The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-03 00:00:00

No. 173017. LONDON SATURDAY 1":17.t
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pos.r.-OFTic-, LONDON DIIthCTORY for
1847 —MARCH EN I TIO N.—Corrected in the Parliamentary
and Postal divisions to the latest p riod. To how recent a date tit,
a Stratton. have been brought down may be judged front the fact that
he changes cons quent on the demiss of the la e Duke t Northum-
berland have been introduced as their proper order' n the ParlEmen-
tary d.vision of the work.
MORNING CIIIIINICLE, Nov 20,1846.
The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
voluirrs appear real y unlimited. tablishe during a series of f.,rty-
t4nt years, in a metropolis whose dwell:ins Increase in number by
a yearly average of some fourteen tho:'s m.l, and whose commerce
expands in at 11 larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" has be-
come enormously enhanced in bu k, tt also in the complicated
variety of its ',dispensable • onteuts The admirable uccess with
which the really enormous cl,ftleulties of Ills task have been overcome
by-the indefatigable publisher has been proved by the ex,Vence
of many years ; -and we need say li tle more titan that the present
volume presents the same tokens as its predecessors. of Wei igeat
method and ingenuity of arrangement In packing taw reasonable
compass, and producing in lucid order its mil tens of facts and
reference. Within two thousand levies every man may leant
everything he ought to know about every one gka,bitcon;di:; notes
sesin
the great metropolis, their businesses, as we I ry
nary to facilitate him in his own. The very rapt ex elision of our
railway system, and the new postal arranveinents w.th some conti-
nental states, have rendered neeess,ry some extensive additions t,)
thnneastechetioinnfsonna
curate as it was well possible to make them, but more new and re-
cent than we should have :hougnt attainable in a work of such mag-
PaPtrciPtonri gteLin under toC weY
those it' heads nut il
l
mag-
nitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we
happen to have met with.
-- TIMES, Nov. 18, lt4G.
The forty-eighth annual publication of this work—the volume for
1847—is now issued. It is a wonderful y 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 year', a " Street Directory," a " Trades' I)ircctory," a " Court
Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with
a host of other little digests. The voinme 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 POST, Nov. 19, 1846.

. .
The forty-sight.:annual puldleation of tills admirable work has
ust been issuttd. Any dissertation on the usefulness of this volume,
atter its well-proven service in almost every etamting-hottse in the

metropolislior so many years ~ast, must be quits unneeessary. Suf-
fice it to say, the present edition possesses all the merit of its prede-
cessors, while the alterations and corrections in the various depart-
ments have been carried down to the latest period.
MORNING HER 11,1), Nov. 21, 1546,

Balky as the proportions of this indis?ensable work have hitherto
been, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
urther enlargeme.nt. 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
()dove pages, betokening a singular amount of industry a:.• a matter
of dompliation, and awakening astonishment at the comprehensive-
ness of tke machinery which could bring within a common focus
so much varied and scattered intelligence—embracing, as it does,. a
multiplicity of heads, and involv ng the services of a vast number
of contributors. We believe that the present volume is i.ot 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
Drodigious 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 "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 callings. The "Law Directory" is a list of judger,
Queen's counsel, sergeants, banisters, 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 of the
churches and chapels, the newspapers, &c. ; and the "t onveyance
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 congratulate
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 new postage treaty with PM! sia, which came into
operation ou the Ist et January, 1847, and disturbs to a conside: able
extent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems
the most important.
MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846. _ _

The " Post-office London Directory, 1847," is just delivered.
Thougk it is apparently limited to London, it is in reality a national
work. Nose of the leading towns caa well ha without it ; it must
be an essential to every counting-how e in the kingdom, as well as to
every Place of business is and about the rnetr(polls.. It is an 'twain-
able work of its kind ; and the extent and minuteness of its useful de-
tails are truly wondetful. 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 or 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 prat:ftd octavo pages of this Di-
rectory. Preceded by an admirable and persdicuous Map of London,
prepared expressly, it is declared, fur the work, by Mr. IL It. Davies,
there are divisions comprising, among other information, " Official,"
"Street," "Commercial," "Trades,' "Law," "Court," "Parlia-
mentary," " 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 prod •cessors." From very consider
able examination of the marvellously full and varied contents and
lutormation en matters which it must be so difficult, lahori us, and
expensive to collect, we hesitate not to say, that this unitssua.ing
wieh is liberally realised. It net only equals the best of its prede•
censors, but in several particulars It surpas es all its predecessors.
The information is not only fuller in many respects, but there are
several important alterations and addition., largely adding to the
usefulness of the bo ,k. It Is Intimated, and truly, that although all
competition has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous proof
that there has been no r,laxation in the mult.farious labours to per-
fect the extraordinary work. In speaking of past 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-
melds 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 tremendee:s sale could make the speculation answer.
Among the important alterations will be found those introduced into.
the " Postal" Directory. It is, indeed, singularly full, useffil, 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, Hanover; Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Older.-
burgh, Poland, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburg,
&c. &c. &c., those changes are 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 circilatlon,
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.

SUX, 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 ;he manager of
this work, there were divers other Directories in the field. TI ey
have, however, all disappeared, and the " Post-office Directory"
now rules alone. This astonishing success, however, has not had
the effect of matting the proprietor of this gigantic work careless.
He 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 13 not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the
articular page required to furnish the intnrmation—a marvellous
*stance of elearness of arrangement in a sk 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. Of not only the usefulness, but the indispen-
sable necessity of such a work, no man of business can for a moment
entertain a doubt ; and consVering the completeness and fulness of
the ialormatien furnished, and the enormous outlay of time and 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
is really wonderful.

can be said in its liaise. The inachinely by which such volu-
minous information is obtained, arranged; 'and superintended, so as
to avoldierrors, must 01 itself be among the " curiosities" of modern
literature.

LCONO,IIIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFBIARS, LONDON.

Established 1823.
.Empowered by Act of Parliainent, 3 William IV.
DIRECTORS.
_ _ _ .

CHAULMAM—The Right Hon.iirT.FIANKLAND LEWIS, Bart.
DEPUTY CIEskIRMAN HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, En
Stephen Nicholson Barber, Esq. Thomas Edgar, Esq.
Arthur Kett'itarehty, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart.
Henry Brrnett, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq„ M.P.
Robert Biddulph, Esq. John I'dendham, Esq.
Robert Davies, Esq. William Routh, Esq.

Francis Dumiergue, Esq.
Capt. Robert Gordon, R.N.

AUDITORS.
Charles Morris, Esq.
John Gilliam Stilwell, Esq.

. -
Pursterszt—John Ayrton Paris, M D., F.R.S'.. No. 27, Dover-street.
President of the Royal College of Physicians.
Suacsost —Benjamin Travers, Esq , F.lt.S., No. 12, Bruton-street,
Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
SOLICITOIV—Henry Young, Esq., NO. 12, Essex-street, Strand.
BANKERS—Messrs llankey, Fenchurch-street.
ACTUARY —James John Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S.
SECRETARY—CampbeII James Downer. Esq.
The following arc among the advantages offered by this society :
Lower Rates of Premium than those of any other office, which en-
title Vie assured to participate in the profits, and considerably lower
than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society.
No Proprietary participate in the profits, the whole being divisible
among the Assured. .

A Romig is added, after the payment of the Fifth Annual Pre-
mium, to every Policy effected on the participating Scale, if a claim
accrue thereon prior to the next division of profits.
The iirstßonus, in 1834, averaged 161. per cent on the Premiums paid.
The second ditto 1839, ditto 311. ditto since the Ist division.
The third • ditto 1844, ditto 361. ditto since the 2d division.
Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to
• CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

FIRE INSURANCES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ARE
UNDERTAKEN BY TUE
SCOTTISH UNION INSURANCE COM-
PANT, 37, Cornhill, London, on the most liberal terms and
conditions. .
Special risks reasonably ruted.
Renewal receipts for insurances falling due at Lady-day are now
ready.
Printed particulars of the large bonus just declared in the L fe
Department may be had on application.
F. G. SMITH, Secretary.
37, Cornbill,'London.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.— 8, Waterloo-place, Pall•mall, London : 97,
George-street, Edinburgh; 12, St Vincent-place, Glasgow ; 4, Col-
lege-green, Dublin. Established by Act of Parliament In 1834.
In 1841, the Company added a bonus of 2 per -.:ent. per annum on
lie sum assured to all policies of the participating class, from the
1412.,,illeY,Were effected. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of tho
next division of profits In 1848 should make immediate application.
When the Insurance is for life, only one italf the Annual Premium
need be paid for the first 5 years.

Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Direeter, E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., No. S Waterloo-place, Pall-mall,
London, where Prospectuses, &c., may be had.

1111,0VIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
50, REGENT STREET, LONDON,
Established 1806.
INVESTED CAPI CAL, 1,200,000/.
Annual Income 140,000/. Bonuses declared 529,0001.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,0001,
PRESIDENT.
The Right Honourable EARL GRET.
DIRECTORS.

The Earl of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman.
The Hon. Arthur Rinnaird. Henry B. Churchill, Esq.
Sir Richard D. King, Bart. William Judd, Esq.
Alexander Henderson, M.D. James Sedgwiek, Esq.
Capt. W .John Williams.. Alfred Beaumont, Esq.
John Deering, Esq. George Deere, Esq.
William Henry Stone, Esq. Richard Sherwood, Esq.
1.1
the rate
The Hates of
withoutPremiumbonus are those
is lowerthoseado
than
dby the principal Life
Offices, that
of
most
other
offices.

2. The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the reduc-
tion of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de-
,:iared, at their then present value.
3. Loans are granted upon the Policies issued by this office, or the
Policies are purchased at their full value.

4. If a party neglect to pay for the
repair the omission any time within 1
good health.

Bonuses paid upon Policies whin

Life 'insured.

renewal of his Policy, he may
twelve months, upon proof of

I have become Claims.

John Wharton, Esq.. Skelton Castle
Sir John Saunders Sebright, Hart...
Sir William Wake, Bart. ..... .....
Earl Strathmore ..... ...... .....

IS= insured.' Sum paid.

5,000
5,000
8,000
5,080
3,000
2,000
1,000

Z s. (1.
7,706 6 0
7,652 13 3
7,500 5 9
7,128 15 8
4,509 1 1
3,411 1 3
1,862 4 11

Rev. H. W. Champneys, Canterbury
The Marquis of Wellesley • • •.. • .
Earl Cathcart ..........

Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon applica-
tion to the agents of the office in all the principal towns of the United
Kingdom; and at the head office, No. 50, Regent-street.
JOINT A. BEAUMONT, Managing Director.

THE CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SGCIETY.
No. 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS.
This Society is established on the principle of combining all the
known advantages and conveniences of the oldest Life offices, with
the general results of their experience.
Its Premium Tables are adjusted on the most economical yet safe
scale, and embrace three distinct divisions or departments :
Thus, Policies may be effected on
THE MUTUAL SYSTEM, securing all its advantages without its
risks or liabilities, AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION TO ASSURERS.
THE PROPRIETARY SYSTEM, with the full benefits of its acknow-
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TIIE ACCUMULATIVE Olt DEPOSIT SYSTEM, INTRODUCED BY
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full amount of the Deposit—Premiums being at all times available
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