6.--Died at Landfort House, Portsmouth, Col. Edwin Wodehouse, C.B.,
commanding Royal Artillery in the Southern District. He was the eldest
son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Philip Wodehouse, and was born at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, on April 17th, 1817. Entering the Army as lieutenant in the
Royal Artillery, on December 19th, 1834, he served in the campaign of
1854-55, was present at the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman
(where his horse was killed beneath him), at the siege and fall of
Sebastopol, and at the repulse and sortie of October 26th, 1854. Col.
Wodehouse was three times mentioned in dispatches, and received the medal
with four clasps.
10.--The first number of the "Eastern Daily Press" was published. A
rival newspaper, called the "Eastern Daily Journal," published at the
price of one halfpenny, was issued this month, and had but a very brief
existence.
31.--The first Diocesan Conference was held at Norwich. At the
ruri-decanal meetings held in the spring of the year, the question
propounded by the Bishop for consideration was, "Is it desirable that
there should be held in this diocese a Diocesan Conference, in which both
the clergy and laity should be fully represented, for the purpose of
considering and eliciting the opinions of Churchmen upon matters
affecting the Church in general, or our own diocese in particular?" A
large majority of the clergy and laity were in favour of the Conference,
and the Bishop, considering the large area of the diocese, decided that
the meetings should take place in five different centres. The first
Conference was held at St. Andrew's Hall on this date; the second at
Fakenham Corn Hall, on November 1st; the third at Ipswich Public Hall, on
November 2nd; the fourth at Halesworth, on November 3rd; and the fifth at
Lynn Athenaeum, on November 4th. At each Conference papers were read,
followed by the moving of resolutions and by discussions.