The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-28 00:00:00

[)°BZ-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
IS47—.MARCII EBlTlON.—Corrected in the Parliamentary
and Postal divisions to the latest p rind. To how recent a ,late th
he an havedratidon;
gesucaornee been brought down may oc judged Iro the Met that
been introduced
on the deans I the la e Duke , t Northum•
t division
ofb the work.
in their proper older the Parli,anen-
The powers3l°R-NING CIIThemNI LE, NOT 20, 1846.
paosion exhibited by this mos:. useful annual
6:44°bltrn;ekaiDSPe
ianr real y unlimited. I'lll,llole during as; ries 01 1 rty-
aline:ripens whose dwellings increase in nuini,er by
a Yearly average
of some fourteen Owes:ml, mti,.d whose commerce
corn''"e"`7n,orin 11 larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" has be-
come enormously
the"m f oosly enhanced in bu k, as also in the complicated
its.Tdii:oßkf,tlindispensable ontents The admirable , uccess with
Wilhh the reallgy,neormous ddliculties of his task hays been overcome
of man,,„„_ publisher has been proved by the ex, erience
lingenuity al we need say little morep thatitha.t. the. present
fine
Meth Presents
reeofinerpeanscse.the same tokens as its reciecessors of Intel igent
and of arrangement in packing nmo reasonable
producing in lucid order its mil ions of
everything Within two thousand pages every man may learn
the 08 he ought to know about every one of his co-dwellers in
ens metropolis, their businesses, as we 'l as everything neces-
p.Vao facilitate him in his own. The very rapt I ex erasion of our
ji""_^.Yoystem, and the new postal arranyentents with sonic conti-
.,;"Lal states, have rendered recess .ry some extensive additions to
Aiii....,s_eeetions appropriated to Conveyance- and the Post-office. We
eencu....ittensnifitirwmation given under those heads not only as lull and ac-
ea well possible to make them, but more new and m
than we should have thought attainable iu a work of such mag-
7r. Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we
PPert to have met with.
The fort
TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846. •
Y-eighitt annual publication of this work—the volume for
IS now issual. It is a wonderful y different affair front the
V Directory, which used to consist of little or nothing more than
tsome year.,
list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for
Yeari, " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court
tory," a " Postal Directory,. Conveyance Directory.," with
est of other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
carefully revised, and supplies the latest information. Of coarse,
the
postal treaty with Prussia has not beets overlooked ; and hi minor
points the work seems to bear the test of search into matters in
'ole h changes have been very recent.
The f MORNING POS • , Nov. 19, 1846.
forty-eighth annual publication of this admirable work has
Oat men issued. Any dissertation on the usefu'ness of this volume,
er Its well-proven service in almost every counting-house in the
Curt Palls for so many years past, must be quite unneeessary. Suf-
ees—Llt° say, the present edition possesses all the merit of its prate-
s:ca, white the alterations and corrections in the various depart-
ti have been carried down to the latest period.
, MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, iS46,
been,
as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
°niter enlargement. The experience of 47_ years has obviously
"Wed the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory
:ralleg completeness, wherein every species of fact likely M be
-anted
.by the merchant and trader is placed within convenient
-' The volume contains upwards of 2,000 closely-printed royal
Zer• PalloWbetobezing a singular amount of industry as a matter
ah4lBrattou. s awakening astonishment at the comprehensive-
_ hag, Which eoulthriug • wigs a. common tabus'
muciilgeesstured Intelllgkee —enslarstchsg,. as II- does, es
~,innitaPtlatY e( beads, arid Involv.ng the services of -a vast 'number
'` contributors. We believe that the present volume is not to be
aliktebia in the whole world, for such a mammoth aggregate of toed
end specific information is no less a typographidal wonder than a
Vrodigious monument of diligence and enterprise. Same dozen or so
of separate Directors are included in this huge periodical—the only
sae. 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 "Commercial and Professional
Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above. Then comes
a "Trades' Directory," in which the names are allocated under their
respective Wittig's. The " Law Directory" is a list of judges,
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, kc.
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 front London ; the
rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails and the cross-road mails,
. The " City Directory" registers the civic authorities, the public
companies, the brokers, the incumbents and ministers of the
Churches_ and chapels, the newspapers, Sic. ; 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 indicate the multi-
tudinous nature of the contents, for out of them come a variety of
subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable want, pre-
rtl°ll a curious analysis of the public and private Institutions of
e metropolis and of the commercial world. Every person is to be
:land under his proper section, from a prime minister down to a
officer—every establishment, from a palace to a lodging-
rse- The editor, in his preface, takes occasion to congratulaie
himself on the many improvements he has this year introduced,
MaalPatly flowing from the employment of " selected agents," insteag
of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific
• alterations, the new postage treaty with Prussia, which came into
operation on the Ist of January, 1847, and disturbs to a consider able
eatent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems
the most important,
• „„_ MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846.
"Post-entice 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 en essential to every countinghouse in 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-
._
al, are truly wonder ful. Being prepared " under the immediate and
• 1111,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 cetnmercial amid trading men can
'ow require particular description of the mall. important and useful
larorMation to almost every party in any sort of business, occupying
the two thousand closely but clearly printed octave pages of this Hi-
• reetol7- Preceded by an admirable and persalcuous Map of London,
• reared expressly, it is declared, for the work, by Mr. B. It. Davies,
h_ re are divisions comprising, among other information, " Official,"
stlfreev, ..
Commercial," "Trades," " Law," " Court," " Parlia-
tientarf," " Postal; " City," " Conveyance," " Bankin;," and many
other Directories.
• The hope is expressed in the preface that this forty-eighth annual
edition of the " Post-office London Directory" may be found "in all
respects to equal the best of its predecessors." From very consider
Vll examination of the marvellously full and varied contents and
information en matters which it must be so difficult, labori us, and
expensive to collect, we hesitate-not to say, that this unassuming
is liberally realised. It not only equals the best of its prede-
,„, Fs, but in several particulars it surpasses all its predecessors.
The information is not only fuller in many respects, but there are
usefulness
important alterations and addition., largely adding to the
rentiness of the book. It Is intimated, and truly, that although all
...n tition has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous proof
that here has been no relaxation in the multifarious labours to per-
,e2',;„__ute extraordinary work. In speaking of past success, it is
_ed,t.hat it has been, "even in a pecuniary point of view.. bene-
sei.;
421111 e public, is proved by the fact that important iniprove-
.
„,"_ll, CC-additions are annually made without any increase" of
—a result that, it is declared, " could not, have been ;she
had ilia cattle patronage been divided'"'
With reference,
:0 the price, we certainly moat acknowledge that it is tronderfld
401 T can be profitable to provide such varied materials
--and materials constantly changing and requiring so much
lad 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
1.11e!` postal" Directory. It is, indeed, singularly full, useful, and
complete; and must much increase the daily, it might be more truly
prenounced • 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, Batten, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the
German States, Hamburg, Hanover, Lubeck, Meckienburgh, Older.-
burgh, Poland, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburg,
ice. &c. &c., those changes arc detailed " precisely as they arranged
to come into operation on the Ist of January, 1847." The other
changes are not only numerous, but all the intelligence is announced
'to be 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
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
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 making the proprietor of this gigantic work careless.
Ile is too 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 same untiring energy by which the success was in the first
instance achieved, and accordingly we find that the " Post-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
there is not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the
articular page required to furnish the intormation—a marvellous
'stance of clearness of arrangement in a st 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
offered to the public. Ot not only time usefulness, but time indispen-
sable necessity of such a work, no man of business can for a moment
entertain a doubt ; and consiCering the completeness and fulness of
the latormatien furnished, and the enormous outlay of time amid o
capital that must have been made in order to acquire and digest the
Information, the very reasonable price at which the work is published
really wonderful.

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