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off in the following order:-

Members of the Committee.
The 4th Cinque Ports Artillery Brass Band.
St Clements schools (540).
St. Mary's Evening Schools (69), with two handsome banners
Parker's Endowed School (Banks) 60.
St Mary's Parochial schools (350).
Baptist and Congregational Sunday Schools (244)
Herr Klee's St. Leonards Band.
St. Leonards National Schools, boys and girls (492).
St Leonards Wesleyan Sabbath Schools (120)
Holy Trinity Sunday School (60).
St Leonards and Bohemia Primitive Methodist Sabbath Schools (103).
The Rifles Brass Band.
St Mary Magdalen National Schools (330).
Alfred-Street Sunday School (70).
Hastings Ragged School (67).
British Schools and Wesleyan Sunday Schools (340).
Workhouse Schools (38).
Artillery Drum and Fife Band.
Saunders's endowed (Fosters) School (70).
Halton National Schools (127).
The procession extended in distance upwards of half a mile, and formed a cheerfully interesting sight. The route lay along the western part of the borough by Robertson Street, Eversfield place and the Marina as far as the St. Leonards Church, thence by East Ascent and Norman Road, to Warrior square where after singing the National Anthem conjointly with the united bands, and giving some hearty cheers, the children were led off to their respective school rooms for the substantial refreshment there provided for them in abundance. It should be noticed that all the schools were supplied with a large number of flags, those of St Leonards being the most numerous, and those of St. Mary Magdalen the most unique, the bannerets, specially made for the occasion, having a very pretty effect. It should also be observed that throughout the route the children frequently sang national and other airs in a joyous strain.

The Volunteer procession, under the command of Captains Scrivens and Rock, consisted of the Cinque Ports Artillery and the 1st Cinque Ports Rifles, with a part of the new cadet corps. Each corps was headed with its excellent brass band, and the whole marched off briskly round the principal parts of both towns and finished off with salutes at East parade and East Well.

The torch light procession of the Volunteer Fire Brigade was also as gay as it was novel. The decorations and illuminations of houses and shops, though not general, were very numerous, and some of them original as well as pretty.