post-office as well. To paraphrase the words of Ald. Ross "It could not not be altered without an Act of Parliament, and if Hastings should bring in one, St. Leonards must be prepared (and is prepared) to fight them on that point". Hastings says "You have made a first-rate place of it, and now you must give it up to us." Certain property was bought from Mr. Eversfield, and although that gentleman had no authority to sell the name of the district and did not sell it, he gave over for a small sum all the parade and groynes from Carlisle parade to the Archway. And then, again, although the purchase was effected by the Hastings and St. Leonards Councillors with Hastings and St. Leonards money the name of the district was St. Leonards "to all intents and purposes, and all the talking in the world would not alter it!"] The postal district (said Mr. Ross) did not extend to Verulam place till a visitor, whose letter was delayed, asked the Postmaster-General to alter the arrangement, and then another slice was given to St. Leonards. If some old dowager lady, living at White-rock place, were to ask to have that place given to St. Leonards it would be done. Then they would very soon be shut up in All Saints and St. Leonards. There was a great agitation at St. Leonards, and the people there were doing their utmost; but the Council was doing nothing, and if they did not bestir themselves it would be with them according to the old adage, they would lock the stable after the horse was gone. He moved that a deputation of three be sent to the Postmaster-General, to hold a personal conference with him on the subject. If this should fail, some other steps must be adopted; because he had heard that a certain person was going to speak to a certain lady, and she would speak to a certain lord (Laughter). If this affair should be carried on in the back-stairs way in which business was sometimes done at St. Leonards, she might triumph, as she had before [Cheers].
Coun. Harvey (the eccentric member, who at one of the Council meetings expressed his belief that Mr. Ross would cut his throat if it were not for the protection of the law) now said he thought great praise was due to Mr. Ross, which was very characteristic of the whole of his doings when he was Mayor. He (Mr. Harvey) was always proud to record his feelings with respect to Mr. Ross's conduct when Mayor. He thought, however that the resolutions at the previous meeting were not quite so well considered as they might have been, but the more the subject was thought over, the stronger they must feel their position as a Council and the injustice of -
