were interred on the north-east side of the church, and the mournful ceremony was witnessed by a very large concourse of persons, to many of whom the kind-heartedness, benevolence and other Christian virtues of the deceased were well known. The body of the deceased, which was borne from the Rectory to the Church by six bearers, was preceded by the members of the Corporation and officials connected therewith. The pall was borne by six clergymen - namely, the Revs. Thomas Vores, H. Simpson (Bexhill), T. Nightingale, T. E. Tanner, W. B. Bennett and A. Turner. In addition to the relatives and private friends of the deceased, the body was followed by the church-wardens of All Saints and St. Clements' the male and female servants, and several of the principal residents of the neighborhood(sic). The burial service was read by the Rev. J. Parkin, and as the funeral procession left the church the Dead March in Saul was played by Mr. Giles, the organist.
The last rites having been paid to the deceased gentleman at the grave those who were present returned to their homes, doubtless deeply affected by the occurrence which had called them together. In the death of the Rev. H. S. Foyster the parishioners generally lost a good counsellor, and the poor a valued friend.
Mr. Polhill's Funeral, on the 1st of September was one that would not easily be effaced from the memory of those who witnessed it. Thousands of persons who had congregated near the residence of the deceased, followed the funeral cortege to the cemetery at Ore, and there paid the last earthly respect to the departed. A lengthened report, which appeared at the time is here withheld; and readers must judge for themselves of the friendly feeling manifested towards the late Brigade Sergt. Major Polhill by the processionists here enumerated:- Detachments of Police; Privates of four sections of volunteers; with two muffled bands, escorted by a firing party; members of the Hastings Friendly Society; mourning coaches and twelves private carriages; and the mournful cavalcade met at the cemetery by 40 other carriages and a countless number of pedestrians. Such was the march to the tomb of a townsman who had been successively a tailor, a baker, a publican, a pork-butcher, a political agent, an active member of the oldest benefit society, and an equally active officer of Artillery. His general urbanity and respectful bearing towards friends and foes won for him the esteem of his fellow-men; and when he had thus gone to his last home it was hoped that his widow - whose unremitting attention to business in Robertson street gave her late partner the leisure necessary for his out-of-door duties - would not be forgotten. The following lines by "L. B.", of St. Leonards, were contributed to the St. Leonards Gazette:-
"To the Memory of One who has passed Away"
"Thy labour o'er, thy hard work done,
"The love of thousands thou hast won;
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