to the office of Assessor, which will either disqualify him for a Councillor or subject him to a fine of £25. Now begins the business in earnest; for, your provisional colleague, not falling in the views of those who think that no other person could fill the office of Assessor so well as he, is determined to pay the fine and get out of it. Yet, being somewhat chagrined by the disbursement of five-and-twenty pounds, without, as he thinks any just necessity, he creates a contest by bringing to the arena a third candidate. An excitement is thus produced, and if you do but make a little show of antagonism, depend on it, your rivals will go the whole hog, even in defiance of the H. I. P. S. vengeance and Peacock's pride. All that now remains to be done is to carefully abstain from a personal canvass, and to prevail on your friends to exert themselves on your behalf as little as possible. If these means do not suffice to get you out of the Council, we know of no others that will.
Another Change. Earlier in the year (July 21st) in consequence of Mr. James Beck having become a bankrupt, his seat in the Council became vacant, and was filled, unopposed, by Mr. Charles Thomas How.
Various Occurrences
Gallantry Rewarded. On the afternoon of August 5th, a young lady from the All Souls Convent, while bathing from Robinson's machines at Eversfield place, lost her hold of a rope and got out of her depth. She was in danger of being drowned and Robinson's son was unable to reach her. At this critical moment, a man named William "Nun") Baker, being on board of a vessel, with five others, waiting for the tide to float them off, plunged into the water from the vessel's side, swam to the assistance of the lady, got behind her and pushed her inshore before him (the only safe way of rescuing a drowning person), where she was got into the machine in an exhausted condition. When sufficiently recovered to be taken home, Baker was rewarded with £5, half of which he kept for himself, and the othe money he gave to his mates, they sharing 10s. each.
A Child Suffocated. On the 4th of August, a three months old child named William Stephen Griffen, whose parents lived at 6 Lavatoria, St. Leonards was found dead in bead, it having rolled over on its face.
A Gentlemen's Club at St. Leonards was formed, during January, with about 60 members, and a portion of the Assembly Rooms was handsomely fitted up for the same. The club continued for many years.
Prince William of Prussia passed through, on May 21st, by rail on his way from Dover to Portsmouth.
Also en Route from Portsmouth to Canterbury, 550 of the 12th Lancers, just returned from the Crimea, passed through in a long train on the 2nd of June.
