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Creech upon a mare, which formed the subject of a second indictment. The horse was
traced to Wokingham, in Berks, where the prisoners were apprehended with the
gelding in their possession. Guilty. Seven years transportation.

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Sat 6 January
NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1844
In no department of the public revenue have so many improvements been made of
late years as in that of the General Post Office, in consequence of the facilities
afforded by the rapid progress of steam navigation and railways. To the commerce of
this great mercantile country, the introduction of locomotive power since 1820 has
proved of the greatest importance. Our well-built steamers now cross the wide
Atlantic to America and the West Indies, Portugal, Spain, down the Mediterranean to
Egypt, and the Indian seas; up the Baltic to St. Petersburgh, to Hamburgh, Rotterdam,
Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, and Havre de Grace and run daily like a
trip to Gravesend; whilst by the means of railways we are conveyed in a few hours to
inland towns of England and Scotland, which formerly occupied days and nights of
dreary travelling.
An official list of Post-office arrangements for the present year, which came into
operation on January 1, and the postage on foreign letters, has been published.
Newspapers can be sent free of postage to all the British possessions in the West
Indies and North America, Brazil and South America, France, Spain, Portugal, and
India, via Southampton; Hamburgh, Sweden and Norway; to Holland, and countries
through Holland, 1d.; the United States, 2d.; the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, South
Australia, New South Wales, Van Dieman’s Land, and New Zealand, 1d.; India, via
France, 2d; closed mail, 3d.

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Sat 20 Jan WOKINGHAM FRENCH AND ENGLISH ACADEMY conducted by
Mr. W.C. Beechey, and assistants—The Young Gentlemen connected with this
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establishment, are expected to resume their studies on Monday the 22 inst.—
Wokingham Academy2nd

WOKINGHAM
Mr. Readwin respectfully informs his Friends that the business of his SCHOOL, will
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recommence on TUESDAY the 23 instant.
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Wokingham, Jan. 20 1844.

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Sat 27 Jan (BC)
WINDSOR FOREST TURNPIKE
Notice is hereby given, That at the next Meeting of the Trustees or Commissioners
acting under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament passed in the Third year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled “An Act for more
effectually repairing and improving the Road from a place called the Old Gallows, in
the Parish of Sonning, otherwise Sunning, in the County of Berks, through
Wokingham, New Bracknowl, and Sunninghill, to Virginia Water, in the Parish of
Egham, in the County of Surrey,” to be held at the House of John Wise, called the
Rose Inn, at Wokingham in the said County of Berks, on Monday, the Twelfth day of
February next, at the hour of Twelve at noon, the propriety of erecting a Toll Gate on
the south side of the said Turnpike Road, at or near a place called Sunninghill Wells,

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