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868 .SPALDING 'DIRJICTOR'!'. Smith J ames, Bourn road CAB.B.U:B.S. White Waiter, Holbeach road Unless otherwise expressed they ar WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. rive on Tuesday, about 9 in the Barrell Wm., Hall place morning, and depart at 3 afternoon. Bugg Henry, Cowbit road Marked l, attend at the Black Bull; Green J ames, Bridge street 2, Gross Keys; 3, Ram's Skin; 4, King Thomas, Crackpool lane Red Lion; 5, Talbot; 6, White Maples Hy., Red lion st; h Cow bit rd Hors~:; 7, Pied Oalf; 8, Red BulJ; ·Smith Thomas, Double street 9, Old Bell; and 10, White Hart. ·Tyler Robert Luke, Westlode street 3 Bourn, John Green, and 7 Vincent Wensor & Eldred, Cowbit road Carter, Tuesday & Saturday WOOD TURNERS 6 Crowland, Wm. Tate, 8 My. Blood, And Ohair Makers. and 9 Henry Frisby Rougbton Wm., New road 8 Deeping ( St James,) J. Desbrough Spikins Joseph, Chapel lane 3 Deeping (Market,) Thomas Wood RAILWAY. 2 Donington, J. Cocks, Tue::~. & Fri Passenger Trains six or seven times 8 Gedney Hill, Samuel Seaton a day to all parts, and Goods Trains 4 Gosberton, Isaac Wilson and Wm. daily. The Great Northern Railway Scarborough and Jno. Sutherland Co. are carriers to all parts, and have 3 Holbeach, Rt. Black, 1'u. Th.& Sat. a Parcel Office at the White Hart 9 Langtoft, J ane Codrington Hotel. Mr. Thos. Fellowes is the 9 Long Sutton, John Bowstock station master, and Wm. Jackson, in Pinchbeck Bars, John Cox spector. An OMNIBUS from the White 4 Thurlby, L. Francis Hart meets the trains. 6 Whaplode, - Clarke MAIL OMNIBus from the White 4 Wigt.oft, W. Cox and J. Garner Hart to Holbeach, Long Button, and Lynn, at 1 afternoon. LONG SUTTON, or SUTTON ST. MAHY, 2~ miles ·w. of Sut tonBridgeand Cross Keys Wash, 5 miles E. by S. of Holbeacb, and9i N. of Wisbeacb, has risen during the prebent century from the rank of a village to that of a handsome and flourishing market town. Its PARISH includes the three parochial chapelries and townships of Sutton St. Edmund, Suttou St. James, and Lutton St. Ni0holas, and contains altogether 22,580 acres, and 65Dl souls. The town ship of Sutton St. "Mary, or Long Sutton, contains about 10,200 acres of rich marsh and fen land, and increased its population from 1723 in 1801, to 23D2 in 1 821, and to 4416 souls in 1851, a bout half of whom are in the town, and the rest at SurroN BRIDGE, and in scattered houses in the Fen and Marsh, the former extending 3 miles eastward, and the latter 3 miles westward to the borders of the Great Wash. The increase in the prosperity and population of Long Sut· ion is attributable to the erection of Sutton Bridge, near which there is now a pleasant and well-built suburb of good houses, from 1 to 2 miles E. of the town, on the excellent embanked road which bas been extended to the town from Cross Keys Wash, (sometimes called Sutton ·wash,) where the passage to Norfolk was formerly by boats, or over dangerous beds of sand and silt, more than two miles in breadth, which were covered twice a-day by the tides of the Ger man Ocean, but might be crossed, with the aid of guides, at the periods of low water, though many, both in carriages and on foot, lost their lives in attempting 'to pass from the \Vash-bouse, fu .