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Just published, price 35e., embellished with a MAP of LONDON*,
Corrected to this date, the Complete „Edition of the
LOST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY,
For 1 8 5 2,
Tieing 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;
BANKING DIRECTORY;
&c. &c. &c.

already

The following are Reviews of the New Edition, which have
appeared in the leading Metropolitan Journals :
SUN, OCTOBER 17, 1851.
This is the fifty-third normal publication of the " Post Office Lon-
don Directory ; and if untiring enterprise or unerring accuracy in the
colieCtion of materials, or unequalled 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 beingonlo con-
sidered a work of art and industry, then is the " Post
of a foremost
Office Ln
Directory" a work of art and industry quite worthy
place in the Great Exhibition, an i then should the Mesrrs. Kelly
have awarded to them a mark of honorary distinction for the pro-
d action of this unsurpassed and unsurpassable production. It is the
microcosm of the is etropolis of the world ; no information concern-
ing London, its inhabitants, its topography, its public buildings, its
institutions, its palaces. its docks, its trade, and its commerc,, can
b > passibility 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 the 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 po-ition of everyone
of the new 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 scarcely yet completed. It is
classified, as usual, into RR "Official Directory," a'
"Street
Directory.", a " Commercial Directory," a " Trades' i
tory," a "Law Directory," a " Court Directory," a"
City Dire"Tc-
ar.
liamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory," It
a
tory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory."
furnishes also full and accurate information regarding the various
assurance and other joinst-stock companies, and the latest informa-
tion with regard to the recent postal arrangements.
same minute
The man of
fashion will find in the " Court Director:•," that the
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 encyclopedia 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
he Peer, to fill
up the vacancy occasioned by
the death Earl of
Charleville, and that the electors of the East Riding of
Yorkshire returned Captain Duncombe as their repchanges appearresentative,
in
in
the room of the late Mr. Broadley; both these
the present edition of_the Directory.; and the present Lord Stafford,
who only succeeded to the title about a week since, appears as the
Peer, wth Cris3n and Surname at length. In he list of Peers
appears the h
fullti Christian and Surname of thet present Earl of
Donoughmore, 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
Delivery of Leteers 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 11th nit. 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 explaiu ins
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. He says :—" Accuracy and appropriate classification, so
that which may reasonably be t
dexpected in such a book,
may not onlyeverything fo be found, but found withouifficulty, are indispen-
sable to perfection. These advantages can, in any Directory, only
be attained gradually, and not completely, until the work
an
njoywas
s
the entire circulation. While riv existed, patronage
als
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
sustain
Directories of London, each as complete as the present. Thistwo is
quite certain ; as, for the many years during which this work has
enjoyed the entire circulation, its profits would have paid but a
small proportion of the expense necessary to
London the production of
another equally complete. A second Directory of 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 pro one
collection of the information—one compilation—one setting of thp
type, Sec. Ste. This volume, to say nothing of accuracy, classifica-
tion, and general arrangement, contains about double tof its latest
he quantity
of mere letter-press contained in the closing
volume
annual competitor, and is published at a lower price. There can,
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
favour any co
mtpetition.
can only Firmly
established as this Directory is in public ,i be ne-
cessary that an amount of diligence equal to that which has led to
so gratifying a result, be continued, in order to sustainthis
the public may, with confidence, rely." Judging of the future by
the past, we confidently rely on the energy, the abilities, the talent,
and thet,
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.
Farseeing sages have been busy prophesying all manner of results
from the Great Exhibition. W e have
Greaone before uti —one which
st
none of them ever dreamed . of. The t on, m
other wonderful effects it produced, exhausted the " Post Office Di-
rectory" for 1851 ; an 1 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 issued their volume
for the year that is to come. Arm. d with this infallible weapon
for, indeed, its accuracy is so great as to deserve the name as much
a • anything of the kind—ne may pierce the remotest fastnesses of
London, and count its Smiths, Jonoees, Johnsons, and Browns. For
one who has the time it is worth while to scrutinise the amasing cols.
redness with which this volume discriminates the whole mass of
London life into some 2,500,000 names, and how it depicts and takes
to pieces the minutest works or the vast machine that this 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 trot the least remarkable feature about it is
the very recent ch anges recorded in its pages. For instance,
here in this volume of more tins ,000 psges, which was printed
on the 13th of October, we find erted in the " Parliamentary
Directory," at PP. 1,738 and 1,749, the name of the Hon.
Captain A. Duncombe, R.N., who was elected as Member for the
East Riding only six days previously—namely, on the 7th of
be and in page 40, in the list of the Privy Council Office, the
name o r
Lord Liverpool is struck out, though his death was not
O
"'times" till the 6th of October. To the commer-
wleould be quite as necessary to deliver a lecture on
creiaclorwdoerdld in the ti
the general benefits of sunshine, as to speak of the merits of the
" Director 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 5o long characterised its predecessors.
[The fact above adduced, that in the " Directory" the name of
Lord Liverpool, whose death had been recorded only cm the 6th of
Octowr, was struck their page 40, in the list of Privy Council, is oaf
happy illustration of t apidity with which the information con-
tained in the work is compiled and published. So striking an
example of the excellence of the " Directory" has naturally cau:ed
some comment; and the present appears a fitting opportunity of
calling attention to the entire facts of the case :—An Earl, who is
a Privy Councillor, appears in the " Post Office
'Londeet Directory on Directory,
;"
"
Ist, iri the list of Privy Council; 2d,
in the Str
3d, in the " Court Directory ;" 4th, in the list of Earls ; sth, in the
Alphabetical list of Peers; 6th, in the Alphabetical list of the
Surnames of Peers ; 7th, in the titles of the Eldest Soils of Peers.
Y The corrections, rendered necessary b the death of the Earl of
Liverpool, only recorded on the Gth of
twOoc otherswere
been printed off), in a Work consisting of 2,090 Imperial Octavo
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, butt orw as cpm
onments which hathe
ve
been made on this particular point.
acknowledged impossibility of competing with our arrangemerts that
the Proprietors of " Robson's Directory.' took leave of their sub-
scribers in the following terms :
" llowtrell and Co., Proprietors and Publishers of ` Robsoris
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 for 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 combination of the temporary di-
vision of labour— an argument for the superiority of London over
every city in the world—and an example to all publishers, catalogue
makers, and book compilers whatsoever. This is the fifty-thiryears of experience. The classification, aged, that
an-
nual publication; it enjoys all the advantages of its proprirs'
fifty-two
almost tonrhawis is now so admirably managed, that every
informatio .such a work may be expected to afford can here be
tonal), and.found without difficulty. by persons to whom the search
is a novelty, and the volume unknown. The stranger may here be
may joyfully find refuge
guided,' and the Londoner, at each year's end, refresh his
figures, may
he will learn how
formation as to the whereabouts of his old Mends. The statist,
tboyo,rsetdyenlyacccesallsedtoupown fporlieheitsortlyg,
many churches and how many schools. how many clergy and how
many lawyers, how many bakers and how many butchers are re-
quired in this mighty metropolis to satisfy the spiritual, intellectual,
and • thysical wants of Its two million and a half of inhabitants.
The teetotaller may recreate himself. by marking in each street
at cacti corner of a street, and in every parish, the appearance
or disappearance of some public-house ;he may compare 1851 with
1841, with 1831 ; see where temperance has progressed, and where
gin-palaces are still in the ascendantmay trace back " mine
hest " from hotel to inn, from inn to beer-shop. and point the moral
of some future speech by extracts of the evidence here given of the
fortunes gained, the fortunes also lost, by the sale of intoxicating
liquors. The topographer may correct his chart by the information
vrhich he must hence derive, that new streets have arisen since he
thought his labours concluded ; the historian may note where fluc-
tuations in the pvulation have occurred; the politician may ob-
serve that here, from some cause which he must try to discover,
commerce and her attendant man are restless, and seeking new
positions—that there is some attraction rapidly becoming the centre
of a new system, hitherto not called into operation. The student
of the times generally may find, occasionally, an operatives' asso-
ciation 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 of professions, and a discovery, if the search be persevered
in, that the lost barristers are no: dead, but only localism. in the
provinces ; if, finally (which*
since the world generally is rwt
contemplative, seems not improbable), the scrutineer wants only to
discover an address, he may do so in a minute, and he may be sure,
unless the object of his solicitude be very flighty, that it is correct—
we, at least, assure him that it would av u
he been so p to within a
fortnight of the publication of the volume before us. "Ex uno disco
omnes." The death of Lord Stafford was but a week since noticed
ced
in our columns: in the Parliamentary department of this Dir
we find the full Christian names of the new Lord, with s
he volumeuch other
change of particulars as the circumstances required. Yet t
accurate contains
closely printed pages. more than two thousand
kept thus minutely
Who shall conceive the watchful diligence
bestowed upon its every-day revisal ? But we need not insist upon
qualities which cannot be denied ; we need foodmmen a. useful
incessant care in marking what recommends itself as indispensable. classification, and
a Directory; and both these
alterations,- ;re the essential qualities of
qualities this Directory has to per-
fection.

MORNING HERALD, ()groom 17, 1851.
The punctuality with which this huge record makes its appearance
at the close of the year is not one of its least haverecommendaons
Certainly, It is proof that the, diligence :and energy which,
always characterised its production experiences no ab dement,
notwithstanding the perpetual extension of the field of labour, and
the vast increase of those details which an insidiously-growing
population must necessarily generate. 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
%ion mace Qf xmadols Anzuvaly oxgroa, and every

act 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 cause
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
statht they untold, 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; and It is as well
that it should be so, for the editors affirm, with reason, in their
preface, 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 receipts 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 Dlrectery" to that kind of prompt and vigilant
exertion from which perfection alone can spring; and we have now
a book of reference as unimit in its characteristics as in its worth.
The divisions of the book are the same as they have hitherto been.
The separate Directories amount to twelve ; by w hich arrangement
any particular search may be achieved, either by reference to the
name of the person sought fur, the street he lives in, or the occupa-
tion 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
affor led to the inquirer, by means of sectional indices, &c., to save
both his time and trouble. But we need not further particularise.
The " fifty-third publiCation" of the " Post Office Directory" more
than equ ris any of its numerous predecessors; and when we say
this, the 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 sucl, entries as the elections of Lord Dunsandle and Captain
Duncombe, both of which took place, no further b ack 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 find 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 thai 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 kn owledge, and in no
single case have we found any m'stake. 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 minor 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
p it. It has now, we conceive, reached the highest ptch
.of
perfection of which such a production Is capable ; and it willunques-
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
is
notion of the wealth, industry, and pursuits of the Londoners as
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 aflords 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 tins wonderful and ever-
increasing book is before us. On the present occaslon 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 cf 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 " Pcst 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-
widening', &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 is
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
Vital usual, the edit on 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 11th instant. The
insertion, too, in the " Parlianentary 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.

GLO 3E, 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
inetr.molls, that it was deemed advisable to have an early publica-
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 buncombe is given as
the Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, for which county he
was elected as late as the ith 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 i. 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 pit together by the most indefati-
gable perseverance and scrupulous care. 1t 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, an I 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, may see, in the success of the " London
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-
w,
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, 1851.
The annual volume of this stupendous work appears with pre-
scrip,ive punctuality. The plan originally laid dowa is carried out
with increased completeness in the publication for 1852, which, like
its predecessors, is a signet monument of method, enterprise, and per-
severance. It is not possible that auy work devoted to London and
its statistics can furnish so clear and definite a record of the per-
sonal and commercial contents of the metropolis as this mammoth
book, the swelling bulk of 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 lino is the record of a specific-fact—a
fact in every case liable to change, and, consequently, involving
periodical ju.stification 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 Jinfodmation. 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 curiosity may require. Our former
commendations may be repeated now. The accuracy aimed at by
the editors half a century ago has been severely tested since the
book has benexistnce it not only repels accusation on
is score,e butchallenges fresh panegyric asp c
succeeding
volume emerges from the press. The counting-house of the
the " merchant
and the trader could now as ill spare the almanack as
Office Directory."
•

WEEKLY DISPATCH, OCTOBER 19, IsentinBsl.
the same
It is difficult to remark upon a work that, preg
phases, has so often laid claim to public notice and patronage. The
fifty.third annual volume is now before s; and,
amoun as t
of heretoforel
it
other embodies (certainly in a very bulky form) an usesourcefh 'in-
formation which might be sought for in vain at any
.
It is, in fact, as the preface es, a"h
statinanworld." d-books kto
usual the
the commvolume
erce
of the first commercial city the ,
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 Dirtor," 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,redd it upon ho-
on the
proprietor for his industry and untiring perseveranc ais
nour to the country in which it appears. The whole is printed in a
Year, distinct type, and on excellent paper, and the "getting up"
altogether is unexceptionable. While such care and zeal continue
to be xerted, to render the book in its several departments com-
plete,e and make it really and truly a hand-book of commerce, it
need not fear any rival.

EXAMINER, Ocvoßzi 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 Exhib tion ; 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 14 not one,
but a dozen Directoi ies. Its clear and succinct arrangement 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.
I here 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, under separate Directories,
whatever a person can be supposed to have any need to know re-
specting city buildings, companies, churches, chapels, publications,
and agencies, or about assurance companies, banking houses, and
conveyances of all kinds from, to, or in the metropolis. A mass of
various matter so unexampled in bulk and extent depends obviously
upon arrangement, and facility and completeness of reference, for
its practical worth and value in a readily available sense, The
book before us seems quite a model of such arrangement. It con-
tains nothing that may not at once be found—not a street, trade,
profession, or person, which the easiest search does not- bring into
view, and, as far as we have been able to Judge, with unerring ac-
curacy. Though it is hardly the middle of October when we .baye
it now before us complete, we yet find proofs of a scrupulous col-
redness of revision that must have dated so recently as the close of

the first week in October. But we have said enough to commend a
volume which we cannot but regard as a marvel of compilation
most creditable to every one engaged in its production, and which
has doubtless now become indispensable to all that have ever had
occasion habitually to resort to It.

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. There 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 went 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 find the name if the
residence has escaped us ; then there are the " Trades'," " Law,"
and "Banking" Directories, where it is possible to hunt 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 been three-and-fifty
years growing to its present size. The present volume appears
early; the demand, swing to the influx of strangers, consequent
upon the Great Exhibition, having exhausted the current edition
for 1851 ; and what would London be without a Directory ? Great
exertions, ,t is stated, have been made to bring down the chanties
to the latest moment; as a pros' of it, the alterations consequent
upon the death of Lord Liverpool may bo instanced.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, OCTOBER 25, 1851.
The Great Exhibition has had its effect upon the sale of this
leviathan Directory, and has helped to exhaust the year's edition
sooner than usual. We are not surprised at this, seeing that the
London season has been one unbroken round of visits ; and an un-
precedently large number of persons has flocked to the metropolis,
the majority requiring the class of information so well conveyed in
the " Post Office London Directory." Accordingly, the volume for
the coming year has been produced thus early; it maintains the
high character of the series for accuracy, appropriate classification,
and ready reference. The corrections of the Peerage, and other
lists, have been made to the latest ' possible period ; and altogether,
the work is recommended, as heretofore, by its completeness in
every department, attainable only by the proprietor's long course of
experience and popularity.
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TIgIiAPATII'S RAILWAY JOURNAL, OCTOBER 18, 1851.
The way in which Messrs. Kelly produce their " Post Office
Directory" renders competition useless. Such a work contains no
matter of opinion, and advocates no particular interest. If the
Messrs. Kelly do their duty well; and spiritedly, what more can be
desired? We only want a Directory that is as full, as accurate, and
as complete, up to the time, as possible. Now, as far as our know-
ledge of the Directory extends—and from our making frequent use
of it we know a good deal about it--we think the work is admir-
ably kept up. in the present edition is found the very latest infor-
mation, and the whole of the work bears evidence that the greatest
degree of attention is paid to its proper production. For some time
past the " Post Office Directory" has had no competitor. During
this time it has been a better work than it ever Was before. The
absence of competition, producing increased gains, seems to have
enabled the work to reach its maximum merit. The present edition
makes an earlier appearance than usual, which, we believe, is due to
the Great Exhibition having treated " a run" upon the Directory.

BELL'S WEEKLY CIIRONICLE, Ocroina 25, 1851.
We have, on more than oae occasion, expressed our opinion of
the merits of this voluminous and astonishing work, the fifty-third
annual impression of which is now before us. By most of our
mercantile and trading readers, the work is known to be too useful,
and is also too highly prized, to render a word of commendation
from us necessary ; but, as itis possible that some parties engaged in
business may not hitherto hare possessed the volume, we can only
say, that to understand its Table they must examine the work for
themselves—a work which is alike remarkable for the vast mass of
information which it contains, and for the admirable manner in
which that information is arranged.

,
BUIL, Ocrossat 25, 1851.
The accelerated sale of the' last editien of this stupendous reper-
tory of London statistics, occasioned by the Great Exhibition, has
induced the enterprising publiShers somewhat to anticipate the usual
period of annual republication. In doing this, great pains have
been taken to bring down thealterations to the very latest date, as
is attested by the fact that the result of the recent election for the
East Riding, and the succession to the Earldom of Stafford, both
having occurred within the present month are duly registered. The
which are being made in every direction to the houserooms of the
Map, likewise, keep pace in its enlargements with the additions
metropolis. Of the abstract merits of Messrs. Kelly's publication it
is unnecessary for us to speak; we can only reiterate the opinion
which we have before expresseil—that the volume is one of the most
comprehensive, most complete, and well digested, and, for its size,
one of the cheapest manuals of reference ever offered to the public.

ATLAS, OCTOBER 18, 1851.
The "fifty-third edition" of a work would scarcely appear to re-
quire a critical notice, and yet this fifty-third edition of the " Post
Office Directory," is so essentially a new book, that it is Impossible
to allow its publication to pass over without bestowing on it a larger
share of a tentlon than any mere new edition of an established
work could possibly demand. Like the great metropolis, this Direc-
tory has, year by year, increased in value and importance ; year by
year the number of individuals it enumerates, classifies, and de-
scribes, has become larger and the book more bulky ; in the same
proportion the care and labour necessary for its careful production
have increased; and yet every year has seen it in some degree
better than its predecessor, ant more valuable to the public. It is
no slight praise to say that the present edition of the " Post Office
Directory" is an improvement on the last. The competition with
which Mr. Kelly is threatened, appears to have determined him to
produce a volume which shall defy all rivalry, and it will be a diffi-
cult task fur a publisher to bring out a work which can in any way
compare with it for accuracy, classification, and price. There
appears to be nothing wanting in this Directory to render it com-
plete of its kind. During the number of years we have used it for
reference, we have never met wlth an error in it of any magnitude,
or one which affected its great usefulness, and if it is continued with
the same skill which has marked its editorship while it has been in
the hands of Mr. Kelly, we think he may safely trust to its well-
known excellence to protect him against the consequences of any
competition.
MINING JOURNAL, OCTOBER 25, 1851.
T e fifty-third annual edition of this useful work has just appeared,
and judging from its contents, is by no means inferior to its prede-
cessors, and fully sustains the reputation it has so well earned, as
being the only correct key to the names and addresses of the se-
veral trades and professions in this vast metropolis. As a work of
reference, it Is decidedly most useful and necessary to the man of
business. No banking or merehant%! ()Mee should be without it. A
smaller edition has likewise been published, which, tnough not so
comprehensive as the larger, contains an immense mass of useful in—
formation ; and both the works 4re eminently entitled to the name
of " handbooks to the commerce of the first commercial city in the
world."

LITERARY GAZETTE, OCTOBER IS 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
and his machinery is so well organised, that
withaeasstonishing fvilty, to correct every department
hcolfe°lltesitYeloiwParbiitlnheidiedii p 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 Museum, is the construction of this eminently useful
volume."

BRITANNIA, &Tons& 18, 1851.
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 toe circumscribed to contain its
,
limits. Its inhabitants, who in tint 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
wjaole, of Scotland ; and when we teffect that these teeming num-
bers are all domiciled, clothed and fed, in this human hive, the
sumptuary arrangements necessar3i 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 sleraand, and the daily wants of the
two mil ions 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 survey of the number of the " Post Office London
Directory" for the year 185? whiih has just been pnbilshe 1, will
give some notion of the difficulty which the numerous foreigners
and strangers in London, who have lately been sojourning amongst
us, would have experienced in tracing amongst these thousands o
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 strand 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 strangely to Coatincntal ears, that, without an
interpreter, an Italian, or a Spatula/if 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 snbdivisons, contains, will be of Weal-
culable advantage. That which wills, when viewed en masse, to be
of a complexity utterly inextricable, through the ingenious arrange-
ments of our Court: Guides and Lonion 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 he matelot)lates with wonder both
the size of the volume and the amount of information it contains,
will admire the judicious mode of co Hatton, by the assistance of
which he is enabled to thread his VAY
through the labyrinth of
streets, to single out all that is most liartisY of his observation, and
to form a comprehensive notion of thaiatistics'
wealth, power, and
extent of the first city of the world. T.

DirectdrY,
The Smaller Edition of the Wort,
—Postal Directory—Banking
London, comprises, amongst other infbrmation—Official Directory—
Commercial Directory—Court Directory—Parl'amentary Directory
and which includes Map of
now be had. Price 155., may
Kelly and Co., " Post Office Directory Offices," 19 and 20, Old
Boswell-court, Temple-bar, London ; and all Booksellers.

CHRISTMAS -pRESENTS.
At this festive period of the ye►r more than usual anxiety Is
created for—

PERSONAL ATTIACTION,
and the following unrivalled discoveries for the TOILET are called
into increased reputation, namely—
ROWLANDS' MACASSA.R OIL,
for creating and sustaining a luxurianthead of hair,
ROWLANDS' KALYDOR,
for rendering the Skin soft, fair, and bisoming•
ROWLANDS' ODONTO ; or, PEARL DENTIFRICE,
for imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the Teeth. and
ROWLANDS' AQUA D'ORO,
ani-ment
a fragrant and spirituous Perftne, an essential accomp
places of public amusement and crowded assemblies.
Beware of Spurious Imitations.
The only Genuine of each boars the same of " Rowlands' " pre-
ceding that of the Article on the Wrapper or Label.
Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hafton-garden, London, and by
Chemists.and Perfumers.

CHRISTMAS gRESENTS.
Thousands of pounds are expended very ridiculously in
resents for youth, and the greater part in articles not valued, be-
cause not adapted for display, and too frequently not for use ; how
much more gratifying would be an article that could be worn? Give
a girl a new tippet, cloak, or muff, or a boy a new top-coat or a suit
of clothes, and there is something to gratify the pride, something to
boast of among their acquaintances, something to last them the
season, and do them a real service. Those, therefore, who make
presents, and particularly to their own children, should bear in mind
that they would be infinitely more delighted at an article of dress as
a Christmas present than with any toy, or book, or useless play-
thing, even if it only anticipated the period at which they would have
had it a few weeks. Messrs. E. MOSES and SON have laid them-
selves out in anticipation of this being generally done by all thought-
ful parents and relations ; and they respectfully invite all classes to
take their children to the Monarch Mart, in Aldgate ant the
Minortes, or their West-end Branch Establishment, corner of Hart-
street, New Oxford-street, where they will see the finest assortment
of dresses for all ages and conditions, made of the best materials, of
the newest fashions, and the most exquisite workmanship, and
where the gorgeous fittings-up andiconvenient rooms for dressing and
fitting on, form a complete exhibiton. Moreover, they will see
the price marked on every article of dress, and be convinced at once
that it is less than half that charged by ordinary tailors for inferior
goods.
E. MOSES and SON,

London City EstabliihMent, 154, 155, 158,'nd 157, Minories, 83,
44, 85, and 86, Aidgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 587, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 11,
ind 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford Yorkshire Branch, le,Bridge-street
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, natters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boat and Shoe-
xakers. and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
So to r lass when business is rearmed till TWelve o'clock.
The New Book, entitled " The Exhibition for All Nations," in
Three Languages, viz.:—English, French, and German, and contain-
ing full directions for self measurement, can be had gratis, on appli-
cation, or forwarded post free to any part of the kingdom.
4 handsome Almanac, for the year ending 1852, can be had gratis,
1-on application.
Id l'on parle Francais°. Qui si parla Italiano.
Bier *richt wan Deuta9l4 Aqui fie habla Espanol.

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MR. DIGBY SEYMOUR'S WORK ON WESTERN IRELAND
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Dedicated, by express permission, to his Excellency the
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HOW to EMPLOY CAPITAL in WESTERN
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and Smith, Grafton-street.

REVOLUTION in FRANCE.—This Fearful
Event was Foretold for November, at page 40 of ZADKIEL'S
ALMANAC for 1852, (price Gd.)

It contains the Destiny of France, Italy, Rome, Ireland, &c., and
important events in England, India, &c.
Published by A. Hall and Co., Paternoster-row.
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street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Ma-
jesty, Piccadilly; Hedges and Butler, Regent-street ; North and Co. ;
Crosse and Blackwell; Petty, Wood. and Co , 13, King W;lliam•strest,
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street at the I'ost•office, Camden town ; 24, Dlotcomb-street ; and
through all respectable Grocers and Chemists.
Caution—Beware of Spurious and Injurious Imitations under
closely similar names.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE ALDERS-

GATE STREET DISTILLERY.

Yesterday morning, at a few minutes after eight
o'clock, the inhabitants of Aldersgate-street, City,
were throWn into a state of the utmost confusion,
owing to a fire breaking out in the extensive range
of premises belonging to Mr. William Burbidge, the
distiller, situate at No. 74, in the before-named
thoroughfare, and extending in depth almost as far as
the back of the houses in Barbican. From the fact
of there being such a large stock of spirits on the
premises, and sundry lofty buildings abutting upon
the distillery, a most terrible conflagration was at one
period expected. The flames originated in the still-
house from the following cause :
A man named William Elliot, employed as the
still-man, was engaged " damping " a still, charged
with 1,269 gallons, when all of a sudden an adjoin-
ing still, containing between 300 and 400 gal-
lons, overflowed, and the spirit running into
the furnace became ignited, and caused the
contents of the larger still also to take fire. The still
man did all he possibly could to extinguish the flames,
but was unable, and whilst so doing he nearly lost
his life, for the blazing spirits at length rolled over the
floor, firing in rapid succession sundry casks, &c.,
and burning him over the face. The man, to save
his life, was obliged to rush out of the building, and
jump into a cask of water, which extinguished the
tire about the lower portion of his trowsers. Infor-
mation of the disaster having been sent to the va•
rioui fire stations, with all possible speed, several en-
gines of the London brigade and West of England
Company arrived, when the firemen found the flames
rising through the roof of the distillery, high above
the housetops in the neighbourhood, threatening to
lay in ruins every building near. Fortunately a
splendid head of water was produred from the pains
of the New River Company, and the engines were
worked with great vigour by a number of hired
auxiliaries, whilst the firemen entered the premises
with the branches from their engines, and by that
expedient were enabled to prevent the adjoining
buildings from becoming ignited. Some time, how-
ever, was necessarily lost before the main body of
flame could be extinguished, and at one time a worm
cooler, a vat of great magnitude, and containing some
thousand gallons of liquor, was burning on the out-
side with great vehemence, but owing to the copious
streams of water distributed over the flames, they
were eventually extinguished. The damage done is
roughly estimated at 2,000/. or 3,0001, but until the
stills are properly examined, it will be almost impos-
sible to tell the precise amount of loss. Fortunately
Mr. Burbidge was insured for the stock in trade in the
Imperial Fire-office, and the premises were reported
to be insured in the Law Fire.office. The whole of
the roof is burned off the distillery, and the grain store
is seriously damaged by fire and water. A great
crowd attended whilst the fire was raging, but owing
to the exertions of the police, no accidents occurred.

MONEY MARKET.—The quotation of gold at Pails is
about 1 per mills prem. (according to the new tariff), 'which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 19id. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.141 ; and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25.171, it follows
that gold is about 0.12 per cent. dearer in Paris than
in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 4261 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13.5 A ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short being 13.61, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent.
dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is
1161 per cent., and the par of exchange between England
and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.80 per cent. in favour of England ,•
and, after making allowance for difference of interest and
charges of transport, the present rate leaves a small profit on
the importation of gold from the United States.
THE ROYAL BARON OF BEEF.—This noble old
English joint was brought into the royal kitchen, at Wind-
sor Castle, on Tuesday ; the process of roasting
at eleven o'clock on the morning of that day,and was not
completed before eleven o'clock at night. The baron, cut
from a handsome Devon ox, was supplied by Mr. Minton,
the royal butchar at Windsor ; it weighed 4301b5., aad will
be placed cold on a side table at the royal banquet on
Christmas-day. The fellow ox was bought by Mr. Minton,
with other choice beasts to be slaughtered this Christmas;
but, its symmetrical points being so very perfect, it was pur-
chased by General Wemyss for his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and sent to the Flemish farm for the purpose of being
fed for the cattle ahoy of licit year.

[PRICE SD,

EARL FITZWILLIAM AND MR.
LAYARD AT NORTHAMPTON.

THE EXCAVATIONS AT NINEVEH.
On Tuesday week a soiree, upon a grand scale,
was held in the Corn Exchange of Northampton, to
commemorate the opening of a new suite of buildings
destined for the occupation of the Northampton and
Northamptonshire Mechanics' Institute. The com-
pany, who were in full dress, could not have been
less in number than 800, and included the principal
❑obility and gentry resident in the neighbourhood,
the families of the higher and middle classes, and
those of a great number of the operatives in the town.
Earl Pitz William, K G-., presided. Mr. Lay ard, the
distinguished traveller, was present.
Earl FITZWILLIAM stated that, at the commence-
ment of the present century, the population of
Northampton did not exceed 7,000, while, :at the
last census, it amounted to no less than 28,000; that
was to say, in the course of half a century the popu-
lation of Northampton had been quadrupled, one of
the greatest instances, he believed, known of the in-
crease of inhabitants in a town. But what, he would
ask, were 28,000 material human beings, unless
informed and animated by the divine mind
breathed into them by their Creator ? The Noble
Earl expressed the lively interest he felt in the
improvement and advancement of the workiug classes,
and stated that the meeting were to be addressed by a
gentleman who had devoted a large portion of his life
to the investigation and elucidation of the antiquities
of one of the most ancient of empires: and the his-
tory—not the doubtful history of modern times, but
the undoubtedly true history with which the ancient
world had made them acquainted.—(Cheers.) He

need scarcely say the gentleman to whom he adverted
was Mr. Layard, the distinguished investigator of the
ruins of Nineveh.—(Cheers.) And if it were ever
permitted to them to say that any addition could be
made to their confidence in truth of the sacred Scrip-

tures, it might be said that the illustrations which he
had been able to make would have added to that
which already wanted no addition.—(Cheers.) He
(Lord Fitz william) said it wanted no addition, be-
cause he trusted there were few—he hoped, indeed,
there were none—in that room who entertained a
single particle of doubt upon any of those truths,
historic or other Wise, which were delivered to them
in the sacred Scriptures ; and when he had
adverted to the desire which he, in common with
all others, entertained to see the population of this
great empire raise their thoughts from matter to
mind—from earth to heaven—he said, there were no
writinga of ancient philosophers, no writings of
mediaeval scholastic literature, or of modern philoso-
phy, which were half so well calculated to elevate the
human mind from earth to heaven as those which were
given to them in the sacred volume.—(Cheers.) There-
fore it was, that when he would wish to awaken the
minds of those who were too much chained to the desk,
the anvil, or the awl, he would desire to impress on
them that, if they were anxious to improve their minds,
there was no literature which they could peruse with

so much advantage as that which was contained in
the Word of God himself.—(Cheers.) He entirely
repudiated the mistaken notion which had been enter-
tained by some, that institutions of that kind had a ten-
dency to enfeeble the faith of men, and to make them
doubtful of those truths which it was their greatest

interest to believe. Ile could not believe that even

the study of what was called secular truth had a
tendency to shake their faith in the Divine Word.
Mr. LAYARD stood forward to address the meeting
at the invitation of the chairman, and was received
with rounds of enthusiastic cheering and waving of
handkerchiefs. He said those who, like himself, had
been absent for some years from his native country,
were deeply impressed with the great change that bad
taken, and was still taking, place in the moral, social,
and political characteristics of England. He was proud
to say that that change was all for the better and not for
the worse. It was a change which was visible 62 every
department of English society—visible alike in the
mansion and cottage—and, above all, visible, and he
thought that was its great result, in the better feel-
ings which existed among the different classes of the

community.—(Cheers.) That progress he would fain
attribute to the diffusion of education throughout the
country, and especially among the humbler orders,
by means, chiefly, of the formation of institutions and
societies such as one of which they were members.
The people of this country had a great social question
to determine, and the one which they. should solve as
soon and as full as possible. They had given the
very best education to all classes of the community,
and those whom they had so educated and taught to
thirst after knowledge and to love it, were now at-

taining that position in which they would demand the

grat,fication of that love. The question, then, was,
how they were to do it ? Was that passion for know-
ledge to be turned to the advantage and benefit of
the community, or to its injury and detriment ? The
answcr to that question was to be found in such insti-

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tend the operation of those institutions as much as
possible. Whilst enabling them to convey know-
ledge to the people of all classes, be would also aim
at making them, if possible,
and elevating their taste. Whilst collecting libraries,
he would also store those institutions with works
of art, with models of the finest sculptures, and
copies of the works of the greatest masters.—
(Cheers.) The Greeks who, above all other nations,
understood the influence of the beautiful, not only
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on the happiness of mankind but in the regulation of
society, rightly appreciated the influence of art on the
community. Such of their countrymen as excelled in
any branch of art, whether of painting, poetry, music,
or sculpture, received their cordial support and en-
couragement, and were regarded by them in the light
of benefactors to the State. The people of England
did not fully understand the influence of art on the
happiness and prosperity of a country. He believed
the Government of this country might do a great deal
more than it did in that direction. For himself, he
looked anxiously for the time when some small part
of the tens of thousands of pounds annually
spent in the pursuit of war, and the repres-
sion of crime would be given to the diffusion of art,
which, he believed, would do far more than any other
thing to prevent slaughter and repress crime. A
vulgar prejudice had long prevailed in this country that
its labouring classes had no taste for the beautiful,
and that if they had free access to the exhibition of
works of art they would destroy them. He thought
that one at least of the many results of the Great Ex-
hibition had been to explode that vulgar error: He
might mention, whilst talking on that subject, that
during the time the Crystal Palace was open, no less
than 3,000,000 of persons, by far the greater part of
whom might be presumed to belong to the lower classes,
had access to the British Museum,and in the whole of that
period not one single accident of any kind whatever
happened, nor was any misdemeanour committed in
the institution in consequence of the admission of
that vast mass of visitors.—(Cheers.) He did say
that was a great fact. He himself had the honour—
and he did think it was an honour—to conduct over
the British Museum two hundred working men, from
the mines, who came to London to see the Eithibi-
tion ; and the interest which that body of j men
evinced in the works of art which there came under
their inspection was to him, above all things, gratify-
ing and promising, inasmuch as it proved that:there
was in the lower classes of society a foundation on
which the philanthropists might work to any extent.
Speaking of the British Museum led him to make a
few remarks connected with his individual pursuits,
which might possibly interest them more. He was
about going to regions where there were no mechanics'
institutes, but where men, still wild, wandered over
the face of the earth. Those men, however, wandered
among the remains of great cities, the existence of
which indicated a state of civilizationwawshaichsoeleq
if it did not excel, our own. That
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flection. In speaking of the ruins of Babylon
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ruins, on the contrary, consisted
three thousand and occupied many
yards in length,
and some of them were as much as
square acres of ground. Those vast mounds were
literally the heaps to which the prophet Isaiah referred
when speaking of the ultimate fate of those cities
which were in his days as flourishing, as great, and es
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in particular had literally been fulfilled, so much so,
that if he (Mr. Layard) wished to convey to them a
correct idea of the present state of the ruins of Ba-
bylon and Assyria, he could not do so to greater
advantage than by quoting the very words propheti-
cally employed in the holy Scriptures.—(Hear, hear.)
Those vast heaps had always been objects of great and
melancholy interest to the traveller. He himself had
been a wanderer for some years among the ruins of
those buried cities ; but it was not for some con-
siderable time after he left England that he had
. opportunities afforded him of carrying into effect
the anxious desire he had to enter upon their