The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-18 00:00:00

ISOST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
—Coected in Par
tad Postal divisions to the latest p,:riod. rr
To howthe recentliamentary a date th
!Iterations have been brought down may be judged from the fact that
Zehanges consequent on the demise of the la e Duke of Northurn-
land have been introduced in their proper order the Parliamen-
iftry division of the work.
MORNING CHRONICLE, Nov 20, 1846.
_ The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
Volume appear really unlimited. Publishe 1 during a series of f .rty-
light years, In a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by
Yearly average of some fourteen thousand, and whose commerce
‘Xpands in sill larger measure, the "Post-office Directory" has be-
come enormously enhanced in bulk, as also in the complicated
Variety of its indispensable contents. The admirable success with
me indefatigable by th ch the really enormous difficulties of his task have been overcome
gable publisher has been proved by the experienoe
Miany Years ; and we need say little more than that the present
presents the same tokens as its predecessors, of Intelligent
Metho e d
and ingenuity of arrangement in packing into reasonable
Compass, and producing in lucid order its millions of facts and
reference. Within two thousand pages every man may learn
!verything he ought to know about every one of his co-dwellers in
thegreat metropolis, their businesses, as well as everything Faeces-
la-17 to facilitate him in his own. The very rapid evension of our
railway system, and the new postal arrangements with some conti-
nental states, have rendered necessary some extensive additions to
Me sections appropriated to Conveyance and the Post-office. We
find the information given under those heads not only as lull and ac-
curate as it was well possible to make them, but more new and re-
cent than we should have thought attainable in a work of such mag-
iituds- Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we
Happen to have met with.
TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846.
The forty-eighth annual publication of this work—the volume for
1847—is now issued. It is a wonderfully different affair from the
old Directory, width used to consist of little or nothing more than
the alphabetical list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for
°erne years, a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court
Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with
a hest of other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
varefully revised, and supplies the latest information. Of course,
the postal treaty with Prussia has not been *,verlooked ; and in minor
Points the work seems to bear the test of search into matters in
Which changes have been very recent.

MORNING POSE, Nov. 19, 1846.
The forty-eighth annual publication of this admirable work has
Just been issued. Any dissertation on the usefulness of this volume,
after its well-proven service in almost every counting-house in the
Metropolis for so many years oast, must be quite 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-
Merits have been carried down to the latest period.
MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1546,
talky as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
been, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
flintier 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
30 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
liatchal in the whole world, for such a mammoth aggregate of local
and specific information is no less a typographical wonder than a
prodigious 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 it permanent existence
—a veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitariaa principle over the
ornamental. The " Official Directory" is a key to the whole of the
fol-
ios by a Street Directory,'
Government offices, and a record of official personages. This is fol-
th exhibiting the tradesmen in every
thoroughfare, and the points at which the streets are intersected by
Di( se at right angles; while the "Commercial and Professional
a " Trades' Directory,"
Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above. Then comes
in which the names are allocated under their
respeetire callings. The "Law Directory" is a list of judges,
Queen's counsel, sergeants, barristers, attorneys, &c., with a cata-
)3gue of. the various Courts of Law, their oticers, 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
oughout the world to which mails are dispatched from London ; the
rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails and the cioss-road mails,
. The " City Directory" registers the civic authorities, the public
companies, the brokers, the incumbents sod ministers of the
churches and chapels, the newspapers, &c. 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-
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 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, seems
the most important.

MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846.
The " Post-effice London Directory, 1847," is just delivered.
Theugh it is apparently limited to London, it is in reality a national
Work, None of the leading towns can well Le without it ; It must
be an essential to every counting-house in the kingdom, as well as to
every place of business ie 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 wonderful. Being prepared " under the immediate and
'Pedal patronage of her Majesty's Postmaster-General," the amplest
and coinpletest means were, of coarse, 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
how 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 perspicuous Map of London,
prepared expressly, it is declared, for the work, by Mr. E. R. Davies,
there are divisions comprising, among other information, " Official,"
" Street," " Commercial," "Trades," " Law," " Court," " Parlia-
mentary," " Postal," " City," " Conveyance," "Bankins," 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
able examination of the marvellously full and varied contents and
information on matters which it must be so difficult, labori us, and
expensive to collect, we hesitate 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 surpasses all its predecessors.
The information is not silly fuller in many respects, but there areiei
several. mportant alterations and addition*, largely adding to the
usefulness of the book. It is intimated, and truly, that although all
competition has disappeared, tho present volume is conspicuous proof
that there has been no relaxation in the multifarious 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 net that important improve
meats and additions are annually made without any Increase of
price "—a result that, it is declared, " could not have been the
ease. 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.
Anitheo
ngth,e important portant alterations will be found those introduced into
"Postal" Directory. It ie, indeed, singularly full, useful, and
complete ; and must much increase the daily, it might be more truly
pronounced Re 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, ilanover, Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Olden-
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 lot 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. 18,184 G.
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 aucceis 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 farmer edition of the book. The extent and
Minuteness of the details furnished, lender 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
partietilar page required to furnish the information—a marvellous
instance of clearness of arrangement in a n 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 considering the completeness and fulness of
the information 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.

, Nov. 21, 1846.
Kelly's invaluable work,GLOBE the " Post-office Directory," has just
trade its appearance for the ensuing year. The vast mass of infor-
mation whic.li this book contains, makes it not only desirable but
absolutely necessary as a part of the office furniture of every man of
business ; and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else,
Who requires to know auything concerning the trades, professions,
and localities of the great metropolis. In its present extended form,
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 been
linnionse. In turning over Its two thousand pages, one hardly
knows which most to be struck with and admire—the excellent
arrangement and utility of such a.compilation, or the magnitude of
the city which requires such a directory. The volume, moreover.
contains an excellent map of London and the suburbs, corrected
dwn to the latest strides of " bricks and mortar."