of the three parishes joined hands, and with successful results. Those who first gave the name of St. Leonards to the area from the Archway to Verulam place or those who retained the name by prescriptive right, reasonably considered that as the district thus claimed as St. Leonards grew out of St. Leonards, so, on a similar principle, the area between Verulam place and the site of the Mmorial ought to be called Hastings, as having grown out of Hastings. Thus much was very properly concluded, and the Infirmary, by an unwritten law became, as it were, the natural division of the two towns. Little did the inhabitants of the West think that the very men of the East who united in strongly opposing the intermediate district being called "West Hastings" would afterwards propose the same name as a means of separating it entirely from St. Leonards, and in a less honourable manner that when it was proposed by Mr. Eversfield and a few others. This second attempt of a majority of the Town Council to deprive St. Leonards of its post office, because it stood in the way of calling St. Leonards Hastings, although it signally failed, renewed, in an intensified form, the acerbity which the first attempt created, but which it was hoped had been gradually dying out.
With this preliminary explanation, it is assumed, the ground will have been cleared for what follows.
An Important Meeting at St. Leonards
A large and influential meeting was held in the Assembly Rooms on the 22nd of December for the purpose of taking into consideration the resolution recently adopted and acted upon by the Hastings Town Council in reference to the alteration of postal arrangements, and also the alteration by which a great part of the district long known as St. Leonards-on-sea is to be called Hastings. The chair was occupied by Sir Woodbine Parish, who was supported on the platform by nearly thirty of the principal gentry of the district. Among the persons present there were Mr. A. Burton, Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Staines, Mr. Selmes, Rev. W. W. Hume, Mr. Dalzell, Rev. W. Tilson-Marsh, Mr. Cancillor, Mr. Booth, Major Ogle, Mr. Beecham, Mr. Bartleet, Mr. Smith, Mr. Montgomerie, Capt. Hull, Mr. H. Harwood, Capt. Parish, Rt. Hon. H. Addington, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Escourt, M. P., Mr. Dais, Dr. Adey, Mr. Beddoes, Rev. W. Hayward, Capt. de Lasalle, Mr. R. Ransom, Mr. Maggs, Mr. Hempsted, Rev. C. L. Vaughan, Mr. Grosslob, Mr. Southall, Rev. L. Marriner, Mr. How, Mr. Parks, Rev. C. A. Oak, Mr. Matthison, Mr. Knose, Dr. Blackiston, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Mann, Mesrs. S. Putland, sen & jun., Mr. Voysey, Mr. Carey, Mr Ranger, Mr. Bickles, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Stoneman, Mr. Paul, Mr. Pain, Mr. Gausden, &c. &c.
The Chairman, who rose amidst loud cheers, said - except as a form it would hardly be necessary for him to say that the meeting had been called in consequence of certain resolutions and procedings of the Town Council which militated very materially against the interests -
