The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-13 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TuEsDAY.

-
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-5 to 1 offered on the
field, but nothing dune.
DERBY.-40 to I agst Lightfoot (t).
WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON NOVEMBER

MEETING.-TIIESDAY, NI,V. 19.

Acceptances for the Great Warwick handicap. (The
highest weight accepting having been under Bst 71b,
it has been raised to Bst 71b, and the others in propor-
tion.)

Yrs at lbl Yrs Ft lb
Btalinafad ..... 6 8 7l Grief
Raby

..ockermouth 5 8 0 Chief Justice
Cocktail
Clothworker
Snowstorm 4 7 121 Forester
Chantrey 4 7 11 { Alou z')3 6 10
Doubt
_ _.

Defaulter
5 7 8 Minimum
Egret
Woodlark
Acceptances for the Leamington Welter Cup. (The
highest weight accepting being under list 101 b, it has
been raised to that weight, and the others in propor-
tion.)

Yrs st lbj Yrs st lb
Clothworker 4 11 10,Chief Justice ... 3 10 12
Cucktail
Agis
Baroness .. ...... 4 11 3! Rtinde. er
Administrator ... a 11 2 Risk . 3 10 0
Edipus 4 11 0 The rest pay 5 sous. each.

KELLY'S POST .• OFFICE LONDON
DIRECTORY for 1851.
Among the many products of British industry,
none, perhaps, will better deserve a place in the Ex-
hibition of 1851, than this mammoth volume, in
itself a specimen of industry, research, accuracy,
and typography, which has rarely, if ever been
equalled, and which can never be surpassed, whilst,
at the same time, it is the guide to, and the record of,
all those great and magnificent industrial establish-
ments, to the existence of which in London she owes
the proud position which she holds as the metropolis
of the civilized world, which occupy buildings covering
a space of ground larger than the territories of many a
German or Italian independent Prince, and which
give employment to individuals whose numbers ex-
ceed those of the armies of many of the first-rate
powers of the world. As a not unworthy specimen
of British industry itself, and as a copious, and ac-
curate, and complete index to every other species of
metropolitan industry, " Kelly's Post-office London
Directory" is certainly entitled to a place in the Ex-
hibition which is to take place in the Glass Palace of
Industry in the year 1851.
This publication of the "Post-office London Direc-
tory" commenced in the year 1790, and the present is,
consequently, the sixty-second annual publication ;
and it is a matter of curious research to compare the
present with the early editions of the work, and to
mark the vast improvement which has been effected ;
in fact the present resembles the earlier editions in
name merely. The work, in order to facilitate
reference, is now divided into no less than ten Di-
rectories :—viz., an Official Directory, a Street
Directory, a Commercial Directory, a Trades
Directory, a Law Directory, a Court Directory,
a Parliamentary Directory, a Postal Directory, a
City Directory, a Conveyance Directory, and a
Banking Directory, and the whole is so admirably
indexed, that a person desiring any information with
regard to the great metropolis or its inhabitants, cannot
experience the slightest difficulty in at once laying his
finger on the page of the 2,091 pages of which this
book is composed, which contains the information be
requires. The present edition of the Directory
contains a list of the principal hotels and commercial
inns throughout England and Wales, with the names
of the occupiers, and the population according to the
census of 1841. This is, we believe, a novelty pe-
culiar to the Directory for 1851, and cannot fail to
increase its usefulness. In this we see only another
proof of the anxiety of the proprietor to make his
work as complete, as useful, and as perfect as possible.
As be himself well observes in his preface :
" Copiousness, 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 indispensable to perfection.
" These advantages can in any directory only he at-
tained gradually, and not completely until, as in W.d
case, the work enjoys the entire circulation.
" While rivals existed patronage w&s divided ',et,,,-e„
books which were, or should have been, cor_dterp-a-r-ts- of
each other; the public, therefore, had pay more ttitu
odwere;ctiosught
they need have done for such eiorks
preh erosive
total
larnedc,ei
pbtessindoets,bteoinsgubrltc,i)e
troi(„Cp:t:
twolen sdirec-
toriestheh present.
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bay nothing of its supe-
rior of London, each as
and general ar
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htebtaatettnteh casea thiws wash
jume_4o,
quantity of mereral
netement—
contains
accuracy,abou tcldasosdif.b.i,:tti ohne,
contained in the closing volume of its latest annuearl.presa com-
petitor, and published to its subscribers at a loprice. So 'that the public, as well as the proprietor lower
ror
the "Post-office London Directory," benefit by the cir-
cumeaince that the work is—as it has fur 'several years
pa.l,t been—without a competitor.
"It may be safely predicted that this favourable
position will be continued—firmly established as this
Directory is in public favour, it can only be necessary
that an equal amount of diligence to that which has led
to so gratifying a result still be continued, in order to
sustain it; on this the public may with confidence rely."
The public have for years past relied with confidence
on the exertions of the proprietors of the " Poet-office
London Directory," and have invariably found their
confidence responded to, so that year by year the work
has become more copious, more accurate, and better
classified, until now it has attained that which is to all
appearance a state of absolute perfection, and is, in
every sense of the phrase, without a rival.

PRIVY COUNCIL AT WINDSOR. CASTLE.--This morn-
ing, at eleven o'clock, Lord John Russell,tne Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerstone, Sir
George Grey, and other Cabinet Ministers, left town
by special train on the Great Western Railway for
Windsor Castle, where her Majesty held a Privy
Council, at which his Royal Highness Prince AlLert
attended at two o'clock ;
and the principal business
transacted at the Council was fixing a day for the
further, prorogation of Parliament pro forma. The
Queens Commission was ordered to be issued, and
Parliament will be further prorogued with the usual
formalities to-morrow at two o'clock.