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Linen, Woollen Drapery, Silk Mercery, Haberdashery, Hat, and General Outfitting
Establishment.
W.J. Crewe, ever grateful for the numerous favours conferred on his, begs to inform
the Nobility, Clergy, and Public generally, that he has purchased the Premises for
many years known as the Rose Inn, in the Market Place, Wokingham, and at
considerable expense converted them in a manner every way calculated to afford the
greatly increased comfort and accommodation so long needed, to which he intends to
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open on Tuesday, the 26 inst., with an entire New Stock, embracing an extensive
assortment in each of the above branches.
W.J.C. takes this opportunity of tendering his most sincere thanks for the liberal and
increasing share of public patronage so kindly bestowed on him during the last twelve
years, and trusts that the extended Establishment and Stock he now submits to them,
conducted with every intention and despatch, at the lowest remunerating prices will
ensure him a continuance of that kind support which he confidently and respectfully
solicits.
N.B. The whole of the Stock in the Old Establishment is now selling off at a very
considerable sacrifice.
Purchasers availing themselves of an early call will find great advantage

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Sat 3 May (BC)
THE RAPID MAIL-CARRIER; THREE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR
In the last number of the Mechanics’ Magazine there is a notice of a new plan,
invented by Mr. W.H. James for the rapid transmission of letters and light dispatches
through tubular passages, at certain intervals, in which he proposes to place air-
exhausting machines, which will establish a perpetual current of artificial hurricane,.
By means of which spherically-shaped elastic vehicles, or bags, will be blown for
station to station. The first cost is estimated by Mr. James at £2,000 per mile, and the
working expenses at from £300 to £500 per annum for every 50 miles. This system
will enable us to transmit documentary intelligence at the rate of 7,200 miles a day!
Instead of one exchange of letters per day between Liverpool and London, there might
be twelve exchanges.

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Sat 17 May (BC)
STATE OF WOKINGHAM CHURCH
(From the Times of Wednesday)

To the Editor of the Times
Sir,--I have the honour to hold the office of churchwarden of this parish, and I enclose
you the abstract of a petition which is about to be presented to both Houses of
Parliament by my colleagues and myself, and we shall feel most grateful if you will
give it a place in your columns. The practice of the House of Commons with regards
to petitions prevents any hope of the facts of the case being known except through the
medium of the press, since members are precluded not only from not entering into a
debate on the presentations of petitions, but even from starting at length the facts
contained in them. I earnestly entreat the attention of the public to the condition of
this parish. It is calculated to give every member of the Church of England the deepest
concern, to damp the energies and alienate the affections of the sober minded and well
disposed, to convert the ardent and unreflecting into the ranks of radicalism, to arm
dissent with the sharpest weapons, and to give weight to the attacks and add bitterness
to the sneers of the deadliest enemies of the Established Church. We raise avowedly

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