March 24th.—A bet had been made by Mr. Ringer, of the Elephant and Castle liquor shop in the Market Place, “that on Monday he would sell 1,000 glasses of ale and porter from six o’clock in the morning and close the same night. Mr. R. closed at 10, after selling 2,454, at one penny per glass.”
Mr. F. Preston had launched a fine ship of 370 tons from his yard.
April 2nd.—Mr. Edward H. L. Preston and Mr. Green had been tried and acquitted upon charges of bribery alleged to have been committed by them at the General Election, when Messrs. Baring and Praed were returned for the borough.
April 7th.—A poll had taken place for two Haven and Pier Commissioners, as follows:—
| George Danby Palmer | 375 |
| William Barth | 375 |
| Sir E. Lacon | 207 |
| Samuel Paget | 168 |
and Messrs. Palmer and Barth were consequently elected.
April 14th contains the following paragraph as to the recent bribery prosecution:—
“Yesterday there was a grand public dinner at the Angel Inn, to celebrate what the Tories call ‘the defeat of the Attorney-General and the Yarmouth Radicals;’ but what we should say was a fortunate escape of the accused parties, arising from the glorious uncertainty of the law. John Lacon, Esq., was in the chair. Richard Ferrier, Esq., presided at the left hand table. The two vice-presidents were Mr. Aldred and Mr. John Clarke. A very handsome silver teapot and ewer were presented to Mr. William Green, by John Penrice, Esq., in an appropriate speech, for his exertions at the last election. We were not present, but had these particulars from a Tory friend, who also said ‘he thought ’twas hard poor Prentice hadn’t something, as he did as much as Green, and more too.’ There were about 70 persons present.”
Twenty gentlemen, all of Reform principles, had been elected select Vestrymen.
Five hundred merchants and others had attended a public meeting to protest against the proposal of the Eastern Counties’ Railway Company to construct a line to Harwich.