The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

• pOST -OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
is i 7 IRCH EDITION.—Co tutu Padioie•oiiioto
and I" octal divisions to the latest period. 7o how recent a date the
haeteorith tions have been brought doh-maybe judged from the 't that
consequent on the demise of the late. Duke of Northum-
tb,etrrylandaanivgiesFovn e
obfeelLinwtroordku.eed in their proper order in the,Parliamen-
- r •
MORNING CIIRONICLE,'Nov. 20,'1846.
POl, ors of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
ei
g_ eppear realty unlimited. Published daring a series of fetty-
ht years, in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by
Yearly average of some fourteen thousand, and whose commerce
expands iu st 11 larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" roes be-
come l
enormously enhanced in bu. as also 'in the complicated
variety of its li:dispensable contents. The admirable success with
which
the really enormous difficulties of his task have been overcome
)? the indefatigable publisher has been proved by the experience
..°';liarlY years ; and we need say little more than that the- present
meth°'Rae presents the same tokens as its predecessors, of intelligents,d and ingenuity of arrangement in packing into reasonable
compass, and producing in lucid order its millions of facts and
reibre ce. Within two thousand pages every man may learn
everything be ought to know about every one of his co-dwellers iii
troe great metropolis, their businesses, as well as everything neces.
'apt to facilitate him in his own. The very rapid extension of our
. nulwaY system, and the new postal arrangements with some conti-
nental states, have rendered necessary some extensive addition( to
the sections appropriated to Conveyance and the Post-office. We
Line the information given under those heads net only as full and ac-
rate as it was well possible to make them, but more new and re-
JO that'• we should have thought attainable in a work of such mag-
nitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we
itPPest to have met with.
TIMES, Nov. 16, 1846.
18Th° forty-eighth annual publication of thiswork—the volume for
0_ 47—is now issued. It is a vvonderfully different affair from the
t.(l Directory, which used to consist of little or nothing Mors than
1e alPhabetieal list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for
IMme Years, a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court
•ectory," a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with
a host of other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
,e,arefully revised, and supplies the latest information. Of coarse,
'hePostal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and in minor
Pelo ts the work seems to bear the test of search into matters in
Mulch changes have been very recent.
MORNING POST, Nov. 19, 1846.
The forty-eighth annual publication of this admirable work has
aer
jutetbeen jostled. Any dissertation on the usefhlneas of this volume,
its well-proven service in almost every counting-house in the
inetropoll s for so many years Nast, must be quite anneeessary. Suf-
oeeoitth say, the present edition possesses all the merit of its prede-
o, whlle the alterations and corrections in the various depart-
"'s have been carried down to the latest period.
MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1546,
hen,nalkY as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
;t the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances off still
tiler enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously
enabled the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory
unrivallei completeness, wherein every species of fact likely to be
a anted by the merchant and trader is placed within convenient
:lees& The volume contains upwards of 2,000 closely-printed royal
es Pages, betokening a singular amount of industry as a matter
of compilation, and awakening astonishment at the comprehensive-
as of the machinery which could bring within a common focus
... hatch varied and scattered intelligence—embracing, as it does, a
eitiltiplicity of heads, and involving the services of a vast number
of contributors. We believe that the present volume is not to be
!latched in the whole world, for such a mammoth aggregate of local
11. r"
aPectflc information Is no less a typographical wonder than a
oi'lliloll3 monument of diligence and enterprise. Some dozen or so
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
tPantehlal. The " Official Directory" is a key to the whole of the
evernment officee, and a record of official personages. This is foi-
t°hwed by a " Street Directory," exhibiting the tradesmen in every-
thor
tr,o,dutogryhfanre, and the points at which the streets are intersected by .
b,"t at right angles; while the "Commercial and Professional
Trades' Directory,"
is an alphabetical arrangement ot the above. Then comes
in which the names are allocated under their
-oo"Pebtive calliogs. The "Law Directory" is a list of judges;
l'oo..""a's counsel, sereeaats, barristers, attorneys, &c., with a C. 7 4-
ties of the various Courts of Law, their officers, and their peculiar',
Ot of inrisliction. The " Court Directory" comprises the addresses,
the nobility and gentry ; and the " Parliamentary Directory" is
" record of the NI embers of the House of Lords and Commons, h Rh'
an alphabetical list of the boroughs, cities, and counties returniek
,r,..entbers to Parliament, the surnames and eldest sons of peers, &c.
o"e Postal Directory" contains the hour of receipt and delivery o
TerY Post-office in the kingdom ; the cities and principal places
„tr?lughout the world to which mails are dispatched from London
-ec,c7 of foreign postage ; the railway mails and the cross-road mails,
.
eonlo The " City Directory" registers the civic authorities, the pubilc •
tebbire',ntoonryies”, the brokers, the incumbents and ministers of the
D. • cues and chapels, the newspapers, &c. ; and the " onveyance
includes the railway tahles, the coach and booking offices,
a'wharfs, &c, The volume closes with Banking and Assurance
rectories. These various heade will serve to indicate the multi-
.nil.,ineus nature of the contents, for out of them come a variety of
11 ordinate directories. which. Meet every conceivable want, pre-
tiOlillag a curious analysis of the public and private institutions of
: rmetropolis and of the commercial world. ,Every person is to be
'olled under his proper section, from a . prime minister down to aitr
's officer—every establishment, from a palace to a lodging-
The editor, in his preface, takes occasion. to congratulate
principally
on the many improvements he has this year introduced,
flowing from the employment Of "selected agents," instead
the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific
&iterations, the new postage treaty.with Prussia, which came into
',aeration on the Ist et January, 1847, and disturbs to a considerable .
extent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems
the most important!
.• MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846:
TlTh'; Post-office London Directory, 1847," is just delivered.
ghlt miparently litaited•to London, it is in reality a national
Zvork. None of the leading,towns can well be .without it ; must
• , an essential to every counting-housein the kingdom, as well as to
I:vel7 place of business in and about the metropolis.. It is an inealu-
• awe work of its kind ; and the extent and minuteness of its useful de-
tails are truly Wondet MI. Being prepared*" under the initeediate and
"'OM patronage of her Majesty's Postanaster-General," the amplest
and completest means were, of coarse, at the command of the pro-
Prietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entire accuracy of the voluminous
• lad crowded contents of the bulky work. The present is the forty-
. eighth annual publication. Few commercial and trading men can
Low require particular description of the really important and usefhl
Information, to almost every party in any sort of business, occupying
the two thousand closely but clearly printed octave pages of this Di-
rectory. Preceded, by an admirable and perspicuous 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-
atentary," " Postal,". City," " Conveyanee," "Bankino," and many
wiser Directories.
• The hope is expressed is the preface that this. forty-eighth annual
• -edition of the "Post-office London Directory" may be found "in all
respects to omitl the best of its predecessors." From very consider
able ataminaeon of the marvellously full and varied contents and
hssfornistion on matters which it must be so difficult, laborious, and
"-pensive to collect, we hesitate not to say, that this unassuming
Wish is liberally realised. It nqt only.elll}lle. the - best of its prede-
cessors but in several particulars it surpasses all its predecessors.
The information is not only fuller in many respects, but there are
a.,"etal important alterationit ani additions; largelr adding to the
"&tfulness of the book. It is intimated, and truly, that although all
eijuramYktltien has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous prose
AZ there has been no relaxation in the .multifarious labours to per-
„7,,_ the extraordinary work. In speitking of past success, it is
o_""sereed that it has been, "even in a pecuniary point of view, bone-
.cial to the public, is proved by the fact that important improve-
ments and additions are annually made without any increase of
rice "—a result that, it is declared, " could not have been the
ease, had the public patronage been divided." With reference
10 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 full, usefhl, and
Complete ; and must much increase the daily, it might ba more truly
• , pronounced its hourly value, particularly to the merchant, the
trader, or the professional man. As the new treaty with Prussia
caused very eonsiderable changes in the rates of postage as effecting
the Austrian dominions, Baden. Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the
Berman States, Hamburg, lilanover, Lubeck, Meeklenbnrgh, Olden-
10.brgh, Poland, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburg,
.go. ta. &c., those changes are detailed " precisely as they arranged
TO
QOM into operation on the Ist of January, 1847." The other
?naives are not only numerous. but all the intelligence is announced
'0
-be brought down to a period as late as was compatible with the
appearance of such a volume in sufficient time for general circulation,
• o Prior to the commencement of the year for which it is designed. The
business merits of the work are of the highest order, and render it,
of its kind, we imagine, a publication unexampled in the world for
.14 (*repleteness, fulness, and usefulness.
SUN, Nov. 18,1846.
The present is the forty-eighth annual edition of the " Post-office
o.'"ohtion Directory," and a truly marvellous effort of compilation it
",„: The " Post-office Directory" has been for some years under
this
manaoement of Mr. Kelly. Until be became the manager of
vrork,'tbere were divers other Directories in the field. They
ha°e;
e; however, all disappeared, and the " Post-office Directory"
"", rules sioneoi This astonishing success, however, has not had
o,""e effect of making the proprietor of this gigantic work careless.
that the fruiter of his success can only be reaped by a continuance,
Instance
the tame untiring energy bwhich the success was in the first
Vtance achieved, and accordingly we find that the " Post-office
Directory" for 1847. is even more highly finished in all its elaborate
t!rangentents than any former edition of the book. The extent and
i::::lauteness of the details furnished, render the work indispensable
hotverY commercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably,
th,-,,",er, Is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that
Is not the slightest difficulty experienced, in referring to the
x."enlar Page required to furnish the information—a marvellous
of nee of clearness of arrangement in a n ork consisting of upwards
blrew° thousand closely but clearly printed octavo pages. This
oneret6rY is certainly the most complete work of the sort ever
erect to the public. Of not only the usefulness, but the indispen-
-0:' necessity of such a work, no man of business can for a moment
eiZerta, in a doubt; and consicering the completeness and fuhiess of
furnished, and the enormous outlay of time and o
id' Llhat must have been made in order to acquire and digest the
is °,,:n2„atioU, the very reasonable price at which the work is published
wanderitil.

GLOBE, Nov. 21, 1846.
tas idea;" invaluable work, the " Post-office Directory," has just
mattes aPpearanich ce Par the ensuing
makes It not only desirable but
bs,,t4telY necessary as a part of the office furniture of every nsan of
; and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else,
asi,i•
",_Legillre4 to know anything concerning the trades, professions,
th:Localities of the great metropolis. In its present extended form,
„„.."4"4 is an absolute curiosity ; the labour and expense which it
t„, wit to bring it to its present state of perfection must have been
he`n....ulitrise. In turning over its two. thousand pages, one hardly
which meat to be struck with and. admire—the excellent
ts4'"LnetB.eni_e_nt adutility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of
Contie.. ^lnch requires such a directory. The volume, moreover,
do ax excellent map of London and the
„suburba, corrected
rril to the latest strides of " bricks and mortar.
The forty-eWI annualpublication of this highly•important and
guEttKLT DISPATCH, Nov. 15, 1846.
11.41431111 work us.
Just been issued ; and we must confess that its
rhatYthai—pste.rani.ecemll2,4_ surprised us not a little ; and when we reflect
Of lir, Kelly
the materials must have increased, we are
sans unaltered, although the expense of collectingtw
pleased at the liberals
po
formation,
iboono-
book
there e
,vei.
iproprietor.san. ln a commercial point of view, per-
._
,ommercial Directs
contain( so much useful matter. Among otheT,
ry,o„ltlac,i,al Directory," a " Street Directory,
Trades' Directory," a " Law Dirac-
rrrYe.; a " Court Directory* a " Parliamentary Directory," a "City
tory,erY," a " Conveyance Directo " and a " Banking Dlrec-
ValambTin fact, the volume contains much that is interesting and
%au eto Big tradesman, the merchant, the lawyer, and pers. ns in
laskir7,llfe, as well as to the gentleman who occasionally dabbles in
Xlietar-verY description of information has been corrected to
clew Possible period, and that information is arranged with a
tnia and simplicity which must have involved great activity of
attgro7 exertion of body. Sewed with the book is an excellently
silbusb th___44uP of London, more extended and accurate as to the
referee„ than any map we have seen ; and to make it as complete a
-birect=ts Possible, an almanac is introduced. In the " Po,stal
dine...—,l there are the new rates with various parts of the Con-
41t0HetZelrich will
come into operation on the Ist of January.
are he, this new issue surpasses any of its predecessors ; and we
lookb "urPrised that other Directories should have gone to the
of all the Capolets.
BRITANI(IA, Nov. 21, 1846.
Qtatnal
.rrench People have done themselves some credit by their in-
iseuions exPositions• litut it must be acknowledged that, though in-
The ins PrettY. they appear quite gnificant compared with
smerae.ustrtai
exposition presented to the mind by this mighty
londs; -"eePiug Pace with the advancing trade and population of
aliens of' it 'till increases in bulk, and keeping pace with the move-
sc'eletY in a more important particular, it vigilantly seizes
oPPortunity of improvement to insure more perfect accuracy
'•
eutore
_coMplete classification. We find In this volume many in-
tollizeo.,o4ti,ththlaenmy
*lOl7 `tsuPeriority to former issues, which, though comparatively
Istate, suow the intelligence and care exercised over every depart-
be mentioned, that by the employment of
artpivate
changes of residence are now brought down to ter
formerly, and the value of the " Directory" is conse-
then:- enhanced. We have before spoken of it as indispensable to
a,.4
sau•-oPcr management of business. Its authority is now so e
meuniver-
. pc.he,estab,lised, both at the Post-office and trougout thtro-
- that at,h:v further recommendation of it ish superfluhous.
- ' 40,1,1's BULL, Nov. 28, 1846.
the Prosy
1/11 ' anntilhaltitiethy
- ela,;l..hvan Li alreadcom an published ;ut
idity with which itpleted must have passed through
ketallirl bus not es,-eted against Its careftil accuracy, e many
Am.„...11 that the change,s rendered necessary by the very recent
to -6.7. 0f sfr. Stewart, for Rentrewshlre, are duly attended
Pro
Itp Pages 1669 and 1676). We have so frequently expressed our be,.
es of this must valuable work, that we hardly know how
41%37 our commendation. It contains everything that can pos-
kensi,7 required in a directory—so fl/11, so complete, so compro-
steene are all its details. And when to this we add the extreme
ea `itY which pervades every department, we know not what else
luinc :laid in its praise. The machinery by which such volu-
te ow_ formation is obtained, arranged, and suparintended, so as
litarMuserrors, must 01 itself be among the " curiosities" of modern

bpot ATLAS, Nov. 28, 1846.
tepkw., s_ of this kind. brought out even without much pretension,
Nftilnoe indispensable to evory gentleman's library, every merchant's
itneaurng,.l°,lsc. and every trader's shop. But edltea as this is, 'with
-"‘ ears -its materials being collected through the most au-
tug'rniTructaeli i
a,irteilidegmbracing in its range every head of personal
enee essential to the completeno.s of such a
e7,..rk. we cannot suppose that any house, publil or private, which
b,)ok of reference, will be without this compendious
3,.°onHulte. The. arrangement is admirable. You can find any name
q(); want 14 a Moment. All the headb are clear and complete--the
rt-stract—eb eeta--otlices—hotels, forming, upon the whole, a
l;
Of bzwidtnt ''""-...r+Aion such as could not be brought together with-
tr49l"Quir) Allitustry, assisted by au eutire command of all