29.*—[Advt.] “£100 Reward, and his Majesty’s Pardon. Eight horses belonging to Mr. William Slack, of Norwich, died between the 25th August last and the 10th September, six soon after their return from Attleborough (one of the depôts for horses drawing the London vans) to Norwich, one at Attleborough, and the other at Newmarket, and upon being opened it has been ascertained that they died by mineral poisoning, supposed to have been administered in water or in some liquid form. The Government offer the above reward.” —*“The week before last Mr. Meyer Levi, gold and silver smith, a converted Jew, together with Mrs. Hannah Levi, a converted Jewess, received the rite of Christian baptism at the hands of the vicar in the parish church of St. Stephen’s, Norwich, when the Christian names of John and Hannah were given to the above parties, and at the same time they adopted the surname of Herbert.” OCTOBER. 6.—A number of silver coins, some of them bearing date 1577, were dug up by a gardener at Thorpe, who sold them for £30. 13.—The portrait of Mr. Henry Francis, Mayor of Norwich in 1824, was hung in St. Andrew’s Hall. The artist was Mr. Lane, of Greek Street, Soho. 18.—Died at Costessey, Mrs. Anne Maria Teresa Vere, aged 100, sister of Mr. Charles Gosnold, formerly of Norwich. 20.—Killed at the battle of Navarino, aged 24, Lieut. George William Howe FitzRoy, R.N., of H.M.S. Dartmouth, second son of Lieut.-General the Hon. William FitzRoy, of Kempston Lodge. NOVEMBER. 3.*—“At the auction mart last week Mr. Hoggart sold the well-known estate called St. Andrew’s Hall, Old Buckenham, a fine mansion house, and 532 acres of land, at £29,300.” 10.—It was announced that Mr. Smith, manager of Norwich Theatre, had taken of the patentee, Mr. Wilkins, a seven years’ lease of that and the other houses in the circuit. —Mr. Mathews commenced a three nights’ engagement at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich. 17.*—“The expense of erecting the house of industry at Wicklewood in 1777 was defrayed by a tontine called the ‘Forehoe Tontine,’ consisting of 110 shares at £100 each, bearing an interest of £5 per cent. Fifty years have now elapsed, and in 1827 there are still 50 survivors out of the original number.” 25.—Died at Prospect Place, Gorleston, aged 65, Mr. F. F. Hope, for 30 years paymaster of the East Norfolk Militia. “Previously he was an officer of the line, saw much service during the great American War, was at the siege of Yorktown in Virginia in 1781, and there taken prisoner by the combined Armies of France and America, with the whole of the British Army under Lord Cornwallis.” DECEMBER.