This office is under the management of twenty-four directors, elected by a majority of the members out of their own body, by balloting, at a general meeting in the month of September; at which time the oldest eight of the twenty-four go out, and eight others are elected in their stead in a way of constant rotation. These appoint all the other officers, and meet every Wednesday in the afternoon between the hours of three and seven, to dispatch business, and in March to ascertain the dividends and contributions for the preceding year. The directors annually chuse out of their own body by balloting, a treasurer, and two assistant treasurers; also six trustees, three of whom sign all policies; and five auditors, to examine and pass the accounts; but as this office is solely calculated for the public good, none of the directors have any advantage above the rest of the members. There are porters and watermen, _&c._ provided by the office, who assist in removing of goods; these wearing the societies livery and badge, and having given security for their fidelity, may be trusted in case of danger. _Extracted from a copy_ _of the proposals, and an abstract of the deed of settlement received at the office in_ October 1758. UNION _square_, in the Minories. UNION _stairs_, Wapping. UNION _street_, 1. King street, Westminster: 2. New Bond street. UPHOLDERS, or UPHOLSTERERS, a fraternity incorporated by letters patent granted by King Charles I. in the year 1627. They are governed by a master, two wardens, and twenty-eight assistants with a livery of an hundred and thirty-one members; who upon their admission, pay a fine of 4_l._ 10_s._ but they have no hall. UPPER _Brook street_, Grosvenor square.† UPPER _East Smithfield_, near Tower Hill. UPPER _Ground street_, near the Falcon, Southwark. UPPER _Gun-alley_, Wapping.* UPPER _Middle-row_, Broad St. Giles’s.§ UPPER _Moorfields_, near St. Luke’s hospital. UPPER _Millbank_, Horseferry. UPPER _Moorfields-row_, Upper Moorfields. UPPER SHADWELL _street_, Shadwell. UPPER _street_, Islington, the street and row on the west side of Islington. UPPER _Turn-stile_, High Holbourn.☐ UPPER _Well-alley_, Wapping. _Gentleman_, USHERS, an order of officers under the Lord Chamberlain, of which there are several classes, as the gentlemen ushers of the privy chamber; those of the presence chamber daily-waiters; and those who are quarter-waiters in ordinary. The gentlemen ushers of the privy-chamber are four in number, and have the power of commanding all officers under them in the privy-lodgings, the bed-chamber excepted, and when there is a Queen, have the honour of leading her, in the absence of the Lord Chamberlain and Vice Chamberlain. The salary of each is 400_l._ a year.