6.--The Young Company's yawl Increase was launched from Yarmouth beach at
one p.m., with a crew of eight hands, Budds (a pilot), and a Mr. Layton.
It went to the assistance of a brig flying a signal of distress. Layton
and one of the men remained on board the brig. The yawl, when returning
to shore, was capsized in a squall, and seven of the crew drowned. Two,
named Brock and Emmerson, swam for their lives. Emmerson sank, but Brock
continued swimming until he reached Corton Bay, where he was picked up by
a vessel after he had been seven hours in the water and had swum fourteen
miles.
10.--The Revising Barristers (Mr. S. Gazelee and Mr. W. A. Collins)
commenced an inquiry at Norwich as to the settlement of the new municipal
boundaries. On the 13th they announced that they had decided to arrange
the city in eight wards, based upon the relative proportions of property
and population.
13.--At a convivial meeting at the Three Turks public-house, Charing
Cross, Norwich, William Cork, an artisan, was singing "the well-known
song written on the death of General Wolfe," and after repeating the
words, "And I to death must yield," fell down and, to the consternation
of the company, instantly expired.
23.--At a meeting held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, under the
presidency of Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., M.P., it was agreed that the line
of railway most advantageous to Norfolk and Norwich was that proposed by
Mr. James Walker, engineer, from Yarmouth to Norwich and thence to
Cambridge and London. A similar opinion was expressed at meetings held
at Yarmouth on October 30th and at Thetford on November 3rd.
28.--The libraries, works of art, curiosities, &c., of Captain Marryat,
C.B., were sold by auction at his residence, Langham, near Holt.
"Captain Marryat has broken up his establishment in Norfolk as his
devotion to literature will oblige him to reside constantly in London."