29.—Mr. Dewing’s hounds met at West Bradenham, where a fine buck was turned off, and ran through Bradenham and Saham, skirted Ashill to Holme Hale, crossed Necton Common, ran through Necton by Fransham to Dunham, Palgrave, and Sporle, and thence to Castleacre, where he was taken after a severe run of 21 miles over the stiffest country in Norfolk. APRIL. 2.—Shore’s menagerie was exhibited on the Castle Ditches, Norwich. —*“Died at Yarmouth, Mrs. Elizabeth Campling, in her 101st year.” 3.—Died at North Walsham, Mary Cook, aged 101. 5.—One hundred “bankers” from Bedfordshire arrived at North Walsham and commenced digging the North Walsham and Dilham Canal. “The first spade of earth was taken out by Mr. William Youard, the band striking up ‘God save the King.’” —A prize fight took place between Camplin and Murrell, of Norwich, on a meadow near Thorpe, for £10 aside. Murrell was the winner. 7.—The Archdeacon of Norwich convened a meeting of clergy at the Maid’s Head Inn, Norwich, at which a petition to the House of Commons was adopted stating that the signatories were not in agreement with their brethren who had petitioned Parliament in opposition to Roman Catholic claims. Seventy signatures were appended. The other petition against the Bill for conceding the claims of the Roman Catholics was signed by the Bishop of Norwich and 200 clergy. A similar petition was adopted by the Corporation on May 3rd by thirty-three votes against six.—The intelligence that the Emancipation Bill had been rejected by the House of Lords was received in Norwich on May 19th with the ringing of the bells of St. Peter Mancroft and of the other churches in the city. 16.—Died at Ryslip, near Uxbridge, the Right Hon. Lady Wodehouse, aged 77. She was the only surviving daughter of the Hon. Charles Berkeley, of Bruton Abbey, Somersetshire, niece of Lord Berkeley of Stratton, and the last of that branch of the Berkeley family. Her ladyship’s remains were interred at Kimberley on May 27th, when the funeral procession was headed by fifty mounted tenants on the estate. 18.—A meeting of the citizens was held at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by requisition, at which resolutions were adopted asking the legislature “to undertake at the earliest opportunity such a revision of the Corn Laws as may secure cultivators of the soil from a recurrence of those ruinous fluctuations in price which the present system has occasioned, and at the same time complete that liberal commercial policy in which progress has already been made.” A petition based on the resolution was prepared and presented to Parliament. It received 14,385 signatures. 21.—Married at St. Giles’ Church, Norwich, by the Rev. C. J. Chapman, Lieut. Charles Thurtell, R.N., third son of Mr. Thomas Thurtell, alderman of Norwich, to Mrs. Dunham, of Chapel Field. 23.*—“Died at Lynn, the Widow Oldershaw, aged 107.” MAY.