minicry of the troupe, which was performed in front of the light was thrown in well defined shadows on to the screen. The phantoms represented all the characters of a pantomime, and as such the affair was very amusing. It was accompanied by an excellent band of music.
A repetition of the Shadow Entertainment took place on March 3rd, and again by request, on March 5th. "Didn't they cut and caper about" said one of the audience, as he was telling the story, next day, "and didn't they make us fellows laugh? There were necromancers and witches, and tumblers and clowns, and pantaloons, and harlequins, and volunteers, and skeletons, and ghosts, and I can't tell you what else. Then there was a hatching of chickens- no, not exactly that, but there were two funny looking fellows, with their big spoons and knives pitching into a boiled egg, I suppose they called it, when out hopped a chicken, as large as life. To tell you the truth, there were all sorts of funny things which I can't think of now; but I know we all laughed heartily, and wondered too how they did it, especially when they one and all jumped clean up to the ceiling and down again."
A Lecture on George Stephenson was delivered in the Temperance Hall on the 16th of March, by the Rev. Andrew Reed. The hall was well filled, and the lecturer was attentively listened to throughout.
"Luther the Monk and Luther the Reformer" was the title of a lecture delivered at the same place on March 23rd, by Mr. George Clements.
"Social Economy" was the subject on which the Rev Kennedy discoursed upon at the Temperance Hall and Workingmen's Institute on the 13th of April, The reverend gentleman urges upon his hearers the importance of temperance and economy in all concerns of life.
Man Traps. A lecture thus entitled was delivered in the same hall on May 11th by Mr. Ranger, of Lewes. It was well attended, and was really a discourse on Temperance.
Missionary Enterprise engaged the attention of a good audience at the hall on the 18th of Way. The lecturer was Mr. J. Hutchings of Hastings, who gave a lucid description of the work in which the various missionary societies were engaged.
Mr. Noah Bailey gave addresses in the Temperance Hall on the evenings of the 2oth and 21st of May, preached in the same building on the following Sunday, and addressed a Hastings audience on Monday. In all these he was received with manifest pleasure. In one of his addresses he said he had never been to school in his life, being the offspring of a drunken and infidel father and a drunken mother. His own early career had been a bad one, but he had come out of it, helped as he had been by his God-fearing and teetotal wife.
Popular Readings. The introduction and dates of the so-called Denny Reading are described on page 209.
The Third Annual Meeting of the Working news Institute was held in the -
