London Directory."

GLOBE, DECEMBER 5, 1848.
" London Post-office Directory" has commenced its fiftieth
j cif a most nsefuLezistence. The present volume resembles its
atter predecessors in general form. look, and arrangement, being di-
;lded into the heads of Official, street,' Commercial, Trades, Law
:Pun. Parliamentary:Postal, City, Conveyance, Banking, &c., &e.
under these heads we have a vast mass of well-digested and corns
DactlY arranged information, so classified and methodised, that one
t-an hunt up a man if -we know the smallest fragment of primary
headsabout him, and .then searching for him under the sav,ral
:ads that may apply, we may find out what he is, where he is, and
'lel' else about him. If he be in the Official Directory, we find
28,atihdi rt his' place be a man of business, what that business
holds where he carries it on; if he be a lawyer, what rank he
—whether he has any other appointment, &c. ; if he be in Par-
trent, what place he represents, where he is to be found when in
11Z, and where he liyes,in :he coantry. Then te Ind how to send
a letter, we turn to the Postal Directory, and though he had
',7241: the uttermost iiitrei of the earth, we have the requisite infor-
s7lT n about • postages, pose days, 'and all routes by ship, mail,
~,ful-boat, and railroad; or if we wish rather to pursue him in per-
son, what remote corner of the world is there, the means of reaching
it"brh is not opened- tip. to,ris in the Conveyance Directory? We are
" ta ladentity our individual and particalar John Smi'h from the
Ong columns if his namesakes if we knew any single distinguishing
har:l about him, aid to police *pen hint infallibly in his private
in' his office, in' his shop, or wherever he may be.
our Than there is a capital map of London to help its in
and researches, • toga:her with an almanack, lists of inns,
._ no
It I much ,else„ ix its more. than two thousand closely printed pages.
expected that such a book as this should be altoge-
nuenr ft to be
ee from errors. Some few omissions and inaccuracies may be
:ait d, but' taken altogether itls a volume of wide and remarkable
/Y
de, e Nay, even as a work of amusement, we think, it is not to be
into P sod ; and half an hour may be very agreeably spent in researches
thso
occupations and abiding places of one's acquaintances and
—• ~ a search js, indeed, the best test of its general accuracy ;
and though there may be a few exceptions, as a general rule it bears
tuts test thoroughly well.

,t„.. WEEKLY DISPATCH, DECEMBER 3, 1848.
tustsUi stupendout annual has just made its appearance for the fif-
,recto,"
time.' It• comprises . amongst other information, an " Oftleial
"Trades - erec ry,
Stre t iCommercial Directory," a
. „parliamentary Directory," a "
Directory," a "L aw Directory," a " Court Directory," a
"City Direc-
Postal Directory," a
Enta " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory."
"t although we have thus copied the principal headings from
.the title-page, they convey a very faint idea of the mass of varied
itufOrrnation condensed into a space, which, though bulky enough
finite nPI/earaucee, is still srnal when compared with the in-
„ amearit. of_ Intelligence contained therein. The index
itself contains several• hundred minor headings, all connected with
the wants or interests, the business or the proceedings, of the corn-
yiercial and trading community; • The book positively reflects high
honour riper, the great city which
and infinite credit is due to the Messrs. Kelly for the manner in
nieh they have alike produces and requires it ;
famtsented it to the pnble. No money can have
't
spared in reitdering. it accurate, complete, and perfect in all its
IT!Siteat details. It Is in itself a reflex of the grandeur, wealth,
rd _vast mercantile intefests of the great capital of the British
uealinions•:' it catches, as .with a daguerreotype, all the features
_
I..wrihases of a community numbering two millions of souls. We
night even
.. - say, without hyperbolic flourDh, or poetic fiction, that
zn certain . morals of its own ; for, though in the abstract, a
era catalogue , f streets, names, associat'ons, trades, and instltu-
gase, yet does it Irresistibly raise up in the breast a feeling of
stud,- On the part of 'him who can in Any way, however humble,
s,ul,te himself with that mighty metropolis whose interests are
as it
the ere represented. sold registered in this volume. We ean fancy
font's sage,
would.be produced upon a a wage were he, for arga-
Ofeerto's 4,..541te, able to understand Engl'sh, and if this hook were
ni---,, ti,'' his contemplation. You mig -it assure him that it related
~
tirm.— one citY in the British Islands, and he would exclaim, No ;
'77 'ell register of entire kingdoms !"

• • JOHN BULL, DEctamEn 9, 1843.
Huber -
on edition of this extremely useful, and for the amount of
Am, t.
4..--napressedextremel cheap publication now lies before
with'ing, by the multiptcity yof its information,, to the industry
~,_ Which it is compiled. A map of London is added, in which we
tneeive that ail the new streets laid down in the course of last year
jaome been inserted, and the various departments of the Directory
ve been breughtaP to the latest date. We are happy to find from
an
Areface that its success is such as to Guarantee to the public the
has
Huai
republication of a manual which to those engaged in business
become absolutely inditpeusable.

• • • EXAMINER, DEct3rnma 16, 1848.
It would lee curious to compare this fiftieth publication with the
llret, and observe by. what,steps it has grown to its enormous bulk
of ingeres,than two thousaid pages. But the great evil of a great
kook, does not'ipply to Mr: Kelly's. Its utility is in the ratio of its
size. It is not one Directory, but a dozen. it is twelve rolled into
one. The Official, the•fitreet, the Commercial, the Trades', the Law,
the COnrt, the Parliamentary, the Postal, the City, the Conveyance,
the Banking, the Assurance Directories are allaccessible within the
same cover. The reference, by. admirable classification, and by
careil sabdivisions of callings and streets, is rendered so easy, that
it is hardly possible to conceive a person missing the Information ke
Seeks. At such times as we have hitherto had occasion
We have Wind its accuracy and fulness to be really bey to use it,ond praise.
Nothing is omitted which it is conceivable that a resident in London
of Occupations that keep them busily
atd.ollid desire to know, of the countless multitudes that dwell around
gym. or ofthe endless variety
ettiploYed. The book is a perfect marvel of arrangement, ac,:urac
and fulness ofinformation: y,

• BRITANNIA, DECEMBER 9, 1849.
This valuable Direciory has reached its fiftieth annual Issue, and,
IP-cording to all appearance, it is likely to appear regularly for as
many
more years as. London shall continue to I e the capital of
England. Whatever increase may take place in the metropolis,
tli
era need be no doubt that this periodical will keep pace with
..,,__—' , an we contrast what it was with what it is, and remember the
"‘v.so improvements which have been made in it with every
p-rin ~
e",SiVa Publication. It now comprises two thousand closely-
Pages, with such an admirable analysis of trades and pro-
ati 74, and Such a perfect classification of names and houses, as to
44::19 the most comprehensive guide that can be desired or ima-
so for every purpose of • reference. The arrangement, indeed, is
.._tim to be ceztain of enjoying
at_ _ Pieta that the proprietors have only to maintain it in its pre-
%fo a continuance of that " mono-
rawhich their unrivalled skill, industry, and enterdrise in the
74
'440%1 of thl3 gigantic work has secured for them. The uni-