The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY,
for 1849, being the Fiftieth Annual Publication, is now pub-
lishing in 2,000 royal oetavo pages, price 36s Sinallar Edition, 15s.
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 London 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 commercial world. To accomplish
this, neither pains nor expense were spared ; the work was extended
to nearly double 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
London was added; and thus the " Post-office London Directory,"
by the greater extent and greater accuracy of its information, and by
the mere 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
of this publication, has just been published by Messrs. Kelly and Co.,
Of Old Boswell-court. This volume contains all the matter which
enriched those of the present and preceding years, with all such iin-
P ovements as increased activity of research and careful iuvesVga-
lion can supply. It appears to be as accurate a compilation for the
'Mikes, 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 bulky
volume ; but its bulk, co Crary to the general rale, is au advantage,
and it may be said to contain no superfluous pages whatever. It is
well printed, and well get up, and has a map of London prefixed to
it, which will be found useful. The proprietor h:ls had for many
Years an arduous task in carrying out his object, but Me labours have
terminated in complete success. He has conferred a benefit on the
public, and it is their duty, as well as their interest, to patronise his
work.

MORNING HERALD, NOVEMBER 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 rivalry 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
still. There, however, is a book of upwards of two thousand royal
*day° pages, taking the whole of London within its grasp, and exhi-
bitin; its streets and the avocations of its residents, in treble alpha-
bet, where)), the convenience of the searcher after an unknown
"whereabouts" is met at all points. The " Post-office Directory" is,
In short, a monument of most valuable enterprise, and achieved, as
it now is, by private machinery, without the aid that was fmnerly
accorded it by the 'etter carriers, presents a matchless example of
Well-directed diligence and perseverance.
The arrangements of the p"esent volume are similar to those which
have distinguished the work for the last two or three years, the com-
pleteness which the proprietor has accomplished hardly admittin, 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, while the suburban neighbourhoods, which nre generally
swelling into importance and becoming fresh hives of human exist-
ence and human industry, are vigbantly detected and submitted to
the governing modes of analysis.

MORNING CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 1, 1843.
This valuable work is so well known and appreciated, that it would
be a work of supererogation to enter into any explanation as to its
nature and merits. It is sufficient to state that this is the fiftieth
annual publication under the a,e3ve title, and it contains a mass of
Information which can nowhere else be obtained, relative to the
coultmercial, professional, and other interests in this great metr.,polis,
so 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 extents 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 could 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 air alphabetical list of names and addresses ; but within
the last few years the whole plan has been so expanded as to com-
prise not less than twelve separate parts, under the titles of the OM-
;al, the Street, the Commercial, the Trades. the Law, the Court, the
arliamentdry, the Postal, the City, the Conveyance, the Bankin,t,
anclthe Assurance Directories. Under each of these heads every re-
quisite information is given, so that any tact which can p-operly
e°4le under any one of these categories can at once be ascertained.
The arrangement of the present volume is simil.tr to those which
have been published for the last three or four years, hut the whole of
the contents have been carefully revised, and such alterations have
been made since last year as the changes which have taken place in
ne residences, appointment., and arrangements under the classes
Which we have mentioned have rendered necessary to secure ac-
curacy There has also been a consideratae extension in many of its
departments, An extremely well-engraved new map of London,
prepared expressly for this work, faces the title-page.

MORNING POST, NOVEMBER 30, 1841.
It is just half a century since the " Post-office London Directory"
lint made its appearance. Buthow small, how limited in its objects,
how inefficient in its attainments it then was, compared with what
it
it"r is ! London itself, with its commerce, its extensions, its
Population, its improvements of all sorts, does not so far outstrip
the London of 1800 as the " Post-office Directory" of 1849 does
tat of the first year of its publication. To the energy, the enter-
prise, and the nnwearying, exertions of the Messrs. Kelly this great
Metropolis is indebted for having a directory worthy of the gigantic
interests contained within its circumference. Such a directory no
other city in the world can boast of possessing. It is really amazing
to open this huge volume 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 expression 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,"
" Trades," " Law," " Court," " Parliamentary,"
I ostal." " City," " Conveyance," " Banking," &c. all the per-
sonal and other information which the most copio sadirectory can
impart is found with the greatest facility. This work is really a
dine
morument of our country's commercial greatness and persever-
ing industry.

MORNING ADVERTISER, DECEMBER 2, 1848.
This remarkable, bulky, and well-known work, with the publica-
tion for 1849 (now on the eve of being issued), reaches its fiftieth,
or jubilee year ; and, 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 conspicuous 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 mercantile centre of that world, but must he in continuous
toqUest wherever parties have communications with England—and
Where is the civilized, or half civilized land that has not such inter-
course ? To describe Ito contents .ind peculiarities at this advanced
period of its history, would be a very uncalled for claim upon the
Zader's attention. Still we cannot forbear to mention that, since
e work has fallen into the hands of the present management,
rapidly improved, beat all competitors out of the field,
11;1"-`, is become as valuable, zorrect, and (comparatively speak-
compact, and as Compact, and yet as full and complete a work, as
o Merchants, bankers, commercial and trading community, could
marvellous
In fact, it Raves no directorial want unsupplied. It is a
wanepublication, as any one must admit who is competent to
tuige of the vastness and peculiarities of this metropolis. In its
onteness, it is an astonishing reality. What is it? It is a Direc
London; guide to the streets, the professions, the trades, &c., of
t0,.,.,'°11; it is a just reflection of the capital and community of the
havitircial world. To achieve this great object, no lal:ours sum to
to hdaunted or tired, and no watchfulness or expenditure appears
nousaLe imPeded those who were engaged in preparing this volumi-
,licl Perfect " London Dir ctory."

The , GLOBE, DECEMBER 5, 1848.
y,,,,
of' London Post-office Directory" has commenced its fiftieth
hitt a most useful existence. The present volume resembles its
puled predecessors in general form. look, and arrangement, being di-
coo into the heads of Official, Street,' Commercial,. Trades, Law
'NZ, Parliamentary, Postal, City, Conveyance, Banking, &c., &c.
riaetl, those heads we have a vast mass d and corn-
toll urranged information, so classified nand methodised, that one
tact hunt uP a man if we know the .mallest fragment of primary
heads
nout hi
--au, and then searching for him under the sovcral
rn,l3
elseiat 'nay apply, we rnly find out what he is, where he is, and
lao-wt, about him. if he be in the Official Directory, we. find
Is, a„1.,14 got his place ; if he be a man of business, what that business
1101,;_.' Where lie carries it on ; if he be a lawyer, what rank he
11,X___ Whether he has any other appointment, &c. i if he be in PaT-
tow-7A, what place he represents, where he is to be found when in
litm ' aucl where he lives in ;he country. Then to And how to send
4,a
ckletter, we turn to the Postal Directory, and though he had
blatioiithe ut•ermost parts of the earth, we have the requisite infor-
tteam,_about Postages, post days, and all routes by ship, mail,
tot, ~,,r:tr, and railroad; or if we wish rather to pursue him in per-
able _ remote corner of the world is there, the neans of
elaterearcing
,t. ..1 not
opened up to us in the Conveyance Directory W
long e entifY our individual and particular John Smili from the
ho'oLsa...Oolit him, and to
4„
_eOlumns of his namesakes if we know any single distinguishing
Then; la his onke, pounce upon him infallibly in his private
in his shop, or wherever he may be.
our -,. there is a capital map of London to help us in
and ra'...eSearches, tone her with an almanack, lists of inns,
Utility.
It is rot
else, in its more than two thousand closely printed pages.
tiler fret to be expected that such a book as this should be altoge-
Intim, ebe from errors. Some few omissions and inaccuracies may be
but taken altogether it is a volume of wide and remarkable
despi,'''. aY, even as a work of amusement, we think, it is not to be
nito th2,-L , and halt an hour may be very agreeably spentm researches
triendi7 ,°ecupations and abiding places of one's acquaintances and
tuba ti, iich a Search is, indeed, the best test of its general accuracy ;
bd, ,'Qugh there may be a few exceptions, as a general rule it bears
Lest thoroughly well.

Tial, , WEEKLY DISPATCH, DECEMBER 3, 1848.
tigth tt stupendous annual has just made its appearance fo,r, the !If-.
bireet,nla. It comprises amongst other information, an OrTI,
_laia
Ipr,,rY," a " Street Directory," a " Commercial Directory,"
I.pa-r".,`ra' Directorn" a " Law Directory," a " Court Directory, a
thteret,.canfour,:itiarwye Directory," a " Postal Directory," a ~ Ci.ty Direc;•
tut alii " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory. '
in_oritle- have thus copied the principal headings from
'age, they convey a very faint idea of the mass of varied
tor airation condensed into a space, which, though bulky enough.
Iluits aPPearances, is still smal, when compared with the in-
rah3eerifeifi_‘°;:itntefrestinst, elligence contained therein. The index.
the wal_'ltains several hundred minor headings, all connected with
the business or the proceedings, of the corn-
lionoar
ua,?t, trading commuvity. The book positively reflects high.
and infinite The
_great city which a'ike prxtuces and requires it ,
,_lvoehenichsptahreeyd iii`lkevglet is due to the Messrs. Kelly for the manner in
mutest Prtsented it to the puble. No money can have
d ta. rendering it accurate, complete, and perfect In all, its
e ils,
and vast • It i :
-5' al itself a reflex of the grandeur, wealth,
dolain,__
srn. ercantile interests of the great capital of the British
_kleucirpicalurt::Catches as with a daguerreotype, all the features
might phase
Z 3,,
without
numbering two millions of souls. We
~out hyperbolic flourish, or poetic fiction, that
" e catalo. morals of its own ; for, though in the abstract, a
flour, yet ~"0 ' f streets, names, associatons, trades, and Intsltitu...
Pri4e on ~_"" it irresistibly raise up in the breast a feell g . f
44, iaciateiliiie Part of him who can in any way, howevel humble,
tii;erilveerte Self with that mighty metropolis
umwhose
IN in,terests are
"re ,ented and registered in this vole. e cantfaey
Th ent's 8 which would be produced upon a 5 vage.were he, for arg,i-
clrerea toait', able to understand Eugl sh, and if. this book were
duly to —us contemplation. You rnig•A assure him that. it r,e,lat,d
nee city in the British Islands, and he would exclaim, No ;
trans," u a register of entire kingdoms!"

o,ll4ther JOHN BULL, DECEMBER 9, 1848.
atter co edition of this extremely useful, and for the amount of
st n,lPressed in it extremely cheap publication, now lies before
with w,..V.lng, by the inultipl'city of its information, to the industry
Perceive it is compiled. A map of London is added, in which we
have e that all
e bee, the new streets laid down in the course of last year
t bee rmerted, and the vari ins departments of the Directory
he n brell
Dref,ce that up to the latest date. We are happy to find. from
h relmlbli its success is such as to guarantee to the public the
55 a cation of a manual which to those engaged in business
"'Lig bsolutely indispensable.

arsltt opwanoudi EXAMINER, DECEMBER 16, 1848.
with the
e curious to compare fiftie
this •th publication
thousand
book deeietshall tw°
great
of ii;or bY what steps it has grown to its enormous bulk
size, it tt alinly to NIT% Kelly's.. Its utility is in the ra
lied into
one, The 64. one Directory, but a dozen. 1t is twelve o
P'(_ges But the great evil o
the Law,
the Court, th elm, the Street, the Commercial, the Trades', ,
fo of its
ance
the Bank'
~, e rarliamentar the Postal, the City, the Convey.
,
"-g, the Assuranc Y'
Directoriesare' all accessible within the
:airier cover. The rcfere c .
able classification, and by
it
careful sßbdivisions of calillicer:, by
streets,admirable
is rendered so easy, that
_tee hardly possible to conene' s and
rson
missing the information he
4,.__ls At such times as weivheavaepehitherto had occasion to use 1,,
is'r.,e,tl?re found its accuracy and fulness to he really beyond praise.
shouldng is omitted Which it is conceivable that a resident in Londoii
him desire
to knew, of the countless multitudes that dwell around
employed
endless variety of occupations that keep them busdy
thit, • The book is a perfect marvel of arrangement, accuracy,
iUlness of information.

This
vain , 1 11R ITANNIA, DECEMBER 9, 1843.
acconlin a
issue, and,
manyg to
more ~ e Direciory has reached its fiftieth annual
all appearance, it is likely to appear regularly
.for as
k:m.f:Years as London shall continuo to be the caital of
, and. Whatever increase may take place in the metpropolis,
,i.:TLI need be no doubt that this periodical will keep pace with
ell we contrast what it was with what it is, and remember the
successive
iMprevements which have been made in it with every
printedelBl" Publication. It now comprises two thousand closely-
re,i Pages, with such au admirable analysis of trades and pro-
,, ons, and such a perfect classification of names and houses, as to
,I,Pply the most comprehensive guide that can be desired or lima-
!?oniso ied for every purpose of reference. The arrangement, indeed, is
plete that the proprietors have only to maintain it in its pre-
!. tl'orm to be certain of enjoying a continuance of that " mono-
my' which their unrivalled skid, industry, and enterprise hi the
hick
h thls gigkitle work has secured for them. The unl-