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Just published, price 315., embellished with a NAP of LONDON,
Corrected to this date, the Complete
,Edition of the
POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY,
For I 8 5 2,
Being the Fifty--third Annual Edition,
Comprising, among other information,
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY; STREET DIRECTORY;
COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY; -
TRADES' DIRECTORY; LAW DIRECTORY;
COURT DIRECTORY;
PARLIAMENTARY DIRECTORY,
POSTAL DIRECTORY ; CITY DIRECTORY;
CONVEYANCE DIRECTORY;
BANKlltl_p DIRECTORY;
&c. &c. &c.

The following are Reviews of the New Edition, which have already

appeared in the leading Metropolitan Journals :

SUN, OCTOBER 17, 1851.
This is the fifty-third annual publication of the "Post Office Lon-
don Directory ; and if untiring enterprise or unerring accuracy in the
collection of materials, or unequ tiled ingenuity in the classification
afterwards, so as to afford the greatest possible amount of informa-
tion in the smallest possible amount of space, be worthy of being con-
sidered a work of art and industry, then is the " Post Office Lonlon
Directory" a work of art and industry quite worthy of a foremost
place in the Great Exhibition, and then should the Messrs. Kelly
have awarded to them a mark of honorary distinction for the pro-
duction of this unsurpassed and urvurpassable production. It is the
microcosm of the n etropolis of the world ; no information concern-
irg London, its inhabitants, its topography, its public buildings, its
institutions, its palaces. its docks, its trade, and its commerc., can
by possibility be required, which the " Post Office Directory" can-
not at once supply. To the commercial man it is invaluable, for
not only does it supply tile names and addresses of the heads of
firms, but the name of every junior partner in every firm is to be
found in the proper alphabetical position of his own name, and with
reference to the firm. The work is illustrated by an accurate Map
of London, corrected up to the present moment, and drawn upon a
scale of three inches to the mile ; in this Map the position of everyone
of the stew streets recently built in London or the suburbs, is accu-
rately laid down; and we find, on reference to the Map, that it shows
the positions of many streets which are scareelyyet completed. It is
" Official " Street
classified. as usual, into as
Directory." a " Commercial Directory," a " Trades' Direc-
tory," a " Law Directory," a " Court Directory," a " Par.
liamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " City Direc-
tory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory." It
furnishes also full and accurate information regarding the various
assurance and other joinst-stock companies, and the latest informa-
tion with regard lo the recent postal arrangements. The man of
fashion will find in the l• Court Directou," that the same minute
accuracy has been observed, and the same untiring diligence exer-
cised, in procuring information relating to the fashionable world,
as has been exercised in compiling, arranging, and classifying
the commercial portion of this great encyclopxdia of the metro-
polis ; whilst, to the politician, the " Official" and the " Parlia-
mentary" Directories furnish all the information he can desire
on the subjects of which they treat. This information is brought
down to the latest moment. It was only on the 7th instant that
Lord Dunsandle was elected an Irish Representative Peer, to fill
up the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Earl of
Charleville, and that the electors of the East Riding of
Yorkshire returned Captain Duncombe as their representative,
in
in
the room of the late Mr. Broadley ; both these changes appear
the present edition of the Directory ; and the present Lord Staffo-d,
who only succeeded to the title about a week since, appears as the
Peer. with Christiin and t-urname at length. In the list of Peers
of
appears the full Christian and length.
n the present Earl
Donouglimore, who only succeeded to the title in the course of last
month ; whilst, in the " Postal Directory," at page 1,761, the accele-
ration of the delivery of the papers by day mail appears, under the
head " Delivery of Letters in London ;" the first day on which all
the mails arrived, so as to admit of the complete carrying out of the
arrangement, being Saturday last, the I 1 th ult. The proprietor is
fully justified in his belief that this work has kept pace with the re-
quirements of the metropolis to which it is devoted, and he explains
la his preface how he has been able to accomplish this great
labour, and to bring, the work to its present high state of per-
fection. lie says :—" Accuracy and appropriate classification, so
that everything which may reasonably be expected in such a book,
may not only be found, but found without difficulty, are indispen-
sable to perfection. These advantages can, in any Directory, only
be attained gradually, and not completely, until the work enjoys
s
the entire circulation. While rivals existed, patronage wa
divided between books which were, or should have been, coun-
terparts of each other ; the public, therefore, had to pay more
than they need have done, and, besides, to submit to inferior pro-
ductions ; the total receipts not being sufficient to sustain two
Directories of London, each as complete as the present. This is
quite certain ; as, for the many years during which this work
but a
has
enjoyed the entire circulation, its profits would have paid
small proportion of the expense necessary to the production of
another equally complete. A second Directory of London would be
about as prudent an undertaking as a second railroad to Brighton;
all the expenses would have to be incurred a second time for the
same objects ; and it must be manifest, that if both paid their ex-
penses, the profits on two capitals, instead of one, must be paid by
the public. The present state of this work is a sufficient proof of
the advantage to the public—of their having to pay but for one
collection of the information—one compilation—one setting of the
type, &c. &c. This volume, to say nothing of accuracy the classifica-
tion, and general arrangement, Fontains about doublequantity
of mere letter-press contained in the closing volume of its l taan,es
annual competitor, and is published at a lower price. There pant
therefore, be no question that the public, as well as the proprietor
of the Post Office London Directory, benefit by the circumstance
that the work has been so long without any competition. Firmly
established as this Directory is in public favour, it can only be ne-
cessary that an amount of diligence equal to that which has led
this to
so gratifying a result, be continued, in order to sustain it ; on
the public may, with confidence, rely." Judging of the future by
the past, we cOltfidently rely on the energy, the abilities, the talent,
and the resources of Messrs. Kelly, and believe that for years to
come the " Post Office London Directory" will continue to enjoy,
because it will deserve, the undivided patronage of the public.

TIMES, OCTOBER 21, 1851.
Far-seeing sages have been busy prophesying all manner of results
from the Great Exhibition. We have one before us —one which
none of them ever dreamed of. The Great Exhibition, amid the
other wonderful effects it produced, exhausted the " Post Office Di-
rectory" for 1851 ; and lest the whole commercial world of London
should be left without its guide and friend, the proprietors of that
valuable work have at this unusually early period leaned their volume
for the year that is to coins. Arms d witu this infallible weapon
for, indeed, its accuracy is so great as to deserve the name as much
a, anything of the kind—(one may pierce the remotest fastnesses of
London, and count its Smiths, Joneses, Johnsons, and Browns. For
one who has the time it is worth while to scrutinise the amasing con•
rectness n ith which this volume discriminates the whole mass of
London life into some 2,500,000 names, and how it depicts and takes
co pieces the miuutest works or the vast machine that fills the valley
of the Thames. The book is one of our standing wonders. In
utility, excellence of typography, care, and trustworthiness, it can-
not be surpassed; and not the least remarkable feature about it is
the very recent ch anges recorded in its pages. For instance,
here in this volume of more than 2,000 pages, hi
whh was printed
on the 13th of October, we find inserted in the " Parliamentary
Directory," at pp. 1,738 and 1,749, the name of the Zion.
Captain A. Duncombe, R.N., who was elected as Member for the
East Riding only six days previously—namely, on the 7th of
October ; and in page 40, in the list of the Privy Council Office, the
name of Lord Liverpool is struck out, though his death was not
recorded in the " Times" till the 6th of October. To the commer-
cial world it would be yuite as necessary to deliver a lecture on
the general benefits of sunshine, as to speak of the merits of the
" Directory," and to all Londoners who want tot know anything of
the world they live in it is inestimable. The present volume is dis-
tinguished by the same internal and external advantages as those
which have so long characterised its predecessors.
[ The fact above adduced, that in the " Directory" the name of
Lord Liverpool, whose death b
had een recorded only on the 6th of
October, was struck o in page 40, in the list of Privy Council, is a
happy illustration of the rapidity with wigsk the information con-
tained in the work is compiled and published. Sr striking aned
example of the excel'enee of the " Directory" has naturally caui.
some comment; and the present appears a fitting opportunity of
calling attention to the entire facts of the ca'e :—An Earl, who is
a Privy Councillor, appears in the " Post Office London Directory,"
Ist, in the list of Privy Council; 2d, in the " street Directory ;"
3d, in the " Court Directory';" 4th, in the list of ails; 5t
lisht , in
the
the
Alphabetical list of Peers ; 6th, in the Alphabetal of
Surnames of Peers ; 7th, in the titles of the Eldest Sons of Peers.
The corrections, rendered necessary by the death of the Earl of
Liverpool, only recorded on the 6th of October, wera actually
carried into five oin f thaes Work consisting eof 2,000 two others
Imperial Octavo
having before
been printed off),
pages ; and the book was printed, bound, and distributed, so that the
Reviews of it in the newspapers commenced on the 14th of the same
month. Although we believe that it is not possible to adopt mea-
sures which shall ensure greater promptitude or accuracy, we should
not have called public attention to a matter which, with our ar-
rangements, is a mere thing of course, but for comments which have
been made on this particular point. It was on account of the
acknowledged impossibility of competing with our arrangements that
the Proprietors of " Robson's Directory" took leave of their sub-
scribers in the following terms :
" Bowtrell and Co., Proprietors and Publishers of Robson's
London Directory,' beg to acquaint their subscribers, that with the
volume for the present year that work has terminated.
"It has been found impossible longer to contend with the Post
Office Directory,' a work combining large capital, with un-
equalled resources of every kind requisite fur the_proper production
of a Directory of the metropolis. These advantages place that
work on such an elevation that further competition with it would
be as injurious to Bowtell and Co. as it would be unjust to their
subscribers "
And since this was put forth, the arrangements under which the
" Post Office Directory" are conducted have, as is well known,
been very materially strengthened.—Editors of "Post Office
London Directory.")

MORNING CHRONICLE, OCTOBER 15, 1851.
In an age prolific of books this is the most extraordinary, and we
feel almost compelled to say, the most useful of all. It is a miracle
of human industry—a miracle of human skill—a proof of the tri-
umphs resulting from an ultimate co
th mbination of the temporary di-
vision of labour—an argument fur e superiority of London over
every cty in the world—and an example to all publishers, catalogue
makers, and book compilers whatsoever. This is the fifty-third an-
nual publication; it enjoys all the advantages of its proprietors'
fifty-two years of experience. The classification, once complex
almost to Bradshawism, is now so admirably managed, that every
information such a work may be expected to afford can hers he
RAMC and found without difficulty, by persons to whom the search
is a novelty, and the volume anknown. The stranger may here be
guided, and the Londoner, at each year's end, refresh his in-
formation as to the whereabouts of his old friends. The statist,
too, suddenly called upon for his figures, may joyfully find refuge
access to his Directory, where he wilighyelerase,rundarehheoreww_
by ready
many churches
hanewd hinowenmyahneyksecrehononlsd, how
hclueter
mighty metropolis to satisfy the spiritual, intellectual
its two m on an
illi d a half of inhabi ' tants.
qmual rne dy law
in (het this s ,
Thean d
teetotallerphysicalrecreate himself by marking in each street
f a street, and in every parish, the appearance
at each corner 0
w atnntasyof
or disappearance see
• , se whereb temperance has progressed, a where
lic-house ; he may compare 1851
nd with
1841, with 1831
hhi to beer-shop and point the moral
ost " from hotel to inn, from nn d
in-palaces are still in the ascenant ;he matrace back " mine
also lost, by the sale of intoxicating
fortunes gained, the
of some future speech by extracts of the evidence here given of the
fortunes
liquors. The topographer may
correct his chart by the information
which he must hence derive, that
historian may note where flue-
thought his labours concluded ; thenew streets have arisen since he
h h he must try to discover,
ob-
serve that here, from some cause w
tuations in the p:mulatlon have occurred;ie the politician may
commerce and her attendant man are restl b
min the centre
positions—that there is some attraction rapidly co gh
e and seekin new
of a new system, hitherto not called into
operation
operatives' asso-
. T e staden
of the times generally may find, occasionally, an t
dation occupying a house in a good street, and be only brought to
anything like a state of equanimity again by a discovery of the fact,
that great slop-shops, and other East-end abominations, are making
the 'r way westwards, if not at a greater pace, at any rate with more
.
show and circumstance, than the humbler trading establishments of
the Christian Socialists. If the inquiring
mind penetrates, in print,
the district of the Temple, the result will be astonishment at the
number of old names gone, reflections on the mutability of the most
immutable ofprofessions, and a discovery, if the search be persevered
provinces ; if, finally (which
in, that the lost barristers are not dead, but only localism. in the
contemplative, seems not improbable), the scrutineer wants only to
discover an address, he may do so in a minute, and he may be sure,
, since the world generally is nut
unless the object of his solicitude be very flighty, that it is correct
we, at least, assaro him that it would have been so up o within a
fortnight of the publication of the volume before us. "Ex ono disco
omnes." The death of Lord Stafford was but a week since noticed
In our columns : in the Parliamentary department of this Directory
we find the full Christian names of the new Lord, with such other
ry.Wdahlorsehvialeal
change of particulars as the circumstances required. Yet the volume
kept thus minutely accurate contains more than tWO thousand
cblesosteolwyepdriunptoend pages. Who
l B conceiveut
evet he
needw at cut inffit li n
ertiti diligence
qualities which cannot be denied ; we need net end ai useful
recomm
what recommends itself as indispensable. Good classification, and
incessant care in marking alterations, are the qualities Of
essential
a Directory; and both these qualities thisto er-
feetion. Directory has P

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MORNING HERALD, OCTOBER 17, 1851.
The punctuality with which this huge record makes its appearance
at the close of the year is not one of its least recommendations.
Certainly, it is proof that the diligence :and energy which have
always characterised its production experiences no abatement,
notwithstanding the perpetual extension of the field of labour, and
the vast increeao of those details which an insidiously growing
population must necessarily 'concrete. We have often before been
called upon to compliment the enterprise of the proprietors, and We
have little to add upon the present occasion. Every one who has
been in the habit of turning to the " Post Office Directory," is aware
of its faultless accuracy; and to praise it on this score is superfluous.
The changes to which such a multitude of localities are exposed by
the accidents of life, are duly provided for; and we can but marvel
at the excellence and completeness of the machinery
.by which the
entire Duane of Lcnclyn li -annually oplcod, ad orgy wails

fact detected and corrected. The union of forethought with in-
genuity —of comprehensive method with inflexible perseverance
was never more eminently displayed—and that, happily, in a cruse
of the highest and most catholic utility. The "Post Office Direc-
tory" has now become a metropolitan necessity. The gallery of
volumes which have been published exhibit, in the gross, a me-
morable and curious monument of private industry; while to the
stati,t they unfold, with a plain and naked truth, the gradual deve-
lopment of the resources, both personal and commercial, of the
greatest capital' of Europe. Rivalry has long since been extinguished
by the great superiority of the present publication; arid it is as well
that it should be so, for the editors affirm, with reason, in their
prefaee, that when " patronage was divided between books which
were, or should have been, counterparts of each other, the public
had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to
submit to inferior productions ; the to al ri.ceipts not being
sufficient to sustain two Directories of London• each as complete as
the present." The rivals alluded to have, however, not been with-
out their use. They have, no doubt, stimulated the proprietors of
the " Post Office Directory" to that kind of prompt and vigilant
exertion from which perfection alone can spring ; and we have now
a book of reference as unique in its characteristics as in its worth.
Tire divisions of the book are the same as they have hitherto been.
The separate Directorieliamount to twelve ; by which arrangement
any particular search may be achieved, either by reference to the
name of the person sought for, the street he lives in, or the occupa-
' lion he follows. We have, thus, a Directory of Government
officials ; of streets ; of tradesmen ; of trades ; of law; of fashion ;
of Parliament ; of the Post Office ; of the City ; of conveyances ;
of banking-houses ; and of the assurance offices. These are again
subdivided where necessary ; and every conceivable facility is
afforled to the inquirer, by means of sectional indices, Sec., to save
both his time and trouble. But we need not further particularise.
The " fifty-third publication" of the " Post Office Directory" more
than equrls any of its numerous predecessors; and when we say
this, tire amount of labour bestowed upon it, the diversity of its
classifications, the variety of its information, and its uniform exact-
ness, will be at once appreciated. Every sort of specific knowledge
that it concerns the merchant, the trader, the professional man, the
idler, or the artisan, to be acquainted with, may here be found; and
that the corrections come down to the latest date, may be inferred
from such entries as the elections of Lord Dunsandle and Captain
Duncombe, both of which tojk place no further back than the 7th
instant

MORNING POST, OCTOBER 22, 1851.
This remarkable volnme has attained its fifty-third year, and now
contains 2,085 closely printed pages. In this immense mass of in-
formation, the most searching scrutiny. will And nothing useless or
unnecessary ; and the extreme 'accuracy which is observable in the
most minute details, renders the " Post Office London Directory'
one of the marvels of the age. Its early publication Is accounted
for by the circumstance that the edition for 1851 is out of print.
and the proprietors have taken great care that all necessary cor-
rections should be made up to the latest moment. We have been
at some pains to test the accuracy of the present edition, by reference
to instances of recent change within our own knowledge, and in no
single case have we found any mistake. The insertion of Lord
Dunsandle, whose election took place in September, amongst the
Irish representative Peers, and the alterations rendered necessary
by the death of Lord Donoughmore, on the 12th September, are two,
amongst many, proofs of the diligence and care with which this in-
valuable work has been prepared. Even the miner official changes,
such as the appointment of Queen's counsel, police magistrates, and
the like, are also noted with unfailing correctness. The arrange-
ment and distribution of the several parts of the work afford the
utmost facilities for reference; so that the labyrinth of this vast
metropolitan population is threaded as readily as the population of
the most insignificant village, and official situations, trades, profes-
sions, residences, as easily discovered. It is not surprising that such
a work, so useful to all, and so indispensable to those engaged in
business, should find a demand proportioned to the labour bestowed
uron it. It has now, we conceive, reached the highest pitch of
perfection of which such a production is capable ; and it will unques-
tionably continue to receive that large share of public patronage by
which it has hitherto been deservedly supported. Not even the
Great Exhibition itself could convey to foreigners a grander or more
just idea of the vast resources of British capital and enterprise; and
certainly no guide book in the world could give half as accurate a
notion of the wealth, industry, and pursuits of the Londoners as is
contained in this imposing and instructive volume. The obligation
which the public owe to Messrs. Kelly is certainly not confined to
the mere counting house utility of their labours. They have collected
an amount of statistical information, the quantity of which is only
equalled by its value ; and it affords us sincere pleasure to bear our
testimony to the merits of their present edition.

MORNING ADVERTISER, OCTOBER 22, 1851.
The fifty-third annual impression of this wonderful and ever-
increasing book is before us. On the present occasion it is marked
by a more early appearance than usual—a proof of increased dili-
gence in compiling the Immense lists of names, trades, and profes-
sions, as well as a further enhancement of its value and accuracy.
For it must be evident, upon reflection, that the nearer in point of
time to the completion of information so varied, evanescent, and
perpetually changing, the issue of the work °containing it shall be,
so will its faithfulness be increased. Death, bankruptcy, retirement,
sales, emigration, mere removal, prevent the permanency of such
information, in the recency rf which lies its whole value. Now,
living ourselves in this current of change, and of necessity observant
of many mutations, we have applied to the " Pest Office Directory"
the severest of tests, by a reference to a few of the most recent fluc-
tuations in the world of London and of commerce. This it has stood
triumphantly. In this vast mass of matter (over 2,000 pages), in all
parts of the ponderous volume, is the same actuality of present truth-
fulness. Official appointments and promotions, changes of firms,
removals, alterations of postal times, of mail routes and arrivals, of
steam-packets, the evictions and changes consequent upon street-
widenings, &c., &c., &c., are all noted, so as, in poetic phrase, to
" Fix the flying Cynthia of the minute ;"
or, rather, to render, so far as modern Babylon is concerned, " the
very age and body of the time, its form and pressure." Among the
notabilia of the world's metropolis, this record of its actual state Li
one of the most useful and wondrous.

DAILY NEWS, OCTOBER 14, 1851.
The " Post Office Directory" for 1852 has been published, un-
usually early this year. The portly volume is now before us. The
proprietors thus explain their reasons for this earlier issue of their
volume:—" The Exhibition having occasioned a demand greater
than usual, the edition for the current year became exhausted; to
prevent the Inconvenience of the work being out of print, every
exertion has been made to produce the new edition at the earliest
period compatible with accuracy." That this has not been sacrificed
to speed, a scrutiny will amply show; and in proof that the cor-
rections have been made to the latest possible period, they instance
the acceleration of papers by the day mail, under the head of
"delivery of letters in London," at page 1761. The first day on
which the mails arrived so as to admit of the complete carrying out
of the arrangement was on Saturday last, the lI th instant. The
insertion, too, in the " Parliamentary Directory" of the Christian
names of the present Lord Stafford, whose father's death was an-
nounced on the 6th instant, is ano her instance, among several which
might be adduced to show how closely the corrections have ,been
made up to the moment of issue.

GLOBE, OCTOBER 18, 1851.
Among the many interests affected by the Great Exhibition is that
of the " London Directory;" the demand for the edition of 1851
being so great, in consequence of the crowds congregating to the
metropolis, that it was deemed advisable to have an early public a-
tion of that for 1852. The comparatively early appearance of the
work will, however be found to have derogated little, if at all, from
its accuracy and excellence, as every change that has taken place
up to the last few days is carefully recorded in its pages. As in-
stances, we may state that the Hon. Arthur Duncombe is given as
the Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, for which county he
was elected as late as the 7th instant; and that the present Lords
Stafford and Bolingbroke are named as the possessors of their re-
spective titles, although they succeeded to them only within the cur-
rent month. In every respect the edition for 1852 is quite equal to
its predecessors. Indeed, when one considers the immense amount
of information in the work—the perfect accuracy which charac-
terises it—and the excellent classification adopted, by which any
piece of information required can be pounced on in a moment, the
" London Directory" seems little short of a marvellous work, and
one which could only have been pot together by the most indefati-
gable perseverance and scrupulous care. It would have been indeed
worthy of a place in that noble collection of the monuments of the
industry and intelligence of the world, which we have but a day or
two since looked on for the last time.

STANDARD, OCTOBER 21, 1851.
The fifty-third annual publication of this extraordinary volume is
now before us. The projector of such an opus magnum must have
been a bold man, but no one can observe its singular completeness
without coming to the conclusion that it has been the work of many
years to bring to perfection such a guide-took to the first city in the
worl 1. The labour and diligence which must have been bestowed
on Messrs. Kelly's book is quite inconceivable, and the proprietors
must be gratified that their efforts have been appreciated by the
public. Every merchant's house, " every place of business in London,
or even in the conntry, has its Post Office London Directory."
The enormous circulation thus attained has enabled the proprietors
to offer it for sale at a price that no book less universally purchased
could be sold for. Upwards of two thousand closely-printed pages,
comprising the most extensive and miscellaneous information in one
volume, ant sold at the price at which it is offered, is a triumph of
skill and diligence of which the proprietors may well feel proud.
They who look further, mar see, in the success ofLondon
Post Office Directory," the foreshadowing of results yet more im-
Portant to the community even than the accurate knowledge of the
Persons, occupations, and things, so skilfully set before us in this vo-
lume, of the busy metropolis. It is unnecessary to recommend the
" Directory ;" such a book is always itself its own best recom-
mendation.

SNIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE, OCTOBER 18, 1881.
The annual volume of this stupendous work appears with pre-
scriptive punctuality. The plan originally laid down is carried out
with increased completeness in the publication for 1852, which, like
its predecessors, is a signal monument of method, enterprise, and per-
severance. It is not possible that any work devoted to London and
its statistics can furnish so clear and definite a record of the per-
sonal aril commercial
oftconents of the me.tropclis as this mammoth
book, the swelling bulk which denotes that it keeps pace with the
increase of population and the several developments of industry.
No one can turn over its pages without being struck with the im-
mensity of labour which its compilation must have entailed upon
those engaged in it. Every line is the record of a specific fact—a
fact in every case liable to Be, and, consequently, involving
periodical justification throughout. The machinery devised by the
Messrs. Kelly for securing this annual revision is now as perfect
as it is possible to make it; and the corrections are brought down to
the latest date. The separate Directories embrace the usual fields
o finfonnation. Trades and tradesmen, professionals and officials,
streets and conveyances, banking-houses and post offices, are here
regulated to their particular heads, and, besides the mere catalogue
of names, enriched with every sort of collateral information which
the exigencies of business or cariosity may require. Our former
commondationa may be repeated now. The accuracy aimed at by
the editors half a century ago has been severely tested since the
book has been in extence ; and it not only repels accusation on
this score, but challenges fresh panegyric as every succeeding
volume emerges from the press. The counting-house of the merchant
and the trader could now as ill spare the almanack as the "Post
Office Directory."

WEEKLY DISPATCH, Ocronza 19, 1851.
It is difficult to remark upon a work that, presenting the same
phases, has so often laid claim to public notice and patronage. The
fifty-third annual volume •is now before us; and, as heretofore, it
embodies (certainly in a very bulky form) an amount of useful in-
formation which might be sought for in vain at any other source.
It is, in fact, as the preface states, a " hand-book to the commerce
of the first commercial city in the world." As usual, the volume
contains, among other information, an "Official Directory," a
" Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a
"Court Directory," a "Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal Di-
rectory," a "City Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," a "Bank-
ing Directory," and a finely-executed Map of London and its en-
virons. The work, alike indispensable to the commercial man and
to individuals unconnected with trade, reflects great credit upon the
proprietor for his industry and untiring perseverance, and is an ho-
nour to the country in which it appears. The whole is printed in a
clear, distinct type, and on excellent paper, and the "getting up"
altogether is unexceptionable. While such care and zeal continue
to be exerted, to render the book in its several departments com-
plete, and make it really and truly a hand-book of commerce, it
need not fear any rival.

EXAMINER, OCTOBIR 18, 1851.
Mr. Kelly's giant Directory takes the field a month earlier than
usual this year. This is accounted for by the fact of the great de-
mand for last year's impression consequent on the crowds at the
Great Exhibition; and certainly our visitors could not do better
than resort to Mr. Kelly's compilation for a proper impression of the
magnitude and wonders of the city they were visiting. We possess
no other record of them to compare with it. Two thousand closely-
printed pages of streets, trades, professions, and persons, express
better than the most eloquent phrases what a mighty mass of human
beings are now congregated in the spot called London, and what in-
finitely vast varieties of human existence and interests have come
to be comprised within that name. Often we have had occasion to
say, and may now repeat, that this book of Mr. Kelly's is not one,
but a dozen Directories. Its clear and succinct an angement adapts
it to the use of every class that may be supposed likely to have need
of such information. There is a Street Key," of nearly 500 pages,
containing the names of more than a hundred thousand people.
'fliers is an Alphabetical Directory, containing in the same
number of pages nearly the same number of names.
There is a classification of more than two thousand trades.
There is a Court Guide to some 25,000 of what are called the
gentler classes. There is a Law Guide ; a Parliamentary
Guide; a Guide to all the Public Offices; a Directory of Post-
Towns and Postages all over the world; a list of all the chief hotels
and inn throughout the country ; and, tinder separate Directories,
whatever a person can be supposed to have any need to know re-
specting city buildings, companies, churches, chapels, publicationa,
and agencies, or about assurance companies, banking houses, and
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various matter so unexampled in bulk and extent depends obviously
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its practical worth and value in a readily available sense, The
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SPECTATOR, OCTOBER 18, 1851.
That gigantic volume, " The Post Office Directory," maintains
its character as a fitting representative of the largest city in the
world ; excelling all books in bulk, as London excels in towns. And
as the Metropolis contains various other districts besides the City,
so does the Directory contain many directories, yet all an-
swering some specific purpose. Thera is the " Official Directory"
and, by-the-bye, it Is curious to see how often the same name oc-
curs together, as if public employ ment were too good a thing to let
out of the family. There is the "Street Directory," where we may
find the man if we know his residence, but have forgotten his name ;
the " Commercial Directory," where we may And the name if the
residence has escaped us ; then there are the " Trades'," " Law,"
and " Banking" Directories, where it is possible to bunt up a man
If we know his vocation, but cannot, without assistance, recall
either his name or address. There are also other directing classi-
fications—as Court, Parliamentary, Conveyance, Postal ; forming
an unparalleled work, which, however, has beau three-and-fifty
years growing to its present size. The present volume appears
early; the demand, owing to the influx of strangers, consequent
upon the Great Exhibition, having exhausted tte current edition
for 1851 ; and what would London be without a Directory ? Great
exertions, tis stated, have been made to bring down the chart. es
to the latest moment ; as a profs' of it, the alterations consequent
upon the death of Lord Liverpool-may be instanced.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, OCTOBER 25, 1851.
The Great Exhibition has bad Its effect upon the sale of this
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London season has been one unbroken round of visits ; and an un-
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and ready reference. The corrections of the Peerage, and other
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FATAL EXPLOSION.
DARTFORD, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.--During the last
twenty-four hours this town and the surrounding dis-
trict have been most painfully excited in consequence of
an explosion, involving the destruction of the lives of
seven human beings, having occurred in a rocket factory,
situate on Joyce's-green, some 300 or 400 yards from
Dartford.

It seems that a few weeks since a gentleman named
Callow had taken up his abode in a large farmhouse,
occupied some time since by Mr. Wigman, one of the
contractors of the North Kent Railway. Shortly after
Mr. Callow came into possession of the premises he
commenced manufacturing blasting-rockets or fusees, in
a timber building on the estate. The building in ques-
tion, from the ruins which remain on the ground, appears
to have been something like forty feet long, and certainly
not more than thirty feet wide, and was covered in with
a thatched roof. On Tuesday evening eight persons
were at work therein, independently of several others
whose business only occasionally call them there.
Shortly after l'Air o'clock the whole town, and, indeed,
every inhabitant living within a circle of five or six
miles, was dreadfully alarmed by a report far surpassing
in violence a discharge of artillery. The building used
for the manufactory was levelled with the ground.
Head, legs, hands, and feet were found scattered over
the ground. Tho body of a man named Haggard was
found with the whole of the clothing consumed, portions
of the flesh stripped, and the brains protruding. The
remains of as many as fire persons were soon collected
together, and two of the .unfortunate workpeople were
picked up alive. One had both his arms broken, and
the other had his legs and thighs fractured, the eyes
blown out, and the lower portion of the trunk also badly
injured. One was named James Goldsmith, and the
other was a woman, supposed to be named Brown.
The poor man lingered only for en hour and a half.
The unfortunate woman only lived half an hour.
From the inquiry made this afternoon by Mr. Webb,
the coroner's officer, it appears that at the time of the
fatal explosion there were either in or about the factory
ten persons, and the following is a correct list of them:—
Frederick Haggard, a carpenter, not hurt.
William Harrison, from London, a miner and head
foreman, dead.
Thomas Nash, also from London, foreman over the
" fillers," dead. _ _

Christopher Haggard, foreman over the women,
whose business was to insert the rockets or fuzees into
the gutta percha tubes, killed.
Joseph Loft, late of London, a filler, dead.
James Goldsmith, a pincher off of the gutta percha
tubing, dead.
Miss Sarah Kempton, otherwise Mrs. Goodeve, killed.
Mrs. Brown, killed.
George Weller, a carpenter, severely injured by the
explosion.
John Poole, the varnish-matter, who was standing at
the side of the fireplace, uninjured.
Alfred Salaßhone, one of the clerks, whe had just left
the factory, not hurt.
Various rumours are afloat as to the precise cause of
the calamity. One person who was at work in the place
attributed it to the carelessness of one of the female suf-
ferers, who, ho states, was married on Sunday last; and,
Tuesday being her birthday, she promised the men half-
a-gallon of beer if they would allow her to fill one of the
cases. They acceded to her request, and, while filling
the tube, ho imagined that she must have driven the
charge in too tight, for it exploded while the case
was in her hand, and hence the catastrophe. In the
hand of this unfortunate creature, notwithstanding
that the body is blown into several portions, is to be
seen, firmly clenched, one of the rockets, to which is
attached three or fuer inches of gutta peroha. Mr.
Webb, who was in the factory not more than five minutes
before the disaster happened, states, that while he was
present ho neither heard nor saw anything like what
that person had stated. While he was in the place the
various hands were at their several occupations, and, as
he was leaving, he noticed one of the men with a pot of
bailing glue in his hand, and he bad barely time to
place the liquid on the table when the explosion hap-
pened. _ _

- Although an active march was made during Tuesday
evening, the whole of the mangled remains of the unfor-
tunate sufferers could not be found, and it was not until
this day at noon that some of the missing portions were
collected. Two men went over the ground with a large
basket, and succeeded in gathering together a number of
hands, a woman's trunk with the bowels blown out, and
several fingers. These were carefully collected together,
removed to the union-house, and placed at the side of the
other bodies.

Up to half-past seven o'clock this evening (Wednes-
day) the coroner's warrant for summoning a jury had
not arrived; it is therefore probable that the inquest will
not be held until Friday, the coroner no doubt wishing
to give as much time as possible for finding the missing
portions of the other bodies.

blood, the intermediate space being likewise sprinkled
with blood. Tho trousers pockets had been rifled of
the left hand, near the thumb, was a shilling
their contents, and turned inside out, and on the back of
the blood.
At four o'clock the villagers, who had been prevented
from shifting the body by their scruples respecting the
necessity of its first being seen b ner, were pre-
vailed upon to convey it to theporchof the church, a
distance of about half a mile, the consent of the mi-
nister having been with some difficulty obtained for
allowing it to bo deposited there. Two sixpences were
found on the grass under the deceased, and in his waist-
affixed by
coat pocket a few pence. He was short in stature, and
a quiet, inoffensive man.
Mr. Hughes our new chief of police, and Inspectors
Brown and Drake, are making active inquiries in the
neighbourhood, and we hopo the perpetrators of the
murder will soon bo in the hands of justice.—Bath and
Cheltenham Gazette.

NEW LAW OF EVIDENCE ACT

(From the Chronicle.)
To those who are anxious, with ourselves, to telieve
that the judges of the superior courts are actuated
by a real desire to discharge their duties uprightly, and
to give full and fair effect to the enactments of the Le-
gislature, one or two events which have recently occurred
in Westminster Hall must appear painfully inexplioable.
We allude to the manner in which Mr. Baron Martin
and the Lord Chief Justice Jervis have thought proper
to act with reference to the power now vested in courts
of justice of directing prosecutions for perjury. Our
readers are possibly aware that, by an Act passed in the
twenty-third year of the reign of George 11, the justices
of assize, nisi prius, and gaol delivery, were respectively
empowered to order any witness who committed per-
jury in their presence to be prosecuted; and every
such prosecution was directed to be carried
on without the payment of any fees, either
to the counsel who were assigned to conduct
it, or to the officers of the court. These provisions,
though salutary as far as they went, were obviously in-
sufficient to check the crime against which they were
year, t
that
h
aimed; for, first, the powers which they gave were con-
fined to the superior judges at common law—next, they
only applied to cases where vied voce testimony was
given—thirdly, they did not authorize the commitment
lastly,
e they
presentcontained injudi-
cious
Lord of
Campbellegtii guilty
k, n th
lly
cious regulations respecting costs. When, therefore,
pre-
pare a Bill for the amendment of criminal justice, it was
thought expedient to extend the powers granted by the
Act referred to; and a clause was consequently intro-
duced into the measure, which enacts, insubstance,
any judge of one of the superior courts of common law
or equity, any justice of assize, nisi prius, oyer and ter-
miner, or gaol delivery, any recorder, chairman, or other
judge at quarter-sessions, any county court judge, any
justices in special or petty sessions, or any sheriff'
or deputy-sheriff —" in case it shall appear to him or
them that any person has been guilty of wilful and cor-
rupt perjury in any evidence given, or in any affidavit,
deposition, examination, answer, or other proceeding,
made or taken before him or them"—may " direct such
person to be prosecuted for such perjury, in case there
shall appear to him or them a reasonable cause for such
prosecution." The court may- also commit such person,
unless he shall enter into recognizances to appear and
take his trial—and may bind over any persons to prose-
cute or give evidence against him, and may grant a cer-
tificate of the prosecution having been directed, which,
except under very special circumstances, shall entitle the
prosecutor to his costs. Now, it is impossible to read either
the clause just referred to, or that contained in the older
statute, without perceiving that, under each Act, the
judges are invested with a very delicate discretion,
which must be exercised with great caution and for-
bearance. the law was not meant to be put in force
whenever a witness swore to a fact which the jury dis-
believed, or whenever two witnesses gave different ver-
sions of the same transaction; but it was unquestionably
intended that the judge himself should feel clearly con-
vinced that flagrant perjury had been committed by a
witness before he should undertake to give directions for
hie prosecution. Indeed, the judges have uniformly
acted in accordance with these views from 1750, when
the Act of George 11, passed, down to the present year;
and we doubt whether a single instance of a prosecution
under the old law could he found, except in cases where
the judge was fully persuaded that the witness had been
telling deliberate falsehoods. No sooner, however, does
the new law come into operation, than new notions of
judicial discretion are brought into active play, not, in-
deed, as against ordinary witnesses—for to them the Act
has hitherto been a dead letter—but as against the par-
ties to the record, who are now rendered admissible wit-
nesses by Lord Brougham's admirable measure. Ac-
cording to Sir Samuel Martin, perjury is a crime of so
detestable a character, especially in the mouth of a party
to a suit, that every party must be put upon his trial if
he be so much as suspected of having committed that
offence ; and proof of his guilt to the satisfaction of the
committing judge seems wholly immaterial.
The case in which this marvellous doctrine was acted
upon was that of Hornidge v. Hawkins. An action was
brought to recover 1141., the amount of an attorney's
bill; and the defence was, that the plaintiff had never
really acted as the defendant's attorney, but that the de-
fendant had employed the plaintiff's clerk, a man named
Jordan, to attend to his bueiness, and that the plaintiff
had merely lent his name to this Jordan. Hornidge,
Jordan, and Hawkins were all called us witnesses, and
their testimony was so conflicting that, as Mr. Baron
Martin observed, one, if nut two, of the three had been
guilty of the most corrupt perjury. The jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant was com-
mitted for trial. So far there was nothing to show that
the judge had not exercised a proper discretion; but
now comes the most remarkable part of the case. A
day or two after the committal, the defendant's
counsel applied to the Court for a new trial,
on the ground that the verdict was against
the weight of evidence. In the course of
his argument the Learned Coupled referred to the con-
duct of the judge at the trial, and was remarking, very
justly, that it would become a most serious matter if the
result of a verdict being given against a party, who had
himself been called as a witness, was to be his committal
for perjury, when Mr. Baron Martin is reported to have
interrupted him with the following astounding avowal:—
" When the jury retired. I did not know which way I
should have given the verdict had I been on the jury."
He subsequently observed, " I cannot say that I was
dissatisfied with the verdict;" and then, after some
further discussion, he added, " Perhepe the true solu-

lion of the matter was that Jordan deceived both par-
ties." We have no hesitatien in saying that, if this
be a correct report—and wo have no reason whatever
to doubt its accuracy—Mr. Baron Martin has been guilty
of very grave misconduct. It matters not, in the view we
take of the subject, whether Hawkins be a guilty
or an innocent man; but the question is, whether a
judge can be justified in committing a person for per-
jury when he is not himself satisfied thet the individual
has perpetrated that crime. We apprehend that there
can bo but one answer to such a question. The judge
must act, not on the vicarious opinions of others, but on
his own belief—and, even then, only when it is clear to
him beyond all reasonable doubt that the party he is
about to commit has wilfully perjured himself. In any
other view cf the matter the discretion of the judge will
bo a mere tyranny, and statutes which were passed to
promote the discovery of truth, will become the ready
instruments of intolerable oppression.
The conduct of Sir John Jervis, in the case of Maher-
ley v. Shepherd, is scarcely less censurable than that of
Sir Samuel Martin. That was an action brought by an ar-
chitect against an engineer, to recover I 601. as the value of
certain drawings which the plaintiff had made for
the defendant. 501. had been paid into court ;
and the question was, whether the drawings were of any
greater value. At the close of the case, on some dis-
crepancy appearing between the testimony given by the
two principals, the Chief Justice recalled the plaintiff,
and cross examined him as to his former statements--
when he gave evidence varying, as it would seem, in
some respects, from what be had previously stated. The
following colloquy between the judge and the plaintiff's
counsel then took place :—Judge—" Mr. Stammers, can
you make anything of this? Do you intend to address
the jury?" Counsel—" Certainly, my Lord." Judge
—" You mean, do you, to put your client in peril of the
verdict?" Counsel—" My Lord, I certainly intend to
take the verdict." Judge—" Very well, let an dicer
see that the plaintiff does not leave the court." The
counsel then lost his temper, and, like most
tthhoerhtye
the
judge
under similar circumstances, talked some
eeh e thisinf infringed
in g was
d s
nonl
l dsense the
summed daring f
the judge to commit him as
p swh
ou s
bemostl
en
at
ui
up, ft and, after
iouWheefanofrt all
r declaring
of the subject," he proceeded to state that " t
Yeaetlri,b "
was not
because he had told the plaintiff to remain in
the counsel had a right to assume that he court that
was going to
commit him—it might be that he wanted to ask him
some question." The jury found for the defendant, and
the plaintiff was not committed. Now,• is just possible
that, as the Chief Justice insinuates, it
•
his Lordship
directed the plaintiff to remain in court simply because
ho wished to question him further; but the proceeding
has, unfortunately, a very uglyaspect; and plain men
will, we fear, he muchinclined
to regard
of an attempt at intimidating the counsel. The judge
may have wished the jury to believe that, when he
warned the counsel against putting his client in peril,
and ordered the officer to keep his eye upon the plaintiff,
he had no idea of directing a prosecution for perjury;
but we would certainly advise Sir John Jervis
in to devisea
a more probable story should he ever find himself
witness-box of common sense as his
, with twelve men
jury, and Mr. Baron Martin as his judge.

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