sanguine temperaments of zealous partizans ever fell. The postmasters may goodnaturedly do their best to mitigate the evil; but the evil still exists; and by no amount of sophistry can the statement be disproved that great inconvenience is daily occurring, through the delay necessarily arising from St. Leonards being addressed to Hastings and vice versâ. With a central office for the borough, this confusion and delay could not happen. All the letters would come into one office, and they would at once be properly sorted for their respective destinations. The excessive sensitiveness of our west-end friends should not be recklessly outraged; but it is asking too much to demand that out of regard to it, such an anomaly as the present system should be continued. We are glad to find that the child’s play of painting up names and daubing them out is not to be acted over again. We never thought highly of the wisdom which led to that abrupt plan of re-naming the west part of Hastings during the former dispute; still less did we admire the big-boyism which was encouraged in contravention of the orders of the Local Board. If the former was ill-judged, the latter was considerably worse than undignified. We rejoice, then in the promise that this comedy will not be re-acted. The contest, we hope, is this time between gentlemen, who can differ without losing their temper, and not between Local Board painters and midnight guys.”
The Gazette Again. Following up the discussion, the St. Leonards Gazette in its next issue, put forth the following rejoinder:- “The present effort of the Town Council” remarks a contemporary, “is founded on the fact that with two head post-offices in one borough, mistakes are constantly occurring”, and “the denial of this fact is one of the most barefaced pieces of blundering into which the sanguine temperaments of zealous partizans ever fell.” In taking up this question we should have thought the News – for that is the contemporary allu&ded to – would have given us something more definite than these vague generalities as to what mistakes are constantly occurring, by whom they are made, and what amount of inconvenience arises from it, by whom the inconvenience is felt, who are the complaining parties, and some other particulars. We should also have thought that the said journal would have enlightened us who are the zealous partizans possessed of “sanguine temperaments”, and guilty of “the most barefaced blundering”. In the absence of such information we are inclined to speculate upon the probability of the above quotations having reference to some remarks we felt called upon to make in our last week’s impression. If our surmise be correct, then we must challenge the News to disprove what we have promulgated, and to establish by fair argument and reliable -
