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LONDON, SATuRDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1842.

sons engaged in commerce, and lists of two thousand trades
established in the metropolis, with the tradesmen attached to
each, and the subdivisions of every trade aecuzately 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-e‘sses of all
City Officers, Companies, &c. The Court Directory includes
the names f 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. 'f he informa •
Lion 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 hail little time vet 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 pronownce 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 names of all 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 recent 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 list is
given of all the principal places in England, Ireland, and Scot-
land, distinguishing the 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 should
be 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, &e., 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 intersectron 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. I. 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 Magliabeehi 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 list 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 are now included, who reside 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, 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 erical order. Na know of no other
street list in which either all the- gentry, or all the mer-
chatats, 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 apprec:ated. 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.

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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 superiorit '
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
Ike 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 ',articular 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, lie., &c., within the limits of
the bill, 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'
exteris!ve printing-. (Tice and steam-presses enabled him to issue
his sh.pts with surprising rapidity ; so that every change is
made up Anot to the day of publication. The whole book is
worthy of the iniglity city it anatomises ; the most correct, as
well as the must useful, record of its industry, its vastness, and
its intelligence; and, if we keep in mind the enterprise ncees.
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 hulk and variety, the surprisingly
los 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
" Post-office London Directory," which comprehends within
one moderately sized volume, of clear and easy reference, a
Commercial, Trades', Law, Crurt, and Parliamentary Diree,
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 da3 s from
official sources, and through agents pos7essing the requisite lo-
cal knowledge, and is altogether the compleest 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 divisiop of itself. This
part, like the other sections of the iubjeet, 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 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 !
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, 1811.
Thismork 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, arc 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 nett, r before saw a Directory which
included an Official Kalendar, a Law Guide, anda 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 peculia:r to itself, it may
be 'taken as a safe guide in the various matters upon which it
professes to enlighten the public. •
W. Kelly and Co., 19, and 20, Old Boswell-court, Tem-
le-bar, and all Booksellers.

PUI3LICATIONS.

This day is published, p ss. Part X. of
BRAND 'S DICTIONARY of SCIENCE,
LITERATURE, and ART; containing, among others,
elaborate articles on Railroads, Reflection, Reformation, Rent,
Right of Property, Roads, Romance, &tire, Schelling (Philo-
sophy of), Sculpture,S Ships, &c.
To be completed In Two more Parts.
London : Longman, Brown, and Co.

This day is published, price 55., Part VI. of
CUTHBERT JOHNSON'S FARMER'S
IiNcYcLop,EDIA; Containing, among others, ela-
borate articles on Hop (with Tables of Duties), the Horse, the
Horse-hoe, Ageteulture of India, Insects, Irrigation, Jury, Sea-
kale, Kelp, Kitchen Garden, Labour, Larch Tree, Lease, Light
(its Influence on Vegetation), Lime, Liquid Manure, &c.
To be completed in Four more Parts.
London : Longman, Brown, and Co.

fIOVERNMENT By THE QUEEN, AND
kir4 ATTEMPTED GOVERNMENT FROM THE
PEOPLE. By HENRY DRUMMOND, Esq. Bvo. price
3s. sewed.

Lately publi hed, by the same Author,
2. THE CORN-LAWS. Bvo., price Is. sewed.
London : J. }blatant and Son, 187, Piccadilly.

EMIGRATION GAZETTE and COLO-
• NIAL SETTLER'S UNIVERSAL GUIDE (pub-
lislied every SATURDAY, price fid.), of THIS DA t, Feb. 5,
contains :—Of the Parliamentary Session—Colonial Motions
—Necessities of the Colonies—Canada; an Official Commu-
nication—New Zealand—Latest from the Cape of Good Hope,
with Valuable Hints—A Further Exposition of the Wake-
field Syitem—Official Regulations relative to Emigrants from
British India to the Mauritius—CeylonAnd RA' Colonial Griev-
ances—A Word to the ManufacturersL.The Bounty System—
Colonial Wool Sales—New Works on Emigration—Address to
Parting Emigrant3—Arrivals and Departures at the British
Colonies ; with a variety of highly interesting and original
information of the deepest importance to intending Emigrants.
Office, 75, King William-street, City; and to be had of all
newsmen in town and country.

CONTRACTS, 1842.
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GEORGE, HANOVER-
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TRACT
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with the Committee of Paving of the said Parish for
the SUPPLY of ROMAN CEMENT, BLUE LIAS, LIME,
and THAMES BALLAST, for the purpose of making Con-
crete Foundations for Road-work, for ONE YEAR, from the
25th of March next, may deliver in Proposals, sealed up, at
the Office of the Clerk of the Committee of Paving, at the
Board-room, Mount-street, on or before Twelve o'clock, on
Wednesday, the 9th of March next.
Persons tendering are desired to take notice, that all Pro-
posals must be made upon, and strictly in accordance with, the
printedOffice,formsof
well Tender,
as
tween the hours of Twelve and One o'clock. 'I lie expense of
the Contract to be borne by the Contractor, and the Committee
as
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further
obtained
p articulars, any day be
on application at the
will not be bound to accept the lowest tender.
By order of the Committee of Paving.
11. LEES, Clerk.

GENERAL ACCOUNT of the RE.
CEIPTS and PAYMENTS of the CORPORATION
for RELIEF of SEAMEN in the MERCHANTS' SER-
VICE, their Widows and Children, for the year 1841 :
RECEIVED.
Balance from 1810—Ca5h...... £1,290 9 11
Out Ports Accounts
Duty, from London Vessels 10,058 17 6
Ditto, from Out Ports Vessels,
-1840
Dead Men's Wages, tot feited
Interest ..
Benefactions, viz. :
A fine on George Jesse...
Lapsed Annuities, from Subscrip-
tion for Sufferers—Lord Dun-
can's Victory
J. F. Elphinstone, Esq

5,116 13 11
42(i 1 11
2,010 0 0

1 0 0

117 15 5
10 0 0 1.28 15 5

£19,467 13 4

PAID.

Pension to London Pensioners ......
Ditto to Out Ports Pensioners, 1 ts-1,0 •••

£9,50512 6
2,668 6 7

Temporary Relief at London
Ditto at Out Ports, 1840
Seaman's Hospital Society
Consolidated Three per Cent. Bank Annuities
for purchase of 1,0001. at 894 per cent
Accumulating Fund of Reduced Three per
Cent. Bank Annuities, for purchase of 1001.
at 87 per cent ••••
Charges of Management at Out Ports, 1840
Ditto at London

1,093 15 6
597 13 10
458 0 6

897 10 0

87 0 0
610 8 7

1,451 8 2

£17,369 15 8
Balance—Cash £1,570 11 11
... Out Ports Accounts. 527 5 9 2,097 17 8

£19,467 13 4
WILLIAM WATSON, Secretary.
Merchant Seamens' Office, 25, Birchin-lane, London,
January 25, 1842.

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