visits to Hastings are only occasional. The congregation is therefore generally left destitute of an officiating minister. The friends of this place are of the baptist denomination , but their sentiments are not very dissimilar from those of the late Mr Huntington .
In addition to the above, there are two small places of worship at the bottom of Court-house street. One is called Zoar. The preacher is a tradesman in the town . The other is a school room , in which some Wesleyans of the new connexion , or Bryanites, meet for public worship.
TOWN HALL.
The old Town Hall or Court House , under which is the Market- place, was erected in the year 1700 , at the expense of John Pultney and Peter Gott, esqs., then representatives in parliament for 1 Hastings; but a more commodious Hall was built in 1823, at the expense of the corporation. In it is a shield bearing the arms of France; brought from Quebec, and which was presented to the corporation by General James Murray, who spent the latter days of his life at his seat called Beauport, near Hastings, after having endured the hardships -
