12.--Died at the residence of Lord Palmerston, in Carlton Gardens,
London, Viscount Jocelyn, M.P. His lordship contracted Asiatic cholera
while performing military duty at the Tower of London as Colonel of the
Essex Rifles. The eldest son of the Earl of Roden, he was born on
February 20th, 1816, and served on the staff of Lord Saltoun in the China
Expedition in 1842. He was the author of a work entitled, "Six Months in
China." In February, 1842, on the appointment of Sir Stratford Canning
as Ambassador at Constantinople, a new writ was issued for King's Lynn,
when Lord Jocelyn was returned for that borough as a
Liberal-Conservative, and continued to represent it until his death.
During the last two years of Sir Robert Peel's Administration he held
office as Secretary to the India Board.
15.--A whale of the "beak" species, measuring 29 feet in length and 21
feet in girth, and weighing nearly nine tons, was captured on Snetttisham
beach. "When boiled, although the operation was unskilful, it produced
120 gallons of oil."
16.--Lynn Athenaeum, erected at the cost of 4,150 pounds, was inaugurated
by addresses delivered by the President (Mr. H. Edwards) and Lord
Stanley. The architects were Messrs. Cruso and Maberly and the
contractors Messrs. J. and W. Purdy.
20.--A portion of a building at Lynn, originally a chapel-of-ease to St.
Margaret's church, and utilised as a workhouse, fell, killing a
clockmaker named Andrews, and John Cana, a pauper. Fissures had been
observed in the walls of the building, and measures had been taken to
remove the inmates to another part of the premises, otherwise the loss of
life would have been appalling. The first stone of the new Workhouse was
laid on July 16th, 1855, by the Rev. J. Bransley, chairman of the Board
of Guardians.
24.--A shocking accident occurred on the River Yare, near the Alder Car
at Trowse Hythe, Thorpe. Mrs. Palmer (wife of Mr. T. H. Palmer, chief
clerk at the Norwich County Court), her son, about six years old; Matilda
Hubbard, a nursemaid; and William Plow, a lad, were drowned by the
overturning of a pleasure-boat which had gone foul of a wherry.