The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-21 00:00:00

Times, December 3, 1341.

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 rendered indis.
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 pre4ent
volume for 1842 contains some important new matter, frith
which the preceding volumes were not furnished—it has an.
portant addition, " The official Directory,"
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list of all persons holding situations
Mt CVOlllli of ijll
persons haling situations in '
'me East Intkit iteris'e) ttyc
Bank of England, and
the various 15th; o`Me'c'A, a\in t
other public -
-.flees. 'this ach.iitio•A itself 8041 to show
the :.eat pains taken h 7 tte Proprietors to render the book
perfect, The:-e ist.lie) some useful information given relative
to ill* " Order-office," to which, if the public would
rat bore attention than they have hitherto done, less
be heard of the loss of money by the transmission ot7ci,nketal'ice
by post in the manner usually adeptcti,. rrh'n?.....:Mber or stamps
issued to the various newspart.rs 'pet/I'2'll,d throughout England
and Ciales is given, togothA• wlth the amount of stamp duties
on adveitv:cmenlstivEd-by each paper re•pectively, and, indeed,
a mass of infoiill.itlon is brought together from which the best
infortnejl I.!..`av derive some increase of knowledge, eitclto
whivih the attention' of the most ignorant anti 4.Yeett r• :n
tangy be called in vain. As far as the
can justify an opinion, and 4.t 'n't•tet >idiffipbssible to pay to
such a work as this tli.‘ ittin';,te 'attention it deserves, it appears
to be compiled with ilidefatigable industry, extreme vigilance,
and an excettent judgment for arrangement.

Morning Post, Deeeinier 29, 18,11,
The charge, whether ttue or fa•se, brought against
nuals," that, however pretty they tnay bu thq be
no use, cannot in any degree apply to 'i':ft'ti‘)Ar publication.
Within the single volume, tteatty blro'it';hl. out by Messrs. Kelly
and Co., of Old Boswell-tottrt, Temple-bar, is comprised all
the information that an be nseful to the fashionable, legal, b'e
commercial communitie3 "It includes a " Court
which alone contains about five-and-ttvcrslw '..!kitli'sand names ;
a" Law Directory" of the most description, giving,
aitong other details, nu fe'l*l than sixteen large pages of a
" General List of sterips an " Official Directory," with an
index of sik thousand persons holding s'tuations under the
Crowtt, in the Bank, the East India House, and ether
dtpartments; the " Commercial Director •s'' trio ful-
lest and most complete that has ever r,:t ttpiicared, and a variety
of miscellaneous matter whitett it is Impossible to particularise
here. In short, from oir own observation, we can safely pro-
nounce this work a " sine qua non" to everybody who desires to
becoutts acquainted with the great metropolitan world of London,
. .

- Morning Chronicle, Dec.42l. IS-IL
We have had occasion to commend the extraordinary diligence
and accuracy shown in getting up the " Post-offite ifirettory
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 ficility 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 be difficult to over-estimate the labour involved
in such corrections. We recommend it to the favourable con-
sideration of the public ; and, in Lc', it must he regarded as
dispensable in every house, or office, where business is trans•
acted. To those, it there be any, vi ho have not seen it; it will
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—P ostage—
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
Director) for London.
Morning Herald. Nov, 30, IS-11.
This is a most 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 cun-
t :ins a series of Directories, in which are enumerated all the
Trades, Streets, Names, Official Designations, Parliamentary,