The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-05 00:00:00

Just Published,

THE POST OFFICE 'LONDON DI-
RECTORY for 1841, comprisiwz, amongst other in-

formation :
A STREET DIRECTORY, being the first ever published
in the Metropolis. All others have omitted either the Nobi-
lity and Gentry, or the Merchants, Traders, and Tradespeople ;
the present work includes both, and is therefore really a" Street
Directory."
COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY, the only one published
always giving full Christian names ; and in eases of females in-
variably stating whether " Mrs." or " Miss."
TRADES' DIRECTORY, in which every Trade, as well
as appearing; in its proper place, in the " Commercial Direc-
tory," is arranged distinctly, and the various subdivisions of
every one of the two thousand Trades are accurately defined by
suitable distinguishing marks.
LAW DIRECTORY, the most accurate work on the sub-
ject extent.
COURT DIRECTORY, furnishing the most recent Ad-
dress in London, and the Country Seat of each Peer and
Member.
PA lILIANIENTARY DIRECTORY, universally ad-
mitted_ to be the most accurate Peerage and Parliamentary
Guide published.
CITY DIRECTORY, containing exclusively the Com-
mon Council, as elected December '24, 1840.
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY, giving the most recent
arrrangements, including those for carrying into effect the sys-
tem for the Registration of Letters; Money Order Office;
Last Routes of the Mails, &c., &c.
CONVEYANCE DIRECTORY, including Railway in-
formation, corrected to December 24, 1840.
BANKING DIRECTORY, furnishing the fullest info. m-
ation with reference to the Banks, Joint Stock Companies, and
Bankers of the United Kingdom.
ASSURANCE DIRECTORY, enumerating Lists of Di-
rectors, Actuaries, Secretaries, &c., &c., and copious Tables
of Assurance, with full Regulations of utioi.of the leading:Com-
panies of the metropolis. v
These Eleven Directories are handsomely bound in one extra
royal octavo volume, entitled, " The Post Office London Di-
rectory for 1841." Price Eighteen Shillings.
An Edition, containing the Commercial and Court Direc.
tories, price Six Shillings and Sixpence.
* Either of these works may be ordered -:)f any Genera
Post Letter Carrier for inspection ; if not approved, 'they wil
be received back without charge.
They may likewise be obtained from any circulating library ;
and one or the other is taken in at most respectable reading
rooms and coffee houses.
" This volume is now one of the most complete manuals of
information on all things connected with the names, profes-
sions, and habitations of the inhabitants of London ever pub-
lished. It is, indeed, a most valuable book of reference for all
persons, whether in trade or rot, whose correspondence is ex
tensive, and whose connections render it necessary either to
have a very good memory of the locations of their ac-
quaintance, or to refer to a book which will at once in-
form them where to find them, or address letters, &c., to
them. The Directory contains a Street Directory, in which
the streets are alphabetically arranged; a Commercial Di-
rectory, in which an immensity of names is alphabetically ar-
ranged, without respect to trades and professions, though the
trades and professions of the different persons are respectively
subjoined to the names; a Trades' Directory, in which the
trades are alphabetically arranged, and under each head of
trade the names of the tradesmen set forth ; a Law Directory.
Court Directory, Parliamentary and Banking Directories ; and,
in a word, so great a mass of useful information set forth with
such good judgment and arrangement, that it is almost impos-
sible for the most ignorant and inexpert nut to find out, in one
part or other of the volume, that of which he is in search. The
book possesses what is in all books a desideratum, but in a book
of this kind, a sine qua non—that is, an arrangement which
occasions no confusion, and which is so simple that anybody can
comprehend it. It has been compiled with great labour, and
is, as far as our judgment and examination of its pages go, ex-
tremely accurate, and remarkably free from errors."—The
Time., Jan. 25.
" Again come we to another work—great and magnificent
almost in size as Mr. Bohn's extraordiwiry catalogue (of which
more next week), the Post Office London Directory, contain-
ing the names of the inhabitants of all the streets in the me-
tropolis, according to their numbers, without regard to their
being nobility, gentry, or tradesmen—then separate lists of
every trade distinctly by itself—then separate lists of every per-
son previously named, but divided into a Commercial Directory,
and a Court Directory ; to all which are added, not only every-
thing contained in the Court Kalendars, but a mass of inform-
ation connected with the Post-office, the despatch and receipt
of letters ; rates of postage to every part of the world ; a list
of every conveyance leaving London, whether by sea, by rail-
road, by coach, by canal, or waggon ; and, in fact, everything
that can he desired, and ten times as much as can be expected
in a work of the kind."—John Bull, Jan. 9.

" Since our former notice of this publication, very consi-
derable additions and improvements have taken place. A
Street Guide, on a somewhat novel plan, has been added—the
houses running, as usual, in the order of their numbers, and
the off-branching streets being noted; which furnishes the
seeker with a direct guide to the localities of particular houses.
Thus, in Fall-mall.-
7. Scottish (Widows' Fund) Life Assurance Society,
H. M. Kean, agent.
8. Metcalfe, J., seal and copper-plate engraver,
Waterloo-place.
9. Andrews, William, and Co., helmet-makers.
The rames of both gentlemen and traders are also included in
the Strect Guide. The information respecting the Govern-
ment Offices is made fuller, as was recommended ; the staff of
the establishment being given as well as the chiefs. The same
remark applies to the l'u'dic Offices, and the Law Directory.
This last, indeed, is a %, le k by itself."—Spectator, Jan. 9.
." 'l' his volume claims favourable notice, for the gred3 conve-
mence of some of the improvements observable in thirarrange-
ment of the Directory. We never before saw a Stket Guide
which was not either limited to Gentry or merely occupied with
Traders. This includes both ; to the manifest advantage of
both. Another very obvious improvement is its manner of
pointing out the intersection of the principal streets by other
streets. The long line of Oxfora.street, for example, is marked
by all the lesser streets that go out of it on either hand; and
ithe convenience of knowing at what exact point or number of a
large thoroughfare the less known street will be found, is thus
easily attained. Reforms are also observable in the other di-