cessfully carried out. A handsome Bible and a purse of £10 had been placed in his hands to present to Mr. Elworthy as a slight acknowledgement of that gentleman's valuable services, and as a testimony of the good feelings of the committee towards him.- The recipient, who rose amidst prolonged applause, thanked the Mayor, the committee
and all who had worked with him in the undertaking.
Great Loss of Sheep
On Monday night, the 9th, of May, and more effectively on the following night, Mr. Eldridge of the Grove farm, Hollington, suffered a serious loss, amounting to £40, by the deaths and mutilation of his sheep. Two ferocious lurchers, said to belong to Anscombe and another man, got among the flock and committed the destruction thus indicated.
A Lords Day Obervance Society.
On Wednesday the 6th of April was formed a Lords Day observance Society which gave rise to the following editorial remarks in the St. Leonards Gazette: - In our indebtedness to Creative Wisdom, it seemeth meet to acknowledge that a religious observance of the Sabbath is a duty incumbent on all men. There are very few persons, we think, who would not be ready to admit this to be their "bounden duty" but there are, doubtless, very many who regard the Sabbath as something more than a mere church going institution. Among this latter class we find a feeling of suspicion is being awakened that the recent formation of a Lords Day Observance Society at Hastings has for its object a gloomy and rigid Sabbatarianism, at once distasteful to an intelligent perception of one’s duties and incompatible with the requirements of modern society. Whether there are good grounds for this suspicion we will not presently attempt to determine but we think a little calm consideration of the subject is worthy of serious attention. We know that at the meeting of Wednesday week, when it was resolved to form a branch society for the better observance of the Sabbath there were present some well-known good-intentioned and God fearing men; and we also know that our worthy Mayor who presided at that meeting, distinctly stated that while he loved the Lords day and wished to see it kept holy, he was desirous that the Society's efforts should be strictly confined to the obtaining a proper and reverential observance of that day, and not to insist upon anything approaching to the rigid observance of a Jewish Sabbath. He believed that the seventh day's rest was instituted at the creation and for a particular people; that the Lords day and the Jewish Sabbath were two different institutions; and that the death of Christ blotted out the hand-writing of ordinances; also that another day of rest was appointed
