during the week which ended on the 31st of January in a grand panorama, and for the greater convenience of the St. Leonards people, Mr. Batchelor, the proprietor shifted his exhibition to the Assembly room for four days.
Mr. Thurton's Odd Folks appeared at the Music Hall on the evenings of the 3rd and 4th of August, and fully sustained the character that had been given of them. Mr. Thurton was the sole embodiment of thirty or forty of the drollest characters imaginable, and it is no exaggeration to say that his delineations transformations and ventriloquism, were truly surprising.
A Week's Entertainments The past week (says Brett's Gazette' of Aug. 22nd), has indeed been one of stirring interest, notwithstanding the unavoidable postponement of the Regatta; for, besides the series of great archery meetings, there has been one continued round of amusements. On Monday and Tuesday the Christy's Mistrels delighted large audiences, as they have done before. On the same days Sanger's monster circus and Wombwells menagerie were exhibited to immense crowds. Then there was the annual Fête Champêtre of the Mechanic's Institution which for the sixth time came off in the grounds of P. F. Robertson, Esq., and whilst whilst[sic] delighting some 1600 persons, added £37 to the fund. On the afternoon and evening of Wednesday Professor Jacobs entertained large audiences with his magical illusions and ventriloquism. As an improvisatore, he also displayed his usual, or rather, his unusual ability, the song which he improvised at the evening meeting being superior to anything we have heard before, and as he afterwards asserted, superior to anything he ever before attempted. In the same or a similar line, the Music Hall was the scene of Professor Wohlgemuth's labours on the evenings of Thursday and Friday.
Herr Dobler, a celebrated professor of Legerdemain, greatly amused and astonished three assemblies at the Music Hall on the 7th and 8th of December, and, a week later, three similar entertainments at St. Leonards.
Fire Alarms
On Sunday evening, March 22nd, an accidental fire occurred at the Royal Oak, Hastings, which although promptly subdued, was sufficiently critical to create an alarming excitement.
Another accidental fire occurred on the evening of the 15th of April at the cottage of a laundress in the rear of 104 High street. It consisted of the burning of some clothes only that which were put in front of the fire to dry or to air.
A fire was discovered on the 6th of June at Mr. Child's eating-house in the Fishmarket. No. 1 section of the Fire Brigade hastened to the rescue and the fire was quickly extinguished.
