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pUST-OFFICE LONDON piRECTORY for

The earliest copy of the work has been but a few days issued, and
he folloWing Reviews have already appeared in the leading Metre-
olltan Journals :

TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846.

The forty-eighth annual publication of this work—the volume for
847—is now issued. It is a wonderfully different affair from the old
Directory, which uaL.I to consist of little or nothing more than the
alphabetical list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for some
years, a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court Di-
rectory," a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with a
host of other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
carefully revised, anti supplies the latest information. Of course,
the postal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and in
minor poiats the work seems to bear the test of a search into mat-
ters in which changes have been very recent.

obtained, arranged, and superintended so as to avoid errors, must of
itself be among the " curiosities" of modern literature.

ATLAS, Nov. 28, 1846

A book of this kind, brought out even without much pretension,
would be indispensable to every gentleman's library, every mer-
chant's eounting house, and every trader's shop. But edited, as this
is, with the utmost care, its materials being collected through the
most authentic; channels, and embracing in its range every head of
personal and 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-
dious volume. The arrangement is admirable. You can find any
name you want in a moment. AU the heads are clear and complete
—the court, trades, streets, offices, hotels; forming, upon the whole,
a mas; of looal information sueh as could not be brought together
without extraordinary industry, assisted by an entire command of all
requisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it is probably the
most wonderful on record. ,

NEW WORK BY " BOZ."
On the 31st instant will be published, price is., the Fourth Number of
DEALINGS with the FIRM of DOMBEY
and SON, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

By CHARLES DICKENS.
With Illustrations by HARLOT K BROWNE.
London : Bradbury aid Evans, Whitefriars.

14 OND ON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY (SOUTHERN DIVISION).
ALTERATION OF TRAINS.
NOTICE.—The public are informed that on and after the Ist of
DECRIILRR next, the following Alterations will be made in the Trains
OR this Railway

EDFORD. CH.
The Train now leaving London at 10BRA .45N a.ra. will leave at 11 a.m.,
arriving at Bedford at about 1.45 p.m.
The Trate now leaving London at 4 p.m. will leave at 3.45 p.m.,
arriving at Bedford at about 6 p.m.
A Train will leave Bletehley at 3.15 p.m., arriving at Bedford at
about 4 p.m.
The Train now leaving Bedford at 10 a.m. will leave at 9.45 a.m.,
arriving at London at about 12 noon.
A new Train will leave Bedford at 11.50 a.m., arriving at London
at about 2.45 p.m., and at Birmingham at about 3.35 p.m.
LEAINGTON BRANCH.
The Train now leaving M
Coventry for Leamington at 8.45 a.m. will
'leave at 8.30 a.m..
The Train now leaving London for- Rugby at 3.45 p.m. will leave
at 4 p.m.
The Train now leaving Aylesbury at 10.30 a.m. will leave at 10.45
a.m., arriving at London at about 12.30 noon.
The Train now leaving Birmingham at 8.0.a.m. will leave at
7.45 a.m., arriving at the intermediate stations and London 15 mi-
nutes earlier than at present.

By order, MARK Hursa, Manager,
Euston Station, NoT. 24, 1846.

lIRANSIT FOR THE MILLION.
NORWICH ECONOMIC CONVEYANCE COMPANY,
For the conveyance
(Registered(RegisteredProvisionally,)
of passengers and small parcels to and from
all parts of the city and its environs, at stated intervals during the
day, at twopence each ; with power of extension to other towns in
Norfolk and Suffolk, upon the principle of the companies .already
formed in London, Liverpool, Manchester; Birmingham, &C., 06C.
Capital 200,0001., divided into 40,000 shares of 51. each.
'Deposit per share,
being all the Act of Parliament 6d.
allows to be taken upon shares of
this amount. The Company is to be considered formed when
MOOD shares are subscribed for. Directors to be chosen from the
shareholders. The call on complete registration not to exceed ss.
per share. No subscriber to bo liable beyond the amount of his
share.

Thl:4lTuns.
Samuel Big-nold, Esq. Ferdinand hes, Esq.
MYLSIONA.I, IVARECTORS.
The Mayor of Norwich. Edward Willett, Esq.
The Sheriff of Norwich. John Wright, Esq.
-Henry Chamberlain, Esq. John Hitting Barnard, Esq.
BANKEas.—Messrs. Gurneys and Birkbeal, Norwich.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Rackham, Cooke, and Rackham, Norwich.
SECRETARY (pro. tem.)—Charles S. Gillman, Esq.
Offices, St. Giles-street and Bethel-street, Norwich.
A prospectus of the undertaking and further information may be
obtained of Messrs. Rackham, Cooke, and Rackham, St. Giles-street,
and C. S. Gillman, Esq., Bethel-street, Norwich, and Mao of the fol-
lowing aharebrokers :—Richard Clark and Co., 3, Austin Friars,
Broad-street, London ; Thomas Barber, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Thomas Tootal, Esq., Marsden-street, Manchester ;
Messrs. Tootal, Barff, and Peint, Leeds ; and Messrs. Grayston and
Earle, York, at whose respective offices forms of application for
shares may be had.

CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY FOR ACCUMULATIVE AND GENERAL AS-
SURANCES,

2, Royal Exehange-buildings.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—J. M. Rainbow, Esq.

Notice is hereby given, that, pursuant to the Deed of Settlement
of the City of London Life Assurance Society, the First Ordinary
Meeting of the Society will be holden at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th day ofJa-
nuary, 1847, at Twelve o'clock at noon exact time, to receive a Report
from the Directors and Auditors, to fill vacancies in the office of Di-
rectors, to elect Auditors for the ensuing year, and to declare a Di-
vidend on the Shares in the Company.
Dated the 24th day of December, 1846.

E. F. LEEKS Secretary.

riIHE NEW PORTABLE ALARUM, size of
a small snuff? box, can be placed on the dressing-table, and
set to ring .at any hour that may be required. Price, throe guineas,
foreign made, or three guineas and a half, English made.
T. COX SAVORY and Co., Goldsmiths, Watchmakers, &c., 47,
Cornhill (seven doors from Graeechurch-street), London.
N.B. A stock of second-hand Plate always on hand for sale.

HINTS on the DAGUERREOTYPE
As a great deal of the effect of these portraits, as
pictures, results from the manner in which people ge
dressed for a sitting, we wish to give our readers a rul.
or two, which they would do well to bear in mind
Avoid pure white as much as possible. Some ladies
dress themselves out in snowy berthas and spotless
wristbands; but many a good picture is spoiled by the
spottiness occasioned by the powerful action of this
colour upon the plate. Violets have also the same effect
upon it. A lady takes her sitting in a purple dress, and
is astonished to find herself in a white book muslin in
her portrait; this particular colour acting more intensely
than the pure light upon the prepared silver. The very
best kind of dress to wear on such occasions is a satin
or a shot silk, or any material, in fact, upon which there
is a play of light and shade. Plaids always look well;
and an old tartan shawl thrown across the shoulders, and
well composed as to folds, would form an, admirable
drapery: but this is an artistic liberty which ladies are
very loth to submit to. At most of the Daguerreotype
establishments, articles of apparel, suitable as regards
form and colour, were at first provided ; but nobody
used them. "We wish to be taken as we are," was the
invariable remark ; and so they were stereotyped to
their heart's content in a heap of finery put on merely
for effect. We wish ladies would be a little less prim on
such occasions. It is quite melancholy to see the care
they take to brush the hair, and apply that abomination,
fixiture, to make it " look nice ;" whereas, if a good
breeze had broken it up into a hundred waves, the effect
in the Daguerreotype would have been infinitely more
beautiful. And let them by all means abjure the system
of making up a face for the occasion. The effect is
painfully transparent. The mouth, so expressive in all
faces. in these portraits is nearly always alike ; and for
the simple reason, that we put its muscles into attitudes
which are not at all natural to it—we substitute a volun-
tary for an involuntary action ; and, of course, stiffness
is the result. If the ladies, however, must study for a
bit of effect, we will give them a recipe for a pretty ex-
pression of mouth—let them place it as if they were
going to say prunes.—People's Journal.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
On Wednesday last Mr. Bullock Webster gave his
second lecture at this establishment, on practical drain-
ing. On this occasion he confined himself exclusively
to the method of draining strong clay soils for surface
water only—not where the subsoil itself was filled with
water, but where the injury arose from the water resting
on an impervious bed of clay. He urged that very d. ep
draining on that kind of soil had been tried and failed
years ago, and he mentioned the names of several per-
sons who had proved this, amongst whom we observed
was Lord Portman. lie also said that the strong lands
in the Weald of Kent, they were returning to the old
system of 30-inch drains. There however were, he
stated, circumstances under which deep draining may
have answered, viz., where there had been a great deal
of water under the subsoil which could not get away.
He thought that drains at a depth of four or five feet in
clays, could certainly do no harm if filled with porous
material ; but he conceived that it would add much to
the expen-e, without adequate advantage, and he warned
his hearers not to form conclusions too hastily.
In the course of last year he said he had travelled
about 16,000 miles in search of the data upon which he
had based his reasoning ; he had examined draining
which had been done in various parts of the country
within the last 30 or 40 years, and he found in all in-
stances he was fully borne out in his own opinion on the
subject. He then touched upon the subject of the dif-
ferent tiles with much sound philosophy, and concluded
by expressing his belief that the cylindrical tile, divided
horizontally, Vk as preferable to the flat solid tile, as from
a more effective current, and consequently a greater
capability for clearing the drain.