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Letters sent by a messenger on purpose; Commissions or returns thereof, and
Affidavits and Writs, Process or Proceedings, or returns thereof, issuing out of a Court
of Justice;
Letters sent out of the United Kingdom by a private Vessel;
Letters of Merchants, Owners of Vessels of Merchandise, or of the cargo or loading
therein sent by such vessels, or in charge of any person employed by such Owners for
the carriage of such Letters, according to their respective directions, and delivered to
the respective persons to whom they shall be directed, without paying or receiving
hire or reward, or other advantage or profit for the same.
Letters concerning goods or merchandise sent by common known Carriers to be
delivered with the goods without hire or reward, or other profit, or advantage, for
receiving or delivering such Letters.
But the following persons are expressly forbidden to carry a Letter, or to receive, or
collect, or deliver a Letter although they shall not receive hire or reward for the same;
viz.
Common known Carriers, their Servants or agents, except a Letter concerning goods
in their carts or wagons, or to their pack horse, and Owners, Drivers, or Guards of
Stage Coaches.
By Command,
W. L. MABERLY
Secretary.

THE ROSE
POSTING, FAMILY, AND COMMERCIAL INN,
WOKINGHAM, BERKS.
John Wise respectfully begs to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of Wokingham
and its neighbourhood, that for their better accommodation and comfort, he has
REMOVED TO THE COMMODIOUS HOUSE OPPOSITE HIS LATE
RESIDENCE, and trusts by care, attention, and moderate charges, to ensure a
continuance of that patronage it has always been his study to merit, and will give
satisfaction to those Families and Gentlemen who may honour him with their support.
Choice Wines and Spirits, Lock-up Coach-houses, and Stall Stabling.
Wokingham, Oct 22, 1844.

nd
Sat 2 Nov (BC)
Subscriptions for the National Testimonial to
Mr. ROWLAND HILL,
Author of the Penny Postage
TH
WILL CLOSE ON THE 30 NOVEMBER NEXT
Of all the sources of income stated in the recently published Quarterly Returns of the
Public Revenue, none exhibit so large a proportionate increase as the Post Office. On
the year a net revenue, the Customs have increased at the rate of about 10 per cent, the
Excise 1½ per cent, the Property Tax 2 per cent, while the Post Office revenue, under
its almost nominal rate of a penny, has increased above 13½ per cent, and the increase
on the quarter has been even as much as 25 per cent.
These cheering results show that (though the plan of the Penny Postage is yet but
imperfectly tried) the complete restoration of the Post Office Revenue to its amount
before the Penny Postage was adopted is not an event far distant, if it be fully and
honestly carried out; and the City of London Mercantile Committee on Postage desire
to impress these satisfactory results most emphatically upon the Public, in announcing

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