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THE MORNING ADVERTISER.
No. 127, FLEET-STREET, LONDON.
The Proprietors of this Newspaper, in order to give more
com• lete effect to arrangements recently made for improv-
ing its nrn-gement, extending its correspondence, and obtain-
ing the estili, st and most accurate intelligence on all subjects
of interest, ha : resolved to publish a DOUBLE SHEET of
the MORNING ADVERTISER, whenever the Debates in
Parliament or other intelligence of importance cannot be ef-
fectively condensed within its ordinary limits ; and therefore
consider it desirable to place before the Public the following
brief outline of the claims of their Journal on the general
support and confidence.
The. MORNING ADVERTISER having been established
by the SOCIETY of LICENSED VICTUALLERS—a body of men
with a large stake in the country, living by trade, and inti-
mately associated with the middle an 3 industrial classes, has its
interests indissolubly united with those of the Merchant, the
Manufacturer, the Trader, the Operative, the Man of Science,
and all who contribute by mental, moral, or physical effort, to
increase the stock of common good; while the number of its
Proprietors, amounting to upwards of THREE THOU-
SAND, affords a sure guarantee against its being diverted—
as so many other Journals have been—from the honest tenor of
political advocacy, to advance the sinister designs of indivi-
duals. The great aim of the ADVERTISER. being, as already
intimated, to increase the general welfare, to improve the con-
dition of the masses, and to bring the appilaptly-conflicting
interests of society into harmonious action, UT desire is to en-
list every legitimate agency in the peaceful accomplishment of
these objects.

The 'MORNING ADVERTISER, from a portion of its
kofits, and through its agency, distributes nearly NINE
1 HOUSAND POUNDS annually for charitable purposes,
including the relief by regular weekly allowances of nearly
THREE HUNDRED distressed members of the aforesaid So-
ciety, the temporary relief, by occasional donations of many
hundreds of other unfortunate individuals, and the entire
maintenance, clothing, and education of ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY orphan and other destitute children of both sexes in
the LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL, which Institution,
since its establishment, has received nearly ONE THOUSAND
boys and girls who might otherwise have fallen victims to want,
ignorance, and crime. These are claims on public support and
sympathy identified with no other.newspaper.
To LICENSED VICTUALLERS in all parts of the kingdom
tho MORNING ADVERTISER presents peculiar c4,van-
tages, publishing the earliest intelligence on all subjects in •
teresting to the trade, and affording a medium of communica-
tion amongst its members, whereby may be best effected that
co-operation between those in Town and Country so essential
to the promotion and protection of their common interests.
ADVERTISEMENTS receive far more than ordinary publicity
by appearing in the MORNING ADVERTISER ; for a
great portion of its circulation being, in the first instance, in
houses of public entertainment, it is subsequently distributed
through the families using those houses, so that on an ave-
rage each copy is perused by no less than forty persons; thus
giving to a circulation of 5,000 copies, TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND READERS. In addition to the ordinary
News of the Daily Press, and SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE con-
tained in no.other Morning Journal, the ADVERTISER gives
careful and early Reviews of new Works of Science, Litera-
ture, and Art.

An Early Edition is published every Morning in time to be
transmitted to the Country by the first RAILWAY Tics INS, so
that the MORNING ADVERTISER may be placed on the
breakfast tab!e of its subscribers 100 miles distant from Town
at an hour as early as they would require it if residing in the
Metropolis.
N.B. The first DOUBLE SHEET of the Morning Adver-
ti,er will he published To-morrow (Friday), the 4th inst.

sons engaged in commerce, analists of two thousand trades
established in the metropolis, with the tradesmen attached to
ach, and the subdivisions of every trade accurately defined.
There are separate Directories also for the Court ; the Par-
liament, with the must recent addresses of the Members of
both Houses ; the Law, with a list of all officers from the
Lord Chancellor down to the usher of the most inferior Court :
and the City of London, with the names and add-esses of all
City Officers, Companies, &c. The Court Directory includes
the names of twenty-five thousand persons not engaged in
trade, and takes a wider range than any other work of the
kind. The information respecting the Post-office will be found
eminently useful to persons of every description ; and among
other additions made to it for this year is one of great impor-
tance, showing the time at which a letter from London should
be delivered at any place in England or Wales, and the time at
which the letter-box for London closes in each place. The facilities
afforded by the Postmaster-General give the compilers advan-
tages which could not otherwise be obtained. The inforrna •
tion is furnished from the Post-office gratuitously, it is of the
latest possible date, and has been all collected or confirmed
within the last two months. We have had little time yet to
test its accuracy, but have no doubt that it fully maintains, in
that respect, the high character of that published for the year
1841. The work is beautifully printed, sold at a moderate
price, and will be found of great service to persons in every
rank of life.

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 esch 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 ulterior Court; Police
Courts, with their officers anti jurisdictions ; alphabetical lists of
Queen's Serjeants, Queen's Counsel,:ergeants at law, Benchers,
13arristers • Special Pleaders, Conveyancers,"Proct ors, Attorneys,
Notaries. &c. The names of al persons in the metropolis and
its immediate vicinity not engaged in trade, are given with the
most accurate lists yet published of the New Parliament, and
the most rec. nt addresses of the Members 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 fist 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 street! 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
co
be delivered at any place in England or Wales, and
calculating in all
a
t n cases
time at which the letter-box for London closes in each
place;s
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accounts of
allopportunityno oflndependent of all this informa-
tion, 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, &e., are also furnished
in ample detail. One great feature in this work is, that it
directs an individual to the position of a:sy 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 inhabitants 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 too 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 effeeted 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 mules 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 ; anti thou-
sands are now included, who re.ide without the narrow limits
beyond which our books of reference have not before passed :
here we have a register of all, whether dwelling in Barns-
bury Park, Basinghill-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 cried 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
Ehlenborough 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 d&iveries 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 anti 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 Couri-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 fdrce of its manifest superiority,
it has fairly beaten every competitor out of the held, 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 vat ious 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, &sc., &c., -within the limits of
the bills of mortality. It is the same with every other 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 requited 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 citkit pe world
has yet given birth.
John Bull, November 27, 1841.

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tisos(shevsissiiign
Again we have to bestow our praise on the completeness and
cheapness of the multifarious information comprised in the
" Post-office London Directory," which comprehends within
to grow. one moderately sized volume, of clear and easy reference, a
Commercial, Trades', Law, ourt, and Parliamentary Direc-
of the
itself.
This lo-
Direc-
tory. It is at once the fullest volume of the kind, the most
hes, the ex-
act, has the most recent intelligence—the information it em-
bodies having been collected within the last seventy days from
cal knowledge, and is altogether the compleeitseossuffitßhgedeuisaiiivlddiDede-seibook
toovnrtiyoe..
the metropolis that has hitherto appeared.
official sources, and through agents
hass i oTn
nhaoi
nswd been
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extensionnc
increased
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sfpr
eketd: still taoi
othertloal Spectator,
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part containing a list of Government and other public offices,
under which the names and employments of the persons are
part, like the other sections of the subject
arranged ; the other presents an alphabetical list of persons
holding offices under the Crown, in the East India House,
Bank of England, &c. And such a muster-roll !—an army,
nay, a population, of place-holders I
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 execution 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 combina-
tion, 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, arida 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,
an Official Street, Commercial, Trades, Law, Court, Parlia-
mentary, City, Postage, Conveyance, and Banking Directories.
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 official information peculiar to itself, it may
be taken as a safe guide in the various matters upon which it
professes to enlighten the pubic.
W. Kelly and Co., 19, and 20, Old Boswell-court, Tem-
le-bar, and all Booloellera.