Manchester Guide.
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General Deliveries at the Office.
The first, at eight until half-past eight in the morning, includes Letters from Liverpool, Newcastle, Stafford, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Middleton, and Bolton, the greatest part of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Sunderland, and Durham.
The second, at time until a quarter before two in the afternoon, includes Letters from Liverpool, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, Colne, Hyde, Denton, Geceross, Gorton, Oldham, Stockport, Chester, all Saddleworth, Ashton-under-Line, Audenshaw, and Staleybridge, the counties of Salop and Hereford, Leominster, part of North Wales, Frodsham, Warrington, Dublin, and all Ireland.
The third, at half-past twelve at noon, until a quarter before two in the afternoon, includes Letters from London, Essex, Kent, and Sussex, Bristol, Falmouth, part of North Wales, the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Oxford, Warwick, and all the West of England, also from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stone, Shiffnall, Newcastle-under-Lyne, Lawton, Congleton, Disbury, Cheadle 3rd Winslow.
The fourth, at half-past four in the afternoon until nine at night, includes Letters from Derby, Ashbourn, Leek, Macclesfield, and Stockport, the counties of Bedford, Berks, Herts, Hants, Leicester, Northampton, and Suffolk; also includes Letters from York, Leeds, Tadcaster, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Rochdale; parts of the counties of Suffolk, Herts, and Cambridge; also all Scotland, Lancaster, Preston, Chorley; and from Disley, Buxton, Bakewell, Matlock, Belper, Sheffield; also Liverpool (⅌ Railway).
The fifth, at half-past seven until nine at night, includes Letters from Liverpool (⅌ Railway), Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Chester, Warrington, Northwich, County of Chester, Staffordshire.
There are three deliveries by the Carriers, namely, at half-past eight in the morning, twenty minutes to one in the afternoon, and fire o'clock, town deliveries, except on Sundays, then there is only a morning delivery. The deliveries of course must be delayed, if there be any irregularity in the arrival of the mails. The letter-carriers are in attendance at the Office from half past seven to eight in the morning, and four in the afternoon; but no letters can be delivered by them at the Office, except to persons who have not been found when they have been on their rounds.
The Office continues open for strangers from eight in the morning until ten at night, on Sundays the Office is closed from half-past ten till half-past twelve, and from three till five.
Rail Road.
For time of the Trains starting, &c. see page 14.
Hotels, Coaches, and Coach-Offices.
Buck and Hawthorn, St. Anne-street; Buck, Hanging-ditch; Bush Inn, Deanes-gate; Eagle Inn,
