—Died at his house, St. Clement’s, Norwich, aged 83, Dr. James Alderson. The funeral took place on October 27 in the Gildencroft burial-ground belonging to the Society of Friends. 20.—A county meeting was held at the Shirehall, Norwich, under the presidency of the High Sheriff, at which it was decided to petition Parliament “for the immediate mitigation of slavery throughout the British Colonies, and for its extinction at the earliest safe and practicable period in compliance with the resolutions of the House of Commons in May, 1823.”—The petition, which was presented in the House of Commons by Mr. Edmond Wodehouse on March 1st, 1826, received 17,125 signatures, and was 82 yards in length. 22.—Mr. James Vining, formerly of the Norwich Company, appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in the character of Octavian (“The Mountaineers”), and was favourably received. 23.—The Baron Von Bülan gave an address at the Old Meeting House, Norwich, as agent for a Continental society “for the distribution of Bibles and Christian instruction where Popery and infidelity prevail.” 25.—The Magnet coach from London to Norwich was accidentally overturned in passing through the Eldon gate at Thetford, and one of the passengers, a widow from Hargham, was crushed to death by the vehicle falling upon her. 26.—Died at the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, aged 59, Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Pate Hankin, commanding the Scots Greys. He joined the regiment as cornet, July 21st, 1795; was promoted lieutenant, August 13th, 1796; captain, October 18th, 1798; major, April 4th, 1808; lieutenant-colonel in the Army, June 4th, 1814; and lieutenant-colonel commanding the regiment, October 11th, 1821. He was with that distinguished corps at the battle of Waterloo, when he received a severe wound in the knee. Previous to entering the Army he was a surgeon at Upwell in this county, and afterwards captain of the grenadier company of the Middlesex Militia. Sir Thomas was buried with military honours in the north transept of Norwich Cathedral on November 2nd. NOVEMBER. 3.—Thorogood, the driver of “The Times” coach, gave up the reins on this date, having held them since July 14th, 1822, “during which time he drove the coach every day to and from the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, and the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, a distance of 116 miles without any accident of consequence, a task which we believe was never before performed by any man. In the above space of time he travelled 182,352 miles, independent of the distance he regularly walked, which could not have been less than a mile each day, as he always slept at the Blue Boar, Aldgate, when in London, and at the Bell, Orford Hill, when in Norwich.” Thorogood married on November 8th Miss M. Westall, of London. 4.—H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, who was staying with Admiral Windham at Felbrigg, visited Cromer, when the inhabitants removed the horses from his carriage and dragged it through the town.