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The fr+ TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846. • -
,Nesh —3'-erzlith animal publication of this work—the volume lot
Mrset6,ll"' iSsued. It ia a wonderfully different affair from the old
alphi,2; I which used to consist of little or noth•ng more than th
leers,7tals.,list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for some
41r41,,,,..,ner little
recte,"„ •-Ireet Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a "Courtpla-
ho4 ,-;,i''_.„a Postal Directory," a " Conveyance DirectorY,' til
digests. The volume appears to hav9 beenwivery-
keD4l_,revised , and supplies the latest information. Of course,
Prr postal treaty with Prussia has not b: en overlooked; and in
o, Points the work seems to hear the test of a search into mat-
which changes have been very recent.
the MORNING CHRONICLE,'Nov. 20, 1846.
Nur, powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
eight 3e all'ears really unlimited. Published during a series of to
ears in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by an
larger „a'rerage of some 14,000 and whose commerce expands in still
either the " Post, office Directory" has become enormously
Peesa,'`..ll-bulk, as also in the complicated variety of its heirs-
eiler,;',,`e contents. The admirable success with which the really
fatlgtlt difficulties of 11"5 task has been overcome by the hide-
-504.
~,,. Publisher has been proved by the experience of many yegair,..ts,
the sane need say little more than thatpresent volume
.prete
e..
aunty —e tokens as its predecessors, of intelligent .method and lig
etiejw rr
,a angrnent, in racking into reasonable compass, and, pro-
-2,000g 41 lucid order, its millions of facts' and references. IN ibothsi.nt
e,„,,_Doeges every man may learn evCrything he ought to kbno.wina.,,o;
;sue one of his co-dwellers in the great metropolis,. theirti ,u,sit
' lie'
1.41.7 r, .as everything necessary to facilitate him in
s eu the rs.n.e:_laid extension of our railway system, and the nellseoposial„ar-,
lori, 'enth with some continental states, have renderel neces. ry
4 extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance
Post
;:uot only a$ -office. We find the information given under those heads
full and accurate as it was well possible to make them,
'l'l°l.e new and recent than we should have thought attainable in
"vett 0. ,
i 5,... such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best
--ev of London we happen to have met with.
•

MORNING-HERALD, Nov. 21, 184 G.
Bulky as the • •of •
~proportions this indispensable work have hitherto
Me volume for 1847 elutes forth under circumstances of still
itMel'_ enlargement. ; The experience of 47 years has obviously en-
b.ictt?e proprietor, Mr. Frederick lielly, to produce a Directory of
valled completeness, wherein every speciea of fact likely to be
4,,„,221 by the merchant and the trader is placed within convenient
The volume -contains upwards of two thousand closely-
trted y royal octavo pages, betokening a singular amount of indus-
eo,„" a Matter of compilation, and awakening astonishment at the
e,.l.9rellensiveness of the machinery which could bring within a
,7,rnon feeds so much varlet:Vaud scattered intelligence—embracing
does a. multiplicity of heads, and involving the services of vast
t"oulpiers of contributors: We bellevethat the present volume is not
be snatched in the Whole world ; for such a mammoth aggregate
Of 'local
tb_ and specific information is no less a typographical wonder,
"4a a prodigious monument of diligence and enterprise.
, l'oe dozen or so of separate directories are included in this huge
'e,c'dte*—the only one, it seems, of 'the annual tribe destined to a
Permanent existence-:.a veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitarian
pyinciple over the ornamental. The "Official Directory" is a key to
tits whole of the Government Offices,. and a record of official perso-
nages. This is followed ,by a " Street Directory," exhibiting the
t t
adesmen in every thoroughfare, and the points at which the streets
are intersected by those at right-angles ; while the " Commercial and
Protbssatmal Directory:'_ Is an alphabetical arrangement of the above..
Then comes a " Trades' Directory," in which the names are allocated
bider their respective callings. The Law Directory" Is a list of the
judges, Queen's counsel,- serjeants, barristers, attorneys. &c. with a
catalogue of the various courts of law' their officers, and their pecu-
liarities of jurisdiction. The "Court Directory" comprises the ad-
*messes of the nobility and gentry; and the " Parliamentary Direc-
tory" is a record of the Members of the Houses of Lords and Com-
b:lons, with an alphabetical list of the boroughs, cities, and counties
retuniing 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 front
London; the rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails, and the
crossroad 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 newspapers, &c. ; and the
Conveyance DirectorY" includes the railway tables, the coach and
eooking-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
S variety 'of *subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable
''4°lt. Presenting a curious analysis of the public and private institu-
tions of the metropolis and of the commercial world. Eyery person
13 to he found under hii proper section, from aprime minister down
to a sheriffs otilaerevery establishment, frotrt a palace to 'a lodg-
in„!b,cats-et The Editor, in his Preface, takes occasion to congratu-
late ldmself 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
alterations the new postage treaty with Pfassia, which comes into
°_De.ration on the Ist of January, 1847, and disturbs to a considerable
Tent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems
e most important.

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. MORNING' ADVERTISER, N0v.187 ”18;218j4u6s
' The "Post-office London Directory,
Though it.is apparently limited to London. it
w°rk• None of the leading towns can will be without be -, . a nitatmionaustl
1 essential to every counting-house
It is an in-
is
•Ilit'hroeualtitlyt.
everY Place of business in and about the metropolis.
ess of its
in the kingdom, as well as to
d "under the m-
‘lth-lahle..work of its kind, and the extent and minuteness i
useful details are truly wonderful. Being prepare
Ineelfsib •
, e and special patronage of her Majesty's
course, at the command
4"e„_ataillest and completest means were, of
c * of the vo-
Postmaster-General."
- `''' PrePrietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entira accura 3
k The present is
Lain_ it_ious and crowded contents of the bulky wor .
‘fetort
important
of the really
""important
annual publication. Few commercial or trading
men_ can now require particular description
pages
'A useful information, to almost every party in any sort of business,
octavo
ec-eof °l)7lng the two thousand closely but clearly-printed
perspicuous map
tr L_ondon, 'prpared expressly,
this Directory. Preceded by an admirable and
—_
or the work by mr.
other informa-
.. R. Davies, there are divisions, comprising, among
it is declared, f
ttun, " Official," " Street," " Commercial,"
"Conveyance,"
l.
tunil."
, " Parliamentary," " Postal," " City," " Law,"
~,,..illg," and many other Directories. Trades," "
~,.'u hope is expressed in the preface, that
" m all
witioen of the " Post-onlce London Directory" may be found
very consl-
respe tog
to equal the best of its- predecessors." From ve— ts and
this forty-eighth airual
serearbel examination of the marvellously full and varied conten
Ittr tation on matters which it must be so difficult, laborious, and
Z.tusitve to collect, we hesitate not to say that this unassuming.
eesse •s liberally
rs, but in * all its precursors.
.. realised. It not only equals the best of its prede
several Particulars it surpasses
The information is not only faller in many respects, but there are
several important alterations and editions, largely adding to the nsel-1 _II ess of the It It is intimated, and truly,
•?tupetition has disappeared the Present volume is conspicuous
that although a
ProofD that there has been no 41axation in ther multifarious labours
~,?
eenrfect the extraordinary work. In speaking of past success, itfiL.S.
„mai
t,:e4 that It has been " even in a pecuniary point of viewi ben
Price" public, is mproevel
tneuts alie Proved by the fact, that important id additions are annually made without any increase of
had
tca result that, it is declared, " could not have been the case,
Price, :2'ublie Patronage been divided." . With reference to the
eau be ' certainly must acknowledge that it is wonderful how it
eons, Profitable to provide such varied materials— and materials
41.,,,.tt1y chan^ing and eciniting so much Ts? ceaseless la-
r,,,,_ti• d cost, to'procure,rana them to saassityr'iNcaning ',Li, .. 7
„.,..I.(a•cals sale could make the speculation answdr. Among , the
.12:,
Llrrt_enetra.lteration.s will be found those introduced into the
t` t
alive. t ) • It is, indeed, singularly full, useful, and cemp.etre°;s_an. d
h.2_,.11 value,reas the daily, it might be more truly pronounced its il!'lY particularly to the merchant, the trader, or the pro.-
t:,s,rional man. As the new treaty with Prussia caused very coun-
-14 Ile changes in the rates of postage as affecting the Austrian do-
'°o°, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the German States,
,1 4,l"nbUrgli Hanover, Lubck, Mecklenburg, Oldenburgh•
Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburgh, &c., &c., &c., those,o
• 'o2.ll_lr are detailed " precisely as they are arranged Poland,Prus-
oafi tnon on the first of January, 1847." The other chatou "'mere not
a"o4'
i:
tlreerous, but all the intelligence is announced to bgeesbarought
such
prior to the
a ev,a,,,Letett as late as was eompatible with the appearance of
lent time for general circulation,
eenut ence•tent of
ceecita • the year for which it is designed.
it, of its
_, of the work are of the highest order, and render
.. -e;;!.,vie imagine, a public usefulnesspled in the world for its
The business
•s suPleteness, fulness, and .

SUN, Nov. 18, 1846.
/.01141 Present is the forty-eighth annual edition of the " Post-officiet
is, ~?, l!lrectory," and a truly marvellous effort of compilation it
The '< Post-office Directory" has been for sonic years under
Foe
owevetrtrn,int,itlifi, M. Kelly. Until he became the manager of this
making This astonishing sucesse,
ere divers other directories in the field. They have,
alone. —..1.s .sPlicared, and the " Post-office Directory" now rules
thorough, ProPrietor of this gigantic work careless.
lie
et
the
traits jf ?le' however, has not had the effieettocof
of usiness, not to be perfectly aware tha t
netting I,:s,,a7st..,:et,sm.e,a,ii o I be reaped by a continuance of the sarn
efeerhilz .--gY bY whienhYthe success was in the first instance
'latenss than
anYae
--.nglY
rnents tl4 ' even
more highly finished. in all its elaborate arrange
we find that the` Post office Directory"
fernier edition of the book. The extent and nu-
-I,t_here of the details furnished render the work indispensable to
i*oevrYeyeer°Tuiercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably,
partieill is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that
not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to_thues
histane: fP"e required to furnish the information—U maree_lloi .
wer,
_..o_ dearness of arrangement in a work consisting of
tog.
~ciflicietrie arranged under various heads,
teetr °l__ 2,000 closely but clearly printed octavo pages. Its
Direttor DirectorY," the " Street Directory," Law Comme oral
as, for instance, the
the Y," the " Trades' Directory," the " Directo,"
Postal oust Directory." the " Parliamentary Directory," the
blrseto . pireetory,"City Directory," Conveyalic_.
Porianti.3. ' the " Dankli, Directory," and some others s`r 31.11etljiricc-
to.....„
The
have been introduced into the
ra't?
°The new postal treaty with Prussia, which coPmeessLiito ope-
eLa'„4 ti the Ist of January next, will effect very. considerablel
~..,"s°s 111 the rates of postage to places in the Austrian dominions,
17. w n, La,— _ ,
.na Bremen, Denmark, the German States, Hamburg.h,
iLthover, Lubeck, Meeklenbuh, Oldenburgh, Poland, Prussia,
04,"1u, Saxony, Sweden and:Noay. Wurteburgh &c., &c. These
verges are fully detailed in then' Postal Directory" of the present
a d`Me• The work, moreover, is illustrated by a clearly engraved
4 n setheately d avrri map of London in 1847, on a scale of three
.liekes to the mib. This Directory is certainly the most complete
1:s, 1' of the ort ever offered to the üblic. Of not only the useful-
"ss
's hilt th i elndispensable necessity p
of sueh a work, no man of bust-
ran for a moment entertain a doubt ; and, considering the com-
eteness and fuluess of the information furnished, and the enormous
utlaY of time and of ca pi
tal that must have been made in order to
/
~:lUire and digest the information, the very reasonable price at
Nth the work is published is really wonderful.

GLOBE, Nov. 21, 1846.
111 K, invaluable work, the " Post-office Directory," has just
gat, its appearance for the ensuing year. The vast mass of infor-
tion which this book contains makes it n_ pt only desirable but ab-
-I,P.telY necessary as a part of the office fUrniture of every man of
,""ess, and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else, who
'quires to know anything concerning the trades, professions, and
localities of the great motropolls. In its present extended form, the
k is an absolute curiosity; the labour and expense which it has
cost t• bring it to its present state of perfection must have been im-
mense• In turning over its 2,000 pages, one hardly knows which
roost to be struck with and admire—the excellent arrangement and
utility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of the city which re-
quires 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 DISPATCTI, Nov. 15, 184 G.
The forty-eighth annual
suubei,lic.ation of this highly important and
, and we must confess that its bulky
, althoughot a little; and when useful work has just been issued
appurance has surprised us n
the expense of collecting
we reflect thit
commercial point pleased at the liberalil
ry,attaer.
the price remains unaltered,
tliberality
p
of
materials must have increased, we
mt. Kelly, the proprietor. Ineahettoesrucafitile the
no book ever contained so mu
Direct.
. Parliame"Y'" a " Law Dire-
ryt,:,taarY Directory," a
minion, there is an " Official Among othpeerriniafors,
ance D c o
tis much thatnd a " Banking
"Commercial Directory," a " Trades,
irDeirtect" Street
Directory," a-
-1 is interesting
foxy," a "Court Directory," a .
" City Directory, a " Convey
Directory ;"
gentkrnettewaho el.'
and
perv.
been cox_
reeled fact, the trolume contat
Sr Cvaluable to the tradesman, the merchant, th
boortetat tuns in ordinary life, as well as to the
tabbies in trade. Every description of information hanccasionall-
reeled to the latest possible period : and that inforatationsi
great
With a clearness and simplicity which must have involveds
ac-
tivity of mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the
excellently engraved map Of Londononore extended and accuturaietazaalsi
map we have seen; and to make it
to the suburbs, than any
possible, an almanac is introduced. In the " Postal
Vete a reference as
•threetory," there are the new rates with various parts of the Conti-
nent which will come into operation en the Ist of January, Alto-
,of its predecessors ; and we are
tether this new issue surpasses any
Th'"orPrised that other directories should have gone to the tomb of
all the Capulets.

JOHN BULL, Nov. 28, 1846.
This annual leviathan is already completed and published ; but as
aproof that the rapidity with which it must have passed through the
trees has not operated against its careful accuracy, we may men-
'2ll that the changes rendred necessary by the very recent decease
°I Ur. Stewart, 111.11, for Renfrewshire, are duly attended to. (See
V•IG62 and 1676.) We have so frequently expressed our approba-
en of this most valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary
our commendation. It contains everything which can possibly be
requhdin a directory—so full, se complete, so comprehensive are all
ity details. ..knd when to this we add the extreme accuracy which
pervades
ts „a'es every department, we know not what else can be said in
cb,l,,ley. The machinery by which such voluminous information is
itself be
arranged, and superintendedso to avoid error% must 01
ue among the " curiosities" of modern lltemttu'e.

ATLAS, Nov. , 1846.
A book of this kind, brought out even without much pretensions
Would be indispensable to every gentleman's library, every ri!r.s
'
Plant's eounting-house, and every trader's shop. But edited, as this
18, With the utmost ears, its materials being collected through the
roost authentie channels, and embracing iu its range every head of
persona land commercial intelligence essential to the completeness of
such a 'work, we cannot suppose that any house, public or private,
Which can afford a book of reference, will be without this compen-
uteus volume. The arrangement is admirable. You can find any
name you want in a moment. All the heads are clear and complete
—the court, trades, streets, offices, hotels; forming, upon the whole,
a mass of local information such as could not be brought together
IfithQUl egraudivary inclutry, assisted Or Au entire oclulnalad Qf al