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GLOBE, NOVI.MBEA 23, 1849.

WEEKLY DISPATCIi, Noresnea 25, 1849.
The fifty-first annual publication of this most useful commercial
work is now before us. The pr Ilse we accorded to former editions
may be Imported into this notice without the slightest fear of being
charged with exaggeration. Everything connected with the volume
is mar:mod with unflagging energy, and a desire to send it forth to
the public in the most perfect and useful form. The principal
matter is comprised under eleven heads, namely :—An " Official Di-
rectory ;" a "Street Directory ; " a " Trades Directory ;" a " Law
Directory;" a "Commercial Directory ;" a " Court Directory ;"
" Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory ;" a " City Di-
' rectory ;" a " Conveyance Directory;" and a 'Banking Directory ;"
The " Official Directory" contains an alphabetical list of persons
h lding situations in the East India House, Bank of England, the
various Law, City, and all other public offices ; list of her Ma-
esty's Privy Council, the chief officers of State, and of her Majesty's
Household, &c. The "Street Directory" contains the names and
residences of private individuals and persons associated with trade
and the professions. The "Commercial Directory and Profess oral
Directory" contains an alphabetical list of all persons engaged in
business, with an elaborate index, which enables. any one, at a
glance, to refer to any description of persons, whether brokers, bul-
lion merchants, artists, agents, or manufacturers. " Ihe Law Di-
rectory" points to the names of all persons who held offices in the
Court of Chancery, the Court of Queen's Bench, the Common Plea
the Court of Exchequer, the Courts of Bankruptcy, the Court for
the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and the nature of those °tikes ;
there is, besides, a complete list of attorneys, and their residences.
" The Court Directory" enumerates the names of ladies and gentle-
men runconnectet with any trade or profession. "The Parlia-
mentary Directory" contains a list of the House of Peers, arranged
according to their orders of precedence, with their names and
residences ; -and an alphabetical list of the Members of the House
of Commons, with the counties and boroughs they represent,
and their London residences and country seats. " The
Postal Directory" conveys every information relative to the rates of
postage, the limitation of weight of letters, and their size, Sec.;
the names of all post-towns, and also of the resident post-masters
The "City Directory" contains the names of the Aldermen and
Common-Councilinen; the harbour-masters, market-collectors, a
list of sworn brokers, a complete list of London and provincial
newspapers, town and country newspaper agents, &c. The " Con-
veyance Directory" affords every information connected with time
departure anti arrival of railway trains ; a list of inns, wharfs, and
quays, and the places whence waggons, vans, carts, vesse a, barges,
and boats leave for inland 'towns and villages. The "Banking Di-
rectory" contains a list of banking establishments throughout the
country, the limit of the circulation of each, their branches, &c.
We have now partially enumerated the counents of this enormous
volume, and are bound to pronounce it an honour to this great •
conimercimil nation, and to the enterprising publishers. There is no
other work in which se much useful information is imparted, not
to the man of business only, but to the I'eer and the peasent, seeing
that whileevery counting-house desk groans under the weight of the
Directory, the latter will find no difficulty in seeking access to its
pages

EXAMINER, DECEMBEIt I, 1849. • ' • •
.This most.useful and-admirable book has entered on its second
lair-century. This is its fifty'-first publication. But age adds to its
`l, and resources, ,nd it was never so elaborate or so accurate
_ It c^mprises, as we have °item said, many Directories, and
conta'ns ample information for inqui7ers of every class. There is no
information wanting in it whi-Irsuch a book ought to give, or which
dwellers in this great city are likely to require. Its " Official Di-
rectory" gives the name of every pub is employ, and all needful
detail as to the public offices. Its "Street Directory" comprises
every class and kind of London resident—an attempt nev.•r before
rn.file In such a compilation. Under Its "Commercial and Trades'
Directories" are arranged, in all classes, all who pursue the two
thous Ind various business-occupations with which London is so
grievously overstocked. The "Cant and Law. Directories," and
those of " Ranking and Assurance," have the like merit in their
several departments. In the " Postal Directory" we have the some-
what complex machinery of St. ➢lartin's-le-Grand, and the countless
offices and duties therewith connected, made clear and easy of corn-

strengtl
as now,

prelienilon. Nor is the " Conveyance Directory" less useful. It is
obvious that without a strict arrangement and classitlcatiox such
ample and various Information as this would be cumbrous and un-
serviceable. But in its order, divisions, and condensation. we kayo
perhaps the most characteristic features of this extraordinary com-
pilation. The " Street Direct:l'y" is worth consulting with a view
to this. It not only tells you the number of the house you want,
but it indicates its position and whereabufi. Let us add that Mr.
Kelly's information is brought down to the very latest date, com-
p: ising even the presant Lords Albemarle and Alvanley, and the
last election fur Cork.

BP.IT.ANNIA, DECEMBER 1, 16:9.

Of all the wonders of Industry, and skill pioduced by England in

the course of the year it would be difficult to single out any one so
remarkable as this. We should pronounce the effort impossible,
were not its successful ace >mp:ishment before us. Let any one con-
sider the extent of our metropolis from east to west and from north
to south—let him traverse some of its more crowded districts, and,
passing from broad open lines' of thoroughfare, dive down into
winding lanes and cross courts, imperfectly known to even the most
diligent seeker of " short cats"—let him then stretch out into the
suburbs, and mark the innumerab'e lines of roads branching out in
all direction--let Lim glance as he goes at the various trades and
occupations which everywhere meet his eye—and then ask himself
what must be the amount of labour required to collect into one book
and range alphabetically the name, the abode, and the occupation of
every holder of every house in' this mighty city. And not only so,
but to give, as it were, a chart of every square, street, and alley,
indicating every turning, and describing the character of every
house, and the name and calling of its Inhabitant, Further 3 et,
to collect together every member of every craft in this huge
hive of indcstry, and to exhibit them, scattered as they are and
unknown to each other, in a compact form together, so that
any one tradesman, be he a butcher, baker, or candlestick-
maker, may be picked out, without an instant's loss of time,
from the crowd of his fellows. The production of such a work,
so perfect in all its parts, and so minutely accurate, is a
striking proof of our social progress, and, by showing how far the
science of human classification may may be carried when men are
most thickly packed together, seems to indicate a more advanced
stage of social fellowship than we have yet reached. The most ad-
inir.ble feature in this marvellous work is, that its size only adds to
Its clearness and precision, Exhibiting so readily the humble: t
name, whi o embracing the metropolis, it puts one in mind of the
trunk of on elephant, which can pick up a needle or root up a tree.
One of its peculiarities is, that the whole book seems to have been
compiled only the day befu e it is issued, to lately is every change
recorded. Even the typographical execution 'is a wonder of aceu-
racy ; and the appe-trance of the whole work, throughout its two
thousand pages and um: ard?, is ,fair and uniform, :effecting great
credit on the press of tne Messrs. Kelly. Success so complete as to
drive every competitor from the field has in no way relaxed the ex-
ertions of the Proprietors to consult the pub is coavenience. The
volume expands with the metropolis itself, and notes every change
wills the fide isy of truth itself. Every person who has had occasion
to consult it must bear testimony to its judicious arrangement and
its inestimable usefulness for ad the var ed aims of Loudon busi-
ness; and to the great saving of time it effects for all purposes of re-
ference. In a word, it Is the largest collection of facts in the wor:d,
and the most compete exposition of the life and indus:ry of the me-
tropolis that could possibly be desired.

JOHN BULL, NOVEMBER 24, 1849.
As often as this gigantic ♦olume meets the eye in its annually
renewed form, the question rises in the mind, how it is possib:e to
trace, in the ever-shifting stream of London life, each unit of the
csuntlese multitude, and to identify on each individual spot the
beings that house an t nestle there. And another question follows
naturally in the train of the former—how Is it possib!e that such an

undertaking can repay the enormous outlay which of necessity it
must occasion, at a price, for the size of the volume, s i exceedingly
moderate. On the latter point, however, the annual re-appearance
of the volume, in an ever improved and enlarged form, is a sufficient
answer. Patriotic as his laborious undertaking proves Mr. Kelly to
be, we apprehend he is too wi c a man to push his patriotism to the
extreme of making the public a present of .the volume ; and on the
other hand the public is hardly to be supposed so insensible to its
own interest and inconvenience, as not to give the abunda,.t encoa-
=gement it deserves to a work so eminently useful. As for the
accuracy of the information, down to the latest practicable moment,
It so happens that the present year affords several remarkable tests.
Two Noble Lords, the Earl of Albemarle and Lord Alvanley, have
died within the last month, the Cork election has only just been
gazetted, and two Bishops have been created, though neither of
them is as yet consecrated. Nevertheless we find, on turning to the
Peerage, the two noblemen who have recently succeeded, in their
proper places ; Dr. Hind and Dr. Oilivant settled in their sees; and
in the " Parliamentary Directory," Colonel Chatlerton, the new
Member for Cork, duly registered.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIEW,
JANUARY, 1830.

We well remember a gentleman of a somewhat unimaginative
turn, on being appealed 'to for his opinion of Mr. Dickens's works,
replied that they did not appear to him to contain much general in-
formation. This would have been the very book for him, for it is
full of general information. We recollect " Kent's Directory," the
first of the family to which this work belongs ; and we also remem-
ber the " Post-office Directory " In its cradle, and a somewhat
weakly and rickety bantling it was. We never thought it would
have attained to the fair proportions of the volume before us, or have
displayed the intelligence which we find in its pages. Exclusively of a
" Street," " Commercial," and " Court Directory," it contains all
sorts of information desirable to the merchant and the traiesman ;
while the Post-office regulations, in addition to their fulness, have
the crowning recommendation of authenticity. • Among the number-
less competitors for public favour at this time, we know none snore
valuable to a mercantile man as a " Christmas or New Year's (lift.'

CHURCH AND STATE GAZETTE, DECEMBER 23, 1849.
Here is an annual which has completed its first half century, mu
wh•ch is almost load enough for a moderately strong man to carry.
Frem the excellent map of London, at the beginning, to the last
page—(and there are upwards of two thou+and 01 them)—there is
not a word in this gigantic volume which a critic can cavil at : his
occ,mation is gone. In the pages bef,re us there is no flattery—as
little of foolish argument—and nothing but truth. Nothing but
truth!—and yet it is a guide to our national offices—a Directory for
our streets and all who therein dwell—as veil as for Trade, Law,
the Court, the Parliament, ant the City. In short it is a book thAt
everybody, at some time or other, stands in need of; and, as we have
said before, it not only tells nothing but truth, but is the only unin-
spired book of which such a character can be given.

SPEC rATOR, NOVEmnun. 24, 1849.
This has no new features of any importance, but its utility and
completeness are enforced afresh at each examination. We aay
nothing of direct and obvious uses for reference, because we have
often spoken of them ; but whether for the purpose of discovering
the domicile or busints 0 a 7erscri of whom the, inquirer has but
slender trace, or for to il:11 the apparentresrectability ()Ca man by
tracing his whereabo itrseveral yedrs, or for going direct to your
point in a neighbour dor street to which you are a stranget, this
book and its back volumes arc unrivalled. For example, Black-

• -
office Directory" is an exception. Althoujh it is hriposeible to give
a conscientious opinion of the details of ,v'oi costa :ling upwar. s
of two thousand pages'from a hasty examination of Om, yet we
have no reason to suppose that errors such as those Iv, point,' out
in a former volume exists in this. As ..cursory test we took up the
names of some individuals who hays?. been aftected by very recent
changes, End find that these changes arc duiy notified. As regards
price, this book is peril .pi tie cheapest thirty shillings' worth ever
issued from the press.

The fifty-flret edition; tha.. for 1i450, of this long-established and
asefal publication,' has just been pubished, and falls in no way
behind its predecessors either in its typvraphy, accuracy. or ar-
rangeme As. The volume Lefore us, c nt..ins no less than 2,0:38
pages, being an increase, since 1841, or 233 pages; and, notwith-
standing the increased size, the price rentains the same. viz.,
30e. The present volume Lrings down to the latest date all incur-

mation resoecing the residences, Ste:, of the menthe:a or the Legis-
lature and the Government, of the nobility and gentry, and 01 the
ment'Jers of the various professions and trades carried on in the me-
tropolis. A work of such cc uracy and general utility is an in-
ispensablo requite In the c,unting-hottie and shop of ever:
trader, and in the WTI e of every professional man.' As in the
previous volumes, the contents are carefully arran4ed under the
ollowing heads .—" The " the Street " the Commercial,'
" the Trades," " the Law," " the t mint," " the Parliamentary,'
" the Postal," " the City," " the Conveyance," " the Banking,"
and " the A.surance Directories ;" and by tho' aid of a copious index
which is prefixed, any information which may be required can• be
got without trouble or loss of time.

SHIPPING GAZETTE, DEczmata 14, 1849.
The perseverance and enterprise of Messrs. Kelly and Co. have
again been manifested in the publication of the " Dime.
tory,"
,which com.s forth at the appointed time with, If pcssible,
increased claims "upon the patronage of those whom it concerns,
The energy which has been shown, fur half a centary past, upon
the production of tit's gigantic volume, has e.tabllshed such a com-
plete system of machinery as to ensure a degree 'of accuracy in the
periodical correction of the several branches oflufortnafon whief
it is its province to supply, that a few years ago would have been
thought Impossible. But there is no mistake in the matter. The
Directory of Messrs. KellY is a masterpiece of unwearied inftstry,
and the only book of a professedly useful and practical character
that the merchants and traders of the city of London eau NOT do
without. 'lt presents at one view an immense compendium of facts,
ar-anged with such admirable precision and method as to' be surely
and immediately available. The book is divided into a circle of
Directories, each having a speCific head—namely, (1 Government
Officials, Streets, Merchants and Tradespeople, Trades, Lawyers,
Place nen, Peers and Members of Parliament, I'ost4flllee and Civic
Functionaries, Conveyances, fianking-houses, and Assurance-offices.
The plan thus adopted is replete with advfintages, for, if you have
forgotten the name of .any individual whose residence you desire tp
know, you• find him under his occupation; the later branth of
analysis g.ving also a comorehensive tableau of the number of
persons engaged in each of the multitudinous avocations carried on
within tlie.boundaries of the metropolis. The reputation which the
"Post-office Directory" enjoys has not been gained without
warrant. It has proved itself to he immeasurably superior to) all
other attempts which have from time to time been made to super-
sede it ; and it may -now be fairly viewed as a book of reference
beyond the: remotest possibility sf rivalry. That it will =int in
this position there can be no doubt, fur every year corroborates the
public faith in its truth, and witnesses the continuance of that close
and critical supervision, without which its credit and its value
would greatly diminish.

ERA 1849.
This publication, which, is a kinNOVEMBERd
of nat2sional annual, has now.been
more than half-a-century before the public. It contains now no
fewer than 2,091 pages of most useful and appropriate information,
under the heads of the " Official," the "Street," the "Commer-
cial," the " Trades," the "Law," the "Court," the "Parliamen-
tary," the " Postal," the "City," the " Conveyance," the "Banking,"
and the " Assurance Directories," &e., &c, in reference to all. of
which it gives what thousands, particularly those in badness, will
desire to know. he numerous facts here collected form an extra-
onlinary mass of valuable intelligence, and the only wonder is how
so many authentic particulars can be tethered together In one book.
It is only the experience and consequent improvements of years that
could do so much. ?Many are the people who must be engaged in
getting up this printed world of information, notwithstanding the
system.of accumulation which is d.,ubtless observed in preparing
every new volume. What book can tell you so much in reference
to the occupations and domestic relations of people? The mere ad-
dresses are sufficient to excite special wonder —look at the Smiths,
for instance, or the Browns, and you will marvel 'that there are so
many of each in the world. It must be borne in mind, however,
that this extraordinary Directory does not confine itself to people's
whereabouts; nor what companies dor or pro:ess to do. We have all
that is official set.forth, and a book of reference for all occasions c At-
nected with the business of life. The public now find this took in-
dispensable to the various 'commercial and social purposes to which
it is devoted.

MINING JOURNAL, NovEunEn 24, 1849.
This useful and, to a commercial man, necessary publication, has
again made its annual appearance, with still greater accuracy and
eclat, if possible, than its more immediate predecessors. As a gene-
ral Directory, it is immeasurably superior to those pseudo-cheap
and ephemeral publications which, under ♦arious phases, and dif-
ferent denominations, have struggled into existence by plagiarism
from this work, and which, by the preface, we see are now totally
defunct. The price at which the book is published, places it within
the reach of that class (the trading community) for whom it is espe-
cially designed, while to the courtier and Parliamentary man it has
the recommendation of affording him the most useful and accurate
summary to be obtained of the "modern Babylon."

- LITERA RY GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1849;
Talking of Annuals, this is the real and veritable friton of the
.111innows--the genuine useful Repository, the miquestionable Pro-
phetic Almanack, that will guide to thousands of unknown events.
Of its bulky and most intelligent predecessor we observed, that it
could only belong to, and be produced in England; we ought,
perhaps, to have said, in London. We need not' repeat our prai(e
of the industry ( mployed (It must be constantly, from year's end to
year's end), nor our wonder at the mass of minute information thu%
"Collected jnto one grand volume—a very mountain of distinct par-
ticles! But itse must point attention to the lateness of the date to
which this information is brought up. Incidents and changes not
yet a fortnight old are enumerated here with the same precision as
if they had taken place at midsummer. Fifty years' practice lies
indeed leal to perfection.

ATLAS, Novituasa 24, 1849.
A. stranger would take a week to trace the increase of London
within the last few years. In this most unique of publications he
map see it at a glance Year after year the volume continues en-
larging, till the once modest tome bids fair to become the most
portly octavo ever sent out from the pres.. After the reader has
done admiring the astormling immensity of the metropolis, and the
enornfous mult4plicity :of its trades, companies, and buildings, he may
begin to admire the stupendous •labeur and enterprise with which a
pr: vote nu:le/taking like this Is begun and carried on. The present
volume is on the plan of former years—a plan combining so much
utility to every one as scarcely to need Improvement. 'She publica-
ti 41 Is carried Clown to the latest moinebt ; several important
changes being registered which occurred as late as the 13th of this
present month. Th.s digest of the immensity of London is much
more than a mere mercantile convenience. As a statistical account,
it has the highest value, forming, in many respects, one of the most
extraordinary books in the world.

HERAPATIFS RAILWAY JOURNAL, NovEsitwri 24, J-849.
The " Post-office London Directory" for 1510 is out. It occupies
a space on one's book-shelf as large as two or three other good-
sized volumes put together, and, in point of utility, especially to
the commercial classes, it must occupy Iv first place in public esti-
mation. In it is contained a mass of most useful in'ormation ;
information that is not to be found elsewhere. Additions and
corrections are observable In the present edition of the " Font-office
Direct() y ;" so that the Messrs. Kelly appear determined to dist ance
all attempts at competitien and undermining, whether from a host
of little competitors to p .rts of the work—constantly appearing
and as periodically dying of—or front Members of Parliament,
for be it remembered that some time ago, certain gentlemen
of the Lower House, seeing so great and important a work
successfully conducted by private enterprise, thought it time
for the Government to stop and take possession. A little delibera-
tion, however, soon taught them that though the position of head
of the " London Directory" was a desirable post to occupy, it was one
which they could not manage without encountering too much
labour and risk bf failure. The " Post-office Directory" has now
retched its 51st year, a good age, but it seems to be all the better
for it, and likely to improve in appearance every year that it
grows older. We think the public are much indebted to Messrs.
Kelly for the great exertions they evidently bestow in the pro-
duction of a work of so much national utility. It is a work of
every-day reference which no person in the active walks of life
should be without.

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detail of the case is requir ad : age, habits, and position in society.
51 Packets, tvitbt advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by
Rhieh the fce,ll., iQ saved: Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are fn atte
~anee daily at 19. Senors-street, Oxford-street, London, from E
von till T. aut l_loo to Matti On Sudsy' from Mem to 01.

friars-roial is some three-quarters of a mile long ; you have to go to'
a p rtienlar home, but you know not whereabouts the nua.ter is—
whether at the liriclge or the Obelisk en•l, er any internuidiate po nt.
You lure to he "Street Directory," and dad that No.. 197isnest door
to surrey i:11 ipel, celebrated of yore as Row! jnd Even if y,u
have no local ii.notviedge, a simple division of the numbers will tell
you whmlier the house yeu seek is towards -ihe ends or diddle of
the .street. At:d this Is enly tine incidellal use of the remark ible
volume.

COURT JOURNAL, DECEMBER, 22, 1349.
Arnongst•the nriny instances 'of inetro;4olitan industry awl skill,
we cin pilot to none more remarkable and u4eful in its w.!)- I ILin
the " Post-office London Directory." We have Mato draW lt.ett-
that to the vast extent of this metropolis, with its great mass of
population. embracing all rankS, proldss!ons, an i trades, ant wi
may form sonic notion of the immense labour and energy whirl
must have been expended before such materials cott:d have been so,
into such a systematic form as that at one glance we can be mad(
acquainted with every street, every house, and 'e‘ery individual,
whether amongst. the nobility-, gentry*, merchants, profe&Linal men,
traders, and tradesmen, with the private *residences and places of
business of each, within the metropolis and its immediate environs.
This public ition Is not simply one Directory, but comprehends an
" Offical Directory," a "Street DireCtory," "Commercial Direc-
tory," " Trades'.Directory," " Law Directory," "Court Directory."
" Parliamentary Directory," " !'octal Directory," " City Directory,"
"Conveyance Directory," " [tanking Directory," &c. The "Street
Directory" furnishes the names of the residents In each stre. t or
place. The " Cominercial Directory" has all these latter In com-
plete alphabetical order, while the nobility* and gentry will be found
in similar arrangements in the "Court Directory." The "Trades'
Directory" exhibits all the members of each of the two thous,nd
trades, classified distinctly—the sub-divisions of each being suitably
distinguished. The "Law Directory "is devoted to the classifica-
tion of the members of the profession, together 'With the general
leg 1 matters appropriate to a work of this character; while the
" , arliamentary Directory " furnishes an, requisite information
as to Peers and and Members of Parliament, and as to
t-eir tdwn residences and country seats. The " l'ostal Directory"
gives full Instruction on the subject of Money, Order=, and of the
transmission eflett,rs and newspapers to all parts f the world.
The "Conveyance Directory " is devoted to the important subject
which its title indica es, as are the "]tanking " and ".Assurance
Directories." ' Such a mass of similar Information was never exhi-
bited, until the appearance of this work; and When we look ut its
stupendous appearance we are proud to encourage the undertaking
upon national grounds. -

WEEKLY 31ESSENdEll, DECEMBER 22, 1849.
No book in existence conveys such a vivid and impressive idea of
the magnitude, wealth, and almost infinite occup Mons of the dwellers
in the metropolis of the world, as the volume now before us, and
which has estilblishe I for its compiler a reit:Wien which will last as
long as :England • shall continue to boa her position 'among the
nu!ions of the earth. •Without a careful examination of the contents
of this Immense volume, it would be impoosible to form anything
like a correct klea of its value, or of the labour which must have
been spe.lt in its cornpi ation. Certainly no merchant or tradesman,
no put lie or private company, owght to be without a cony. 'Under
its twelve separate Director.cs, London and its professions and
trades are an fully and accurately classified, that nothing legitimately
belonging to either of these heads will be looked for in vain. • !

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
• INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
The First of a Series of Illustrated Lectures, by Dr. Bachhoffner,
vn the Philosophy of Scientific Recreation, taily at Two o'clock, and
in the Evenings, at Eight.—An entirely new Set of Dissolving
Views of London in the Sixteenth Century. and as it now is, with
a Descriptive Lecture, daily, at Half-past Four, and iu the Even-
ings at a Quarter to Ten.—The Views of Rome, including new
Views of the Interior and Exterior of St. Peter's. with Dioramic ef-
fects, are shown daily, at One o'clock.—Lectures on Chemistry, with
brilliant experiments, by Mr. Ashley.--Experiments with the Diver
and Diving-hell.—New Exhibition of Chromatropes.—The Ma-
chinery, Medels, &c., explained.
Admission.ls•--Schools, Half-price,

IONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
I RAILWA.T.
Notice is hereby given, that the next lIALF•YEA.RLY ORDI-
NARY MEETING of. the London and North-Western Railway
Company will be held at the Euston Station, London on FzinAY, the
22d day of Feb , 1850, at Twelve o'clock precisely ; and immediately
after the transaction of the business of such meeting, an Extraordi-
nary General Meeting of the company mill he, held, at the same
place, for the special purpose of considering the propriety of, and
determining as to, the adoption and exercht of the powers . and pro-
visions, or some of thein, , which ,the Company may become en.
titled to adept and exercise,• under the authority of an Act of Par-
liament passed in the Bth and 9th year of the reign of her present
Majesty, chapter 42, far anti:m.lsll:g the proprietors of canals to
become carriers, and to exercise other powers and privileges in
such Act mentioned; and .f;r the . further purpose of considering,
and approving or eisapproving, the undermentioned Bills, respec-
tively, proposed to Le introduced into Parliament in the ensuing
Session (drafts of which Dills•will then be laid before the Meeting,)
viz..—

• -
`• A Itll to authorise the ab?iblonment of part of the undertaking
of the Shropshire Union Railway and banal Company, and to alter
some of the prov.sions of the lease thereof to the London and North-
Western Unilway Company." • .
" A /3;11 to authorise the Chester and Ifolybead nanway Company
to lease their undertaking, to the I.o:olon and North-Western Railway
Company, or to make other arrangetusatts relating thereto, and for
other purposes."
"A Rill to authorise an alteration in the line of the M.ekinghain-
shire liallway at Oxford."

"A Hill io (liable the East and West India Dock and Bir-
mingham Junction Railway Company to make certain branch rail-
ways, and to amend the Act relating to the said Company, and to
authorise the lease of the undertaking, and for other purposes."
GEO. CARR GLYN, Chairman.
CIIAS. LAWRENCE, Deputy Chairman.
HENRY BODTII
CIIARLE. E. sTEvrART, Fecretatles.
Euston Station, London, Jan. 24, 1850.

FMIGRATION.-BENJAMIN
EDGINGTON, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, London-bridge,
invites settlers to inspect his EMIGRATION TENTS, which are
fitted up with every requisite, at a moderate cost. May be seen any
day at his Manufactory, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, one being pur-
posely erected, with cot, sling, table, and camp stool complete.
A Wardiouse, 20R, Piccadilly.

rrHE NOVELTY most t)— recently introduced y
I: MESSRS. NICOLL is called NICOLL'S PATENT. EIDER
DOWN PALETOT, such novelty consisting !n the adaptation of
Eider Down in thefonnation of NICOLL'S PALETOT, the original
elegance and utility of which is, however, faithfully preserved.
Elders are found In great numbers in Iceland and the Ferr
Islands, where their beautiful and delicate down is well known to be proof against the most 'severe cold. and even the small quantit3
which can be compressed and concealed between the two hands, wil
serve in the formation of a Piletot, Which, while it has most extra.
ordinary lightness, has, nevertheless, more warmth than the fines,
being
and thihckest blank
ished, n aet, the gmelreat desidera'um for a winter garment
tus accomply, personal warmth 'without fatigue.
Public inspection is invited at MESSRS. NICOLL'S wholesale and
retail r arerooms,
114, 116, and 120, REGENT.
1S MEET, MEET, and 22, COI:NHILL,
L.

TET.HE NICOLL PALE roT (Re istered 6 and
7 Viand 22. CORet., N
BILL. WAREROOAIS, 114 g
, 116, 120, REGENT-
STRE
Many have assumed the use of the word P.I LETOT, but Messrs.
NICOLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material.
The Wholesale and Counting. Ilouse Departments for the London
Branches in the Shipping and Woollen Trades are in CHANGE-
ALLEY, CORNIIILL, and 120, REGENT-STREET.
The NICOLL is the distinguishing name given to o garment
secured by Royal Letters Patent front general imitation. It has all
tilt advantages of Messrs. NICOLL'S original invention, the RE-
GISTERED PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH. The NICOLL PA-
LETOTS are charged One, Two, Three, and Three-and a-half
beGuineas, according with the climate or purpose for which they may
required.

Er.rit°I3°I'IISANITARY
ASSOCIATION. •
PnEstoeNT.
The Right Hon. and Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of LONDON-
The imperative necessity of health measures adequate to the
wants of the 2.000,000 inhabiting this greai Metropolis, has been so
controvertibly established by the disclosures made during the late
epidemic, and the sacrifice of life which has taken place has been so
appalling, amounting to no less than 14,590 souls from cholera, and
time 833
has from divedarrhoea— when in till a kits of 18,423 lives, that' it is felt a
arri the people are entitled urgently to demand
from the Legislature efficient and comprehensive enactments, in
order to prevent not only the recurrent ravages of pestilence, but the
lamentable waste of life and attendant misery twitch every day ex •
Whits. To promote the attainment of measures so ine.stimaldy ad-
vantageous this Association has been formed.
The clergy of the metropolis are more particularly called upon to
assist the Association to the utmost of their power by the formation
of Branch Associations in every district and parish. lyith these the
Parent Association will gladly co-operate. The zealous support of
all classes is earnestly sJlicited in this work of prevention, the bene-
fits of which must extend to all, though they will be most apparent
in the improved state of the dwellings of the poor and of the labour-
ing classes, and in the elevated social condition of the people, in
greatly reduced local burdens, and in the diminished amount of
widowhood and orphanage. •A . PUBLIC MEETING of this Association will be held on
WEDNESDAY, the 6th February, 1850, at Freemasons' Hall, Great
Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The Lord Bishop.of LONDON
in the chair. The chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely.
An Annual Subscription of 1/. Is., And a Donation of 5/. ss, con-
stitutes a Member. Subscriptions will be received by the following
bankers :—Messrs. Glyn and Co., and Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and
Co., Lombard-street; Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
lane ; and the London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square ;
and by the Honorary Secretaries, Mr. W. Lusignan, M.A.; Hector
Gavin,
I. .r
0;
s.iy
alndn aliist,pAdolphususTatorri.ett, M.D., at 12, St. andJames's-
square

Just published, price ss. Bvo. in cloth,
STRICTURE of the URETHRA; iti Patho-
logyl.3 and Rational Treatment, with important Practical Ob-
i setvations on the Use and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment
of Obstructions of the Urinary Canal; showing how it is that Stric-
tures, in most cases, not only resist, but are aggravated by the ordi-
nary means adopted for their cure, and at length become seriously
complicated by the so-called " aonsequences of stricture." The
whole illustrated by numerous cases, which will be found to embrace
every possible form of Stricture and its consequences, together with
appropriate moans, of cure.
BY F. R. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E.
Those who are labourlng under long-protracted stricture, with all'
its accompanying miseries, will find detailed in this work modes of
treatment adapted to such cases, the elicacy and superiority of
which have been tested by repeated practice; whilst th se who
are suffering under the less severe farm of the disease may find
the means of prompt relief, and at the same tune such information
as will protect them from becoming the victims of unskilful and
violent treatment—the inain•spring of severe and complicated Ob•
structiens of the urinary canal. " The operation of introducing a
catheter through as impermeable stricture is. without doubt, the
most difficult in the whole range of surgical operationi, and de-
mands all the prudence, science, and skill of a master. The art
can only be acqu'red. and that gradually, by frequent practice."—
Liston's Operative Surgery.
Published by H. Ilailliere; 219, Regent-street:r and may he had
of a 1 booksellers in town and country.

LEAMINGTON SPA, JAN. 24.--A no townspeople at
Leamington have just held a public meeting, at which
they have resolved to raise 1,0001. to be expend( cl-
-4001. in defraying the extra expense of hunting the
country, north as well as south, six days a week, and
the coverts in the imn elate vicinity of Leamington
four dey a wce'z; and the remainder in summer amuse-
ments, such a 3 archery f te.c, holt:cultural exhibitions,
pyrot3ch&c disp!ays, and balloon axents. The National
Archery Cluj will hold their grand Intetikg here in
1851.

AFFECTING CIECOMSTANCE.—Last Friday a couple
in Lyb,ter, were married, and next day the bride was a
curpse.—•John 0' Groat's Journal.

EAST INDIA 110 USE, January 25. 1,50,
MHE COURT OF .DIRECTOX,S OF Til,E
EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,lhAr•V:e
RATE of. EXC [LANGE at w„leh limy will receive Cash for Bills on
Bengal and Madras will from the prelent date, and until -further
notice, be Is. 114 d. the CoMpany's lltipee, and for Bills en ihanbay
2s. the Company's Rupee. •

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary