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

TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846.
The fort
. *V..... _
ziY-eighth an publication of this work—the,volume fed
' ,a now issued. Its a wonderfully different affair from the old
b tottery,et Which used to consist of little or nothing more than th
0,.., _ eal list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for some
7: a: "Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a "Court Di-
. 117, ' a "Postal Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," with a
"T .other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
k., . I revised, and supplies the latest information. Of course,
"7 Postal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and in
e
714 Pointl the work seems to bear the test of a search into mat-
-4 Which changes have been very recent.
, . ' MORNING CHRONICLE, Nov. 20, 1846.
'tatsP°wQra of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
lieaPPFars really unlimited. Published during a series of forty-
.
... rai
1 ears in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by an
rIY average of some 14,000,
and whose commerce expands in still
'`ger
erneasure, the " Post-office Directory" has become enormously
+ut•--- ed in: bulk, as also in the complicated variety of its indis-
:nocasable contents. The admirable success with which the really
gable
fatirnieas difficulties of his task has been overcome by the hide-
Publisher has been proved by the experience of many years;
,- We need say little more than that the present volume presents
r,,,,;.",11e tokens as its predecessors, of intelligent method and inge-
dl7, Of arrangement, in racking into reasonable e,ompass, and pro-
-8 in lucid order, Its millions of facts and references. W itldn
e Pages every man may learn everything he oujit to know about
isel7 one of his co-dwellers in the great metropolis, their businesses,
~.. Well as everything necessary to facilitate him in his own. The
,ZrY rapid extension of our railway, system, and the new postal ar-
Lingentents with some continental states, have rendered necessary
rule extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance
4lld the Post-office. We find the information given under those heads
11 ot
only as flail and accurate as it was well possible to make them,
but
more new and recent than we should have thought attainable in
tt Werk of such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best
1114 of London we happen to have met wills.

MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1846.
t
Ulky as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
been, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
Eger enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously en-
abled the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory of
unrivalled completeness, wherein every species of fact likely to be
Wanted by the merchant and the trader is placed within convenient
acCess. The volume contains upwards of two thousand closely-
Printed royal octavo pages, betokening a singular amount of indus-
*Y as a matter of compilation, and awakening astonishment at the
comprehensiveness of the machinery which could bring within a
tetarnou focus so much varied and scattered intelligence—embracing
as 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
tif local and specific information is no less a typographical wonder,
than a prodigious monument of diligence and enterprise.
Some dozen or so of separate directories are included in this huge
Ariodical—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
the whole of the Government Offices, and a record of official perso-
nages. This is followed by a " Street Directory," exhibiting the
,:jradesmen in every thoroughfare, and'the pointS at which the streets

are Intersected by those at ilight'anglemiz While the," Commercial and
Professional Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above-
Then comes a " Trades' Directory," In which the names are allocated
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under their respective callings. " Law Directory" is a list of the
judges, Queen's counsel. serjeants, barristers, attorneys. &c. with a
outalogue 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 mails are dispatched from.
London; the rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails, and the
cross-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 newsnaper,, &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-
cate 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 c)mmercial world. Every person
is to be found under his proper section, from a prime minister down
a sheriff's officer—every establishment, from a palace to a
g-honse. The Editor, in his Preface, takes occasten to congratu-
late himself on the many improvements he has this year introduced,
Principally flowing from the employment of " selected agents," in-
stead of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific
_iterations the new postage treaty with Prussia, which comes into
operation on the Ist of January, 1817, and disturbs to a considerable
tehlteternutostthiemrpflotertsa?!;.postage over a great part of the Continent, seems

delivered.
~,,_ MORNING ADVERTISEB, Nov. 18,1s18jui6st
..41 "Post-office London Directory, 1847,".,
must
he without it. It
Though it is apparently limited to London, it is in reality a national
Work. None of the leading towns can will
be an essential to every counting-house in thekingdom,
It is an in-
every place ef business in and about the metropolis.
im-
mediate as well as to
sthoef
prepared " UR
Valitable work of its kind, and the extent and minuteness
useful details are truly wonderful. Being
the command
Mediate and special patronage of her Majesty's Potina:tister-General."
the amplest and completest means were, of course,curacy
nf the vo-
Of the proprietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entireiakc.
The present is
• leatinous and crowded contents of the bulky tv, r "
or trailing
the forty-eighth annual publication. Few commercial
'lien can now require particular description of the really important
and useful information, to almost every Party in any sort of business,
d octavo pages
°ecuPsins; the two thousand closely but clearly-printed
map
of this Directory. Preceded by an admirable and perspicuous 5 London prepared expressly, it is declared,
other informs-
ti Davies, there are divisions, comprising, among
~ " Law,"
ti"'
°lficial," " Street " " Commercial," " Trades,
for the work by Mr.
..curt," ` Parliamentary,"' ~ Postal," „ City," " Conveyance,"
Banking," and many other Directories.
The hope is many
h• forty-
expressed in the preface, that t Is
" in all
edition of the "Post-office London Directory" may be found .
eighth annual
respects to equal the best of its predecessors." From very consid-
clerable examination of the marvellously' full and varied contents an
Information on matters which it must be so difficult, laborious, and
expensive to collect, we hesitate not to say that this unassuming
wish is liberally realised. It not only equals the best of its prede-
cessors, but in several
Particulars it surpasses all its precursors.
The information is not only fuller in
many respects, but there are
several impertant alterations and editions, largely adding to the use-
hlness of the book. It is intimated, and truly, that although all
proof that there has be
conmetition has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous
en no relaxation In the multifarious labours
to_ perfect the extraordinary work. In speaking of past success, it is
observed that it has been " even in a pecuniary pointbenefi-
eltael to the public, is proved by the fact, that impor ant improve-
_ .nts and additions are annually made without any increase of
reea result that, it is declared, " could not have been the case,
price, the Publis patronage been divided." With reference to the
sr!onjtantl
we certainly must acknowledge that it is wonderful how it
can be profitable to provide such varied materials— and materials
Y changing and requiring so much and such ceaseless la-
„..l4°___'icand cost to procure, and then to classify. Nothing but a t.re-
r7ei lons sale could make the speculation answer. Among the lin-
boirrtant alterations will be found those introduced into the .. Postal"
ti.23ct°l7. It is, Weed, singularly full, useful, and cemp'ete ; and
uust much increase the daily, it might be more truly pronounced its
°,.. TclY value, particularly to the merchant, the trader, or the Pro.-
nr'nal ,na changes As the new treaty with Prussia caused very consi-
hie in the rates of postage as affecting the Austrian do-
minions, rsaden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the German States,
ctsunburgh, Hanover, Lebeck, Mecklenburg, Oldenburgh, Poland,Prus-
'.'SalcnY, Sweden and Norway, Wurtetnburgh, &c., &c., &c., those
(2ea are detailed " precisely as they are arranged to come into
.I,!tation on the first of January, 1847." The other changes are not
allitierous, but all the Intelligence is announced to be brought
nsown to a period as late as was compatible with the appearance of
'ash a volume in sufficient time for general circulation, prior to the
rnmeneement of the year for which it is designed. The business
Merits of the work are of the highest order, and render it, of its
ameoraapiw,teenirnesas.girunei,neassliouabnlidcaustieofnudnunexampled in the world for its

_ London Director The present Is the y- e fortN, liov. 18, 1846.
SUN, annual edition of the " Post-office
Is. The "
p rector y,"
y," an d a truly marvellous effort of compilation it
Management of Mr. Kelly. ce Directory" has been for some years under the
Until he became the manager of this
work, there were divers other directories in the field. They have,
however. all disappeared, and the " Pest-office Directory" now rules
alone. This astonishing sucess , however, has not had the effect t(
thorough' a man of businessb,
Making tie proprietor of thiscgi ti work careless. He is too
fruits of his:success can onl
of the same
untiring energy by which' the reaped by a continuancethe
t,achieved; and accordingly vre ez‘dietehess was,.
enotganto gigantic
eperfectly aware that the
first Instance
or 1847 is eve n more highly 1111141 e. at the
soelahorate arrange-
ments than any fernier edition of thie in
k. its elaborate arrange-
ments than any ferar edition of the book. The extent and mi-
Pin Post-office Directory"
nuteness of the details furnished the
°°the work indispensable to
every commercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably,
r_,Dewreever, is this rrultifarioes information digested and arranged, that
am is not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the
instanceeniar page required to furnish the information—a marvellous
of clearness of arrangement in a work consisting of up-
Fails of 2,00 closely but clearly printed octavo pages. Its con-
" lfilcial Directory,"
tents are arranged under various heads, as, for instance, the
!erector'." the " Street Directory,": the " Commercial
the " Trades' Directory," the " Law DirectorY,"
In ' Court Directory," the " Parliamentary Directory," the
,11,:osial Directory," the City Directory," the " Conveyance
..I_, ectorY," the " BankinDiroy and some others. Many
Renard alterations have been introduced into the " Postal Dirco-
to,,.,,
-.' The new postal treaty with Prussia, which comes into ope- 1
Yl,ltion ort the Ist of January next, will effect very considerable
ranges in the rates of postage to places in the Austrian dominions,
liaden, Bavaria, Bremen. Denmark, the German States, Hamburgh,
allover, Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Oldenburgh, Poland, Prussia,
Itasca
~ , SaXony, Sweden ancryorway, Wurtemburgh, &c., Ste. These
,:`,9-llges are fully detailed in the " Postal Directory " of the present '"rne• The work, moreover, is illustrated by a clearly engraved
,atld accurately drawn map of London in 1847, on a scale of three
nitekes
.*()11' of the sto the mile. This Directory is certainly the most complete
ort ever offered tot e public. Of not only the useful-
llese, but the indispensable necessity of such a work, In, man of busi-
nes,s can for a moment entertain a doubt ; and, considering the com-
pleteness and fulness of the information tarnished, and the enormous
outlay of time and of capital that must have been made in order to
esquire and digest the information, the very reasonable price at
"'"ell the Work is published is really wonderful.

GLOBE, Nov. 21, 184.
Invaluable work, the " Post-offic6e Directory," has just
120ade its appearance for the ensuing year. The vast mass of
man
infor-
zu
Ztely lon 'which this book contains makes it not only desirable hut ab-
msary as a part of the office furniture of every of
`Justness,ne and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else, who
localities
to know anything concerning the trades, professions, and
calititss of the great motropedis. In its present extended form, the
book is an absolute curiosity • the labour and expense which it has
cost to bring it to its present 'state of perfection must have been im-
enge. In turning over its 2,000 pages, one hardly knows which
most to be struck with and admire—the excellent arrangement and
Utility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of the city which re-
Ttires such a directory. The classifiCation of the various profes-
sions, trades, and callings in the court, commercial, and law depart-
Ments of the work on the one hand, and the arrangement of the
streets of London on the other, as well as the great mass of informa-
tion of various kinds connected with the Post-office, and the different
Modes of intercommunication, make it altogether as complete a di-
rectory as can be desired, or as it is well possible to conceive. The
'volume, moreover, contains an excellent map of London and the
suburbs. corrected down to the latest strides of " bricks and mortar."

WEEKLY DISPATCH, Nov. 15. 1846.
The forty-eighth annual pub c.ation of this highly important and
and we must coll fess that its bulky
iseful work has just been issued
appearance has surprised us not
~.little; and when we reflect th it
the expense of collecting
the price remains unaltered, althou
a marareatreased at
viewberality of
Materials must have increased. w:".a the
point of , perhaps,
11r. Kelly, the proprietor. In
" Streeta D..irLeacwtor3D'crea.
Ito book ever contained so much useful rnial
!nation, there is an " Offkial Dairec.t. oprya-
.. Commercial Directory," a " Trades' DI
Directory," a
ta, rY:' a " Court Directory,"
a " Conveyance Directorye,” araY
" City Directory,"
Directory ;" in fact, the volume contains much that a " Banking
akdvaluable to the tradesman, the merchant, the 1 t is Interesting
,:tirtaealet'or,y7ong other infor.
sinordinary life, as well as to the gentlemehZYer, and per-
tabbies in trade. Every description of Information (I], Getsoi,rallY
"acted to the latest possible period : and that information -a-,..,.-"anc";
with a clearness and simplicity which must have involvedscrge"
tivity of mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the bi;ZI ac-
QXcellently engraved map of London,more extended and accuLactmeaasn
10 the suburbs, than any map we have seen ; and to make it
Alete a reference as possible, an almanac is introduced. In the .. Pori
Directory," there are the new rates with various parts of the Contt
rmitt, which will come into operation en the Ist of January., Alto-
gether this new issue surpasses any of its predecessors ; and we ere
filth"prised that other directories should have gone to the tonib cd
Capulets.

JOHN BULL, Nov. 28, 1846.
This annual leviathan is already completed and published; but as
-Drool' that the rapidity with which it must have passed through the
tress has not operated against Its careful accuracy, we may men-
-913. that the changes rendered necessary by the very recent decease
4)r Mr. Stewart, M.M, for Renfrewshire, are duly attended to. (See
It?' 1668 and 1676.) We have so frequently expressed our approba-
-0 011 of this most valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary
ru! e,ommendation. It contains everything which can possibly be
gaquired in a directory—so %IL complete, so comprehensive ace all
rdetall s . And when to this we add the extreme accuracy which
Pt- evades every department, we know not what else can be said in
Zraise• The machinery by which such voluminous information 15
.e_tned, arranged, and superintended so as to avoid errors, must Of
lrbe among the " curiosities" of modern literature.

ATLAS, Nov. 28, 46.
A book of this kind, brought out even 18
without much pretensions
Would be indispensable to every gentleman's litrary, every mar-
;llant's counting-house, and every trader's shop. But edited, as this
'l4 with the utmost care, its materials being collected through the
roost authentic channels, and embracing in its range every head of
persona land commercial intelligence essential to the complet. ness of
8,,,,,/i a work, we cannot suppose that any house, public or private,
ntouhiell can afford a book of reference, will be without this competr-
s volume. The arrangement is admirable. Ton can
find any
4 You want in a moment. All the heads are clear and complete
e4l court, trades, streets, offices, hotels; fbrrning. upon the whole,
~a mass of local information such as could not be brought together
,Wtollt extraordinary industry, assisted by an entire command of al

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