Feb. 22nd.—A Tradesmen’s Ball had been held in the Town Hall.
Feb. 25th.—A Liberal meeting had been held at the Star Hotel, (George Danby-Palmer, Esq., in the chair) when resolutions in favour of Lord John Russell’s Reform Bill and the Ballot were adopted.
There had been another high tide, the Quay being in several places inundated; the surf rolling over the old Jetty.
March 1st.—Owing to the sitting of the County Court, the Council had met in the Grand Jury Room at the Tolhouse.
The Seamen’s wages were so high that they preferred the Merchant Service to the offers being made by Sir Charles Napier to join the Navy.
March 4th.—John Eagleton charged with having fraudulently cheated the Guardians of the Poor by delivering to poor persons receiving out-door relief bread of short weight, was found guilty, subject to a case for the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeal, (Mr. J. Cobb and Mr. L. A. Meal being his sureties in £50 each.)
March 8th.—A Tender has arrived to take off the Coastguardsmen and Naval Volunteers.
Rear-Admiral Plumridge had been summoned to London for the purpose of hoisting his flag in the Baltic Fleet under Sir Charles Napier.
A vessel had been sent to sea manned entirely by master mariners; the rise in wages and the attractions of the Navy having so reduced the number of common seamen.
March. 11th.—The Baltic Fleet was expected to pass Yarmouth.