2.--The announcement was made of the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. F.
Phillips as members of the Norwich Company, under the management of Mr.
Joseph Clarence. Mrs. Phillips, who was professionally known as Miss
Ellen Daly, had acquired Metropolitan celebrity, and "was equally at home
in serious work, in domestic comedy, and in fashionable life."
8.--The ceremony of turning the first sod of the great undertaking known
as the Norfolk Estuary Works was performed at Lynn by Sir William
ffolkes. The Earl of Hardwick, the Earl of Leicester, Mr. R. G. Tounley,
M.P., and Miss Wodehouse each deposited a spadeful of earth upon a
barrow, which was wheeled away by the Mayor. It was estimated that
150,000 acres of land would be reclaimed from the sea by the completion
of the work.
9.--Mr. Henry Woodcock was re-elected Mayor of Norwich. Mr. Edward
Blakely was appointed Sheriff.
11.--The Norwich Protestant Association held a meeting at St. Andrew's
Hall, and adopted an address to the Queen "on the recent invasion of her
Majesty's prerogative by the Pope." On December 7th the clergy of the
diocese presented to the Bishop an address upon the same subject; and on
December 14th the High Sheriff (Mr. E. R. Pratt) presided over a county
meeting at the Shirehall, when resolutions condemnatory of the action of
the Pope were adopted, and an address voted to the Queen. Many meetings
were held in all parts of the county, and for some weeks "Papal
aggression" was made a popular cry.