St. Leonards delivery. These resolutions of the Town Council have been passed, without any notice to or communication with the inhabitants of the said district, who are unanimously opposed to them, and have signified their feelings to that effect by resolutions which were passed at a very large and influential meeting of all classes held at the Assembly Rooms, St. Leonards, on the 22nd instant, and a copy of which has been already sent to you for the information of his Grace the Postmaster General; and the Commissioners entirely concurring in these resolutions have directed me to signify such concurrence to you for the information of his Grace whenever this matter shall be brought under his consideration; and also to protest on their behalf in the name of the inhabitants of the town of St. Leonards against any such charges as the Hastings Town Council propose should be made in the postal arrangements at present existing in the delivery of St. Leonards - arrangements which have been in operation for twenty years and upwards, and which, in the opinion of the Commissioners are well and conveniently calculated to meet all present requirements.
I have the honour to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Wm. B. Young,
To Rowland Hill, Esq.,
Secretary, General Post Office, London"
The Mayor also remarked that the committee appointed at the St. Leonards meeting sent him a note, requesting an interview. He met them that morning, and the matter was fully entered into, and the committee were not quite so beligerent(sic) as they appeared to be at the meeting. He thought that the opposition which the Council would meet with from them was chiefly on the ground of the postal arrangements. They said that the Council had caused a confusion in postal matters which did not exist before. They admitted that the district was in the borough of Hastings, and they had no objection to the words "Borough of Hastings" being written up close to the Archway at the other end of St. Leonards, and their wish seemed to be to leave other matters to the decision of the Postmaster-General.
Coun. Eldridge said that as he was not present on the former occasion, he should like to hear the resolutions read. He asked this, because it was said that the letter sent to the Postmaster-General was so differently worded from the resolutions that people out of doors said the resolutions must have been altered? The Clerk then read the resolutions, a copy of -
