5.--Mr. William Bagge and Mr. W. Lyde Wiggett Chute, the former members,
were nominated and returned unopposed as members for West Norfolk. "The
town of Swaffham was one blaze of pink and purple." The candidates were
escorted to the Shirehall by an imposing procession, and after the
nomination the election dinner was held at the Assembly Rooms, under the
presidency of the Hon. Francis Baring.
10.--Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes, the former
Conservative members for East Norfolk, entered Norwich at the head of a
great cavalcade of freeholders, and were nominated at the Shirehall. Mr.
Palmer, Recorder of Yarmouth, and Mr. William Wilde, Coroner for Norwich,
nominated and seconded Sir William J. H. B. ffolkes as the Whig
candidate. The polling, on the 13th, was declared as
follows:--Wodehouse, 3,498; Burroughes, 3,437; ffolkes, 1,379.
12.--Died at Denton, near Harleston, Sarah Witton, aged 100 years,
"leaving twenty-nine great-grandchildren still living, they being the
origin of one daughter." The deceased was "the daughter of John and
Eleanor Middleton, who lived to attain to the great age of 105 years."
15.--Died in the Chantry, Norwich, Monsieur De Rouillon, "an eminent
professor and teacher of French, and extensively known as the author of
several grammatical and other useful literary works."
26.--At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Williams, a special jury
tried the important action, Palmer and another _v._ Irving, chairman of
the Alliance Insurance Company. The action was brought by the executors
of a person of the name of Howes to recover from the company the sum of
1,503 pounds, the amount of a policy on the life of Howes. The defendant
disputed the liability to pay, on the ground that Howes had suffered from
consumption, was addicted to habits prejudicial to life, and that the
policy had been obtained by fraud. After a long trial, an arrangement
was arrived at, and a verdict given for the defendant, both sides to pay
their own costs, and the policy to become void. Policies with other
offices were similarly affected by the result of the trial.
28.--At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Williams, John Self, aged
20, was charged with the murder of Jemima Stimpson, aged 15, at
Wymondham, on July 17th. The prisoner killed the girl by striking her on
the head with a spade, and afterwards threw the body into a pond. He was
found guilty, sentenced to death, and on August 14th executed on the
Castle Hill, Norwich.