The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

POST-OPPICE LO Oda DrRECTORY fur
The earliest 1847.
he foil, copy of the work has been beta few days issued, and
• olit "winan Jourgnals Reviews have already appeared in the leading Metro-
-

TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846.
for' • •
847'rbe
~. -01,;11th annual publication of this work—the volume for
hator's now issued. It is a wonderfully different affair from the old
width used to consist of little or nothing more than the
Yeirs, ea, list of tresmen -it comprises now, and has for soul!
Street Direacdtory " 'a
" Trades' Directory," a " Court Di-
host of ' " Postal Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," with a
ya revised
other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
, and supplies the latest informatio . Ot course,
ralim l treaty with Prussia has not been overloo ed ; and In
tersiliPoll!ts the work seems to bear the test of a sear into mat-
Which changes have been very recent.

The 110111f11% CHRONICLE, Nov. 20, 1846.
hiumPowers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
aPPears really unlimited. Published during a series of forty-
,ta 4 ears in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number.by an
larger rn erage of some 14,900, and whose commerce expands in sll
eilluinterure, the " Post-office Directory" has become enormously
Peaso,_ m bulk, as also in the complicated variety: of its
bled
coptents. The admirable success with which the really
fatigables d.fficultics been ask has been overcome by the in e-.
ski Pulffisher hasproved by the experience of many yearst,
tbe ~"_eeneed say little more than that the present volume presen s
Nit :in tokens as its predecessors, of intelligent method and Inge-
-44,4[a. rrangement, in packing Into reasonable compass, and pro-
-400 p 111 lucid order, its millions of facts and references. Within
every on'es every man may learn everything he ou t? know about
41 w 101 his co-dwellers in the great metropolis, their businesses,
very every.thing necessary to facilitate him in Ins ocs n.
postalTairie-
tan,gP_ld extension of our railway system, and the new
'l,f!rli with some continental states, have rendered necessary
/414 the'rdve additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyancde
nut eel ellt"c'fnce• We find the information given under those hea s
bar ntorY ffill and accurate as it was well possible to make them,
Work e new and recent than we should have thought attainable in
t such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best
London we happen to have met with.

MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1848.
been, tt as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto
e volunle
14rther for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still
ebied „enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously en-f
enrivai'Le proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory
hoe
Completeness, wherein every species of fact likely to t
eeeess'. he inerchart and the trader is placed within convenien
Printed The volume contains upwards of two thousand closely-
b'3, it, mats octavo pages, betokening a singular amount of indus-
cAA,„_e_ Matter of compilation, and awakening astonish.ment at. the
eoZsjoherisiveness of the machinery which could bring within a
aszi focus so ranch varied and scattered intelligence—embracing
tem:2 a multiplicity of heads, and Involving the services of. vast
to b,
nc!)f contributors. We believe that the present volume is not
locc4Lebed in the whole world ; for such a mammoth aggregate
thae A ~and SPecilic information is no less a typographical wonder,
gora-',;',l-igious monument of diligence and enterprise. .
Derlodineen or so of separate directories are included in hishtuogae
Permit-th only one, it seems, of the annual tribe destined
primt the
veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitariant
the wr'lover the ornamental. The " Official Directory" is key to
t''44ee• 'pi?! the Government Offices, and a record of official ps,reo-
4klesm, is followed by- a " Street Directory," exhibiting the
are irate, every thoroughfare, and the points at which the streets
Then
bY those at right-angles ; while the " Commercial and
heti Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above.
i. !INier Cies a " Trades' Directory," in which the names are allocated
'‘4laes, respective callings. The " Law Directory" is a list of the
-411,„ al °get :4's counsel, serjcants, barristers, attorneys. &c. with a
-a—rales of Carious courts of law, their officeiwand their peen-
"reeses 1 " C t'Directorv" comprises the ad-
bp,„ of the . on. Tle our
‘,.
Is a nobility and gentry; and the Parliamen ar t y Direc-
-°cs, wiml of the Members of the Houses of Lords and Comt -
rettuinn_ alphabetical list of the boroughs, cities, and countiesf
Deersdells, 8c,6 '",talbers to Parliament, the surnames and eldest sons
and
he " Postal Directory" contains the hour of receipt
la 1
races thr, every post-office in the kingdom ; the cities and principal
London. the world to which mails are dispatched from
4,eross.,.„,'d'oe rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails, and the
&c. The "City Directory" registers the civic au-
Nsier, e public companies, the brokers, the incumbents and mi-
"Co,, yr churches and chapels, the newspapers, &c. ; and the
bookigYaLlee Directory" includes' the railway tables, the coach and
"(I Ag'uees, the wharfb, &c. The volume closes with Banking
este tb, ranee Directories. These various heads will serve to Indi-
a\l to multitudinous nature of the contents ; for out of them come
*am, °f subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable
N. Preset,.
`.ng a curious analysisof the public and private
totsinstitu-
°f. "IQ met •
repot's and of the commercial world Every person
tp, ~11tkd under his proper section from a prime minister down
lag ueri
b ire ohs,Officer—every establishment,
from a palace to a lodg-
ate bi— • The Editor, his Preface, takes occasion to congratu-
princuSelf on the many improvements he has this year introduced,
steki'Pn- flowing from the employment of " selected agents," !n-
-elteratio_!fle ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific
operati_ns the new postage treaty with Prussia, which comes into
ettemsn' ell the Ist of January 1847 and disurbs to a considerable
the tlie rates of t tof the Continent, seems
pos age over a great par
lb°et ltoPortant.

Th. MORNING ADVERTISER Nov. 18, 1846'
Thon'gh.Post-office London Directory, 1847," is just delivered.
heft' alMarently limited to London, it is in reality a national
Dean None of the leading towns can will be without it. It must
,very esentlal to every counting-house in the kingdom, as well as to
NuaC" ef business in' and about the metropolis. It is an in-
wark of its kind; and the extent and minuteness of its
alediate""Albi are truly wcnderful. Being prepared " under the .
the arn„Ped ePecialpatronaga of her-Majesty's Postmaster-General,"
the t and completest means g;ererof course, at, the command
lUalinotLoPrietoriillly,'to"gkeiife-tlfeentire accuracy of the vo-
the for mid ero*ded eentents' Orfila.. bulky wcirk: The present is
men ea highth t6dtil cOmmercial or trading
>sod useful °w reqtt!re'Rrticular 'description of 'the really important
to.altnost everr party in any sort of business,
ej thisDi
1411t14,reetorT. Preceded an' admirable and perspicuous map
R. Don' Prepared expteSSly,lf,ts declared, for. the work by Mr.
4,,,ea there are divisions, Colimrislng, among other informa;
CoUrto",ial," "'Street," Commercial," " Trades," " Law,'
,- Parliamentary," `.! Postal," "City," " Conveyance,"
hoZ ',and many &her Direct-04es. -
,ation nr.,18 exnressedin the prefacet.that this forty-eighth annual
."Dect,-- the "Post-offfee Leddou Ijirectory" may be found "in all
derabie to
„„ equal. 'the best of- Its .ptedecessors." From very consi-
lareraiairamination of the marvellously fail and varied contents and
LaPenag4l,:all matters which it must be so difficult; laborious, and
"'eh collect,_we hesitate not to say that this unassuming
tess„,.:' several It not oaly equals the best of its prede-
The but in particulars it surpasses., all its precursors.
Ileveo-Inatlonis not only fuller iri Many respects, but there are
lraPertant alterations and editiOns, largely adding to the use-
corn-' of the book: It -Is intimated, and truly, that although all
Droot l!etition has. disappeared, the• present volume is conspicuous
„t-hat there has_been no relaxation in the multifarious labours
tbe7fiect the extraordinary. work. In
~b
speaking of past success, it is
efal t7ed that it has been " even in a pecuniary point of view ene -
Thettn ne Public, IS troted by the fact, that impor ant improvei
Price; and additiong are annually • made without any increase o
had t result that, it is declared, " could not have been the case,
caile, Miblic. patronage been divided." With reference to the
le've Certainly must acknowledge: that it is wonderful how it
t 0,38- Profitable to provide such varied, materials- and materials
ben,.`antlY changing and reqiiiring so much and such ceaseless la-
re_.`,,and cost to procutre, and then to classify. Nothing but a tre-
po'Tens sale could make the speculation answer. Among the im-
-1);14" alterations will be found those introduced into the " Postal"
'arY, It is, indeed, singularly full, useful, and complete ; and
hoti", lauch increase the daily, it might be more truly pronounced its
res,,rY.value, particularly new treaty
mcr.ebant, the traler, or the pro-
d,: , nal titan. As tine new treaty with Prussia caused very consi-
,7ahle changes in the rates of postage as affecting the Austrian do-
-.,411C"15 d , Bavaria, Bremen. Denmark, the German States,
i•orib linver,Labeek, Mecklenburg, Oldenbancrg.,llBlZls,aned,,lt.hrousse-
e'll_' SaZo-a-3-:,---wn den and Norway, Wurtemburgh,
e.,aages are detailede
precisely as they are arranged to come into
Peration on the first of January, 1847." The other changes are not
~°'ll.Y numerous, but all the intelligence is announced to be brought
'mein to a period as late as was compatible with the appearance of
mach a volume in sufficient-time for general circulation, prior to the
°Tfainencement of the year for which it. is designed. The business
',erns of the work are of the highest order, and: render It, of its
ki
saa, we imagine, a publication unexampled in the world for its
,-4'Pleteness, fulness, and usefulness.

- SUN, Nov. 18, 1846.
tolhtia. forty-eighth suartnvueallioet:isiteioffnortof
otfheeo"mPponsat-toloffinetet
The .; TY, and a trn m
Managemeilt°ol-oftiee Directory" has been forsotmhee
myeaahrasguenrdoefrtfhhies
Wore
‘• e Mr. Kelly. Until he- became
all
Pnwdierg divers other "directories in the field. Theyotnv have,rules
alone. disappeared, and the " Post-office Directory"
xhakin -.is astonishing sueessc, however, has not bad thieieefftseettooof
g the
gh a rietor of Dili gigantic work careless.
fruits of man of business, not to be perfectly aware
tthheatsatmhee
lint! his success can only be reaped by a continuance
achiringeyed energy by which the success was in the first instance
for 184, and
is ven acmore hicordingly
ly finished we find Vatin all the "
its Pt office Directory
eghos elaborate
"is than Auto any former edition of the book. The extent and m., -
??ness of the details furnished render the work indispensable to
i.ZTrY comtnercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably,
.wever, is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that
tarTealsiatriet the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the
page required to furnish the information—a marvellous
,e,„s_tance of clearness of arrangement in a work consisting of lip-
s_!Tds of 2,000 closely but clearly printed octavo pages. Its con-
-71,„u are arranged under various heads, as, for instance, the
Official Directory," the " Street Directory," the " Commercial
th_ren.torY," the " Trades' Directory," the " Law Directory,"
Court Directory." the " Parliamentary Directory," the
y„fostal Directory," the " City Directory," the " Conveyance
2reetnry,e, the Banking Directory," and some others. Many im-
portant alterations have been introduced into the " Postal Direc-
tory.', The new postal treaty with Prussia, which comes into ope-
Tor; on the Ist of January next, will effect very considerable
anges in the rates of postage to places in the Austrian dominions,
liaden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the Germrig:ihn,Stpaotleaso,
Poland, Prussia,
xarlover, Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Oldenbu
ilssia, Saxony, Sweden and:Norway, Wurtemburgh, &e. These
el*
, 'lees are fully detailed in the "Postal Directory " of the present
"niMe. The work, moreover, is illustrated by a clearly engraved
kid accurately drawn map of London in 1847, on a scale of three
t,2e4es to the mile. This Directory is certainly the most complete
"ork of the Fort ever offered to the public. Of not only the useful-
/I.,,eas, but the indispensable necessity of such a work, ne man of busk
"ea' can for a moment entertain a doubt ; and, considering the com-
Net.
floss and fuluess of the information furnished, and the enormous
-nY of time and of capital that must have been made in order to
V,
iuire and digest the information, the very reasonable price at
the Work is published is really wonderful.

GLOBE, Nov. 21, 1846.
Kelly's invaluable work, the " Post-office Directory," has just
made its appearance for the ensuing year. The vast mass of' juror-
tutian which this book contains makes it not only desirable but ab-
utelY necessary as a part of the office furniture of every man of
ul'sh'
rassties.:t hdsecarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else, who
requires to know anything concerning the trades, professions, and
great motropolis. In its present extended form, the
COsis an absolute curiosity; the labour and expense, which it has
coarne to bung it to its present state of perfection must have been lin-
inutoittetch. In turning over its 2,000 pages, one hardly knows which
be struck with and admire—the excelent- arrangement and
quire! of such a compilation, or the magnitude of the city which re-
aloo,,%_auch a directory. The clas.sification of the various profes-
Thent.B7,B4, as, and callings in the court, commercial and law depart-
street tile work oft the one liana, ana tne arr'angement of the
too 6°f Londoinds connectedn on the other, as well as thet-o great mass of Inform.-
rood`" 'various k with the Posffice, a nd the different
modes intercommunication, make it altogether as complete a di-
„"y as can be desired, or as it is well possible to conceive. The
ithh—rae. moreover contains an excellenttri map of London and the
-""urbs, corrected,down to the latest sde of" bricks and mortar.,
own.
ss, itF.KLY DISPATCH, Nov. 15. 1846.
:.The forty-eighth annual publication of this highly important and
Awful work has just been issued; and we must confess that its bulky
appearance has surprised us not a little; and when we reflect that
u....i,_p!iefelLsrmemusatinnsarealintecred, although the expense of collecting the
reased, we are pleased at the liberality of
__uia.:."4 • the proprietor. In a commercial point of view, perhaps,
Mr. Kelly,
„-.satalned so much useful matter. Among other infor-
no boot ever c' •0. 011111 Directory." a "Street Directory," a
station, there is au " Trades' Directory," a " Law Dire-
" Commercial Directory,
rrY," a " Court Directory, Parliamentary Directory," a
ee Directory," and a " Bankin
City Directory," a " Conveyto k g
Directory ;" in fact, the volume contains much that is interesting
and valuable to the tradesman,' the merchant, the lawyer, and per-
sons in ordinary life, as well as to tha gentlemen who occasionally
dabbles in trade. Every descriptionOf Information has been cor-
rected to the latest possible period . . and that information is arranged
With a clearness and simplicity which must have involved greats ac-
tivity of mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the ban
!Icellently engraved map of London,more extended and accurate as
to the suburbs, than any snap we have seen ; andtomake it as corn-
In the "Postal
com-
plete a reference as possible, an almanac is introduced.
Directory" there are the new rates with various parts of the, Conti-
bent, which will come into operation on the let of January: Alto-
gether this new issue surpasses any of its predecessors ; and we are
bet surprised that other directories should haVe gone to the tomb of
-4, the Capulets.

JOHN HULL, Nov. 28, 1846.
This annual leviathan is already completed and published; but as
Tiroof that the rapidity with which it must have passed throngh the
,t_e3s has not operated against its careful accuracy, we may men-
n [list the changes rendered necessary by the very recent decease
• Mr. Stewart, M. 14, for Renfrewshire, are duly attended to. (See
DP. 1669 and 167 G.) We have .o frequently expressed our approba-
tion o:thls most valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary
corn,:•tendation. It contains everything which can possibly be
required in directory -so full, so compl,te, so comprehensive are all
~▪ .
details, A,nd when to this we add the extreme accuracy which
rrvades ever u;nattinent, we know 110 what else can be said in
t e
Praise. The MaCtiinerY by which such v(1:9111Inous information is
sined, arranged, atal Superinendedso as to avolii I,rrQTll, must of
Itself be among the " turiOsities"t of modern literature.

book of this kind, brought ATLAI: Nov. 28, 1846.
-nt even without much pretension,
!" be. indispensable to every gentleman's library, every mer-
N-oant's eounting• house and every trader's shop. But edited, as this
with the utmost care,' its materials being collected through the
:blest authentie channels, and embracing in its range every head of
Jaonal and commercial intellitence essential to the completeness of
.4.,Lb a rk, we cannot suppose that any house, public or private,
which can afforvl a book of reference, will be without this compen-
us volume. The arrangement is 'admirable. You can find any
even want in a mement. All the heads are clear and complete
at urt, trades, streets, oMces, hotels ; forming, upon the whole,
nsieeof local information sueh as could not be brought together
IrithOut extraordinary laduatry, misted by an entire command of all