Jan. 12th.—The Haven Commissioners were being urged to lengthen the Jetty, to enable vessels to land there when they could not enter the port. Jan. 19th.—An address of condolence had been voted by the Town Council to the Queen on the occasion of the death of the Queen Dowager. The parsonage house had been purchased from the Corporation by private subscription. The Revs. J. Everitt, S. Dunn, and W. Griffiths, three Wesleyan Ministers, expelled by the Conference, had held a meeting of their friends at the Corn Hall. Jan. 26th.—The annual meeting of the Royal Life Fund had been held, W. H. Palmer, Esq., in the chair, when the expenditure for the year appeared to have been £174 11s. 9d., as against assets amounting to £172 15s. 9d. The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had delivered a lecture on “Nineveh.” The “Enterprise,” steamer, was being repaired by Mr. A. R. Palmer, prior to her resuming her passage between this port and Rotterdam. Feb. 9th.—The fishery business was in a very depressed state, and it was computed that from £15,000 to £20,000 less cash would on that account be circulated in the town. Ninety volumes of books had been given to the library of the Young Men’s Institute by the Mayor (D. A. Gourlay, Esq.), Admiral Hills and Robert Steward, Esq. Feb. 16th.—An endeavour was being made to reduce the wages paid to coalheavers. Feb. 23rd.—Disturbances had arisen on this account, and a man named Lightning had complained to the Mayor that he had been assaulted by James Miller and others because he agreed to the owners’ terms. Mr. Henry Pickard (relieving officer) had been charged before the Magistrates for the manslaughter of Sarah Auger (aged 20) and acquitted. The smack “Good Intent” had been seized and condemned as a smuggler, and Richard Parmenter, of the White Swan Inn, and George Shirley, fish curer, had been committed to Norwich Castle upon Exchequer writs for £8,230 each. A meeting had been held with regard to the legalisation of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister (the Mayor in the Chair), when a petition in favour of that measure was adopted. March 9th.—The “Sacramento” (400 tons) had been launched from Mr. H. Fellows’ yard. March 16th.—Mr. Worship, Mr. Ferrier, and Mr. Jay, had attended a meeting of the Haven Commissioners, and suggested that the first stone of the bridge should be laid with Masonic honours. Mr. Benjamin Button had been appointed one of the parish surgeons in the place of Mr. William Burgess deceased. The highest tender for the ballast dues had not been taken owing to a mistake of the Deputy Town Clerk. The conduct of the prisoners in the gaol had been of an extremely disorderly character. March 23rd.—The “Eagle” (recently launched from the yard of Mr. T. Barber) had been lost off Jaffa. Mr. Barber was insured to the extent of £4,000. Five wherries had broken adrift at night and fouled the Haven bridge but they had all been secured by the river watch.