the reading, the selections from which were given in a style of such impassioned elocution and in characters so polyphonous as to rivet the profound attention of a crowded audience for a period of two hours. The lady was greatly applanded.
Harp Recitals. What Thalberg was to the piano, such was Aptomas to the harp; a fact which no one denied who had witnessed the performance of those two musical celebrities. An opportunity was afforded of hearing the latter gentleman on the afternoon of Nov. 2nd, when a rich and varied programme was set before a St Leonards audience.
A Harp and Vocal Concert was also given in the same room on the 1st of October by Mr. Frederick Chatterton and Miss Arabella Smyth.
Fires and the Fire Brigade
"May they never be requred!" was the expression of one who on the evening of the 16th of March witnessed a sortie of two fire engines and their gallant staff in the locality of the Sussex Hotel. Here both men and engines were thoroughly drilled in the presence of a large number of spectators. The next move was a vigorous attack upon the refreshments which were provided through the liberabity of the Rev. J.A. Hatchard.
A fire occurred at the house of Mr. Richard Lamb, St. Leouards Green, on the 23rd of April, which, by prompt exertion was fortunately extinguished but not without damage.
A Lighter Fusee, thrown upon the dry grass near the Harpsichord house on the 30th of July, set the furze on fire, which being in close proximity to some timber built dwellings, the services of Supt Glenister and other members of the Volunteer Fire Brigade were called into requisition, and the fire was soon extinguished.
Influx of Visitors.
Full to overflowing were the hotels and lodging houses of both towns in the month of March, a feature which at that period of the year bespoke the healthiness and general attractiveness of the place, and as a rider to the last clause of the sentence the marriages during the past year had been 344, whilst the births had exceeded the deaths by upwards of 340. The trains of Good Friday and the preceding Thursday brought into Hastings an St Leonards some extraordinary living freights, numbering in the aggregate about 4,000 persons. Of this number, the South Eastern trains via Tunbridge Wells, imported on Thursday 826; and on Friday morning there came by the same route a still larger number in three long trains. By the Brighton and South Coast line on Friday morning there arrived a monster train of 28 carriages and two engines, and one of 19 carriages and two engines. The large number thus brought to the seaside appeared to be of a respectable class, very many of whom were seen throughout the day in search of apartments. The weather was delightful, and those who came only for the day, as well as those who came for a longer period, must have their enjoyment heightened thereby -
