The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

LITERARY GAZETTE, OCTOBEft I 1851.

One of the first symptoms of the decling year is presented In the
publication of the fifty-third edition of the " Post Office London Di-
rectory." Mr. Kelly Is the first in the field. with- his very neat and
ponderous volume, comprising upwards of two thousand very
closely-printed pages ; and his machinery is so well organised, that
he is enabled, with astonishing facilty, to correct every department
of it to within a few days of its publication. What a model for Mr.
Panizzi, for the publication of a printed catalogue of the books in

the British Dims Cum, is the construction of this eminently useful
volume."

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LONDON AS IT IS.

London is a wide labyrinth, in which those who are uninitiated in
its topographical intricacies must, without the aid of guide or clue,
become hopelessly bewildered. Every years adds thousands and tens
of thousands to the enormous amount of its population. Squares,
streets, and terraces, which would elsewhere constitute flourishing
cities, are periodically annexed to its already unequally extent of
buildings, and it is impossible to calculate the breadth of area which
its encroaching wings threaten eventually to overshadow with their
vastness. If its ratio of increase in respect of extent, during the
ensuing century, shall equal what it was in the last, the surface of
the county in which it stands will be too circumscribed to contain its
limits. Its inhabitants, who in the reign of Queen Anne numbered
only three hundred thousand, have increased by the last census to
nearly two millions and a half—a population equal to that of the
whole of Scotland; and when we reflect that these teeming num-
bers are ail domiciled, clothed, and fed, in this human hive, the
sumptuary arrangements necessary for the purpose seem almost in-
comprehensible to the human mind. Yet such is the extraordinary
elasticity of our external and internal resources, that the supply
has always kept pace with the demand, and the daily wants of the
two millions and a half of human beings who are sheltered and fed
in our capital, are supplied with an ease and a regularity unknown
In the days when London contained but a tenth part of its present
population. A surrey of the number of the " Post Office London
Directory" for the year 1852, which has jest been published, will
give some notion of the difficulty which the numeroas foreigners
and strangers in London, who have lately been sojourning amongst
us, would have experienced in tracing amongst these thousands of
streets, and almost countless thousands of inhabitants, the desig-
nation and abodes of their friends and entertainers, but for the
timely aid of some such accurate and comprehensive record. The
mind can scarcely realise to itself a position of greater perplexity
and difficulty, than that of a stranger to our land and our language,
launched for the first time, without guinance of any kind, in the
bewildering mazes of our metropolitan streets. Oar English no-
menclature sounds so strange'y contixental ears, that, without an
interpreter, an Italian, or a Spaniard, in confabulation with a cab-
man or omnibus conductor, would have as much chance of mutual
intelligence, as with the denizen of another planet. To such, then,
the study of a faithful record of all that mighty London, in its
multitudinous" divisions and subdivisions, contains, will be of incal-
culable advantage. That which seems, when viewed en masse, to be
of a complexity utterly inextricable, through the ingenious arrange-
ments of our Court: Guides and London Directories, among which
Kelly's is the oldest and the best, has been made easy of comprehen-
sion to all who can read the Roman character. The foreigner, with
this Directory in his hand, while be contemplates with wonder both
the size of,the volume and the amount of-information it contains,
will admire the judicious mode of compilation, by the assistance of
which be is enabled to thread his 'way through the labyrinth of
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The Smaller Edition of the Work, and which includes Map of
London, comprises, amongst other information—Official Directory—
Commercial Directory—Court Directory —P
&c arl&c.iamentar Price y Directory
—Postal Directory—Banking Directory, ~ , may
now be had.
Kelly and Co., " Post Office Directory Offices," 19 and 20, Old
Boswell-court, Temple-bar, Loudon ; and all Booksellers.

Age Policy Sunf Total
when effected Assured. Additions
Assured. in in 1851.
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X•£ s. d.
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25 . 1838 1000 164 12 2 Participators
35 1538 1000 176 19 8 in Two
45 1838 1000 219 6 6 Septennial
53 1838 1000 235 19 8 Divisions
64 1838 1000 268 1 3 of Profits.
26 1844 1000 49 12 0 Participators
36 1814 1000 59 4 9 in One
4G 1844 1000 77 13 0 Septennial
55 1844 1000 83 13 7 Division
66 1844 1000 94 15 8 of Profits.

JOSEPH CARTWRIGHT BRETTELL, secretary.

TESTIMONIAL TO KOSSUTH.
Where there is a difference of opinion as to the amount of
credit or discredit due to a public man, there is a great difficulty, if
not an utter impossibility of proposing anything acceptable to all in
the case of Kossuth. Many people think him a hero and a martyr ;
others fancy lie is an enemy to monarchy. One party wishes him at
Copenhagen-fields, that they might see and hear him ; others wish
him at the North Pole, that they might see and hear no more of him.
What a striking difference in the fate or men. What a wonderful
oddi between people who have one half the world loving and another
half hating them, and people who have everybody in their favour.
This may, however, be for substantial benefits conferred, as in the
case of E. MOUES and SON, who for thel ast twenty or thirty years
have been saving the public half ?heir expenses n dress. And how
did they do this? by investing an enormous capital, by incurring a
great risk, by trying a great experiment. As, however, they
founded their proceedings on the hepe that the people at large would
see their own interest, and deal where they were best used.
they have not been disappointed. How should they be ? Every man
who buys an article pays but half the sum he has been used to before
be dealt with them, and found he had a better article. Let any one
go and look at the Winter Dresses, the Over-coats, Cloaks, and
extra-warm Clothing, and he will see such a contrast in the style
and workmanship to any he has seem elsewhere, that he cannot but
try them, and once trying is enough. Uundreis of new customers
come daily, but none were ever known to have gone elsewhere after
a trial.

E. MOSES and SON,.

London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Mincries, 83
44, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 568, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradrord "Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Eattere, Hosiers, Farriers, Boat and Shoe
makers. and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Es-
tunlsy, when buSinelis 13 resumed till Twerre o'clock.