2.--At the Norfolk Sessions the county justices received the resignation
of Col. Richard Montague Oakes, Chief Constable. Capt. Black was elected
in his place on October 22nd. Col. Oakes was presented, on October 23rd,
with a silver vase, subscribed for by the superintendents and constables
of the Norfolk constabulary.
7.--The nomination of candidates for the representation of Norwich took
place at the Guildhall. The show of hands was in favour of Messrs. Peto
and Warner, and a poll was demanded on behalf of the Marquis of Douro and
Col. Dickson. The polling-booths were opened at eight o'clock on the
morning of the 8th, and closed at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the
result was officially declared at one o'clock on the 9th: Peto, 2,190;
Warner, 2,145; Douro, 1,592; Dickson, 1,465. The issues on which the
election was fought were Free Trade and Protection.
--Mr. C. E. Rumbold and Sir E. Lacon, "Moderate Conservatives," and Mr.
W. T. M'Cullagh and Sir C. Napier, Whig-Radicals, were nominated
Parliamentary candidates for Yarmouth. The polling took place on the
8th: Lacon, 611; Rumbold; 547; M'Cullagh, 521; Napier, 486.
8.--Lynn election: Lord Jocelyn, 627; Lord Stanley, 551; Mr. Robert
Pashley, Q.C., 383. The two first-named were returned.
9.--The Hon. Francis Baring and the Earl of Euston were returned
unopposed for the borough of Thetford.
12.--Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes were returned
unopposed as members for East Norfolk.
17.--The nomination of candidates for West Norfolk took place at
Swaffham. Mr. William Bagge and Mr. George Pierrepont Bentinck were the
Conservative nominees, and Mr. Anthony Hamond the Liberal candidate.
"Mr. Hamond was formerly a Protectionist, and opposed Mr. Cobden at the
Free Trade meeting at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, only a week before Sir
Robert Peel proposed to repeal the Corn Laws. Mr. Hamond now avows
himself a Free Trader." He was nominated at the last moment to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the retirement of the Hon. E. K. Coke. The poll
was opened on the 20th and 21st, and on the 23rd the result was declared
as follows: Bagge, 3,421; Bentinck, 3,143; Hamond, 1,973.