2.--A vessel named the Ponda Chief, intended for trading between this
country and Port Natal, was launched from the shipyard of Messrs. J.
Fellows, at Southtown, Yarmouth. She was 140 feet long, 26 feet beam, 14
ft. 6 in. deep, and 416 tons register. This was one of the largest
vessels ever built at the port.
3.--H.M.S. Favourite, an armour-plated corvette of 2,094 tons and 490
horse-power, ran upon the south spit of Scroby Sand, when endeavouring to
make the gatway. At the flood tide the vessel floated off and steamed
out to sea.
9.--At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Mellor, William Harper
Stewardson, printer, of Norwich, was charged with publishing in a
newspaper called the "Herald and Dispatch," a malicious and defamatory
libel of and concerning Frederick Lawrence Phillips, editor of the
"Norwich Argus." The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the
defendant was fined 20, and ordered to enter into his own recognisances
of 100 to be of good behaviour for twelve months.
16.--A Royal Commission, issued in consequence of the report of Mr.
Justice Lush, "that he had reason to believe corrupt practices
extensively prevailed at the election which took place in Norwich on
March 5th, on the elevation to the Bench of Mr. Baron Huddleston,"
commenced its proceedings at the Shirehall, Norwich. The Commissioners
were Mr. John Morgan Howard, Q.C., Mr. Patrick MacMahon, and Mr. Gabriel
Prior Goldney, with Mr. Tyndal Atkinson as secretary. On the 43rd day,
Wednesday, October 28th, the court terminated its sittings in Norwich,
and the inquiry was resumed in the House of Lords on November 8th. The
fiftieth day was reached on December 3rd, when a further adjournment took
place. (_See_ March 15th, 1876.)
26.--The marriage was solemnised, at Latimer, of the Earl of Leicester
and the Hon. Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady
Chesham.