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SALES BY AUCTION.

LANDED INVESTMENT of very great value and importance, par-
ticularly worthy the attention of large Capitalists and others de-
sirous of county influence, with a solid and improvable income.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to submit for SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION,
early in June next, one of the most magnificent ESTATES in the
principality of Wales, which the owner is only induced to dispose of
from a desire and opportunity to make further investments iu the
neighbourhood of his large residential property in another county.
This fine estate is situated adjoining an improving market-town, and
comprises in a ring fence about 3.000 acres, nearly two-thirds of
which rest upon 1111 alluvial deposit, of a richness and depth but
rarely met with. It has no old or expensive mansion to keep up,
biit has all the advantages of a substantial and comfortable residence,
with ample outbuildings in the centre of the property, with compact
and convenient homesteads to the several farms. In the town are
also two commodious dwelling-houses, with gardens pleasantly
situated, to be taken at the option of the purchaser. There is an
inexhaustible quarry of carboniferous limestone on the estate, which
is worked at a trifling cast, conveyed on a tram road (formed by the
late proprietor at a vast expense), and shipped from a wharf to
the neighbouring ports, where it is in great demand. As a fishing
station, also, the estate affords every facility for the capture of
large quantities of salmon, sewin, cod, soles, &c , a certain source
of income hitherto undeveloped. The farms are let to yearly
tenants, at lower ts, and the annual value of the estate approaches
4,0001.
Particulars, with plans, will be ready for delivery in April ; in
the interim a plan may be seen, and every information obtained,
at the offices of Mr. David Thomas, solicitor; or of Mr. George
Taylor, land agent and engineering surveyor, &c., in Brecon ; also
of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, in Waterloo-place,
Pall-mall.

KENT.
The very Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES and Delightfully Healthy
SEAT and PARK of CHARLTON, near Canterbury, in the pic-
turesque parishes of Bishopsbourne, Kingston, and Barham.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at the
Auction Marl, on Tuesday, March 30, at Twelve, in Lots,
(unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by
private contract for the whole of the property), the im•
'portant and very desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE of CHARL-
TON, about four miles from Canterbury, upon the high Dover-
Road, a remarkably healthy and favourite neighbourhood, compris-
ing the capital and handsome MAJ:I74I,QN of CHARLTON, (of
which immediate possession may be bad), with its beautiful Plea-
sure-grounds, capital Stabling and Gab:lens, keeper's and other
Ledges, surrounded by a finely varied little Park of excellent sound
Pasture Land, studded with some magnificent Timber and Orna-
mental Plantation, with Two very valuable Farms adjoining, inter-
spersed with Woodlands, forming excellent Preserves for Game ; also
the Manor of Kingston, and come desirable Lands contiguous, with
a portion of the healthy Barham-down, comprising the race-course,
with important frontages upon the turnpike- road, parts opening tine
commanding sites for the erection of villas, overlooking the pictu-
resque vale of Bishopsbourne, Kingston, and Barham. Also another
residence, now occupied by the Rev. T. Harrison, and a small farm
and detached lands, in and near the village and church of Barham ;
altogether about 740 acres, All in a ring fence except a few lots in
Barham.
Descriptive particulars may be had of Mr. Dowsett, at Bishops-
bourne ; at the chief inns at Canterbury, Dover, Maidstone,
&c. ; of Messrs. Delmar and Wynne, solicitors. Lincoln's Inn-
fields ; at the Auction Mart; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son,
land agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

Freehold Villa and Grounds at Sunninghill, Berks, bordering on
Windsor Great Park, Virginia Water, and Ascot.
AIESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Auction Mart, on Tuesday,
March 30, at Twelve, (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously
made by private contract), with possession, the FREEHOLD
VILLA, late the residence and property of Mrs. Churchill, deceased,
delightfully situated on an elevated and beautiful part of Sunning-
hill, adjoining Titnest-park, and close to all the romantic rides,
walke, and scenery of Virginia Water, and the Royal parks, through
which is the drive to Windsor of only six miles. It has just been
pat into thorough repair, and has all suitable offices and outbuildings
for a moderate establishment, surrounded by highly dressed pleasure
grounds, gardens and paddocks.—Particulars may be had on the
premises ; at the Auction Mart ; of Messrs. Pemberton, Crawley,
and Gardiner, solicitors, Whitehall-place; and at Mr. Smith's
offices in Windsor, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-mall.

THE OLD PALACE, at RICHMOND, a delightfully situate and
most comfortable Mansion, with Grounds extending to the River,
near the Bridge; lat,, the seat of the Hon. Mrs. STEWART MAC-
KENZIE, now wholly residing in Scotland.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
submit to public SALE, at the MART, near the Rank of
England, on FRIDAY, the 9th of April, at Twelve o'clock (unless an
acceptable offer shall be previously made by private contract).
The above spacious and handsome LEASEHOLD MANSION, one
of the striking features in the beautiful scenery of the Thames near
Richmond-bridge. It-is distinguished as the Old Palace. Its river
front (agreeably retired) presents a grand uniform elevation, with a
noble rtico of very lofty stone columns, supported by broad flight
of stone sters from the ground floor, which comprises a dellghtful
range of six or seven rooms, forming the dining and reception rooms,
boudoir, 84c., all opening en suite, with the same south-western as-
pect. and all commanding the uninterrupted view of the pleasure
groands and river. On the upper floors are numerous excellent and
cheerful bed-rooms, a boudoir and dressing-rooms, nearly all with
warm aspects, and the domestic offices are very complete, opening to
a spacious enclosed coach-yard, with distinct access, stabling for four
horses, double coach-house, &c., and adjoining are very superior
walled gardens, with an abundance of the choicest fruit trees; south-
ward of which are the pleasure grounds, extending from the mansion
to the river bank, with broad gravelled walks, and embellished with
some lofty timber trees, cedars, and clumps of various American and
other shrubs, with a capital newly-erected conservatory, and a sum-
mer-house, adapted for a billiard-room, commanding the beautiful
scenery of the river, Richmond-bridge, &c.
Immediate possession may be had, and descriptive particulars had at
the neighbouring hotels ; of NI r. Cain, house agent, Richmond ; at
the Auction Mart ; of Joseph Parkes, Esq., 21, Great George-street,
Westminster ; of Hugh James Cameron, Esq., Parliament-street ; and
of Daniel Sni*th and Son, surveyors, &c., Waterloo. place, Pall-mall,
who are fully authorised to receive offers by private treaty.

The important FREEHOLD EgTATE of BRETTENHAM PARK,
SU FOLK, with its capital Manors and Farms, in the flue country
between Bury and Ipswich.
MESSRS; DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to giye notice that the above very valuable
and remarkably compact ESTA.TE; comprising a handsome and
spacious mansion, rich and magnificently timbered Park, with orna-
mental lake and plantations, manors, and numerous capital farms,
interspersed with thriving woodlands, lull of game, altogether nearly
1,800 acres, in a perfect ring fence, and (except the mansion and
manors, which are in hand) let to respectable tenants, will be offered
for SALE by AUCTION, about JUNE next, under the direction of
the High Court Of Chancery.
Particulars and Plans are preparing, and, when the day of sale is
fixed, may be had upon the premises; at the chief inns at Bury,
Ipswich, Sudbury, Low! Melford, &c. ; at the Auction Mart; of
Messrs. Jones, Bateman, and Bennet, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn ; and
of Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

ADVOWSONS, in the remarkably beautiful part of Gloucestershire,
near Stroud, between Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Bath,
ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
; r SELL by AUCTION, at the MART, en FRIDAY, April 9, at
Twelve, in separate Lots, TWO most desirable ADVOWSONS, with
next and all future Rights of Presentation, with very superior par-
sonages, delightfully t•ituate, amidst the romantic scenery of Wood •
chester Park and the fine Vale of the Severn, surrounded by an
excellent neighbourhood, and both within two miles of stations on
the Great Western Railway, viz., the Rectory of Woodchester, the
ahnual income of which, with 24 acres of glebe, is iof
the delightful Parsonage-hottse and Grounds, only two miles from
Stroud ; the present incumbent is 68 years of age ; the population,
900. Also, the Vicarage of Frocester, five miles flout Stroud, and
11 from Gloucester, with a newly-built parsonage, exclusive of which
the income is 2701. per annum ; the incumbent is 47 ; the popu-
lation 300.
Particulars may be had at the chief Hotels at Gloucester, Bath,
Cheltenham, and Oxford ; of Messrs. Humphreys and Co., auctioneers,
Stroud ; of M. Hudson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfield ; the Mart ;
and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, Waterloo-Place,
Pall-mall.

CHESTER-HILL MOUSE, amidst the romantic scenery of Woad-
chester Park, near Stroud and Gloucester, with a first-class
Railway-station only two miles distant.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
offer for SALE by AUCTION at the Mart, near the Bank
of England, on Fairay, the 9th of April, at Twelve o'clock (unless
an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract),
The above desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with gardens,
pleasure grounds. and rich paddocks, together about eighteen acres.
The House contains six airy bed-rooms, dressing-rooms, water-
closet, &c. three sitting-rooms, hall, and the usual domestic offices,
with stabling and various out-buildings, excellent gardens, lawn,
shrubberies, Ikc. ; delightfully situate on a healthy picturesque spot,
commanding scenery of great extent and surprising bearitN , and in the
vicinity of the newly established Mission of the Passionists, and early
possession may be had.
Also, a smaller HOUSE and GROUNDS in the immediate
vicinity.
Particulars may be had of Mr. Peake, the resident agent at Wood-
cheater ; at the chief hotels at Stroud, Bristol, and Bath ; at the
Auction Mart; of Mr. Hodson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfield; and
of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Land Agents, Waerlo-place,
London.

RAILWAY TO M.A.R:IATE.„
THE ROYAL HOTEL, in Ciaab-
bQUARE,
MARGATE, with a FREE LICENCE.---To LET en
LEASE, the above valuable and desirable Premises,
adapted for an extensive business, and capable of realising, at very
moderate terms they are offered, a splendid fortune in a few ye."
to any one who has the means of embarking in the same. admirably
This spacious property comprises a noble BALL-ROOM, unequalled
in the county of Kent, 157 ft. by 41ft.; CARD and REFRESHMENT
ROOMS, measuring respectively 44ft. by 28ft. and 28ft. by 24ft , with
Dressing-rooms adjoining ; FORTY-NINE BED and SITTING
ROOMS, excellently well arranged, with elegant and necessary
appendage ; Counting-house, Laundry, Mangle-room, large Kitchen,
ample Cellarage, Closets, and enclosed Yard, together with the
spacious BILLIARD and COFFEE-ROOMS, and most convenient
WINTER BALL, Card, and Ante-rooms.
The TAP, which has an interior communication, contains Bar and
Parlour, two Bed-rooms, Coffee and Smoking-rooms, with Cellars,
a d every requisite for first•rate trade. The Proprietors, being
desirous of letting the above eligible concern for a term of years, to
a respectable tenant, will afford every facility in their power to
render the buslne,s highly remunerative.
For particulars, apply to Mr. J. STANER, Auctioneer, 121,
HIGII-STREET, MARGATE.

LEAGUE BREAD COMPANY,
7, ST. JOIIN-STRE
veET, CLhe ERKEXWELL.
The Directors of this Company ha t pleasure to announce that
their BAKERY being now CO3IPLETED, they will be prepared to
offer to the Public, on SATURDAY NEXT, the 27th ult.,
PURE, UNADULTERATED BREAD,
FULL WEIGHT,
AND THE BEST QUALITY.
" LEAGUE
Every Loaf will be stamped at the top, COMPANY."
The following Agents have been appointed for the sale of the Com-
pany's Bread :
At the Bakery, 7, St. John-street, Clerkenwell.
Depot No. 1. Mr. Andrew Charles, No. 138,
Bishopsgate-street.
~ 2. Mr. T. Gardiner, 14, Church-lane, Wkitechapel.
3. Mr. John Kelvin, 7, New-road, Commercial-road Old Kent-
.) 4. Mr. Charles Cracroft, 6, Cumberland-place,
road.
5. Mr. Samuel Rapson, 37, London-road.
~ 6. Mr. John Tolhurst, 79, Lower Marsh, Lambeth.
7. Mrs. Mary Lockler, 25 and 26, Little Earl-street,
Seven-dials.
~ 9. Mr. G. Campion,
4 Fitzroy-square.
8. Mr. James Green, 62, SSeymour-street,Dryanstene-
square.
0 10. Mr. F. Metcalfe, 5, Alarchmont-street, Russell-square.
3S,
Clipstone. street,
„ 11. Mrs. Harriet Fitzpatrick, 3, Ilemingford-place, Barns-
bury.
„ 12. Mr. John Grant, 66, Tothill-street, Westminster.
By order of the Board,
EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary.

No. 61, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street.
MESSRS. MOSELY, Surgeon-Dentists, have
'REMOVED from 32, Haymarket. Their system of sup-
plying Artificial Teeth ensures the power to masticate, without
lessening the taste of the palate by artificial covering, or injuring
the adjoining teeth by use of wires. Their teeth are unchange-
able in colour, and perfectly resemble the original. Decayed teeth
permanently filled and restowd to use, superseding extraction.

LiFENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE.
The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty
years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only
article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or
grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black,
without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro-
duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it
can be incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy,
the hair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap-
plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing
the roots till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65.. and 10s
per bottlo.
To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate
street, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-
street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
street ; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin,
MiLsem-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of mos
Perthmers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to
any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid.
Please to uk for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid hair Dye.'
Obsorm the 119prietorl ikireie is on the wrapper.

POST.-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
1847 —MARCH EDlTlON.—Corrected in the Parliamentary j
and Postal divisions to the latest period. To how recent a date th
a terations have been brought down may be judged from the fact that
he changes consequent on the demise of the la'e Duke of Northum-
berland have been introduced in their proper order n the Parliamen-
tary division of the work.
MORNING CHRONICLE. Nov 20, 1846.
The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
volume appear real y unlimited. rublishe 1 during a series of fsrty-
elght years, In a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by
a yearly average of some fourteen thousaul, and whose commerce
expands in etal larger measure, the "Post-office Directory" has be-
come .enormously enhanced in bats as also In the complicated
variety of its indispensable contents The Admirable ,uccess rslth
which thee rally enormous difficulties of his task have been overcome
by the indfatigable publisher has been proved by the experience
of many years ; and we need say little more than tha the present
volume presents the same tokens as its predecessors, tof Intel igeut
method and ingenuity of arrangement in packing into reasonable
compass, and producing in lucid order its mil.ions of facts and
reference. Witbin two thousand pages every man may learn
everything he ought to know about every one of his co-dwellers in
the great metropolis, their businesses, as well as everything neees •
sary to facilitate him ig his own. The very rapid Qv ension of our
railway system, and the new postal arrangements with some conti-
nental states, have rendered necessary some extensive additions to
tile sections appropriated to Conveyance and the Post-office. We
find the information given under those heads not only as full and ac-
curate as it was well possible US make them, bnt more new and re-
cent than we should have thought attainable in a work of such mag-
nitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we
happen to have met with.
TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846.
' The forty-eights annual publication of this work—the volume for
1847—is now issued. It is a wonderfully different affair from the
old Directory, which used to consist of little or nothing more than
the alphabetical list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for
some years, a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court
Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with
a host of other little digests. the volume appears to have been very
carefully revised, and supplies the latest information. Of course,
the postal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and its miner
points the work seems to bear the test of search into matters in
which changes have been very recent.
MORNING POS I', Nev. 19, 1846.
The forty-eighth annual publication of this admirable work has
ust been Issued. Any dissertation on the useffilness of this volume,
after its well-proven rervice in almost every counting-house in the
metropolis fir so many years past, must quite unneeessary. Suf-
fice it to say, the present edition all the merit of its prede-
cessors, while the alterations and corrections in the various depart-
ments have beeti carried down to the latest period,
• MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1546,
Bulky as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
been, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
urther enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously
enabled 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 trader is placed within convenient
access. The volume contains upwards of 2,000 closely-printed royal
octavo pages, betokening a singular amount of industry as a matter
of compilation, and awakening astonishment at the comprehensive-
ness of the machinery which could bring within a common focus
so much varied and scattered intelligence—embracing, as it does, a
multiplicity of heads, and involving the services of a vast number
of contributors. We believe that the present volume is not to be
matched in the whole world, for such a mammoth aggregate of local
and specific information is no less a typographical wonder than a
orodigioas monument of diligence and enterprise. Some dozen or so
of separate Directors 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 the whole of the
Government offices, and a record of official personages. This is fol-
lowed 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 "Cbmatercial and Professional
Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above. Then comes
a " Trades' Directory," in which the names are allocated under their
respective callings. The " Law Directory" is a list of judger,
Queen's counsel, sergeants, barristers, attorneys, &c., with a cata-
logue of the various Courts of Law, their officers, and their peculiari-
ties of jurisdiction. The "Court Directory" comprises the addresses
of the nobility and gentry ; and the " Parliamentary Directory" is
a record of the Members of the House of Lords and Commons, 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 o
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 authorities, the public
companies, the brokers, the incumbents and ministers or the
churches and chapels, the newspapers, ; and the " ionveyance
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 indicate the multi-
tudinous nature of the contents, for out of them come a variety of
subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable want, pre-
senting a curious analysis of the public and private institutions of
the metropolis and of the commercial world. Every person is to be
found under his proper section, from a prime minister down to a
sheriff's officer—every establishment, from a palace to a lodging-
house. The editor, in his preface, takes occasion to congratulaie
himself on the many improvements he has this year introduced,
principally flowing from the employment of " selected agents," instead
of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific
alterations, the mew postage treaty with Prussia, which came 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, sense
the most important.
MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846.
The " Post-effiee London Directory, 1847," is just delivered.
Though it is apparently limited to London, it is in reality a national
work. None of the leading towns can well be without it ; It must
be an essential to every counting-house ia the kingdom, as well as to
every place of business in and about the metropolis. It is an invalu-
able work of its kind ; and the extent and minuteness of its useful de-
tails are truly wonder ful. Being prepared " under the immediate and
sp cial patronage of her Majesty's Postmaster-General," the amplest
and completest means were, of course, at the command of the pro-
prietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entire accuracy of the voluminous
and crowded contents of the bulky work. The present is the forty-
eighth annual publication. Few commercial and trading men can
now require particular description of the reall important and useful
information, to almost every party in any sort of business, occupying
• the two thousand closely but clearly printed octavo pages of this Di-
rectory. Preceded by an admirable and perssicuous Map of London,
prepared expressly, it is declared, for the work, by Mr. B. R. Davies,
there are divisions comprising, among other information, "Official,
" Street," " Commercial," "Trades," " Law," " Court," "Parlia-
• ntentary," "Postal,' "City," "Conveyance," "Bankins," and many

other Directories. ..
The hope is expressed la the preface that this forty-eighth annual
edition of the " Post-office London Direetory" may be found "in all
respects to equal the best of its predecessors." From very consider
able examination of the marvellously full and varied contents and
information en matters which it must be so difficult, labortam, and
expensive to collect, we liesitata 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 surpas- es all its predecessors.
The information is not Indy feller in many respects, but there are
several important alterations and additions, largely adding to the
usefulness of the boA. It is intimated, and truly, that although all
competition has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous proof
that there has been no relaxation in the multifarious labours to per-
fect the extraordinary work. In speaking of pact success, it is
observed that it has been, "even in a pecuniary point of view, bene-
ficial to the public, is proved by the fact that important improve-
ments and additions are annually made without any increase of
price "—a result that, it is declared, " could not have been the
case, had the public patronage been divided." With reference
to the price, we certainly must acknowledge that it is wonderful
how it can be profitable to provide such varied materials
—and materials constantly changing and requiring so much
and such ceaseless labour and cost to procure, and then to classify.
Nothing but a tremendous sale could make the speculation answer.
Among the important alterations will be found those introduced into
the " Postal" Directory. It is, indeed, singularly fill!, useful, and
complete ; and must much increase the daily, it might be more truly
pronounced its hourly value, particularly to the merchant, the
trader, or the professional man. As the new treaty with Prussia
caused very considerable changes in the rates of postage as effecting
the Austrian dominions, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the
German States, Hamburg, Manover, Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Olden-
burgh, Poland, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburg,
&c. Sec. Scc., those changes are detailed " precisely as they arranged
to come into operation on the let of January, 1847." The ether
changes are not only numerous, but all the intelligence is announced
to he brought down to a period as late as was compatible with the
appearance of such a volume in sufficient time for general circulation,
Prior to the commencement of the year for which it is designed. The
besiem merits of the work are of the highest order, and render it,
of its kind, we imagine, a publication unexampled in the world for
its completeness, fulness, and usefulness.
SUN, Nov. 18,1846.
The present is the forty-eighth annual edition of the "Post-office
London Directory," and a truly marvellous effort of compilation it
is. The " Post-office Directory" has been for some years under
the management of Mr. Kelly. Until he became the manager of
this work, there were divers other Directories in the field. They
have, however, all disappeared, and the " Post-office Directory"
now rules alone. This astonishing success, however, has not had
the effect of maldng the proprietor of this gigantic work careless.
Ile is Leo thorough a man of business not to be perfectly aware
that the fruits of his success can only be reaped by a continuance
of the sante untiring energy by which the success was in the first
instance achieved, and accordingly we fled that the " Pest-office
Directory" for 1847, is even more highly finished in all its elaborate
arrangements than any former edition of the book. The extent and
minuteness of the details furnished, render the work indispensable
to every commercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably,
however, is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that
page required to furnish the information—a marvellous
there is not the slightest difficulty experienced im referring to the
iairtt
s.. ...in a doubt.,. ihaAvnde
rness of arrangement in a A ork consisting of upwards
of two thousand closely but clearly printed octavo pages. This
Directory is certainly the most complete work of the sort ever
al ectqeunierses
an and
digest
ingl
offered to the public. Of not only the usefulness, but the indispen-
d
ensetmthoer
'sble necessity of such a work, no man of business can for a moment
aienaclearof elea
cute'
beQeent:ini-eradieginthoredeermtoP
' -nation furnished, and the enermous outlay of time and o
the Wore.
capital that tut.. reasonable price et which
Information, the very _ the work is published
Is really wonderful.

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made its appearance for the ensuing year.
Kelly's invaluable
infor-
mation which this book contains, makes It not mi/ desirable but
absolutely necessary as a part of the office furniture of every man of
business ; and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for ever' one else,
who requires to know anything concerning the trades, proiesclons,
and localities of the great metropolis. In its present extended harm,
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 beess
immense. In turning over its two thousand pages, one hardly
knows which 'nest to be strict with and admire—the excellent
arrangement and utility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of
the city withal' requires such a directory. The volume, moreover,
contain" an excellent map of London and the suburbs, corrected
down to the latest strides of " bricks and mortar."
WEEKLY DISPATCH, Nov. 15, 1846.
The fbrty-eighth annual publication of this highly-important and
useful work has just been issued ; and we must confess that its
bulky appearance has surprised us not a little ; and when we reflect
that the price remains unaltered, although the expense of collecting
the maferials must have increased, we are pleased at the liberality
of Mr, Kelly, the proprietor. In a commercial point of view, per-
haps, ao book ever contained so much useful matter. Among other
information, there is an " Official Directory," a " Street Directory,"
a " Commercial Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Direc-
tory," a" Court Directory," a" Parliamentary Directory," a "City
Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Direc-
tory,"—in fact, the volume contains much that is interesting and
valuable to the tradesman, the merchant, the lawyer, and pers,ns in
ordinary life, as well as to the gentleman who occasionally dabbles In
trade. Every description of information has been corrected to
the latest possible period, and that information is arranged with a
clearness and simplicity which must have involved great activity of
mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the book Is an excellently
engraved Map of London, more extended and accurate as to the
suburbs than any map we have seen ; and to make it as complete a
reference as possible, an almanac is introduced. In the " Postal
Directory" there are the new rates with various parts of the Con-
tinent which will come into operation on the Ist of January.
Altogether this new issue surpasses any of its predecessors ; and we
are not surprised that other Directories should have gone to the
Sarah of all the Capulets.
BRITANNIA, Nov. 11, 1246.
French people have done themselves some credit by their In-
dustrial The But it must be acknowledged that, though in-
expositions. quite insignificant • d with
pretty, they appear compare
in-
genious and pr
exposition presented to the mind by this mighty
the industrial .
w the advancing trade and po p of
volume. Keeping pace
in ith bulk, and keeping pace with theulation move-
London, it still increases
more
Imp
ortant particular, it vigilantly seizes
melt of society in a
lin
proTement to insure more perfect accuracy
of
assification. We find in this volume many
and more more complete cl
to former issues, which, though comparatively
stances of superiority nd care exercised over every depart-
intelligence a
trifling, show the
Honed, that by the employment of private
molt. It may be m
of residence are new brought down Ia a later
agents, the changes 0.
and the value of the "Directory" is conse-
period than formerly.
e have before spoken of it as indispensable to
quently enhanced.
W of business. Its authority is now so univer-
the proper management
Post-office and throughout the metro-
sally established, both at the
endation of it is superfluous.
Polls, that any further recomm
OII*7 BULL, Nov 28, 1846.
This annual leviathan is already
J , Completed and published ; but
w
as a proof that the rapidity withhich It must have passed through
the press has not operated against its careful accuracy, we may
d necessary by the very recent
mention that the changes rendered
shire are duly attended
demise of Mr. Stewart, . for Renfrew ,
'e so frequently expressed our
to (See pages 1669 and 1676). We hale know that we hardly how
approbation of this most valuable work,
to vary our commendation. It contains everything that can pos-
sibly be required in a directory—so full, BO complete, so oomp
henelve are all its details. And when to this we add
' mum whirlspervhdee eyery departraeut, we WIT notthe extreme
what 'be

can be said in its praise. The machinery by which such volu-
minous information is obtained, arranged, slid superintended, so as
to avoid errors, must 01 itself be among the " curiosities" of modern
literature.

ATLAS, Nov. 28, 1646.
A book of this kind. brought out even without much pretension.
would be indispensable to every gentleman's library, every merchant's
-ounting-house, and every tinder's shop. But.edited as this Is, with
.ae utmost care —lts materials being collected through the most au-
thentic channels, and embracing in its range every head of personal
and commercial intelligence essential to the completeness of such a
work, we cannot suppose that any house, pubic: or private, which
can afford a bwk of reference, will he without this compeudious
volume. The arrangement is admirable. You can find any name
you want to a moment. All the heads are clear and complete—the
Court —trades streets—offices—hotels, forming, upon tie whole, a
mass of local information such as could not be brought together
o t extraordinary industry, assisted by an entire command of all
equisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it is probably the
most wonderful on record
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 28, 184 G.
This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus-
tains the reputation enjoyed by the " Directory" of late Yea"' In
the preface the proprietor maintains that the high character of the
work is nLt referable to its mere connexion with the Post-ofliee ;
for an important change has been gradually introduced into the man-
ner of collecting the information ; and a larger portion of the work
than heretofore has been confide.' to selected agents entirely uncon-
nected- with the Post-office, this being, in great part, the plan of
compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor
' rested content with his pist success, but has introduced many impor-
tant alterations in this volume for 1847, and added to its bulk with-
out any Increase of price. The Postal Directory' is especially hn-
proved, and there are numerous changes throughout the volume, to
insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour, to
be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains-
taking minuteness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a
very lively effusion, to be seen in another column; and we trust the
enterprising proprietor of the "Directory" will find that his labeurs
are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial
country this is an indispensable volume.
RAILWAY HER .ILD, Nov. 21, 1846.
The new volume if the Post-office Directory for 1847 Is already
in our hands, and we can only express our wonder that a work so
laborious, extensive, and minute, could be in any degree improved.
It would have been a sufficient merit to have maintained its former
reputation ; it is a great merit to have surpassed itself. The pro-
duction of a work unequalled for accuracy and for clearness has
placed in the hands of the commercial public a most valuable and
indispensable aid in carrying an the business of this vast metropolis,
which would indeed-be giNectad ro the greatest inconvenience and
expense if it were not for a work of this kind. In a short time our
readers will have an opportunity of judging for themselves on pur-
chasing the new volume, whether our anticipatory notice Is in any
degree exaggerated.
lIERAPATIPS RAILWAY JOURNAL, Nov. 21, 1846.
The Post-office Directory for 1847 appears with additions and
improvements neon its valuable predecessor, but with no enlarge•
ment in the price. The continued enterprising spirit with which
this important, and it is not a misapplication of terms to say,
national work is conducted, merits the highest commendation. We
know net whether the same illiberal and unjustifiable attempt will
be made In the ensuing session as was done in the last, to wrest it
from the 11- lids of the present proprietary, and to place it by the
force of might over right In the possession of Government. But
should it be attempted, surely the following statement of its con-
ductors will go home to the consciences, If they have any, of the
parties seeking to draw down the grasping interference of Govern-
ment. "It can only be necessary to refer to a copy of the work pubs
lished before the purchase of the copyright by its present proprietor,
to be convinced that the mere connexion of the ' Directory' with
the Post -office has little, if at all, contributed to its present high cha-
racter. That the improvements (the result of many years of un-
wearied toil and application on the part of those engaged in the com-
pilation of the work) are duly appreciated, is now happily beyond all
question ; prior to the Directory' passing to its present proprietor,
rival books contended successfully with this. They have disappeared."
Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple Bar, and all
booksellers.

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