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London, England, 1846-01-22 00:00:00

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N ATIO.IAL LOAN FUND LIFE- ASIJR-
. ANCE SOCIETY, • • , •
26,-.CORNHILL, -LONDON'.
- • • • • Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, - • -
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tages with respect 1,04 la Life Aosurenees and Deferred-Annuities:
The assared has,, on all occasions, the power to borrow; without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the preialum paid,
-(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the- Conversion
of hi interests to meet other conveniancexer, necessity.. Assurances
for 'terms •of years are granted on the loweit possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
theThbeir.sectoacceriss: al:dtheiincrleatstingatirwerysinrivtiesotigf )u atbildee.
Bonus, varying from 3u to 75 per cent. on the Om:MMus paid on
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oath Polley effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.. •

No. of ' Amount of
:Years ending.; Policies Annual Income.
Capital.
- issued.
20th November 1836.. 616 £ 8,021 12 2 X 10,736 3 0
' 1837.. 435 14,600 0 0' - .31,592 10 5
• 1838— • 459 19,934 19 • • 46,855 010
„ „ 1839 490 25,497 4 9 ••64,959 10 )0
1840.. 494 31,051 10 10 90,545 13 9
„ 1841.. 357. 36,357 1 4 • 114,993 2-'4
1842.. 364 39,360 9 7 ,139,806 1 7
„ „ 1443.. 703 44,219 17 0 167,079 11 2
„ „ 1844.. 722 55,037 9 2 ' 202,162 1 9
„ • 1845.. 811 70,819 14 5 241,461 13 3
Total Number..:: 5.551

(Signed on behalf of the Directors);
WILLIAM CAS]

E, Chairman.

London, Dec. 12, 1845 JOSEPH MARSH, Secretiry.
Members 'whose . Premiums become due on 'the Ist January next,
are reminded that the same must be paid within thirty days from
that date. • - •

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or,ol the Country Agents.
Lundy., Dc.c. SAO, lel,

.TCIS4EPH MARSH, Secretary.

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P°§T:OF/F1C3.4 4-:OST-D'ON DIRECTORY

fur 1846.
The earliest dopyof the work_has hen but a few days issued, and
the following reviews have already appeared in the leading metropo-
litan journals*: - ' '.

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' . - SUN, December 27, 1845.
This work has now reached the forty-seventh annual edition, and,
to the credit of Mr, Kelly, the proprietor; who has spared mo expense
or labour in, the compilation, keeps progress with the •thneF, and'
marks, more than any similar publication, the great changes:which
have taken place, not only, in' our trade and commerce, but in the
appearance and extent of this vast metropolis. No other nation
could furnish, materlals'for-sueh a work, and to these Is the compiler!
partly indebted for such a mass of useful information, useful, not to
a few 'classes only, but to the whole community. There is not One.
• class in the community,to• whi
some of the directions are not ab-
solutely necesSary. It extends-to 2,074 pages, printed'in 'a close, .but '
dtreboetlds otYfP°Lo'ndon, with the names of each distinctly marked.
callelatrheans
The work does g
e?dobfy
jambgeiangu.tifaucol, minute, teni,apatoldf
-reat '"r-r,eny, and we have no doubt that
-the excellent-manner in which it is, prepared, and- the information
which it conveys; will insure for 'it universal approbation and,com..
plete success.. . •••
. •
GLOBE, Jan. 17, 1846. - , • .
• y',
It Is 6filYndeellSary sayMIMS established work, that it sustains
the.. high reputation for accuracy- and comprehensiveness which
the formerin Mr. Kelly's hands
In fact, to all Loudon residents this annual. has been tut' indispens-
able voltam. In the present year several improvements have been
at once 'dbtaired for it.
added.
TIMES, January 9, 1846. • •
This Volume unlike many others, as it increases in bulk, increases
correspondently in value ; 'thus every succeeding .edition is more
valuable than its predecessors, and the book of 1846 contains more
information than 'the book of 1845. The volume for the current.
year surpasses anything' of a similar kind that has ever been offered'
to the public as a guide-hoe): to the names, occupations, professions,,
and _habitations of the hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of
London, or that has ever yet been issued from the press. .In it.
whoever has a "local habitation and a name" is noted down—that
is, if-he-be a housekeeper, an office-keeper, or, the proprietor or
'keeper of anything beyond a furnished lodging or the humble oc-
cupant .of an, attic: There: is an " Official Directory," a " Street
Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a
" Court Directory," "ft " Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal Di-
rectory," a. CityLtirectorrj:— 41;.' " Conveyance Directory." a
"'Banking Directory," and a mass of other matter, explanatory of
many things which are nece,sary to be known, and which are not to
be found collected together and easily accessible in any other volume.
This is the 47th annual publication of the work, which is now so fully
established iu public estimation, for the accuracy and multi-
plicity' of Its intelligence. 'requisite far every 'dais and for every,
day, that to-be without it Is althost an imputation on the common'
sense of all persons connected with the trade of London or the
, •
common business of life.' '
MORNING HERALD, December 27, 1845. •
This excellent work, the-47th edition of which has just reached us,
keeps 'Pace with the conanereial requirements of the times. The
" Poet Office Directory". of., sometwelve years since, and the "Post
Office Directory" for the coming year present a remarkable contrast.
Then it.was confined tb a meagre list of names, comprised within a
circle of two or three miles, and might have been put very conveniently
into one's coat pocket. Year atler year it has increased in size, and
added various and valuable stores 01 information to its, columns; its
hundreds of pages haVe groWn into thousands, and it noW embraces
the metropolis and Its suburbs, from north to south, east and west,
' and comprises within its volaminous pages of information (now
absolutely indispensable to the merchant and tradesman) an
"Official Directory," a "Street Directory," a " Commercial
Directory," a " Trades' Directory." a " Law Directory," a " Court
Directory," a -"Parliamentary Directory," a "Postal Directory,"
a " City Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," a " Banking
Directory,"- and a variety of other copious lists of information,
the mere transcription of which would occupy considerable time.
Its list of "Provincial-Inns" extends over 31 pages of three columns
each ; iti "Post Office London Official Directory"' over 48 Pages,
twenty-eight of which are of four and twenty of two columns each ;
its "Street Directory" 472 pages of th-ee columns each; its
" Commercial 'and Professional Directory" 504 pages of two colnmns
each ; its " Trade. Directory " 623 pages of three columns each; its
PLarawliaiDneniretcatoryryD"7re6cry ~
644topages " Court Directory " 110 pages ;
36 pages ; " Postal Directory " (most
elaborately compiled) 67 pages, &c. This portion of the work has
been much enlarged and improved. It' now supplies us with the
hour of delivery of the London letters ,at each town and. village in
the United Kingdom at which there is a Post-office or Receiving-
house,come and the time at which the letter-box for London closes at
each place ; also the distance of each from the post town through
al‘slibice4en frequently much improved, is
which the London letters are transmitted. We also observe that the
the valuablevolumMepast accompanied
volume, and
which London,
ren-
dered still more-valuable in the present edition. The names of each
street are most distinctly printed, and we hesitate not to state that
it is one of 'the best Maps of London extant. The Work is printed
in a clear bold type.• We.can scarcely think it requires special re-
commendation, for no man who rea:ly has business to transact can
well do Without it,. •

MORNING CHRONICLE, Jan. 17, WI?. .
The annual Volume juit published of this laborious and valuable
work deserves the same mead of approbation Which has been so de-
servedly bestowed upon its predecessors. In mere size, it is con-
siderably larger than any of them, not only by the introduction of
new information, but in consequence of the yearly growth of the me-
tropolis, to the avocations and whereabouts of whose inhabitants it is
intended to form the" directory," The enormous multitude of facts
which are condensed in the bulky volume before us is really over-
whelming ;- yet they Are note more than are requisite to make the
dwellers in our overgrown city duly acquainted with one another's
business and residences, The facts are presented in the same available
form, and with the same attention to accuracy and recentness of in-
formation which. characterise the veltune for 1845, and rendered it a
Model of perfection as a directory. We Observe some useful ad-
ditions to the -contents of the present publication, especially in the
section devoted to the Post•oftice arrangements, which are so rapidly
becoming -extended and complicated under the doable impulse of
new railways and the penny postage.

MORNING ADVERTISER, Dec. 24, 1845.
This work, published by Kelly and Co., which has now made its
annual appearance for forty-seven 3 ears, is decidedly one of the most
•useful works of the day. It contains an immense amount of infor-
mation of the greatest importance to all in any way connected vrth
the metropolis. It comprises among other information, an " Official
Directory," a "Street Directory," a "Commercial Directory," a
" Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a "Court Directory," a
" Parliamentary Directory," a "City Directory," a " Postal Direc-
tory," a "Convey Alice Directory," and a " Bank Directory." Under
these various divisions will be found masses of information, com-
bining the attributes of accuracy and completeness. The amount of
labouuven
ver bestpyr yreat,K pit ' thp,.efimilltpau et this work must necessarily
g
public could remunerate the enterprising proprietors for their outlay
and labour. The Post-office London Directory" is slngularly eheap,
considering the nature and quantity'of the information it contains.
It extends to Ira fewer than 2,000 large closely-printed pages, In
double and treble columns. All things considered, we look upon it
as the Cheapest, as assuredly it is the most valuable and useful,
annual work which emanates from the press of England. The map
accompanying it appears to uato be much improved; it is certainly
equally excellent and perfect,

WEEKLY DISPATCH, Dec. 28, 1845.
This colossal guide to the great metropolis is a striking illustration
of the results of British perseverance properly directed, and British
capital judiciously etnployed. Far many years the French " Al-
manack of Fifty Thousand Addresses" was considered one of the
wonders of the world; but the Messrs. Kelly have achieved a work
which may be aptly termed a wonder upon wonders. Large
though the volume be, the mass of information contained in it is
truly surprising ; and every department is arranged with so much
care, judgment, and accurate discrimination, that the business of
reference to its pages is as plain and simple as to a dictionary or
!Odeon, whose scheme is alphabetical. We have, in this volume,
4. Official," ".Street," " Commercial," " Trade?" " Law,"." Court,"
" Parliamentary," " Postal," " City," " Conveyance," and " Rank-
ing Directories." But these 'heads only comprise a portion of the
information contained in the work. ‘There are other departments
which will belound invaluable to the commercial public. The fol-
lowing extract from the preface should be quoted :—" The advan-
tages possessedby the proprietor are of no ordinary character; the
Most important being the means placed at his disposal through the
favour of her Majesty's Postmaster-General. The General Post
letter-carriers, under the direction of `his Lordship, 'collect, each in
his own district, the information from which the volume is compiled.
To ensure accuracy in such a book, the collection of the information
should be simultaneous"; and how completely this 'is effected, is
proved by the fact that ,so intelligent letter-carrier performs within
twenty-four hours all the duties annually required of him for the
purposes of the Post. Office London Directory." We need not
add any recommendation of' this work ; its reputation is established
on a solid basis.

BRITANMA, peeember 27, 1845.
This wonderful annual continues to keep pace with the times,
fast as they move. It now numbers upwards of 2,000
closely-
printed pages, this immense 'mass of matter being so judiciously
classified and arranged that any..itern of it can be picked out with-
out the loss of a minute -expended In the search. From the con-
nexion of the Proprietor
_with the Post-office, he is enabled to
collect his information from the most authentic sources, and (a great
advantage) to combine it siMultanebitsly: Some objection has been
made to the 'letter-carriers being eniployed for this service ; but,
Independent of all other considerations, it is certain that the Post-
oke must be greatly. advantaged, li,T the publication, both from
letters being directed more accurately,:idth this book, as a guide,
and
.kom its always being at .hand ready for reference in cases of
doubt. The volttnie has all the Merits of its predecessors ; displays,
like them, the utmost care in every department; and as a work of
reference for the merchant, trader, or any person engaged in bus'.
ness in London, leaves nothing to be desired. It is one of the most
remarkable examples. of great industry, intelligence, and capital
being succeasffilly employed -in the production of a work for facili-
tating the operations of business and extending trading intercourse,
that the 'age, fertile as it is in' ingenious Inventions, affords. Of its
kind, it is as near perfection, as it seems possible for any work.to be
brought. - • .. - . .