ment for the benefit of the town of St. Leonards.
The Rev. Tilson Marsh seconded, and Sir Woodbine having acknowledged the vote, the meeting separated.
From the St. Leonards Newspaper
The Hastings and St. Leonards Gazette, Visitors' Vade Mecum, and Fashionable and Commercial Directory, duly registered at Somerset House under two sureties of £100, was printed and published by T. B. Brett, 28 Norman Road West, St Leonards. In the 93rd number dated December 19th, 1857 (three days previously to the above described meeting) appeared the following leading article:
The Boundary Question
At the present juncture of affairs relating to these towns, we feel called upon to make a few remarks. It will be remembered that at a recent meeting of the Town Council certain resolutions were passed having for their object the transfer of a large district from St. Leonards to Hastings, and the abolition of the St. Leonards Post Office. In conformity with these resolutions the word Hastings has been emblazoned on the walls of houses in the district in question and the Postmaster-General has been requested to alter the postal arrangements accordingly. A more unfortunate or impracticable scheme has probably never emanated from that august body. The old party feud which for some year past has been deepening into a profound slumber, has been suddenly aroused from its torpor, and is beginning to display a fierceness which cannot be aught than detrimental to the interests of both towns. The Council - or rather the two-to-one division of it which represents Hastings - is firmly resolved to carry out its purpose whilst the St. Leonards are unanimously determined to resist what they regard an infringement of their rights and an exhibition of petty jealousy. Living, as many have done for years in the (now) disputed territory, and connected with St. Leonards by every social and commercial tie, it is natural for them to repel a seperation which can yield them no equivalent compensation. They well know that in a commercial point of view the east derives extensive benefits from the west which, from the nature of things cannot be reciprocated. It were easy to show that Hastings receives in various shapes nearly one half St. Leonards disbursements, leaving the other moiety to be struggled for by an already overstrained competition in the latter. town. The advantage thus accruing to Hastings would be greatly diminished were St. Leonards to be driven farther west and compelled to adopt a more exclusive mode of dealing; and those who would force on a change to that -
