portant trial - which at the time excited more than ordinary interest - should be read in connection with the proceedings of the Town Council described on page 112. Had there been, by some unforseen legal technicality, an adverse verdict for the plaintiffs, the probability is that Mr. Wyatt, a well known self-witted and arbitrary owner of the Mount Pleasant estate, would never have condescended to negotiate with the Town Council in the manner that he did - thus making, as it were a virtue of necessity, and opening the way as we now see it for an additional good road to Halton, to Ore, to Fairlight, and to the Cemetery, together with the formation of a populous district of the borough, including villa and other residences, schools, chapels and all the usual accessories of a respectable community.
Mr. Rock's paper on the Climate of Fairlight
At the November meeting of the Philosophical Society, Mr. Jas. Rock, jun., read a paper of a painstaking character on a two years observations and registration of the meteorological conditions of Fairlight as compared with the records kept in Hastings and other places. In commencing the reading of his paper, Mr. Rock desired to guard himself from any imputation of attempting to generalise upon too narrow a basis of fact. He requested his hearers to understand that as his paper was founded on meteorological at Fairlight, for a period of two years only, and those two years in many respects exceptional, he did not offer the results he had obtained as indications of the average character of the climate at that locality. All that he intended to do was to state the facts as observed by himself, and compare them as far as he might be able with similar facts observed simultaneously at other stations. He had thought that corresponding observations made at places having such a considerable difference in elevation and so small a difference in latitude - scarcely a minute, would at least [be] interesting, and if carefully recorded might have some scientific value. Accordingly, upon consultation with Dr. Greenhill, through whose exertions the Hastings observations had been commenced at the Literary Institution, he obtained a set of instruments, which had been tested and compared by Mr. Glazier with the standard instruments at the Royal Observatory. His own observations had been made from April 1st, 1857 to March 31st, 1859. The readings of the thermometer during that period were shown by tabulated forms which were displayed in the room. He gave a detailed account of the state of the weather, the temperature, and the principal characteristics of each month during the two -
