The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

Established 1820.

CURES EFFECTED BY PARR'S LIFE
PILLS.—The following are selected from hosts of other
Cures, and must prove that PARR'S LIFE PILLS are all
that are required to eradicate disease, however aggravated the
case may appear, and to prolong life, free from every ailment,
to the latest period of existence :

FROM MR. NORLE, HULL.

" Mr. Plaxton, of Cottingham, five miles from Hull, has
long been afflicted with a most severe internal disease. So
dreadful were the paroxysms that he frequently expected death
cns at hand to release him from his sufferings. For a great
lengtls of time he had been unable to sit down at all, even be-
ing compelled to stand at his meals. His next door neighbour
having heard of the virtues and unprecedented success of Parr's
Life Pills, purchased a small box for him, and on his calling
for a second box, he told me that such had been the astonish-
ing effects produced by one box that he was able to sit down,
and on taking two other boxes his pains have left him ; his ap-
petite is good, and he is able to follow his vocation nearly as
well as he ever did in his life."

" Mrs. Shaw, wife of Mr. Shaw, yeast dealer, had been a
great length of time afflicted with a severe internal disease.
To use his own expression, paying doctors for her had beg-
gared him,' so that at last he was compelled to send her to the
Infirmary ; there she received no permanent benefit. Having
heard of Parr's Life Pills, he purchased a small box; she be-
gan to mend immediately on taking them, and two more boxes
have cured her. She is now as well as she ever was in herflife."
" Mrs. Stevenson, of Cottingham, five miles from Hull, has
been severely afflicted with a bad leg for mote than ten years,
and during that period has tried all kinds of medicines, but
without any permanent relief. After taking four small boxes
of Parr's Life Pills, she is able to go about her day's business
in a manner which for comfort has been unknown to her for
above ten years. (Signed)
" EDMUND STEPHENSON, her Son.
" Witness—Joseph Noble."
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pain in my head. I applied to the first medical men in Hull,
and to the various Institutions of the Town, and brought my-.
self almost to poverty, but all to no purpose. At length I
heard of Parrs Life Pills, and after taking only two small
boxes, feel grateful to be able to add I now enjoy perfect health.
" ELLEN HART, No. *2O, Kingston-square,
" Witness—W. Hart. North-street, Hull.
" July 6, 1841.
" The numerous Cases of Cure in this neighbourhood are
astonishing ; the good effects have increased the sale to an
enormous amount ; please send per coach Medicine to the
amount of 1001., and the money shall be sent tier return.
" May 7' 1841. " Your's truly, JOSEPH NOBLE."
CAUTION—BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS.
In order to protect the Public from imitations, the Hon.
Commissioners of Stamps have ordered " Parr's Life Pills" to
without wish.ieihidn.72onesa.r9edg.e,nannindeF.
tun
be er-graved on the Government Stamp attached to each box,
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Country ; to be had Wholesale of Edwards, No. 67, St. Paul's,
London.
GRATIS. —The Life and Times of Old Parr, 32 pages,
with Engravings, may be had gratis of all Agents.

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pOST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
For 1842.
" The plaintiff's publication was one of considerable bulk,
and most probably of great utility : and so the Vice-Chan-
cellor of England must have thought by granting the injunc-
tion ox parte, and continuing that proceeding upon motion made
to dissolve it."

Vide " Times" of 20th December, 1841.—Judgment of his
Honour Vice Chancetlor Knight Bruce, confirming the Injunc.•
Lion obtained against the " Post-Office Almanac," for pirating
Post-Office Directory."
The following Reviews of the Complete Directory have al-
ready appeared :
Times, December 3, 1841.
This useful matter-of-fact volume has just been published by
Messrs. Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar,
and will no doubt be, as it ought to be, in the hands of
every merchant, banker, and tradesman in the country. It
is, independently of its utility, by which it is renderedindis-
pensable to every counting-house and shop, a curious sta-
tistical monument of the extent, importance, trade, and
wealth of the metropolis, and as such a document deserving
the attention even of persons who are not immediately in-
terested in commercial and business pursuits. The present
volume for 1842 contains some important new matter, with
rhich the preceding volumes were not furnished—it has an im-
po'rtant addition, " The official Directory," an alphabetical
list of all persons holding situations under the Crown, of all
persons holding situations in the East India House, in the
Bank of England, and in the various law, city offices, and all
other public offices. This addition is of itself enough to show
the great pains taken by the Proprietors to render the book
perfect. 'There is also some useful information given relative
to the " Money Order-office," to which, if the public would
pay more attention than they have hitherto done, less would
be heard of the loss of money by the'transmission of remittances
by post in the manner usually adopted. The number of stamps
issued to the various newspapers published throughout England
and Wales is given, together with the amount of stamp ditties
on advertisements paid by each paper respectively, and, indeed
a mass of information is brought together from which the best
informed may derive some increase of knowledge, and to
which the attention of the most ignorant and careless can
hardly be called in vain. As far as the cursory examination
can justify an opinion, and it is next to impossible to pay to
such a work as this the minute attention it deserves, it appears
to be compiled with indefatigable industry, extreme vigilance,
and an excellent judgment for arrangement.
Morning Chronicle, December 21, 1841.
We have had occasion to commend the extraordinary diligence
and accuracy shown in getting up the " Post-office Directory"
for former years, and no less praise is due to the publication of
the present volume. It contains the same immense mass of
information relative to the metropolis, which renders the work
one of the most astonishing monuments of the greatness of
London that can well be conceived. This information appears
classified, distributed and arranged in a variety of ways so as
to make the facility of reference nearly perfect. The
corrections necessary from the changes of a year appear,
as far as it is possible to judge, to have been carefully made,
and it would he difficult to over-estimate the labour involved
in such corrections. We recommend it to the favourable consi-
deration of the public ; and, in fact, it must be regarded as indis-
pensable in every house or office where business is trans-
acted. To those, if there. be any, who have not seen it, it
convey the best notion of the variety of its contents to say, that
the single volume of 1,500 pages contains a Streets' Directory
—Trades' Directory—Law Directory—City—Parliamentary—
Courts—Postage—Banking,-and Official and Conveyance
Directories—each a large work, and complete in itself ; though
the whole are requisite to a publication which professes to be a
Directory for London.
Morning Herald, Nov. 30, 1841.
This is a mast complete and extremely useful work. It em-
braces every point of interest in and near the metropolis that
can affect the wants of the community at large, and is service-
able to all classes of society. Under one general head, it con-
tains a series of Directories, in which are,enumerated all the
trades, streets, names, official designations, Parliamentary,
legal, banking, and Post-office references, that are in daily re-
quisition ; and, while it is of the most ample dimensions (ex-
tending over 1,500 pages) is accurate in the minutest particu.
lars. N
iot.public office or mercantile house should, in fact, be
without

Morning Post, December 29, 1841.
. The charge, whether true or false, brought against the
" Annuals," that, however pretty they may be, they are of
little or no use, cannot in any degree apply to this singular
publication. Within the single volume, neatly brought out
by Messrs Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar,
is comprised all the information that can be useful to the
fashionable, legal, or commercial communities. "It in-
cludes a " Court Directory," which alone contains about five-
and-twenty thousand names; a " Law Directory" of the
most ample description, giving, among other details, no fewer
than sixteen large pages of a " General List of Stamps ;" an
Official Directory," with an index of six thousand persons
holding situations under the Crown, in the Bank, the East
India House, and other public departments ; the " Commer-
cial Directory," perhaps the fullest and most complete that
has ever yet appeared, and a variety of miscellaneous matter
which it is impossible to particularise here. In short, from
our own observation, we can safely pronounce this work a sine
qua non to everybody who desires to become acquainted with
the great metropolitan world of London.

Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Dec. 22, 1841.
On our reference from time to time to the Post-office Direc-
tory of 1134 1 , we felt convinced that nothing could have been
produced more perfect for the purposes for which the huge
compilation was designed ; it appears, however, we were mis-
taken. The thick volume before us is vastly superior to the
last, and is unquestionably " the most complete work of the
kind ever published ;" the information is so judiciously classi-
tied, that although it extends over some fifteen hundred large
closely printed pages, every department of the compilation
might be consulted in a few seconds. It is surprising how
such a mass of intelligence can bare bead collected and ar-
ranged so accurately, expeditiously, and cheaply, neither of
whieh could of course be accomplished without the extensive
and peculiar resources of the General Post-office. No count-
ing-house, coffee-room, of public office, should be without this
excellent record.

Sun, November 25, 1841.
We have great pleasure in noticing this useful work, of which
we have received an early copy. It exceeds the size of the
Directory of last year, and probably is the most complete and
correct town-guide yet rublished. The following outline of
the contents will enable the reader to form some idea of the
vast undertaking. It contains an Official Directory, with the
names alphabetically arranged, of all civil officers under-Go-
vernment, in the Bank of England, East India House, and all
other public establishments. A Street Directory, which in-
cludes gentry as well as traders; and subjoined to this, are two
others, giving
the names at full length, of sixty thousand per.

Weekly Dispatch, Nov. 28, 1841.
We have been favoured with a sight of this elaborate work;
and we must pronounce it vastly superior to the previous vo-
lumes. The contents are admirably arranged. There is a dis-
tinct alphabetical list of the names, in number, of all civil
officers under Government, in the Bank of England, East India
House, and all other public establishments ; an alphabetical list
of streets in the metropolis. and its vicinity, with the inhabit-
ants according to their numerical order in each street ; the only
Street Directory yet published which includes gentry as well as
traders. There is also a list of all officers, from the Lord Chan-
cellor down to the Usher of the most inferior Court; Police
Courts, with their officers and jurisdictions ; alphabetical lists of
Queen's Serjeants, Queen's Counsel, Sergeants at law, Benchers,
Barristers. Special Pleaders, Conveyancers,Proctors, Attorneys,
Notaries, &c. The narries_ofall Krems in the metropolis and
its immediate vicinity riot eriCagetl-TV trade,, are given with the
most accurate lists yet published of the New Parliament, and
the most -rect nt addresses of the Member* of both Houses.
There are, besides, the name and addresses of City Officers and
Common Councilmen ; City Companies and their clerks ; lists
of sworn brokers; Lieutenancy of the City, &c. A list is
given of all the principal places in England, Ireland, and Scot-
land, distinguishing those which grant and pay money orders,
and referring to the money-order office nearest to those which
do not; and an alphabetical list of the streets of London, with a
reference from each to the nearest receiving-house which grants
and pays money-orders. This will afford the opportunity in
all cases, in town and country, of applying to the nearest office
for a money-order, and of obtaining it upon the office most
contiguous to the residence of the
.party in whose favour
it is drawn. Another important introduction this year
shows the time at which a letter from London shoald
he delivered at any place in England or Wales, and
the time at which the letter-box for London closes in each
place; thus affording the opportunity of calculating in all
cases the " return of post." Independent of all this informa-
tion, we have copious accounts of all conveyances by railways,
stage-coaches, waggons, vans, carts, vessels, barges, and boats ;
with complete accounts of all the bankers, joint-stock banks,
and banking establishments of the United Kingdom ; the
names of the Directors and officers of the various Assurance
Companies, with the rates of Assurance, &c., are also furnished
in ample detail. One great feature in this work is, that it
directs an individual to the position of any number in the
street, by noting the intersection of churches, courts, streets,
lanes, Alleys, &c., between one house and another. It often
happens that a person may forget the name of the tradesman
he wants, although he knows the street. The . Street Direc-
tory in this book helps him out of this difficulty by giving the
names of the inhabitant's of each house of No. 1 upwards.
Sunday Times, December 5, 1841.
This useful work is just published ; it is, in short, a com-
mercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, city, postage, con-
veyance, banking, and an official Directory. It contains an
almanack, list of stamp duties, POst-office rules, and, in fact,
a body of intelligence to great for detail. Respecting :the
accuracy of such a work, it is, of course, impossible to speak ;
the most inveterate Magliabechi that ever gulped quartos, or
bolted folios, would scarcely undertake the perusal of a Direc-
tory. It is not saying too much to declare that the Post-office
Directory is a work unexampled even in this country. To ap-
proximate closely to the communication of the names, resi-
dences, and trades of the inhabitants of London, is a task from
which a literary Hercules might flinch.
Railway Magazine, December 4, 1841.
Judging from the great superiority of the last edition of this
work over its competitors, we did not anticipate the improve-
ments which have been effected in the present, which not only
place this Directory at the head of the list, but must drive the
others out of the field. An entirely new division has-been
introduced, viz., the " Official Directory," which furnishes
the full names and positions of all persons holding public
situations under Government, the East India Company, the
Bank, &c. The scope of that important branch, the " Street
Directory," has been very considerably extended ; and thou-
sands
which
urbooks of
included, who
referencereide h
withoutave notth
e narrowbefore
passed:
limits
beyond
here we have a register of all, whether dwelling in Barns-
bury Park, Basinghall-street, or Belgrave-square, in King's-
road, Chelsea, or in Kingsland ; and one of the great advan-
tages peculiar to this publication is, that all inhabitants are
inserted in their nu t. erical order. We know of no other
street list in which either all the gentry, or all the mer-
chants, traders, and tradesmen are not—incredible as the
fact may appear—entirely omitted. We-may mention that it
gives the names of the Directors of most of the Railway and
Insurance Companies, and a complete List of Officers of Joint-
Stock Companies. The " Parliamentary Directory" is co-
pious ; in it the offices held by every Peer and Commoner are
accurately detailed, even to the recent appointment of Lord
Ellenborough as Governor-General of India, and of his suc-
cessor at the India Board, Lord Fitzgerald. The " Postage
Directory " furnishes much original and highly valuable in-
formation in reference to Money Orders, and to the precise
time of the deliveries of letters throughout the country. A
volume so valuable as this will be generally appreciated. It
does honour to the establishment which can put forth so vast
an amount of authentic information of character so diversified ;
and it reflects credit on those who have so arranged it that the
work is equally a model of compilation and of typography. We
cannot but think that a title more appropriate than merely
" Post-office London Directory" might be chosen. The work
surely merits a name that would convey a definite idea of in-
formation so vast and varied, uniting as it does, in one volume,
Directory, Court Guide, and Court Kalendar, and superseding
the whole class of similar publications.

Britannia, November 27, 1841.
The old proverb says, it is good to let well alone; but, we
see no possible reason why well should be left to stand still, so
long as better is clearly attainable ; and such appears to be the
opinion of the enterprising proprietors of the " Post-office Lon-
don Directory." The present edition is superior in many re-
spects, to any of its predecessors. On its first appearance, it
was a neat and correct
.pocket-volume—nothing more; but
it has gone on improving and augmenting from year to
year, till, by the mere force of its manifest superiority,
it has fairly beaten every competitor out of the field, and
become, from the variety, copiousness, and accuracy of
its information, an indispensable requisite to every count-
ing-house and shop in the metropolis and its suburbs. It
would be quite impossible, in a brief notice, to give anything
like an adequate idea of the contents of a closely-printed
royal octavo volume, running to upwards of 1,500 pages. It
can only be justly described as a series of Directories, each
one complete in itself, and each of peculiar value to every per-
son engaged in business. For instance, is the residence of
any particular person required, a reference to the " Commer-
cial" or " Court Directory" will at once give the desired in-
formation. If a complete list of all persons engaged in any
one of the various professions or trades exercised in the me-
tropolis is sought, turn to the " Trades' Directory," and you
have, ready to your hand, arranged in alphabetical order,
and with the residence attached, a return of every ac-
countant, apothecary, artist, Sze., &c., within the limits of
the bills of mortality. It is the same with every ether depart-
ment of the work. 'We have never seen any volume containing
so much matter, so well divided, and clearly arranged. The
intimate connexion of the Proprietor with the Post-office en-
sured him the most accurate information; and his printers'
extensive printing-office and steam-presses enabled him to issue
his sheets with surprising rapidity ; so that every change is
made up almost to the day of publication. The whole book is
worthy of the mighty city it anatomises; the most correct, as
well as the most useful, record of its industry, its vastness, and
its intelligence; and, if we keep in mind the enterprise neces.
sary for the conception of such a work, the immense care re-
quired in its preparation, the enormous capital required to pro-
duce it, and, considering its bulk and variety, the surprisingly
lox price at which it is issued, we must pronounce it, notwith-
standing the typographical wonders daily issued from the press,
the most surprising volume to which the first city in the world
has yet given birth.
John Bull, November 27, 1841.
Again we have to bestow our praise on the completeness and
cheapness of the multifarious information comprised in the
t' Post-office London Directory." which comprehends within
one moderately sized volume, of clear and easy reference, a
Commercial, Trades', Law, Court, and Parliamentary Direc-
tory. It is at once the fullest volume of the kind, the most ex-
act, has the most recent intelligence—the information it em-
bodies having been collected within the last seventy days from
official. sources, and through agents possessing the requisite lo-
cal knowledge, and is altogether the completest guide-book to
the metropolis that has hitherto appeared.
Spectator, Dec. 4, 1841.
This extensive work still continues to grow. Besides a revi-
sion and extension of the other branches, the Official Directory
has now been increased so as to form a division of itself. This
part, like the other
eet, is subdivided ; one
part
containing a list of Government and other public offices,
under which the names and employments of the persons are
arranged; the other presents an alphabetical list persons
holding offices under the Crown, in the East India House,
Bank of England, &c.
sectionAsnodf thesu bj c
hs uarnuster-roll !—an army,
nay, a population, of place-holders!
Nonconformist, December 8, 1841.
Another edition of this colossal work has just issued from
the steam presses of Messrs. Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Bos-
well-court, Temple Bar. The greatest credit is due to all
parties connected with the compilation of this book, for the
assiduity which must have been exercised, as well as the talent
displayed in the exoeution of every branch of it. This has been'
achieved by dint of great labour. As a whole, we look upon
the Post- office Directory as the most complete work of the kind
ever published.
National Advertiser, Dec. 18, 1841.
This work is in 1,527 imperial octavo pages, and the study of
the compilers appears to have been to render each page a speci-
men of systematic arrangement, and of how much information
it is possible to convey in a given space. We do not believe that
any work of the kind exists so nearly approaching perfection.
The resources of the Post-office, and mighty they are proved to
be, are here wrought out into every useful variety of cembina-
tioa, and to each division of the book has been imparted a labo-
rious finish, that only those accustomed to literary labour can
entirely appreciate. We never before saw a Directory which
included an Official Kalendar, a Law Guide, and a Peerage and
Parliamentary Chronicle, besides all the Nobility and Gentry,
Merchants, Professional men, and Shopkeepers of the metro-
polis and its vicinity.
Globe, December 1, 1841.

This useful " Annual "comprises among other information,
neoineviael;anTelea,talensd Banking Directories.
, Law, Court, Parlia-
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iStyti:epeto,stgotne,
Cl
It is only necessary to announce the publication itself, and to
add that. arranged as it as been with great care and attention,
aided by sources of officisl information peculiar to itself, it may
be taken as a safe guide in the various matters upon which it
professes to enlighten the public.
Tern-Ic\-Vb.arK,
andel all Booksellers.lyaldCo.,l
, and 20, Old Bosweia_eourt,