THE Proprietors, in submitting to their Subscribers and the Public the Third Edition "of the POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF NORTHUMBERLAND trust that it may be found equal in accuracy to the previous Edition. Every effort has been made to render it as perfect as possible; lists of Wards and Poor Law Unions, and also the Polling places appointed pursuant to the Ballot Act, 1872, have been included in the Topography of the County; it is stated under each Parish in what Ward, Union and County Court District it is situated, as well as the Diocese, Archdeaconry and Rural Deanery; and the College and University of every beneficed Clergyman have been given as far as they can be ascertained. The names of' the Parish Clerks are given under each Parish ; lists of Farm Bailiffs of Gentlemen farming their own land have been added ; the Money Order and Telegraph Offices and Post Office Savings Banks and Government Annuity and Insurance Offices are noticed ; the Map of each County has been enlarged and corrected to the present date, and the new lines of Railways laid down.
