4.--A curious incident occurred at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, at a
lecture given by a Mrs. Hamilton, on "A phrenological analysis of the
heads and speeches of three of the speakers at the soiree given on the
16th ult. to celebrate the opening of the People's College." The persons
referred to were Mr. J. H. Tillett, Mr. Wheeler, and Mr. J. W. Dowson.
The lecturer, amid much disturbance, stated that Mr. Tillett had "a large
love of approbation, too little veneration, and a large portion of
self-esteem"; Mr. Wheeler had "little veneration or
philo-progenitiveness"; and Mr. Dowson's head "showed beautiful Christian
development." Mr. Tillett rose from his seat and described the lecture
as "a mass of rhodomontade, as an imposition, as non-conclusive, and as
most of it foreign to the subject. He denounced this lecturing on heads,
and asked what would be thought if he brought down a phrenologist to
lecture on the heads of his opponents?"
4.--A balloon ascent was made from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, by Mr.
Green, accompanied by Mr. Rush, of Elsenham Hall, Essex, "who was
desirous of trying some experiments with a new instrument called an
aneroid barometer invented by himself, and the first ever made on the new
principle." The balloon descended in a field at West Newton.
6.--The death of the Right Rev. Dr. Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich,
occurred at Brahan Castle, near Dingwall, Ross-shire. The body was
conveyed from Invergordon by sea by the steamer Duke of Sutherland, and
landed at Yarmouth on the 19th. It arrived at Norwich on the same day,
and was deposited in the Palace Chapel, where it lay in state on the
20th, and was interred in the centre of the Cathedral nave on the 21st.
"Anthony Sparrow (50th Bishop), ob. 1685, was the last prelate buried in
the Cathedral." Bishop Stanley was the second son of Sir J. T. Stanley,
of Alderley, Cheshire, and was born January 1st, 1779. He was elected to
the vacant see of Norwich on the death of Bishop Bathurst in 1837. "His
lordship was a Liberal in politics, but more of the Whig than the
Radical, and although too conciliatory to Dissenters, he, of late years
in particular, showed himself devoutedly attached to the Church." He was
Clerk of the Closet to the Queen, President of the Linnean Society, and
one of the Commissioners appointed in 1848 to enquire into the state of
the British Museum.
8.--A meeting of medical practitioners was held at the Guildhall,
Norwich, to consider the best means of preventing the spread of cholera.
Rooms were hired in different parts of the city for dispensing medicines,
and special forms of prayer were used in all the churches and chapels.
November 15th, the day appointed for thanksgiving "for deliverance from
the scourge which has lately visited this land," was observed in Norwich
by the entire suspension of business. All classes of citizens attended
the services held at the Cathedral and the parish churches.