1.--This day (Sunday) Mr. Alderman Leman and Mr. Alderman Yallop were
elected to be returned to the Court of Aldermen for appointment to the
office of Mayor of Norwich. Mr. Yallop was chosen Mayor on the 3rd.
2.--Lord George Bentinck and Lord William Lennox were elected without
opposition members of Parliament for King's Lynn.
3.--The use of the ballot box at meetings of the Norwich Corporation was
discontinued, on the motion of Mr. W. J. Utten Browne, who characterised
it as "a sneaking mode of proceeding."
4.--Died in Harley Street, London, aged 69, the Viscountess Nelson and
Duchess of Bronte, "widow of the immortal hero of Trafalgar." The
funeral took place at Littleham, near Exmouth.
6.--Mr. T. W. Coke and Sir W. B. ffolkes were returned unopposed members
of Parliament for the county of Norfolk. Mr. Coke announced that he
would not again seek re-election.
28.*--"Last week a lobster was taken out alive from one of the branches
of the river Waveney, at Frenze, in this county. The river is
intersected by several locks, and the place where it was taken is nearly
40 miles from the sea."