3.--The Prince of Wales passed through Thetford, on his way to Elveden
Hall, to visit the Maharajah Duleep Singh.
10.--Mr. Samuel Gurney Buxton was elected Mayor, and Mr. Alexander Robert
Chamberlin appointed Sheriff of Norwich.
--The Prince of Wales arrived at Merton Hall, on a visit to Lord
Walsingham, and left on the 15th.
18.--Died at Bournemouth, Mr. Thomas Baring, member of Parliament for
Huntingdon. Mr. Baring, who was 73 years of age, was second son of Sir
Thomas Baring, second baronet, nephew of the first Lord Ashburton, and
brother of the first Lord Northbrooke. At the General Election in 1835
he successfully contested Great Yarmouth in the Conservative interest,
but in 1837, 1838, and 1841 he was defeated. Elected for Huntingdon in
1844, without opposition, he held undisputed possession of the seat for
nearly thirty years. Mr. Baring was head of the great house of Baring
Brothers and Co. He twice refused the Chancellorship of the Exchequer,
and twice declined the offer of a peerage.