The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-28 00:00:00

PUBLICATIONS.

ENGLAND'S DESTINY for 200 Years
FORETOLD in No. II of Z ADKIEL'S HOROS-
COPE ; also the Fate of Louis Philippe—Socialism over.
thrown by Astrology, &c. ace. Barometric Curves over the
whole Area of England—Weather Predictions for February, &c.
No. 4, Paternoster-row, and all Booksellers. Price One
Shilling. February Ist, 1841. A few of No. 1 still on sale.

THE PEERAGE, MAGISTRACY, and CLERGY.
Just published, in a very thick volume (960 pages) foolscap Bvo.
10s. 6d. bound,

THE LONDON ALMANACK,
OFFICIAL REGISTER, and COUNTY CALEN-
DAR, for England and Wales. for the year 1841 ; containing
the ALMANACK, a complete PEERAGE and BA Ito.
NETAGE, Existing and Extinct, and all other DIGNITIES ;
the Navy and Army Lists; the %%hole of the JUSTICES of
the PEACE in EACH COUNTY and BOROUGH ; the
Bishops, Dignitaries, and the BENEFICED CLERGY in
EACH PARISH of ENGLAND and WALES; Universi
ties, Colleges, an'i Public Schools ; the
.Corporation of the
City of London; and a mass of valuable Statistical Information,
compiled from Parliamentary Returns.
London: Scott, Webster, and Gcary, 36, Charterhouse-square.

7. Scottish (Widows' Fund) Life Assurance Society,
11. M. Kean, agent.
8. Met( alfe, J., seal and coner-plate engraver,
Waterloo-place.
9. Andrews, William, and Co., helmet-makers.
The ”ames of bath gentlemen amid traders are also included in
the Street Guide. The itformation respecting the Govern-
ment ( )ffices is made fuller, as was recommended ; the stall' of
the establishment being given as well as the chiefi. The same
remark applies to the Pu'Aic Offices, and the Law Directory.
This last, indeed, is a work by itself."—Spectator, Jan. 9.
" This volume claims favourable notice, for the great conve-
nience of some of the improvements observable in the arrange-
ment of the Directory. We never before saw a Street 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 nut the intersection of the principal streets by other
streets. The long line of Oxford-street, for example, is marked
by all the lesser streets that go out of it on either hand; and
the 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-
visions of the book, which arc much more complete than in
former years."—Examiner, Jan. 10.

Witat the work just named suppliel to the fashionable, this
does to the general world of London; as, instead of being
limited, as was formerly the case, to gentry or to traders, it in-
cludes both, and is, therefore, really a Street Directory.' Ihe
intersection of the principal streets by others is pointed out—a
new and good idea. —Globe, Dec. 2'2.
" This edition does great credit to the skill and industry of
the compiler. By superior arrangements and increased in-
formation, all its predecessors and competitors are thrown into
the shade ; all other Metropolitan Directories were limited to
Gentry or to Traders—this includes both ; and, by allowing the
intersection of the principal streets by others, great facility is
afforded in finding the situation of any street or court in length-
ened thoroughfares, and may, on this account, be considered as
in some measure superseding the necessity of referring to a
map. We cannot afford space to enumerate the many other
advantages which the present edition of the Post Office Di-
rectory possesses ; but we may mention that the full Christian
namos of parties are given, instead of initials; all the Counsel
and Attorneys of the Metropolis are inserted, and Rot only the
town residences, but the country seats of Peers and Members
of I%,rliament ; and, from the official situation held by the
compiler in the Post-office, he has been enabled to avail him-
self of all the facilities which his appointment affords, to give
the most correct and latest inf,rmation."—Weekly Dispatch,
Jan. 10.

4. Wu noticed some proof sheets of this work a few weeks
since, with new improvements. It is now published complete,
and comprises, among other information, a Street Directory, a
Commercial Directory, a Directory for Law, Trades, and the
Court (including the nobility, gentry, and others not engaged
in ti ad- or commerce), for Members of Parliament, the City
(including the public functionaries, Common Councilmen,
&c.) ; and gives, as might be expected, the most ample infor-
mation relative to tke Post-Office. ' It cannot be necessary to
st lee in detail,' says the compiler, all the improvements effected
in the present edition. Every division of the book, and every
Ingo, contains much that cannot be found in any other book
fot the year 184!. Every particle of the immense amount of
information contained in the following paoes bus been collected
duringthe latter part of the month of 'November, and very
much even in the present month. In the City Directory the
last of Common Council is that of the members elected on the
21st of the present month. In any other Directory for 1841,
the list published will, on examination, be found to be the fist
of those elected on December 21st, 1839, for the year ending
on the 21st of December, 1840. And so it is in every other
division of the book. Did space admit, thousands of instances
could be adduced in which the information is furnished a year
earlier than in any other Annual Work.' We hove looked
over this Directory with some care; and, as far as we can
judge, it appears to be the most copious and correct work of
the kind hitherto published. Altogether, we can safely recom-
mend it as a Directory esoecially adapted for all classes, and
country as well us town."—Sun, Jan. 8.
"'Phis handsome volume reflects the highest credit on the
enterprise and activity of the Proprietors. Each year some
improvement is effected which tends to add considerably to its
usefulness and value. In addition to its former contents, we
have this yoar a Directory for the Court, and another for each
six( et, so that it may now be considered as complete and as
serviceable for reference as it is possible such a work can be
rendered. It has another recommendation, in having been cor-
rected up to the last week in the past year—an instance of des-
patch almost unprecedented, and only to hove been performed
by the excellence of the arrangements, and the rapidity with
which copies were thrown off by the Proprietor's steam-presses.
The Work is, in every respect, superior to any " Directory"
ever yet issued in the metropolis, and is indispensable to every
person engaged in trade in London or its vicinity,—Britannia,
Jan. 16.

The work contains ten distinct Directories ; the first of
which, the Street Directory, may be taken as a fair sample of
the entire book, and of its immense superiority over all others.
Previous Street Guides' have excluded the nobility and gen-
try or the tradespeople—curious Street Guides ! This includes
all, and is, therefore, a ' Street Directory'—the only one yet
in ex stence—of the Metropolis ; it, besides, exhibits the inter-
section of the streets by each other—valuable information in
long thoroughfares. Then follows the Commercial Direc-
tory.' Next the ' Trades Directory'—a most elaborate com-
pili;tirm, occupying 2.18 pages of small print, in treble columns.
Court Directory' appears much the same as other works
on the subject, unless that it is, perhaps, fuller. The Parlia-
mentary Directory' gives the idea of having been compiled
expressly with the view of distancing competition. The' City
Directory' comes next, and is followed by the Post Office in-
formation, so given that any one requiring accurate and precise
information on the subjoct must refer to it. The Con-
veyance Directory' in which is the railway matter, some of
which is as recent as any that has vet appeared in our columns.
The Banking Directory' Ancludes a volume which
may be fairly considered a model of compilation, and is a
high credit to the establishment from which it emanates. We
find one fault with this•work—its title—which is, indeed, no
index to its voluminous contents, but rather gives an idea of a
common London Directory, than which nothing can be more
different. The Post-office Directory in its Parliamentary in-
formation, in that relating to Government Offices, Ambassa-
dors and Consuls in the Country Towns, in its Provincial News-
paper table, in its Post-office Regulations, Routes of Mails,
Railway Mails, and Cross-road Mails, Railway and Steam-
packet intelligence, and the Conveyance Directory generally,
in its Banking Intelligence, and copious details on the subject
of Fire and Life Assurance, contains information nearly as de-
sirable to Provincial as to Metropolitan residents, and should
certainly bear a title more indicative of its contents than that of
Post-office London Directory for 1841.—Railway Magazine,
Jan. 16.

This is a most comprehensive and extremely useful volume,
and the best of its kind that has yet been published. It con-
tains not only the addresses of the merchants and traders
throughout the metropolis, but those also of the resident house-
holders unconnected with trade or commerce, and is corrected
up to the latest possible date, consistent with its publication at
the opening of the year. Many variations from the plans of
previous Street Guides have been adopted ; one of which, and
a most useful one, is the strictly alphabetical arrangement of
the names of persons having offices in one house, which we
have ourselves tested, and found quite accurate. The method
of showing where streets aro intersected by others has also
been adopted, and the result adds much to the clearness and
perspicuity of arrangement of the work. In conclusion we may
observe, that the exertions which have been made to render
this Directory worthy of its circulation—upwards of nine thou-
sand in the course of the present year—deserve the support it
has met with, and we can safely recommend it to the public."—
Morning Herald, Jan. P).
This useful and laborious work is now before us; it is a
Street, Commercial, Trade, Law, Parliamentary, Court, City,
Banking, and Conveyance Directory. This Directory differs
from its precursors, inasmuch as Gentry as well as Traders are
included. The Marquis of Waterford's domicile is set down as
plainly as John Smith's, the tinman's. The information under
the head of " Post Office" is of great utility, including the
latest regulations ; the postage of letters to and from France,
Central Germany, Sardinia, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, &e.,
is accurately stated. The Conveyance Directory gives accurate
information as to Railways, Coaches, Waggons, Vessels, &c.
Respecting town and country banking-houses, Assurance-
offices, a.,d Public Companies, there is full and valuable in-
formation. The arrangement of the Peerage is excellent, in
the Parliamentary list the recent, changes are carefully noted.
The list of the Law and Public Offices, with the hours of busi-
ness at each, is, we think, a novel feature. 'I he list of places
for registration of births, deaths, and marriages ; of law, parlia-
mentary, and patent agents ; of translators and short-hand
writers, are, obviously, of high utility. Into a work like the
Post Office Directory errors will creep ; but, as far as we have
been enabled to glance tb uti ugh it, they appear to by few, anti
we may safely pronounce the present production as far surpass-
ing anything of the sort that has hitherto been attempted.—
Sunday Times, Jan. 17.
It has been by interested parties falsely stated that the
Post Office Directory is out of print; such is not the case; it is
still to be had at 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, and of all
Booksellers.