New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-01
T.. The Ne,c- York City Directory for

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ls5e5as by Charles Rode is just Issued This is In
good season. and bears evident marks of haste which Of
course could not Do avoided Unfortunately I've thin
!, doe. not seem 70 contain May last years
book By abou. two thousand We expected at least
FIVE thousand more In the Appendix ind she usual
roll of City Officers Law Courts &C. with some most
ridiculous blunders Fer instance, the Police Justices
are distributed in shy but the right way Justice Stuart
is not mentioned and several cxJutces are named as
still in Office We have also the PostOfhce and Post
ages; Custom. House arrangements; lransp ortston
Lines and their Offices Pilots Port wfdens ani iar-
Dor Masters Churches; Piers Societies aud ln'ueu'
lions Banks and Directors Rates of Interest Insurance
Companies Railroads Steamboats, Expresses Tele-
graphs Hotels Newspapers Periodicals General Mia.
cellaneous Information Fares Omaibuses Schools;
Consuls, and Packets We notice in some OF thesa
table. omissions and inaccuracies which ought not To
occur In book of this sort. Yet in the main thereh
much valuable information offered. We notice that
the ssssions of the Board of Aldermen are set down
for the first Mondays la January, May and Sep
tembcr Unfortunately for the people this Is wrong,
the Board meeting the fist Mooday Ia er@y
month. The Bureau Of Inspection, which the Loco
Foco Aldermen transferred from the Police to the
Street Department, Is not transferred In rus
Directory Many Inaccuracies occur In names, and
typographical errors too frequent Out vi the hun
dreds of large end hsurshng Associations which exist
in this City, the officers of only 10 are given In this
Directory and these do not have been changed
materially from year. and therefore quite incor.
rect as seme of the persons who are thus classed
officers of the literary moral benevolent and religious
Societies and Institutions have long since left the City
While Societies with from 25 to 50 members have their
officers placed in this Directory, others numbering their
hundreds and thousands entirely omitted, although
accessible 10 the compiers OF Directories II they bad
been advertised for, or sufficient pains had
been taken 10 collect and correct them.
II seems worse than oversight 10 omit entirely tho
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, having jurisdiction of
more than ten thousand members In this vicinity There
ia no Aston Insurance Company the Troy boats are
still at Courtlandtst. the Arsenal Is still in the old
place Caste Grand has taken the place of Castle Gar
dem II we are to believe this verscious publication
But we have before US the sheets of another Ne York
Gin Directory got up by John f. Trow. Let SEQ
what Improvement there is here. The Aldermen's
sions are right the Board of supervisors said to
hold FIVE annual meetings every year Rode says tho
same Trow says ten members, with the Mayor, make
a quorum OF the Board of Health Rode says seven.
Trow has got the Bureau of Inspection right Rode all
wrong. Trow says 20 lampightcrs and 5000 oil
lamps; Rode - lighters and 5,lsi oil lamps.
Rode has II Shcrifis Jures already passed; Trow
only FIVE Both have abundance of similar bluudcrs
Trow has Justice Stuart still clerk at the TOmbs and
all the Police Justices the last year. Trow has
cund the Astor Insurance Company, which Rode did
not and In Banks &c Trow seems to be we'll posted.
Trow gives list of Building Associations Rode does
not But we need not pursue the investigation Neither
of these books what ought 70 have for Directory,
where accuracy and comprehensiveness stimport-
ant and We hope that the complaints which will be ado
of these viii stimulate the publishers to careful ef
ots For the price usually charged, ought 10 have
triple Directory, embracing frst-Eyery Of any
consequence be ow Forty -second-street; second-A
complete Street Directory with the of all the resi-
dents tbrdA full Business Directory properly CLASH
fed and with all this Appendix embracing alnecesss
~ or valuable information concerning the city Neither
Of the books before gives the slightest hope OF such
contamination. However such they
mend them TO those who must take up with what they
can get The publishers have worked with co nmenda.
bic speed but fear they have lost morein laundering
than they have gained in time.
EMIGRATION FOR MAr.-The following
table shows the number of passengers who arrived
this port during the month of May, from foreign
frie