The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-22 00:00:00

ipOST-OFFICE LONDON DIRkTORY
. 1847.
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' an
heTlfioliearliest copy of thework has been but a few days issued, and
'°Wing Reviews have Ilready appeared in the letvling Metre

TIMES, Icov. 18, 184 G.
The fort :
847_4. Y-chtlf annual-Publication of this work—the volnnr
old
biNeti: "7 slued. It is a wonderfully different affair from tle
til
,a,,_, rY, which used to consist of little or nothing more than
'1,;(78, a "Street Directory,"
moo'
list of tradesmen • it comprises now, and has for some
Di-
hostDirectry," a " Conveyance Directory," with a
ut,,....,.e, other little digests. The vOlume appears to have been very
;L " Trades' Directory," a " Court
revised, and supplies the latest Information. Of counien,
zit';'stal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked;
Uri , Points the work seems to hear the test of a search intoan mat-
ters at-
-111 which changes have been very recent.

MORNING CHRONICLE, Nov. 20, 1846.
gown P werS of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
eight }ears
aPPears really unlimited. Published dining a series of forty-
/earl in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by an
laroY average of some 14,000, and whose commerce expands in still
r measure, the " Post-office Directory" has become enormously
Pens need in bulk, as also in the complicated variety of its India-
able ble contents. The admirable success with whigh- the really
difficulties of his task has been overcome by the lade-
arietie Publisher hai been proved by the experience of many years;
ti "e newt say little more than that the present volume presents
,:;,same tokens as its predecessors, of intelligent method and inge-
d7,
bin
arrangement, in picking into reasonable compass, and pro-
-2go lucid order, its millions of facts and references. Within
every one every man may learn everything he ought to know about
as-rY one of his co-dwellers in the great metropolis, their businesses,
"11 as everything necessary to facilitate him in his own. The
r`', rapid extension of our railway syste and the new postal ar-
_4e;cutents with some continental statesm,, have rendered necessary
01 7.1 e extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance
the Post-office. We find the information given under those heads
L more new
WV as full and accurate as it WWI well po.ssible to make them,
and recent than we should have thought attainable in
Work of such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best
>tiaP of London we happen to have met with.

MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1846.
Bulky as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
Ten, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
farther enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously en-
;bled the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory of
ailed completeness, wherein every species of fact likely to be
[milted. The
Witerved by the merchant and the trader is placed within convenient •
ohnne contains upwards of two thousand closely- "
royal octavo pa,ges, betokening a singular amount of indus-
7as a matter of compilation, and awakening astonishment at the
comprehensiveness of the machinery which could bring within a
Tilton focus so much varied and scattered intelligence—embracing
it does a multiplicity of heads. and involving the services of vast
nUmbers of contributors. We believe that the present volume is not
to. be matched in the whole world ; for such a mammoth aggregate
9. local and specific information is no less a typographical wonder,
t. (bas a prodigious monument of diligence and enterprise.
Some dozen or so of separate directories are included in this huge
Periodical—the only one, it seems, of the annual tribe destined to a
Permanent existence—a veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitarian
Principle over the ornamental. The " Official Directory" is a key to
Z. whole of the Government Offices, and a record of official perso-
nages. This is followed by a " Street Directory," exhibiting the
tradesmen in every thoroughfare, and the points at which the streets
are intersected by those at right"angles ; while the " Commercial and
Professional Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above.
Then ccmes a " Trades' Directory," in which the names are allecated
urder their respective callings. The Law Directory" is a nst of the
Judges, Queen's counsel, serjeants, barristers, attorneys. Sze. with a
catalogue of the various courts of law, their officers, and their pecu-
liarities of jurisdiction. The "Court Directory" comprises the ad-
dresses of the nobility and gentry; and the " Parliamentary Direc-
tory" is a record of the Members of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons, with an alphabetical list of the boroughs, cities, and counties
returning Members to Parliament, the surnames and eldest sons of
peers, &c. The " Postal Directory" contains the hour of receipt and
delivery of every post-office in the kingdom ; the cities and principal
places throughout the world to which malls are dispatched from
London; the rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails, and the,
Mess-road mails, &c. The "City Directory" registers the civic au-
thorities, the public companies, the brokers, the incumbents and mi-
nisters of churches and chapels, the newsnaperi, &c. ; and the
"Conveyance Directory" includes the railway tables, the coach and
booking-offices, the wharfs, &c. The volume closes with Banking
and Assurance Directories. These various heads will serve to indi-
. tate the multitudinous nature of the contents ; for out of them come
a variety of subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable
want, presenting a curious analysis of the public and private institu-
tions of the metropolis and of the commercial world. Every person
15 to be found under his proper section, from a prime minister down
to a sheriff's officer—every establishment, from a palace to a lodg-
ing-bonse. The Editor, in his Preface, takes occasion to congratu-
late himielf on the many Improvements he has this year introduced,
Principally flowing from the employment of " selected agents," in-
'dead of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific
alterations the new postage treaty with PAISSia, which comes into
operation on the Ist Of January, 1847, and disturbs to a considerable
extent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems
the most Important.