PETERSFIELD.
FESTIVITIES IN COMMEMORATION OF THE PRINCE OF WALES’S MARRIAGE.— The public meeting held on Wednesday (last week) with a view to making arrangements for the celebration of the above auspicious event has been productive of far greater results that the most sanguine could have anticipated. The subscriptions promised at the meeting reached £40, and subsequent contributions have raised the amount to considerably over £100. A committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and we understand the programme of the day’s proceedings will include—a treat to all of the poor children of the town and its three tithings, who will assemble in the Market-square at twelve o’clock, and go in procession through the streets with flags and banners, headed by the band. On their return to the Square they will be feasted with plum cakes, oranges, &c., after which a variety of sports, racing for prizes, &c., will be provided for them. At 3 30 a public dinner of roast beef and plum pudding will be given in the Square to the whole of the adult working classes resident in Petersfield, Sheet, Lower Weston, and Lower Nursted—free tickets for which will be issued to all applicants from the above places up to nine o’clock on Saturday night, the 9th inst., by the members of the committee, viz.: Messrs. Adams, Crafts, Cross, Duplock, Fairbairn, A. Gammon, Rev. H. Haigh, Harffey, Mr. Small, Rev. M. Smelt, Mr. Summers, Mr. J. Todman. At seven in the evening there will be a display of fireworks on the Heath, and shortly after we may expect to see Col. Nicholson’s bonfire blazing away on Wardown. We are glad to hear that the committee have secured the services of the Haslemere band for the day. Thus, though somewhat tardy in bestirring itself, Petersfield will, we trust, be no great way behind other towns of its class in getting up “a demonstration”—a demonstration, too, in which it is gratifying to find a total absence of all party feeling and prejudice, all classes and sects working harmoniously together for the common good of all, and with the unanimous wish to contribute to the happiness and enjoyment of their poorer neighbors.