Ocean Penny Postage. The celebrated Elihu Burritt (the “learned blacksmith”) lectured on this subject in the Wellington Square Chapel on the 6th of April. The scheme was partly carried out forty-five years later (1899).
London Missionary Society. On behalf of this society a lecture was delivered in the Croft Chapel on the 4th of April, by the Rev. G. Gogerly, many years a missionary in Bengal.
“Italy as it is” was the title of a lecture delivered the same evening in the Swan Assembly Room by the Rev. H. J. C. Smith.
Advantages of Assurance was descanted upon, by J. F. Leach, Esq. in the Market Hall, on the 6th of April.
The Life of Henry formed the subject of an interesting lecture, in connection with the Christian Association, on the 15th of April, by the Rev. C. D. Bell.
The History of Philosophy in Germany, was treated of in an able lecture by the Rev. F. J. Sharr, on the 18th of April, in connection with the Mechanics’ Institution. Mr. Womersley presided.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In the Swan Assembly Room, on the 5th of May, Mr. Wells Brown, the fugitive slave, delivered a lecture, with this title to 200 persons.
Dinners. - Public and Private; also Balls.
On the 28th of January, Musgrave Brisco, M.P. and his lady entertained a select party of friends at dinner and on the evening of the same day about 140 of their most aristocratic aquaintances (sic) assembled for a supper and ball, Mr. Elford’s band being in attendance.
On the preceding evening, Mr. Brisco’s sister (Mrs Fletcher-Norton) gave a soirée dansante to 130 of the elite of the town and neighbourhood, at her residence in Wellington Square[a]. Mr. Elford supplied the music.
Three days later (Jan. 31st) a ball was held in the Swan Assembly Room, attended by about 100 persons. It was thus described in the Hastings and St. Leonards News:- “Dancing was carried on with great spirit until 12 o’clock, when the band struck up the enlivening strains of “The Roast Beef of Old England” and the company descended to a splendid supper given by the never failing munificence of our worthy member Mr. Brisco. The supper tables groaned under the profusion of delicacies there displayed, and the ‘feast of reason and the flow of soul’ gave place to the gaiety and merriment suited to such a festival occasion. During the supper several toasts were given in which the health of Mr. and Mrs. Brisco, Mr. and Mrs Fletcher-Norton, the Mayor, and others were successively proposed. The rataries of Terpsichore then returned to the ball-room to resume the mazy dance with renewed spirits; and polkas and waltzes were kept up till an early hour of the morning.”
The Trade Protection Society dinner, took its annual place at the Kings Head Inn on the 10th of March, with G. Scrivens, Esq., president, in the chair.
The Anniversary Club Dinners were the accompaniments of Whit Monday as -
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