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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Yarmouth Notes, by Frederick Danby Palmer
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+Title: Yarmouth Notes
+       1830-1872. Collected from the File of the Norwich Mercury
+
+
+Author: Frederick Danby Palmer
+
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+Release Date: June 5, 2012  [eBook #39920]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YARMOUTH NOTES***
+
+
+Transcribed from the 1889 J. Buckle edition by David Price, email
+ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
+UK, for kindly allowing their copies to be used in checking this
+transcription and allowing the photographs.
+
+                        [Picture: F. Danby Palmer]
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+
+                              Yarmouth Notes
+
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                1830–1872.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+             _Collated from the File of the Norwich Mercury_.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                    BY
+                         FREDERICK DANBY PALMER.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                             GREAT YARMOUTH:
+                    PRINTED BY J. BUCKLE, KING STREET.
+                                  1889.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+The following pages are a reprint of extracts from the file of the
+_Norwich Mercury_, which, under the heading of “Yarmouth Notes,” have
+recently appeared in the columns of the _Yarmouth Mercury_; and in
+consequence of a very generally expressed wish on the part of the public,
+re-appear in the present form.
+
+At the time these notices of Yarmouth News appeared in the _Norwich
+Mercury_, that journal was the organ of the old Whig party, and such of
+them, as treat of politics, being doubtless tinged by the party feeling
+of the Editor, should be so taken and read.
+
+The idea of collating this matter suggested itself to the compiler upon
+the occasion of Geo. Wm. Darby Palmer-Kerrison, Esq., presenting the file
+of the _Norwich Mercury_, (then in his Library), but which had been
+preserved by the late Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq., to the Yarmouth Free
+Library, and it is hoped that this action will not only prove of some
+entertainment and amusement to the reader, but also will be of service to
+any person who may, in the future, deal with local events as affecting
+the history of the borough of Great Yarmouth.
+
+                                                                  F. D. P.
+
+HALL QUAY,
+      _December_, 1889.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                    TO
+                           THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
+                          CHARLES LORD SUFFIELD,
+                          P.C., K.C.B., &c, &c.
+
+_The following pages_, _relating to a Town_, _in the welfare of which his
+Lordship and his noble forefathers have taken so deep an interest for
+many years_, _are with his permission_, _inscribed by_
+
+                                                     HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,
+                                                               THE AUTHOR.
+
+_Great Yarmouth_,
+      _December_, 1889.
+
+
+
+
+FIRST SERIES, 1830–40.
+
+
+    “When found, make a note of”—
+
+                                                             CAPT. CUTTLE.
+
+
+
+1830.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—Contains an advertisement of the report of the “Norfolk
+Association for preserving the lives of Shipwrecked Mariners,” held at
+Norwich, William Barth, Esq., in the chair, from which it appears that an
+investigation had taken place as to the loss of seven men from the brig
+Hamond, and that as the lifeboat was not constructed with a view to
+affording aid to vessels immediately on the beach, Mr. Ambrose Palmer had
+most kindly offered to supply a boat for that purpose.
+
+Jan. 9th.—The prisoners in the gaol returned thanks to Mr. Daniel Hook
+for the good dinner of “roast beef and plum pudding and a quart of ale
+each,” which he had given them on New Year’s Day.
+
+Jan. 21.—Mr. William Ferrier had given a lecture on Natural History, at
+the Mechanics’ Institution; and at an adjourned meeting of the Public
+library, Mr. Charles Nicholls entered upon the office of Treasurer in the
+room of the Rev. H. R. Bowles, deceased; and Mr. Thomas Hammond was
+re-elected librarian.
+
+Jan. 28th.—Charles John Palmer, Esq., had been elected a F.S.A.
+
+Feb. 4th.—Navigation was stopped by the frost.
+
+Feb. 11th.—A Fisherman’s Provident Society had been established, to which
+George Danby-Palmer, Esq., “had been a liberal subscriber, and had
+accepted the office of treasurer, Mr. Thomas Hammond acting as
+secretary.”
+
+March 25th.—A meeting had been held at the New Hall (George Bateman,
+Mayor, in the chair) to take into consideration “the expediency of
+building a new church,” when Robert Wall, Esq., George Danby-Palmer,
+Esq., Samuel Tolver, Esq. (Town-clerk), and Mr. Ferrier took part, and a
+resolution was carried against the proposal to build the church.
+
+April 3rd.—A boldly contested steeplechase had been run off between
+several gentlemen of the Munro Hunt, when the prize, a large silver Cup
+and cover, was won by H. Munro, Esq., who rode the distance, from Fritton
+to Gorleston (above four miles), in fifteen minutes.  Above forty
+gentlemen afterwards dined at the Bear.
+
+April 15th.—A meeting had been held at the New Hall “for the purpose of
+petitioning Parliament for the further reduction of taxation and a
+retrenchment in the public expenditure.”  George Danby-Palmer, Esq., was
+in the chair, and William Barth, Esq., Simon Cobb, Esq., John Shelley,
+Esq., John Burton Palmer, Esq., William Smith, Esq., Mr. John Barnes, Mr.
+Boulton, Mr. Dennent, and Mr. Barrett, took part in the proceedings.
+
+April 22nd.—Much damage had been done to the shipping and in the town by
+a gale.
+
+May 6th.—A meeting (George Danby-Palmer, Esq., in the chair) had been
+held for the purpose of appointing a select vestry for the parish.
+
+July 3rd.—Owing to the death of King George IV. the paper appeared in
+mourning.
+
+July 8th.—The Hon. Col. Anson and Mr. Rumbold had arrived to canvass the
+Borough.
+
+July 15th.—A funeral service had been held for the late King (the
+Corporation attending in black robes, were afterwards entertained by the
+Mayor to chocolate, &c.)  It was estimated that there were 3,000 persons
+in the church.
+
+July 22nd.—Messrs. Preston and Campbell (the Tory candidates) had
+arrived.  They were attended (so says the advertisement) “by upwards of
+400 persons, 50 gentlemen on horseback, and an enormous company of
+gentlemen in their carriages, comprising all the consequence and wealth
+of the town.”
+
+Aug. 12th.—A meeting had been held to congratulate the King on his
+accession to the Throne (George Danby-Palmer, Esq., in the chair); to the
+resolution then passed Mr. Palmer received a reply from Sir Robert Peel,
+stating that the King had received the same in a most gracious manner.
+
+Aug. 15th.—Messrs. Anson and Rumbold had been returned “after a severe
+opposition by almost the entire force of the Corporation.”  The poll
+closing—Anson, 944; Rumbold, 944; Campbell, 754; Preston, 754.  A dinner
+of their supporters (W. Barth, Esq., in the chair) was afterwards held at
+the Masonic Hall.
+
+Aug. 26th.—Contains an advertisement that “the old annual main of cocks
+would be fought near the Feathers’ Inn, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 7th
+and 8th September, between the gentlemen of Norwich and Yarmouth, for
+five sovs. a battle and 50 the odds.  Feeders—Stafford, Norwich, and
+Lamb, Yarmouth.”
+
+Sept. 2nd.—On the “decollation of S. John” the following officers were
+elected for the Borough for the ensuing year:—
+
+Mayor elect—Edmund Preston, Esq.
+
+Chamberlain—Mr. Robert B. Fenn.
+
+Churchwardens—I. Preston, Esq. and Mr. J. T. Bracey.
+
+Auditors—G. Bateman, Esq., F. R. Reynolds, Esq., Mr. I. Preston, and Mr.
+E. Youell.
+
+Collectors—Charles Costerton, Esq., and Mr. James Clarke.
+
+Muragers—Charles Symonds and Charles J. Palmer, Esqs.
+
+Dec. 9th.—A meeting had been held to petition the legislature for a
+Reform in Parliament.  The Mayor (E. Preston, Esq., in the chair), Mr.
+Alderman Barth, Mr. S. Cobb, John Shelley, Esq., and John Brightwen,
+Esq., took part in the proceedings.
+
+Dec. 23rd.—The self-styled Gorleston and Southtown Corporation dissolved,
+and formed itself into the “Hand in Hand Friendly Society,” and it was
+ordered that “the regalia of the late Corporation should be sold and the
+money arising therefrom distributed among the poor of the parish.”
+
+
+
+1831.
+
+
+Feb. 10th—_The Gorleston and Southtown Magazine_ had been issued in
+weekly numbers or monthly parts, and contained a biographical notice of
+Mr. Dawson Turner, F.S.A., &c.
+
+Feb. 17th.—Amongst the vessels lost and driven ashore by the then late
+gales were the Alfred (Simmonds), the Flora, the Juno (Moss), the
+Elizabeth and Mary Welch (Amis), and the Anson (Garwood).
+
+March 5th.—Contains the following notice of Mr. Palmer’s Fancy Dress
+Ball:—
+
+                           MR. PALMER’S FANCY BALL.
+
+    In our notice of this amusement at the late Festival, we recollect to
+    have said—“The ice has been broken, the pleasure has been felt, and
+    we shall be mistaken if the next effort be not more successful.”
+    This prediction, intended at the time to be applied to future
+    festivals, we did not expect to be so soon, so completely, or so
+    successfully fulfilled, as in the instance we now have the pleasure
+    to record.  This entertainment was given at the Town Hall on Tuesday
+    evening last, in celebration of the attainment of his majority by Mr.
+    S. Palmer, the grandson of the late Danby Palmer, Esq., whose
+    extended private connections and still wider mercantile pursuits have
+    bequeathed to his grandson a more numerous portion of friends than it
+    is the lot of most persons to enjoy at an early period of life.  The
+    invitations were sent out with such hospitality, the preparations
+    were on so munificent a scale, that the spirit of the donor seemed to
+    diffuse itself not only to all those who were about to be present,
+    but to all the inhabitants of the borough.  The novelty, the
+    continued arrivals, the firing of cannon, the banners floating at the
+    Town Hall, and in various parts of the town, the gay appearance of
+    the ships in the harbour, most of which were decorated with pennons,
+    as were several vessels in the Roads—all aided in keeping alive the
+    expectation, so that in the evening the Quay, around the hall, was
+    crowded with persons anxious to see the company—so anxious, indeed,
+    that the carriage windows were assailed by men and women jumping up
+    to get a peep at the interior.  The company began to assemble about
+    half-past eight, and on entering the ball room were announced by
+    name, and received by Mr. Palmer and his mother and Miss A. Burton
+    (to whom, we understand, Mr. Palmer is about to be united.)  These
+    ladies appeared in very elegant Court dresses, and Mr. Palmer in a
+    full-dress Court suit.  Till ten o’clock the company continued to
+    arrive, at which hour Mr. Palmer opened the Ball by leading off a
+    country dance with Miss A. Burton.  We never saw a similar
+    entertainment combining so great a variety of character.  The
+    brilliancy of the colours and the constant succession of costumes,
+    the reliefs, the contrasts, and the varying shades, reminded us
+    forcibly of those beautiful combinations formed by the kaleidoscope,
+    of which, visually, this scene may be said to have been an animated
+    representation.  On the one side of a quadrille was to be seen the
+    gawdy Spaniard, leading with haughty dignity the lively Mrs. Ford of
+    the Elizabethian age; while behind him stood pondering o’er the
+    fleeting vanity of this world the solitary Friar; opposite ranged the
+    joyous Sailor, indulging his mirth at the expense of the courtly
+    dignity of his fair partner.  At one end was the Old Gentleman of two
+    centuries since, in all the gravity and politeness of that age,
+    leading forth some sprightly Tyrolese; while at the other was a
+    Chinese Mandarin, paired off with a black-eyed Gipsy; a little
+    further, and the Scotchman promenaded with the brilliant Circassian;
+    the Frieselander with the simply-dressed Quakeress; the Queen of
+    Scots with the bronze and fierce Turk; the reckless Massaroni with
+    the lively Mrs. Page; the dark Colombian with the prim lady of an
+    hundred years ago; the Forester with the Flower Girl; the haughty
+    Knight Templar with the simple Swiss Peasant; the chivalrous Pole
+    with the heavy Russian; the youthful Ivanhoe with a French Peasant;
+    and to crown the diversity, Day and Night were to be seen at once,
+    arm and arm with a Chimney Sweep.
+
+April 14th.—The Preston (Capt. Woodthorpe), with passengers, for Prince
+Edward’s Island and Quebec, had been towed down the Harbour.
+
+May 5th.—This number contains the following account of the Borough
+Election, consequent upon the rejection of a Reform Bill:—
+
+    The Mayor, in opening the proceedings, said that the electors were
+    met to exercise an important trust, that of electing two persons to
+    represent the Borough—a trust at all times of the greatest
+    responsibility, but certainly never more so than at the present
+    eventful crisis.  Determined as he was to act with strict justice,
+    and with that fairness and impartiality which were the best ornaments
+    of the office he had the honour to hold, he entreated that the
+    contest in which they were now about to be engaged might be conducted
+    on both sides with that order and decorum that forbearance and
+    moderation due from gentlemen to gentlemen, and from man to man.
+    (Cheers.)
+
+    Mr. B. Dowson, in a brief but emphatic address, put in nomination the
+    Hon. George Anson, this was seconded by R. Palmer Kemp, Esq.
+
+    T. Clowes, Esq., then proposed, in an address replete with sterling
+    sense and strength, C. E. Rumbold, Esq., seconded by J. Shelley,
+    Esq., who adverted to the circumstance of Mr. Colville being a
+    merchant connected with the West Indian Trade and a supporter of
+    colonial slavery.
+
+    I. Preston, Esq., jun., and — White, Esq., nominated A. Colville,
+    Esq., and J. Lacon, Esq., jun., and Mr. J. Laws nominated W. Bliss,
+    Esq.
+
+    Col. Anson and Mr. Rumbold addressed the electors at considerable
+    length, pointing out the merits of the measure they supported, during
+    which they were enthusiastically cheered.
+
+    Mr. Colville also spoke at length, amid much tumult, during which he
+    was interrupted by loud yells of various kinds—attacking the Bill for
+    its disfranchising nature, and defending colonial slavery.
+
+    Mr. Bliss had not arrived at that time.
+
+    A poll was determined and immediately opened and continued till five
+    o’clock on that and the following day, when the numbers were
+    announced by the Committee of Anson and Rumbold to be—
+
+For Col. Anson       748
+Mr. Rumbold          748
+Mr. Colville         503
+Mr. Bliss            497
+
+    The poll was adjourned till Monday.
+
+    On Sunday morning, however, Messrs. Colville and Bliss left the town,
+    or, as our correspondent writes, “May Day became more than commonly
+    exhilarating, by the agreeable information quickly diffused through
+    the town, that the enemies of freedom and of the Constitution had
+    fled, happy in evading and escaping from merited punishment, so
+    irritated were the minds of the lower class of society against these
+    obtruders, without a shadow of claim to their suffrages, that, by
+    their flight on Sunday morning, they probably escaped an ablution in
+    the waters of the beautiful river Yare.”
+
+    On Monday the books opened, and at the close the final numbers were—
+
+For Col. Anson       903
+Mr. Rumbold          903
+Mr. Colville         547
+Mr. Bliss            541
+
+    This vexatious contest, for it was vexatious, inasmuch as it was
+    opposed to the general wish of the inhabitants, as not the slightest
+    chance of success prevailed from the commencement, and the only
+    object of which was to extract money from the purses of the two
+    Members, terminated, not only in the triumphant defeat of the
+    Boroughmongers, but by affording a lesson to the Charles Street
+    Society in London, whose only object is to continue corruption, by
+    the means of corruption, a proof that true independence and love of
+    country is far beyond the purchase of the greatest wealth.  But the
+    friends of Reform at Yarmouth have set a noble example of
+    consistency, for they have commenced among themselves one of the
+    modes which the Reform Bill will enforce.  They have determined to
+    raise among themselves a sum sufficient to defray the legal expenses
+    of the election, and to return their well-tried Members as unhurt in
+    their finances as they are independent in principal, and by this mark
+    of gratitude and esteem to repay the obligations which the
+    inhabitants of Yarmouth in common with the country at large owe to
+    the supporters of the Reform Bill—£1,750—has already been raised.  We
+    say to the rest of the nation, “Go thou and do likewise.”
+
+    The Chairing of the Members had taken place amid the most
+    enthusiastic cheers.
+
+May 19th.—The thanks of the Yarmouth District Committee for saving lives
+from shipwreck was voted to Lieut. Harmer, R.N., on saving the crew of
+the schooner Fleece, which had been wrecked on the Scroby Sand on the
+14th inst.
+
+May 26th.—The men employed by Messrs. Grout, Baylis, and Co., had an
+excellent dinner provided for them at J. B. Bales’, Apollo Gardens.
+
+June 9th.—The Mayor had obtained a rule for a mandamus commanding the
+Members of the Corporation to attend a Court for the “transaction of
+public business.”
+
+June 16th.—The population had increased 3,024 since the census of 1821,
+the numbers being—
+
+1831.       22,028 including 913 sailors.
+1821.       19,004.
+            3,024 increase.
+
+The remaining part of the Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia, consisting
+of about 440 men, had assembled for 28 days’ training, under the command
+of Major Sir E. K. Lacon.
+
+June 23rd.—“Our venerable and highly respected Recorder, Robert Alderson,
+Esq., had delivered in his resignation.”
+
+June 30th.—The Bishop of Norwich consecrated St. Mary’s Church,
+Southtown.  His Lordship was met by the Corporation “in full robes,” the
+Hon. and Rev. Viscount Nevill, the Rev. R. Turner, J. Kitson, Esq.
+(Registrar), W. Rackham, Esq. (Proctor), and the principal clergymen and
+gentry of the neighbourhood.
+
+The following was the “correct statement” of the population, taken by the
+Overseers on 30th May and following days, and sworn by them in Petty
+Session:—
+
+Males                          8,980
+Females                       12,135
+                              21,115
+Sailors                          913
+                              22,028
+Inhabited houses               4,570
+Number of families             4,869
+Houses building                   23
+Houses uninhabited               191
+
+July 7th contains the following notice of the laying the first stone of
+St. Peter’s Church:—
+
+“For some days past notices had been issued that the first stone of the
+new Church, to be erected in this town, was to be laid this day; and at
+half-past ten this morning the Mayor, Corporation, gentry, and
+inhabitants assembled at the Town Hall, and proceeded to St. Nicholas’
+Church.  Prayers were read by the Rev. Harvey Bawtree, and after service
+the procession moved in the following order:—Bellman, Church Beadles,
+Constables, the Corporation Band, Hospital Charity Children, Inhabitants
+and Gentry, Officers of the Navy, Mr. J. J. Scoles, the Architect, the
+Clergy of Yarmouth and its vicinity, the Regalia, the Right Worshipful
+Edmund Preston, Esq., the Mayor, his Majesty’s Lieutenant for the County,
+the Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Pellew, Dean of Norwich, and the Rev. Richard
+Turner, the Right Hon. and Rev. Viscount Nevill, the Deputy-Mayor, the
+Aldermen in their scarlet gowns, the Common Councilmen, Constables.  On
+arriving at the ground, the procession passed once round the building to
+the north-east corner.
+
+A copy of the inscription, which had been written on vellum, and placed
+with the coins of the present King in a bottle, hermetically sealed, was
+then read by the Town Clerk:—
+
+    “Great Yarmouth.—The first stone of this Church, dedicated to St.
+    Peter, and erected by His Majesty’s Commissioners for building new
+    Churches (under the authority of an Act of Parliament, 58th Geo. III.
+    c. 45) on a site granted by the Corporation, and with the assistance
+    of their donations, and the subscriptions of several of the
+    inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, was laid on the seventh day
+    of July, in the second year of the reign of His Most Gracious Majesty
+    King William the Fourth, MDCCCXXXI., by the Right Worshipful Edmund
+    Preston, Esquire, Mayor; the Right Reverend Henry Bathurst, Lord
+    Bishop of the Diocese; the Honourable and Very Reverend George
+    Pellew, D.D., Dean of Norwich; the Honourable and Reverend Edward
+    Pellew, M.A., Minister of the parish.  Architect, Joseph John Scoles;
+    contractors, John Pigg, Jeremiah Wright, George Cattermole, Samuel
+    Bligh, James Watson.”
+
+The children sang the 100th Psalm during the operation of inserting the
+bottle in a cavity, and securing the stone, which had been prepared to
+receive it.  A silver trowel was then presented by the Architect, and
+after the Mayor had spread the mortar, the stone was lowered to the
+proper place, and the ceremony of striking it was performed by the Clergy
+and Corporation in succession.
+
+The Dean offered up appropriate prayers, accompanied by an address
+expressly composed for this occasion.  The children then sang a collect.
+The Mayor afterwards addressed the company present, on the pious work
+which they had assisted in commencing; amidst the general plaudits of the
+surrounding multitude the band struck up “God save the King,” and the
+company returned to the Town Hall and partook of an elegant cold
+collation.
+
+“The Church, which has been so happily begun, is calculated to contain
+1,800 persons, and three-fifths of the seats are to be appropriated for
+ever as free sittings.”
+
+August 25th.—Contains the following notice:—“By invitation from the Mayor
+and Mrs. Preston, on Monday sennight, to a promenade at their beautiful
+garden, situate on the banks of the river Yare, were assembled almost all
+the fashion of the town and its vicinity.  At seven o’clock the band
+struck up the national air of “God Save the King,” immediately after
+which the younger part of the company formed themselves into quadrilles,
+&c., upon the grass plat, near the centre of which tables were supplied
+with wines of the first quality and every refreshment in season.  At
+eight o’clock a fire balloon ascended from the grounds in very fine
+style, which was visible on the grounds and town for about twenty
+minutes.  The amusements concluded with a brilliant display of fireworks.
+The extreme serenity of the evening, aided by the wild light of the moon
+and the more refulgent illumination of the garden with variegated lamps,
+rendered this a scene which for good humour and pleasantness has rarely
+or ever been equalled in this town.”
+
+Sept. 1st.—Mr. Shelly attended the Corporation meeting and insisted on
+reading a protest in respect of the non-attendance of that body to their
+“ordinance.”  The following officers were then elected:—
+
+Mayor-Elect—John Preston, Esq.
+
+Chamberlain—Mr. E. Youell.
+
+Churchwardens—S. Paget, Esq., and Mr. T. E. Laws.
+
+Auditors—R. Cory, jun., Esq., E. Preston, Esq., G. Danby-Palmer, Esq.,
+and Mr. J. M. Bell.
+
+Sept. 8th.—The Coronation Day was observed as a holiday.
+
+The Races had been held on the 6th and 7th, as follows:—
+
+                    “FIRST DAY—Tuesday, September 6th.
+
+THE GOLD CUP STAKES of 100 sovs. (8 subscribers 10 sovs. each) with 20
+sovs. added; the second horse to withdraw his stake.  The winner to be
+sold for 400 sovs. if demanded, &c.  Heats, two miles and distance.
+
+Mr. S. Palmer named Lord Exeter’s ch m               1       2       1
+Schumla, by Selim, out of Bess, 4 years old,
+8st. 1lb. (Hornsby)
+Col. Wilson’s ch h Ringleader, by Merlin, out        2       1       0
+of Spotless, 4 years old, 8st. 4lbs.
+Lord Stradbroke’s b f by Morisco, out of        3 dis.
+Arethusa, 3 years old, 6st. 11lbs.
+
+A good race after the second heat.  Two to one was freely betted on
+Ringleader; the last heat was very close, and was won by half a head.
+Lord Stradbroke’s filly lost her rider by a stirrup leather breaking in
+the second heat.
+
+HALF-BRED STAKE.  Heats, one mile and distance; 5 sovs. each.
+
+Mr. Munro’s b h Charley, aged, 11st.        2       2
+Mr. Smith’s ch g Sportsman, aged, 11st.     1       1
+
+THE MEMBERS’ PLATE of 50 sovs.  The winner to be sold for 180 sovs. if
+demanded, &c.  Heats, two miles and distance.
+
+Mr. Bromley’s ch m Miss Nicolo, 4 years old,    3 dr.
+7st. 13lbs.
+Mr. Pettit’s b m Ipsala, by Sultan, 4 years     1       2       1
+old, 8st. 21bs. (C. Edwards)
+Col. Wilson’s br c Whiskey, by Tuesias, out     4       3 dr.
+of Schedam, 3 years old, 6st. 12lbs.
+Lord Stradbroke’s b m Gallopade, 5 years old,   2       1       0
+8st. 13lbs.
+Mr. S. Palmer’s gr m Christina, 4 years old,    5       4       3
+8st. 2lbs
+
+An excellent race; the heats with difficulty decided.  The winner was
+well rode by C. Edwards.
+
+                   SECOND DAY—Wednesday, 7th September.
+
+TOWN AND COUNTRY GENTLEMEN’S PLATE of 50 sovs.  The winner to be sold for
+250 sovs. if demanded, &c.  Heats, two miles and distance.
+
+Mr. Pettit’s b m Ipsala, by     1       2       2       (A dead
+Sultan, 4 years old, 8st.                               heat.)
+6lbs.
+Col. Wilson’s ch h              2       1       1
+Ringleader, 4 years old, 8st.
+9lbs. (Gosling)
+
+A severely contested race of four heats.
+
+HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs. each, with the remainder added.  Heats,
+one mile and distance.
+
+Lord Stradbroke’s b f by Morisco, out of Arethusa, 3       1 w.o.
+years old, 7st. 2lbs
+Mr. Pettit’s b m Ipsala, by Sultan, 4 years old, 8st.      2 dr.
+5lb.
+
+After the above account of sport, it is needless to say that everyone who
+attended the Races was delighted.  The severe running on the first day
+prevented several of the horses starting on the second, but the four
+well-contested heats for the Town and Country Gentlemen’s Plate more than
+compensated for the deficiency in the number of horses.  The ordinaries
+and Ball were well attended—a very liberal subscription was entered into
+for the Races of 1832.  The Gold Cup Stakes is already filled, and the
+Norfolk and Suffolk Hunters’ Stake of 5 sovs. each, with 20 sovs. added,
+for horses not thoroughbred, which have been regularly hunted in either
+of the above counties, has already six subscribers.  The ladies at the
+Ball on Tuesday evening commenced a subscription for a Ladies’ Plate of
+50 sovs. for next year, which will be in addition to the two Fifty Pounds
+Plates usually given.  Edmund Preston, Esq., is appointed one of the
+stewards for 1832.”
+
+Sept. 29th.—The Reformers of Yarmouth “had an excellent meeting” at the
+Town-hall.  Mr. Alderman Barth was in the chair, and Messrs. Clowes, S.
+Cobb, Shelley, Hammond, Sewell, and Munsey took part in the proceedings.
+
+Oct. 6th.—The Mayor (John Preston, Esq.,) “celebrated his inauguration at
+the Town-hall on Thursday sennight by a sumptuous entertainment, which
+was attended by the Lord Lieutenant, Judge Alderson, Sir W. Folkes, M.P.,
+the Hon. E. Pellew, and about 300 gentlemen of the county and town.”
+
+Nov. 17th.—A Board of Health had been established for the better
+cleansing the streets and lanes, and the removal of nuisances.
+
+The “Star” coach, when about a mile this side of Eye, was driven into by
+“a fellow in a drunken state,” and one of the leaders was killed on the
+spot.
+
+Nov. 24th.—The dairy of John Waters, Esq., of Ormesby, had been broken
+into and 16 pints of butter, 14 cheeses, a fat goose, and a quantity of
+meat and flour stolen.
+
+Large flocks of “Stormy Petrels” had visited our shores, and between 6
+and 7 dozen of them taken alive; several “Little Auks” and “Arctic Gulls”
+had also been shot.
+
+Dec. 29th.—A poor man known as “Do you know him” was insulted, by a man
+pulling a nightcap over his face, and at the same time informing him that
+he was about to be “burked,” which so much “alarmed the poor creature,
+that he was taken to his home in a desponding state.”
+
+
+
+1832.
+
+
+Jan. 5th.—The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew had distributed the prizes to the
+Sunday School children.
+
+Jan. 12th.—Dr. Cox had delivered a very interesting lecture on
+“Physiology.”
+
+Feb. 2nd.—The Rev. Henry Squire was advertised to deliver a course of
+lectures at the Old Meeting.
+
+The case of the King against the Aldermen of Yarmouth is reported.
+
+Feb. 9th.—With regard to which the following notice appears this week:—
+
+                  THE KING AGAINST THE ALDERMEN OF YARMOUTH.
+
+    We are authorized to state that the Report of the hearing of this
+    cause, in our last week’s paper, is incorrect, Lord Tenterden having
+    observed that there was no ground for an attachment, as the parties
+    had acted _bona fide_; that the business of the Corporation must be
+    done, and directed that the rule should be enlarged, to give the
+    Defendants an opportunity of doing so.  The Counsel for the
+    Defendants said they were ready to proceed, but could not compel the
+    Mayor to call an Assembly, or the Common Councilmen to
+    meet,—whereupon his Lordship, on the motion of Defendants’ Counsel,
+    directed a mandamus to be issued for the filling up all vacancies,
+    and then transacting the other necessary business; and upon a Return
+    being made to the Writ, the Rule will be discharged.
+
+Feb. 16th—A general meeting of the inhabitants was proposed to be held to
+take into consideration the expediency of erecting a new Workhouse, “it
+appearing by a report of the select Vestry now published, that the
+present one is quite inadequate to the purpose, both as to extent and
+arrangement, and as being utterly incapable of affording room for that
+classification which is indispensable to the moral improvement and
+employment of its inmates, and also to the comfort of the aged and
+infirm.  It is now about fifty years since any room was added to it.  The
+increase of inhabitants in the town, and not less so of pauperism during
+that period, calls for enlarged accommodation.  It appears by the report
+that they are without a day room for the females, or any means of
+separating the sick from the healthy, and so cramped for lodging room,
+that a considerable number of the inmates are compelled to sleep three in
+a bed.  It is intended to proceed agreeably to the directions of the 59th
+Geo. III. cap 12, and 1st and 2nd of William IV. cap. 42.”
+
+March 22nd.—The National Fast had been observed “with a decent
+solemnity.”
+
+April 5th.—The appointment of a Recorder is noticed as follows:—“At a
+Corporate Assembly, held on Tuesday last, the long-contested question of
+‘who should fill the office of Recorder for the borough?’ (vacant by the
+resignation of Robert Alderson, Esq.,) was decided.  The first business
+which came before the Court was the accepting of that gentleman’s
+resignation, after which Isaac Preston, Sen., Esq., proposed the
+Sub-Steward (I. Preston, Esq.,) to fill the vacant office; this was
+seconded by C. Symonds, Esq.  R. Cory, Esq., then proposed Mr. Sergeant
+Merewether; this nomination was seconded by Samuel Paget, Esq.  On a
+ballot being demanded, the numbers were found to be equal, viz., 20 for
+Merewether and the same number for Preston.  There were 41 members of the
+body present, one of whom declined voting.  A second ballot was proposed
+and acceded to, and the same result followed.  The Deputy-Mayor (who
+presided in consequence of the extreme ill health of the Mayor) then said
+that he would give the members of the Court the chance of a third ballot,
+on which the gentleman before mentioned voted for Merewether, which gave
+the learned Sergeant a majority of one, the numbers being for Merewether
+21, for Preston 20.  Thus has terminated this long agitated question, the
+product of much squabbling, aye, and of much litigation too.  Lord
+Viscount Exmouth was unanimously chosen Lord High Steward; Isaac Preston,
+Jun., Esq., and J. Baker, Esq., were elected Aldermen; and Messrs. J. E.
+Lacon, E. H. L. Preston, Henry Costerton and Samuel Jay, Common
+Councilmen.  At this Court, Mr. J. Seaman received the appointment of
+Parish Clerk, and Mr. J. Daniel, Sexton; 50 guineas were also voted to
+St. Mary’s Church, Southtown; £15 per year granted to Mrs. Breeze (widow
+of the late hall-keeper), and £12 annuity settled on Mrs. Absolon (widow
+of the late Parish Clerk.)  It was likewise ordered that the usual fee of
+20s. upon apprentices’ indentures should be taken off.  It is only right
+to state that the entire business of the day was conducted in the most
+amicable way possible, and that the greatest good temper and gentlemanly
+feeling was displayed during the discussion on the pending Recordership.”
+
+April 12th.—The thanks of the Corporation were voted to the Rev. R.
+Turner upon his resignation of his office of Chaplain to that body.
+
+The Sylvan (owned by J. H. Palmer, Esq., and commanded by Captain W.
+Gilham) and the Preston (belonging to I. Preston, Esq.) had respectively
+sailed with 100 and 110 emigrants.
+
+April 19th.—Two more emigrant vessels, the Syren and Miser, were
+advertised to sail for America.—On Friday, then last, (here commonly
+called Black Friday) the annual meeting had been held at the Guild Hall
+for the purpose of “reading over” the income and expenditure of our local
+affairs when “secundum custom (sic.) it was proved that the receipts of
+any sum, say £5,299, and the payment of £5,298 was balanced by £1 being
+added to the credit side.”  Mr. Shelly and other gentlemen protested
+against the manner in which these accounts were made out and presented to
+the freemen.
+
+April 26th.—The newly elected Common Councilmen, Messrs. John Lacon, E.
+H. L. Preston, Henry Costerton, and Samuel Jay entertained the
+Corporation and others.  John Lacon, Esq., presided, and the following
+toasts were given:—The King, Queen Adelaide, Princess Victoria, and the
+Royal Family, Lord Hill and the Army, Sir James Graham and the Navy, Lord
+Viscount Exmouth, the County Members, &c.
+
+Burglaries had been committed on the premises of Mr. William Green,
+Messrs. Bracey and Son, Mr. Benjamin Welch, and Mr. Joseph Stevenson, and
+a man named Woolsey had been charged with the offences.
+
+May 3rd.—The Fair had been held without “A Yarmouth Fair Wind,” and was
+“very numerously and respectably attended, nor could its visitants
+complain of lack of amusements, for of remarkable giantesses, as
+remarkable dwarfs, optical dioramas, &c., &c., there were quantum suff,
+while roundabouts, Russian swings, and ups-and-downs displayed themselves
+in abundance to allure the juvenile part of the company out of their
+stray half-pence and pence.”
+
+May 10th.—The southern bastion of the fort had fallen “with an immense
+crash.”
+
+The “first fruits of the fishing season” had been landed by a boat, (No.
+3), belonging to Mr. George Giles.  The night’s haul had produced 48
+mackerel, which sold at 1s. 6d. each.
+
+The following vessels had been launched:—The brig Sarah, 190 tons (from
+Messrs. Tuck’s yard), and the brig Sarepta, 160 tons (from Mr. Lubbock’s
+yard.)
+
+May 17th.—The news that the Duke of Wellington had “given in and that
+Lord Grey was then at the palace” was received with joy, and the bells
+had been rung.
+
+May 24th.—The Rattlesnake (180 tons) had been launched from Mr. F.
+Preston’s yard.
+
+The mackerel fishery was going on badly, and there was great distress in
+the town, as thousands depended on that industry for a living.
+
+May 31st.—There had been a great fire at Messrs. Grout and Co’s. Factory,
+the loss estimated at £12,000, the premises were uninsured.
+
+Two female factory hands, aged respectively 16 and 17, had “fought it
+out” on the Denes, the prize, a “young tar,” when the “shorter combatant”
+proved victorious.
+
+June 7th.—The King’s birthday had been celebrated with a great display of
+flags, the firing of the Church bells, salutes from the Forts, batteries,
+etc.
+
+June 14th.—The following notice appears as to the Reform Act:—
+
+                                   REFORM.
+
+    For some days previous to the passing of the new Magna Charta of our
+    liberties, the Reform Bill, the friends of that great and really
+    Conservative measure had met at the Ship Tavern, for the purpose of
+    considering the best method of celebrating the anticipated triumph.
+    At their first meeting it was determined to open a subscription,
+    leaving the precise manner in which the proceeds should be expended
+    as a matter for future consideration.  District Committees were
+    forthwith appointed to manage the collections.  The subscription,
+    which is not yet closed, is expected to amount to something very
+    handsome.  It was first intended to give the freemen a dinner, but on
+    sounding the latter it was found that they (without any exception)
+    preferred receiving a pecuniary present; it was therefore at a
+    subsequent meeting resolved, that each of those persons should
+    receive a donation in money, and that the friends of Reform should
+    dine together at a time and place hereafter to be appointed.  The
+    news of the passing of the unmutilated Bill was received here with
+    every demonstration of joy.  The vessels at the Quay displayed a
+    profusion of flags, as did also the principal taverns and inns in the
+    town—indeed everything seemed to show a universal gladness of heart.
+    On Friday last, however, when information arrived of the Royal
+    sanction having been given to the Bill, the fullness of joy exhibited
+    on the occasion knew no bounds.  Expectant of the event, a large
+    party of our townsmen (of every grade and condition in life) had
+    proceeded along the Southtown Road on the forenoon of the day,
+    accompanied by a band, flags with appropriate mottoes, &c., to meet
+    the Telegraph.  Singular enough, however, the guard of that coach
+    refused to take up the colours, and in answer to repeated enquiries
+    declared “there was no news,” although it was afterwards ascertained
+    that he had read from a newspaper in his possession an account of the
+    Royal signature to the inhabitants of Gorleston while passing through
+    that village.  The Reformers of Yarmouth, to show their indignant
+    sense of such conduct, refused to wait at night for the Morning Star
+    (that coach being under the same proprietory as the Telegraph), but
+    instantly sent a courier to Lowestoft to announce their intention of
+    meeting, in procession, the Old Blue.  Ultimately, that coach,
+    surrounded by a profusion of elegant and appropriate flags, bands
+    playing, &c., paraded the town.  It was really a most animating and
+    exhilarating spectacle; numbers of elegant and beautiful females
+    assembled at the windows to witness the heart-cheering sight of a
+    countless multitude of persons, composed of all ranks in life, alike
+    animated by one feeling, that of exultation and delight.  Surely
+    after this our enemies will no longer prate of a reaction!  At any
+    rate, such a flagrant attempt at delusion would be scouted by our
+    patriotic townsmen, as one of the basest of libels on old Yarmouth *
+    * * * The public dinner, rejoicings, &c., will, we have just heard,
+    not take place till after the passing of the Scotch and Irish Bills.
+    The dinner, will, we believe, be held at the Town Hall, there being
+    no reason to doubt that the Mayor, with his accustomed gentlemanly
+    feeling, will grant the building for that purpose.  Wm. Barth, Esq.,
+    is expected to preside.
+
+During the Spring eight vessels had sailed from Yarmouth to different
+parts of the Canadas, carrying 916 passengers.
+
+June 21st.—The Haven and Pier Commissioners had attended for the purpose
+of examining the Harbour Works, and it was hoped that extensive
+improvements would be made therein.
+
+The Conservatives had not announced any candidates, and it was considered
+probable that Messrs. Anson and Rumbold would be re-elected.
+
+The Rev. Mr. Griffith, junr., had delivered a very impressive sermon on
+board the Cyrus under the Bethel Flag.
+
+June 28th.—The Corporation had voted an address to the King upon his
+escape from the late “atrocious” attack upon him.
+
+A vessel was lying off the Pier Head with the Yellow Flag (cholera)
+flying.
+
+July 5th.—A public dinner was to be held to celebrate the passing of the
+Reform Bill, and Mr. Windham, the Liberal candidate for E. Norfolk, was
+to meet his friends, Major Keppel being unable to accompany him.
+
+July 12th.—The Dreadnought lugger (having on board a large cargo of
+smuggled goods) had been captured.
+
+The Sylvan (belonging to J. H. Palmer, Esq.,) had arrived at Quebec with
+emigrants.
+
+July 26th.—The annual water frolic is thus noticed: “Monday last was our
+annual water frolic.  The heavens, which appeared inauspiciously to lour
+during the early part of the day, cleared about noon, and a cloudless and
+sun-lit sky enabled the admirers of boating excursions to enjoy with high
+zest the pleasures afforded them by the recurrence of this aquatic treat.
+The beautiful bosom of Breydon was literally covered with craft of every
+description, from the stately barge and elegant pleasure boat, down to
+the humble punt.  Three boats, the Coriander, Balls; the Emerald, of
+Lowestoft, Col. Jones; and the Hornet, of Beccles (the two latter
+latteeners), were the competitors for the cup.  The former had the start,
+and kept the lead during the three heats, and eventually won by 400
+yards.  About five o’clock p.m. the boats drew up for dinner.  The _toute
+ensemble_ was at this time picturesque in the extreme, the river, as we
+have said, studded with boats of various descriptions; the rond (which at
+this time was more than usually dry and firm) crowded with well-dressed
+persons of both sexes, whose joyous countenances showed that they looked
+gratifyingly on the sight; the beautiful ruins of Burgh Castle (the
+Garianonum of the ancients) in the distance, gilded with the gloomy
+brightness of a western sun—the declivity of the hill bedecked with many
+tea-drinking parties, all presented a scene which must have given delight
+to every true lover of his species.  On the following day a cup (the gift
+of the spirited landlord of the Berney Arms) was sailed for by five 14
+feet boats, which was won by the Sultan, George Alexander, who beat her
+antagonists hollow.  We are happy to say that the general feeling of
+pleasure was not alloyed by the occurrence of a single accident.”
+
+The Theatre had opened with _Guy Mannering_ and _Damp Beds_.  There was a
+very poor house.
+
+The brig Ida (188 tons) had been launched from Mr. F. Preston’s yard.
+
+August 23rd.—The following estimate of the number of electors under the
+Reform Act had been made:—Freemen 1,063; £10 householders in Yarmouth,
+492; and in Gorleston, 144; total, 1,699.
+
+The Summer Fishing had commenced; 300 lasts of herring had already been
+brought in.
+
+August 30th.—Messrs. Windham and Keppel (the Liberal candidates for East
+Norfolk) had dined with about 50 electors at the King’s Head (B. Dowson,
+Esq., in the chair.)
+
+The following Corporate officers had been elected:—
+
+Mayor-Elect—John Baker, Esq.
+
+Chamberlain—Mr. R. Ferrier.
+
+Churchwardens—John Preston and Charles Symonds, Esqs.
+
+Auditors—I. Preston, John Danby-Palmer, T. F. Garwood, and Charles J.
+Palmer, Esqs.
+
+Collectors—John Danby-Palmer, Esq., and Mr. Henry Costerton.
+
+Sept. 6th.—The Races had been held and proved very successful.
+
+Sept 13th.—Mr. C. E. Rumbold (Col. Anson being detained in Derbyshire by
+illness) made a public entry into this town, when the carriage containing
+the Hon. Member and N. B. Palmer, Esq., had supported on its roof a most
+elegant silk flag bearing the words “Gorleston and Southtown Voters” upon
+it.
+
+Sept. 20th.—A public dinner had been given by the Gorleston voters to
+Messrs. Anson and Rumbold, when 52 gentlemen attended, and W. Barth,
+Esq., occupied the chair.
+
+Oct. 4th.—The inaugural dinner to the Mayor was held at the Town Hall,
+and was attended by “nearly 500 guests, among whom were a large number of
+the nobility and gentry residing in or near Yarmouth.”
+
+Oct. 11th.—The herring fishing had been very unsuccessful.  This was
+attributed to warm weather.
+
+Oct. 18th.—The following notice as to the Wandering Piper appears:—“The
+Wandering Piper, who has attracted so much notoriety, is expected to
+visit Yarmouth in the course of a very few days.  He is of a rank in life
+which few suspect who are not acquainted with his private history.  He
+was for a considerable time an officer in the Army, served under Sir John
+Moore and the Duke of Wellington, and sold his commission after the
+battle of Waterloo.  His opponent is Count Bender, a French Nobleman, but
+educated in Scotland at the same school with the piper, and betwixt him a
+great friendship subsisted.  They met in London in 1825, when a dispute
+arose between them concerning the hospitality of different nations, which
+ended in both parties finally agreeing, for the sum of £5,000, to travel
+in disguise, the one as a fiddler in France and Belgium, and the other
+(our hero) as a piper in Britain and Ireland, to subsist upon what the
+public might be pleased to give them unsolicited, and whoever should have
+most money in the end was to gain the prize.  They both commenced their
+wanderings in the summer of 1825, but an uncle of the piper’s, who then
+held a high official situation, having got notice of the freak, put a
+stop to the proceedings before the end of three months; this gentleman,
+however, died in 1827, which left both parties free from restraint, in
+consequence of which they started in August, 1828, the one from
+Stonehaven, in Scotland, and the other from Calais, in France.  This
+important campaign was only intended to last three years, and would have
+been finished before now had not the piper received a severe hurt from
+the upsetting of a stage coach in Ireland, which confined him for fifteen
+months—during which time there was a secession of hostilities on both
+sides.  The piper during his illness lay at the house of Sir Thomas
+Butler, Bart., Ballintemple, county Carlow, where he met with the
+greatest kindness; indeed, the Irish, high and low, seem to have
+completely entered into the spirit of the undertaking.  He was never
+allowed in any one instance to pay anything at the hotels where he put
+up, waiter, chambermaid, boots, and porter all refused to accept of any
+remuneration for their services, nay, the very beggar wished his ‘honour
+good luck and a safe journey,’ without laying him under further
+contribution.  He says that he has been charged in all instances to the
+very utmost extent in England; we could have wished it had been
+otherwise, for the honour of our national character.  During his rambles,
+it is said he had given £550 to different charities, that receipts for
+which are lodged for safety with John Stuart, Esq., of 19, Cleveland Row,
+Finsbury Square, London.”
+
+Oct. 25th.—The wandering piper had begun his rounds and had lunched with
+the Mayor.
+
+Nov. 8th—Electioneering partizanship was displaying itself.  A “True Red
+Committee (composed of the lowest order of beer-loving Burgesses) had
+been formed” and Andrew Colville, Esq., had been requested to stand for
+the Borough in that interest.
+
+Nov. 15th.—Mr. Colville had arrived in the Borough and addressed the
+electors from the “Star” balcony.
+
+Dec. 6th.—Contains the following article:—
+
+    Tuesday last was a proud day for the friends of Reform, comprising as
+    they do a vast majority of all ranks of our town’s-people.  It having
+    been announced by hand-bill the day previous that Col. Anson and Mr.
+    Rumbold would arrive the following day, as early as the hour at noon,
+    the Southtown Road was crowded with pedestrians and equestrians of
+    all classes.  Between twelve and one o’clock the entire body of the
+    Political Union (full 400 strong) assembled at the Guardian Angel,
+    with blue ribbons and their badges round their necks.  The worthy
+    candidates having arrived at the above inn, the procession began to
+    move in the following order:—Two trumpeters on horseback;
+    banner—Yarmouth Union of the Working Classes; flags—Union Jack, Royal
+    Standard of England; ‘Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot’; ‘Short
+    Parliaments and Liberty of the Press’; ‘The love of our Country leads
+    us’; ‘Close Corporations abolished’; ‘Equal Laws and Equal Rights’;
+    ‘United we stand, divided we fall’; banners of the King and Reform.
+    Flags—‘Gorleston and Southtown Voters’; ‘Anson and Rumbold’;
+    ‘Friends.’  Flags—‘The People’s Cause’; ‘The Poor Man’s Rights’;
+    ‘Reduction of Taxation’; ‘Close Corporations Opened’; ‘Abolition of
+    Slavery’; ‘Cheap Government and Equal Rights’; ‘The Liberty of the
+    Press’; ‘Knowledge is Power’; ‘Civil and Religious Liberty’; ‘Freedom
+    of Election.’  The procession, on entering the town by the Bridge,
+    was welcomed by the exultant shouts of an innumerable concourse of
+    expectant individuals, who had by this time lined the new Hall Quay,
+    eager to witness the imposing spectacle.  The blue pennons of
+    numerous ships, ‘floating in the breeze,’ added not a little to the
+    joyousness of the occasion.  The procession moved on, adding to its
+    numbers as it advanced along the Quay, up South Street, along King
+    Street, down our beautiful Market Place, and back to the Committee
+    Rooms, from the windows of which the assembled multitude (consisting
+    certainly of not less than 5,000 persons) were addressed by Mr.
+    Alderman Barth, Col. Anson, Mr. Rumbold, and J. Shelly, Esq.  The
+    weather was till towards noon rather showery; fortunately it then
+    cleared up.  Such, however, appeared to us the general enthusiasm,
+    that it seemed as if no weather could have damped the universal
+    feeling of delight, nor have abated the desire to witness the
+    proceedings of this memorable day.  Numbers of well-dressed females
+    from the windows of the houses, as the procession passed along, were
+    to be seen, with approving smiles, shaking blue flags, elegant
+    banners, &c., &c., thus demonstrating their hearty participation in
+    the high feeling of satisfaction which displayed itself all around.
+    Too much praise cannot be given to Capt. Garson and Mr. Gamble for
+    the judgment shown by them in marshalling the procession.  Nor ought
+    we to omit mentioning, in terms of high commendation, the excellent
+    conduct of the Union on the occasion—conduct which was noticed in the
+    evening at the King’s Head, by the Chairman (Mr. T. Hammond) making a
+    very handsome acknowledgment of their services, and giving as a toast
+    (which was drank with three times three and very general applause)
+    ‘The Council of the Political Union.’  Surely, if it had been before
+    possible for the Conservatives (as they improperly styled themselves)
+    to have mistaken the feeling of the town, the proceedings of Tuesday
+    last must have entirely undeceived them, and enabled them to see the
+    utter hopelessness of a contest with our late excellent
+    representatives.  Monday next is the day of election, when we shall
+    see whether these hardy and obstinate men are still determined to
+    pull down certain ruin on their party.
+
+    On Thursday night Messrs. Anson and Rumbold, addressing their
+    numerous friends from the balcony of the Crown and Anchor, were
+    insulted by water thrown upon, and it is reported tiles at them, from
+    a small _red_ inn adjoining.  This roused the indignation of the
+    multitude, and the destruction of the windows was the consequence.  A
+    spirited youth resented still further indignity offered to his
+    friends by springing from the balcony and seizing upon and destroying
+    the enemy’s blood-red standard.
+
+Dec. 15th.—The nomination took place at the “Tol-hall,” and after the
+Mayor had opened the proceedings, Col. Anson was nominated by William
+Barth, Esq., seconded by Mr. Thomas Clowes, Mr. Rumbold by John Shelly
+and John Brightwen, Esqs., and A. Colville, Esq., by John Lacon, Esq.,
+and Mr. B. Gooch.  The show of hands was in favour of Messrs. Anson and
+Rumbold.  The poll for the first day was—
+
+Rumbold        715
+Anson          699
+Colville       631
+
+And at the close on the second day—
+
+Rumbold        838
+Anson          829
+Colville       751
+
+Dec. 20th.—A dinner had been held to celebrate the return of these
+gentlemen, “when William Barth, Esq., presided, C. Sayers, Esq., was his
+vice, and N. Palmer and John Shelly, Esqs., headed the tables to the
+right and left of him.”
+
+
+
+1833.
+
+
+Jan. 3rd.—The prisoners in the Gaol and Bridewell returned thanks to the
+Mayor (J. Baker, Esq.) for the plentiful dinner of roast beef, plum
+pudding, and a quart of ale each, which he gave them on Christmas Day.
+
+Jan. 10th.—A large alligator had been taken by a Dutch fishing boat off
+Orford Ness.
+
+Jan. 14th.—H.M. frigates Castor (Capt. Lord J. Hay) and Conway (Capt.
+Eden), together with the French frigate Arcade, came into the Roads to
+victual and get a supply of water.
+
+Jan. 17th.—A number of ladies and gentlemen visited the men-of-war; and
+on the following Tuesday the vessels proceeded “out of the Cockle,”
+accompanied by the Royal Charlotte cutter (Lieut. Harmer), she “keeping
+to windward until lost to view.”
+
+Jan. 31st.—A suggestion had been made at the Corporation assembly as to
+reform of that body, but was not supported.
+
+Feb. 7th.—A fine vessel of 216 tons had been launched from Mr. Preston’s
+yard, and it was stated that “It is now allowed by merchants from all
+parts of the world that the finest and handsomest vessels are now built
+in this port.”
+
+Feb. 21st.—The Flora, a French frigate, had arrived in the Roads.
+
+Feb. 28th.—The petition against the return of Messrs. Windham and Keppel
+(M.P.’s for East Norfolk) had “excited much surprise and indignation
+amongst the numerous friends of these gentlemen in the town.”
+
+March 7th.—It was proposed to start a steam packet for the conveying of
+goods and passengers to Hull.
+
+A warrant from the Speaker of the House of Commons had been received,
+requesting the attendance of the Mayor and Town Clerk before a Committee
+of the House “to give an account of all matters relating to the town and
+Corporation; consequently J. Baker, Esq., and S. Tolver, Esq., had left
+Yarmouth on Monday.”
+
+A public meeting on the question of Corporation Reform had been held, Mr.
+C. Sayers in the chair.  Messrs. J. Shelly and S. Cobb spoke, and a
+petition was adopted, which received 1,958 signatures.
+
+A petition had also been adopted by the members of the “Yarmouth Union of
+the Working Classes” against “The Irish Coercion Bill.”
+
+March 14th.—The Inquiry as to the administration of Corporate affairs was
+proceeding in London, when the following gentlemen were there upon that
+business on behalf of the Corporation:—The Mayor, the Town Clerk, and the
+Water Bailiff, while Messrs. Worship, Barth, Shelly, and Barrett
+represented the Town Committee.
+
+March 21st.—The works at St. Peter’s Church were “at a stand” for the
+want of funds, £600 being required.
+
+April 4th.—The Haven Commission were indebted £25,000.
+
+The Sessions were held with the “light calendar of 15 prisoners.”
+
+April 18th.—Lord Orford had accepted the office of Lord High Steward of
+the Borough, rendered vacant through the death of Lord Exmouth.
+
+The Rev. Mark Waters had been appointed one of the ministers of St.
+George’s Chapel.
+
+April 24th.—The Rev. Mr. Clarke of Norwich, had accepted the ministry of
+St. Peter’s, the ladies proposed to present the communion plate to this
+Church.
+
+May 23rd.—The mackerel fishing had been very unsuccessful.
+
+A meeting had been held to approve of the proposed Rules for the intended
+Proprietary Grammar School.
+
+May 30th.—A Commission had been appointed to inquire into Corporate
+affairs “on the spot.”
+
+Sir F. Palgrave had obtained from H.M. Commissioners of Records the
+presentation of some valuable publications to the Library.
+
+June 13th.—Lord Exmouth had arrived in his yacht, and subsequently sailed
+with his brother, the Vicar (the Hon. E. Pellew), for St. Petersburgh.
+
+June 20th.—Vice-Admiral Parker had been appointed a K.C.B.
+
+July 11th.—The following is the account of the Burgh Water Frolic:—
+
+    “Monday last being the day appointed for our annual water frolic, an
+    immense quantity of boats (from the splendid pleasure barge to the
+    humble punt) started from our Bridge at eleven o’clock a.m. with a
+    favourable and somewhat stiff breeze from the N.E.  At two o’clock
+    the various crafts laid-to in the Narrows to witness the sailing
+    match.  The competitors were the Venus (cutter-rigged boat), Last;
+    Algerine (latteener), Craske; Emerald, (latteener) Col. Jones; and
+    the Hornet, Everett.  The prize (an elegant silver cup) was won by
+    the Venus.  At starting the Hornet had the lead for a short distance,
+    when she was passed by the Venus, and on rounding the upper cross
+    stake the latter boat and the Emerald were close together, and
+    remained so, till they got within the Narrows, when the Colonel
+    succeeded in passing her, winning the first by about half a minute.
+    In two minutes after the Venus recovered her lost ground and passed
+    her opponent, and succeeded in rounding the stake one minute before
+    the Emerald, who, however, neared so fast that had not the Venus
+    rounded the flag very closely she must have lost the match, the
+    Colonel being to windward.  The oldest boater never remembers so
+    closely contested a run.  After sailing, the various crafts (which
+    absolutely studded the river) got under weigh, and proceeded towards
+    the ancient Garianonum, opposite to which they dined.  At seven
+    o’clock p.m. the boats started for home, where they arrived in about
+    an hour, all safe, nothing having occurred to damp the pleasures of
+    the day, which was an extremely fine one.  At Burgh, Chase, the
+    spirited proprietor of the Neptune Gardens, was completely at home,
+    while on the adjacent hills, opposite the cage, various groups of
+    happy faces were to be seen enjoying tea, &c.  This, together with
+    the immense crowd of company that congregated on the road, presented
+    a scene that must have been witnessed to have been fully appreciated.
+    Among the company were our worthy Mayor and a large party of
+    fashionables in the handsome barge belonging to W. Fisher, Esq., S.
+    T. Berney, and J. Penrice, Esqs., in the former’s fast-sailing boat
+    Meteor, Mr. Alderman Barth in the admiral’s (Green’s) boat, &c., &c.
+    This, together with the countless multitudes that crowded the decks
+    of the tug, Royal Sovereign and Emperor steamers, made the river
+    appear a sort of floating fair.  On the next day a number of boats,
+    barges, &c., sailed to the Berney Arms to witness a rowing match (for
+    a silver cup, given by Mr. Barnett, the landlord of the house) by
+    four-oared gigs, which was won by the Wasp, a Norwich boat, belonging
+    to William Gallant, jun.  Nearer home we observed an unusually large
+    number of stalls, &c., at our bridge foot.  On the whole, there
+    seemed nothing wanting to make this annual festival worthy of
+    brighter days, but the presence of the Corporation barge, without
+    which (although no brawlers against innovation) we cannot but think
+    the Regatta is shorn of much of its glory.”
+
+July 18th.—A fight had taken place on the Factory Denes, for one
+Sovereign, between Thomas Purdy, of Caister, commonly known as “The
+Caister Champion,” and George Elliott, of Ingham.  At the 133rd round
+(the battle lasted 1 h. 50 min.)  Elliott was declared the victor.
+
+Two men (Seager and Hanson) had quarrelled in the Bear Tap, when
+Nathaniel Lacey, in trying to part them, was knocked down and his leg
+broken.
+
+August 22nd.—“As early as nine o’clock on Friday morning an immense
+concourse of genteely-dressed persons had congregated before St. Peter’s
+Church, anxious not to miss the opportunity of witnessing the solemn and
+imposing ceremonial about to take place.  At ten o’clock the principal
+door was thrown open, and this large assemblage entered.  The greatest
+order and decorum prevailed, owing certainly to the excellent arrangement
+of C. Symonds, Esq., one of the Churchwardens for the year, who, to
+prevent confusion, had issued tickets, which were left at the houses of
+the respectable housekeepers, without the least distinction, as also at
+the various lodging houses for the use of the visitors.  About eleven
+o’clock the Mayor (John Baker, Esq.), with the customary regalia,
+attended by several other members of the Corporate body entered the
+church, and were shown to the pews appropriated for their reception.  The
+Bishop of Winchester soon arrived with his Chaplain and Registrar and
+proceeded up the middle aisle to the altar, where the service began by
+the latter gentleman presenting the petition to the Bishop, who
+redelivered it to the Registrar, when it was by him read aloud.  The
+Right Rev. Prelate then pronounced the following words, in a solemn,
+appropriate, and sonorous tone of voice—“I am now ready to give my full
+consent to that which you have desired, and may Almighty God bless the
+good work in which we are about engaging.”  His Lordship then, with his
+officers and clergy, walked to the west end of the church and back again
+to the altar, repeating alternate versicles of the 42nd Psalm.  The
+Bishop having seated himself at the table, the Deed of Consecration was
+read by the surrogate (the Very Rev. the Dean of Norwich), after which
+his Lordship read the exhortation, prayers, &c., appointed for the
+occasion.  The usual morning prayers were read from the desk by the Hon.
+and Rev. E. Pellew, with the exception of those parts especially
+appropriated to the occasion, which were read by the Bishop.  The reading
+Psalms most judiciously selected for the occasion were the 84th, 122nd,
+and 132nd; the lessons, parts of the 8th chapter of 1st Kings, and of the
+10th chapter of Hebrews.  After the prayers, verses 6, 7, and 8 of 26th,
+with Gloria Patri, was performed by a very full orchestra of
+instrumentalists and vocalists.  The common service was performed by the
+Bishop, with the exception of the Epistle and the Nicene Creed, which
+were read by his Lordship’s Chaplain, the Rev. Alexander Dallas.  The
+100th Psalm (Tate and Brady’s version) was then sung by the whole choir.
+The sermon, a striking, apposite, and eloquent one, was preached by the
+Rev. Mr. Clark, the appointed minister of the Church, from Genesis,
+chapter 28th, verses 16 and 17—“And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, &c.”
+[832 young persons were confirmed by the Bishop of Winchester.]”
+
+August 29th.—The Races had been held, and on “Tuesday and Wednesday the
+great annual main of cocks had been fought at the Bush Tavern, South
+Quay, between the gentlemen of Norwich and the gentlemen of Yarmouth for
+£5 a battle and £50 the odds, which was won by Norwich, who were six
+battles a head.”
+
+Sept. 15th.—The smack Endeavour, of London, had been seized with 65 casks
+and 16 bales (2,800 lbs. in weight) of tobacco on board her.
+
+The following Corporate officers had been chosen:—John Danby-Palmer,
+Esq., Mayor; Mr. James Jay, Chamberlain; F. R. Reynolds, Esq., and J. M.
+Bell, Esq., Churchwardens.
+
+The late gales had caused an immense quantity of sand and shingle to be
+washed into the Harbour, so as to form a point opposite the South Pier.
+
+Oct. 3rd.—The following is the report of the Yarmouth Guild Day:—
+
+    On Monday the Mayor and the Mayor Elect (J. Danby-Palmer, Esq.),
+    accompanied by the Earl of Orford and the members of the Corporation,
+    attended divine service at St. Nicholas’ Church, by the Hon. and Rev.
+    Edward Pellew, after which the Rev. Thomas Baker, Chaplain to the
+    Body Corporate, preached an excellent sermon.  After service the
+    Corporation adjourned to the Guildhall, where the Mayor-Elect was
+    sworn into office with the customary ceremonies.
+
+    The Recorder (Mr. Sergeant Merewether) being absent, the Town Clerk,
+    previous to presenting the patent of appointment as Lord High Steward
+    of the Borough to the Earl of Orford, addressed his Lordship,
+    observing that the Corporation entertained a high sense of the honour
+    conferred upon them by his Lordship’s acceptance of an office which
+    (as constituted by one of the charters of the borough) assimilated
+    with that of Lord High Steward of England, an office of great power
+    and authority, having under the King the regulating the
+    administration of justice, which had not since its forfeiture in the
+    reign of Henry the Third, by its hereditary possessor, been granted
+    to any one except upon and for particular occasions, and had only
+    been presented to one of the Nobility and a Lord of Parliament.  So
+    by the Charter of King Charles, the High Steward of the borough of
+    Yarmouth must be ‘unus praeclarus vir,’ the meaning of which might be
+    gathered from the appointment of William, Earl of Yarmouth, to be the
+    first modern High Steward, and that to the present time the office
+    had been filled by noblemen distinguished by their talents and
+    services as statesmen, or great naval and military commanders.
+    Amongst them were the celebrated Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford,
+    a second Robert Earl of Orford, and George Earl of Orford, who
+    together held that office for nearly 60 years, much to the honour and
+    advantage of the Borough.  Although their connection with that noble
+    family had been interrupted, it had not been forgotten by the
+    Corporation, who were happy in having the honour of renewing it in
+    the person of his Lordship, in whom they found that ‘praeclarus vir’
+    pointed out by the charter, and they doubted not but that his
+    Lordship would support them in all transactions grounded in honour,
+    honesty, and good faith, and having for their object the public good,
+    and that he would defend and maintain their ancient rights,
+    privileges, and immunities.  The Town Clerk then presented Lord
+    Orford with his appointment, and assured his Lordship that his
+    presence among them would always be hailed with pleasure by the
+    Corporation.
+
+    The Earl of Orford was then sworn, and immediately addressed the
+    Mayor and Corporation in an eloquent speech, in which he said he
+    claimed no merit to himself for the choice which had been made by the
+    Corporation, but attributed it solely to the recollection of the
+    former connection of the borough with his ancestors, which had been
+    so handsomely alluded to by the Town Clerk, and to that firm line of
+    conduct in political life which he had thought it his duty
+    steadfastly to pursue, which it was his pride and pleasure to
+    maintain, and that although the Corporation might have selected a
+    person of more influence than himself, yet he would yield to no one
+    in zeal, and no exertion on his part would be spared to uphold the
+    rights, privileges, and immunities of the Corporation, which had that
+    day been entrusted to the Mayor, and which it was to be hoped he
+    would be permitted to resign unimpaired to his successor.  He himself
+    should always feel it his duty and pleasure to render his services
+    available to the true interests of the borough.
+
+    The other annual officers were then sworn, and the Mayor, accompanied
+    by the High Steward and the Corporate Body, walked to the Town Hall,
+    where a most splendid entertainment was provided for upwards of three
+    hundred and thirty gentlemen, among whom were the Right Hon. the Earl
+    of Orford, the Right Hon. Viscount Nevill, the Hon. Mr. Justice
+    Alderson, the Hon. the Rev. E. Pellew, the Hon. P. H. Abbott, Sir E.
+    K. Lacon, Bart., Vice-Admiral Sir George Parker, K.C.B., Col. Petre,
+    Col. Mason, Robert Marsham, Esq., J. Postle, Esq., Stratton Marsham,
+    Esq., E. H. K. Lacon, Esq., W. M. Praed, Esq., Rev. C. Penrice, Rev.
+    J. Humfrey, Rev. — Clarke, Rev. J. Gunn, Rev. B. Winthorp, John
+    Penrice, Esq., R. Rising, Esq., S. Palmer, Esq., W. Carpenter, Esq.,
+    Capt. Onslow, R.N., Capt. M. Kelly, R.N., Capt. Travers, R.N., Major
+    Travers, Capt. Carew, R.N., H. Munro, Esq., B. Caldecott, Esq., &c.,
+    &c.
+
+    The healths of their Majesties—the Princess Victoria and the rest of
+    the Royal Family—his Majesty’s Ministers, and the Duke of Wellington,
+    were drank.  On the health of the Earl of Orford being given, the
+    noble Lord, in returning thanks, alluded to the commission for
+    investigating Corporations, declaring ‘that he denounced the
+    illegality of the commission.’  His Lordship gave the health of the
+    Mayor and Prosperity to the Town of Yarmouth, for which the Chief
+    Magistrate expressed his acknowledgment, stating his determination to
+    do all he could to forward the best interests of the town on every
+    occasion.
+
+    On the health of Mr. Justice Alderson being given, the learned Judge
+    spoke of the Constitution of this country as being so framed as to
+    allow all who had the talents and industry to arrive at the very
+    highest dignities the King could confer, and concluded by saying that
+    the question for the people to consider was whether they would close
+    the avenues to those dignities.  The healths of Lord Nevill, Mr.
+    Charles Palmer (the son of the Mayor), Sir E. K. Lacon, Lord Walpole
+    and the House of Wolterton, Lord Wodehouse and the House of
+    Kimberley, and a variety of other toasts were given; after which the
+    Mayor and a large party adjourned to the Ball at the Bath Rooms,
+    where dancing continued till a late hour.
+
+Oct. 31st.—“On Monday evening last, as Mr. Marsh, of the house of Marsh
+and Barnes, wine and spirit merchants, was returning in his gig from
+Beccles, he overtook a female on the road near Fritton, who, as Mr. M.
+passed, implored assistance.  He pulled up, and finding the poor creature
+in an exhausted and high state of nervous excitement, and that she was on
+her way to this place, he took her up, when she stated as follows—that
+she had walked from Yarmouth to Heckingham House to obtain relief for a
+relative residing in Yarmouth, that she had obtained 3s., was returning
+home across the Marshes, and when near the New Cut and bridge over the
+dam, she saw two men, who appeared to come from a wherry, and when they
+met her one of them presented a pistol and threatened to shoot her, but
+she answering in the negative to the enquiry of “Do you know us,” one of
+them said, “Don’t shoot her.”  They then searched, took from her 2s. 6d.,
+some halfpence, and a handkerchief with some trifles, knocked her down by
+a blow on the face, and so left her.  When she recovered she proceeded on
+her journey till the above gentleman humanely assisted her into the town
+and relieved her; but she was so weak from the fright as to stagger when
+she left the gig.  She states that she thinks she could recognize one of
+the men.  Might not some enquiry as to what wherry was moored in the Cut
+at that time lead to the detection of the perpetrators of so diabolical
+an act as that of distressing the distressed.  We respectfully submit to
+the gentlemen who are the guardians for the hundred of Heckingham if some
+safe plan could not be devised to relieve non-resident paupers, so as to
+obviate the necessity of a journey by them of so many miles.”
+
+Dec. 5th.—The winter assemblies having been discontinued for two years
+had been revived, and the first assembly had been held at the Town Hall,
+(the Mayor (J. Danby Palmer, Esq.) and Vice-Admiral Sir George Parker,
+K.C.B., Stewards).  It was attended by all the principal families of the
+town and neighbourhood.
+
+Dec. 12th.—A fine schooner named the Fairy Queen, 150 tons register, had
+been launched from W. Lubbock’s yard.
+
+Dec. 28th.—The altar piece presented to St. Peter’s Church by Col. Mason
+was put up on Christmas Eve.
+
+
+
+1834.
+
+
+Jan. 9th.—Samuel Tolver and Charles John Palmer, Esqs., had been
+appointed Perpetual Commissioners for the counties of Norfolk and
+Suffolk.
+
+Jan. 16th.—News had been received that the Lion, belonging to G. D.
+Palmer, Esq., had arrived at Civita Vecchia on the 26th ult.
+
+Jan. 30th.—Two schooners of about 80 tons register, named the Norwich
+Trader and Lowestoft Merchant, had been launched from Mr. Thomas W.
+Branford’s yard.
+
+A requisition was being signed for the purpose of having the “upper”
+ferry established.
+
+Feb. 6th.—Messrs. Buckle and Hogg, two of H.M. Municipal Commissioners,
+had arrived for the purpose of holding an Inquiry into the doings of the
+Corporation.
+
+A crowded meeting had been held to petition Parliament for an abolition
+of Church Rates.  J. Shelly, Esq., was called to the chair, and the
+following gentlemen took part in the proceedings:—Rev. Mr. Betts, J. B.
+Palmer, Esq., Rev. T. Tait, Mr. D. Chapman, Rev. H. Squire, and Rev. A.
+Creak.
+
+Feb. 20th.—Capt. Manby had given “an elegant and fully attended fete” at
+the Barracks.
+
+Feb. 29th.—The Municipal Commissioners were sitting at the Tolhouse.
+
+March 6th.—The Commissioners having finished their investigation were
+entertained by Alderman Bath at Dinner.
+
+April 10th.—Mr. G. Garson had been appointed Lloyd’s Surveyor.
+
+The annual silver cup, given by Mr. Bales to the members of the “Yarmouth
+British Yacht Club,” was to be sailed for in May.
+
+April 17th.—A meeting had been held to oppose certain clauses in the
+proposed Haven and Pier Bill then before Parliament, Mr. Alderman Barth
+in the chair, the following took part in the proceedings:—Messrs. J.
+Brightwen, J. Shelly, A. Palmer, S. Cobb, R. Ferrier, G. D. Palmer, B.
+Dowson, P. Stead, and William Barber.
+
+April 24th.—The Baltic (belonging to I. Preston, Esq.) and The Venus
+(belonging to G. D. Palmer, Esq.) had sailed with emigrants for North
+America.
+
+May 1st.—A brig called the Friends, of 190 tons register, had been
+launched from Mr. A. Palmer’s yard.
+
+May 15th.—The “New Proprietary Grammar School” had been opened, John
+Danby Palmer, Esq., being Chairman during the proceedings.
+
+June 5th.—The Misses Seaman had been appointed postmistresses.
+
+June 12th.—“A remarkably fine ship of 374 tons” had been launched from
+the dockyard of Ambrose Palmer, Esq.
+
+June 26th.—Contains the following notice of an “Ingenious Invention”:—“A
+few weeks since a young lady having lost her left leg by amputation, four
+inches below the knee, applied to Mr. W. B. Neslen, shoe and last maker,
+of this town, complaining of the inconvenience she experienced from the
+wooden substitute she had procured.  Mr. N. immediately set about
+remedying this, which he eventually accomplished by the making of a leg,
+which for useful purposes has in a very great measure supplied the loss
+of the original limb.  It was composed of light sycamore wood, cased with
+leather, with elastic springs for the foot.  It was shown to several
+mechanics in the neighbourhood, who all gave an opinion highly favourable
+to the ingenuity of its construction.  It weighs 3lbs. (the former
+substitute weighed 7lbs.) and is connected with the knee by springs.  The
+lady is enabled to make very nearly the same use of the artificial as she
+previously had done with the real limb.”
+
+The anniversary of the King’s accession to the Throne had been observed,
+the Corporation attending divine service, when the Rev. T. Baker preached
+“an appropriate sermon.”
+
+July 24th.—Mr. William Mabson had been chosen a Common Councilman in the
+room of Mr. John Robson, deceased.
+
+July 31st.—The annual water frolic had been held, Mr. Stephen Miller’s
+Water Witch taking the prize.
+
+Aug. 14th.—Messrs. C. Davie, Samuel Palmer, Frederick Paget, Capt.
+Todman, R.N., and the Rev. Mark Waters had been elected Paving
+Commissioners.
+
+Aug. 21st.—A dinner had been given (G. D. Palmer, Esq., in the chair) to
+Messrs. T. Hammond and R. B. Fenn, as a compliment for services rendered
+by them to the fishing interest.
+
+Aug. 28th.—The Stratheden, 400 tons register, had been launched from Mr.
+F. Preston’s yard.
+
+Sept. 2nd.—The following had been chosen Corporate officers for the
+ensuing year:—Isaac Preston, jun., Esq., Mayor; Mr. J. E. Laws,
+Chamberlain; J. Danby Palmer, and E. H. L. Preston, Esqs., Churchwardens;
+Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., Isaac Preston, Esq., and Messrs. R. Ferrier and
+William Yetts, Auditors; J. D. Palmer, Edmund Preston, Robert Cory, jun.,
+William Barth, Esqs., and Messrs. E. H. L. Preston, S. B. Cory, C. J.
+Palmer, Vestry; J. Baker, Esq., and Mr. James Jay, Collectors; and
+Messrs. F. Preston and Samuel Jay, Muragers.
+
+Oct. 2nd.—Contains the following report of the proceedings on the
+“Mayor’s Day”:—
+
+    Monday being the feast of St. Michael, the day was ushered in by
+    ringing of Bells, flags at the New Hall, Church, &c.  The Mayor-Elect
+    (I. Preston, jun., Esq.) ordered twopenny buns to be given to the
+    children of the different charity schools in the town, and it was
+    really gratifying to observe the number of happy boys and girls, with
+    cheers parading Gaol-street, the Quay, &c., with their gifts in their
+    hands.  About two o’clock in the afternoon the Mayor and Corporation
+    attended divine service at St. Nicholas’ Church, where a sermon was
+    delivered by the Rev. F. Baker (son of the Rector of Rollesby) from
+    Acts, chapter 23rd, 4th and 5th verses, which in the days when
+    passive obedience and non-resistance reigned might have been
+    considered an excellent one.  Happily, however, those days are past,
+    and few, probably, of the rev. gentleman’s hearers accorded with him
+    when they heard him denounce from the pulpit the great majority of
+    those who sought Reform in the Church, and other acknowledged abuses
+    as infidels, atheists, and anarchists, and those who aimed at the
+    overthrow of the Church, the Altar, and the Crown.  From the Church
+    the Corporation proceeded to the Guildhall, where the Mayor-Elect
+    (after having taken the oath of office) spoke to the following
+    effect:—“Gentlemen, previous to assuming the chair of Chief
+    Magistracy, which I am about to fill, you will allow me to thank you
+    for the proof that you have given me of your confidence.  Gentlemen,
+    I sought not this office; I have accepted it only that I might
+    endeavour to render myself useful to my fellow townsmen.  Gentlemen,
+    it is not the pageantry, the sword and mace (though even these may be
+    of use in their way) that have allured me to this office—no; had I
+    been capable of being actuated by such motives, I should have been
+    indeed unworthy of taking (as I have just taken) the Holy Gospels in
+    my hand, and to have sworn before my God, to execute to the best of
+    my ability, the important duties of Chief Magistrate of my native
+    town.  I would now address myself to my proper brethren, I would
+    address myself to all, high or low, rich or poor, and exhort them to
+    do all that in their power lie to promote the decorum of social life,
+    by cheeking vice, immorality, and debauchery.  Gentlemen, I thank you
+    very much for the patience with which you have heard me.”  This
+    address was delivered with much firmness, and at the same time with
+    considerable emotion, and was received with great applause.  After
+    the ceremony of robing, and the other routine business had been gone
+    through, the newly-elected Mayor, Deputy-Mayor, &c., proceeded
+    (escorted by the town band, flags, &c.) to the New Hall, where a
+    sumptuous dinner was served to a numerous and highly respectable
+    assembly of the Body Corporate, and the friends of the Chief
+    Magistrate.  The dessert, which was fine and abundant, was, we
+    understand, served by Mr. Brooks, of the Market Row.
+
+Oct. 9th.—Harry Worship, Esq., had delivered a very interesting lecture
+on the “Philosophy of Dreams.”
+
+Oct. 16th.—The frequency of robbery at sea had induced the fishermen to
+keep an unusually sharp look out.
+
+Oct. 23rd.—Charles J. Palmer, Esq., had been elected an Alderman in the
+place of Dr. Bateman, deceased.
+
+It appears from the report of the proceedings at the Revision Court that
+the lower ferry was then let at £30 a year only.
+
+Oct. 30th.—The “Blues” claimed a gain of 50 on the revision of the
+Freeman’s list.
+
+The fishing was reported as going on “very badly.”
+
+Nov. 6th.—A public meeting had been held on the subject of the Port and
+Haven Bill, the Mayor in the chair, when Messrs. George Danby Palmer,
+Shelly, Brightwen, Ferrier, Barth, and Dowson took part in the
+proceedings.
+
+Nov. 20th.—The Conservatives had held a meeting at Bammant’s Green, Mr.
+William Mabson in the chair, pledging themselves to support the Hon. W.
+H. Beresford and W. M. Praed.
+
+Nov. 27th.—Col. Anson had spoken from the Committee Room in Regent
+Street, when Messrs. George Steward and J. Shelly took part in the
+proceedings.
+
+The “Political Union” required Col. Anson and Mr. Rumbold to pledge
+themselves to support “Corporation Reform, Triennial Parliaments,
+Extension of the Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot.”
+
+Dec. 4th.—A meeting of voters in the Blue interest had been held at the
+Crown and Anchor Tavern, when it was determined “to sink all minor
+differences” in order to secure the return of Col. Anson and Mr. Rumbold.
+Mr. N. B. Palmer addressed a crowded assembly from the Committee Rooms.
+
+Dec. 11th.—Thomas Baring, Esq., had arrived as Mr. Praed’s colleague, and
+both gentlemen had addressed the electors from the Newcastle Tavern, and
+a house on the South Quay, which they had engaged as a Committee Room.
+
+Dec. 18th.—The contest was progressing, Col. Anson assuring his
+supporters “that at that moment their canvassing book stood better than
+he had ever known it to stand since he had known Yarmouth.”
+
+Dec. 23rd.—There had been a “violent scuffle” between the Reds and the
+Blues, during which “the son of a Baronet was pulled from his horse and
+beaten violently.”
+
+
+
+1835.
+
+
+Jan. 8th, contains the following account of the election:—
+
+    “It is with feelings of the deepest sorrow that we announce that our
+    late members, Messrs. Anson and Rumbold, are ousted from the
+    representation.  We said last week that nothing but the most gross
+    and unblushing bribery could possibly unseat these gentlemen, and
+    these means have been had recourse to, to an unprecedented extent.
+    Messrs. Baring and Praed are returned, not by the free and
+    independent voice of the people, but by a bought majority, bought by
+    means most disgraceful both to giver and receiver, although we cannot
+    help thinking that the larger portion of disgrace attaches to the
+    former—for what can be more discreditable, what can be more contrary
+    to the high honour which ought to distinguish the gentleman, than to
+    take advantage of the poor freeman, and by (in this instance doubly
+    accursed) gold to make him forfeit his solemn promises?  Do our
+    opponents ask for proofs of this?  We have them in the infamous
+    system of cooping (a system which we had hoped was confined to a
+    neighbouring city, but which has been now imported into this till now
+    uncorrupt borough), which has been with a bold unblushing front
+    carried on to a large extent in certain houses in the town.  We have
+    them in the number of freemen who were to be seen on both election
+    days coming up to the Red booth with Blue colours in their hats, and
+    in the madness of infuriating drink, flinging them in the face of and
+    grossly abusing a highly respected and respectable fellow townsman of
+    ours, while at the same time they recorded their votes for Messrs.
+    Baring and Praed.  We have it in the fact that four sovereigns, with
+    a promise of as much more, and £2 10s., with a like promise, were
+    given to two poor freemen of the names of Boyce and Stevenson, to
+    induce them to vote for the Reds, but who, with a truly noble spirit
+    that cannot be too highly appreciated, brought the money into their
+    hands to the Blue booth, and then polled for Messrs. Anson and
+    Rumbold.  But, unfortunately for the good cause, these glorious
+    examples were not generally followed.  The Red Leaders took good care
+    for the most part of their deluded and purchased victims, by plying
+    them with drink, keeping them in strong hold, &c., to allow them to
+    return to the paths of rectitude.  We do think that the feelings of
+    our late members are rather to be envied by those of the present, the
+    former having lost with honour, the latter owing their election not
+    to the feeling of the town (that we confidently say, without fear of
+    contradiction, is with Messrs. Anson and Rumbold), but to the
+    exercise of the most abominable and venal means to effectuate it.  If
+    anything like the sums which we have heard mentioned have been
+    expended in this shameful warfare of gold against principle, our
+    opponents may truly say with one of yore, ‘another such victory will
+    ruin us!’  The most active measures are being had recourse to (and
+    may they be successful) either by substantiating the individual
+    instances of bribery, which we know have to a great extent taken
+    place to oust the members from those seats which they so unjustly
+    obtained by bad means, manifestly against the feeling and real wishes
+    of the town to oust Messrs. Baring and Praed from the ill-earned
+    honours so surreptitiously procured for them, or at any rate to make
+    the guilty individual perpetrators pay the penalty of such acts!”
+
+    “The nomination of the candidates took place at the Guildhall, on
+    hustings erected outside.  The Town Clerk (S. Tolver, Esq.) having
+    read the precept, the Mayor, in a loud voice, requested a patient
+    hearing for those who might address them.  Mr. Alderman Barth, in a
+    neat speech, proposed the Hon. Col Anson as a fit and proper person
+    to represent the borough.  B. Dowson, Esq., seconded the nomination.
+    Vice-Admiral Sir G. Parker, K.C.B., in a very manly and
+    straightforward speech, proposed Mr. Rumbold, when Mr. Shelly
+    presented himself as the seconder.  A picked party of his opponents,
+    evidently brought there for the purpose, attempted by every
+    discordant noise to prevent his being heard; by dint of perseverance,
+    however, and the powerful support of his numerous friends, Mr. S.
+    with even more than his usual eloquence, at considerable length
+    supported the nomination.  Messrs. R. Ferrier and A. Palmer proposed
+    and seconded Mr. Baring, and Mr. J. Penrice proposed and Mr. J. Lacon
+    seconded the nomination of Mr. Praed.  The Hon. Col. Anson spoke at
+    great length, and with all his wonted power, in the course of a
+    really luminous speech, he expressed the surprise he had felt on
+    finding Mr. A. Palmer (a gentleman who had before honoured him with
+    his support) among the ranks of his opponents.  Mr. P. explained by
+    saying it was because Col. A. had allied himself to Radicals and
+    destructives.  The Hon. Col. said he was surprised at having such a
+    reason assigned.  It was known to all that he had never succumbed to
+    the Radicals.  That deeply grateful as he was for their support, he
+    had, and should again, unless convinced of their necessity, oppose
+    their great measures of vote by ballot and triennial parliaments.
+    That he was so far independent appeared in this, that with the ballot
+    he believed the present opposition would scarcely have occurred, or
+    if it had it would have been but a very few hours ere it would have
+    terminated in the triumph of himself and Mr. Rumbold.  (Loud cheers.)
+    The other candidates also addressed the assembled multitude.  The
+    poll commenced the following day, and from the activity with the Pink
+    and Purples, or Reds, or Conservatives, for in the motley assemblage
+    of coalition of colours we scarcely know what exactly they call
+    themselves, brought up their voters, it was feared that they would
+    head the first day’s poll.  The event proved the correctness of the
+    prediction, for at four o’clock it was found that the Tories had a
+    majority of 192; although the Blues rallied next morning, that
+    majority could not be altogether overcome.  The final close of the
+    poll left Messrs. Baring and Praed a majority of 88.
+
+Anson         680
+Rumbold       675
+Baring        772
+Praed         768
+
+    “Col. Anson and Mr. Rumbold addressed an immense concourse of
+    persons, by whom they were repeatedly and loudly cheered, from the
+    King’s Head windows.  They were preceded by Mr. Alderman Barth, Col.
+    Anson’s very deep emotion not enabling him immediately to come
+    forward.  When he did come forward he said no language which he could
+    use could sufficiently express his sorrow at the dissolution of the
+    connection so long subsisting between them; their present members
+    would find their task a comparatively easy one; they would find that
+    such attention had been paid to the town that the path would be plain
+    before them, and that little indeed would remain to be done.  (Loud
+    cheers.)  They had been defeated by means most flagitious.  Let not
+    the present members, however, be too certain of their seats, for if
+    by any means these foul proceedings could be sifted to the bottom,
+    measures would be taken to remove them from their ill-acquired
+    honours.  With him and Mr. Rumbold, he was happy to say, still
+    remained the real voice of the people.  (Cheers.)  He was proud of
+    this, and would in conclusion assure them that whether in or out of
+    Parliament their interests would ever have a prominent place in his
+    regards.  (Loud cheers.)  Mr. Rumbold spoke under the influence of
+    great agitation, and in the course of a very luminous speech adverted
+    to the disgraceful fact of having in his pocket a proof that, in a
+    room in this town a bribe was offered in the presence and with the
+    cognizance of a Magistrate.  (Cries of ‘Shame, shame.’)  He should
+    carry into retirement with him the deepest sense of their uniform
+    kindness, and a determination ever to forward the interests of any of
+    his former constituents, who might apply to him, to the best of his
+    ability.  The chairing of to-day was hailed by numbers with
+    demonstrations which must have been the very reverse to the members;
+    indeed, we are sure that if the Blues had shown in full strength
+    their exasperated feelings (and they did not do this alone in
+    compliance with the advice of their leaders), there could have been
+    no chairing.  A dinner of our late members’ friends is now about
+    taking place at the Masonic Hall, very numerously attended.  A
+    subscription for the purchase of a piece of plate for them is
+    commenced, and will include the smallest amount.  This will confirm
+    us in our conviction that the sense of the town is with the Blues.”
+
+Jan. 15th.—About 100 supporters of Messrs. Anson and Rumbold dined at the
+Masonic Hall, when both those gentlemen were present.
+
+Jan. 22nd.—The polling for East Norfolk showed a majority of 149 in the
+town for Windham and Gurney.  Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Windham, and Mr. Palmer
+had addressed the electors.
+
+Feb. 12th contains the following account of a sailing match from Yarmouth
+to Venice:—
+
+    “The Lion, Punchard, having some time been considered the fastest
+    ship out of this port, a brig was built, and launched in the middle
+    of September, called the Vivid (Captain M. Butcher, jun.) and matched
+    against the Lion, for Venice, which vessel sailed at 3 p.m. on the
+    2nd of December, and the Vivid sailed at 6 p.m. on the following day,
+    being 27 hours difference in favour of the former vessel; since which
+    period letters have been received from Venice from each Captain,
+    stating that the Vivid passed the Gut of Gibraltar on the 22nd of
+    December and the Lion on the 29th.  They also state that the Vivid
+    arrived at Venice on the 17th ult, and the Lion on the 24th ult.”
+
+A meeting of the subscribers to the plate to be presented to the late
+M.P.’s (Messrs. Anson and Rumbold) had been held, when it appeared that
+3,685 persons had contributed £370 0s. 8d.
+
+March 2nd.—Mr. C. Aldred had given a lecture on the “Philosophy of
+Sleep.”
+
+There had been “a most tremendous hurricane,” and it was stated that “the
+oldest seaman does not recollect so much damage occurring on this coast
+with an off-shore wind.”
+
+March 16th.—£100 had been deposited by three gentlemen “as the issue of a
+voyage to be performed by the Vivid, Lion, and Rapid, from these Roads to
+the Naze of Norway and back.”
+
+March 26th.—The ladies of Yarmouth were about to present two very elegant
+silver mugs to Miss Anson and Miss Emily Anson, the daughters of the late
+M.P. for the borough.
+
+April 16th.—Mr. W. Davie, Trinity Agent, had been appointed a
+Sub-Commissioner of Pilotage in the room of John Fisher, Esq., on the
+recommendation of John Danby Palmer, Esq., and W. J. Hurry, Esq., the
+other Commissioners.
+
+Mr. F. Preston had launched a very fine vessel of 464 tons called the
+Mary Anne.
+
+A Society for promoting the Purity of Election had been formed.
+
+April 23rd.—The members (Messrs. Baring and Praed) attended a dinner to
+which they had been invited by their constituents, at the Town Hall.  Sir
+E. K. Lacon, Bart., presided.  John Penrice, Esq., sat at the head of the
+right hand table, and Ambrose Palmer, Esq., at the head of the left.  Mr.
+Paget was vice-president.  Among the company were Lord Walpole, M.P., E.
+Wodehouse, Esq., M.P., Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., Sir Jacob Preston,
+Bart.,— Lawson, Esq., M.P., the Mayor of Yarmouth, John Danby Palmer,
+Esq., Captains Onslow, Gunthorpe, Manby, and Grint; M. Lacon, J. M.
+Lacon, W. Fisher, I. Preston, J. Preston, R. Ferrier, J. G. Fisher, E.
+Leathes, G. E. Francis, R. Cory, W. Yetts, F. Preston, and Chas. J.
+Palmer, Esqs.; the Revs. T. Baker, C. Penrice, W. Lucas, — Green, and
+about 250 electors.
+
+May 14th.—The smuggler “Nancy, of London,” was brought in by the Badger,
+cutter, having on board 150 tubs of brandy, a few bags of tea, and some
+dry goods.
+
+June 18th.—A meeting of Reformers had been held at the Star Hotel, when
+G. Danby Palmer, Esq., moved that a petition should be presented in
+favour of the Corporation Reform Bill.
+
+June 25th.—Another meeting on the same subject had been held at the
+Mechanics’ Hall.  Messrs. William Barth, R. Wall, Thomas Hammond, E.
+Sewell, S. Cobb, and J. Shelly taking part in the proceedings.
+
+July 2nd.—Mr. Praed had presented a petition against the Corporation
+Reform Bill from the town.
+
+July 30th.—The following notice appears of the death of J. Shelly, Esq.:—
+
+    “It is with feelings of more than ordinary regret that we this week
+    announce the sudden death of John Shelly, Esq.  This estimable
+    gentleman had concluded his examination on Tuesday forenoon last
+    before the Parliamentary Committee, and after being highly
+    complimented by the noble Chairman (Lord F. Egerton) for his ability
+    (feeling himself somewhat unwell), had retired to his inn, where he
+    directed the waiter to call him in half-an-hour.  The servant went
+    upstairs at the time appointed, about two in the afternoon, and found
+    Mr. S. sitting in a chair, nearly dead.  We repeat that we feel more
+    than ordinary regret at having this announcement to make.  As a
+    leader and representative (if we may so say) of a party his death
+    will create a void that it will be long indeed ere it be filled.  His
+    was a master mind—once embarked in a subject (whatever might be its
+    magnitude) it was sure to be treated powerfully and ably by Mr.
+    Shelly, the whole energies of whose mind were directed to its
+    elucidation for the benefit of his fellow townsmen.  There might,
+    indeed, be those who excelled this really gifted man in some
+    particular department, but for general knowledge, facility, power,
+    ease, and even elegance of expression, our lamented friend, we should
+    say, has not left his equal in this, his native town.  That he was a
+    warm partizan, no one can deny, but that he was directed in his every
+    movement of a public nature by sincerity and conscience is equally
+    clear to every one who had the happiness of knowing him.  The great
+    majority of the shops kept by those in the Liberal interest are
+    shaded, to show the sense which is entertained of the irreparable
+    nature of the public loss sustained.  But it is not alone in public
+    that the work of Mr. S. was known.  As a father, husband, friend, and
+    Christian, his conduct was alike exemplary.  We will venture to say
+    that, warm as was his political partizanship, he never made himself
+    one personal enemy.  Mr. Shelly has left an amiable wife and eleven
+    children to deplore his loss.”
+
+August 8th.—The Regatta had been held, when the cup was won by Sir Jacob
+Preston’s “Maria”; on this occasion Edmund Preston, Esq., entertained
+“about 200 of the fashionables of the town.”
+
+August 13th.—The petition in favour of Corporation Reform had been signed
+by 2,500 persons.
+
+August 20th.—The following notice appears:—
+
+    “On Friday night, Mr. Prentice, of whose contumacy before a Committee
+    of the House of Commons our readers have heard so much, arrived here,
+    having been recently released from Newgate.  The day previous
+    handbills made their appearance, inviting the friends of Messrs.
+    Baring and Praed to accompany Prentice into town.  About seven
+    o’clock on the first-mentioned evening a party of from twenty to
+    thirty left the house of a publican in Chapel Street, preceded with
+    band, colours, and banners down Regent Street, over the bridge, and
+    so on to Hopton.  On the arrival of the “Morning Star” coach Prentice
+    was taken out and placed in an open landau, in which he stood
+    upright, bowing, as he went along, to the assemblage, which by this
+    time had become very large, induced thereto by the novelty of the
+    scene.  The procession with much mock gravity moved on to the bridge,
+    by torch light, went round the town, and thence proceeded to the
+    Bowling Green, where the lion of the night spoke from a window.  He
+    described the present as the proudest, the happiest day of his
+    life—said that although the Reform Bill had given him a vote, yet he
+    hated it,—he hated also the Corporation Reform Bill, and hoped that
+    the Lords would so mutilate it that Lord John Russell might not know
+    his own child again.”
+
+October 8th contains the following paragraph:—
+
+    “Some admirers of the Corporation met on Tuesday sen’night to
+    celebrate Michaelmas Day at the Angel Inn, Mr. F. Paget in the chair.
+    We understand that some of the leading members of the expiring body
+    were present.”
+
+October 18th contains a notice of Brock’s miraculous escape from
+drowning.
+
+Oct. 22nd.—The first Oddfellows’ funeral in this town is thus recorded:—
+
+    “On Thursday afternoon last the novel ceremonial of an Oddfellows’
+    funeral took place in processional order.  The deceased, Nathaniel
+    Spilman, had been for many years a member of the two lodges in this
+    town, and, it having been his request, he was interred with the usual
+    honours appertaining to the Order.  Accordingly, the brethren of the
+    two lodges proceeded in the following order to the house of the
+    deceased:—officer of the lodge with his drawn sword, secretary
+    bearing the scroll, two officers with their wands, two of the head
+    officers of each lodge, two officers with wands, two of the second
+    officers of the lodges, a large concourse of the brethren adorned
+    with their numerous silver medals, aprons, &c., two of the wardens
+    carrying their badges.  On their arrival at the house they proceeded
+    to the churchyard in the above order, with the addition of the Hon.
+    and Rev. Edward Pellew preceding the body, which was carried by six
+    of the brethren of the lodge, with six others as pall-holders,
+    wearing their different medals and aprons.  When at the grave the
+    Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew read the burial service, and at the
+    conclusion the scroll was thrown in, each of the brethren throwing in
+    sprigs of rosemary.  The secretary to both lodges read the funeral
+    obsequies over the grave.  They then returned to the house of the
+    deceased’s relatives, and after leaving the family (who had attended
+    the remains to the grave) proceeded in the same order to the
+    lodge-room, where they soon after separated.  Certainly nothing could
+    have been more solemn and impressive than was the whole of this
+    ceremonial.  At a meeting of the brethren on the Monday following, it
+    was unanimously resolved, that the secretary should issue a circular
+    to the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew, thanking him for the great
+    condescension and kindness evinced by him in attending the funeral of
+    their late departed brother.”
+
+Nov. 5th.—A meeting to consider the question of constructing a railway
+had been held.  Admiral Sir G. Parker, William Barth, Esq., Ambrose
+Palmer, Esq. (who prognosticated that by means of a railway the fisheries
+would become so immense as to be the astonishment of all), R. S.
+Lonsdale, Esq., R. Ferrier, Esq., R. Palmer Kemp, Esq., and others took
+part in the proceedings.
+
+Nov. 12th.—The following gentlemen had been nominated by the Whig party
+as the candidates for election to the Reformed Corporation:—_Gorleston
+Ward_: William Barth, Thomas Hammond, J. S. Bell, H. Martin, P. Stead,
+and J. W. Dowson.  _Nelson Ward_: George Danby Palmer, R. Palmer Kemp, S.
+Robinson, J. Symonds, G. W. Garson, and M. Butcher.  _St. George’s Ward_:
+C. Sayers, H. V. Worship, Thomas Lettis, William Grave, George Penrice,
+M.D., and William Barker.  _Regent Ward_: John Brightwen, S. Palmer, S.
+C. Marsh, C. Davie, B. Dowson, and J. Tomlinson.  _Market Ward_: E. M.
+Clowes, William Johnson, W. Hammond, S. Cobb, E. Sewell, and B. Cobb.
+_St. Nicholas’ Ward_: Thomas Thornton, A. Sewell, Joseph Fiddes, R.
+Hammond, W. N. Burroughs, and C. E. Doughty.  It was reported that the
+Tories had held “secret meetings” and were prepared to nominate Messrs.
+S. H. Aldred, J. E. Laws, B. Sherrington, P. Moore, E. H. L. Preston, and
+— Moore.  Messrs. J. G. Plummer, D. Hook, and S. Sherrington had also
+issued a joint address in the South Ward; R. Ferrier and F. Preston had
+offered themselves for the St. George’s and St. Andrew’s Wards, and R.
+Wall for the South Ward.
+
+Nov. 26th.—It is recorded that in the month ending October, then last,
+there entered “inwards” at the Custom House of this port 306 vessels, the
+tonnage of which amounted to 24,933 tons, and with cargoes “outwards” 120
+vessels, of a tonnage of 8,560 tons.  The “Old Spring,” a ship of nearly
+400 tons (belonging to George Danby Palmer, Esq.), had arrived from
+Archangel with timber, and came up to the Quay without unlading any part
+of her cargo.
+
+Dec. 10th.—The retiring Aldermen (except Mr. Barth) were entertained by
+their Tory friends previous to their quitting office.
+
+Dec. 20th.—About 120 gentlemen retaliated upon this course by giving a
+dinner to Mr. Barth, S. Cobb, Esq., in the chair.  S. Palmer, H. Worship,
+Thos. Hammond, George Danby Palmer, R. Palmer Kemp, H. V. Worship, C.
+Bell, Thomas Green, Esqs., Capt. Jeffries, and Messrs. Burroughs, W. J.
+Mason, B. Cobb, Grave, R. Hammond, T. Lettis, and S. Robinson took part
+in this entertainment.
+
+
+
+1836.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—The following is the account of the first election of Town
+Councillors under the Municipal Reform Act:—
+
+    “The election of Town Councillors took place here on Saturday last.
+    The polling commenced at nine o’clock in the morning, and finished at
+    four in the afternoon.  The return was published on Monday by the
+    Mayor, as follows:—
+
+             NORTH WARD.
+Richard Hammond                   108
+William N. Burroughs               99
+Abraham Sewell                     94
+Charles George Doughty             91
+Benjamin Sherrington               90
+E. H. L. Preston                   89
+            MARKET WARD.
+Simon Cobb                        135
+William Johnson                   134
+William Hammond                   131
+Benjamin Cobb                     129
+Edward N. Clowes                  128
+Edward Sewell                     124
+            REGENT WARD.
+John Brightwen                     98
+Samuel Palmer                      98
+S. C. Marsh                        98
+Joseph Tomlinson                   98
+C. Davie                           97
+Benjamin Dowson                    95
+         ST. GEORGE’S WARD.
+C. Sayers                          91
+W. Grave                           91
+George Penrice, M.D.               91
+W. Barber                          91
+H. V. Worship                      90
+Thomas Lettis                      89
+             SOUTH WARD.
+G. D. Palmer                      147
+R. P. Kemp                        137
+George Garson                     127
+M. Butcher                        124
+John Symonds                      122
+Samuel Robinson                   118
+   GORLESTON AND SOUTHTOWN, OR ST.
+           ANDREW’S WARD.
+J. S. Bell                        115
+Thomas Hammond                    111
+J. W. Dowson                      105
+William Barth                     101
+Hezekiah Martin                    91
+P. Stead                           87
+
+    It is a matter of great congratulation that 34 out of the 36
+    Councillors are Reformers.  This election was conducted with
+    tranquility.  Devoutly it is to be wished that parliamentary
+    elections were managed in the same way.  The laborious portion of our
+    population had no inducement held out to them to lose a single hour.
+    It is a little curious that Mr. William Prentice—that very Mr.
+    Prentice who made so conspicuous a figure in our election
+    parliamentary investigation, proved one of the most formidable
+    antagonists with whom the Liberal candidates in the town had to
+    contend.”
+
+Jan. 7th.—The first meeting of the Reformed Corporation is reported as
+follows:—
+
+    “The Town Council met on Thursday last at the Tolhouse Hall, John
+    Brightwen, Esq., in the chair, (Isaac Preston, Esq., having, we
+    understand, ceased to exercise the functions of Mayor since his
+    publication of the Council List), for the purpose of choosing twelve
+    Aldermen.  The choice fell on the following gentlemen:—Messrs. J.
+    Brightwen, Benjamin Dowson, Robert Teasdel, Joseph Starling, J. B.
+    Palmer, R. S. Lonsdale, Thomas Pitt, Captain William Larke, R.N.,
+    Benjamin Fenn, Robert Wall, Christopher Nicholls, and Captain James
+    Jefferies.  On the following day the Aldermen and Council met at the
+    same place for the election of a Mayor and for other public business.
+    Mr. E. H. L. Preston proposed Mr. Richard Hammond.  Mr. H. thanked
+    Mr. P. for the proposition, and said that he should still more thank
+    his friends if they voted against him.  William Barth, Esq., was then
+    chosen Mayor, amidst loud cheering.  Mr. B. was then, together with
+    the Aldermen, sworn in.  The Court was then thrown open to the
+    public, when the front and side galleries were instantly filled by a
+    very respectable concourse of persons, the body of the hall being
+    appropriated to the Council.  Several gentlemen were named for
+    Magistrates to be recommended to the Crown.  Accounts were ordered
+    touching the property (and profits arising from such property) held
+    by the late Corporation, together with accounts of the official
+    persons employed, their salaries, &c., for the last five years.  J.
+    Tolver, Esq., was then chosen, during pleasure, as Town Clerk.”
+
+    “Our Conservatives had dined together on Thursday to celebrate the
+    anniversary of the return of Messrs. Baring and Praed.  They have
+    been obliged to put themselves on a level with the Reformers, and be
+    content with three shilling tickets instead of fifteen.  The dinner
+    took place at the Angel Inn, J. E. Lacon, Esq., in the chair.”
+
+Jan. 14th contains the following report:—
+
+    “There was an unusual quantity of business transacted at the
+    Corporation Assembly on Wednesday last.  It was first proposed that a
+    petition should be addressed to the King, praying for four Sessions
+    of Oyer and Terminer a year.  It was suggested that the Recorder
+    should be allowed £60 a year.  To this Mr. E. L. Preston objected,
+    who moved that it should be £50.  To this it was replied that the
+    latter sum was allowed by the late Corporation when Sessions were
+    only held twice a year.  The original motion was carried unanimously,
+    Mr. E. Sewell observing that Mr. P’s was a false economy.  It was
+    next moved by Mr. S. Cobb that the Great Seal should be called that
+    of the Town Council, and not of St. Nicholas.  He had no objection to
+    all remaining as it was except the expensive name of St. Nicholas.
+    This was warmly opposed by Mr. Preston.  It was, however, carried
+    unanimously.  Mr. Richard Hammond read a list of persons to form the
+    Committee of Finance.  To this plan Mr. Preston warmly objected,
+    saying he had no notion of names being got up “ready cut and dried.”
+    It was stated in answer that the list (to which no objection was then
+    made) was agreed to at the Watch Committee, of which Mr. P. formed
+    one, and which he might have attended if he pleased.  Mr. B.
+    Sherrington (of the same politics as Mr. P.) was on the Committee,
+    and was present.  The Finance Committee agreed to were, the Mayor
+    (who is appointed _ex-officio_ on all Committees), Messrs. S. Cobb,
+    R. S. Lonsdale, Charles Nicholls, B. Dowson, Martin, G. D. Palmer, C.
+    Sayers, W. Johnson, and Burroughs.  On the Mayor explaining the
+    duties of the Borough Lands Committee, it was suggested and agreed
+    to, that the tradesmen employed solely by this Committee should be
+    only for small jobs.  This being a most important business, it was
+    determined that all the Council should form the Committee.  On the
+    Water-Bailiffs and Met Farm Office Committee, it was resolved, on the
+    motion of Mr. S. Cobb, that it be called “Committee of Port Dues”;
+    the officer “Collector of Port Dues.”  The Committee appointed were
+    Messrs. W. Barber, G. D. Palmer, T. Pitt, R. Teasdel, Martin, J. B.
+    Palmer, Thomas Hammond, Fenn, Butcher, and Dowson.  Market and
+    Corporation Tolls’ Committee: Messrs. Johnson, Brightwen, S. Cobb,
+    Sayers, Nicholls, Sherrington, R. Hammond, S. Palmer, Symonds, J. B.
+    Palmer, and Martin.  Committee for Caister Causeway: Messrs. R. P.
+    Kemp, S. Palmer, Nicholls, Fenn, Tomlinson, R. Hammond, and Sayers.
+    Church Trustees: Messrs. Larke, Kemp, Burroughs, J. Dowson, Starling,
+    B. Cobb, S. Palmer, E. N. Clowes, Marsh, Tomlinson, Garson, Grave,
+    Butcher, Barber, Robinson, Preston, Martin, Symonds, Sherrington, and
+    G. D. Palmer.  All the outstanding drawbacks arc to be referred to
+    the Port Dues Committee.  The ringers’ bill, £12 10s. for five days’
+    ringing, was disallowed.  Admiralty Court: R. Cory, jun., returned
+    that he had in five years received as registrar £1,483 16s. 8d., and
+    claimed as compensation £200 per year for his natural life.
+    Proctors: C. J. Palmer claimed £1,036 7s., C. Sayers £1,196 5s. 6d.,
+    I. Preston £692, E. R. Palmer £497.  Thomas King, gaoler, petitioned
+    for continuance of place, stated emoluments, and asked £13 7s. 4½d.
+    compensation, as Marshall of the Court of Admiralty.  Mrs. King, as
+    matron, received £10 per year, and prayed to be continued.  Alfred
+    King, turnkey, received 14s. per. week, and prayed for continuance.
+    The five sergeants-at-mace sent a return of their emoluments for five
+    years, and petitioned for their continuance.  B. Welsh, chapel clerk,
+    made about £47 per year, and prayed for continuance.  The Rev. Thomas
+    Baker, as lecturer, received £120 per year.  The Hon. and Rev. E.
+    Pellew received from the late Corporation £40 per year and a house,
+    for which he pays 1s. per year rent.  John Seaman, parish clerk,
+    receives no salary, but averages about £80 per annum.  The Revs. J.
+    Homfray and Mark Waters declined the statement of their proceeds, as
+    they conceived the returns did not apply to them as Ministers of a
+    Chapel endowed by Act of Parliament.  They begged their refusal might
+    not be considered as arising from discourtesy.  Their communication
+    was rejected.  These returns were referred to a Committee of the
+    Mayor’s assistants.”
+
+Jan. 21st.—The Earl of Orford had been removed from his office of High
+Steward and the Earl of Lichfield elected in his place.
+
+The following gentlemen were suggested as Magistrates:—William Barth,
+Esq., Sir George Parker, K.C.B., George Danby Palmer, H. V. Worship, J.
+Brightwen, C. Nicholls, R. Palmer Kemp, S. Cobb, and S. Palmer, Esqs.,
+and Capt. Larke, R.N., by the Council.
+
+Sixteen new watch and policemen, and two superintendents had been
+appointed.
+
+The Mayor and Town Council had attended service at St. Nicholas’ Church,
+“The Mayor with no other insignia of office than the chain and the sword
+carried by an officer.”
+
+Feb. 4th.—The Tories had held a dinner in the Theatre in honour of
+Messrs. Baring and Praed.  Seven hundred persons attended.
+
+Feb. 18th.—Has the following report of a high tide:—
+
+    “The scene of devastation on our beach, occasioned by the late high
+    tides, exceed the powers of description.  Wednesday morning, in some
+    measure, prepared us for the event; the sea was at that time breaking
+    over the jetty, and reached as high as the houses.  It was prophesied
+    by nautical men that if the next tide was equally high the
+    consequences would be most disastrous, and, unfortunately, it so
+    proved.  The sea in the evening undermined the foundations of most of
+    the dwellings, throwing down the walls of many, to the great injury
+    of those of the inmates who had not taken the precautions to remove
+    their property.  Furniture was seen floating in all directions, in
+    the presence of the astonished and alarmed multitude.  The summer
+    residence of the Right Hon. Lord Berners is more than half destroyed,
+    while the house of the Misses Ansell and the Right Hon. Lord Nevill
+    were surrounded; in fact, such a scene of general devastation never
+    in the memory of the oldest inhabitant presented itself.  The sea at
+    one time reached some way up the Jetty Road.  While a person was
+    assisting the landlord of the Holkham Tavern to remove his beds, &c.,
+    to a back warehouse, the sea burst in and broke down the front wall.
+    At one part of the South Denes the sea and river might be seen
+    meeting.  Part of the South Quay was flooded.  It was unusually high
+    at the bridge, and likewise some of the lower parts of the town.
+    Amidst this wide spreading destruction, we are glad to say, no lives
+    were lost.”
+
+Feb. 22nd.—The Lord High Steward (the Earl of Lichfield) had been sworn
+in, and a dinner given in his honour.  The noble lord was accompanied by
+the Mayor, Lord Suffield, the Hon. George Anson, Mr. Rumbold, Sir W.
+Ffolkes, and Mr. Adair.
+
+March 10th.—A meeting had been held, the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew
+presiding, to consider the establishment of a penny library for the
+working classes.
+
+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.
+
+April 28th.—The seamen had “struck” for an increase of wages.
+
+Several persons had been fined for keeping disorderly houses.
+
+Seven vessels had been cleared with emigrants for America, carrying 850
+adults and 600 children, and several other vessels were fitting out for
+the same voyage.
+
+May 5th.—The town was suffering from a number of dogs prowling about, one
+of which had severely bitten a young lady.
+
+May 19th.—Mr. William Ferrier had been elected Coroner by the Council,
+which body had voted, by a majority of one, to retain the Market Cross.
+
+June 9th—Mr. Jefferies Barth had been elected Clerk of the Peace.
+
+June 17th.—Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., had been appointed Recorder.
+
+June 23rd.—A fine new schooner (The Clipper) had been launched for
+William Hurry Palmer, Esq., and was expected to be the fastest sailing
+vessel out of the port.
+
+June 30th.—The Cross was ordered to be pulled down.
+
+July 14th.—It was stated that “Yarmouth is very full of strangers, who
+flock here from all parts of the country to enjoy the cool sea breezes.
+We believe there is not any other place that affords so excellent a view
+of shipping in motion as Yarmouth Roads, it being the great thoroughfare
+for all vessels trading to the North.  The Bath Room is one of the
+principal attractions to visitors, as it is a most agreeable lounge
+during the heat of the day, and frequent undress balls enliven the
+youthful part of the company.  The Bath Room has been well attended this
+year, and we are happy to say the list of subscribers gives promise of a
+good season.”
+
+The destruction of the Cross is thus noticed:—
+
+    “On Friday last the Market Cross was sold by public tender for £55
+    6s., and on Monday morning workmen commenced pulling it down.  It has
+    now entirely disappeared, to the gratification of the residents in
+    the Market Place, to whom it had long been a great annoyance, in
+    consequence of its having become a rendezvous for idle and dissolute
+    persons.  The Tories lament the loss of it, and call the Corporation
+    destructives for having removed a public nuisance!  We know not what
+    claim it had upon their sympathies, except in being a fit emblem of
+    the late Body Corporate, for like that it perhaps was of service at
+    some bygone period of time, but having long ceased to be useful, it
+    had fallen to abuse and rottenness, and to complete the resemblance
+    it has, after some struggles, been swept away by the current of
+    public opinion.”
+
+August 9th.—The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew had been presented with plate of
+the value of £100 by the parishioners.
+
+August 25th.—The Races had been held, the Stewards being the Earl of
+Orford, Lord Henniker, and T. Baring, Esq., M.P.  About 160 ladies and
+gentlemen attended the Race Ball, and 2,000 persons patronized the
+Vauxhall Gardens.
+
+Sept. 1st.—The Regatta had been held, and the Theatre had been well
+filled on the Stewards’ bespeak, when an attempt to get up a cry of
+“Baring and Rumbold” proved a failure.
+
+Sept. 22nd.—172 persons holding Corporation leaseholds had intimated
+their desire to purchase the freehold of their properties, at prices
+amounting to £6,911.
+
+Oct. 6th.—The price of herrings was £23 to £24 per last.
+
+Oct. 13th.—The compensation awarded to the Town Clerk for loss of his
+offices of Magistrates’ Clerk and Clerk of the Peace had been settled at
+£222 per annum.
+
+Nov. 3rd.—The result of the Municipal Election is reported as follows:—
+
+    “Our Municipal Election took place on Tuesday last.  The contest in
+    the St. Nicholas’ Ward was a severe one.  It was neck and neck
+    between Mr. Nuthall and E. H. L. Preston all day.  At length the
+    election was carried by a _worthy_, who, after promising constantly
+    to vote for Nuthall and Sherrington, was suddenly not to be found;
+    but about five minutes before the close of the poll he was brought
+    out of the Saracen’s Head, a low public-house, in a state of
+    intoxication, his voting paper having been changed or altered to
+    Preston and Fiddes.  This decided the thing in Mr. Preston’s favour,
+    as before that time the numbers for him and Mr. Nuthall were 102
+    each.  Such a mode of gaining an election is quite in keeping with
+    Tory practices, and needs no comment.  The validity of the election
+    is, however, disputed on the grounds of a bad vote on the Tory side,
+    and an informality in the appointment of an Alderman to preside in
+    the absence of the Aldermen of the Ward.  The following is a list of
+    Councillors returned:—_St. Nicholas’ Ward_: Mr. Sherrington and Mr.
+    Preston.  _Market_: Mr. E. N. Clowes and Mr. Sewell.  _Regent_: Mr.
+    Cufaude Davie and Mr. John Fish.  _St. George’s_: Mr. Worship and Mr.
+    Lettis.  _Nelson_: Mr. Robinson and Mr. Symonds.  _St. Andrew’s_: Mr.
+    Martin and Mr. Frederick Preston.”
+
+Nov. 10th.—A dinner, attended by 200 gentlemen, had been given to William
+Barth, Esq. (the Mayor.)
+
+Nov. 24th.—The old Bridge had been sold in one lot for £96.
+
+Dec. 22nd.—Mr. F. Preston had launched a beautiful brig called the
+“Catherine,” of 212 tons register.
+
+Dec. 29th.—Heavy weather prevailed, with so much snow that the coaches
+were obliged to cease running.
+
+
+
+1837.
+
+
+Jan. 5th.—The “Isis,” of this port, and a sloop belonging to Wells, had
+been towed off the beach into the harbour.
+
+Jan. 12th.—Eleven vessels still remained on the beach, and the jetty had
+been damaged by the Henry, of North Shields, having run into it.
+
+Improvements were being effected at the Bath Rooms.
+
+A floating-light was to be placed at St. Nicholas’ Gat.
+
+Jan. 19th.—The increase in the Customs for the year ended 5th January,
+1837, was £7,000.
+
+Feb. 2nd.—The Town debt was stated to have been left by the late
+Corporation at £11,000, with 19s. 6d. in hand to meet that demand.
+
+Feb. 16th.—A meeting had been held for the purpose of moving for the
+abolition of Church Rates.
+
+Feb. 23rd.—Mr. Kay, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, had been down with a
+view to bringing the Town under the Poor Law Amendment Act.
+
+March 23rd.—The “Export Merchants” had given a dinner to their friends at
+the Star Hotel, when George Danby Palmer, Esq., presided.
+
+March 30th.—At the Vestry meeting the parishioners claimed and exercised
+the right of electing both Churchwardens.
+
+April 6th.—The nomination for the first Board of Guardians (N. Palmer,
+Esq., acting as Returning Officer) had been sent in.  The following
+gentlemen were elected:—Messrs. John Brightwen, H. V. Worship, S. V.
+Moore, S. Miller, jun., E. N. Clowes, W. Chambers, J. Fish, G. Harley, S.
+Cobb, R. P. Kemp, S. Palmer, and W. Grave.
+
+April 20th.—The following officers were elected by the Board:—R. P. Kemp,
+Chairman; S. Cobb, Vice-Chairman; J. L. Cufaude, Clerk; D. Turner,
+Treasurer; B. L. Love, Auditor; Harry Worship and Joseph Bayly,
+Registrars; Charles Bell and Henry Palmer, Joint Superintendent
+Registrars; and — Kemp, Governor of the Workhouse.
+
+May 4th.—The Guardians had fixed the site for the new Workhouse on the
+North Denes.
+
+May 11th.—Mr. Harry Worship and Mr. J. Bayly had been elected parish
+surgeons.
+
+May 18th.—Mackerel were selling at £2 14s. per hundred.
+
+May 25th.—The inhabitants had voted an address to the Princess Victoria.
+
+June 22nd.—The paper appears in mourning for the King.  It contained a
+notice that “The proclamation of Her Majesty the Queen was to be made
+to-morrow” (_i.e._, on 21st June.)
+
+June 29th.—Mr. Baring had given £25 to the Methodist Chapel.
+
+The Queen had been proclaimed by the Mayor “in front of the Hall” and at
+other places in the town.
+
+Kerrison Kerrison, Esq., son of M. Kerrison, Esq., of Ranworth, had been
+drowned while bathing from the beach.
+
+July 13th.—S. Palmer, Esq., had called a meeting at his own house to
+consider the question of selecting candidates for the representation of
+the Borough, when Mr. Rumbold and Mr. Wiltshire were introduced to the
+electors.
+
+July 29th.—The election is reported, when Mr. Baring was proposed and
+seconded by Messrs. Ambrose Palmer and Richard Ferrier; Mr. Rumbold by
+Sir George Parker and Mr. Brightwen; Mr. Gambier by Mr. J. Penrice and
+Mr. J. E. Lacon; and Mr. Wilshere by Mr. Robert Palmer Kemp and Mr. B. U.
+Dowson.
+
+The poll closed—
+
+Rumbold        790
+Wilshere       779
+Baring         699
+Gambier        685
+
+August 24th.—The Races had been held, Mr. Wilshere, M.P., staying with
+Mr. S. Palmer, while Mr. Rumbold, M.P., was at the Mayor’s house.
+
+Sept. 7th.—First meeting of the “Reform” Magistrates for the purpose of
+granting licences; present—The Mayor, Dr. Penrice, G. Danby Palmer, S.
+Cobb, Charles Nicholls, and William Hammond, Esqs., and “the first step
+taken towards breaking up the monopoly which had hitherto been enjoyed by
+brewers and spirit merchants.”
+
+Sept. 14th.—The “Foxhound” (Captain Betts), belonging to G. Danby Palmer,
+Esq., had sailed with 1,250 barrels of herrings for Venice.
+
+The schooner “Wilshere” had been launched from Messrs. Fellows’ yard for
+Messrs. Barker and Stone, who entertained their friends on the occasion
+at the Star Hotel.
+
+Sept. 21st.—£21 had been voted for pulling down the Pudding Gates.
+
+Sept. 28th.—The Lord Bishop had held a confirmation, and received an
+address from the Corporation at the Guild Hall.
+
+Oct. 5th.—The Reformers claimed a gain of 56 at the Revision Court.
+
+The “Parroch Hall,” a fine ship of 450 tons, had been launched from Mr.
+I. Preston’s yard.
+
+Oct. 26th.—Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, had visited the town.
+
+The “Tantivy,” schooner had been launched from Messrs. Fellows’ yard.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—The Liberal candidates had been re-elected in all the Wards
+without opposition.
+
+Nov. 9th.—Dr. Penrice was elected Mayor, after a ballot, by 20 votes, as
+against 14 votes given for Mr. S. Cobb; Samuel Jay, Esq., was elected an
+Alderman in the place of Mr. Wall.
+
+Nov. 23rd.—Mr. Joseph Fiddes, James N. Sherrington, and James Raven had
+been elected Commissioners of the Borough Court of Requests.
+
+The “Harlequin,” 350 tons burthen, had been launched from Mr. L Preston’s
+yard.
+
+Dec. 7th.—The Tories had petitioned against the return of the sitting
+members, but had suggested a compromise, which had been “rejected with
+the ridicule it deserved.”
+
+Mr. Joseph Bayly had been elected a Councillor for St. George’s Ward.
+
+Dec. 21st.—Mr. William Danby Palmer had been elected a Councillor for St.
+Andrew’s Ward, in the place of Mr. Dowson, deceased.
+
+Dee. 28th.—A Temperance sermon had been preached by the Rev. T. Clowes
+from I. Cor., viii., 8, 13.
+
+The weather had been remarkably mild, warmer than it was often in May and
+June.
+
+
+
+1838.
+
+
+April 19th.—Winter had come again, and the frost had blocked up several
+pumps.  The nights were extremely dark, and great complaints had been
+made by inhabitants of the total absence of lights in the streets.
+
+Coaches had been engaged to take up the Tory witnesses for the hearing of
+the election petition, while the Whigs were going to London by the “Ailsa
+Craig” steam packet.
+
+April 26th.—The following Committee had been struck for the hearing of
+such petition:—The Hon. E. Grimshaw, Charles Rushout, H. Thomas, E.
+Baker, W. C. Brodie, J. C. Holmes, and J. Bailey (Tories), and J. E.
+Vivian, R. W. Hunt Lord M. Hill, and the Hon. George Byng (Whigs).
+
+May 3rd.—This Committee had come to the resolution—That C. E. Rumbold and
+W. Wilshere, Esqs., are duly elected, but that the petition was not
+frivolous or vexatious.
+
+May 10th.—This decision appears to have been the result of an arrangement
+made by a few gentlemen of the Whig and Tory parties, that one of the
+members (it is believed Mr. Wilshere) would accept the Chiltern Hundreds
+at the end of the present Session of Parliament.  It was believed in that
+event Mr. Baring would be opposed.  It is stated that “of late our
+members have not reposed on a bed of roses.”
+
+May 17th.—The schooner “Stamboul” had been launched from Messrs. A.
+Palmer and Son’s yard.
+
+May 24th.—A suggestion appears to found a Dispensary in Yarmouth and that
+the Council fund should be applied towards this end.  This fund then
+consisted of £2,500, and was formed by the contributions of each Alderman
+of £10 and each Common Councilman £5 on his election.
+
+May 31st.—The “Pantaloon,” a fine, large, round-sterned brig of 180 tons,
+had been launched by her owners, Messrs. A. and G. Steward; and the
+“Victoria,” 350 tons, by Mr. J. Preston.
+
+A meeting had been held at the Town Hall to consider the propriety of
+establishing a small Hospital for Great Yarmouth and the East and West
+Fleggs and Mutford and Lothingland Hundreds.  The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew
+presided, and amongst those present were all the resident clergy and
+medical gentlemen of the town, with Messrs. G. D. Palmer, Brightwen, W.
+Steward, B. Dowson, Worship, &c.
+
+June 7th and 14th.—Col. Thompson had been suggested as a candidate for
+the Borough, and Mr. Northhouse had addressed a meeting on his behalf.
+Mr. George Steward was taking an active part in this affair.
+
+June 21st.—Suggestions were being made for the celebration of the Queen’s
+Coronation.
+
+Messrs. Henry Emms and William Simms had been appointed Relieving
+Officers.
+
+The donations for the proposed Hospital were £200 and the annual
+subscriptions £280.
+
+June 28th.—This issue contains the following account of how, after a
+futile effort had been made by the Vicar, which appears not to have been
+a success, H.M. Coronation was celebrated.  At an “adjourned meeting of
+the subscribers to the fund for celebrating her Majesty’s Coronation, by
+giving a dinner to the poor children of the town on that day, held at the
+New Hall, on Thursday evening last, the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew in the
+chair, those gentlemen who had undertaken to collect subscriptions
+reported that they had scarcely any further funds to add to those already
+collected.  Under these circumstances the chairman submitted to the
+meeting that the proposed plan of feasting the children was a failure
+from the want of funds.  Considerable discussion then ensued as to the
+propriety of taking steps towards celebrating the Coronation day in any
+other way, upon which there were many conflicting opinions.  At length
+Mr. Samuel Palmer, after recapitulating all that had been done, and
+regretting that up to that time nothing had been realized, moved—‘That a
+subscription be now entered into, to provide such amusements for the poor
+of the town on the day of the Coronation as may seem fit to the
+subscribers, and that a committee be appointed to carry the same into
+effect.’  Mr. Samuel Barber moved, as an amendment, ‘that all the poor of
+the town be regaled with roast beef and plum pudding’; but it appearing
+to the meeting that as money enough could not be raised to regale the
+children, it would be impossible to raise a sufficient sum to feast all
+the poor.  The amendment was negatived, and Mr. Palmer’s motion was
+unanimously carried.  The Chairman then left the chair, and Mr. George
+Danby Palmer was called on to preside, when thanks were voted to the late
+Chairman; a spirited subscription was begun in the room; a committee was
+appointed to carry Mr. Palmer’s motion into effect, and the meeting
+separated.”
+
+“Since that time the gentlemen composing the committee have collected
+money to the amount of about £200, and a bill of fare has been issued
+sports and entertainments to take place on the South Denes, amongst which
+are horse, pony, and donkey races, jumping in sacks, climbing matches,
+and running after pigs with soaped tails.  There will also be sailing
+matches on the river.  A dinner will take place in a marquee erected on
+the ground, the Mayor in the chair.  A stand and several booths have also
+been built for the accommodation of the public.  The amusements will
+conclude with a superb display of fireworks, under the direction of an
+artist from London.”
+
+July 7th contains the following record of the result of such action:—
+
+    The festivities and sports which were to have taken place on Thursday
+    last in honour of the Coronation were interrupted by a heavy fall of
+    rain, which commenced at the hour fixed for the fun to begin, and
+    continued nearly, ‘sans’ intermission, until night.  This untoward
+    state of the elements prevented any very great assembly of multitude
+    taking place; nevertheless there were some two or three thousand
+    determined holiday-makers congregated on the South Denes, and the
+    horse and pony races came off in spite of the unfavourable state of
+    the weather.  The race for hacks was well contested and won by
+    Highflyer, beating Whiscumsnivet, the Ambassador, and Sir William.
+    The pony race was also a good one; we could not learn the name of the
+    winner.  Four boats started for the silver cup—value £7—viz., the
+    Coriander (Balls), Leviathian (Preston), Louisa (Fiddis), and Neptune
+    (Green).  The wind was light at starting, and towards the end of the
+    match there was so little as scarcely to fill the sails; the
+    Coriander won by about half a length.  The remainder of the sports
+    were postponed until Friday afternoon.  At four o’clock upwards of
+    100 gentlemen sat down to dinner in a marquee erected on the Denes,
+    the Mayor (Dr. Penrice) in the chair.  After dinner the health of the
+    Queen was drunk with long, loud, and hearty cheers, and the usual
+    loyal and patriotic toasts were given; several excellent songs were
+    sung, and about half-past ten the company returned to the town
+    preceded by a band of music.  The children at the various charity
+    schools and the inmates of the Fishermen’s Hospital were handsomely
+    entertained.  The Temperance people had a tea meeting, and all, as
+    far as the weather would permit, appeared to enjoy themselves in
+    their own way.
+
+    On Friday afternoon, at three o’clock, the sports were re-commenced,
+    the weather being most propitious and the sun shining with surpassing
+    brilliancy.  Yarmouth poured out thousands upon thousands of its
+    working population, and great numbers of all classes were present to
+    witness the fun and partake of the amusement of the day.  The
+    performances, if so they may be called, took place on a stage
+    immediately opposite the stand, which was filled with spectators,
+    under the superintendence and direction of a gentleman, to whose good
+    humoured exertions too much praise cannot be given, and who was ably
+    assisted by others in providing and bringing out such entertainments
+    for the humbler classes as seemed best adapted to their taste and
+    habits.  First came two chimney sweeps in _full costume_; they dived
+    in a tub of meal for pieces of money, which they picked out with
+    their mouths.  Numberless sneezings and many collisions of sooty
+    heads, now, however, converted into floury nobs, took place during
+    this match, to the great merriment of the assembled crowds; at length
+    the money was all abstracted, and the performers, well washed, made
+    their bows and retired from the stage.  Next came bobbing for oranges
+    in tubs of water, by boys with their hands tied behind them.  Then a
+    singing match by boys, which was won by an urchin of the name of John
+    Hutchin, who sung two comic songs with inimitable humour and effect.
+    A horn pipe match followed, in which the best dancers made up by
+    agility for what was wanting in grace and elegance.  Grinning through
+    horse collars succeeded, and here one Billy Derry out-uglied the
+    ugliest—O! for grinning through a horse collar, commend me to Billy
+    Derry.  Then we had six old women, drinking scalding hot tea for a
+    prize of one sovereign; the efforts of these poor old creatures to
+    gulp down the almost boiling fluid, were at once both pitiable and
+    ludicrous, but they appeared to enjoy the parts they were acting
+    almost as much as the spectators did, who gave way to the most
+    uproarious laughter we ever remember to have heard, they were all
+    well rewarded for their exhibition.  There were also donkey races,
+    climbing soaped poles, gingling matches, running wheelbarrows
+    blindfold, a rowing match, and races after pigs with their tails
+    soaped, and twenty-four barrels of ale were given away to the
+    populace on the ground.  At half-past ten at night the Market Place
+    was literally crammed with people to witness the display of
+    fireworks, which was splendid and worthy of the occasion, and
+    concluded the Coronation amusements.  Immediately after the fireworks
+    had ceased the crowd dispersed, and by twelve o’clock the streets
+    were as quiet as upon ordinary occasions.
+
+July 14th.—The Corporation had voted an address to the Queen, of which
+the following is the notice:—
+
+    “At an assembly of the Corporation, held on Wednesday, the Mayor read
+    a congratulatory address to Her Majesty the Queen, upon the
+    Coronation, which was unanimously adopted by the Council, and Mr.
+    Barth, Mr. Robert Palmer Kemp and Mr. Samuel Palmer, were appointed a
+    deputation to carry up and present the same; it being left to the
+    option of any other gentlemen of the Council to join the deputation.”
+
+The Mayor, preceded by the Regalia, had walked to church, “unaccompanied
+by a single member of the Town Council.”
+
+July 5th.—Col. Thompson had declined to come forward.
+
+Mr. J. Symonds had given a silver cup, value £5 5s., to be bowled for in
+honour of the Coronation.  There were 34 competitors, and it was won by
+Mr. John Porrett, “the veteran bowler.”
+
+July 12th.—A meeting of freemen to oppose Mr. Baring’s return at the
+ensuing election had been held at the Masonic Hall, Mr. Joseph Bayly
+(Chairman).  Capt. Love, Mr. John Clowes, jun., Mr. Lawrence, and Mr.
+Charles Marsh took part in the proceedings, and the following gentlemen
+were appointed a committee to carry the resolutions passed at the meeting
+into effect:—Messrs. Joseph Bayly, John Clowes, jun., S. Cobb, E. R.
+Palmer, Henry Pickard, Charles Marsh, Thomas Thompson, jun., and Capt.
+Love.
+
+The Corporation address to Her Majesty had been presented by Messrs.
+Barth, R. P. Kemp, and S. Palmer.
+
+July 26th.—The Water Frolic had been held, when the “Leviathian” (Bessey)
+beat the “Union” (Barber), the Mayor and Corporation attended the sports
+in a barge.
+
+Dr. Penrice (the Mayor) and Dr. Cox has been elected physicians, and
+Messrs. Charles Costerton, George Bateman, John Prichard, and John C.
+Smith, surgeons to the Hospital.
+
+August 9th.—The Queen had signified her intention of becoming a patron of
+the Hospital.
+
+August 16th.—The freemen had determined to re-elect Mr. Wilshere free of
+expense, Messrs. Simon Cobb and George Steward speaking on the subject;
+and a committee had been formed to further this object, of which Mr. Cobb
+was chairman, Mr. J. Bayly, secretary, and Mr. J. Clowes, treasurer.
+
+August 16th.—The new Writ had been moved for, and the blue flag with the
+inscription of “Wilshere, the Reformer,” had been displayed at the
+Committee Room in Regent Street.
+
+August 25th.—Mr. Baring, and Mr. G. Steward (for Mr. Wilshere) had been
+canvassing the electors.  At the nomination the former gentleman was
+proposed and seconded by Mr. J. Lacon and Mr. E. H. L. Preston, and the
+latter by Mr. John Clowes, jun., and Mr. Joseph Bayly; Mr. George Steward
+representing Mr. Wilshere.  Mr. Baring then addressed the electors.  The
+result of the poll was declared to be—
+
+For Wilshere       735
+Baring             702
+
+A very painful occurrence had happened.  A poor fellow “who took some
+part in the election” declared that if Mr. Baring lost the election he
+would hang himself.  The poll closed at 4, and he had effectually hung
+himself and was cut down before 5 o’clock.
+
+August 30th.—The friends of Mr. Wilshere had dined together at the
+“Star.”
+
+Mr. G. Steward had been chaired for Mr. Wilshere.  Mr. S. Palmer had
+received a letter from Mr. Wilshere, expressing in the warmest terms his
+sense of the high honour thus conferred upon him.
+
+Sept. 6th.—Mr. Wilshere had arrived in Yarmouth and addressed the
+electors.
+
+C. F. Burton, Esq., had died from the effects of a fall from his horse on
+the Southtown Road.
+
+Sept 17th.—A public dinner of the supporters of Mr. Wilshere had been
+held at the Town Hall.  Admiral Sir George Parker, K.C.B., presided, and
+amongst those present were Messrs. George Steward, S. Cobb, the Mayor, T.
+O. Springfield, Capt. Pearson, Capt. Harmer, J. Fowler, H. Munro, Rev. T.
+Fowler, R. Hammond, H. Worship, C. Bell, S. Palmer, N. Palmer, C. Marsh,
+E. R. Palmer, J. L. Cufaude, Clowes, &c.
+
+Sept. 20th.—At the Roads Regatta the “Brilliant” was first, the “Red
+Rover” second, and the “Algerine” third, in the match for the silver cup,
+weighing 17oz.  The “Coastguard” had been practising, under the direction
+of Capt. Harmer and Lieut. Kisbee.
+
+Sept. 27th.—In consequence of the long continuance of calm weather the
+millers had not been able to grind any corn for three weeks.
+
+Oct. 4th.—The Revision Court had been held, Messrs. W. Worship and J. L.
+Cufaude appearing for the Reformers, and Messrs. Waters and E. H. L.
+Preston for the Tories.  The Whigs claimed a majority, on the result of
+51.
+
+Oct. 11th.—Lord Tavistock and C. B. Greville (acting as referees) with
+regard to the recent contest had stated “that if requested by Mr. Baring,
+Mr. Wilshere is bound to resign his seat for Yarmouth (for which he was
+elected without his knowledge or consent), and that in the event of Mr.
+Baring offering himself again as a candidate for the representation of
+that borough, Mr. Wilshere is not at liberty to oppose him.”
+
+Mr. William Nolloth, jun., had been elected organist of St. George’s
+Chapel.
+
+Oct. 18th.—There had been a strong wind from the W.N.W., and from 150 to
+200 vessels had sustained damage.  It is contemplated that there were
+between 2,000 and 3,000 ships at anchor within sight of the Jetty.
+
+The “Reis Effendi,” schooner, had been launched from Messrs. A. Palmer
+and Son’s yard.
+
+Mr. Wilshere was staying with Mr. Palmer, who had entertained most of the
+principal inhabitants, including the Mayor, Sir George Parker, and W.
+Danby Palmer, John Carr, George Steward, Esq., and others.
+
+In case Mr. Wilshere was asked to resign his seat by Mr. Baring, Mr.
+Robert Palmer Kemp had been selected as the candidate in the Blue
+interest.
+
+Oct. 25th.—The Tories had commenced their “Municipal campaign.”
+
+Nov. 1st.—There had been from 1,500 to 2,000 vessels windbound and at
+anchor in the Roads, these had got under sail on Sunday, and were
+immediately followed by about 1,000 vessels from beyond Lowestoft, and it
+was contemplated that more than 3,000 vessels had passed through the
+Roads in five hours, in so close procession that the sea could not be
+discerned beyond them.
+
+With regard to the Municipal Election, only one Tory was on the 1st
+November “found in the field,” viz., Mr. J. G. Plummer, who opposed Mr.
+Marsh in the Regent Ward.  At the close of the poll the numbers were—
+
+Tomlinson       89
+Marsh           73
+Plummer         72
+
+The following was the general return for the town:—_St. Nicholas’ Ward_:
+Messrs. R. Hammond and W. N. Burroughs.  _Market Ward_: Messrs. S. Cobb
+and W. Johnson.  _Regent Ward_: Messrs. J. Tomlinson and C. Marsh.  _St.
+George’s Ward_: Dr. Penrice and Mr. A. Clarke.  _Nelson Ward_: Messrs. G.
+Danby Palmer and R. Palmer Kemp, all of whom were of the Liberal party.
+
+A meeting of the members of the “Operative Conservative Club” had been
+held, Mr. Thomas Paul, printer, in the chair.
+
+Nov. 25th.—Messrs. Thomas Hammond and Samuel Crowe had been elected
+Councillors for the South Ward.
+
+The fishing-boats “Mary,” “Reward,” and “Walter and Ann” had been lost
+with all hands.
+
+Mr. F. Preston had launched a brig of 250 tons named the “Undaunted.”
+
+Nov. 15th.—Mr. Simon Cobb had been elected Mayor.  He was the first
+Dissenter who had been elected to that office since the time of Charles
+II.  On Sunday he had given a lunch, when amongst those present were the
+Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew, Dr. Penrice, Dr. Cox, the Rev. W. Squire, and
+Messrs. S. Tolver, Nichols, Hammond, Palmer, Pullyn, Marsh, B. Cobb, E.
+H. L. Preston, &c.
+
+Mr. Thomas Lettis, jun., had been elected a Councillor for the St.
+George’s Ward, in the place of Dr. Penrice, who had been made an
+Alderman.
+
+Mr. Samuel Costerton, ballast lessee, had been fined 40s. and costs for
+contravention of the Harbour Act.
+
+It was contemplated to hold a meeting in favour of the repeal of the Corn
+Laws.
+
+The annual Savings’ Bank meeting had been held, when it appeared that
+2,004 accounts totalling £60,065 11s. 1d. were deposited in this
+institution.
+
+The “Reindeer,” yawl, had been launched for the Young Company.  She was
+75 feet long and could carry 500 yards of canvas.  Eighty-two persons
+were launched in her.
+
+The “Columbine,” brig, built for Messrs. G. and A. Steward, had been
+launched.
+
+Dec. 27th.—Mr. W. Saunders had been elected a Councillor for the St.
+George’s Ward, in the place of Mr. Grave, deceased.
+
+The Teetotal Society had a procession, headed by a boy on horseback,
+which was “set upon” by the rabble, and several of its banners destroyed.
+
+
+
+1839.
+
+
+Jan. 3rd.—The first half-yearly meeting of the governors and subscribers
+to the Hospital had been held, and is reported as follows:—
+
+    “On Friday the first half-yearly meeting of the governors and
+    subscribers to the Hospital was held at the Town Hall, the Hon. and
+    Rev. Edward Pellew in the chair.  Mr. A. Drew was unanimously elected
+    resident Dispenser, at a salary of £60 per annum.  Some alterations
+    of the rules were agreed upon.  Mr. S. S. Barber then moved that the
+    votes for officers to the institution should be taken by ballot, and
+    not by voting papers, as at the first meeting, which was lost by a
+    majority of 17 to 13.  It is intended to bring the question forward
+    again at the next meeting.  The Rev. J. North, honorary secretary to
+    the institution, stated that at the last yearly meeting of the old
+    Dispensary, in October, it was resolved that an application be made
+    to the subscribers to the Hospital for a grant from their funds to
+    discharge the additional bills.  At Lady-day last they had moved into
+    the house at present used for the Hospital.  They soon felt they
+    could not maintain the increased expenditure with the same funds, and
+    a meeting was called of the subscribers, when the proposition was
+    first started for the Hospital, and in the end the Hospital was
+    established.  At the close of the year, owing to circumstances over
+    which he could not say who had the control, it was found that the
+    managers of the Dispensary could not pay their liabilities by £33.
+    They had furniture which was valued at £7 10s., leaving them minus
+    £25 10s. 0¼d.  He now asked whether they would make a grant of that
+    amount from the funds of the Hospital.  B. Dowson, Esq., proposed
+    that a transfer be made of that sum to defray the deficiency, the new
+    institution having been established on the old one.  C. Nichols,
+    Esq., seconded it on the further ground that the old institution had
+    deferred several applications for assistance for the benefit of the
+    Hospital, such as sermons at church, &c.  Mr. North said all their
+    funds had been merged into those of the Hospital.  John Lacon, Esq.,
+    thought it would be better to raise the sum among themselves, which
+    proposition, after a great deal of discussion, was ultimately
+    carried, and 13 sovereigns were subscribed in the room.  The decision
+    was extremely satisfactory to all the new subscribers to the
+    Hospital.”
+
+A very handsome vessel named the “Jenny Jones” had been launched from Mr.
+F. Preston’s yard.
+
+Jan. 10.—Edward Woodrow, baker, had been committed for trial on the
+prosecution of the Guardians, for selling them short weight bread for the
+paupers.
+
+Jan. 17th.—The Poor Law Commissioners having complained of the Board of
+Guardians because they had presented a Christmas dinner to the paupers,
+the Guardians justified such proceedings.
+
+Jan. 24th.—A subscription had been entered upon for the purpose of
+relieving the families of those seamen who had been lost in the recent
+gales.  £115 was collected in the room.
+
+Jan. 31st.—An Anti-Corn Law meeting had been held at the Town Hall.
+
+Feb. 7th.—Meetings of the freemen had been held as to the question of
+whether Mr. Wilshere should be called on to resign his seat.
+
+At the Quarter Sessions, Mr. Edward Woodrow was convicted for selling
+“short weight” bread to the Guardians, and sentenced to pay a fine of
+£50, which he paid, but “not until the Recorder (N. Palmer, Esq.) had
+twice threatened to commit him for contempt of Court.”
+
+Feb. 14th.—The Town Council adopted a petition for the abolition of the
+Corn Laws with only two dissentients.
+
+Feb. 21st.—Mr. John Owles had been elected a Councillor in the place of
+Mr. Cobb, who had been raised to the Aldermanic Bench.
+
+Mr. Wilshere had presented the town petition against the Corn Laws; it
+was signed by 2,355 persons.
+
+Mr. Owen had delivered a lecture on “Socialism.”
+
+March 7th.—The use of the Town Hall had been refused to Mr. Hallock, a
+“Socialist” lecturer.
+
+March 14th.—Mr. Rumbold had presented the Corporation’s petition for the
+repeal of the Corn Laws.
+
+A meeting of the Chartists had been held at the Masonic Hall, Mr. Fleet
+in the chair, and was addressed by Messrs. Gill and Deegan, delegates.
+
+March 21st.—The Rev. W. Squire had lectured at the Masonic Hall in reply
+to Mr. Owen.  More than 1,200 persons were present.
+
+March 28th.—The sixteen Liberal candidates had been elected Guardians.
+
+April 4th.—A meeting had been held for the purpose of forming a local
+branch of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, S. Cobb, Esq. (Mayor) in the
+chair.  Sir George Parker and Messrs. James H. Palmer, Matthew Butcher,
+and George Danby Palmer took part in the proceedings.
+
+April 11th.—The election of Haven Commissioners had resulted as follows:—
+
+For George Danby Palmer       511
+W. Barth                      473
+E. H. L. Preston              380
+C. J. Palmer                  277
+
+April 18th.—A petition had been adopted in favour of a penny postage.
+
+May 2nd.—Mr. Pickard (a Guardian) had complained to the Mayor that he was
+continually being insulted by Mr. E. Woodrow since that person had been
+convicted at the Sessions.
+
+May 9th.—An endeavour was being made to revive the “Dutch Fair,” in order
+to which such vessels were to be exempted from dues from the 17th to 30th
+September.
+
+There were 23 prisoners for trial at the Sessions.
+
+May 23rd.—An address had been voted to the Queen to congratulate her upon
+the issue of the “Bed Chamber” plot.  The Mayor was in the chair and G.
+Penrice, R. Palmer Kemp, William Danby Palmer, W. Johnson, George
+Steward, and E. H. L. Preston, Esqs., took part in the proceedings.
+
+May 30th.—Sixty gentlemen dined at the King’s Head to commemorate the
+Queen’s Birthday.  The Mayor presided, and the following toasts were
+given:—“The Queen,” “The Duchess of Kent,” “Capt. Harmer and the Navy,”
+“The Army,” “The Mayor,” “The Borough Members,” “George Danby Palmer,
+Esq.,” “Mr. George Steward,” “Lord Durham,” “Mr. William Johnson,” “The
+Vice-Chairman,” “The Mayoress and Ladies of Yarmouth,” and a number of
+other toasts.  The meeting separated “at a late hour.”
+
+June 13th.—A large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen had witnessed a
+Jewish wedding at the Town Hall, performed by Rabbi Sternbergh; it was
+publicly performed.
+
+The Races were not likely to be held, owing to a want of funds.
+
+June 20th.—The Rev. George Anguish, of Somerleyton Hall, had given £50
+towards the Hospital fund.
+
+July 4th contains the following as to the Yarmouth Hospital and
+Dispensary:—
+
+    The first annual meeting of this Institution was held at the Town
+    Hall on Friday last, on which occasion the Worshipful the Mayor was
+    in the chair.  He felt gratified by the honour that meeting had done
+    him in calling him to the chair.  In looking over the programme of
+    the meeting, he found the accounts were to be audited—they were
+    requested to pay their subscriptions, to elect annual officers, and
+    to take into consideration the erection or purchase of a building for
+    a new Hospital.
+
+    William Steward, Esq., read abstracts from the secretary and
+    treasurer’s books, by which it appeared that the benefactions
+    amounted to £292 9s. 6d., subscriptions to £435 19s., and interest at
+    the bankers £8 15s. 2d., and that there had been expended for fitting
+    up and furniture, £141 8s. 10d.; for housekeeping, salaries, and
+    wages, £94 15s. 9d.; chemists’ bills, drugs, &c., £90 15s.; books,
+    stationery, and printing, £35 14s. 9d.; rent and incidentals, £33 3s.
+    1d.; leaving a balance in treasurer’s hands of £341 6s. 3d.  Mr.
+    Steward stated that the accounts had been made out with great care,
+    and examined by two auditors.  The total number of patients that had
+    been admitted from October 1st, 1838, to June 1st, 1839, was 532,
+    being 35 in and 439 out-patients, of whom 5 in and 9 out remained on
+    the books.
+
+    J. Tidswell, Esq., moved that the report now read be received, that
+    it be ordered to be printed, and a copy placed in the hands of each
+    of the subscribers, which was seconded by the Rev. W. F. Clarke, and
+    carried unanimously.
+
+    The meeting then proceeded to the election of such officers as retire
+    annually, when all the old officers were unanimously elected, with
+    one alteration.  The Rev. M. Waters, who had been on the Committee,
+    having accepted the office of honorary secretary, _vice_ Rev. J.
+    North, who had left the town, J. Tidswell, Esq., was chosen in his
+    room.
+
+    The Chairman said the next business was of considerable importance.
+    It was to consider the propriety of erecting or purchasing a building
+    for the use of the Institution.
+
+    William Steward, Esq., would submit to the meeting a proposal he held
+    in his hand, which was to raise a building fund of £1,000, in shares
+    of £10 each, on which interest at £3 per cent. per annum is to be
+    paid till the fund will enable them to liquidate it; and in the
+    interim every shareholder to have the right of recommending one
+    out-patient for each share annually.  One object in raising the fund
+    now was, that they had £151 in hand from the benefactions, and Mr.
+    Anguish had sent them £50 towards the building fund.  The interest
+    would not amount to what they now paid for rent.  They hoped the
+    Corporation would grant them an eligible site for the intended new
+    building.
+
+    The Rev. M. Waters was sure there would be no difficulty in raising
+    the required fund, as they would soon have £300 paid in donations,
+    which would prevent any risk to the shareholders.
+
+    The Chairman suggested that it would be better first to resolve that
+    it would be expedient to erect or purchase a building, and then to
+    submit the means for raising the money, in which opinion J.
+    Brightwen, Esq., fully concurred, when
+
+    Mr. S. S. Barber proposed, that it is the opinion of this meeting
+    that it is expedient that an Hospital should be built, which was
+    seconded by Mr. E. H. L. Preston.
+
+    Mr. W. S. Lacon thought it premature to build at present; the
+    Hospital had only been in operation a few months, and at the last
+    meeting, when certain resolutions were proposed, certain gentlemen,
+    who did not like those resolutions, said they would withdraw.  He
+    would propose that the consideration of the question be postponed to
+    that day twelve months, which was seconded by Dr. Sabine.
+
+    J. G. Fisher, Esq., thought the building of an Hospital would promote
+    the object they had in view, and could not agree with Mr. Lacon, in
+    which he was supported by the Rev. M. Waters.
+
+    The amendment being put, only six voted for it, and the original
+    motion was carried.
+
+    Mr. E H. L. Preston then proposed that the plan for raising a fund,
+    as proposed by Mr. Steward, be adopted, and that a paper be laid on
+    the table to receive the names of persons willing to take shares,
+    which was seconded by Mr. Barber.
+
+    J. G. Fisher, Esq., proposed the thanks of the meeting to the Mayor
+    for his conduct in the chair, which was carried by acclamation.
+
+    The Mayor, in returning thanks, expressed his determination to do all
+    in his power to procure them an eligible spot on which to erect the
+    new edifice.  Those present having paid their subscriptions, the
+    meeting separated.
+
+A band of music had been engaged to perform near the Jetty on Wednesday
+and Saturday evenings during the summer.
+
+July 11th.—A vessel named the “Cadmus” had been launched from Teasdell’s
+Wharf.
+
+An inquest had been held at Shrublands, Gorleston, the residence of
+William Danby Palmer, Esq., upon the body of a boy who had been killed by
+a fall from a stack.  Verdict, “Accidental death.”
+
+July 18th.—The “Galatea” (schooner) had been launched from Mr. A.
+Palmer’s, jun., yard.
+
+Aug. 1st.—Another meeting in connection with the Shipwrecked Mariners’
+Society had been held.  Sir George Parker, the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew,
+George Danby Palmer, Esq., and the Rev. Mr. Sidney took part in the
+proceedings.
+
+Pleasure yachts were allowed to enter the Harbour free of dues.
+
+August 10th.—The Races had been held for the following stakes:—Gold, cup,
+£10 each, and £20 added; the Members’ Plate of £50; the Vauxhall
+Coronation Cup, £25; and the Innkeepers’ and Tradesmen’s Silver Cup, £50.
+The following local gentlemen entered or named horses at this
+meeting:—Mr. Wilshere, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Webber, Mr. Wodehouse, Mr.
+Burroughes, Mr. R. P. Kemp, Mr. Samuel Palmer, Mr. A. Tompson, Mr. John
+Kerrison, and Mr. William Danby Palmer.
+
+Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Matthews were filling the Theatre nightly.
+
+At the Regatta, “The Widgeon,” a London yacht, had carried off the prize.
+
+The Dissenters, not approving of these sports (the Regatta and Races),
+had had a meeting of their own in the shape of a choral festival.
+
+August 15th.—Sir Jacob Preston, John Penrice, and Charles Steward, Esqs.,
+were announced as Stewards of next year’s Races.
+
+August 22nd contains the following:—“We hear from the most undoubted
+authority that Mr. John E. Lacon, with a munificence almost
+unparallelled, has equally divided the large property left to him by his
+father between himself and his brother, the present Sir Edmund H. K.
+Lacon, Bart.”
+
+Sept. 5th.—Mr. Preston had launched the “George Lord,” of 205 tons
+register.
+
+Oct. 3rd.—The Revision Court had been held, and the Liberals claimed a
+gain of 58 on the return.
+
+Oct. 17th.—At a Liberal meeting held at the “Crown and Anchor,” G. D.
+Palmer, Esq., had proposed the health of Samuel Jay, Esq., as
+“Mayor-Elect.”
+
+There were “nightly depredations” taking place at Gorleston.
+
+Oct. 31st.—Fortunatus Robert Townshend Crisp was indicted for publishing
+on the 13th October a certain filthy and libellous paper called the “Paul
+Pry,” containing a slanderous and malicious libel on Henry Holmes Baker.
+The Jury were locked up two hours before returning a verdict of guilty,
+on which Crisp was fined £5.
+
+Nov. 7th.—The Earl of Lichfield had given £30 to the Hospital Fund.
+
+The old members of the Council had been re-elected, except in St.
+Andrew’s Ward, where William Hurry Palmer, Esq., was returned.  The only
+Ward contested was the Regent, with the following result:—C. Davie, 81;
+J. Fish, 76; J. G. Plummer, 71; S. Miller, 62.  A meeting of Liberals was
+afterwards held, and Mr. Jay’s health (as Mayor-Elect) drunk with three
+times three.
+
+Nov. 14th.—At the Council on the 9th, Mr. G. D. Palmer proposed Mr. Jay
+as Mayor for the ensuing year, and he was elected to that office.
+
+Dec. 5th.—Capt. Pearson had been elected an Alderman in the place of John
+B. Palmer, Esq., deceased.
+
+An anti-poor law meeting had been held; only 52 persons present.
+
+Dec. 19th.—The Mayor (S. Jay, Esq.) had commenced a round of Civic
+entertainments of a most “recherchê” character.
+
+The Yarmouth Savings’ Bank had 2,137 accounts and £63,513 13s. 7d. on
+deposit.
+
+Dec. 26th.—The Mayor and Corporation had attended St. Nicholas’ Church,
+after which his Worship entertained a large party of friends at lunch.
+
+The “Blue” freemen had held a meeting to receive a very handsome blue
+banner, inscribed “Presented to the freemen in commemoration of their
+victory over the attempt to enslave them, and ‘United we stand, divided
+we fall.  Wilshere’s majority 38.’”
+
+
+
+1840.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd contains the following as to “Yarmouth Hospital”:—
+
+    The half-yearly meeting of the governors of this institution was held
+    at the Town Hall on Saturday.  William Steward, Esq., took the chair,
+    and stated that the building was expected to be completed for the
+    reception of patients by Lady-day.  The cost of the building,
+    including furniture and the tower (a very ornamental building, to be
+    used as a look-out), with other incidental charges, would amount to
+    £1,600.  (Expressions of surprise, and “What! no more?”)  He believed
+    that £1,600 would cover the whole expense, to meet which they had
+    already received by benefaction (including £200 from the Norwich
+    Musical Festival) upwards of £600, while upwards of £1,000 had been
+    raised among the shareholders.  It would be highly desirable to pay
+    off the shareholders as the funds would allow, and to keep up the
+    annual subscriptions.  At present they were adequate to the annual
+    expenditure, but he trusted the inhabitants would do their utmost to
+    increase the annual income.  This was the only charitable institution
+    founded on the day of her Majesty’s Coronation, and he was induced to
+    hope that an application to Her Majesty’s advisers would obtain a
+    benefaction from her privy purse.  He was sanguine in his
+    anticipation that in a short time the shares would be reduced to one
+    for each shareholder, which it was thought desirable should remain.
+
+    F. R. Reynolds, Esq., thought the reduction would be made in less
+    than seven years.
+
+    The Rev. M. Waters said that, allowing them to remain in their
+    present position, the new institution would not be more rent than the
+    present Hospital in Queen Street.
+
+    Mr. Steward then submitted a resolution, that all monies arising from
+    benefactions or otherwise, except from annual subscriptions, be
+    applied in paying the shareholders till such shareholders should have
+    but one share each; and that the annual subscriptions should be kept
+    as a distinct fund.
+
+    This resolution was moved by H. V. Worship, Esq., and seconded by C.
+    J. Palmer, Esq., and carried unanimously.
+
+    The Secretary observed that the balance of subscriptions would be
+    less at the end of the present year than it was at the end of the
+    preceding one, and this he mentioned that the public might know it
+    would depend on themselves whether so excellent an institution should
+    continue as efficient as it had hitherto been.
+
+    It was stated that the number of out-patients had never been less
+    than 100 throughout the past half-year.
+
+Jan. 16th.—The first subscription Ball had been held at the Town Hall,
+when about 70 or 80 of the _elite_ were present.  Howlett’s band had been
+engaged for the occasion.
+
+Jan. 23rd.—A “dreadful storm” had visited the town, and considerable
+damage had been done to the roofs of houses, while a schooner in making
+for the Harbour had been caught in the squall and sunk, with the loss of
+four lives.
+
+George Danby Palmer, Esq., had entertained a large party of the members
+of the “Yarmouth Fishing Clubs” and others in the new room at Bird’s
+Royal Hotel, when the Mayor, Sir George Parker, Capt. Pearson, R.N.,
+Capt. Harmer, R.N., George Penrice, M.D., W. Barth, R. P. Kemp, S.
+Palmer, W. H. Palmer, W. S. Ferrier, R. S. Lonsdale, S. P. Edwards, W.
+Yetts, G. Steward, T. Hammond, R. Hammond, S. C Marsh, Esqs., and most of
+the influential gentlemen and merchants of the town were present.
+
+Feb. 13th—The Queen’s Marriage had been celebrated as a general holiday,
+with the usual demonstrations of loyalty, and 150 gentlemen had dined
+together at the Town Hall, when the Mayor presided.
+
+Feb. 20th.—Ambrose Palmer, Esq., had complained to the Magistrates of the
+late delivery of the mails, which it appeared often did not arrive until
+after 12 o’clock in the day.
+
+March 5th.—Samuel Jay, Esq., and William Barth, Esq., had proceeded to
+London to present an address to Her Majesty from the Town Council upon
+her marriage.
+
+Messrs. Fellows had launched the “Lucy,” a schooner of 100 tons register.
+
+March 12th.—The Mayor (S. Jay, Esq.) had been presented at Court by
+William Wilshere, Esq., M.P., on the occasion of taking up the
+Corporation address.
+
+Capt. Love had been elected Inspector of Police by thirteen votes to one
+vote.  There were twelve candidates for the office.
+
+March 26th.—Mr. Joseph Fiddes had been elected an Alderman in the place
+of Mr. William Barber, deceased.
+
+April 2nd.—The Hospital having been completed, was opened for public
+inspection, and had been visited by nearly 1,000 inhabitants of the town
+and neighbourhood.  Eight hundred patients had been relieved by this
+Charity since the previous August.
+
+April 9th.—Sixteen Whigs had been elected Guardians by very large
+majorities.
+
+April 23rd.—Messrs. C. Davie, William Johnson, and S. V. Moore had been
+nominated at the Vestry meeting as Churchwardens, and a poll demanded.
+
+The Conservatives had dined together at the Angel Hotel, Sir E. H. K.
+Lacon, Bart., in the chair, when a magnificent silver waiter, weighing
+221 ozs., was presented to Mr. Edward H. L. Preston.  Upon it was the
+following inscription: “Presented to Edward Harbord Lushington Preston by
+the Conservatives of Great Yarmouth, as a testimonial of their esteem and
+high approval of his firm and active support of those principals which
+constitute the best bulwark of the Throne, and the surest safeguard of
+the people.”  Messrs. Aldred and Son supplied it.
+
+The Mayor (S. Jay, Esq.) had received the Sacrament at St. Nicholas’
+Church, and afterwards entertained the Town Council and a party of
+friends with a sumptuous cold collation.
+
+April 30th.—Messrs. Davie and Johnson had been elected Churchwardens,
+three votes only having been polled for Mr. Moore.
+
+Not a single case of theft or disorderly conduct had been reported at the
+Fair, “a circumstance unparallelled in the history of Yarmouth.”
+
+May 14th.—A petition for the repeal of the Corn Laws had been signed by
+1,400 persons.
+
+May 21st.—Mr. and Mrs. Bird’s “opening dinner” had been held at the Royal
+Hotel.  The Mayor occupied the chair, and was supported by the Rev.
+Richard Gooch, G. Danby Palmer, W. Barth, T. Brown (Thrigby), R. Ferrier,
+W. Ferrier, T. Fowler, C. Marsh, G. Steward, A. Tompson, W. Carpenter,
+and F. Lloyd, Esqs., Captain Nelson, Messrs. Paul, Christmas, Primrose,
+Smith, E. Browne, Hart, Middleton, and upwards of 100 gentlemen of the
+town and neighbourhood.
+
+May 28th.—Complaints had been made of the “screaming” and “bell-ringing”
+of the steamboats, which the editor thought should be “reformed
+altogether.”
+
+The London letters had not been received on Saturday last, owing to those
+intended for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, having been forwarded to this town,
+while “our mails” were sent on to Edinburgh.
+
+June 6th.—The carcase of a grampus had been towed on to the Beach.
+
+June 11th.—The Mayor (S. Jay, Esq.) had again entertained his friends at
+luncheon after Divine Service.
+
+The “Eleanor Palmer,” schooner, had been launched from Mr. A. Palmer,
+junr.’s, yard, for W. H. Palmer, Esq., who, in the evening, entertained a
+large party of friends at the Royal Hotel.
+
+June 19th.—The Council had voted addresses of congratulation to H.M. the
+Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Kent, on the “escape of Her Majesty
+from assassination.”  This was moved by Mr. E. Sewell, and seconded by G.
+D. Palmer, Esq.
+
+July 2nd.—The new police had made “their maiden turn out” under Capt.
+Love.  Mr. J. Nolloth had supplied the uniforms.
+
+The annual Hospital meeting had been held at the Board Boom of that
+institution.
+
+July 9th.—The Mayor had attended the Annual Water Frolic, accompanied by
+some 30 gentlemen, including the Deputy-Mayor, G. D. Palmer, Esq., Capt.
+Harmer, Capt. Pearson, S. P. Edwards, Esq., and several members of the
+Council.
+
+Three young men were capsized and two of them, Mr. John Rivett and Mr.
+Walter Feek, drowned.
+
+“A fellow named Cullingford had cut down the doorstalls of Mr. Wm.
+Sayer’s house in which he was engaged nearly two hours without being
+detected by any of the new police.”
+
+July 16th.—The Council resolved that “the old tower on the Chapel Mount
+be levelled with that of the Hospital, and that the wall to the east
+thereof be faced with white brick and coped with cement.”
+
+Mr. Guthrie (son of Capt. Guthrie) had saved a boy from being drowned at
+the Jetty.
+
+The “Maid of Athens” had been launched from Mr. I. Preston’s yard.
+
+July 25th.—The Races had been held.  The Town and County Plate of £50 was
+won by the Hon. I. Sandiland’s “Luther,” which was “claimed” by Mr. S.
+Palmer for £150 (his horse “Diana” running second in the race.)
+
+As Stewards for next year, Henry Stracey, Alexander Shafto Adair, and
+Samuel Palmer, Esqs., were chosen.
+
+At the Regatta, Lord A. Paget’s “Sabrina” won the £25 cup.
+
+When a hearse, with mourning coach and friends of the deceased arrived at
+the Cemetery, it was found that “no orders had been given to dig a
+grave,” and the funeral had to be postponed.
+
+Aug. 16th.—Youell’s gardens were “most attractive;” there were 3,000
+pairs of carnations and picotees in bloom.
+
+Samuel Jay, Esq., had been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the
+Borough.
+
+Aug. 20th.—A great improvement had been made by lighting the town with
+gas; the Gas Company having laid down a large main, and reduced the price
+of gas 25 per cent.
+
+Mr. A. Thrower had been elected a Councillor in the place of Mr. F.
+Preston.
+
+Sept. 3rd.—A meeting had been held at the Town Hall, Wm. Steward, Esq.,
+in the chair, for promoting the erection of a better class of houses on
+the Beach to the south of the Royal Hotel (the Victoria Building
+Company.)
+
+Mr. John Clowes had been thrown from his gig on the Quay.
+
+Sept. 17th.—Lord and Lady Wodehouse were staying at the Royal Hotel; his
+Lordship had consented to patronise the New Building Company.
+
+Sept. 24th.—Madame Persiani, and Signors Nigri, Rubini, and Puzzi, had
+given a grand concert at the Town Hall.
+
+A meeting of the provisional Committee of the Victoria Building Company
+had been held, and £8,000 had been subscribed for the objects of the
+Company.
+
+Oct. 8th.—The prospectus of the Victoria Building Company appears in this
+issue, the Directors being William Steward, William Baynes, Benjamin
+Dowson, Richard Ferrier, William Johnson, Robert Palmer Kemp, John E.
+Lacon, George Danby Palmer, Thomas Fowler Steward, and Charles Symonds,
+Esqs.
+
+A letter had been received at the Post-office, directed “Mr. Thompson,
+Row next my grandmother’s, Yarmouth.”
+
+Nov. 5th.—The following was the result of the Municipal election:—
+
+                        NORTH WARD.
+J. N. Sherrington          119  J. C. Smith              98
+C. G. Doughty              116  J. F. Costerton          68
+                       NELSON WARD.
+       M. Butcher and J. G. Connell (no opposition.)
+                    ST. ANDREW’S WARD.
+Wm. Barth                  100  John G. Rivett           77
+Wm. Danby Palmer            88  Henry Teasdell           56
+                    ST. GEORGE’S WARD.
+Joseph Bayly                89  John Algar               89
+John L. Cufaude             89  Charles Cory             83
+And the Alderman gave his casting vote in favour of Messrs
+Bayly and Cufaude
+                       REGENT WARD.
+      Samuel Palmer and John Barker (no opposition.)
+                       MARKET WARD.
+     D. A. Gourlay and Charles Miller (no opposition.)
+
+A deputation had waited on Mr. Samuel Palmer and presented a requisition
+to him, to be put in nomination for the office of Mayor.  Mr. W. Johnson
+presented this, signed by 40 members of the Council.
+
+The “Hamlet,” 400 tons, had been launched from Mr. A. Palmer’s, jun.,
+yard.
+
+Nov. 12th.—Mr. Samuel Palmer had been elected Mayor.
+
+Nov. 26th.—Richard Ferrier and Charles Cory, Esqs., refused to pay the
+Poor’s Rate, and a distress warrant was issued, under which a clock, a
+silver cup, and a hat stand had been seized.  The object of these
+gentlemen appeared to be to dispute the validity of a Rate of 1s. 3d. in
+the £.
+
+Dec. 3rd.—The Council had voted the usual loyal addresses on the birth of
+the Princess Royal.
+
+Dec. 10th.—A public meeting had been held for the like purpose when the
+address to Her Majesty was moved by the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew, and
+seconded by Wm. Steward, Esq.
+
+That to Prince Albert, by Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and George Danby
+Palmer, Esq.
+
+And that to the Duke of Kent by Sir George Parker, K.C.B., and J. G.
+Fisher, Esq., S. Palmer, Esq., Sir E. H. K. Lacon, and Sir George Parker,
+were deputed to present such addresses.
+
+Dec. 17th.—A meeting of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society had been held.
+The local committee then consisted of Messrs. G. W. Manby, Isaac Preston,
+W. J. Hurry, G. D. Palmer, J. W. Shelly, Costerton, Capt. Harmer, J. G.
+Fisher, D. Turner, Gunthorpe, Ambrose Palmer, W. Barth, John Penrice, M.
+Butcher, and Capt. Pearson.
+
+Dec. 24th.—An anti-slavery meeting had been held (the Mayor in the
+chair.)
+
+Dec. 31st.—The teetotallers had had a procession.  Among their flags a
+new one by the workmen of Mr. Brand (tailor) on which was painted a
+lifeboat, with the motto “Total Abstinence, the Drunkard’s Lifeboat.”
+
+Samuel Jay, Charles Pearson, William Johnson and J. W. Shelly, qualified
+as Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions.
+
+                      [Picture: Decorative graphic]
+
+
+
+
+SECOND SERIES, 1841–51.
+
+
+    “When found, make a note of”—
+
+                                                             CAPT. CUTTLE.
+
+
+
+1841.
+
+
+Jan. 14th.—A meeting for the relief of the poor had been held, when £300
+was raised in the room.
+
+Jan. 21st.—Mr. E. R. Palmer had been appointed Inspector of Corn Returns.
+
+Jan. 28th—The “Greyhound” (Barker) had arrived at Naples in fifteen days,
+“being the quickest passage ever known.”
+
+Feb. 11th.—About fifty tradesmen had dined at the “Star” to commemorate
+the baptism of the Princess Royal.
+
+Feb. 18th.—A local committee had been formed in connection with the
+“Marine Penitent Female Refuge,” with the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew,
+president; Mrs. C. S. D. Steward, treasurer; and Mrs. G. Danby-Palmer,
+secretary.
+
+On Tuesday, the whole of the London traders, sixteen in number, were
+lying in the harbour, owing to the late frost.
+
+A meeting of the Conservative ratepayers had been held to protest against
+the 1s. 3d. poor’s rate.
+
+Feb. 25th.—A meeting had been held at the Town Hall for promoting a
+railway from Yarmouth to London.
+
+March 11th.—The works of the Victoria Building Company had been
+commenced, and the Mayor had been requested to lay the first stone.
+
+The “Saucy Jack,” 250 tons, had been launched from Mr. I. Chapman’s yard.
+
+March 18th.—Wm. Barth, Esq., had received an appointment in the Money
+Order Office of the Post Office, London.
+
+March 25th.—Records the laying of the first stone on the Victoria
+Building Company’s Estate, when Captain Harmer, R.N., (W.M. of Lodge
+“United Friends,”) addressed the assembly as follows:—
+
+    “At the request of the Directors of the Victoria Building Company, we
+    are here assembled as Masons to assist our Worthy Brother, who now
+    occupies the civic chair of this borough, to lay the foundation stone
+    of this important and interesting work—important and interesting
+    indeed to Yarmouth.  May the work prosper, and from the foundation
+    about to be laid, may structures arise ornamental to the town,
+    beneficial to its inhabitants, and advantageous to the builders.  May
+    the promoters of these buildings live to see their great and spirited
+    design carried out, and when it shall please the Grand Leveller of
+    human greatness to call them from hence, may they arrive at the point
+    or centre where the World’s Great Architect lives and reigns for
+    ever.”
+
+Bro. Richard Ferrier, P.M.—“So mote it be.”
+
+The Mayor then proceeded to deposit two coins of her present Majesty in
+the stone, over which a brass plate was laid bearing the following
+inscription:—
+
+    “The first stone of Kimberley Terrace, Great Yarmouth, to be erected
+    by the Victoria Building Company, was laid by Samuel Palmer, Esq.,
+    Mayor of Great Yarmouth, on the 22nd day of March, in the Year of our
+    Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty One, and in the Fourth year
+    of the reign of Queen Victoria.  William Steward, Esq., Chairman of
+    the Board of Directors; Thomas Marsh Nelson, Esq., Architect.”
+
+A public dinner was afterwards held at the Royal Hotel, George
+Danby-Palmer, Esq., in the chair.
+
+April 1st.—The election of Guardians had ended in “the signal defeat of
+the Tories.”
+
+April 15th.—Messrs. C. Davie and D. A. Gourlay had been elected
+Churchwardens by the Vestry.
+
+April 22nd.—Mr. F. Preston’s shipyard was likely to be given up, thus
+throwing many men out of employment.
+
+An Ecclesiastical inquiry had been held “to make inquiry into a certain
+charge preferred by one James Laws, a sailmaker, living in Row 99,
+against the Rev. — —, Clerk in Holy Orders.  Nathaniel Palmer, Esq.
+(instructed by Messrs. Tolver, Preston and Tolver) appeared for the
+respondent.  The charge was that of soliciting the chastity of the
+complainant’s wife by sending her letters, one of which was as
+follows:—Meet me to-night about nine or half-past nine between Penrice’s
+and the beach.”  This charge, in the absence of the letter, was
+pronounced by the Commissioners not to have been proved.
+
+May 6th.—At the Leveé, S. Palmer, Esq., and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.,
+had been presented by W. Wilshere, Esq., M.P.
+
+Six hundred persons had been confirmed at St. Nicholas’ Church by the
+Bishop of Norwich.
+
+The “Indiaman,” 821 tons, had been launched from Mr. Preston’s yard for
+Mr. Somes.  She was estimated to cost £18,000.
+
+May 13th.—The “Highlander,” 122 tons, had been launched from Mr. D.
+King’s yard.
+
+Mr. W. Johnson had been appointed a “tradesman to Her Most Gracious
+Majesty.”
+
+May 20th.—A merry peal was rung upon St. Nicholas’ Church bells in
+consequence of Sir Jacob Astley having made good his claim to the Barony
+of Hastings.
+
+The Norfolk Yeomanry, under the command of Major Loftus, had entered the
+town for seven days’ duty.
+
+May 27th.—The Officers of this corps had given a splendid ball at the
+Bath Rooms, at which 200 persons were present.
+
+Mr. G. Blake had been summoned for refusal, on conscientious grounds, to
+pay the Church Rate.
+
+June 3rd.—A meeting had been held “in support of Her Majesty’s
+Ministers.”
+
+June 10th.—Messrs. Rumbold and Wilshere had issued their address to the
+electors; Lord George Somerset and Mr. Smythe had been named as probable
+Tory candidates for the Borough.
+
+June 17th.—Mr. G. Blake had been ordered to pay 1s. 6d., the amount of
+the Church Rate, “which he did and departed.”
+
+The census had been taken, showing a population of 25,000.
+
+During the week the roof had been placed on the hotel and houses forming
+the south end of Kimberley Terrace.
+
+June 24th.—The Mayor “having received the precept for the election
+proceeded to the Market Place, and Guild Hall, accompanied by several
+hundred gentlemen, when such precept was read,” no opposition being yet
+announced.
+
+The “Norfolk,” 120 tons, had been launched by Mr. A. R. Palmer.
+
+July 3rd.—The election had taken place when Sir George Parker proposed,
+and Mr. J. Brightwen seconded Mr. C. E. Rumbold; Mr. Geo. Danby-Palmer
+and Mr. B. Dowson proposed and seconded Mr. Wilshere; Mr. R. Ferrier and
+Mr. Lacon proposed and seconded Mr. Thos. Baring; and Mr. E. H. L.
+Preston and Mr. W. H. Bessey performed the like office for Mr. J. Soames.
+These proceedings lasted from eleven o’clock until half-past two o’clock,
+during which time “it rained hard and many got wet to the skin,” but,
+notwithstanding that, “a more disorderly attendance” had never been seen.
+After the nomination the late members were chaired round the town, when
+there was a scuffle in the Market Place and one man was seriously
+wounded.  Next day the poll was held and the numbers declared—
+
+C. E. Rumbold       943
+W. Wilshere         945
+T. Baring           501
+J. Soames           491
+
+July 15th.—Alex. Shafto Adair, Esq., (the late candidate for East
+Suffolk) had accompanied S. Palmer, Esq. (with whom he was staying), to
+church.
+
+The “Vanguard,” built by Mr. W. Teasdel, had sailed for London.
+
+Six shipwrights, who had gone out with the “Norfolk” to finish her at
+sea, were capsized on their return journey in their boat, one of them
+named Cole being drowned.
+
+July 22nd.—“Mr. R. R. B. Norman, surgeon dentist, had been admitted a
+Licentiate of “Apothecaries’ Hall, London.”
+
+The “Good Samaritan” Lodge had held its anniversary at the Gallon Can,
+Gaol Street.
+
+Mrs. Barnwell (late Miss Shipston), a native of Yarmouth, had given a
+concert at the Town Hall to a very “genteel” audience.  Among those
+present were W. Wilshere, Esq., M.P., A. S. Adair, Esq., Rev. C. Penrice,
+Mrs. G. D. Palmer, the Misses Chevalier, and G. Borrett, and A. Tompson,
+Esq.
+
+An explosion of fireworks had taken place at the Vauxhall Gardens, but,
+fortunately, no one was injured.
+
+The Races had been held, when the “Gold Cup,” value £100, was won by Mr.
+S. Palmer’s “Langolee.”  The £50 plate by Mr. Rogers’ “Jessica.”  The
+Vauxhall Coronation Cup Stakes by Mr. Munro’s “Clifton.”  The Town and
+Country Gentlemen’s plate by Mr. Horman’s “Blanche.”  The Handicap Stakes
+by Mr. Bradford’s “Vigilance,” and the Tally-Ho Stakes (for Hunters) by
+Mr. Wm. Danby-Palmer’s “Daniel.”
+
+July 29th.—The Mayor had proceeded to the Narrow Waters for the Water
+Frolic, accompanied by Messrs. W. Wilshere, M.P., S. Jay, G. D. Palmer,
+J. Tomlinson, W. Johnson, and several other members of the Corporate
+body.  The cup was won by the “Red Rover,” the property of Mr. S. C.
+Marsh.
+
+At night the Vauxhall Gardens had “a bumper.”
+
+August 5th.—A splendid terrace, road, and promenade was being formed on
+the Victoria Building Company’s Estate by Mr. George Fenn.
+
+A very superb silver soup tureen weighing 230 ozs., was to be presented
+to Samuel Paget, Esq., by the Shipping Assurance Association.
+
+A _dejeuner_ had been given at the Barracks by Captain George W. Manby,
+then in his 76th year, to commemorate the 38th anniversary of his
+appointment as Barrack Master.
+
+August 12th.—The census showed the population of the Borough to be as
+follows:—
+
+                Males.       Females.       Total.
+                   10,427         13,524       23,951
+Sailors             1,300                       1,300
+Totals             11,727         13,524       25,251
+
+August 19th.—The “Rosa Anna,” 115 tons, had been launched from Mr.
+Lubbock’s yard.
+
+August 26th.—A complaint was made by Mr. John E. Lacon to the Secretary
+of State, that the police (being voters) had “on the day preceding the
+recent election been permitted to resign, and that immediately after the
+contest they were all re-appointed.”
+
+The Mayor and Mrs. Palmer had given a bespeak at the Theatre.
+
+Sept. 9th.—It was stated that Captain Harmer, “whose undaunted courage
+had rendered him the means of saving many lives from shipwreck, had
+obtained the command of H.M. Steamship “Driver,” on board which he
+hoisted his flag a few days since.”
+
+The “Oriental” (schooner), had been launched from Mr. Preston’s yard.
+
+Sept. 16th.—There had been a fire at the house of Mr. Simon Jay, surgeon,
+Regent Street.
+
+Sept. 30th.—The Brethren of Lodge “United Friends” had given a dinner to
+their late W.M., Capt. Harmer, R.N., previous to his departure in the
+“Driver,” at the Star Hotel.
+
+On Sunday, the following collections had been made for the Hospital:—S.
+Nicholas’, £10; S. Peter’s, £16 14s. 2d.; S. George’s, £8 6s. 2d.; S.
+Mary’s, £8 11s. 5¼d.; New Meeting, £5 3s. 4½d.; Wesleyan, £7 7s.; Old
+Meeting, £3 6s. 8d.
+
+At the Sessions, the Grand Jury presented the disorderly state of the
+Market Place every evening between eight and ten o’clock.
+
+Oct. 7th.—The testimonial before mentioned had been presented to Mr.
+Samuel Paget, at a dinner held in the Town Hall.  Geo. Danby Palmer,
+Esq., was in the chair “doing the honours of the table with much spirit.”
+
+Nov. 4th.—The Municipal election had passed over without contests, the
+following was the return:—_St. Nicholas’ Ward_: R. Hammond and W. N.
+Burroughs.  _Market_: W. Johnson and John Owles.  _Regent_: J. Tomlinson
+and S. C. Marsh.  _St. George’s_: T. Lettis, jun., and J. W. Shelly.
+_Nelson_: G. Danby Palmer and W. Chambers.  _St. Andrew’s_: T. Hammond
+and S. Crowe.
+
+John Penrice, Esq. had qualified as a Magistrate; the Editor remarks—“We
+understand that a large batch of Tory Magistrates is about to be
+created,” (George Bateman, James Clarke, J. F. Costerton, Ambrose Palmer,
+E. H. L. Preston, J. C. Smith, and Wm. Yetts, Esqs., were then added to
+the Roll of Justices.)
+
+Wm. Johnson, Esq., had been requested by 38 Councillors to allow himself
+to be nominated for the office of Mayor.
+
+Nov. 11th.—On the 9th November, Mr. Johnson had been elected to that
+office.
+
+Nov. 25th.—The “Arab,” 175 tons, had been launched from Mr. Teasdel’s
+yard.
+
+The “Sabbath Observance Society” had issued an address, stating that “no
+less than 144 shops were doing business; that carting of fish and other
+articles connected with the fishing, and beer from the breweries, &c.,
+was witnessed to a great extent, and that 150 public-houses were open on
+the Lord’s Day.”
+
+The Magistrates had cautioned Mr. I. Mayers and Mr D. L. Cohen (Jews) as
+to Sunday trading.
+
+Dec. 9th.—The “Driver” (Capt. Harmer) had been nearly lost on the rocks
+under Steel point, near Flamborough Head, but after heaving the guns
+overboard she got off and put into Shields for repairs.
+
+Dec. 23rd.—The Savings’ Bank report showed 2,378 accounts and £71,521
+16s. 10d. amount deposited.
+
+The Rev. H. N. Burrows, A.M., had been elected Head-Master of the
+Proprietary Grammar School.
+
+
+
+1842.
+
+
+Jan. 1st.—The half-yearly Hospital meeting had been held.
+
+The prisoners had been regaled by the Mayor with roast beef, plum pudding
+and one pint of beer each.
+
+Jan. 8th.—Some boys had made a “slider” near Dr. Borrett’s house, upon
+which Mrs. Borrett had fallen and broken one of her arms.
+
+Jan. 20th.—A public meeting of the inhabitants had been held for the
+purpose of considering the way in which they should celebrate the Royal
+Christening, when Sir E. Lacon, the Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew, Messrs. G.
+D. Palmer, J. Brightwen, W. N. Burroughs, I. Preston, C. Nichols, and J.
+F. Costerton were, with others, present.
+
+The members of the “Loyal Prince of Wales” Lodge of Oddfellows, which had
+then been “newly formed,” dined together at the Black Lion, Bro. W. N.
+Turner, N.G., presided, supported by Bro. Loft, P.G.M., and Bro. Raven,
+P.D.G.M.; F. Palmer, Esq., surgeon to the Order, occupied the Vice-chair,
+and about 50 Brethren were present; the following toasts were drunk:—“The
+Queen,” “Prince Albert,” “The Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales,”
+“The Duke of Sussex and the rest of the Royal Family,” “The Army and
+Navy,” “Our Glorious Institutions,” and “The Loyal Prince of Wales’ Lodge
+of O.F. of the M.U.”
+
+Jan. 27th.—The Christening of the Prince of Wales had been commemorated
+by a dinner at the Crown and Anchor Hotel, where the Mayor and a large
+number of his friends dined together, and by a ball at the Town Hall
+(opened by C. J. Palmer, Esq., and the Mayoress), at which about 200
+persons were present.
+
+A meeting had been held to consider the question of the erection of a
+Corn Exchange.
+
+The inmates of the Workhouse and Fisherman’s Hospital returned thanks to
+S. Palmer, Esq., for an excellent dinner provided for them by that
+gentleman on the “Christening Day.”
+
+Feb. 3rd.—The London Mail did not get in until 12.38; the frequent delays
+in these Mails were a source of serious inconvenience.
+
+Feb. 10th.—The Vicar had issued an address, calling attention to the
+spiritual destitution of the town, and the restoration of St. Nicholas’
+Church.
+
+A correspondent states, “Never, perhaps, has a church been so disfigured;
+the introduction of that deformity, the Fisherman’s Gallery, that
+wretched ‘gew-gaw’ the Mayor’s seat, those laternal deformities, the desk
+and pulpit, and in a word those violations of every principle of taste by
+which the building has been defaced, have rendered it the ugliest as well
+as the dirtiest church in the Kingdom.”
+
+Feb. 17th.—Great excitement had been caused in the town by the death of
+James Duck, aged 69, after having been pushed or knocked down by Mr.
+Francis Paget.  The Coroner’s Jury found, “That deceased died of
+apoplexy, aided and accelerated by a fall he received shortly before his
+death, but how or in what manner the fall was received doth not appear to
+the said Jurors,” only 12 (of the 18 Jurors) signed this inquisition.
+
+Feb. 24th.—From a petition presented as to the Mail service, it appeared
+there were then 574 ships of an aggregate burden of 50,325 tons,
+belonging to this port.
+
+Mr. Christopher Taylor had been appointed agent and surgeon to the sick
+and wounded seamen, in the place of Wm. Taylor, Esq., deceased.
+
+March 3rd.—2,300 inhabitants of Yarmouth had signed the petition for the
+total Repeal of the Corn Laws.
+
+March 10th.—Wm. Worship, Esq., had been elected a Councillor for the
+North Ward.
+
+March 31st.—A “Gold Coronation Medal” had been presented by the Queen to
+Capt. Manby, for preservation of lives from shipwreck.
+
+A meeting, convened by circular, had been held to consider Sir Robert
+Peel’s proposed “Income Tax.”  The Mayor presided; Mr. S. Cobb moved and
+Mr. G. D. Palmer seconded, a resolution to the effect “That it is the
+duty of the meeting by every constitutional means in its power to resist
+the income tax proposed by Sir R. Peel.”
+
+Mr. E. H. L. Preston moved, and Mr. C. Cory seconded as an amendment,
+“That the Mayor be instructed to call a meeting of the public,” which was
+lost by 31 to 34.
+
+A petition was to be “got up” against the tax.
+
+April 7th.—It was rumoured that Jas. M. Cox had been killed by W. B.
+Ebbage, but the Jury found that he died from “mis-adventure.”
+
+April 14th.—A Hemsby boat, which had put off to a vessel, had been lost
+and nine hands drowned out of her.
+
+May 5th.—The Vauxhall Gardens had been opened for the season, and 100
+gentlemen had partaken of a cold collation there on the occasion.
+
+Charges of manslaughter had been preferred before the Magistrates in
+respect of the cases of Ebbage and Cox.
+
+May 19th.—The Mayor had attended the Leveé and presented addresses to
+H.M. the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Kent, on the birth of the
+Prince of Wales.
+
+June 9th.—Mr. Matthew Hastings Swann had had the degree of “Doctor of
+Philology” conferred on him by the University of Berlin.
+
+The Victoria hotel had been completed, and was to be opened by Mr. Balls
+of St. James’ Square, London.
+
+June 23rd.—The Victoria hotel had been opened with a public dinner, at
+which J. E. Lacon, Esq., presided.
+
+June 30th.—At the Hospital meeting it was stated that the annual
+subscriptions had amounted to £334 9s., and the benefactions to £150 0s.
+5d., the expenditure being £357 18s. 3d.  76 in-patients and 829
+out-patients had been relieved.  Geo. Penrice, Esq., M.D., was re-elected
+physician, and J. C. Smith and Geo. Bateman, Esqs., were re-elected
+surgeons.
+
+July 14th.—Commissioners had been appointed for the purpose of carrying
+into effect the provisions of the Income Tax Act.
+
+July 21st.—Samuel Palmer, Esq., had been chosen clerk to such
+Commissioners.
+
+July 28th.—A prospectus had been issued for the purpose of establishing
+“Shampooing Baths” at Yarmouth.
+
+The Mayor had attended the Water Frolic; the first match was won by the
+“Red Rover” (S. C. Marsh, Esq.)
+
+August 4th.—There had been a fire at Mr. Harvey’s tan yard.
+
+August 11th.—The first general meeting of the shareholders in the
+Yarmouth and Norwich Railway had been held at the Victoria hotel, Geo.
+Stephenson, Esq., in the chair.  It was stated that the line would be
+probably opened in the Spring of 1844, that the expenses already incurred
+would not exceed £10,000, and that 8,000 shares had been taken up.
+
+August 25th.—A “young lady from Lincolnshire,” about 18 years of age, had
+eloped from lodgings on the Beach with a Yarmouth gentleman.
+
+Sept. 8th.—At the Races, the Gold Cup was won by Mr. Wilshere’s
+“Evasion”; the Vauxhall Stakes by Mr. H. Stracey’s “Protempore”; the
+Member’s Plate, and the Gentlemen’s Plate by Mr. S. Palmer’s “Everilda”;
+and the Handicap Stakes by Mr. Bignold’s “Camille.”
+
+Strenuous endeavours were made to “put down low gambling,” but the
+gamblers appeared to have found refuge in the public-houses, notably at
+the King’s Head Inn, Market Place.
+
+The “Bruce” had been launched from Mr. Chapman’s yard.
+
+Sept. 15th.—The Mayor (W. Johnson, Esq.), had entertained 100 friends at
+luncheon, on Sunday, after attending Church, where the Hon. and Rev. E.
+Pellew had preached in aid of the Charity Schools, established in 1713.
+
+The Race ball had been held at the Bath Rooms, which only 68 persons had
+attended.
+
+Sailing matches had been held on the river, the starting place had being
+opposite the monument, when the “Red Rover” (S. C. Marsh), beat the
+“Maria” (Sir J. Preston), and the “Neptune” (J. Green).  The Royal
+Sovereign won the Yawl Match.
+
+Sept. 22nd.—H.M. the Queen had passed through the roads in the “Trident,”
+accompanied by two other steamers.
+
+Sept. 29th.—The “India” had, after extensive repairs, been launched from
+Mr. A. R. Palmer’s yard.
+
+Mr. R. Lubbock had launched the “Isabella” (200 tons) for S. Sherrington,
+Esq.
+
+Oct. 6th.—One of Mr. Shuckford’s boats had brought in 23½ lasts of
+herring, valued at £700.
+
+Oct. 13th.—The Corn Exchange in Regent Street had been opened, when 150
+gentlemen dined together.  B. Dowson, Esq., was chairman, and Messrs J.
+E. Laws and Thos. Barber were vice-chairmen.  The Mayor, G. Danby-Palmer,
+Esq., Sir E. Lacon, Bart., and others being present.
+
+Oct. 20th.—There had been a fire at the “New Commercial” club house.
+
+Nov. 3rd.—A prisoner named Lessey complained to the Judge of the
+Insolvent Debtors’ Court that he had lain in prison for 23 weeks before
+he obtained his discharge, and had then been arrested again at the suit
+of his solicitor for £19 19s. 4d. and was thus again a prisoner.
+
+The following Councillors had been elected:—
+
+_North Ward_: Mr. W. H. Bessey and Mr. C. May (vice Mr. E. H. L. Preston
+retired.)
+
+_Market Ward_: Mr. E. Sewell and Mr. S. Miller, jun. (vice Mr. E. N.
+Clowes, resigned).  The polling being for
+
+Sewell              162
+Miller              142
+Richmond             29
+J. Lawn              29
+
+_Regent Ward_: Messrs. C. Davie and J. Fish (re-elected.)
+
+_St. George’s Ward_: Mr. Lettis and P. Pullyn, Esq. (vice A. Woods, Esq.,
+resigned.)
+
+_Nelson Ward_: Messrs. Robinson and Symonds (re-elected.)
+
+_St. Andrew’s Ward_: Messrs. Thrower and W. H. Palmer (re-elected.)
+
+Nov. 10th.—At the Council meeting on the 9th, Mr. R. Hammond proposed and
+Capt. Pearson seconded, the election of Samuel Palmer, Esq., as Mayor;
+and Mr. Brightwen moved and Mr. C. Davie seconded, William Hurry Palmer,
+Esq., for that office.  A warm debate ensued, during which Mr. S. Cobb
+was somewhat violent, and in the result Mr. S. Palmer was elected by 23
+to 13 votes.
+
+Those voting for Mr. S. Palmer were Messrs. W. Hammond, C. Pearson, W. D.
+Palmer, G. D. Palmer, J. Fiddes, H. Fellows, T. Lettis, jun., S. C.
+Marsh, J. Tomlinson, T. Hammond, J. G. Cannell, J. Fish, M. Butcher, J.
+Crow, W. Chambers, J. L. Cufaude, J. Bayly, T. Lettis, R. Hammond, J.
+Barker, B. Fenn, A. Thrower, and S. Cobb.  And for Mr. W. H.
+Palmer—Messrs. J. Brightwen, C. Miller, E. Sewell, C. Davie, S. Robinson,
+D. A. Gourlay, S. Miller, jun., W. Worship, C. May, J. Owles, J. N.
+Sherrington, J. Symonds, and W. N. Burroughs.
+
+In the evening a dinner took place at the Star Hotel, the Mayor in the
+chair.
+
+A meeting of the Victoria Building Company had been held, when it
+appeared that £14,000 raised by shares and £6,000 raised on mortgages,
+had been expended on the buildings.
+
+Nov. 17th.—A “Total Abstinence” lecture had been delivered by Mr.
+Smeeton, at the Guild Hall.
+
+Nov. 24th.—The Amateur Musical Society had held a concert at the Town
+Hall, when Mr. Suggate, Mrs. Barnwell, and Mr. Norfor’s performances were
+specially praised.
+
+The opening dinner had been held at the “Bear.”
+
+Nine hundred lasts of herring had been caught “between Thursday se’night
+and the succeeding Sunday,” which was considered an extraordinary catch
+of fish.
+
+Dec. 22nd.—Savings’ Bank meeting showed 2507 depositors and upwards of
+£75,591 funds.  The Rev. M. Waters was elected a trustee of the
+institution.
+
+The Poor Law Commissioners having refused to sanction a Christmas Dinner
+at the Workhouse, a subscription was being got up to provide the inmates
+with one.
+
+
+
+1843.
+
+
+Jan. 5th.—A Bachelors’ ball had been held at the Bath Rooms, when 57
+ladies and about a similar number of gentlemen were present.  The party
+broke up at about three o’clock in the morning.
+
+Some young fig trees had sprung up in Mr. H. Fellows’ Dock.
+
+Jan. 12th.—A “true and complete peal of Grandsire Caters containing 5004
+changes,” had been rung on St. Nicholas’ bells:—James Burman (treble),
+James Stolworthy (second), Robert Bunn (third), James Lamb, aged 83
+(fourth), Henry Stolworthy (fifth), Frederick Watering (sixth), Thomas
+Fox (seventh), Daniel Woods (eighth), Charles Payne (ninth), and Thomas
+Stolworthy (tenor).
+
+Jan. 19th.—A meeting of the Trustees of the Acle Turnpike Road had been
+held in regard to the state of their accounts.
+
+Jan. 26th.—Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Laws had given a grand ball at the Corn
+Exchange.
+
+The Hospital had received £120 from the Managers of the Norwich Festival
+
+Feb. 2nd.—Miss Hulley had given a concert and a ball at the Town Hall,
+when Mr. Norfor sang two songs with judgment and the ball was well
+attended.
+
+The Gaol was so full “that it was almost impossible to provide sufficient
+accommodation for the sleeping of the prisoners.”
+
+Feb. 9th.—Messrs. Youell and Co. had received Her Majesty’s commands to
+supply her with some plants from their nursery.
+
+“On Tuesday, owing to the badness of the road, the London Mail arrived so
+late that the letters could not be delivered till one o’clock.”
+
+The third concert of the Musical Society had been held at the Town Hall,
+when Mrs. Barnwell and Messrs. Palmer, Norfor, West, Springall, Offord,
+Hardingham, and Brightwen, took part in the proceedings.
+
+Feb. 16th.—H. Patteson and C. J. Palmer, Esqs., attended before the
+Magistrates and obtained their certificates, that the whole of the
+capital of £150,000 had been subscribed for the Norwich and Yarmouth
+Railway Company.
+
+Feb. 23rd.—Two cargoes of iron had arrived for the Railway.
+
+“Button Smith, a notorious highwayman,” had been taken at Norwich, and
+was to be examined before the Yarmouth Justices on account of his
+depredations in the neighbourhood.
+
+A man of “very respectable dress and genteel appearance” persisted in
+standing near Mr. Bell’s malthouse door, which he stated was “the
+entrance to Hell,” and as he seemed to be suffering from monomania he was
+placed under the care of his brother, who was the captain of a ship in
+the Roads.
+
+March 2nd.—It was proposed to place a lightship at the “Cockle Gat.”
+
+March 16th.—Mr. (now Sir James) Paget had been presented with plate of
+the value of £70, by his pupils at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
+
+The “Trinity Arms” Lodge, No. 220, U.A.O.D., had held its first
+anniversary dinner at the Trinity Arms, South Quay, “when 50 brethren and
+friends sat down to a most sumptuous dinner.”
+
+March 30th.—Sixteen Liberal Guardians had been again elected.
+
+April 13th.—It was understood that the contracts for building the new
+Bridge had been taken for something less than £10,000.
+
+April 20th.—Messrs. C. Davie and D. A. Gourlay had been re-elected
+churchwardens by the Vestry.
+
+April 27th.—The petitions against the Educational Clauses of the
+Factories Regulation Bill from the parents of Sunday School Children had
+received upwards of 500 signatures in the course of a few hours.
+
+May 11th.—The Acle Turnpike Road was being thoroughly repaired; it was
+stated that these Tolls were then let for upwards of £400 a year.
+
+May 18th.—R. Rising, Esq., of Horsey, had shot a crested Cormorant, which
+had been stuffed by Mr. Harvey, and could be seen at his shop.
+
+May 25th.—A meeting of the Victoria Building Company had been held, when
+Mr. Dowson admitted “that much money had been mis-spent,” and a warm
+discussion took place between Mr. Worship and Mr. Nelson (the architect);
+Mr. Spilling threatened to file a Bill in Chancery against the Directors,
+and Messrs. R. P. Kemp and W. Johnson refused to be re-elected to the
+Board.  This meeting, “which was frequently one of great confusion,”
+lasted six hours.
+
+June 1st.—A new Jetty was projected opposite the Victoria Terrace, at
+which steampackets could land passengers and goods.
+
+June 18th.—A single-wicket game of cricket had been played on the Denes
+between six members of the Amateur Club, the players being Messrs.
+Chamberlin, Tyrrell, and Diver, _v._ Greenacre, Aldred and Nolloth, the
+latter won by 23 to 8 runs.
+
+June 24th.—Mr. H. Worship had resigned the office of Parish Surgeon.
+
+June 29th.—Mr. F. N. Palmer had been elected to that office in Mr.
+Worship’s place.
+
+Many gentlemen had been fined for riding across the corner of the
+pavement near the Star.
+
+July 6th.—The London letters now arrived before eight o’clock by “Patent
+Mail” in lieu of the Telegraph Coach.
+
+July 13th.—The “Hudson” had been lengthened and launched from Mr. F.
+Preston’s yard.
+
+A shark, seven feet long, had been taken by some fishermen.
+
+July 20th.—S. Tolver, Esq., had presented an hydraulic bed to the
+Hospital.
+
+Robert Stevenson, Esq., had been in Yarmouth and determined on the site
+for the Terminus.
+
+July 27th.—The “Good Samaritan” Lodge had held its anniversary at the
+Masonic Hall.  The chair was filled by the N. G. William Freeman, P. G.
+Borking occupying the vice-chair.  Among the company present were R. H.
+Beart and F. Palmer, Esqs., and Messrs. W. Hammond, W. H. Perkins, G.
+Rainer, G. R. Storey, R. Symonds, C. Hall, C. Bartram, W. Sayers, &c.
+
+The Water Frolic had been held, the Mayor and Corporation attending in a
+Barge.
+
+August 10th.—Wm. Steward, Esq., had bequeathed £100 to the Hospital.
+
+The intelligence of the death of Capt. Harmer, R.N., of H.M.S. “Driver,”
+had been received, and the flags thereupon hoisted at half-mast on the
+Town Hall.
+
+August 17th.—The Races had afforded little real sport; the Gold Cup race
+was “drawn” as there were only two entries for it.
+
+The Magistrates had issued a notice against gambling.
+
+There had not been a single case of pocket picking reported at the Races.
+
+August 24th.—As no Regatta had been held this year, Lieut. Eyton, R.N.,
+was endeavouring to get up a subscription for one to be held next year.
+
+Sept. 7th.—The Government Inspector was very dissatisfied with the state
+of the Gaol.
+
+The Yarmouth Mail had been upset near the Suspension Bridge.
+
+Sept. 14th—Capt. Pike had been elected an Alderman in the room of Dr.
+Penrice, deceased.
+
+The Council had determined not to appoint a chaplain in future, and to
+let the Vicarage “as any other property is let.”
+
+Sept. 21st.—The Norwich and Yarmouth Cricket Clubs had played a match
+here with the result:—
+
+                 1st ins.       2nd ins.       Total.
+Yarmouth            79             50            129
+Norwich             96             42            138
+                  (And three wickets.)
+
+Oct. 5th.—The hotels and lodging-houses continued well filled, and the
+roadstead was crowded with shipping.
+
+Oct. 12th.—Four Women and a man had been baptized by immersion in the sea
+from three of Mr. Bowles’ machines.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—A Temperance meeting had been held at the Town Hall, addressed
+by Messrs. Fisher, Pike and Kelf, the Rev. J. Meffin occupied the chair.
+
+An awful storm of wind from the S.E. had visited the town, and several
+ships had been driven on to the Beach.
+
+The following Councillors had been elected:—
+
+_North Ward_:—Messrs. Wm. Worship and Peter White.
+
+_Market Ward_:—Messrs. D. A. Gourlay and C. Miller.
+
+_Regent Ward_: Messrs. S. Palmer and J. D. Chapman.
+
+_St. George’s Ward_: Messrs. J. Bayly and W. A. Burton.
+
+_Nelson Ward_: Messrs. J. G. Cannell and Wm. Thos. Clarke.
+
+_Gorleston Ward_: Messrs. W. Danby-Palmer and John Hammond.
+
+Nov. 9th.—There were then forty-seven Liberals and one Conservative in
+the Town Council.
+
+At the election of Mayor, Mr. Alderman Fenn proposed, and Mr. Thomas
+Hammond seconded, Samuel Charles Marsh, Esq., and Mr. Sewell proposed,
+and Mr. Shelly seconded Wm. Hurry Palmer, Esq., for that office; on a
+division Mr. Marsh was elected by 20 votes as against 18 given for Mr.
+Palmer.
+
+Nov. 18th.—A large party of the Town Council and their friends had dined
+together at the Star Tavern; amongst those present were the Mayor, the
+Ex-Mayor, G. Danby Palmer, W. Johnson, R. Hammond, W. Danby Palmer, C.
+Pearson, R. S. Lonsdale, W. S. Ferrier, H. Worship, and G. W. Holt, Esqs.
+
+The Mayor had entertained 200 gentlemen on his return from Church on
+Mayor’s Sunday.
+
+                     THE FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN HARMER, R.N.
+
+    The following particulars, relative to the interment of this much
+    lamented officer (who died while in command of Her Majesty’s steam
+    frigate “Driver,” in China), will, (the Editor thinks), no doubt, be
+    read with much interest:—
+
+                                        H.M.S. “Thalia,” at Chusan, China,
+                                                         17th April, 1843.
+
+    As I have arranged, with the kind concurrence of Major General Sir
+    James Schoedde, that the interment of the late lamented Capt. Harmer,
+    of Her Majesty’s steam frigate “Driver,” shall take place to-morrow
+    forenoon at ten o’clock; it is my direction that the officers,
+    seamen, and marines mentioned underneath, be sent in boats also
+    stated against each ship’s name, so as to assemble round the “Driver”
+    at half-past nine o’clock.  The procession of boats will leave the
+    “Driver” precisely at ten o’clock and proceed to the West pier,
+    abreast that vessel, when it will be met by the Major General and all
+    the officers of the garrison and a detachment of 100 rank and file of
+    Her Majesty’s 95th Regiment, as that gallant officer has, in the most
+    handsome and kind manner, expressed an anxious wish to pay every
+    possible mark of respect to the remains of the much regretted Capt.
+    Harmer.  As many of the officers of the army lost their full dress
+    coats during the late war in this country, I have arranged with
+    General Sir James Schoedde, in order that both services may appear
+    alike, that all the officers of the navy and marines appear in
+    undress coats, epaulettes, cocked hats and swords, with crape on the
+    left arm above the elbow, if it can be procured in time.  The marines
+    will be in full dress, but without chakos, and will be provided with
+    three rounds of blank cartridges for every man.  The seamen are to be
+    in blue jackets and trousers, white frocks and black hats.  All the
+    arrangements on the part of the army are to be conducted by Major
+    O’Leary, Brigade Major of Chusan; on the part of the navy, Capt.
+    Quin, of H.M.S. “Minden.”
+
+The pall bearers are to be three Field Officers of the army, and the
+Commanders of the “Pelican,” “Serpent,” and “Pylades.”  Lieut. Kisbee, of
+the “Driver,” will be chief mourner, supported by the Officers of that
+vessel.
+
+H.M.S. “Thalia.”—Four boats, three lieutenants, purser, naval instructor,
+two medical officers, one midshipman, three volunteers (1st class.)
+
+H.M.S. “Minden.”—Three boats, two lieutenants, master, purser, two
+medical officers, two volunteers (1st class), one sergeant and ten
+marines.
+
+H.M.S. “Pelican”—Two boats, two lieutenants, one medical officer, purser,
+one mate, one midshipman one volunteer (1st class), one sergeant, and
+fifteen marines.
+
+H.M.S. “Serpent” and “Pylades.”—Same as “Pelican” in every respect as to
+boats and marines, and as nearly as possible with regard to officers.
+
+All the officers and crew of the “Driver” will attend, excepting those
+left on board to take care of the vessel.  The above number of boats is
+exclusive of those the Captains and Commanders will be in.
+
+The colours of all the squadron will be hoisted half-mast high at eight
+o’clock, and remain so till sunset.
+
+                                                                   Signed,
+                                                               CHAS. HOPE,
+
+                    Captain of H.M.S. “Thalia,” and senior officer Chusan.
+
+P.S.—The boats will be provided with ensigns and pendants, but only the
+former will be half-mast high.
+
+Capt. Harmer was buried under the fort, surrounded by hundreds of his
+brethren in arms, who were either killed at the last capture of Chusan or
+who died from the effects of the climate.  The officers of the “Driver,”
+much to their credit, and evincing a proper respect for a much-loved
+commander, have erected a neat monument over his remains at their own
+expense.  So highly was he esteemed, even by the Chinese, that numbers of
+the respectable men of the city also attended.
+
+The merchant ships, following the example of the squadron, kept their
+colours half-mast high until sunset.
+
+Of Capt. Harmer it might well be said, in the language of the order,
+“that he paid proper respect to those who were destined to rule over him;
+that he worked diligently, lived creditably, and acted honourably by all
+men.”  Brother, farewell.
+
+Dec. 2nd.—Mr. John B. Bales had been presented with a splendid tea
+service, inscribed, “presented to Mr. John Barney Bales,
+Sergeant-at-Mace, by the inhabitants of this town, for their high opinion
+of him as a public officer.”
+
+A swindler, calling himself “Clinton,” had been victimising the
+inhabitants.
+
+Dec. 9th.—The first subscription concert had been held at the Town Hall.
+
+Dec. 16th.—It was stated that the value of the Yarmouth living was then
+estimated at £430 per annum.
+
+Dec. 23rd.—The Birmingham and Leicester coach had run over Mr. John
+Clowes, jun., at Caister, the hind wheel passing over his body and very
+severely bruising his leg and thigh.
+
+A light vessel had been placed in the Cockle Gat.
+
+Dec. 30th.—The Temperance Society had held their annual festival at the
+Town Hall, and in the course of the afternoon some members of Rechabite
+Tent had walked in procession round the town, headed by the Temperance
+Band, and carrying a few banners and the insignia of the order.
+
+
+
+1844.
+
+
+Jan. 6th.—At a concert and ball given at the Town Hall, a violin duet, by
+the Masters Hulley, was played with “great spirit.”
+
+Bartholomew Earle, “for the last eight years butler to S. Palmer, Esq.”
+had been discovered quite dead, suspended by the neck from a beam in that
+gentleman’s cellar.  The inquest lasted seven hours, and was attended by
+S. C. Marsh, Esq. (Mayor), and S. Palmer, G. D. Palmer, W. D. Palmer, C.
+Pearson, G. Bateman, J. C. Smith, J. Hammond, and A. Woods, Esqs.  The
+deceased left a widow and four children; the verdict was temporary
+insanity.
+
+Jan. 13th.—The Railway Company had abandoned their plan of erecting a
+bridge over the river with wharfs on the North Quay.
+
+Jan. 20th.—The congregation of the Mariner’s Chapel had presented a
+testimonial to their minister, Mr. Joseph Pike.
+
+Jan. 27th.—The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew had been presented with a
+testimonial consisting of a teapot, coffee pot, massive silver waiter,
+cream ewer, and sugar basin upon his resigning the Vicarage.
+
+Feb. 3rd.—The Haven Commissioners had determined to oppose the proposed
+Railway bridge over the Bure, the following Commissioners being present
+on this occasion:—Robert Marsham, Esq. (Chairman), H. N. Burroughes,
+Esq., M.P., Col. Petre, John Penrice, John F. Leathes, F. W. Farr, Geo.
+Danby Palmer, T. O. Springall, John Marshall, Peter Finch, and W.
+Hammond, Esqs.
+
+The Borough Lands Committee recommended that the Rev. H. Mackenzie (the
+incoming Vicar) should have the parsonage house at the yearly rent of 1s.
+
+Feb. 10th.—John Franklin, the Southtown pedestrian, had walked from the
+Duke’s Head Inn, Yarmouth, to the Shire Hall, Norwich, and back in 11½
+hours for a wager of £10.
+
+Feb. 17th.—In pursuance of the will of the late Mr. James Moyse, of
+Yarmouth, the Rev. F. P. Baker and Mr. John Baker had distributed £50
+amongst poor persons residing in the town, and Mr. E. C. Sharpin, of
+Beccles, had distributed £10 amongst the poor there.
+
+It was proposed to appoint a schoolmaster at the Gaol, with a salary of
+£50 a year.
+
+Feb. 24th.—A dispute having arisen between the Magistrates and the Town
+Council as to the liability of the latter to furnish the Justices Court
+Room, Mr. C. Austin’s opinion had been taken on the subject, which proved
+to be in favour of the Justices.
+
+March 2nd.—The electric telegraph had been laid along the railway.
+
+March 8th.—A meeting had been held of the owners and occupiers of
+property in the Market Ward, when it was proposed to oppose the Railway
+Bridge scheme, and Messrs. Wm. Johnson and Richard Ferrier were appointed
+a deputation to wait upon Sir E. Lacon (the only local Director) to urge
+the views of the meeting upon him.
+
+March 23rd.—The Town Council had determined to expend £500 in alterations
+at the Gaol.
+
+The Rev. R. G. Mason, “the Father Matthew of Scotland,” had held two
+meetings at the Town Hall.
+
+March 30th.—The Committee of the House of Commons sitting on the Railway
+Bill had found the preamble as to the proposed Bridge over the Bure “not
+proven.”
+
+Mr. Pellew had been presented with the testimonial by Sir E. Lacon and B.
+Dowson, Esq., on behalf of the subscribers.
+
+April 6th.—Messrs. Wm. Cross, John Richmond, Wm. Burton, and J. T. Buston
+had been appointed overseers.
+
+The following gentlemen had been elected Guardians:—Messrs. G. Danby
+Palmer, W. A. Burton, J. Fiddes, J. Fish, S. C. Marsh, J. Starling, J.
+Tomlinson, D. A. Gourlay, J. Lawn, F. Clark, S. W. Bly, W. Smith, J. D.
+Chapman, T. Hammond, J. Brightwen, and C. Pearson.  There was only one
+Tory candidate, who was rejected.
+
+April 13th.—On Good Friday, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tomlinson had been thrown
+from a gig at Fritton, and Mrs. Tomlinson was seriously injured, while
+Mr. Tomlinson escaped with a few bruises; their little boy who was with
+them was unhurt.
+
+May 4th.—Contains the report of the opening of the Railway from Norwich
+to Yarmouth, on the 30th April, it was stated that the works had been
+completed in the space of eight months from their commencement, by
+Messrs. Peto, Grissel & Co.
+
+A _dejeneur_ had been given at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, by the
+contractor to 150 ladies and gentlemen, when the following toasts were
+given:—“The Queen,” “Success to the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway,”
+“Prosperity to the City of Norwich and the Port of Yarmouth,” “The
+healths of the Mayors of Norwich and Yarmouth,” “Mr. Peto” (by the Mayor
+of Norwich), “The Ladies,” (by Mr. Peto), after which they retired; “Mr.
+Stephenson and the Directors,” and “Mr. Grissel” (by John Penrice, Esq.)
+
+On the same day a train made its first trip to Yarmouth, starting at
+twelve o’clock, and returning at 7 minutes to 4 o’clock, accomplishing
+the return journey between Yarmouth and Norwich in 42 minutes.
+
+On 1st May the shareholders and friends of the Railway gave a dinner to
+the Directors, at the Victoria Hotel, the Mayor in the chair.  C. J.
+Palmer, Esq., was vice-president, and there were also present Sir E. H.
+K. Lacon, Bart., Adam Duff, Esq., H. Bolingbroke, Esq., R. Till, Esq.
+(treasurer), G. N. Tootal, Esq.  (secretary), the Mayor and Sheriff of
+Norwich, J. Penrice, J. E. Lacon, Capt. Lacon, RN., E. H. L. Preston, W.
+H. Palmer, W. Johnson, W. Yetts, J. C. Smith, R. Hammond, W. Goldsmith,
+T. M. Nelson, E. Youell, I. O. Taylor, W. S. Ferrier, H. Fellows, S.
+Nightingale, C. Brown, and H. Aldred, Esqs.
+
+May 11th.—A number of sailors had been thrown out of employment owing to
+a strike of pitmen in the North and other causes, and it was proposed
+that they should apply to the Guardians for temporary relief.
+
+May 18th.—The Yarmouth Anti-Corn Law League had held a meeting at the
+Masonic Hall, Mr. D. A. Gourlay in the chair.
+
+A meeting of the Gas Company had been held in London, when it was agreed
+to reduce the price of gas from 10s. to 8s. per 1000 cubic feet; (in 1840
+the price had been 13s. 4d.,) the shareholders were then receiving 5 per
+cent. on their shares.
+
+Mr. Nelson had stated to Mr. Lacon that he could not redeem his pledge to
+complete Kimberley Terrace.
+
+Mr. T. C. Foreman (confectioner), had been assaulted by Mr. Bidden
+(surgeon).
+
+May 25th.—Miss Pestall had received a telegraphic message to provide a
+dinner for the Railway Directors at five o’clock, which left Norwich at
+four o’clock on the same day, and the order was fulfilled in “the fine
+old carved room.”
+
+June 1st.—The second instance of the escape of a prisoner from the gaol
+during the last few months had occurred, this man’s name was Cooper.
+
+June 9th.—A meeting, to establish a Marine Regatta, had been held, when
+the following Committee was appointed for that purpose:—The Mayor, S.
+Palmer, B. Dowson, John Penrice, and Chas. Pearson, Esqs., Sir George
+Parker, and Lieut. Eaton.
+
+The Victoria Brass Band had commenced playing on the Terrace.
+
+June 15th.—Madame Vestris and Chas. Matthews were to appear at the
+Theatre.
+
+July 6th.—The “Byzantium,” 290 tons, had been launched from Mr. F.
+Preston’s yard.
+
+A meeting of the local Anti-Corn Law League had been held, and the
+conduct of Messrs. Rumbold and Wilshere censured for not supporting the
+movement for the entire abolition of these duties.
+
+July 13th.—Mr. C. D. Arnott, of Gorleston, had obtained the diploma of
+the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and had been admitted a
+Licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Company.
+
+July 27th.—At the Water Frolic, the “Red Rover” (S. C. Marsh) had beaten
+the “Leviathan” (Bessey), and the “Pearl” (Sir W. B. Proctor), but was
+disqualified on protest, and the prize awarded to the “Leviathan.”
+
+August 3rd.—The Regatta had proved a success, the following is the report
+given of the sport:—
+
+    “The Regatta at Yarmouth, on Friday, was one of the most spirited and
+    gay scenes ever witnessed.  The terrace, the shore, the Jetty, the
+    windows, were filled with gaily-dressed spectators, whose constantly
+    moving figures rendered the scene one vast and ever-changing
+    kaleidoscope.  The day was glorious, and the sea was thickly
+    sprinkled with boats and vessels of all kinds, which merrily bounded
+    before the gale in quick and ever-varying succession.  The following
+    was the result of the day’s amusement, which gave infinite pleasure
+    to the thousands who thronged from all parts of the country.
+
+    A silver cup and cover, value £50, for Yachts not exceeding 25 tons,
+    belonging to a Yacht Club.
+
+            Yachts       tons.         Owners.          Colours.
+1.       Mystery       25          Lord A. Paget     b & w Maltese
+                                                     cross
+2.       Gnome         25          Thos. Meeson      b & w with
+                                                     crown
+
+    Carried away gaff topsail yard, and gave up.
+
+    A silver cup, value £12, by Pleasure Boats, 19 feet on the ram and
+    upwards.
+
+    Won by “Leviathan,” (Mr. W. Bessey), beating four others.
+
+    A handsome silver Cup.—A Rowing Match by Amateur Gigs, not exceeding
+    25 feet, given by Mr. Balls of the Victoria Hotel, which was won by
+    the “Enigma.”
+
+    A grand sailing match for a purse of 25 sovs. by Yawls of any
+    length.—First yawl to have 12 sovs., the second 5, and the third 3.
+    Won by the “Victoria”; 2nd, “Greyhound”; 3rd, “Royal Sovereign.”
+
+    A Rowing Match for a purse of 10 sovs. by Beach Gigs of any
+    description, and manned as they pleased.  First gig 7 sovs., second 3
+    sovs., which was won by the “Princess Victoria” (Critten), the “Star”
+    being second.
+
+    The amount of receipts at the Repository held at Bath Rooms, on
+    Friday, including a few subsequent sales, was £77 8s. 0d., viz.,
+    received at the doors, £16 16s. 6d.; contributions by the members for
+    the Borough, £10; amount of sales, £50 11s. 6d.; the expenses of
+    fitting up the rooms, etc., were £12 8s. 0d.; leaving a balance of
+    £65, which was distributed as follows:—For the aged poor, £3; the
+    sick poor £1; and to the District Visiting Society, School of
+    Industry, and Blanket and Clothing Society, £20 6s. 8d. each.
+
+Aug. 10th.—Five individuals were living in a house in the Lion and Lamb
+Row, whose united ages amounted to 385 years.
+
+Aug. 24th.—The tide had flowed up to Victoria Terrace and beyond Ansell’s
+Buildings, affording an enchanting sight to the visitors.
+
+The foundation stone of the New Wesleyan Chapel had been laid at
+Gorleston.
+
+Sept. 21st.—The organ of S. Nicholas’ had been re-opened, full Cathedral
+service being performed, when about 5,000 persons attended the two
+services.  Mr. Mackenzie preached from Psalm 100, 1st and 2nd, and £72
+10s. was collected.
+
+A choir was about to be formed, under Mr. Warne.
+
+Oct. 5th.—The Victoria Building Company had sold the ground for the
+purpose of the erection of Brandon Terrace.
+
+Oct. 19th.—The Magistrates had determined upon memorialising the
+Postmaster General to have the mails transmitted by railroad.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—A “Railway meeting” had been held upon the requisition of the
+Mayor, and the following committee appointed to inquire as to the schemes
+proposed.  The Mayor (S. C. Marsh), G. Danby Palmer, E. H. L. Preston, W.
+Johnson, J. E. Lacon, R. Hammond, R. Ferrier, R. S. Lonsdale, J. Clark,
+S. Palmer, A. Palmer, W. H. Palmer, J. Orfeur, B. Dowson, D. Turner, and
+J. W. Shelly, Esqs., and Messrs. C. Moore and T. Hammond.
+
+The following had been again re-elected Councillors without any
+opposition:—Richard Hammond, W. N. Burroughs, W. Johnson, John Owles, J.
+Tomlinson, S. C. Marsh, Thos. Lettis, jun., J. W. Shelly, Geo. Danby
+Palmer, W. Chambers, S. Crow, and T. Hammond.
+
+Messrs. Chas. Cory, Geo. Danby Palmer, T. O. Springfield, R. Marsham,
+Samuel Tolver, and Capt. Smyth, R.N., had had an interview with the
+President of the Board of Trade on the subject of the proposed new Bridge
+over the Bure.
+
+Twenty-five gentlemen of the Corporation had dined at the Feather’s Inn,
+to commemorate the opening of the new Fish Market by S. C. Marsh, Esq.
+(the Mayor), who presided on the occasion.
+
+November 9th contains the following legal report:—
+
+    The Queen v. Chas. Cory Aldred.—Application for a criminal
+    information.—Mr. Martin applied in this case on behalf of Mr. Marsh,
+    the Mayor of Yarmouth, for a rule for a criminal information against
+    the defendant.  Mr. Marsh stated in his affidavit that he was Mayor
+    of Yarmouth, and a Magistrate of the Borough, and that on the 10th of
+    June last he attended at his office for the purpose of transacting
+    magisterial business, upon which occasion a person was charged with
+    ringing the bell of Mr. Aldred during divine service, and a constable
+    produced a paper without any direction or signature relative to the
+    offence with which the person was charged.  The Mayor and the
+    Magistrate who was with him were of opinion that they could not
+    receive such a paper, and that Mr. Aldred ought to attend himself.
+    The paper was returned to the constable with injunctions to tell Mr.
+    Aldred that he must attend himself if he wished to take proceedings
+    against the party.  This took place on the 10th of June.  On the 12th
+    of June, Mr. Marsh was going along King-street, when defendant came
+    up to him, seized him by the arm, and making use of some very
+    offensive expressions, demanded an explanation for the impertinent
+    manner in which the Mayor had treated his letter.  The Mayor replied
+    that he was the Chief Magistrate of the town, that his hands were
+    therefore tied up, and that he could not enter into any explanation
+    then.  Mr. Aldred then reiterated the expressions, and followed Mr.
+    Marsh up the street, still repeating them all the time.  Mr. Marsh
+    after this sent two persons to Mr. Aldred, requesting him to consider
+    what he had done, and whether he would not attend to make some
+    apology for his conduct.  Mr. Aldred did attend, but instead of
+    making an apology he repeated the observations again in a manner most
+    offensive to the Mayor.  After the first offence, the Mayor thought
+    to take proceedings against the defendant for sureties to keep the
+    peace, but considered that the repetition of such conduct in an open
+    Court was such an aggravation of the original offence, that he felt
+    it due to his office and himself to take other proceedings.  One of
+    the Magistrates insisted on taking sureties, which he did two or
+    three days afterwards.  But he (Mr. Martin) apprehended that the
+    circumstances of this case were such as not to deprive Mr. Marsh on
+    that account of coming to this Court.
+
+    Mr. Justice Patteson—You do not put this as being a provocation to a
+    breach of the peace?
+
+    Mr. Martin—It was an actual breach of the peace, for an assault was
+    committed.
+
+    Mr. Justice Patteson—That was in the first instance.  There was
+    nothing but words in the second instance, but the Magistrate was
+    acting at the time in his magisterial capacity.
+
+    Mr. Martin—It was so; and they thought it also right to have an
+    affidavit from the Police-constable, who stated in his affidavit that
+    he merely delivered the paper without any offensive expression
+    whatever, and the answer he received was “D---n the Mayor and
+    Magistrates; what do I care for them?—Rule _nisi_ granted.”
+
+Nov. 16th.—Wm. Hurry Palmer, Esq., had been unanimously elected Mayor,
+and entertained 50 or 60 of his friends at the Star Hotel.  The event was
+also commemorated by dinners at the “Capt. Harmer” and at the “Queen’s
+Head.”
+
+Nov. 23rd—Colliers were getting 7s. a ton for freight.
+
+A large party of gentlemen of different politics had given a dinner to
+the Mayor (W. H. Palmer, Esq.) at the “Victoria,” when J. E. Lacon, Esq.,
+presided.
+
+Nov. 30th.—The Rule in “the Queen’s on prosecution of Marsh v. Aldred”
+had been made absolute.  Mr. Martin and Mr. Palmer supported, and Mr.
+Platt opposed in these proceedings.
+
+Dec. 14th.—Complaint was made that the Bridport nets were driving the
+nets made in Yarmouth by women and girls out of use.
+
+Great excitement prevailed in consequence of the murder of Mrs. Chandler,
+with regard to which some men named Yarham, Royal, and Hall were supposed
+to be the culprits.
+
+Dec. 21st.—The grocers had determined to close their shops at 8 o’clock.
+
+
+
+1845.
+
+
+Jan. 11th.—A Railway meeting had been held (W. H. Palmer, Esq., in the
+chair) to consider the report of the Committee appointed at the previous
+meeting.
+
+Feb. 1st.—A meeting had been held to assist the widows and children of
+the men lost on the 26th January then last.
+
+Progress was being made in building Brandon Terrace.
+
+On Sunday night, between 11 and 12 o’clock, there had been 19 feet 6 ins.
+of water on the bar, being 10 ins. higher than any tide of which there
+was an official report.  Southtown was flooded, and the water flowed up
+to the trees on the Quay.
+
+Feb. 8th.—The Board of Trade had remitted £20 to the fund for the relief
+of the sufferers by the late storm.
+
+Feb. 15th.—And her Majesty the Queen had sent a like sum to the same
+fund.
+
+Feb. 22nd.—The Town Council had petitioned against the Income Tax, and in
+favour of the Waveney Valley Railway.
+
+The rivers were “fast with frost.”
+
+March 1st.—A ball had been held at the Town-hall for the benefit of the
+Hospital.  130 persons were present, among whom were the Mayor and Mrs.
+W. H. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Marsh,
+Messrs. F. and W. Worship, the Misses Worship, Mr. Wm. Johnson, the
+Misses Johnson, Miss M. Lacon, Mr. C. Dowson, Mr. and Mrs. Playford, Mr.
+and Mrs. F. Palmer, Messrs. Salmon Palmer, J. Richard, G. B. Costerton,
+Henry Danby-Palmer, &c.
+
+March 8th.—Large quantities of wreck were floating in the Roads.
+
+March 15th.—The subscription to the “Shipwreck (Phœnix) Fund” amounted to
+£1,500 9s. 4d., and a suggestion had been made to form it into a
+“permanent fund,” or to endow the Fishermen’s Hospital with it.
+
+March 15th.—A petition had been adopted against the Dereham Railway Bill.
+
+C. J. Harley, Esq., had bequeathed £100 to the Hospital.
+
+There were only four cases at the Quarter Sessions.
+
+March 22nd.—The case of “Hook against Davie” had been tried, and the Will
+prepared by Mr. Cory declared against, the Judge stating that Mr. Cory
+should have taken “a more correct view of his duty as a solicitor.”
+
+April 5th.—R. Rising, Esq., had taken, at Horsey, a pike measuring 3½
+feet in length, 2 feet in circumference, and weighing 28 lbs., it was
+supposed to be from 8 to 10 years old.
+
+An accident had happened at Cooke’s Circus, during the performance of
+“St. George and the Dragon,” by the breaking down of a gallery, owing to
+which William Lilley, aged 33, had broken his leg in two places.  Mr. F.
+Palmer was treating this case at the Hospital.
+
+April 12th.—Royal, Hall and Mapes, had been tried at the assizes for the
+murder of Harriet Chandler.  Mr. Palmer and Mr. O’Malley appeared for the
+prosecution, and Mr. Prendegast and Mr. Couch for the defence, which was
+an “alibi;” the jury acquitted all the prisoners.
+
+April 19th.—S. Cobb, Esq., had laid the foundation stone of the Unitarian
+Chapel, which was to be built on the site of the “Old Meeting House” in
+Gaol Street.
+
+April 26th.—“In the Bail Court, Saturday, 19th April, 1845.  Before Mr.
+Justice Coleridge.
+
+  The Queen on the prosecution of Samuel Charles Marsh, Esq., v. Charles
+                               Cory Aldred.
+
+Mr. Martin—My Lord, in the case of the Queen v. Aldred, my learned
+friend, Mr. Robinson, will address your Lordship.
+
+Mr. Robinson—In this case, my Lord, Mr. Aldred has been indicted for
+having spoken certain words of the prosecutor; he has pleaded not guilty.
+This gentleman, I have to state, used the words under some mistake, and
+he is now anxious to withdraw his plea of not guilty, and to express his
+regret for having used the words of which the prosecutor has complained.
+I have now, therefore, to withdraw the plea of not guilty and to enter a
+plea of guilty.
+
+Mr. Martin—My Lord, I appear on behalf of the prosecutor, the Mayor of
+Yarmouth, who felt himself compelled to bring the matter before the
+Court.  He has no personal feeling in the matter, and is perfectly
+satisfied with the expression of regret made by my learned friend, and
+upon payment of the costs by the defendant, if your Lordship pleases, he
+will not proceed further.
+
+Mr. Justice Coleridge—Very well.”
+
+Yarham (who figured in the Chandler murder case) had “at length been
+compelled, by the expression of public feeling, to quit the town.”
+
+May 3rd.—Only one tender had been sent in for the New Haven Bridge, and
+it was considered probable that the plans for it would be amended.
+
+May 10th.—Reports the “Fall of the Yarmouth Suspension Bridge,” (with a
+wood-cut of the wreck of that structure), which had happened on Friday,
+the 2nd inst.  The following is extracted from such report:—
+
+    On the afternoon of the day on which this narration bears date,
+    Nelson, the Clown at Mr. Cooke’s Circus, had undertaken to swim in a
+    tub, drawn by four geese, from the drawbridge on the Quay to the
+    Suspension Bridge across the North river—a foolish exhibition—but it
+    was one which, from its novelty in Yarmouth, was calculated to
+    attract the multitude.  As early as five o’clock, when the train
+    arrived from Norwich, although raining smartly, thousands of
+    spectators had already assembled to witness the feat on both sides of
+    the river.  The Bridge was then comparatively clear.  The Clown
+    commenced his feat with the flood tide at the drawbridge, and had
+    entered the North river.  There were many persons on the Bridge, and
+    as he drew near, the multitude upon it endeavoured to obtain a full
+    view as he should pass underneath.  Already had he reached Bessey’s
+    Wharf, not far from the Bridge, when one or two of the rods were
+    observed to give way; an instant alarm was given to quit the bridge.
+    Alas! the caution came too late.  The chains broke, and quick as the
+    passing thought, one entire side fell, and the whole mass of the
+    human beings, whose numbers were estimated from three to four
+    hundred, were swept into the river below.  The traffic road of the
+    Bridge, which but an instant before was horizontal, had become nearly
+    perpendicular.
+
+    The children, poor little things, of whom there were very many, and
+    had naturally gathered to the balustrade, were of course the first to
+    sink, while the force with which the whole fell, caused those who
+    were in the background to be hurled with terrific force into the
+    water beneath, crushing and annihilating those under them.
+
+    Oh! who shall paint the one mighty simultaneous agonizing
+    death-scream which burst upon the affrighted multitude
+    around—re-echoing from earth to heaven—may the appeal not be made in
+    vain.  One instant and all was hushed, save the struggling of a few
+    whose lives it pleased their Maker in his mercy to spare.  The
+    waters, we are told, as if gifted with a sudden impulse of horror, at
+    this fell swoop of death, recoiled in the impetus of the fall and
+    “boiled up” at the back of the Bridge, which hung perpendicularly
+    below the surface of the river.  As suddenly the struggle for life
+    was past to all but a few.
+
+    Then came a scene scarcely less heartrending.  With an energy,
+    activity, and stern determination of purpose, which are among the
+    wise and merciful provisions of the Almighty, twenty-seven children,
+    all girls, were immediately rescued alive on the West side of the
+    river, and as instantly put to bed at the “Vauxhall Gardens,” who as
+    soon as revived were replaced by others equally beneficially spared,
+    or by some never to be recalled.  Some scrambled out and rushed home
+    to their own houses, not a few fainting after arriving safe at home.
+    On the East side numbers of bodies were taken into the adjoining
+    houses, where all the assistance which medical skill, humane
+    attention, in short all the aid which humanity would teach everyone
+    to offer, was brought to bear.  Alas how often in vain.  In one house
+    alone, at nine o’clock at night, out of sixty-eight bodies carried in
+    only three were revived.
+
+    Many a touching scene was witnessed as the anxious mother, and the
+    hardly less excited father or friend, recognised some missing one
+    safely emerging from the crowd.  Thousands thronged the North
+    Quay—messengers were despatched in all directions to procure medical
+    aid, and the communication with the West side of the water being cut
+    off, hundreds were left in painful suspense respecting those who were
+    safe on the opposite shore.  Nothing could exceed the promptitude,
+    activity, and attention of the surgeons and medical men of the town,
+    all of whom were in immediate attendance doing all they could to
+    afford relief to the sufferers, where the slightest chance of
+    resuscitation appeared.  Mr. Lacon and a number of the persons
+    employed in his brewery were exceedingly active in supplying hot
+    water for baths, which is not far distant.  All the blankets from the
+    Union House that could possibly be spared were in requisition.
+
+    The scene now presented is still most agonising.  Children, mothers,
+    and fathers, seeking one or other of their families, tracing and
+    discovering in the pale face of some of the dead, one of their
+    dearest ties.  In every street are to be seen one or more bodies
+    extended on biers, returning to that home from which but short
+    minutes before they had passed in health and life.  The
+    consternation—the agony of the town is not to be described—it is as
+    if some dread punishment was felt to have fallen upon its
+    inhabitants—every face is horror-stricken—every eye is dim.
+
+    Never since the devastating plague in 1664, which swept off 2000 of
+    its inhabitants, has Yarmouth, notwithstanding its numberless
+    shipwrecks, been visited with so dire a calamity, occurring too at
+    the very moment a public meeting was about to be held to make
+    arrangements for the distribution of the funds which have been
+    received for the widows and families of the Beachmen who were lost in
+    January last.  How many are there added to this list?  We dare not
+    anticipate—Time will show.
+
+    Numbers, it is believed, are entangled with the rods and other
+    portions of the broken Bridge.  At this hour it is impossible to say
+    how many or who are called to their dread accounts.  The escape of
+    some was miraculous.  One woman, of the name of Gillings, the wife of
+    a carpenter, was on the Bridge with her child; when she was hurled
+    into the water, with extraordinary presence of mind she seized her
+    child’s clothes with her teeth—thus preventing the rush of water, and
+    paddled herself to a place of safety.
+
+    On the East side of the Bridge the greater number were taken to the
+    “Norwich Arms Inn,” where there were at one time fifty-three corpses.
+    Others were taken to the “Admiral Collingwood” and to the “Swan,” and
+    many to their own houses.  Not a few of those who first got out of
+    the water went away unnoticed, and their number is unknown.  Up to a
+    late hour last night, it was ascertained that seventy-five dead
+    bodies had been taken out of the water; and up to midnight, from the
+    enquiries made, it was ascertained that forty-five others were
+    missing.
+
+    By far the greater number of those lost were females and children.
+    James Marshall, 16, escaped with a wound in the scalp.  Two boys
+    named Honorley, aged twelve and seventeen, were taken home, the
+    younger died last evening, the elder is likely to recover.
+
+    The inquest on the bodies of the drowned was held next day at the
+    “Church Hall,” before W. S. Ferrier, Esq., coroner, when the
+    following gentlemen were sworn on the Jury:—Samuel Palmer, Esq.,
+    (foreman), and Messrs. John Norman, John Orfeur, John Fenn, G. B.
+    Palmer, William Smith, William Spillings, Charles Barber, Charles
+    Woolverton, Joseph Davy, James Emms, William Haylett, Mark Blowers,
+    J. E. Laws, John Stagg, E. Garrod, Thomas Davy, and James Pratt, and
+    after hearing evidence as to the identification of the bodies of the
+    drowned was adjourned _sine die_.  The following list of the victims
+    is given:—
+
+No.                                                               AGE.
+1.         Adams, Robert, Rainbow Corner                             7
+2.         Augur, Caroline, Garden Row                              10
+3.         Bussey, Harriett, Ferry Boat Row                         26
+4.         Beloe, George John Henry, Fuller’s Hill                   9
+5.         Buttifant, Sarah Ann, Row 2                              18
+6.         Borking, Emily Hanworth, George Street                    5
+7.         Burton, Benjamin Patteson, Row 54                         7
+8.         Barber, Christopher, Pudding Gates                       11
+9.         Bradberry, Isaac, King Street, Norwich                   20
+10.        Beckett, Ann, Priory                                      8
+11.        Barker, Leonard, Surrey Street, Norwich (not             22
+           yet found)
+12.        Buck, James Seaman, Row 17 (not yet found)                4
+13.        Balls, Reeder Thurston, Bath Place                       16
+14.        Church, James, Rainbow Corner                             7
+15.        Crowe, Eliza, Row 6                                      14
+16.        Church, Caroline, Horn Row                               16
+17.        Conyers, Elizabeth, Row 13                               13
+18.        Cole, Jane, Row 65                                       16
+19.        Durrant, William, Row 24                                 12
+20.        Ditcham, Mary Ann, Row 18                                64
+21.        Duffield, Eliza, Rainbow Corner                          10
+22.        Dye, Charles, Moat                                        2
+23.        Dye, Benjamin, Rainbow Corner                             9
+24.        Edwards, Maria, Garden Row                               12
+25.        Ebbage, David, Row 17                                     9
+26.        Field, Hannah, Row 14                                    12
+27.        Fulcher, James, Row 34                                   14
+28.        Fulcher Elizabeth, St. John’s Head Row                   16
+29.        Funnell, John, Wortwell (not yet found)                  19
+30.        Fox, John Horace, Butcher’s Row                          19
+31.        Field, Susannah, Say’s Corner Row                         7
+32.        Gilbert, Sarah, Row 14                                   12
+33.        Gotts, Alice, Conge                                      52
+34.        Gotts, Alice, jun.                                        9
+35.        Grimmer, William, Moat                                    8
+36.        Hendle, William, Ferry Boat Row                          10
+37.        Hunn, Sarah, Row 3                                       13
+38.        Hunnibal, Elizabeth Jane, Row 110                        12
+39.        Hatch, Elizabeth, East Hill                              11
+40.        Johnson, Elizabeth, Row 23                                8
+41.        Johnson, Sarah Ann, Row 23                               16
+42.        Johnson, Thomas (or Robert), Row 1                        8
+43.        Jenkerson, Mary Ann, Row 1                               10
+44.        Juniper, Maud, at Workhouse                               9
+45.        King, Mary Ann, Apollo Walk                              11
+46.        Lucas, Frederick, Row 21                                 62
+47.        Lake, Mary Ann, George and Dragon Row                     2
+48.        Lyons, William, Row 1                                     6
+49.        Little, Harriet Mary, Market                             13
+50.        Livingstone, Joseph, King Street                          6
+51.        Livingstone, Matilda, King Street                         7
+52.        May, Clara, Row 6                                        20
+53.        Mears, Susan, Ferry Boat Row                              8
+54.        Manship, Elizabeth, Rainbow Corner                       28
+55.        Morgan, Elizabeth, Row 1                                 62
+56.        Maze, Robert, Charlotte Street                           26
+57.        Powley, Elizabeth, Row 2                                 21
+58.        Powley, Richard, Row 3                                    4
+59.        Parker, Charlotte, Row 13                                 8
+60.        Powley, Amelia, White Lion Opening                       10
+61.        Richardson, Phœbe, Row 99                                17
+62.        Roberts, Lydia, Pudding Gates                            12
+63.        Roberts, Mary Ann, Pudding Gates                         19
+64.        Read, Elizabeth, Rainbow Corner                           5
+65.        Scotten, Ann Maria, Row 3                                20
+66.        Stolworthy, Maria, King’s Arms Yard                      14
+67.        Tann, Harriett, George and Dragon Row                    15
+68.        Tennant, John, Railway Walk                              11
+69.        Tennant, William, ditto                                  10
+70.        Thorpe, Heppy, Row 2                                     12
+71.        Trory, William Townshend, George Street                  12
+72.        Thompson, Mary Ann, British Lion Alley                   15
+73.        Utting, Louise, Row 33 (not yet found)                    7
+74.        Utting, Sarah, Gaol Paved Row                            18
+75.        Utting, Caroline, Row 33                                  9
+76.        Vincent, Maria, Apollo Walk                              19
+77.        Vincent, Richard, missing                                 —
+78.        Watts, William Walter, Coble’s Buildings,                 —
+           Pudding Lane (not yet found)
+79.        Young, Emily, Fuller’s Hill                               6
+80.        Yallop, Martha, George Street                            20
+
+The following is the list of persons who were rescued, as far as
+ascertained:—
+
+Sarah Ann Thorpe, aged 13, who continues very ill.
+
+Mary Ann Arnold, with child in her arms.
+
+Mrs. Thomas Money, reported to be in great danger.
+
+Rebecca Page.
+
+Mary Church, was taken out near the lime kiln.
+
+Hannah Eliza Lake, an infant.
+
+Widow Edwards, reported to be in a dangerous state.
+
+Martha Field, aged 7 years.
+
+Mr. Frederick Nathaniel Palmer, surgeon.
+
+Mr. William Jackson.
+
+Eliza, daughter of Mr. James Borking, dyer, aged 12, whose sister was
+drowned.  She got hold of a man’s leg and he pulled her out.
+
+Martha Field, a young woman, who came into Court, but had her head tied
+up and seemed much bruised.
+
+Elizabeth Cuddon, a young woman from Ipswich.
+
+Mary Utting, mother of Caroline Utting.
+
+Ann Bowles, aged 11 years.
+
+Mrs. David Little and one child, another being drowned.
+
+Mrs. Livingstone and one child, two having been drowned.
+
+Mrs. Louisa Beloe and one child, another child drowned.
+
+Mrs. Susan Money and one child.
+
+Elizabeth Rowland, aged 16, said that she and her four brothers were on
+the Bridge but a minute or two before, but having been cautioned by her
+mother not to take the children on the Bridge for fear they should come
+to any harm, and being fearful lest from the crowd they might be pushed
+into the water, she left, and thus providently escaped.
+
+Susan Knights stated that she was on the West end of the Bridge with
+three children, all of whom were happily saved.
+
+Maria Smith went down twice, when she caught hold of a boat and was taken
+into a wherry.
+
+Elizabeth Bowles was on the end of the Bridge, but happily escaped.
+
+Grace Duffell, mother of Elizabeth Duffell.
+
+Elizabeth Browne.—She said there was plenty of time for all to have
+escaped after they heard the chain break, had they been aware of the
+danger.
+
+A little girl, sister of Maria Stolworthy.
+
+Betsy Wright left the Bridge a minute or two before it fell.
+
+Alfred Norman on hearing a cracking noise ran off on the West side of the
+Bridge, when he saw the Bridge fall.
+
+Eleanor Eliza Allman says, a man called out that the Bridge would fall,
+and she ran off; she said “In about five minutes after the Bridge fell.”
+
+Robert Whitlock left the Bridge to look for his brother, and the Bridge
+fell before he returned.
+
+A little boy named Jay, son of Mr. Jay, baker, White Lion Gates, said
+that when he was under the water, the people looked as if they were
+hugging each other.  He could see them quite perfectly.
+
+One man fell across a piece of iron with his head just above water; he
+reached to two girls who were struggling for life, and a third caught
+hold of his collar.  All four were saved.
+
+A young man named Simmons, (whose leg was also fractured in extricating
+them from the bended iron of the Bridge with a crowbar).
+
+Robert Marshall, aged 16, escaped with a scalp wound.
+
+Sarah Linder, aged 12, Bow 132, was also rescued with a wounded scalp.
+
+Martha Ann Stolworthy, aged 7 years.
+
+Mr. John Lake’s servant and one child saved.
+
+A brother of B. P. Burton’s.
+
+A young woman named Cook, living in Bow 65.
+
+Harriett Hunnibal, Row 110.
+
+Caroline Roberts was standing quite at the foot of the Bridge, and
+escaped without going into the water.
+
+John Watts, aged 16, and three brothers were saved.
+
+Tresor Steward, aged 12, Priory.
+
+Hannah Watering, aged 8, Priory.
+
+It was noted that the handbill issued by Nelson, the Clown, was prefaced
+by this extraordinary motto, “Is it to be a benefit, ‘or not?’ that is
+the question.”  And in another part of it, it is stated, “Mr. Wm. Cooke
+will appear in a dying scene’”
+
+May 17th.—In reply to a memorial from the Town Council, the Government
+had directed Mr. Jas. Walker, C.I., to attend at Yarmouth and examine the
+wreck of the Suspension Bridge.
+
+A meeting of the Beachmen’s Relief Fund had been held, Wm. H. Palmer,
+Esq., in the chair, when the following account was presented:—
+
+                                              £         s.       d.
+Annuities to widows                              438        0        0
+Weekly allowances to children                    434        4        0
+Gratuities to widows of Warner,                   50        0        0
+Poyntz, and S. George
+Star Company for loss of yawl                    212        0        0
+Survivors for loss of clothes, &c.                60        0        0
+                                              £1,194        4        0
+
+Leaving a balance of about £600 in hand, and it was determined on the
+motion of the Rev. H. Mackenzie, seconded by Geo. Danby Palmer, Esq.,
+that the fund should be called, “The Great Yarmouth Royal Life Fund.”
+
+Mr. Marsh had attended the _levée_.
+
+May 24th.—The Rev. H. Mackenzie had proposed the restoration of S.
+Nicholas’ Church, which he estimated would cost £5,000.
+
+The “Bridge Jury” had met again, and, after hearing evidence, arrived at
+the following verdict in one case which governed the rest:—“That deceased
+came to her death by the falling of the Suspension Bridge across the
+river Bure, in this Borough, on the 2nd May, 1845; and that the falling
+of the bridge was attributable immediately to a defect in the joint or
+welding of the bar that first gave way, and to the quality of part of the
+iron, the workmanship being inferior to the requirements of the original
+contract, which had provided that such should be of the first quality.”
+
+May 31st.—A temporary bridge had been opened across the Bure.
+
+The Committee on the Norfolk and Suffolk Railway lines had met.  The
+“Diss, Beccles and Yarmouth” promoters had abandoned that portion of
+their line which connected Lowestoft with Yarmouth, and had agreed to go
+to Reedham and abandon Yarmouth.  The Lowestoft line had passed through
+committee.
+
+The Yarmouth and Norwich line was thrown out as regarded the bridge and
+tramway, so that no second bridge would be built that year.
+
+June 7th.—The Royal Hospital on the South Denes was being converted into
+a Naval Lunatic Asylum.
+
+June 14th.—Three of the houses on Brandon Terrace were nearly ready for
+occupation.
+
+An arrangement had been come to between the Directors of the Norwich and
+Yarmouth Railway and Mr. Cory as to the bridge toll question and the
+Company were to erect a free bridge over the river, but it was still
+doubtful on which side of the stream the station would be erected.
+
+June 21st.—The price agreed to be paid by the Company for this right,
+with the adjacent land required by them and Paget’s brewery was stated by
+the _Bury Post_ to be £26,000.
+
+Many influential traders were moving to get the terminus fixed at
+Southtown near the bridge foot.
+
+A new Roman Catholic Chapel was projected on a site near Paget’s brewery
+(North Quay.)
+
+June 28th.—The “Vauxhall Gardens” had passed from Mr. Symonds to Mr.
+Franklin, and a magnificent saloon upwards of 60 feet erected there.
+
+July 5th.—The Church trustees had determined to spend £1,250 on repairs
+of the fabric of S. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Two tenders had been sent in for the Haven bridge, one by Mr. Peto
+exceeding £32,000, and the other by Mr. Simpson something under £20,000.
+
+July 12th.—Fifty persons had taken a trip to Holland in the steamer
+“Cambridge” of Hull.
+
+Sunday night had been one of incessant thunder and lightning.
+
+July 19th.—The Regatta was advertised under the patronage of “The Earl of
+Stradbroke, Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., the M.P’s. for Great Yarmouth, and
+other noblemen and gentlemen.  Stewards: Capt. A. W. Jerningham, R.N.,
+and Capt. J. H. Windham, R.N.”
+
+Mr. W. S. Simpson’s tender of £19,070 for the erection of the Haven
+Bridge had been accepted by the Commissioners, but he not having complied
+with their terms, the matter had been ordered to be “postponed for the
+present.”
+
+July 26th.—The Borough Members (Messrs. Rumbold and Wilshere) had
+attended an Anti-Corn Law League meeting at the Corn Hall.
+
+The Mayor had entertained a large party (forty to fifty gentlemen) on
+board his barge at the Burgh Water Frolic, this the reporter appears to
+have considered of more importance than the sailing matches, as regards
+which he makes the faintest allusion.
+
+Aug. 12th.—The Regatta had been a great success, 5,000 persons coming
+from Norwich alone.  The following yachts competed:—“Belvidere” (Lord A.
+Paget), “Blue Bell” (Mr. Hodges), “Prima Donna” (Mr. Tatham), and
+“Phantom” (Mr. Wilkinson).  The “Blue Bell” won, the “Belvidere” which
+was leading at the time, having got on Scroby, for which a salvage claim
+of £75 was made by the beachmen.  (They were ultimately awarded £27 for
+their services.)
+
+A dinner was given during the day to the beachmen in a tent on the Beach,
+and the lifeboats tested.
+
+At the Races the following stakes were rim for on the first day:—The Gold
+Cup Stakes by subscribers of £10 each; a Plate of £50, given by the
+Members; Vauxhall Hunters’ Cup Stakes of £30; and on the 2nd day, The
+Town and County Gentlemen’s Plate of £50; the Railway Stakes of £30; and
+the Tally Ho Stakes of £1 each with £10 added.  A number of
+“light-fingered” gentry were present.
+
+The Race dinner had been held at the “Victoria” Hotel, when the Mayor
+presided; and a Ball at the Town Hall, when the following ladies and
+gentlemen were present:—The Mayor and Mrs. W. H. Palmer, C. E. Rumbold,
+Esq., M.P., W. Wilshere, Esq., M.P., Sir Henry and Lady Robinson, H. N.
+Burroughes, Esq., S. C. Marsh, Esq. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. and the Miss
+Musketts, Mr. Recorder Jermy, Mrs. Jermy, Mr. Penrice, Mrs. and Miss
+Onslow, Mrs. and Miss Pooley, Mr. and Mrs. Wythe, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
+Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Preston and the Miss Prestons, Mr., Mrs. and
+Miss Bateman, Mr. and Miss Steward, Mr. Henry Steward, Mrs. and the Miss
+Stewards, Captain, Mrs. and the Miss Pearson, Mrs. and the Miss
+Chevalliers, Mr. Clement Chevallier, Mr. Dowson, Mr. George Tompson, Mr.
+and Mrs. E. H. L. Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tompson, Mr. and Mrs.
+Charles Preston, Mr. B. Caldecott, Mr. W. Worship, Mrs. and Miss Burton,
+Miss Paget, Mr. Fisher, Mr. W. C. Reynolds, &c.  Clapp’s celebrated
+military band attended, and the whole went off exceedingly well, the
+company not separating till half-past three o’clock.
+
+It was computed that not less than 2,000 persons attended the Vauxhall
+Gardens, among whom were the members for the Borough.
+
+Aug. 9th.—A hurricane had visited the town, but beyond dismasting two
+vessels and blowing a girl into a pool of water does not appear to have
+caused much mischief.
+
+The only mails then brought to Yarmouth by rail were those from London
+and Norwich.
+
+The “Repository” sale at the Bath Room on the Regatta day had realized
+£82.
+
+Mr. C. D. Arnott had had conferred on him the degree of M.D. by the
+Edinburgh University.
+
+Aug. 16th.—A Poor’s rate of 1s. 4d. in the £ had been made.
+
+The Railway Company was forwarding its own goods by water as the cheaper
+process.
+
+Aug. 23rd.—Messrs. Youell’s nurseries were very attractive, they had
+4,000 carnations and 180 fuchsias in bloom.
+
+Complaints had been made that “for two Sundays past” great quantities of
+herring had been despatched to London by rail.
+
+Six hundred sail of colliers and merchant vessels which had been
+wind-bound here had proceeded to sea.
+
+Aug. 30th.—The abolition of the coal dues, and the question of the better
+delivery of the mails were being agitated.
+
+Mrs. Spooner (Dr. Bateman’s sister) had met with a fatal accident by
+falling downstairs.
+
+Sept. 6th.—£3,600 had been subscribed for the S. Nicholas’ Church
+restoration.
+
+Sept. 13th.—Mr. C. S. D. Steward had been elected an Alderman against his
+express wish, and only took the oath upon being threatened with a fine.
+
+The allotment of Waveney Valley shares was to take place.  The
+applications exceeded 80,000.
+
+Oct. 11th.—S. Palmer, Esq., had been requested to accept the office of
+Mayor, as it was considered desirable to have “a gentleman of sufficient
+influence and leisure to watch and protect the interests of this
+important port during the progress through Parliament of the several
+railway schemes.”
+
+The Freemasons meeting at the “Star Tavern” (Lodge 313) had been honoured
+by the presence of Lord Suffield, Provincial Grand Master.
+
+Oct. 25th.—The Hon. Col. George Anson had been on a visit to S. Palmer,
+Esq., leaving to visit Lord Stradbroke, with the object of making
+arrangements as to the Waveney Valley Line.  Whilst in Yarmouth the Hon.
+Colonel accepted the office of Steward of the Races next year.
+
+Nov. 1st.—6,600,000 herrings had been landed in one day.  A fishmonger
+wanting to buy a turbot was asked 24s. for one on the Beach, which being
+refused, these fish were forwarded to London, when they fetched 55s.
+each.
+
+Nov. 8th.—At the Municipal Election, Henry Danby Palmer, Esq., had been
+returned for the North Ward, vice C. May; Mr. James Lawn for the Market
+Ward, vice S. Miller, jun. (who had been selected for St. Andrew’s Ward,
+vice A. Thrower); and Frederick Palmer, Esq., for Regent Ward, vice C.
+Davie, “whose sudden resignation had caused much astonishment.”  There
+was no contest and the other Councillors were re-elected.
+
+Nov. 15th.—The Mayor (S. Palmer, Esq.) had entertained about 50 members
+of the Council and others at the “Star Tavern.”  The following toasts
+were given:—The Queen, H.R.H. Prince Albert, The Prince of Wales, The
+Queen Dowager, The Army and Navy, The Lord High Steward, The Mayor,
+George Danby Palmer, Esq., Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Gourlay, Mr. R. Hammond,
+The Magistrates, The Mayoress, and the Press.
+
+Nov. 29th.—A report had been circulated that Yarham had confessed that he
+was the murderer of Mrs. Chandler.
+
+It was stated that Corton Sand had disappeared and there were 20 feet of
+water, when recently there had been only from 2 to 8 feet.
+
+Dec. 6th.—It was then ascertained that it was the North part of the
+Holme, and not the Corton Sand, which had been washed away.
+
+There was a pear tree growing on the wall of Messrs. Tolver and Preston’s
+Office, on which was a branch of 5 blossoms fully expanded.
+
+Dec. 13th.—The fishing had been a very good one.  Many of the boats had
+averaged 30 lasts, and one firm employing 8 boats had averaged 41 lasts a
+boat.
+
+Dec. 20th.—There had been a high tide, during which the landlord of the
+“Trinity Arms” had been serving customers (who rowed there in boats) out
+of the window.
+
+
+
+1846.
+
+
+Jan. 3rd.—The friends of total abstinence had held their ninth
+anniversary and festival at the Town-hall on 26th December.
+
+Yarham had been privately examined on the charge of murdering Mrs.
+Chandler, and remanded to the 5th inst.
+
+Jan. 10th.—Yarham had been further examined privately and a further
+remand granted.
+
+Jan. 17th.—Yarham had been committed for trial on the capital charge by
+S. Palmer, W. H. Palmer, and W. Johnson, Esqs.
+
+Feb. 7th—Disputes had arisen with regard to the rating of houses on the
+Denes.
+
+The Borough Lands Committee had resolved to allow the enclosure of the
+land in front of the Workhouse by the Guardians.
+
+The question of supplying the town with water by Water Works was being
+mooted.
+
+Feb. 14th.—Mr. W. Beeching had launched the “Joseph and Mary.”
+
+Feb. 21st.—The “Speedy” (Lieut. G. Spray) had arrived to receive
+Volunteers.
+
+Feb. 28th.—Mr. Cufaude Davie had called the Mayor’s attention to the
+formation of a proper fire brigade for the town.
+
+The Rev. W. H. Clarke had been presented with a testimonial, consisting
+of a purse of £205.
+
+March 14th.—The fishmerchants had determined to take steps to improve and
+extend the Jetty.
+
+The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had delivered a lecture on “Alfred the Great” at the
+Corn Exchange.
+
+Coals were being retailed at 8d. a cwt. on the Quay.
+
+March 21st.—Mr. Lacon had brought before the Railway Commissioners the
+question of the site of the proposed terminus, which Mr. G. D. Palmer
+suggested should be opposite Fuller’s Hill, and a meeting was proposed to
+be called on the subject.
+
+March 28th.—The question of tramways on the Quay was under consideration.
+
+April 11th.—The price of gas had been reduced from 8s. to 6s. 8d. per
+1000 cubic feet.
+
+Yarham had been tried at the Assizes and convicted for the murder of Mrs.
+Chandler; the counsel engaged being Mr. Palmer and Mr. O’Malley, for the
+prosecution, and Mr. Dasent for the prisoner.
+
+April 18th.—Messrs. C. Davie and D. A. Gourlay had been elected
+churchwardens by the Vestry.
+
+Yarham had been executed at Norwich.
+
+April 15th.—A meeting had been held as to the railroad and tramways, the
+Mayor (S. Palmer, Esq.) in the chair.  Mr. G. D. Palmer (who thought they
+wanted better railway accommodation and a shorter and quicker line to
+London), Mr. J. E. Lacon (who advocated a railway station on the Denes),
+and others, took part in the proceedings, which eventuated in a
+resolution condemning the proposed Denes site for the station.
+
+The Town Council had proposed to present the Town-Clerk (S. Tolver, Esq.)
+with his portrait, which offer that gentleman declined to accept.
+
+May 16th.—Mrs. Dick and her daughter, who gave evidence against Yarham
+had been subjected to great annoyances, and her husband, who was a
+sergeant in the Army, was consequently about to be removed from Yarmouth.
+
+June 6th.—A meeting had been held in favour of the Waveney Valley Railway
+line.
+
+Tenders had been invited for the restoration work at St. Nicholas’
+Church.
+
+June 13th.—The “Norfolk,” steamer, had made her first trip to London.
+
+Owing to the fine weather a large number of visitors were arriving.
+
+June 27th.—A Church Restoration meeting had been held, when the “Church
+Trustees” refused to find £1,250 towards the work as promised, although a
+like sum had been raised by subscription.
+
+The annual distribution of prizes had been made by the Rev. H. Mackenzie
+at the Proprietary school.
+
+July 17th.—The Mayor had refused to allow the use of the Town Hall for
+the Regatta Ball.
+
+July 25th.—The Regatta had been held on the 21st inst., when 100 ladies
+and gentlemen attended the Ball at the Corn Hall.  The town was very full
+and £1 1s. a night was given for beds.  A steamer from Lynn had landed a
+large number of passengers at the Jetty.
+
+The Regatta cups had been supplied by Mr. Simpson, Mr. Last, and Mr.
+Hunt.
+
+Aug. 22nd.—Annoyance had been caused by bathing from the Beach between
+the Victoria Hotel and Nelson’s Monument.
+
+The Theatre was “doing well”; on Monday, 100 persons had been turned away
+from its doors.
+
+Sept. 12th.—The Races had been held when immense crowds of people had
+flocked into the town, the “Orwell,” steamer, bringing 200 from Ipswich,
+and the first train from Norwich 1,500, and “by the time the trumpet was
+sounded for the first race there could not have been less than 10,000
+people on the Race ground.”  The Race ordinary was at the “Angel,” and
+the Race Ball at the Town Hall, where 170 persons were present, including
+the Earl of Stradbroke, Mr. W. Wiltshere, M.P., Sir E. H. K. and Lady
+Lacon, the Mayor and Mrs. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Wythe, Mr. Percival and
+family, Mrs. and Miss Ives, Mr. and Mrs. J. Jermy, junr., Mrs. and Miss
+Burton, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Palmer, Dr. G. Bateman, M.D. and family, Mrs.
+and Miss Chevalier, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. L. Preston, Mr. A. Steward and
+family, Capt. Pearson, R.N., and family, the Misses Love, the Misses
+Penrice, Mrs. and Misses Muskett, Mr. G. Tompson, Mr. W. Worship, Mr. I.
+Preston, jun., and Mr. C. J. Palmer.  Dancing was kept up till three
+o’clock in the morning with great spirit.
+
+The Tradesmen’s Ball at Noverre’s room was thinly attended.
+
+Sept. 19th.—The “Norfolk” and “Enterprise,” steamers, had arrived with
+cargoes from Rotterdam.
+
+Herring was selling at from £35 to £40 per last.
+
+There was a great demand for vessels for the export of grain.
+
+Sept. 26th.—“Sunday had been ‘Dutch Sunday,’ so called from the
+circumstance of its being the first Sunday in the home fishing when many
+Dutch Schuytz visit our coast.”
+
+Oct. 3rd.—The Rev. H. N. Burrows had left the Proprietary School, on
+which occasion he had been presented with a handsome silver waiter.
+
+A Committee had been appointed to carry out the building of S. Peter’s
+Schools.
+
+Several locusts had been captured at Youell’s nursery ground and at
+Ormesby.
+
+Oct. 17th.—About 70 lunatics had arrived at the Naval Asylum (late
+Hospital) on the South Denes.
+
+The “Enterprise” had encountered bad weather, and had to throw half of
+her cargo of sheep and bullocks overboard.
+
+Nov. 7th.—One of Mr. Shuckford’s boats had brought in an enormously large
+quantity of herrings.
+
+The following notice of the Municipal Election appears:—
+
+    “At the Ward meeting of the constituency of St. George’s Ward, on
+    Friday night, not one of the Councillors attended, and the result was
+    that Mr. George Playford being called to the chair, a resolution was
+    come to, to return Messrs. Ferrier and Benjamin Jay _if they could_.
+    An effort was made, a poll was demanded, even the partizans of the
+    Blue candidates themselves forgot, for once, the distinction of
+    party.  Our friends at least will have the pleasure of knowing that
+    if they have two opponents, they, at least have two honourable
+    gentlemen, whose intimate acquaintance with business will qualify
+    them for the office.”
+
+On Monday evening last a supper was given by the two re-elected
+Councillors of the Regent Ward, Samuel Palmer, Esq. and J. D. Chapman,
+Esq., to the ratepayers in the above Ward, at the “Crown and Anchor”
+tavern.  The chair was taken by B. Fenn, Esq.  The cloth having been
+removed, the healths of “Her Majesty the Queen,” “Prince Albert and the
+Royal Family,” “The Members for the Borough,” “The re-elected
+Councillors,” &c., were given.  Several songs were sung during the
+evening, and appropriate speeches were delivered by several gentlemen
+present, and the parties retired at a late hour highly pleased with the
+evening’s entertainment.  Great credit is due to the hostess (Mrs. Reeve)
+for so excellent a collation which was served up in the best style.
+
+Nov. 14th.—Mr. W. N. Burroughs had been elected Mayor, and a dinner given
+at the Star to celebrate the event.
+
+Nov. 21st.—The Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Steam Packet Company was
+providing suitable vessels for the station.
+
+F. R. Reynolds, Esq. had been appointed Receiver of Admiralty Droits for
+Yarmouth.
+
+Nov. 28th.—And Samuel Palmer, Esq. to the like office for the Norfolk
+coast.
+
+It was stated that the New Catholic Church would be 100 feet in length,
+50 feet wide, and have a steeple 70 feet in height.
+
+Dec. 5th.—It had been resolved to place gas lamps on the South Market
+Road.
+
+Dec. 12th.—Spencer T. Smyth, Esq., had lectured at the Young Men’s
+Institute on “Physiological Anatomy.”
+
+£2,256, 12s. 4d. had been raised for S. Nicholas’ Church restoration.
+
+Dec. 19th—An ancient footpath, nearly 6 feet below the present surface of
+the street leading from the Quay to Regent Street, had been discovered.
+
+Dec. 26th.—Upwards of £200 had been subscribed for the Ragged School on
+the Caister Road.
+
+The Chancel of S. Nicholas’ Church was being cleared for Divine Service;
+the Sunday School service and teaching being then conducted in the Guild
+Hall and North aisle of the Church.
+
+About 80 electors of St. George’s Ward had given a dinner to Messrs
+Ferrier and Jay “to commemorate their recent triumph” at the Masonic
+Hall.  Among the guests were W. S. Ferrier, R. Ferrier, jun., C. C.
+Aldred, J. C. Smith.  Esqs., and Messrs. J. T. Bracey, J. G. Plummer, J.
+Playford, B. Miller, C. Woolverton, Bradbeer, W. Nolloth, P. Coble, W.
+Green, &c., &c., Mr. G. S. Shingles occupying the chair.
+
+
+
+1847.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—The Mayor had purchased a seventy stone ox, and distributed the
+meat from it to the poor.
+
+Jan. 9th.—Chas. J. Palmer, Esq., had been appointed Receiver of Admiralty
+Droits in the place of F. R. Reynolds, Esq., deceased.
+
+Jan. 16th.—A meeting had been held to consider the distress in Ireland,
+and a subscription list opened for the purpose of affording relief.
+
+A meeting had been held to consider and forward, if possible, the
+building of a new bridge over the river.
+
+The frost in Holland had caused the steamers to cease running between
+that country and Yarmouth.
+
+Jan. 23rd.—A densely crowded Railway meeting had been held at the Town
+Hall.
+
+Charles John Palmer, Esq., had been appointed Clerk to the Southtown
+Turnpike Trust, in the place of F. R. Reynolds, Esq., deceased.
+
+Jan. 30th.—There had been heavy gales, at one time approaching a
+“complete hurricane.”
+
+Feb. 6th.—Seven persons had recently died in the Workhouse, whose joint
+ages amounted to 562 years.
+
+A meeting had been held to protest against the “light dues” on shipping.
+
+Feb. 13th.—There had been a heavy fall of snow accompanied by frost, and
+the traffic with Rotterdam was again interrupted.
+
+The Chancel of S. Nicholas’ Church was already occupied for Divine
+service.
+
+Feb. 27th.—The Rev. W. Stokes had delivered a lecture upon the subject
+that “All war is inconsistent with the Christian religion, and the best
+interests of nations.”
+
+March 6th.—James Paget, Esq., had been elected one of the Assistant
+Surgeons of St. Bartholemew’s Hospital, London.
+
+There was at this time a uniform depth of nine feet of water on the bar
+at low water.
+
+Joseph Turner, of Row 14, having applied to the Guardians for relief, his
+house had been searched by the Relieving-Officer, when £40 was found in
+it, and he and his sister appeared also to have £180 to their credit on a
+banking account.
+
+March 13th.—Mrs. Gooderham had bequeathed £500 to be invested for the
+benefit of the New Meeting House.
+
+A Commission of inquiry had been opened on the state of mind of Philip
+Blundell Nesbitt, Esq., a gentleman aged 35, and entitled to property
+valued at £100,000, when the Jury found “that Mr. Nesbitt had been of
+unsound mind since the 21st October, 1813, without any lucid intervals.”
+
+March 20th.—There was only one prisoner for trial at the Sessions, an old
+man charged with stealing a cask of pickled herring, for which he was
+sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.
+
+Mr. C. J. Palmer had addressed a letter to the local press on the subject
+of the discoveries made during the restoration of S. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Mr. Hilling, engineer, had prepared a scheme for draining the town.
+
+March 27th.—The Dissenters were agitating against the proposals of the
+Committee of the Council on education.
+
+A solemn fast had been observed.
+
+April 3rd.—Miss Lettis had been presented with a silver salver by the
+poorer members of the Unitarian Congregation.
+
+The “Media” had been launched from Mr. Henry Fellows’ yard.
+
+March 10th.—The burial ground at the east-end of the Churchyard had been
+consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Norwich.
+
+J. T. Birch, Esq., the newly-appointed Judge, had held the first County
+Court “simply for the appointment of officers”; causes were to be heard
+on the 20th inst.
+
+The right of appointing overseers had been claimed by Mr. E. H. L.
+Preston on behalf of the Justices generally, the Mayor also claiming the
+right personally to appoint them as theretofore.
+
+The Church Trustees having liquidated, the church debt had become
+“extinct.”
+
+Both the Churchwardens had been re-elected by the Vestry, and a Church
+rate agreed to.
+
+April 17th.—A Shipowner’s Protection Society had been formed, the
+necessary funds to be raised by a subscription of 7d. per ton register.
+
+The weather at the Fair had been cold and the business transacted of a
+“limited amount.”
+
+April 24th.—The new Terrace on the North Beach was to be commenced
+immediately by Mr. C. Cory.  It was described as being “at the beach end
+of Regent Road on the late site of Pilch’s Mill and to extend to Page’s
+and Ansell’s Buildings.”  Mr. Scholes was the architect.
+
+Judge Birch had held his first Court for trials at the Tolhouse Hall,
+there were only three cases heard—“Lettis _v._ Dye,” “Vale _v._ Fenn,”
+and “Nolloth _v._ Rooke,” all for the recovery of small debts.
+
+May 1st.—The Bishop of Norwich had confirmed 383 young people, (of whom
+270 belonged to Yarmouth) at S. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+It was stated at the Council that while the prisoners cost 4s. 6½d., the
+paupers only cost 2s. 9d. per head.
+
+May 8th.—The first stone of a new Jews’ Synagogue had been laid by Mr. D.
+L. Cohen.
+
+May 15th.—Mr. Samuel Wm. Aldred had received the first prize for
+midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
+
+The annual general meeting of the Victoria Building Company had been
+held, B. Dowson, Esq., in the chair, when the Hon. W. R. Rous, Sir E.
+Travers, R.N., J. Garnham, W. Baynes, T. F. Steward, J. C. Smith, H. V.
+Worship, R. Steward, A. Woods, C. J. Palmer, W. Worship and W. C.
+Reynolds, Esq., were present, and dividends of 2s. 6d. per share upon the
+original shares, and £5 per cent. upon the new shares were recommended.
+
+The poor’s rate was 1s. 10d. in the £ for the current quarter, being
+nearly double the former average.
+
+May 22nd.—Eighty cases had been entered in the County Court.
+
+June 5th.—Mr. Wilshere had determined to retire from the representation,
+and as Mr. Rumbold was not likely to be again supported by the
+Dissenters, it was thought possible that Col. Anson would be asked to
+contest the Borough.
+
+The figures of the boy and girl had been placed in front of the Charity
+School, they had previously been in S. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Messrs. C. C. Aldred and F. Palmer had complained to the Justices of the
+dirty state of the fish market.
+
+There had been a plague of mice in the Fleggs, 400 combs of wheat had
+been destroyed in one stack by them, and when the corn was threshed the
+machine literally ran with their blood.
+
+June 12th.—A rule had been granted for a writ of certiorari to remove the
+appointment of Overseers into the Queen’s Bench.
+
+Col. Anson had declined to stand for the Borough.  It was said that Mr.
+Rumbold had spent £40,000 in his contests, and that “with the blue party
+it seemed Yarmouth is all too _dear_ a place to contest.”
+
+Samuel Palmer, Esq., S. Cobb, Esq., and Mr. D. A. Gourlay had gone to
+town to find a candidate.
+
+“Marsh _v._ Travers.—In compliance with Mr. Chancellor Evans’ order on
+Saturday last, the defendant (Dame Anne Palmer Travers) duly performed
+retraction in the house of the Minister at Yarmouth.”
+
+The foundation of Britannia Terrace was progressing slowly.
+
+June 19th.—Mr. Wynn Ellis had been suggested as a successor to Mr.
+Wilshere in the “Blue” interest, while the “Reds” had held a meeting at
+the Fish Stall House (Mr. Thomas Paul in the chair.)
+
+Mr. D. A. Gourlay was spoken of as Mayor for the ensuing year.
+
+Mr. C. J. Palmer had resolved to print Manship’s Yarmouth, the M.S. of
+which was in his possession.
+
+A Caister yawl had upset near Caister Rails, and three men, Church, Key,
+and Howes, drowned.
+
+A meeting of electors had been convened to meet the deputation which had
+been in London searching for a Candidate, when nearly an hour having
+elapsed without George Danby Palmer, Esq., putting in an appearance as
+chairman, Mr. W. Johnson was called on to preside; Mr. Rumbold was
+accepted as a candidate, and Mr. Wynn Ellis requested to meet the
+electors.
+
+June. 26th.—“A portion of the electors” had held a meeting at the “Crown
+and Anchor” when Mr. Lawn presided, and it was alleged that Mr. Goldsmid
+had been requested to come forward and that an attempt had been made “to
+sell the Borough.”
+
+The Dissenters also had held a meeting at which Mr. I. W. Shelly took the
+chair.
+
+“At the Quarter Sessions, the Recorder sat without his wig, that
+appendage having been stolen.”
+
+A batch of informations had been laid against “respectable bakers” for
+selling short weight bread; they were fined 11s. each and cautioned.
+
+July 3rd.—Upwards of 40 fish-owners had signed a notice stating their
+desire to suppress smuggling.
+
+Another meeting of electors had been held at the “Star,” and the
+following Committee appointed to consider the position:—Messrs. J.
+Brightwen, B. Dowson, J. W. Shelly, R. Hammond, Thomas Clowes, George
+Danby Palmer, H. V. Worship, S. Cobb, C. Davie, Thomas Hammond, D. A.
+Gourlay, J. Bayly, J. Jackson, J. Fish, T. Lettis, jun., W. Johnson, and
+J. Lawn.
+
+The Paving Commissioners had given leave to put down posts to stop the
+carriage traffic past the Tolhouse during the sittings of the Council and
+the County Court.
+
+The subscriptions to the Hospital “continued to decline” and then
+amounted to only £315 16s. per annum.
+
+July 10th.—Gorleston Cliff had been strongly recommended “by the
+Faculty,” and among the recent arrivals there, were the Dowager Lady
+Suffield and Mrs. Thurlow and family.
+
+Mr. Wynn Ellis had declined to visit the Borough, and R. J. Bagshaw,
+Esq., had been requested by the Committee to come before the electors.
+Another meeting had been held at the “Star” (Mr. S. Cobb in the chair)
+when the charge of “selling the Borough” was made against Mr. Samuel
+Palmer by Mr. Cufaude; this was repudiated by that gentleman, and after a
+warm discussion, during which Mr. B. Dowson stated “he thought there was
+a good deal of treachery going about the town,” it was ultimately decided
+“to call a meeting of all electors, and a handbill had been issued
+convening such meeting on the Hall Plain for Thursday evening.”
+
+July 17th.—Mr. Bagshaw had arrived in Yarmouth and held a meeting at the
+“Star” Hotel, which was “not so fully attended as evening meetings
+usually were.”  Among those present were Messrs S. Cobb, W. Johnson, B.
+Dowson, W. Worship, J. W. Shelly, R. Hammond, T. Hammond, D. A. Gourlay,
+S. Rice, Thompson, Worship and S. Palmer, when a resolution was carried,
+inviting Mr. Bagshaw to become a candidate for the Borough.
+
+Another meeting had also been held at the same place, present—Sir George
+Parker, B. Dowson, W. Briggs, William Hurry Palmer, W. Worship, P.
+Pullyn, C. Pearson, J. W. Shelly, and others, when a resolution was
+carried by 19 to 6 requesting Mr. Rumbold to retire from the contest.
+
+Mr. Goldsmid had held a public meeting at the Masonic Hall, Mr. M.
+Butcher in the chair, when a resolution was passed pledging the meeting
+to support that gentleman at the ensuing contest.
+
+The Regatta had been held, when the Town Plate, value £50, was won by the
+“Alarm,” 18 tons.  G. Cooke, Esq., R.T.Y.C., and the Purse of £20 for
+yawls, by the “Morning Star,” Star Company.
+
+The Regatta Ball was attended by about “40 or 50 couples,” amongst whom
+were the Dowager Lady Suffield, Lady Durrant, R. J. Bagshaw, Esq., and
+Mrs. Bagshaw, Miss Burton, R. Marsham, Esq., jun., B. Caldecott, Esq.,
+Mr. and Mrs. H. Muskett and family, Capt. Pearson, RN., Capt. Ellis,
+R.N., Dr. Robinson, I. Preston, Esq., and Miss Preston, Mr. and Mrs. S.
+Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Walpole, Mrs. and Miss
+Burton, Mr. W. and Miss Worship, &c.
+
+July 24th.—About 50 or 60 Nonconformist electors had held a meeting at
+the Congregational Schoolroom, when the pledges of Mr. Bagshaw were
+considered satisfactory to the meeting.
+
+A public meeting of the friends of Mr. Rumbold had been held at the
+Masonic Hall, (William H. Palmer, Esq., in the chair) when a resolution
+that Mr. Rumbold was a fit and proper person to represent the Borough was
+carried.
+
+Lord Arthur Lennox and O. E. Coope, Esq., had been met by their friends
+at the “Greyhound Inn,” Gorleston, and escorted into the town, the
+“procession” consisting of one private carriage, followed at a long
+distance by flag bearers and about half-a-dozen gentlemen on horseback
+preceding a carriage containing the candidates and their friends.  On
+arriving at the Market Place at nine o’clock these gentlemen mounted a
+balcony, when R. Ferrier, in a few words, amidst tumultuous cheering
+introduced Lord A. Lennox; I. Preston, Esq., did the like service for Mr.
+Coope, and the candidates having addressed the meeting, which was also
+addressed by Messrs. Harvey, Charles Cory, and R. Ferrier, jun.,
+dispersed.
+
+Mr. Goldsmid had also addressed the electors at the “King’s Head.”
+
+The Mayor and Corporation had attended the Water Frolic (Mr. Fiddes
+acting as Admiral).  Mr. Bagshaw was of the party, but Mr. Goldsmid,
+although expected, did not put in an appearance.
+
+The Mayor’s bespeak at the Theatre for the benefit of the Hospital had
+raised £25 6s. 6d.
+
+July 31st.—Mr. D. A. Gourlay had been toasted at the Water Frolic by Mr.
+S. Palmer, as Mayor elect.
+
+The following was the return of the polling:—
+
+                                   Rumbold.     Goldsmid.      Lennox.       Coope.
+At             9  a.m.                    174           175           140          140
+  ,,          10       ,,                 334           330           326          323
+  ,,          11       ,,                 469           461           502          493
+  ,,          12       ,,                 579           561           601          587
+  ,,           1  p.m.                    639           617           687          674
+  ,,           2       ,,                 672           643           754          737
+  ,,           3       ,,                 709           671           788          772
+  ,,           4  ,, (close)              729           698           844          813
+
+Aug. 14th.—It was reported that from 200 to 300 freemen had been bribed
+to vote for Lord Lennox and Mr. Coope, and it was “confidently
+anticipated” that those gentlemen would resign their seats to avoid
+exposure.
+
+Aug. 21st.—The races had been held on the 17th and 18th (Stewards: Lord
+Suffield, Viscount Anson, The Hon. Capt. Rous, and George Danby Palmer,
+Esq.) when Mr. O. E. Coope’s “Bit Nibble” won the Members’ Plate.  Lord
+A. Lennox had attended the Race Ordinary and suggested a course of action
+under which better entries were likely to be obtained.
+
+Aug. 28th.—Mrs. Coope (mother of the M.P.) had given £50 to the Church
+restoration, £50 to the Town Charities, and £10 to the Hospital.
+
+Lodgers had experienced a difficulty in finding accommodation in the
+town.
+
+It was anticipated that Britannia-terrace would be completed in three
+weeks’ time.
+
+Sept. 4th—The new Synagogue in Row 42 had been consecrated, the Rev. B.
+Levy, of Brighton, conducting the service.  Among the list of donors
+towards the building fund where the Mayor, Baron Rothschild, M.P., Sir
+Moses Montefiore, Sir S. L. Goldsmid, and F. H. Goldsmid, Esq.
+
+Sept. 11th.—The British School had been repaired and re-opened by Mr. D.
+Tomkins (from the British and Foreign School Society, City road, London.)
+
+Mr. Goldsmid had had a bespeak at the Theatre which was “very fully
+attended,” and he had given subscriptions to most of the local charities.
+
+Sept. 18th.—Complaints were again being made as to Sunday trading.
+
+Mr. Goldsmid’s friends entertained no doubt as to the success of his
+petition.  He had entertained twenty gentlemen at the Royal-hotel.
+
+Oct. 2nd.—It was considered likely that Mr. Gourlay would decline the
+Mayoralty, and that Dawson Turner, Esq., would accept that office.
+
+Oct. 16th.—Mr. Dixon, of Norwich, had fitted up the tracing of the
+easternmost window of St. Nicholas’ Church with stained glass, and the
+circular columns which had been removed when the Fishermen’s gallery was
+built, were being restored.
+
+Oct. 25th.—The Liberals claimed a gain of 37 at the Revision Court.
+
+On Sunday a very large party of gentlemen and tradesmen had accompanied
+the Mayor to Church, it being the day appointed for the National
+thanksgiving for the harvest.  Afterwards His Worship entertained them at
+the Town Hall, upwards of 400 invitations had been sent out for this
+luncheon.
+
+The increase of buildings was proceeding on the Denes very rapidly.
+
+Coals were very scarce.  On the previous Saturday a vessel had arrived
+and sold her cargo at 21s. per ton.
+
+Nov. 6th.—A vessel of 400 tons was about to be launched from Mr. Barber’s
+dock.
+
+A herring had been caught off Yarmouth, measuring 15¼ inches in length
+and weighing above 15 ozs.
+
+The following had been the result of the Municipal election:—
+
+_North Ward_.—The Mayor (W. N. Burroughs) and R. Hammond re-elected.
+
+_Market Ward_.—No return given.
+
+_Regent Ward_.—Samuel Charles Marsh (re-elected) with Dawson Turner (vice
+Tomlinson resigned).
+
+          _St. George’s Ward_.
+J. C. Smith (Con.)                    112
+J. G. Plummer (Con.)                  121
+T. Lettis, jun. (Lib.)                103
+M. Butcher, jun. (Lib.)                82
+             _Nelson Ward_.
+George Danby Palmer (Lib.)            186
+William Chambers (Lib.)               133
+Henry Jay (Con.)                      113
+          _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+E. H. L. Preston (Con.)               148
+William Hammond (Con.)                141
+Samuel Crow (Lib.)                     96
+T. Hammond (Lib.)                      91
+
+Messrs. T. Lettis, T. Hammond, and S. Crow, who were old members of that
+body, thus losing their seats in the Council.
+
+Nov. 13th.—Mr. D. Turner had resigned his office as Borough Treasurer and
+had been re-elected for the Regent Ward.
+
+The “Cordelia” (400 tons) had been launched from Mr. Barber’s yard.
+
+At the Town Council meeting on the 9th, Mr. Geo. Danby Palmer moved and
+Mr. R. Hammond seconded, Philip Pullyn, Esq., for Mayor.
+
+And Mr. Ferrier proposed and Mr. E. H. L. Preston seconded, the
+re-election of the Mayor (Mr. Burroughs).
+
+The following was the voting on this:—
+
+For Mr. Pullyn—Messrs. Cobb, Pike, Fellows, Barker, R. Hammond, H. D.
+Palmer, P. White, Owles, Lawn, D. A. Gourlay, Marsh, Fish, F. Palmer, S.
+Palmer, J. D. Chapman, Lettis, G. D. Palmer, Chambers, Symonds, Cannell,
+and Clarke.—21.
+
+For Mr. Burroughs—Messrs. Bessey, Worship, C. Miller, Ferrier, Jay,
+Plummer, Smith, W. H. Palmer, John Hammond, Rivett, Preston, W. Hammond,
+and Rivett.—13.
+
+The retiring Aldermen were Messrs. John Brightwen, C. S. D. Steward, A.
+Steward, W. Walpole, C. Pearson, and S. Cobb.  Nine gentlemen, were
+nominated to fill their places, and the following was the result of the
+voting:—
+
+                          Votes.
+For C. Pearson                     24
+,, S. Cobb                         27
+,, Geo. Bateman                    12
+,, C. J. Palmer                    15
+„ W. Walpole                       22
+,, Edmund R. Palmer                24
+,, R. Hammond                      25
+„ H. Boulter                       19
+,, A. Steward                       1
+
+In the evening about fifty gentlemen dined with the Mayor at the Star.
+
+Nov. 20th.—A new gas holder, which had been “dignified” by being named
+after the Queen, had been erected.
+
+Six vessels had taken in cargoes of herring for the Straits.
+
+Dr. C. L. Robinson had delivered a lecture on the Sanitary condition of
+Yarmouth, in which he alluded pointedly to the Corporation.  This was
+considered extremely uncourteous to the Mayor, who had presided on the
+occasion.
+
+Dec. 4th.—Capt. Manby having completed his 82nd year, had made his annual
+distribution of bread to 37 poor families.
+
+Dec. 18th.—There had been 150 cases disposed of in the County Court.
+
+A young gentleman had been fined £5 for wrenching off knockers from
+houses on the Denes.
+
+Dec. 25th.—The fishowners had formed a society for the prosecution of
+thieves, subscription 10s. for each member.
+
+
+
+1848.
+
+
+Jan. 1.—The elder Brethren of the Trinity House had declined to take
+Nelson’s Monument into their hands.
+
+The “Earl Grey,” London trader, had been lost.  It was said that 35 years
+had elapsed since a similar fate had befallen one of these vessels.
+
+Jan. 8th.—Five vessels had been fitted out for the sole and turbot
+fishery in the style of the Barking smacks.
+
+Jan. 15th.—The Mayor had entertained 140 guests at a dinner in the Town
+Hall.
+
+The pumps in Regent street had suddenly become dry.
+
+Jan. 22nd.—The second subscription ball had been held at the Town Hall,
+120 persons were present, the Stewards being Capt. Ellis, R.N., and
+Richard Bell, William H. Palmer, W. Worship, and C. J. Palmer, Esqs.
+
+Jan. 29th.—The “Venus,” belonging to G. D. Palmer, Esq., had been lost
+off Elsinore.
+
+Feb. 5th.—A wild duck had been shot just above the Haven Bridge.
+
+Feb. 12th.—The following Committee had been appointed to try the Yarmouth
+Petition:—Mr. E. Ellice, Mr. Charles Lushington, Mr. W. H. C. Plowden,
+and Mr. H. Stuart, and they had chosen Mr. Ker Seymour their chairman.
+Evidence had then been taken and the proceedings adjourned.
+
+Feb. 19th.—The Members had been unseated and the disfranchisement of the
+freemen suggested by this Committee.
+
+Mr. Goldsmid had arrived at the “Royal,” but even his own friends were of
+opinion that his visit was “inopportune,” owing to the Committee having
+recommended the disfranchisement of the freemen.
+
+Feb. 26th.—A requisition was being signed requesting Mr. John E. Lacon to
+offer himself as a candidate for the Borough.
+
+March 11th.—An election for a councillor in the Nelson Ward, to fill the
+vacancy caused by the death of Mr. W. Chambers had been held as follows:—
+
+Thomas Hammond (Lib.)            152
+Robins Purdy (Con.)               52
+Majority for Hammond             100
+
+March 25th.—There had been an eclipse of the moon.
+
+Three hundred idle characters had proceeded to the Workhouse and demanded
+out-door relief, but dispersed on the appearance of the Mayor and a few
+constables.
+
+April 8th.—Mr. W. R. Last had erected an illuminated clock in King Street
+which was a great accommodation to the inhabitants.
+
+Messrs. George Danby Palmer and John Barker had been elected Haven
+Commissioners, and Messrs. D. A. Gourlay and R. Hammond Supernumary
+Commissioners.
+
+April 15th.—The Mayor had appointed Messrs. George Arbon and William
+Livingston (Whigs), and Robert Breeze and John E. Barnby (Tories)
+Overseers in the place of the “party” nominations hitherto made of these
+officials.
+
+May 6th.—The fair “although pretty well attended so far as numbers was
+concerned was altogether as spiritless a concern as could be desired.”
+
+May 13th.—From the report of the Gas Company’s meeting it appeared that
+the balance of profit, after paying dividend on the new shares, was £625
+17s. 7d.; the rentals amounted to £2164 11s. 5d., and the total income to
+£2720 3s., the expenditure being £2094 6s. 11d.
+
+Mr. Tolver (Town-Clerk) had, at the Council meeting, formally announced
+his intention to retire, when the deepest regret was expressed by Messrs.
+George Danby Palmer, Dawson Turner, and Alderman Fenn, who wished him to
+re-consider his decision.
+
+William S. Ferrier, Esq., coroner, had died.
+
+May 20th.—The Race Committee had resolved (as there were no Borough
+Members) not to hold any Races this year.
+
+A meeting of the Council had been held to elect a coroner, when, in the
+absence of the Mayor and Deputy-Mayor who were attending the Leveè, Simon
+Cobb, Esq., was called to the chair.
+
+Dawson Turner, Esq., proposed, and Mr. D. A. Gourlay seconded, Mr.
+Frederick Nathaniel Palmer (surgeon).
+
+Mr. Richard Hammond proposed, and Mr. Walpole seconded, Mr. Charles H.
+Chamberlin for the office.
+
+Capt. Pike and Messrs. Worship and Sewell left the Council before the
+voting, which was, for Mr. Chamberlin: Messrs. J. Barker, S. Cobb,
+Walpole, R. Hammond, sen., H. Boulter, H. D. Palmer, P. White, R.
+Hammond, jun., C. Miller, J. Owles, J. Fish, J. D. Chapman, R. Ferrier,
+J. G. Plummer, W. T. Clarke, G. D. Palmer, T. Hammond, J. G. Rivett, E.
+H. L. Preston, H. Butcher, and W. Hammond—21.  For Mr. Palmer: Messrs. H.
+Fellows, E. R. Palmer, W. H. Bessey, J. Lawn, D. A. Gourlay, S. C. Marsh,
+D. Turner, and S. Miller—8.  Neuter: J. C. Smith.
+
+June 3rd.—Mr. Chamberlin had held his first inquest at the “New Fountain
+Tavern,” on the body of Elizabeth Maria Crowe.
+
+June 10th.—Mr. Goldsmid had signified his intention of standing for the
+Borough, Mr. Rumbold also was likely to come forward, and Mr. Sandars, of
+Taplow House, Bucks, had offered himself (Mr. Lacon not being able to
+stand) to the electors.
+
+July 1st.—The Rev. W. Langley Pope, one of the curates, had married a
+girl of 16, the granddaughter of Mr. Woodhouse, painter, and had been
+dismissed from his curacy.
+
+Mr. Goldsmid had determined not to contest the Borough.
+
+July 8th.—Mr. Bagshaw had met the electors at the Corn Exchange, (George
+Danby Palmer, Esq., in the chair,) Mr. J. Bagshaw, M.P., and Mr. J. W
+Shelly also addressing the meeting.
+
+July 15th.—At the nomination Mr. S. Cobb proposed and Mr. Sewell
+seconded, C. E. Rumbold, Esq.
+
+Mr. S. H. Aldred proposed, and Mr. W. H. Bessey seconded, John Sandars,
+Esq.
+
+And Mr. T. Hammond and J. Jackson proposed and seconded, Robert John
+Bagshaw, Esq.
+
+The following statements of the poll were issued during the contest:—(The
+small number of votes recorded was consequent on the disfranchisement of
+the freemen, and the election taking place before those freemen who were
+entitled to do so, could qualify as Householders.)
+
+               Sandars.       Rumbold.       Bagshaw.
+10 a.m.             121            134            156
+12½ p.m.            292            279            244
+1 „                 312            301            253
+1½ ,,               330            323            264
+2 „                 358            338            275
+3½ „                393            366            298
+4 „                 416            386            300
+
+After the declaration of the poll only Mr. Sandars’ friends made any
+preparation for the chairing.  “Not a bit of blue ribbon was seen, and
+Mr. Rumbold’s friend seemed all to have been dyed deep red.”
+
+Mr. Bagshaw addressed the electors from the “Star Hotel,” when Mr. J. W.
+Shelly made some strong observations on the conduct of Mr. Rumbold’s
+friends in supporting Mr. Sandars jointly with that gentleman, which
+appear to have caused a great deal of “heart burning” in the borough and
+this especially so with regard to a combination known as the “Star
+clique.”
+
+July 22nd.—Mr. Edward Sewell (a quaker) who had been denounced by Mr.
+Shelly for voting for Sandars and Rumbold, vindicated his conduct in this
+issue.
+
+The gigs of Mr. C. C. Aldred and Mr. Spencer Smyth (surgeons) had been in
+collision in Regent Street, and the latter gentleman and his assistant
+upset.
+
+The Regatta had been held, the band of the 16th Lancers coming from
+Norwich, and there was an immense concourse of people present.
+
+In the first match, a purse of £60 for yachts, the following entered:—
+
+1.—“Esk,” R. Antrem, Esq., 25 tons, white with red border, R.T.Y.C.
+
+2.—“Prima Donna,” J. L. Ives, Esq., 25 tons, white with blue cross,
+R.T.Y.C.
+
+3.—“Mosquito,” C. Mare, Esq., 50 tons, blue and orange quartered,
+R.T.Y.C.
+
+4.—“Secret,” I. Wicks, Esq., 25 tons, blue and white crescent, R.T.Y.C.
+
+5.—“Gauntlet,” J. Penrice, Esq., 15 tons, red and white zigzag, R.V.Y.C.
+
+6.—“Blue Bell,” Lord A. Conyngham, 30 tons, light blue, S.Y.C.
+
+7.—“Daring,” G. Cook, Esq., 31 tons, red burgee R.T.Y.C.
+
+The “Daring” and “Secret” withdrew under protest that the “Mosquito” did
+not start from her moorings.  This she had done, but the hour for
+starting having been delayed she was obliged to remove.  At ten seconds
+past one o’clock they all started with a stiff breeze from the S.W.  The
+“Mosquito” took the lead after rounding the first buoy, and maintained it
+throughout.  The “Esk” gave up the contest at 2.30, and the “Blue Bell”
+in rounding the second buoy carried away her foremast.
+
+The times at which they came in were as follows:—
+
+                          1ST RND.                   2ND RND.                   3RD RND.
+                    H.       M.       S.       H.       M.       S.       H.       M.       S.
+“Mosquito”              1       55       20        2       54        8        3       52       47
+“Blue Bell”             2        3       33        3       12       54        4       19       31
+“Prima Donna”           2        7       54        3       33       38        5       10       31
+“Gauntlet”              2       18       44        3       59       30
+
+The “Mosquito,” is a very superior vessel, built by Mr. Mare of
+Blackwall, who built the “Norfolk,” steampacket, of this port.
+Immediately after the receipt of the prize, which was awarded by the
+Committee to whom the protest was referred, she set off for Hull to
+contend for the prize on Thursday.
+
+Sailing match for a purse of 20 sovereigns.  Time race by Yawls of any
+length; the first Yawl to have £12, the second £5, and the third £3.
+Four to start or no match.  Time 30 seconds to a foot.  Entrance 2s. 6d.
+
+9.       “Reindeer,” Young Company, 70 feet.
+8.       “Royal Victoria,” Denny’s Company, 60 feet.
+         “Royal Sovereign,” Young Company, 60 feet, drawn.
+7.       “Bees’ Wing,” Star Company, 65 feet.
+4.       “Queen Victoria,” Holkham Company, 64 ft.
+0.       “Swiftsure,” Southwold, 49 feet.
+3.       “Greyhound,” Lowestoft, 45 feet.
+X        “Royal Standard,” Standard Company, 51 feet.
+6.       “Gratitude,” Star Company, 53 feet.
+
+They started 3h. 7m. 10s.  The “Reindeer” and “Bees’ Wing” carried away
+their foremasts in the first round.  The “Swiftsure” and “Greyhound” gave
+up in the first round.  The “Royal Standard” completed her first round at
+4h. 34m. 51s., after which she gave up, having carried away her foremast,
+considerable time being lost in rigging out another which she had on
+board.  The other boats came in:—
+
+                           1ST RND.                   2ND RND.                   3RD RND.
+                     H.       M.       S.       H.       M.       S.       H.       M.       S.
+“Royal Victoria”         4       10       42        5       13       44        6       15        5
+“Queen Victoria”         4       15       47        5       20       46        6       21       20
+“Gratitude”              4       19       33        5       37       54        6       49       45
+
+Sailing match by Shrimp Boats for £8.  Not to exceed 21 feet in length,
+over all, first boat £5, second boat £2, third boat £1; no sail allowed
+but their customary mainsail and foresail, six to start or no match;
+entrance 1s.  The following boats were entered, and started at 3h. 51m.
+10s.:—
+
+The four which came in first, arrived at the winning point at the time
+affixed to their names, the others were not timed:—
+
+                                               H.       M.       S.
+“Caroline,” Richard Sutton, 19½ feet.
+“Four Sisters,” John Edmonds, 20 feet              6       11       27
+“Defiance,” Robert Blake, 19 feet                  6       32       48
+“Who would have thought it,” Jas. Woods,
+20 feet.
+“Paragon,” William Lodge, 20 feet.
+“Anne,” Robert Drane, 18½ feet.
+“Viper,” Richard Harrod, 19 feet.
+“Blossom,” Mrs. Larn, 19 feet                      6       14       19
+“Robert and Maria,” Robert Garwood, 21             6       16        8
+feet
+“Providence,” Henry Hellenburgh, 20 feet.
+“Elizabeth,” Georges Ives, 20½ feet.
+
+Rowing Match for a purse of 6 sovereigns, by Beach Gigs, not exceeding
+six oars, and to be rowed by men belonging to distinct companies.  First
+gig £4; second, £2; three to start or no match; entrance 1s.  They
+started at 6h. 36m. and came in:—
+
+“Guardian,” Young Company                1
+“Star,” Star Company, did not start.
+“Fearnought,” Holkham Company            3
+“Jenny Lind,” Lowestoft                  2
+
+The first of these came in at 6h. 48m. 5s.
+
+A dinner was provided at the Norfolk Hotel, at which several gentlemen
+were present.
+
+    “The ball in the evening was held at the Town Hall, and was very well
+    attended, although some families in the town were prevented being
+    present by a recent removal by death.  Among those whose names we
+    have been able to procure, were some of the Officers of the 16th
+    Lancers and their ladies, Lord A. and Lady Conyngham, the Right
+    Worshipful the Mayor of Yarmouth and the Misses Boulter, the Mayor of
+    Norwich, F. Tattershall, Esq., R. Ferrier, Esq., Captain, Mrs. and
+    Misses Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Chevallier, Mr. and Mrs. A. Steward, Mr.
+    and Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. E.
+    H. L. Preston, J. Wicks, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Caldecott, Rev. E. B. and
+    Mrs. Frere.”
+
+July 26th.—On the previous Thursday “a very calamitous accident” had
+occurred; Capt. Pearson and his family had been to the Theatre, and on
+their return Miss Mary Sayers walked straight from Regent Street over the
+Quay Head and was drowned.
+
+The body was picked up on the following morning.
+
+Mr. J. W. Shelly returned to the charge against Mr. Sewell, and accused
+him of unduly influencing a voter named Carr.
+
+At the Water Frolic the “Stranger” won the cup.  The “Thorn,” a
+“Bermudian cutter-rigged boat,” belonging to Capt. Ellis, R.N.,
+attracting much attention.
+
+Aug. 5th.—Mr. Carr and Mr. Sewell repudiated Mr. Shelly’s suggestions,
+and totally denied his statements to be correct.
+
+The following is the report of the inquest held on the body of Miss
+Sayers:—
+
+    “On the 27th ult., at the house of Captain Pearson, an inquest was
+    held before Mr. C. H. Chamberlin, on the body of Miss Mary Sayers,
+    aged 72.  The body of the deceased was identified by W. H. Palmer,
+    Esq., who stated that he left her the previous night at the door of
+    the Theatre about ten minutes before eleven; her sister, Miss E.
+    Sayers, went home in a sedan chair and deceased walked.  The night
+    was extremely dark and rainy, but no gas lamps were lighted.  Captain
+    Pearson and his family were spending the evening out, and on
+    returning at about half-past eleven, found Miss E. Sayers in some
+    anxiety that her sister was so long in following her.  Captain
+    Pearson immediately went to the police office to procure assistance
+    in searching for her, for which purpose Police-constable Page took a
+    lantern.  About half-past three in the morning he dragged the river
+    opposite the Town Hall, and there found the body.  The watch of
+    deceased stopped precisely at eleven o’clock.  The Jury returned a
+    verdict that the deceased was accidentally drowned by walking over
+    the Quay-head, in consequence of the extreme darkness of the night.”
+
+There had been a considerable discussion on the question of the election
+of surgeons to the Hospital, and ultimately a poll was taken as follows:—
+
+A. J. Impey, M.D.            173
+John Dunn, M.D.               74
+Spencer Smyth                227
+C. B. Dashwood               184
+Josh. Bayly                  143
+G. Dimock                     28
+
+and Dr. Impey and Messrs. Smyth, Dashwood and Bayly were declared duly
+elected.
+
+Aug. 26th.—An explosion had taken place on board the “Earl of Liverpool,”
+London steam packet, off Lowestoft, by which two of the crew had been
+killed.
+
+St. Nicholas’ Church had been re-opened after the work of restoration,
+when the Lord Bishop of Norwich preached, and 150 ladies and gentlemen
+partook of a luncheon at the Town Hall, amongst those present being Baron
+Alderson and M. Guizot and his daughter.
+
+Sept. 2nd.—At the races it was remarked that the Railway, while
+increasing the number of people, had decreased the number of vehicles on
+the course, gigs, horses and private carriages being superseded by cab
+flies and omnibuses.
+
+The ordinary had been held at the “Angel,” when sixty-five gentlemen sat
+down to dinner, for which two haunches of venison had been sent by the
+M.P’s.
+
+One hundred and eleven ladies and gentlemen had attended the ball at the
+Town Hall, when the Members for the Borough, the Officers of the 16th
+Lancers, Mr. and Misses Lacon, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Mr. I. Jermy, Mr.,
+Mrs. and Miss Caldecott, Captain, Mrs. and Misses Pearson, Mr., Mrs. and
+Miss Tuck, Mr., Mrs. and Miss A. Steward, Mr. B. Dowson, &c., were
+present.
+
+The Rev. Geo. Hills, M.A., P.C. of St. Mary’s Quarry Hill, Leeds, had
+accepted the living then vacant by the resignation of the Rev. H.
+Mackenzie.
+
+It was remarked that none of the Corporation had attended the luncheon on
+the occasion of the re-opening of the Church, the Mayor stating that he
+could not attend the meeting as “the Church” was to be one of the toasts
+given.
+
+Sept. 9th.—The “Hudson” had been launched from Mr. Barber’s yard, after
+extensive repairs.
+
+Sept. 23rd.—The Rev. G. Hills had “read himself in” at St. Nicholas’
+Church.
+
+Captain Kisbee, R.N., was making experiments with a “patent float.”
+
+Sept. 30th.—The Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield were staying at
+Yarmouth.
+
+The first buildings on the Britannia Terrace had been commenced.  A
+proposition had been made to extend the esplanade and carriage drive from
+this to the Victoria Terrace.
+
+Oct. 7th.—The Good Samaritan Lodge, M.U.O.F., had held its anniversary at
+the Masonic Hall, F. Palmer, Esq., in the chair, when about sixty members
+sat down to dinner, and a silver watch and gold guard chain were
+presented to W. Hanworth, P.G., for his services to the Lodge during the
+then past three years.
+
+Oct. 14th.—The wards were likely to be hotly contested in November, Sir
+E. H. K. Lacon being one of the candidates; but at the Registration Court
+he could not substantiate his claim to be on the Burgess Roll.
+
+Richard Bell, Collector of customs, had died from an attack of the gout.
+
+Oct. 21st.—A meeting had been held, the Mayor in the chair, for purpose
+of considering the question of the establishment of Water Works.
+
+Nov. 4th.—At the Municipal election there had been a return to the
+corrupt system of “feasting,” and at Gorleston certain voters were so
+detained all day until after the poll had closed in order to avoid a
+contest.  The following was the result:—
+
+_North Ward_.—Mr. W. H. Bessey and Mr. Henry Danby Palmer re-elected, no
+opposition.
+
+_Market Ward_.—Mr. Sewell retired, and Mr. Lawn was unseated.
+
+The poll being—
+
+John E. Barnby, C            123
+John Fenn, C                 120 (sic)
+James Lawn, L                120
+Christopher Steward, L       120
+
+_Regent Ward_ (sic), (_a_) The Mayor (P. Pullyn, Esq.) was re-elected
+with Mr. R. Ferrier, jun., a Tory, in the place of Mr. Lettis (a Whig)
+resigned.
+
+_Nelson Ward_.—
+
+John Symonds, L            120
+A. J. Impey, L             114
+W. H. Barnby, C            105
+H. Jay, C                   96
+
+_Gorleston Ward_.—Messrs. Wm. H. Palmer, (L), and S. Miller (C), returned
+without opposition.
+
+The result was a Conservative gain of 5 seats.
+
+(_a_) Evidently this should be St. George’s Ward.  There is no return for
+the Regent Ward, but Sir E. Lacon and Mr. Cherry appeared to have been in
+fact then returned for that Ward.  [ED. Y. M.]
+
+Nov. 11th.—At the Council meeting on the 9th, Mr. Richard Hammond
+proposed and Mr. Dawson Turner seconded, the re-election of Philip
+Pullyn, Esq., to the Mayoralty, and Mr. E. H. L. Preston, proposed and
+Mr. Fenn seconded, Mr. S. C. Marsh for that office, but upon a division
+being taken, Mr. Pullyn was re-elected by 28 to 15 votes.  For Mr.
+Pullyn—Messrs. Fiddes, Bayly, Barker, Cobb, Pearson, Pike, Fellows,
+Walpole, R. Hammond, sen., Boulter, E. R. Palmer, H. D. Palmer, P. White,
+R. Hammond, jun., W. N. Burroughs, D. A. Gourlay, C. Miller, W. Johnson,
+J. Owles, S. Palmer, J. D. Chapman, D. Turner, J. Symonds, W. T. Clarke,
+G. D. Palmer, T. Hammond, A. J. Impey and J. Hammond.  For Mr. Marsh—B.
+Fenn, W. H. Bessey, J. Fenn, J. E. Barnby, J. Cherry, R. Ferrier, W.
+Worship, B. Jay, J. G. Plummer, J. C. Smith, W. H. Palmer, S. Miller, J.
+G. Rivett, E. H. L. Preston and W. Hammond.
+
+Nov. 18th.—The case of Reg. _v._ Preston had been decided, the Court of
+Queen’s Bench holding that the appointment of Overseers rested with the
+Mayor alone, and not with the Magistrates generally.
+
+The friends of Mr. S. C. Marsh, who voted for him as Mayor had dined
+together at the Bear.  It was stated that the Tories could not find a
+Mayor (mare) without going to _Marsh_.
+
+A high tide had flowed up to the Victoria and Britannia Terraces.
+
+Dec. 2nd.—A dinner had been given to the Mayor at the “Star” Tavern, at
+which Mr. W. N. Burroughs presided.
+
+The town had been thrown “into a complete ferment by the report of the
+catastrophe at Stanfield Hall.”
+
+Dec. 16th.—A meeting had been held at the Town Hall for the purpose of
+impressing the “obligation of the Christian Sabbath.”  Wm. H. Palmer,
+Esq., occupied the chair, and was supported by J. W. Shelly, Esq., and
+all the local Dissenting Ministers.
+
+John E. Lacon, Esq., had died, to the great grief of the townsfolk.
+
+Dec. 23rd.—Thos. Brightwen, C. J. Palmer and C. L. Robertson, Esqs., had
+waited on the Rev H. Mackenzie and presented him with a testimonial of
+plate.
+
+The question of the drainage of the Denes was being considered, and a
+meeting had been held on the subject, R. Ferrier, Esq., in the chair.
+
+
+
+1849.
+
+
+Jan. 13th.—The “Cosmopolite,” 312 tons register, had been launched from
+Mr. Brandford’s yard.
+
+Feb. 3rd.—There were 1,145 boys and 1,461 girls attending the Sunday
+Schools, about 1,000 of whom belonged to the Established Church.
+
+Feb. 10th.—Mr. John Lomas Cufaude had been unanimously elected Clerk of
+the Peace, in the place of Mr. J. Barth resigned.
+
+Feb. 17th.—Mr. Ferrier, upon wishing to leave the Council found the door
+locked, and made a disturbance by kicking it “with great violence.”
+
+The Mayor was requested to take notice of this, and on the motion of Mr.
+W. Worship the following resolution was passed:—That “we as a Council
+hold the Mayor blameless for taking anyone into custody in protecting
+this Council in its deliberation.”
+
+March 3rd.—Complaint was made as to the decay of the South Quay trees.
+
+March 10th.—A religious service had been held on board the “Cosmopolite,”
+before her first voyage, she being bound to Singapore.
+
+The Mayor (P. Pullyn, Esq.) had entertained the Recorder, the Bar, and
+several friends at a sumptuous dinner at the “Star.”
+
+March 30th.—Contains a full account of the trial of Rush for the
+Stanfield Hall murders.
+
+April 14th.—The appointment of Overseers having become vested in the
+general body of the Justices by Act of Parliament, the first appointment
+by them had been made.  The following Justices being present:—The Mayor,
+S. Cobb, R. Hammond, G. D. Palmer, and J. W. Shelly, Esqs., (Whigs), and
+Geo. Bateman, W. H. Bessey, W. Thurtell, W. Yetts, J. C. Smith, Wm.
+Danby-Palmer, J. F. Costerton, E. H. L. Preston, and B. Jay, Esqs.
+(Tories).  The following were appointed:—Wm. Green, James Borking, John
+Key, and Samuel Lessey.
+
+The Vestry meeting at the Guildhall had been crowded to suffocation.  R.
+Hammond proposed Mr. C. S. D. Steward for re-election, and Mr. Burroughs
+nominated Mr. F. Worship for re-election, and they were re-elected
+accordingly churchwardens for the ensuing year.
+
+April 21st.—One hundred and ten ladies and gentlemen had attended the
+second Subscription Ball.
+
+April 28th.—Mr. Gourlay had been elected chairman, and Messrs. Lawn and
+S. Norman, vice-chairmen, of the Board of Guardians.  There had been no
+contest at the election of the Board.
+
+May 19th.—The Mayor had given a dinner at the Star.
+
+June 2nd.—The “Yarmouth Bridge Bill” had passed the Committee stage, and
+it was confidently expected that Breydon would now be deepened.
+
+On Whit-Monday the Temperance Society had held a meeting at the Masonic
+Hall, Mr. W. T. Fisher in the chair.
+
+Captain Wm. Larke, R.N., had received from the Admiralty a war medal
+issued for the action fought off Cape St. Vincent, on the 14th February,
+1797, in which glorious engagement he was signal midshipman on board the
+“Prince George,” 98 guns.
+
+A petition in favour of a national poor’s rate was in course of
+signature.
+
+June 9th.—Col. Mason had presented a very handsome carved lectern to St.
+Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Most of the lodging houses on or near the Victoria Terrace were let.  The
+Marchioness of Wellesley was staying in the town.
+
+June 16th.—The report of the British School showed that there were then
+200 scholars at that establishment.
+
+June 23rd.—A tailor, on tramp, had (having procured a bed at the Neptune
+Public-house) drank 9 pints of beer at night and 4 the next morning
+before proceeding to Lowestoft.
+
+June 30th.—The Lord Lieutenant, with Lady Leicester, several members of
+the Digby family, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Whitbread, the Hon. Mr. Coke, Col.
+Porter, Lord Hastings, the Hon. Mr. Astley, Mr. F. Astley, and Mr.
+Norris, had secured rooms at the Victoria Hotel.
+
+The Guildhall was in progress of demolition.
+
+There had been a good catch of mackerel, one boat having brought upwards
+of 6,000 fish.
+
+July 14th.—At the Regatta the following yachts competed:—“Hilda,”
+R.T.Y.C., 25 tons; “Cynthia,” R.V.Y.C., 50 tons; “Foam,” R.V.Y.C., 20
+tons; “Mosquito,” R.T.Y.C., 50 tons; “Secret,” R.T.Y.C., 20 tons; and the
+“Juvenile,” R.H.Y.C., 15 tons.
+
+The “Cynthia,” won the cup.
+
+Upwards of 2,300 passengers were conveyed to Yarmouth by the Railway to
+witness these sports.
+
+The Mayor’s windows had been broken and a reward of £10 offered.
+
+Aug. 25th.—Complaint was made that when fishing boats arrived at the Quay
+on Sunday, a crowd collected round the door of some public-house, and on
+the arrival of a salesman he was accompanied into such house and held a
+sale there of the fish, and that the police never interfered to prevent
+this violation of the Sabbath.
+
+Sept. 1st.—Lady Agnes Buller, Sir William and Lady Wimper, and Mr. and
+Mrs. Wood had taken houses on Brandon Terrace.
+
+An individual resident in the town, had, for the wager of a bottle of
+rum, driven a pony and cart to the end of the Jetty, for which he was
+taken before the Justices and fined 20s.
+
+Great complaint had been made of persons smoking cigars on Victoria
+Terrace to the annoyance of ladies.
+
+Reports as to the appearance of cholera were prevalent in the town.
+
+Sept. 8th.—G. D. Palmer, Esq., had presided at a meeting of sixty of the
+paving Commissioners, and with a view to the threatened appearance of
+cholera, the following special committee as to scavengering was
+appointed:—Messrs. G. D. Palmer, J. Fish, C. E. Bartram, C. Pearson, and
+W. Squire.
+
+St. Peter’s Church had been lighted with gas and opened for evening
+service.
+
+Sept. 15th.—The Theatre had been closed after a disastrous season, it was
+considered that Mr. Clarence had lost £100 by this venture.
+
+Mr. Cufaude and another gentleman amateur had appeared at the Theatre, in
+_A new way to pay old Debts_, and had been received with “rapturous
+applause.”
+
+The Drainage question had been discussed at a meeting of the inhabitants
+(the Mayor in the chair).
+
+Sept. 22nd.—The transfer of the parsonage house from the Corporation to
+the Vicar, had been virtually completed.
+
+Oct. 13th.—The tide had flowed up to Britannia Terrace.
+
+A bed of oysters had been discovered between the Monument and North Pier.
+
+“Dogfish” had damaged the fishermen’s nets and devoured a “large quantity
+of herring.”
+
+Oct. 20th.—Friday having been the day appointed for “Humiliation and
+Prayer,” upwards of 2,900 persons attended St. Nicholas’ Church services;
+in the morning the Rev. Geo. Hills preached from Micah vi., 6, 7 and 8;
+in the afternoon the Rev. H. Neville; in the evening the Rev. G. Hills,
+from Numbers xxi., 48.  The collections amounted to £100.
+
+Nov. 3rd.—The Market and Regent Wards had been contested.  Messrs.
+Gourlay and Steward (Whigs) against Messrs. W. Aldred and Fyson
+(Conservatives) in the Market Ward, and Messrs. J. Fish and J. D. Chapman
+(Whigs) against Messrs. R. D. Barber and H. R. Harmer (Conservatives) in
+the Regent Ward.  The elections terminated in favour of Messrs. Barber
+and Fish in the Regent, and Messrs. Aldred and Gourlay in the Market
+Ward.
+
+In the North, St. George’s, and Nelson Wards there were no contests,
+consequently Messrs. Wm. Worship, P. White, R. Ferrier, B. Jay, G.
+Cannell, and M. Butcher had been re-elected.  In the Gorleston Ward
+Messrs. Clarke (Whig) and R. Steward (Conservative) had been returned.
+
+Nov. 10th.—At the Council meeting on the 9th, Mr. Owles proposed, and Mr.
+W. Johnson seconded, Mr. D. A. Gourlay for the Mayoralty, and Mr. R.
+Steward proposed and Mr. Cherry seconded, the election of Mr. E. H. L.
+Preston to that office, when the voting was, for Mr. Gourlay 27 and for
+Mr. Preston 14.
+
+Nov. 17th.—A “Sanitary Inquiry” had been held before Wm. Lee, Esq.
+
+Dec. 22nd.—Mr. Jas. Jackson had been elected a Councillor for the North
+Ward in the place of Richard Hammond, Esq., who had been appointed an
+Alderman, vice S. Cobb, Esq., deceased.
+
+Dec. 30th.—£35 13s. 6d. had been paid by Mr. Sloman to the funds of the
+Hospital, on account of the profits derived from the sale of hymn books.
+
+The inmates of the Workhouse had been regaled with a dinner of plum
+pudding and roast beef, with a pint of strong beer each.
+
+
+
+1850.
+
+
+Jan. 5th.—At the Hospital meeting it was stated that £96 4s. 11d. had
+been collected for that institution on the general Fast Day.  Mr. B.
+Dowson occupied the chair, and Messrs. G. D. Palmer, J. G. Cannell, W.
+Steele, W. H. Palmer, and Dr. Impey took part in the proceedings.
+
+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.
+
+March 30th.—There had been a heavy fall of snow and intense cold, the
+thermometer standing at 23 deg.
+
+Two new oyster beds had been discovered in the roadstead, and oysters
+vended at 1d. to 3d. per quarter.
+
+April 6th.—The first boilers ever made in the town had been manufactured
+by Mr. S. V. Moore, for the “Enterprize,” and fixed in her at the Crane.
+They weighed 13 tons each.
+
+William Barth, Esq., had died in London.
+
+Mr. Robert Waters’ mill at Southtown had been burnt.  It was insured for
+£1,600 in the Sun and Norwich Union Fire Offices.
+
+April 13th.—The death of Admiral Hills is recorded.
+
+The following Guardians had been elected:—The Mayor (D. A. Gourlay,
+Esq.), T. Brightwen, James Jackson, George Danby-Palmer, S. C. Marsh, J.
+Fish, J. Fiddes, and B. Fenn, Esqs., and Messrs. M. Blowers, R.
+Ecclestone, C. Steward, J. Lawn, T. Lettis, jun., S. Norman, J. D.
+Chapman, and S. J. Fill.
+
+April 20th.—A petition for the abolition of Church Rates was being signed
+in the town.
+
+April 27th.—The Congregationalists had determined to build a new chapel
+upon part of the site of the late Mansion of John Penrice, Esq., in King
+Street, and £1,107 10s. 7d. had already been subscribed.
+
+Dr. Smyth had delivered a lecture on “Respiration and Atmospheric Air,”
+at the Y.M.I.  The attendance was small.
+
+May 4th.—Contains the record of the death of Samuel Palmer, Esq., from
+the effects of an accident.  Mr. Palmer was taking a drive in the
+afternoon, and while going over the Bridge his pony took fright at the
+firing of some cannon in commemoration of the marriage of Miss Costerton,
+Mr. Palmer in attempting to jump out of his gig was thrown with great
+force upon his head, which injury proved a fatal one.
+
+A finely-toned bell weighing 10 cwt. 3 qrs. 14 lbs. in the key G, bearing
+the inscription “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,” had been fixed in the tower of
+the new Roman Catholic Church.
+
+The Poor’s box in the Parish Church had been broken open, and the
+contents, believed to be a large amount, stolen.
+
+May 11th.—Mr. E. H. L. Preston had been appointed Receiver of Admiralty
+Droits in the place of Mr. Samuel Palmer deceased.
+
+The following compensation had been awarded, with regard to the
+properties taken for the approach to the new bridge:—
+
+Mr. Puncher            £1,757
+Mr. Teasdel              £418
+
+Messrs. Preston’s case was going to a Suffolk jury.
+
+May 18th.—The “Bear Hotel,” was being demolished for the new bridge
+approach.
+
+The Jury impannelled in the case of Preston _v._ The Haven Commissioners,
+after hearing the evidence of the plaintiff, and Mr. Palmer in reply,
+awarded them £950 damage and £100 for the value of the land taken.
+
+May 25th.—Rustic sports had been provided on the South Denes, at
+Whitsuntide, when there had been a great influx of people brought by rail
+and the “Earl of Liverpool” steamer.
+
+The “Prince of Wales,” Revenue cutter, Lieut. John Allen, had brought
+into the harbour the “Seaflower,” having on board 122 parcels of leaf
+tobacco of 50 lbs. each.
+
+June 1st.—The Queen _v._ The Justices of Great Yarmouth, as to rating
+Vauxhall Gardens, had been heard and the rule obtained for the parish,
+discharged with costs.  Mr. O’Malley appeared for Mr. C. Cory, and Mr.
+Palmer for the parish.
+
+The Southtown tolls had been let by auction to Mr. W. Matson for £344 per
+annum.  In 1820 these tolls had only realised £248.
+
+A large meeting had been held at the Angel inn on the subject of the
+exceedingly high Poor’s rate levied in the parish, Mr. Richard Ferrier in
+the chair.
+
+June 15th.—It appeared from the Guardians accounts that 25 per cent. was
+allowed in their accounts “for waste in the consumption of meat.”
+
+June 22nd.—The following persons had been elected Poor’s rate collectors,
+viz., Mr. Robert Bullen, Mr. Thomas Kelf, Mr. High, Mr. R. Harbert, and
+Mr. William Nutman.
+
+Bro. Richard Ferrier had entertained his brother Masons at Burgh Castle,
+in commemoration of the completion of his new mansion, the foundation of
+which was laid with Masonic honours.
+
+July 6th.—Mr. Joseph Clarence had obtained a license for the Theatre for
+six months, subject to certain more stringent regulations than had
+previously prevailed.
+
+July 13th.—The flag on the church and the town flags on the hall had been
+hoisted at half-mast upon the day of Sir R. Peel’s funeral.
+
+William Johnson, Esq., of Southtown, had given an entertainment on the
+occasion of the marriage of his daughter to William Mart, Esq., of
+London.
+
+July 27th.—A meeting had been held with regard to the “Public Health
+Act.”
+
+Aug. 3rd.—A Mrs. Baker (a visitor) had attempted to commit suicide in one
+of Mr. Brown’s bathing machines.
+
+Aug. 10th.—Youell’s nurseries were in full bloom.
+
+Mr. John Morton, of Caister, had taken the degree of a M.C.S. Edin.
+
+Aug. 17th.—The late high tide had removed nearly 60 acres of beach and
+sandbanks at Caister, and a shoal called the Hood, lying to the North of
+the village had disappeared.  Consequent upon this there had been a large
+deposit of sand upon Yarmouth Beach.
+
+Robert Rising, Esq., the auditor, having applied for a summons against
+Mr. Henry Pickard, late assistant overseer and rate collector, on a
+charge of embezzling £675 13s. 8¾d., at the hearing of such information
+the prisoner pleaded “guilty,” and failing sufficient distress he was
+sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.  He had sureties to the amount of
+£400 who were being proceeded against.
+
+Aug. 24th.—Col. Peel, M.P., J. S. Dunkald, Esq., and Sir E. H. K. Lacon,
+Bart., had acted as Stewards of the Races.
+
+The Ferries had been let by William Walpole, Esq., by auction, the upper
+ferry for £250, and the Gorleston ferry for £175 per annum.
+
+Aug. 31st.—Lady Bolton, a niece of Lord Nelson, had visited Capt. Manby,
+who had been a schoolmate of his Lordship 79 years previously.
+
+Sept. 14th.—The churchwardens and overseers had been summoned before the
+Justices to show cause why they neglected or refused to pay over to the
+Guardians the sum of £789, in accordance with their order, and the
+hearing of the case adjourned.
+
+Sept. 21st.—A supplemental rate of 2d. in the £ had been made to meet
+this demand.  It appeared that the Guardians asked for £2,800 for the
+current quarter, but the overseers insisted that £2,200 would suffice,
+and only in the first instance raised that amount, hence the deficiency.
+
+Sept. 28th.—There was likely to be an appeal against this supplemental
+poor’s rate.
+
+A meeting of the electors for the Regent Ward had been held at the “Star
+and Garter” Inn, at which Mr. Thomas George presided, when S. C. Marsh
+and R. H. Harmer, Esqs., offered themselves as candidates, the
+determination of D. Turner, Esq., to retire was announced by Mr. W.
+Worship.
+
+Oct. 12th.—The season, in consequence of the high position Lowestoft had
+taken as a watering place, had been far from prosperous.
+
+Sept. 26th.—The new Roman Catholic Church had been licensed for
+marriages.
+
+The following tenders had been sent in for the draining the Denes:—J.
+Thompson, (Yarmouth), £4,424; W. Johnson, (London), £4,393; G. Piggins,
+(Yarmouth), £4,234 19s.; R. Page, (Yarmouth), £3,922; and R. Pratt,
+(Yarmouth), £3,715.  The lowest tender was accepted; about 7,400 feet of
+sewer being required.
+
+A Vestry Meeting had been held as to the Rating of small tenements, when
+the poll taken on an amendment in favour of applying the Act, was 329 as
+against 68 against it.
+
+A special Sessions had been held to hear upwards of 250 appeals against
+the recently made Poor’s Rate.
+
+Mr. J. H. Harrison’s was the case taken, and after hearing Mr. Chamberlin
+on his behalf, and examining the Rate Book, Mr. Preston moved and Mr. G.
+Danby-Palmer seconded, and it was carried by the vote of the bench that
+an unequal assessment existed and the rate was accordingly quashed.  Mr.
+Cufaude on behalf of the Overseers, then stated that he agreed to this.
+The decision was received with applause.
+
+Sir J. Walmesley, M.P., J. Hume, Esq., M.P., and T. Norton, Esq.,
+attended a meeting as a deputation from the Financial Reform Association.
+
+Nov. 9th.—The result of the Municipal Election had left the parties
+equally balanced in the Council; the means used in these contests having
+in most instances been “disgusting and disgraceful.”
+
+The following was the polling:—
+
+         _Gorleston Ward_.
+E. H. L. Preston, (C)            185
+W. Hammond, (C)                  170
+S. Crowe, (L)                     78
+F. S. Costerton, (L)              64
+           _North Ward_.
+J. Jackson, (L)                  108
+W. N. Burroughs, (L)             105
+S. Nightingale, (C)               90
+C. Cory, (C)                      68
+           _Regent Ward_.
+S. C. Marsh, (C)                 105
+J. D. Chapman, (L)               103
+H. R. Harmer, (C)                 94
+F. Palmer, (L)                    83
+        _St. George’s Ward_.
+J. G. Plummer, (C)               130
+J. C. Smith, (C)                 116
+J. Barker, (L)                   101
+           _Nelson Ward_.
+G. D. Palmer and T. Lettis,
+(unopposed).
+           _Market Ward_.
+C. Aldred, (C)                   129
+F. Worship, (C)                  123
+J. Owles, (L)                    104
+J. Cobb, (L)                      84
+
+Nov. 16th.—At the Council Meeting on the 9th, 46 members being present,
+Mr. George Danby-Palmer proposed and Mr. P. Pullyn seconded Capt. Charles
+Pearson, R.N., for the office of Mayor, and Mr. Wm. H. Palmer proposed
+and Mr. E. H. L. Preston seconded, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., for that
+office.
+
+Upon taking the votes it appeared 25 were for Capt. Pearson and 21 for
+Sir E. H. K. Lacon.  Mr. Ferrier then remarked “The majority for Capt.
+Pearson is 4, and as 10 Aldermen voted for him, he is in fact returned by
+gentlemen who are now out of office.”  Messrs. J. Fyson, Chas. J. Palmer,
+J. C. Smith, H. Jay, W. Yetts, (Conservatives) and the Mayor and Messrs.
+J. Pike, J. Fiddes, J. Bayly, J. Barker and B. Fenn, were then nominated
+for Aldermen, when 42 members voted for Mr. Fenn and 21 for the other 5
+party candidates, whereupon Mayor gave his casting vote in favour of the
+Whig Nominees.
+
+The Mayor’s dinner was held at the “Star” on the following Monday, when
+His Worship occupied the chair and R. Hammond, Esq., the Vice-chair.  D.
+A. Gourlay, Esq. (Deputy-Mayor) P. Pullyn, G. Danby-Palmer, H. Worship,
+F. Palmer, W. N. Burroughs, Esqs., and the principal Liberal members of
+the Corporation were present.
+
+The price of Gas had been reduced to 5s. per thousand cubic feet.
+
+H. Palmer, Esq., had notified his intention to resign the Town Clerkship.
+
+Mr. Cufaude, Mr. C. Cory, and Mr. J. Clowes, were spoken of as probable
+candidates.
+
+Mr. G. Johnson had been elected master of the Workhouse.
+
+Nov. 23rd.—The crew of a Sheringham smack had been fined £100 each, or
+six months’ imprisonment for smuggling 2,760 lbs. of tobacco.
+
+Dec. 14th.—Several houses on the Denes had been broken into, and some
+brushes stolen from Mr. J. Palmer’s warehouse at the Bridge foot, where
+the thieves missed taking a considerable amount of gold and silver
+carelessly left on the premises.
+
+Dec. 21st.—W. Lee, Esq., had held an Inquiry as to the drainage of the
+Denes.
+
+                      [Picture: Decorative graphic]
+
+
+
+
+THIRD SERIES, 1851–60.
+
+
+    “When found, make a note of”—
+
+                                                             CAPT. CUTTLE.
+
+
+
+1851.
+
+
+Jan. 4th.—At the meeting of the Town Council, the Councillors for the St.
+George’s, Market and Gorleston Wards refused to appoint Ward Aldermen “as
+they had no confidence” in the Aldermen recently appointed by the casting
+vote of the Mayor.
+
+The “Water question” was before the public, when, as to the Ormesby water
+with which it was proposed to supply the town, Mr. Cooper, an eminent
+analytical chemist, stated that such water “was turbid from the green and
+brown matter in it” and that “the large quantity (four grains) of
+vegetable organic matter that it contained rendered it wholly unfit for
+domestic purposes other than cleansing.”
+
+Jan. 11th.—Chas. J. Palmer had presided at the Annual Public Library
+meeting, when it was stated that upwards of 5,000 books belonged to that
+institution.
+
+J. Tolver, Esq. had sent in his resignation as Clerk to the Paving
+Commissioners.
+
+Jan. 25th.—It was stated that a provisional order was about to be issued,
+applying the “Health of Town’s Act” to the Borough, thus threatening the
+Paving Commissioners with extinction.
+
+There was great complaint against these Commissioners for not properly
+lighting the Denes.
+
+Wm. Sumner, an ex-constable was bound over to keep the peace at the
+instance of Samuel Tolver, Esq.
+
+Feb. 1st.—The following notice appears as to No. 4, South Quay:—
+
+    A tradition has long existed in connection with the Elizabethian
+    House upon the Quay, formerly belonging to John Carter, the regicide,
+    but now the residence of C. J. Palmer, Esq., F.S.A., (mentioned by
+    Noble, vol. 2, p. 340), that of the “many secret consults” which the
+    rebels held prior to the trial and execution of King Charles I. the
+    fatal and final one took place in a chamber in the above mentioned
+    house, in which Carter then lived.  A meeting of the chief
+    Parliamentarian Generals was summoned, and the regicides, it is said,
+    met early in the afternoon, and the conference, which was one of
+    ‘great secrecy,’ did not terminate until near the hour of midnight,
+    the dinner which had been ordered for four o’clock not being served
+    until the meeting broke up.  This tradition, though generally
+    credited, had hitherto received no confirmation to render it of
+    historical value.  The important fact has, however, been placed
+    almost beyond a doubt, as we can state on the authority of F.
+    Worship, Esq., that in the course of the labours of the Committee
+    recently appointed by the Town Council to inquire into the ancient
+    records and muniments of the Borough, a record has been found of the
+    visit of Oliver Cromwell to our town about the time alluded to, it
+    having never yet been definitely ascertained that the Protector
+    visited Yarmouth.  We hope this very interesting discovery will
+    induce the Committee to prosecute their labours, and when the
+    valuable town documents have been arranged and restored, the Council
+    will see the propriety and necessity of providing some suitable
+    depository for them.
+
+Feb. 8th.—The New Mercantile Marine Act had excited much dissatisfaction,
+and several handbills had appeared urging the sailors to take action, and
+on Tuesday morning having “struck,” they mustered in groups on the
+Hall-quay.  Subsequently they formed in procession to the number of 1,000
+and paraded the town for several hours; they had a band and flags with
+them, and a board on which was written “Do not sign the laws” and “Wages
+£2 15s.  Summer and Winter.”
+
+A Seaman’s Union had been formed having 450 members, and Mr. J. Teasdel
+having given notice that he did not intend to reduce the wages paid to
+his men to 50s. a month, several hundred of the men on strike, went over
+the Bridge and manned the yards of a vessel belonging to that gentleman,
+for whom they gave some loud and hearty cheers.
+
+The Magistrates refused to sign a 1s. 9d.  Poor rate, but such rate was
+subsequently signed by Mr. W. H. Palmer and Mr. J. Fenn and the rate for
+that amount made.
+
+Feb. 15th.—A meeting of the shipowners had been held at the Town-hall to
+consider the seamen’s grievances, the Mayor in the chair, when upon the
+motion of Mr. George Danby-Palmer, a resolution was carried to obtain a
+repeal of the act of Parliament complained of, and a Committee formed
+consisting of six owners and six seamen with the Mayor as chairman to
+give effect to such resolution; the wages question was, however, not
+discussed.
+
+Feb. 22nd.—A further meeting had been held “to take into consideration
+the present complaint of seamen respecting their wages, that the same may
+be equalized throughout the year whether by voyage or month.”
+
+About 30 owners were present, and also the Sailors’ Committee; the Mayor
+was in the chair, and the sailors refused to be bound by their “old
+agreement;” the following account is given of their subsequent
+proceedings:—
+
+    Since the above meeting a letter has been sent to the Mayor,
+    announcing that the sailors were determined not to abide for the
+    future by the old agreement; and handbills were also publicly issued,
+    announcing a “grand procession” of the seamen of the port for the
+    following day.  Accordingly on Saturday the sailors assembled
+    opposite to their rendezvous, at the Royal Exchange on the Quay, to
+    the number of about 1,500, and flags, union jacks, &c., with a band
+    of music having been procured, a procession was formed, which paraded
+    the town for several hours.  The men were mostly respectably attired,
+    and wore rosettes of various colours, from which were suspended the
+    medals of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.  Some of the men were
+    dressed in various emblematical characters, such as Britannia,
+    Neptune, Amphitrite, Triton, &c., and were borne upon the shoulders
+    of the crowd in boats, dolphin cars, &c., which were decorated with
+    evergreens, &c., in short the whole assemblage seemed more like a
+    triumphal procession than that of a demonstration occasioned by one
+    of those unfortunate breaches between employers and employed, termed
+    a “strike.”  Throughout the crowd a number of placards were
+    distributed, bearing the following inscription:—“We, the seamen of
+    Yarmouth, hereby testify our gratitude to the inhabitants, for the
+    handsome manner in which they have come forward to assist us in
+    obtaining our just rights.”  Also a number of poles, terminating in
+    tridents, fishes, &c., were borne aloft, together with a handsomely
+    carved model ship, covered with the flags of all nations.
+
+Mr. S. S. Barber had applied to the Bench for the assistance of the civil
+force to protect his seamen, who had just arrived by the “Maid of the
+Yare,” London Trader, and who had been persuaded to leave their vessel,
+and even threatened to be taken away by force if they did not leave.  The
+Superintendent and some of the police went down to the spot, but, as the
+men remained perfectly peaceable, their presence was not at all required.
+
+The following members of the Council had addressed a letter to the
+Treasury protesting against a proposed loan for drainage purposes, which
+was said to have been carried by a majority of the Council at its last
+meeting:—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, R. Ferrier, E. H. L. Preston, F. Worship,
+William H. Palmer, R. Steward, R. D. Barber, E. R. Aldred, J. C. Smith,
+J. G. Plummer, J. Cherry, J. E. Barnby, C. C. Aldred, B. Jay, R. Ferrier,
+junr., S. Miller and William Worship, and thereupon at the Council
+meeting a very warm discussion ensued, during which Mr. C. C. Aldred was
+accused of having called Mr. George Danby-Palmer “a liar,” and Sir E. H.
+K. Lacon (by Mr. Henry Danby-Palmer) of having made a disturbance by
+“kicking against the panels.”
+
+March 1st.—The following Councillors subsequently addressed a letter to
+the Treasury in respect of these proceedings:—D. A. Gourlay, H.
+Danby-Palmer, J. Bayly, R. Hammond, J. Lettis, junr., J. Fish, W. T.
+Clarke, J. Barker, P. Pullyn, J. Jackson, J. D. Chapman, R. Hammond,
+junr., G. Danby-Palmer, W. N. Burroughs, C. E. Bartram, M. Butcher, J. G.
+Cannell, H. Boulter, P. White, J. Fiddes and J. Pike.
+
+This issue contains the following report of the Sailors’ Strike and
+Riot:—
+
+    We have this week to record a riot of a serious nature arising out of
+    the unfortunate strike among the seamen who, until recently, had
+    conducted themselves in a manner highly creditable to so large a body
+    of men placed in such circumstances.  Since the ill-advised
+    rejection, by the men, of the old agreement as to wages, there have
+    been several mariners (as there always must be with an over-stocked
+    labour market) quite ready and glad to sail at different rates to
+    those proposed by those who struck; and forseeing that if such
+    defections from their camp continued, their strike would be
+    unavailing, the sailors have during the last week been in the habit
+    of parading the Quay, in gangs, for the purpose of unlawfully
+    preventing such as were willing to go to sea from joining their
+    ships, and partly by force, and partly by threats, several men have
+    been deterred from fulfilling their engagements.  Although these
+    facts were known to the authorities, no steps were taken to put a
+    stop to them, in the hope that the reasonable and peaceable portion
+    of the sailors would see how unjustifiable was the course they were
+    pursuing, and how really destructive it was to the interests both of
+    the owners and men.  The same line of conduct was, however,
+    continued.  The first case brought before the Bench was that of
+    Samuel Graystone, the mate of the schooner “Ant,” belonging to Mr. S.
+    S. Barber, who applied for the protection of the police, the men
+    having been taken out of his vessel on Friday afternoon last.  On
+    Saturday morning, Mr. Barber again appeared before the Mayor to
+    complain that the master and crew of the “Maid of the Yare” had been
+    interrupted, and made to go on shore.  The master having come up and
+    corroborated this statement, the crew were sent for and asked if they
+    were willing to go to sea, having signed articles.  The master and
+    mate said they were, but the men declined, through fear of personal
+    violence.  They were told that if they did not they must be sent to
+    gaol, but if they were willing to go they should be protected.  They
+    then agreed to go, and were sent down accordingly with a body of the
+    police; the master and mate went on board, but the crew refused, and
+    the police were therefore withdrawn, when some sailors went and
+    ill-used the mate, throwing him over the bows of his ship on to the
+    Quay Head.  The captain also was pushed on shore.  Subsequently the
+    Bench were informed that the man Graystone had again been taken out
+    of his vessel, which had gone to sea without him, and was then lying
+    in Corton Roads.  Graystone was sent for, and said he was not willing
+    to go; but on an information being taken against him for refusing, he
+    said he would if he could be protected.  A steamtug was therefore
+    ordered to convey him to his vessel, and on its arriving opposite the
+    Town Hall at half-past two o’clock, the Magistrates agreed, before
+    taking any other steps, to try whether the police were not sufficient
+    to protect the men on board, notwithstanding the evident
+    determination of a large body of sailors to prevent him.  The
+    Superintendent of Police, therefore, arranged the whole force, and
+    with Graystone in the centre, surrounded by the Mayor and
+    Magistrates, the escort left the station-house, distant not more than
+    one hundred yards from the steamtug.  When about half way down, the
+    crowd, which then consisted of about 200 or 300 sailors, set up a
+    tremendous yell and rushed upon the police, whose ranks were speedily
+    broken, several of the police and Magistrates being struck.  They
+    rallied, and with the assistance of the Magistrates, who were mainly
+    instrumental in preventing Graystone from being rescued, they
+    succeeded in placing him safely on board the tug.  The principal
+    ringleaders were then picked out, and after some considerable
+    struggling they were got into the station-house.  By this time the
+    concourse of people had increased to upwards of a thousand.  Some of
+    the men then obtained a spar or boom which was brought opposite the
+    station-house door for the purpose of using it as a battering ram to
+    release the six or seven prisoners within.  Several stones were
+    thrown, and a few windows broken; upon which the Mayor immediately
+    swore in as many persons as were willing to be special constables,
+    and a sally was made upon the mob, and with considerable difficulty
+    the spar was got away, and one or two of those who were using it were
+    taken into custody, but being completely overpowered, the authorities
+    were compelled to retreat with the force into the station-house.
+    Shortly after, Capt. Ellis, R.N., having arrived with a body of the
+    coastguardsmen, armed with muskets, &c., together with some of the
+    men from the revenue cutter, they took up a position in front of the
+    Hall and Police-station.  The Mayor then read the Riot Act, the
+    people not dispersing, but on the contrary rather increasing, as
+    there must then have been several thousands.  Mr. G. D. Palmer
+    addressed a few words to them from the Hall-door, imploring them to
+    desist from the foolish course they had taken, and entreating them to
+    disperse peaceably.  A stone was then hurled at the spot where the
+    Magistrates were standing, but it fortunately did not take effect,
+    and the man who threw it was instantly secured and brought into the
+    station-house.  The following proclamation was issued by the Mayor:—
+
+                 “Borough of Great Yarmouth, 22nd Feb., 1851.
+
+    “NOTICE.—A riot having this day taken place in this Borough, and the
+    Riot Act having been read, all peaceable and loyal inhabitants are
+    desired to keep in their houses until order has been restored.  And
+    notice is hereby further given, that no assemblage of persons will be
+    allowed.
+
+                                                  CHARLES PEARSON, Mayor.”
+
+    After a consultation of the Magistrates, they unanimously determined
+    to send to Norwich for a troop of the Military stationed there.  A
+    telegraphic message was therefore despatched, which reached the
+    Norwich Station about half-past four o’clock.  In the meantime nine
+    of the East Norfolk Militia located here, under Captain Brown,
+    arrived, and were speedily followed by detachments of the Coastguard
+    from the stations at Caister, Winterton, Corton, &c., who were all
+    sworn in as special constables.  The total available force for the
+    protection of the town now amounted to 201, viz., 90 special
+    constables, 81 officers and men of the revenue cutter and coastguard,
+    21 policemen, and 9 militia men; and it was determined to clear the
+    space in front of the station-house, which, with much difficulty was
+    accomplished, when the police succeeded in picking out and taking
+    several of the ringleaders.
+
+    Some persons consider that the people might have been entirely
+    dispersed without the aid of the military, but considering the
+    overwhelming number of persons present, it could only have been
+    accomplished by the armed force charging among the people, which
+    might have involved much bloodshed, if not actual loss of life, and
+    there can be no doubt that the authorities exercised a wise and
+    prudent discretion in contenting themselves by keeping the crowd as
+    it were at bay, until the arrival of the military, a troop of which,
+    consisting of 35 of the 11th Hussars, under Captain Douglas, reached
+    the Yarmouth station by special train at about a quarter to six in
+    the evening.  A great mob of people had assembled at the terminus,
+    and the officer in command refused to enter the town unless
+    accompanied by a magistrate on horseback.  J. C. Smith, Esq.,
+    accordingly having gone down, the troop, a little before seven
+    o’clock, entered the town and cantering their horses over the quay
+    and pavements, the crowd which had remained in front of the
+    Police-court fled in every direction, some of them in their anxiety
+    to escape the too near approach of the soldiers’ swords, actually
+    running over one another.  Several women were knocked down by the mob
+    in their flight, but we believe no injuries, beyond a few broken
+    heads and bruised limbs, were received by any one.  Great numbers of
+    persons, however, secreted themselves by the river side, and in the
+    ends of the numerous narrow rows in the town, under the impression
+    that the military could not dislodge them.  The Mayor, however,
+    having issued orders for the entire quay to be cleared, the police,
+    aided by a strong body of special constables, were for some hours
+    engaged in dispersing the knots of people who had collected in these
+    localities; patrols of the military and the police were then placed
+    at all the principal thoroughfares leading to the Town Hall, which
+    had been the scene of the riot, for the purpose of stopping all
+    persons from coming that way.  About eleven o’clock order having
+    been, comparatively speaking, restored, the Magistrates consulted
+    with the commanding-officer, and it was agreed that the military
+    (which now numbered 75 in all, having been joined by another troop)
+    should retire to their quarters, holding themselves in readiness to
+    be called out at a minute’s warning.  The police were sent on their
+    regular beats, but the cutter’s men and coastguardsmen remained at
+    the Hall during the whole of the Saturday night, as did also the
+    special constables, who were divided into three divisions, under
+    regular captains, for the purpose of relieving each other every four
+    hours.  At half-past nine on Sunday morning, the Mayor and
+    Magistrates again assembled, but as everything had passed off quietly
+    during the night, and as there did not seem any disposition on the
+    part of the persons who were collected round the Hall (more by
+    curiosity than otherwise) to commit any breach of the peace, the
+    special constables, with most of the coastguardsmen were released
+    from further duty until they should be again summoned, if required,
+    by the alarm bell.  At the close of the morning’s service the
+    Magistrates held a further consultation, when it was determined to
+    draw up a report of the occurrences which had taken place, and to
+    transmit the same to Sir G. Grey, the Secretary of the Home
+    Department, to whom it was suggested that it would be advisable that
+    a war steamer should be sent down to the port until order was
+    entirely restored.
+
+    We cannot conclude our report without bearing our testimony to the
+    great and extraordinary exertions to maintain peace and order made by
+    our excellent Chief Magistrate, ably supported as he was by everyone
+    of his brother Magistrates, and to the firmness and determination
+    displayed by the Authorities may be mainly attributed to the
+    preservation of the public peace, and the prompt and effectual
+    suppression of the riotious spirit displayed by some thoughtless and
+    illadvised men.  It could hardly have been supposed that any friends
+    of order could have been found ready to cast any blame upon the
+    Authorities for the wise precautions they took, but we regret to say
+    that some persons who, instead of coming forward to assist in
+    preserving the public peace, kept, to their shame, in their own
+    houses, and who, entirely ignorant of the organisation which was on
+    foot, presume to censure those whom they should have been the first
+    to support.  Such parties are, however, we trust, but few, for we
+    feel sure that the course pursued on the present occasion by the
+    Authorities, will receive the unqualified approval and sanction of
+    all the peaceably disposed and loyal inhabitants of the town.  The
+    conduct of the Police force—as well as that of the special
+    constables—was most meritorious and praiseworthy; some of the former
+    especially distinguished themselves for their courageous conduct, but
+    it would be invidious to make any distinction between them, as all
+    the men in the force are equally deserving of praise.  They exercised
+    the greatest forbearance, being most grossly insulted and ill-used,
+    notwithstanding which they abstained from using their staves until
+    the spirit of riot being openly manifested, they were directed to use
+    them by their excellent superintendent, Capt. B. Love.
+    Police-constable Fuller has been very seriously injured, it being
+    feared that some of his ribs are broken; another man who was engaged
+    in the cowardly act of beating Police-constable Johnson while on the
+    ground, in his turn received a blow from the truncheon of one of the
+    special constables, which inflicted a very serious wound on his head.
+    Many other persons were hurt in the course of the riot, but not that
+    we can learn to any serious extent.  It is said, however, that a man
+    was severely wounded in the hand by the sword of one of the soldiers,
+    he having seized the bridle and nearly thrown the latter.
+
+On the succeeding Monday the several cases were dealt with arising out of
+these proceedings.
+
+Mr. I. Preston appeared to prosecute, Mr. C. Cooper (instructed by Mr. F.
+S. Costerton) representing the prisoners.
+
+Robert Watson (for obstructing Captain Love, Surperintendent of Police)
+fined 10s.
+
+James King (for threatening E. H. L. Preston, Esq.,) fined 40s.
+
+Samuel Bowles (like offence) fined £3.
+
+John Crow (ditto) fined £1.
+
+James Harvey, William Balls and William Stoddard (ditto) discharged with
+a caution.
+
+Samuel Gowing (ditto) fined £1.
+
+Henry Walpole (charged by William Danby-Palmer, Esq., with a like
+offence) fined £2.
+
+James Vincent (for creating a disturbance) fined 10s.
+
+George Walton (charged by Mr. S. S. Barber) for a “rescue,” fined £5.
+
+Alfred Pye (for assaulting Police-constable Lattimore) fined £2.
+
+William Bee, John Creak, Benjamin Mallett, Edward Brooks, and Robert
+Willgrass (charged with having taken part in the riot and disturbance)
+were committed for trial, but Bee, Mallett and Creak were admitted to
+bail in two sureties of £40 each and their own recognizances for £68
+each.
+
+H.M. ships “Black Eagle” and “Lightning” had entered the Harbour and laid
+on the west side of the river.
+
+The Workhouse (which unfortunately contained a large number of idle and
+dissolute characters) had been the scene of frequent disturbances, and
+police had been lodged there on that account.  During the riot an
+outbreak, however, had taken place, and a ringleader named Charles
+Girdlestone taken into custody; he was sentenced to 42 days’ hard labour
+for this offence, and would be sent for trial for a ferocious attack on
+the police.  Three other paupers had been sent to the treadmill for 21
+days each for refractory conduct.
+
+March 8th.—At the Quarter Sessions, (held before N. Palmer, Esq.), the
+rioters, John Creak (24), Benjamin Mallett (34), John Brooks (19),
+William Bee (26), and Robert Willgrass (—), were put upon their trial.
+
+Mr. Hotson (with whom was Mr. Mills and Mr. Bulwer) prosecuted, and Mr.
+Evans (with whom was Mr. C. Cooper) defended the prisoners, the Jury
+(having deliberated for 25 minutes) returned a verdict of Not Guilty,
+“which verdict was received with a loud burst of applause, which lasted
+two or three minutes.”
+
+March 15th.—The strike had ended, most of the owners having consented to
+sign agreements for giving the men the wages they asked for, for a period
+of 12 months.
+
+March 22nd.—The sailors had held a “Grand Procession with flags, banners,
+and triumphant cars.”  In the latter were several men attired as Neptune,
+Britannia, &c., in the evening they attended at the Vauxhall Gardens,
+where there was a grand display of fireworks.—During the strike 500
+stones of flour, 600 lbs. of beef, and 500 cwt. of coals, had been
+distributed amongst the families of the men on strike from the
+contributions of the inhabitants.
+
+The N.A.O.D. had met at the Trinity Arms to celebrate the 10th
+anniversary of the Trinity Lodge, No. 220.  Messrs. R. R. B. Norman, J.
+P. Hastings, P.A., and F. Palmer took part in the proceedings.—It was
+stated there were then three lodges of this order in the town.
+
+April 5th.—Mr. Ferrier and Sir E. H. K. Lacon had appealed, without
+success, against the rating of certain property on the Denes, on the
+ground “that it was not within the town.”
+
+April 12th.—Mr. S. Tolver had instructed Mr. Coppock, the parliamentary
+agent, to prepare the petition against the application of the Public
+Health Act to the town, and this document was being numerously signed.
+
+It was proposed to form a “Pilot” Steam Tug Company (capital, £1,000 in
+£5 shares.)
+
+George Danby-Palmer and J. Barker, Esqs., had been elected Haven
+Commissioners, and D. A. Gourlay and R. Hammond, Esqs., Supernumerary
+Haven Commissioners.
+
+April 19th.—Mr. T. Brightwen was urging the appointment of a Chaplain at
+the Workhouse.
+
+The Conservatives had secured, for the first time, several scats at the
+Board of Guardians, the following forming the new Board:—
+
+Nominated by both parties—Messrs. B. Fenn, S. C. Marsh, and S. V. Moore.
+
+Liberals—Messrs. G. Danby-Palmer, D. A Gourlay, and T. Brightwen.
+
+Conservatives—Messrs. R. Ferrier, E. R. Aldred, C. Woolverton, W.
+Worship, J. G. Plummer, W. Laws, E. H. L. Preston, S. Nightingale, J.
+Cherry, and T. Paul.
+
+Captain Ellis, R.N., had exhibited the model of a fast sailing yacht.
+
+Captain James Day had been fined £5 for assaulting Mr. Nolloth, tailor.
+
+The “Public Heath Act” was again being discussed by the Town Council,
+where Mr. Burroughs moved, and Mr. Barker seconded, a petition against
+the application of the Act to the Borough, and Mr. F. Worship moved, and
+Mr. R. Ferrier, jun., seconded as an amendment that the Council pass to
+the next business on the agenda paper.
+
+Upon a division the amendment was lost by 15 to 23, and the original
+motion declared to be carried by 23 to 17 votes.
+
+April 26th.—At a meeting held at the Angel-inn (C. J. Palmer, Esq., in
+the chair) it was thought desirable “to advertise the town, and that a
+saxhorn band should play daily on the principal promenades.”
+
+May 10th.—The pilots of Gorleston had succeeded in establishing a Tug
+Company, and had purchased a boat of 45 horsepower, called “The Royal
+Albert.”
+
+J. Hume, Esq., M.P., had introduced a deputation of Ratepayers opposed to
+the “Public Health Act” to Lord Seymour (at the Woods and Forests
+Office); it consisted of Charles Pearson, Esq., (Mayor); D. A. Gourlay,
+Esq., (Deputy-Mayor); George Danby-Palmer, Esq., and William N.
+Burroughs, Esq., with Mr. J. H. Harrison (Secretary), while 18 members of
+the Council at the same time petitioned Parliament in favour of the
+measure.
+
+The sailors had held a meeting to consider the “Ticket” system and the
+“Muster Roll” fund.
+
+May 17th.—In consequence of the removal of the window tax, bricklayers
+were busy throughout the town opening out windows formerly blocked up.
+
+Mr. Cosgrove’s saxhorn band was to perform on the North and South
+Terraces during the season.
+
+The census head been taken with the following result:—
+
+ Houses inhabited.      Uninhabited.       Total.        Building.
+       5,984                344             6,328            78
+     Families.             Males.         Females.         Total.
+       6,154               11,544          15,014          26,558
+
+Increase of population per cent., 10.3.  This included 347 inmates of the
+Workhouse.
+
+It was noted that in 1619 Manship estimated the then population of the
+town at 1,200 households, which would give a population of some 7,000.
+
+In 1724 a writer named Andrews stated the population at 13,000 or 14,000;
+and in 1784 when it was first accurately taken, it was found to be
+12,608.
+
+The then returns were considered disappointing, as it was expected that
+the town contained 30,000 persons, but it was noted that 2,500 sailors
+belonged to the port, half of whom were probably not at home when the
+return was made.
+
+At this time Gorleston had a population of 2,586, and Southtown of 1,412
+persons.
+
+John Annison, the driver of the Sutton coach, had been convicted for the
+fourth time of conveying passengers to Yarmouth at a greater speed than
+four miles an hour without having a number plate on his vehicle, and
+fined £10 with £3 3s. costs.
+
+May 31st.—Visitors were beginning to arrive.
+
+June 7th.—A project was on foot for laying out the Chapel Denes as an
+ornamental walk for the public.
+
+June 28th.—A mushroom measuring 29 inches in circumference, with a stalk
+about the thickness of a man’s wrist and weighing 2½lbs., had been grown
+at Bradwell.
+
+James Gedge, a pauper lunatic, had escaped from the Workhouse, having
+only a shirt on.
+
+July 5th.—A Bill had been brought in by Lord Seymour and Mr. Cornewall
+Lewis confirming the provisional order to applying the provisions of the
+Board of Health Act to the town.
+
+July 19th.—A petition, signed by 1,550 persons, had been presented to the
+House, and a deputation had waited on Lord John Russell with regard to
+this action of the Government.
+
+The M.P’s. for the town being in favour of the measure, “had been
+requested to resign the trust they had abused.”  This action emanated
+from a public meeting of ratepayers, over which.  George Danby-Palmer,
+Esq., presided, and at which Mr. S. W. Bly, Mr. A. Ames, Mr. W. N.
+Burroughs, Mr. S. V. Moore, Mr. R. Hammond, and Mr. T. Parker took part.
+
+July 26th.—The Bill nevertheless passed through Committee by a majority
+of 92 against 12.
+
+Sir J. Walmsley had opposed and Lord Seymour supported the measure, but
+eventually it passed the House of Commons without a division.
+
+The paupers were much dissatisfied at not being allowed, as formerly, to
+attend places of Worship in the town on Sundays.
+
+Mr. C. Houchen had delivered an address on this subject, and denounced
+the action of the Guardians.
+
+Aug. 9th.—It was computed that many hundreds of children in the North
+District were entirely without the opportunity for instruction, and it
+was proposed to fit up the Priory as a National School to meet this want.
+
+Evidence had been taken by the Committee of the House of Lords upon the
+Public Health Bill being applied to the town, and they reported the Bill
+to the House without amendment; thus there was a “speedy prospect of the
+town being well drained and made clean and healthy in spite of its
+one-idead rulers.”
+
+Captain Smyth, R.N., had been raised to the rank of Post-Captain.
+
+Six hundred and thirty electors had signed a requisition calling on
+Messrs. Rumbold and Saunders to resign their seats as M.P’s. for the
+Borough.  This would form a majority of the voters.
+
+The East Norfolk and Suffolk Horticultural Show had been held under the
+patronage of the Mayoress, Lady Lacon, and Mr. S. C. J. Palmer.
+
+Aug. 16th.—The 279th, and last, meeting of the Paving Commissioners had
+been held, when there were present—Messrs. George Danby-Palmer (in the
+chair), B. Dowson, W. N. Burroughs, J. Fish, C. E. Bartram, F. Palmer, J.
+H. Harrison, S. V. Moore, P. White, J. Cobb, W. Crow, I. Lettis, jun.,
+and W. H. Bessey.
+
+Mr. Beeching’s newly-built lifeboat had been submitted to several tests
+opposite the Crane.
+
+Aug. 23rd.—Mr. Beeching’s model had obtained the prize in the Lifeboat
+Competition at Somerset House.  There were 280 models and plans sent in,
+the first six boats being—James Beeching, Great Yarmouth; Henry Hinks,
+Appledore; J. and E. Pellew, Newbury; William Teasdel, Great Yarmouth;
+Harvey and Son, Ipswich, and George Farrow, South Shields.
+
+Aug. 30th.—The Licensed Victuallers had held a large and important
+meeting for the purpose of protecting their interests, S. C. Marsh, Esq.,
+in the chair.
+
+Mr. G. Blyth (Reporter to the _Norfolk News_) had been induced to visit
+at night a tower in the South-End of the town, belonging to George
+Danby-Palmer, Esq., when he had been assaulted by some person there, and
+of this he had complained to the Bench.
+
+Sept. 13th.—The Justices had refused to grant any fresh licenses at the
+Brewster Sessions.
+
+The “Reindeer” yawl (manned by Beachmen) had challenged the “America”
+yacht to sail for £105.
+
+Sept. 20th.—The Council meeting had been broken up, leaving 20 subjects
+undisposed of, owing to all the Conservatives and two or three of the
+Liberal members leaving the meeting, which was thus reduced below the
+required number to form a “quorum.”
+
+Sept. 27th.—Mr. Hilling had been appointed Town Surveyor at a salary of
+£30 per annum, and £250 had been proposed as the salary of the
+Town-Clerk, he also acting as Clerk to the newly-formed Local Board of
+Health.  Mr. Clowes, however, declined to give his assent to serve on
+these terms without further consideration.
+
+Oct. 4th.—There had been heavy gales and the Roadstead presented “a most
+lamentable scene, crowded with shipping, which had put in for refuge to
+the number of some hundreds.”
+
+Two of the vessels belonging to the Franklin Exploration Expedition were
+in the Roads.
+
+Oct. 11th.—Harris Wilshak had been charged with being concerned in
+smuggling 14lbs. of tobacco.
+
+At the Revision Court Mr. F. S. Costerton appeared for the Liberals, and
+Mr. C. Preston for the Tories.  Neither party claimed any gain from the
+proceedings on the Parliamentary Lists, but on the Burgess Roll the
+Liberals claimed a gain of 19, of which 15 were in the Regent-ward, where
+a very warm contest was expected in November.
+
+Oct. 18th.—Mr. J. W. Crowe had been elected Surgeon to the Hospital
+School.
+
+The new Valuation Lists had increased the assessment of the parish by
+£47,000.
+
+Active preparations were being made for the Municipal contests.
+
+Mr. Wilshak had been acquitted on the charge of smuggling.
+
+George Deacon, known as “The Prophet,” had thrown himself into the river,
+as he stated that it was impossible that he should sink; he would have
+been drowned but for the help of the bystanders.  When taken to the
+Station House he was found to have £18, 2 old gold coins, and 21s. 6d.
+upon him.
+
+Oct. 25th.—The Priory was being fitted for National Schools.
+
+Houchen, who had been preaching against “the powers that be,” had been
+bound over to keep the peace in two sureties of £25 and himself in £50.
+
+Nov. 8th.—The Municipal Election had been hotly contested and the
+partizans of the winning party (the Tories) made it “a boast of having
+expended in the five wards a sum of money variously stated from £800 to
+£1,200.”  The following was the return given with the poll of 1850
+appended to it:—
+
+            _North Ward_.
+          1851—219 Voters.
+Mr. S. Nightingale, C.            108
+Mr. W. H. Bessey, C.              103
+Mr. J. Mainprice, L.               97
+Mr. H. D. Palmer, L.               95
+          1850—208 Voters.
+Mr. J. Jackson, L.                108
+Mr. Burroughs, L.                 105
+Mr. Nightingale, C.                90
+Mr. Cory, C.                       68
+
+In this Ward the Liberals headed the poll until nearly one o’clock, when
+a detachment of Conservative “runners” with some “dust” turned the
+election.  The price of votes was high, and ranged from £8 to £12; and it
+is said that two polled for the winning party cost £20!
+
+          _Market Ward_.
+         1851—270 Voters.
+Mr. J. E. Barnby, C.            148
+Mr. J. Fenn, C.                 132
+Mr. John Cobb, L.               120
+         1850—261 Voters.
+Mr. C. Aldred, C.               129
+Mr. F. Worship, C.              123
+Mr. Owles, L.                   104
+Mr. J. S. Cobb, L.               84
+
+In this Ward the Liberals did not bring forward two candidates, being
+anxious to mark their approbation of Mr. Barnby’s consistent opposition
+to the Public Health Act; and here, as in the North Ward, their candidate
+headed the poll until the arrival of the other portion of Conservative
+workers from the Regent Ward, when a sufficient number of loose fish were
+immediately polled to swamp the majority, at that time about twenty.  The
+prices of votes ranged from five pounds to ten guineas at a late hour of
+the day.
+
+           _Regent Ward_.
+          1851—244 Voters.
+Sir E. H. K. Lacon, C.            115
+Mr. J. Cherry, C.                 114
+Mr. F. Palmer, L.                 101
+Mr. J. Clowes, L.                  90
+          1850—234 Voters.
+Mr. Chapman, L.                   104
+Mr. Marsh, C.                     104
+Mr. Harmer, C.                     93
+Mr. F. Palmer, L.                  84
+
+Great exertions were used to secure the return of the out-going
+Councillors, and it having been almost publicly stated that the
+Conservatives were determined to win “at any cost,” votes, in
+consequence, got up the night before the election to a very high
+premium—from £5 to £15; and “split” votes even were in very great demand
+at £8 and £10.  One case is mentioned of a voter, in another Ward, who,
+forseeing the value which votes would attain, speculated in the purchase
+of one in this a month before the election, at the trifling sum of £3,
+and so profitable was the investment that on the election morning he sold
+it for £10.  The money spent in this Ward was stated at £350.
+
+         _St. George’s Ward_.
+           1851—256 Voters.
+Mr. R. Ferrier, jun., C.            126
+Mr. H. Jay, C.                      126
+Mr. P. Pullyn, L.                    76
+Mr. J. W. Shelly, L.                 66
+           1850—250 Voters.
+Mr. J. Plummer, C.                  130
+Mr. J. C. Smith, C.                 116
+Mr. J. Barker, L.                   101
+
+Mr. Pullyn and Mr. R. Ferrier, jun., were the outgoing Councillors, and
+the former was brought forward again by the Liberals, in conjunction with
+Mr. Shelly, the Conservatives selecting Mr. H. Jay (who had formerly
+contested the Nelson Ward unsuccessfully) as a colleague for Mr. Ferrier.
+Messrs. Pullyn and Shelly refused even to canvass the electors, and
+although some of their friends solicited the suffrages of the Ward for
+them, there can be no doubt, however right in principle the
+non-canvassing may be, it operated against them, and this, combined with
+the constitutional principles upon which their election was conducted,
+contributed to their defeat, money being freely spent on the other side.
+Much regret is felt at this result, and especially at the loss of the
+public services of Mr. Pullyn, after his having so long served the Ward,
+and after his twice filling the office of Chief Magistrate in a manner
+that won for him the praise even of his political opponents.
+
+          _Nelson Ward_.
+         1851—341 Voters.
+Dr. Impey, L.                   132
+Mr. S. V. Moore, L.             132
+         1850—317 Voters.
+Mr. G. D. Palmer, L.            121
+Mr. T. Lettis, L.               119
+
+The Conservatives did not contest this Ward, and Dr. Impey was
+re-elected, in conjunction with Mr. Moore in the room of Mr. J. Symonds,
+now non-resident.
+
+          _Gorleston Ward_.
+           1851—344 Voters.
+Mr. S. Miller, C                   136
+Mr. W. H. Palmer, C                135
+Mr. J. H. Harrison, L               76
+Mr. N. Sterry, L.                   74
+           1850—337 Voters.
+Mr. E. H. L. Preston, C            185
+Mr. W. Hammond, C                  169
+Mr. S. Crow, L                      78
+Mr. Costerton, L                    64
+
+This Ward was contested, but in rather a peculiar way, for although it
+was supposed that some opposition to the outgoing Councillors would be
+made, it was treated by the Conservatives as a “sham” one, and such it
+really seemed up to 12 o’clock, when the state of the poll came out with
+upwards of 100 for Messrs. Miller and Palmer, and only about two votes
+for each of their opponents!  This, however, was only a _ruse de guerre_,
+and in a short time the voters came up almost in a body for Messrs.
+Harrison and Sterry, who stated in their address that in “the short space
+of four hours they obtained 97 promises,” and had they been sooner in the
+field it is thought they would have met with better success.
+
+The result of the Elections has been a gain to the Conservative party of
+two seats, and this reduces the two parties to a level in the Council;
+the Liberals have still, however, a bare majority, and it is doubted
+whether they will not be able to carry the Mayoralty for another year.
+The Conservatives, it is said, intend nominating either Sir E. H. K.
+Lacon, or (which is more likely) Mr. S. C. Marsh for that office, whilst
+the names of Alderman E. R. Palmer and Alderman Bartram are spoken of by
+the Liberals.
+
+The Bishop of Norwich, attended by the Rev. S. Hills and his chaplain,
+had inspected the Priory buildings, when they were received by J. H.
+Hakewell, Esq., (the architect) and C. J. Palmer, Esq., (the hon.
+secretary to the Committee).
+
+Mr. Worlledge had moved the Court of Queen’s Bench for a “_quo warranto_”
+to try the legality of Mr. Hammond’s election as a Councillor for the St.
+Andrew’s Ward, and the rule had been granted.
+
+Nov. 15th.—The Hospital was badly supported, and it was stated that
+unless £150 a year in additional subscriptions could be obtained, the
+assistance afforded to sufferers must be abridged.
+
+A lecture on “Bloomerism” had been delivered by Mrs. Knights at the Corn
+Hall in full “Bloomer” costume, but she did not appear to have achieved a
+marked success.
+
+Dr. Wolff (the traveller) had offered to give some lectures in the town
+in aid of the National Priory Schools.
+
+At the Town Council for the Election of Mayor, a great crowd assembled
+prior to the meeting, when Sir E. K. Lacon proposed, and Mr. Fenn
+seconded, S. C. Marsh, Esq., to fill that office, and Mr. George
+Danby-Palmer moved, and Mr. R. Hammond seconded, the re-election of
+Captain Charles Pearson, R.N.  Upon the votes being taken, there appeared
+for Captain Pearson—Aldermen Pearson, Boulter, Bartram, Bayly, Fiddes,
+Hammond, Pike, R. Hammond, jun., E. R. Palmer, and Barker; Councillors
+Burroughs, Butcher, Cannell, Clarke, Chapman, Fish, Gourlay, Impey,
+Jackson, Lettis, Moore, G. D. Palmer, and P. White; total, 23.  For Mr.
+Marsh—Alderman B. Fenn; Councillors C. Aldred, E. Aldred, Barber, Bessey,
+Cherry, Ferrier, Ferrier, jun., J. Fenn, W. Hammond, B. Jay, H. Jay,
+Lacon, Marsh, S. Miller, Nightingale, W. H. Palmer, Plummer, Preston,
+Smith, Steward, F. Worship, and W. Worship; total, 23.  And the Mayor,
+giving a casting vote for himself, declared himself duly elected.
+Subsequently the Town Clerk (Mr. John Clowes) declared that he would not
+continue in that office at the salary of £250, and it having been stated
+that Mr. Charles Cory would accept it on those terms, he was elected Town
+Clerk by 23 against 15 voices.  Mr. Cory then attended, was informed of
+his election, and an order made on the late Clerk to hand over the papers
+relating to the office to him.  In conclusion, the Editor expressed a
+hope that “on no future occasion will any parties be allowed to violate
+order and decorum in a way so disgraceful as they did on Monday last.”
+
+Nov. 22nd.—A dinner had been given to the Mayor at the Star-hotel, when
+45 members of the Council and others attended.
+
+A Poor’s Rate of 1s. 2d. in the £ had been made.  Great dissatisfaction
+existed as to the new assessment of the parish.
+
+Nov. 29th.—Mr. Joseph Sandars, M.P., had issued a reply to the
+requisition of the electors, justifying the course he had taken with
+regard to the Public Health Act.
+
+A meeting had been held with regard to the new assessment, Mr. J. H.
+Harrison in the chair.
+
+The town had been visited with a tremendous gale, during which several
+vessels had been blown out to sea.  At the time of the storm there were
+700 sail between this port and Lowestoft.
+
+The “Enterprise,” 600 tons, had been launched from Mr. Branford’s Yard;
+she was christened by Miss Barber and Miss Holt.
+
+Dec. 6th.—A public meeting had been held at the Town-hall (Mr. J. H.
+Harrison in the chair) for the purpose of considering the Poor’s Rate
+assessment recently made.  About 400 persons attended, when the same was
+condemned, and a subscription commenced for the purpose of disputing the
+validity of it.
+
+In respect of such proceedings, Mr. F. S. Costerton had been engaged as
+solicitor to the owners of small tenements, and Mr. C. H. Chamberlin for
+the general body of appellants, estimated at from 500 to 600 in number at
+the least.
+
+Dec. 13th.—At the special meeting of the Town Council, “a scene of much
+disorder and confusion arose out of some recriminations relative the late
+Town-Clerk, between Mr. Burroughs and Mr. Preston.”
+
+Dec. 20th.—On the hearing of the assessment appeals, the rate was quashed
+by the Justices on the ground of unequal assessment.  In these
+proceedings Mr. Chamberlin appeared on behalf of the Committee of
+Ratepayers, Mr. C. Cory for several private individuals, and Mr. Cufaude
+for the Overseers.
+
+Dec. 27th—The Overseers had applied for, and obtained a fresh rate of 1s.
+2d. in the £.
+
+It had been determined in future not to use the “St. Nicholas’ Seal,”
+belonging to the Corporation, and for practical purposes a smaller seal
+was to be made; the old one had been in use since about the year 1251.
+
+The Race Committee had issued its report, from which it appeared that the
+income had been, for the last year, £512 1s. 3d., as against £523 3s.
+11d. expended.
+
+
+
+1852.
+
+
+Jan. 3rd.—The new Railway Bridge had been opened.
+
+Jan. 17th.—There was further dissatisfaction in the town on the subject
+of the Assessment and the Poor’s Rate; a summons, obtained by Mr. J. H.
+Harrison against some officials for not allowing him to inspect the
+rate-books, was dismissed with costs.
+
+Mr. Hammond (one of the Justices) had called the attention of the Press
+to the manner in which on certain occasions Magistrates were “drummed
+up.”
+
+William Rising, Esq., of Somerton Hall, had entertained a large party of
+sporting friends at the Angel Hotel.
+
+A portion of the Gorleston Cliff had fallen away, carrying with it the
+Misses Barber, who were subsequently dug out of the sand below.
+
+A high tide had washed over the west side of the Harbour with such force
+that a vessel belonging to W. H. Palmer, Esq., had been driven from her
+moorings.  On the Beach it flowed past the Britannia Terrace.
+
+Jan. 24th.—There were more Poor’s Rate appeals, and Mr. J. H. Harrison
+being dissatisfied with the result of them, gave notice that he should
+carry his case to the Quarter Sessions,
+
+Jan. 31st.—Captain Manby had received a medal from the Jurors at the
+Great Exhibition for the life-saving models which he had exhibited there.
+
+The parish had been divided into five wards for Poor Law purposes; prior
+to this the whole 16 Guardians had been voted for “en bloc” by the
+ratepayers throughout the whole parish.
+
+Mr. Worlledge had again appeared before the Queen’s Bench in the case of
+“The Queen _v._ Hammond,” and the Court had granted the rule.
+
+Feb. 7th.—Mr. J. H. Harrison had been fined for an alleged assault on a
+constable, arising out of the confusion in the Court on the late hearing
+of the Poor’s Rate appeals.  He gave notice of appeal to the Quarter
+Sessions.
+
+Feb. 14th.—Mr. Harrison had presided at another meeting of ratepayers who
+were dissatisfied with the action of the Justices as to the assessment.
+
+Feb. 21st.—It was announced by a handbill signed by Mr. Harrison, that
+these owners had come to a satisfactory arrangement with the Overseers,
+and that further legal proceedings had been abandoned.
+
+Feb. 28th.—“The Queen Charlotte” and “Mad Bess” steam-packets were
+advertised as going to run between this port and Rotterdam.
+
+March 6th.—A meeting of shipowners had been held (S. Paget, Esq., in the
+chair), to consider certain representations made to them from other
+places, with regard to the action to be taken by their class at the next
+General Election, but no resolution was arrived at in conformity
+therewith.
+
+Henry Austin, Esq., (Secretary to the General Board of Health), had
+visited and inspected the town.
+
+March 13th.—Mr. Beeching continued to receive numerous orders for his
+improved lifeboats.
+
+The Mormons had engaged the School of Industry as a “Church.”
+
+The following were the tenders for the Priory Schools:—Mr. John Key
+£1,120, Mr. R. Page £1,232, Mr. R. Pratt, £1,310, and a London builder
+£1,637.  Mr. Norfor and Mr. Stanley were acting with the successful
+contractor.
+
+March 20th.—A meeting had been held at the King’s Head Inn with regard to
+the representation of the Borough.  Mr. J. W. Shelly was chairman, and
+Mr. R. Hammond, John Owles, and C. E. Bartram took part in the
+proceedings, which eventuated in a request to Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B.,
+and W. T. M’Cullagh, Esq., M.P., to contest the Borough in the Liberal
+interest.
+
+March 27th.—The Conservatives had held a meeting at the Angel-hotel for a
+similar purpose.  Mr. E. H. L. Preston presided.  Mr. R. Ferrier moved,
+and Mr. W. H. Palmer seconded Sir E. H. K. Lacon as a candidate for the
+Borough, and Mr. B. Dowson proposed, and Mr. S. H. Aldred seconded Mr. C.
+Rumbold as his colleague.
+
+The question of the rating of the Vauxhall property had been settled by
+the Court finding that the premises were in Norfolk, which was, in fact,
+a verdict for the plaintiff.  The sum in dispute was 11s. 8d., and it was
+estimated that the costs amounted to about £1,000.
+
+A fire had occurred on Mr. Ecclestone’s premises in the Broad Bow.  G.
+Danby-Palmer, E. H. L. Preston.  R. Hammond, and W. N. Burroughs, Esqs.,
+were early on the spot and rendered valuable assistance.
+
+Mr. George Barrett had been elected Master of the Blue Coat Charity
+School in the place of the late Mr. Gershom Davie.
+
+Captain Ellis, R.N., and the Coastguard had seized 162 bales of tobacco
+on board the collier “Martha.”
+
+A quartett meeting had been held at Noverre’s Rooms, the performers being
+William Yetts, Esq., (leader), Mr. D. Hogarth, Mr. G. Sharp, and Mr.
+Stonex.
+
+April 3rd.—The Liberal party had held a meeting at the “Star” for the
+purpose of receiving Admiral Sir C. Napier and W. T. M’Cullagh, Esq.,
+M.P., who had arrived in the town (J. W. Shelly, Esq., in the chair); on
+the same day a public meeting of electors had been held in the Corn
+Exchange (George Danby-Palmer, Esq., chairman), and on the platform were
+R. Hammond, P. Pullyn, J. W. Shelly, J. Bayly, T. Lettis, J. Jackson, C.
+E. Bartram, R. Barber, C. Miller, Esqs., Captain W. Briggs, Messrs. J. D.
+Chapman, Chris. Steward, J. Mainprice, B. Bellin, J. Cobb, P. White, and
+others.
+
+The meeting was a crowded one, and the candidates appear to have been
+heartily received.
+
+April 10th.—W. Stirling Lacon, Esq., H.E.C.S., had invented an appliance
+for the more easily lowering of ships’ boats, which was approved by many
+nautical gentlemen, including, locally, Admiral Sir E. Travers, R.N., and
+Captain Pearson, R.N.
+
+The Rev. Partridge, A.M., had been recommended by the Committee to the
+proprietors for the post of Head Master at the Grammar School.
+
+The Priory Schools had been commenced.
+
+At the Election of Guardians, Mr. J. H. Harrison had been nominated for
+all the Wards, but had elected to stand for the Nelson Ward, in which he
+resided.
+
+Messrs. W. Green, W. Wright, S. Lessey, and J. Borking had been
+re-elected Overseers.
+
+Captain John Pike (one of the Aldermen) had died.
+
+April 17th.—Mr. Rumbold, M.P., had arrived in Yarmouth, as also had Sir
+E. H. K. Lacon, Admiral Sir C. Napier, and W. T. McCullagh, Esq., M.P.
+The Tories were making a private canvass in the evenings.
+
+The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had been appointed Chaplain to the Military Asylum,
+vice the Rev. C. Davie, M.A., resigned.
+
+The following Guardians had been elected:—
+
+_St. Nicholas’ Ward_.—Messrs. Thomas Brightwen, E. H. L. Preston, and S.
+Nightingale.
+
+_Regent_.—Messrs. W. Worship, S. C. Marsh, and D. A. Gourlay.
+
+_St. George’s_.—Messrs. B. Fenn, R. Ferrier, and P. Coble.
+
+_Market_.—There was a contest here as under:—
+
+E. R. Aldred             248
+W. Laws                  238
+Edward Harvey            161
+Edward B. Jay             89
+
+The first three were elected.
+
+In the _Nelson Ward_ the return was—
+
+George Danby-Palmer            327
+Charles Woolverton             286
+S. V. Moore                    276
+W. Yetts                       176
+J. H. Harrison                 147
+
+The first four were therefore elected.
+
+Messrs. William H. Palmer and E. P. Youell had been elected by the
+pew-holders, Churchwardens of St. Mary’s, Southtown; and Mr. F. R. King
+(vice F. S. Costerton resigned) and Mr. William Hammond had been
+appointed to similar office at Gorleston.
+
+At the Yarmouth Vestry (the Rev. G. Hills presiding), Mr. R. Hammond
+proposed, and Mr. J. G. Fisher seconded the re-election of Mr. C. D.
+Steward, and Mr. B. Fenn proposed, and Mr. F. Worship seconded the
+re-election of Mr. E. R. Aldred.  The Church Rate was then 2½d. in the £.
+At this meeting Messrs. R. Hammond and J. Davey were re-elected
+“auditors” for the ensuing year.
+
+April 24th.—It was said that Lord A. Lennox was ready “to start” for
+Yarmouth.  Meanwhile Sir E. H. K. Lacon was canvassing the electors,
+accompanied by about 30 leading Conservatives, and Mr. Rumbold M.P. was
+taking a similar course in company with six or seven personal friends,
+while Sir C. Napier and Mr. McCullagh, M.P., were addressing crowded
+meetings of electors in the several Wards of the Borough.
+
+At the Council Meeting, Mr. C. C. Aldred had publicly apologised for
+stating as regarded Mr. F. S. Costerton “that a constituency had been
+defeated by the advice of a petty-fogging lawyer.”
+
+The election of an Alderman was then proceeded with, when the voting—
+
+For Mr. Yetts            23
+,, Mr. Pullyn            23
+
+And the Mayor gave his casting vote in favour of Mr. Pullyn.
+
+Mr. Palmer had obtained a rule in the Queen’s Bench for a new trial in
+the case of Bradstreet _v_ Hammond.
+
+May 1st.—Contains much matter reflecting on Mr. Rumbold’s present
+position as contrasted with his former one when connected with the
+Liberal party.  Having completed his canvass, that gentleman had issued a
+joint address with Sir E. Lacon, and being seriously indisposed had left
+Yarmouth for his country seat.
+
+The Tory Government, which had been in office six weeks, had appointed
+Messrs. B. Fenn, T. Brightwen, J. Cherry, R. Steward, C. C. Aldred, and
+J. G. Plummer, Magistrates for the Borough.
+
+The Bench previously to this had consisted of Liberals, Messrs. George
+Danby-Palmer, R. Hammond, W. Johnson, and J. W. Shelly, and
+Conservatives, J. F. Costerton, E. H. L. Preston, William Danby-Palmer,
+W. Thurtell, J. C. Smith, William H. Palmer, B. Jay, W. Yetts, J. Fenn,
+and W. H. Bessey.
+
+The “Disfranchised Freemen” had held a meeting and adopted a petition to
+Parliament, Messrs. Jacob Harvey, Nelson, Royal, and J. Taylor taking
+part in the proceedings.
+
+The agents of the Custom House had taken into custody the landlord of the
+“Honest Lawyer.”
+
+May 8th.—The coffer-dam at the new Bridge works had “blown up;” on the
+following day the old Bridge had been on fire.
+
+The Cricket Club had been re-established.
+
+The Freemen’s Petition had received 972 signatures.
+
+A tradesman in the town had given a dinner to four old people, whose
+united ages amounted to 368 years.
+
+May 15th.—It was stated that the Rev. — Smith had left £14,000 to endow
+two scholarships at Caius College for natives of Yarmouth.
+
+The Poor’s Rate was to be 1s. 2d. in the £, the sum of £2,521 being
+required for that purpose by the Guardians.
+
+May 22nd.—A salmon trout had been caught near Winterton, having a gutta
+percha ring on its tail with “192 Tweed 1852” stamped upon it.
+
+At a mooting of the Sailors’ Association, Mr. J. D. Chapman had been
+presented with a silver medal.
+
+The Directors of the Victoria Building Company had dined together at the
+Victoria Hotel, (B. Dowson, Esq., in the chair.)
+
+May 29th.—A meeting of the subscribers to the fund for “Promoting the
+Prosperity of Great Yarmouth” had been held at the Angel, (C. J. Palmer,
+Esq., F.S.A. in the chair) and £25 subscribed in the room.
+
+June 5th.—The Tenth Anniversary of the N.A.O.D. had been held at the
+Trinity Arms.  About 50 members and friends were present.
+
+June 12th.—The Liberal candidates had completed their canvass and left
+the town.  Complaint was made that Mr. McCullagh had been libelled by the
+“Lacon party.”
+
+Mr. Rumbold, it was supposed, would retire, his case being considered (by
+the “Blues”) hopeless.
+
+June 19th.—It was reported that Mr. Rumbold would retire in favour of Sir
+Harry Smith.  Some of Mr. Rumbold’s friends, and Sir E. Lacon, had gone
+to London.
+
+The “Associated Democrats” had held a meeting at the Masonic Hall, when
+Messrs. J. T. Blow and Royal took part in the proceedings.
+
+June 26th.—Contains another attack on Mr. Rumbold, who was stated to have
+voted in 121, and been absent in 669 divisions of the House.
+
+The Trustees of the Southtown Turnpike had obtained power to light that
+road with gas.
+
+Gas in Yarmouth had been reduced from 5s. 6d. to 5s. per 1,000 feet.
+
+The British School had been inspected by Mr. Fletcher, who considered
+that its state reflected the “greatest credit” upon Mr. Daniel Tomkins.
+
+At the Sessions, Messrs. C. C. Aldred, B. Fenn, R. Steward and J. G.
+Plummer were qualified as Magistrates.
+
+The notice of the rules as to collisions at sea, under 14 and 15 Vic.,
+cap. 79, appear in this issue, to come in force on 1st of August then
+next.
+
+July 3rd.—Admiral Sir Charles Napier had returned to Yarmouth, and the
+Star Hotel was decorated with several of his flags and trophies.  The
+hustings were to be erected on the North side of the Town Hall, and the
+Liberal polling-booth opposite the King’s Head, that for the Tories being
+opposite the Angel.
+
+George Danby-Palmer, Esq., had presided at a meeting of the Liberal
+Registration Association at the Star Hotel, when several healths had been
+drunk with “Hieland honours.”  The greatest enthusiasm prevailed on this
+occasion, and Mr. Chapman presented each of the candidates with a rosette
+and some appropriate lines from the ladies of Yarmouth.
+
+July 10th.—On the morning of the Nomination the walls were found covered
+with these placards—“Rumbold the Champion of the Board of Health,” “Lacon
+the Patron of Lowestoft.”  The Sailors marched in procession to the
+“Star” where the Liberal candidates were staying with a band, colours,
+and chariots borne by the men, on which were “Britannia,” “Neptune,”
+“Triton,” &c.  Upon the Blue flags appeared “M’Cullagh and Freedom of
+Election,” “True Blue and Victory,” “England expects that every man will
+do his duty,” &c.; and on the Red flags “Lacon our Townsman,” “Lacon and
+Rumbold for Ever,” “Church and State,” and “Cheap Bread and no Monopoly.”
+Mr. B. Dowson proposed, and Mr. William Hurry Palmer seconded Mr.
+Rumbold; Mr. George Danby-Palmer proposed, and Mr. J. W. Shelly seconded
+Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B.; Mr. R. Ferrier proposed, and Mr. E.
+H. L. Preston seconded Sir E. H. K. Lacon; and Mr. R. Hammond proposed,
+and Mr. Jackson seconded Mr. William T. McCullagh.  The show of hands was
+largely in favour of Sir C. Napier and Mr. MeCullagh, whereupon Mr. B.
+Dowson demanded a poll for Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Mr. Rumbold.  After
+these proceedings the sailors again formed in procession and marched
+round the town, and the electors were addressed from the Star by Messrs.
+Owles, Jackson, and Shelly.  The poll was taken on the following day as
+under:—
+
+             McCullagh.      Napier.       Lacon.       Rumbold.
+8.30                   66            63           46            43
+9                     118           116          102           101
+9.30                  189           185          199           196
+10                    239           233          239           234
+11                    268           264          278           269
+11.30                 344           342          373           352
+12                    386           384          430           400
+12.15                 410           407          467           423
+1                     435           430          493           455
+2                     460           448          519           472
+2.15                  470           455          521           473
+
+At this point (the Editor says) practices which may be imagined, _and
+which will hereafter be described_, decided the poll, and in a quarter of
+an hour the numbers stood—
+
+         McCullagh.      Napier.       Lacon.       Rumbold.
+                  483           463          542           492
+3                 499           476          572           515
+
+Mr. S. W. Craske then proceeded to serve notices upon certain electors
+before voting, and Mr. McCullagh, in company with Mr. George
+Danby-Palmer, and Mr. J. W. Shelly, informed the Mayor that the
+proceedings would be questioned.
+
+            McCullagh.      Napier.       Lacon.       Rumbold.
+3.30                 516           484          601           541
+4                    521           486          611           547
+
+After the close of the poll Mr. McCullagh again addressed the electors,
+and a fracas ensued, during which two or three persons were injured.
+
+July 17th.—From 7,000 to 8,000 visitors had attended the Regatta, when
+the Mosquito, Volante, and Secret contended for the Club yacht prize,
+which was won by the first-named, yacht; the Reindeer won the principal
+yawl prize.
+
+A crowded meeting of the Liberal electors had been held at the
+Star-hotel, (W. N. Burroughs, Esq., in the chair), which was addressed in
+a speech of two hours’ length by Mr. McCullagh, with a view to
+petitioning against the return of Lacon and Rumbold.
+
+It was stated that the boy who was injured during the election at Mr.
+Feltham’s was progressing favourably.
+
+An application had been made to the Bench for compensating the persons
+whose property had been injured on the day of election.  It was stated
+that 40 panes of glass had been broken at Mr. Feltham’s, and that the
+windows of the Angel Hotel had also suffered considerably.
+
+July 24th.—The town was very full of visitors, and the price of
+provisions much enhanced thereby.
+
+July 31st.—The Mayor had not attended the Water Frolic.
+
+Aug. 7th.—A meeting had been held to consider the question of forming a
+Company to supply Gorleston and Southtown with gas, George Danby-Palmer,
+Esq., in the chair; William Johnson, S. Crowe, H. Fellows, R. S. Watling,
+H. Martin, W. T. Clarke, Esqs., Mr. Page, Mr. Greaves, Mr. Gooda and Mr.
+Howes were, with many others, present.  An influential committee was
+formed and a considerable sum subscribed in the room.
+
+A curious mural painting had been discovered in St. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Mr. Craske had recovered 30s. from George Thurtell, Esq., for damages to
+his coat on the Election day.
+
+On the application of Mr. Chamberlin for Mr. Gooderich, and Mr. F.
+Ferrier for Mr. Brown, the Magistrates had signed the following orders
+for payment of damages and costs arising out of the Election riot:—
+
+                  £       s.       d.        £        s.       d.
+Mr. Brown,           7        0       11
+damages
+    costs            6       13        0
+                                                13       13       11
+Mr.                  4        0        0
+Gooderich,
+damages
+   costs             6        0        0        10        0        0
+Magistrates’                                     5       19        1
+Clerk’s fees
+                                               £29       13        0
+
+Aug. 14th.—The Races had been held.  Stewards: Lord W. Powlett, Sir E. H.
+K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., and B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P.  The entries were
+“numerous and good”; there were several charges brought against
+pickpockets before the Justices arising out of these sports.
+
+It was stated that “a Mr. John Cooper” had been the author of the several
+paragraphs during the late Election, of which so much complaint had been
+made.
+
+The King of Holland had presented Mr. W. Stirling Lacon with a silver
+medal for his invention for lowering ship’s boats.  The Great Britain was
+being fitted with this apparatus.
+
+Aug. 28th.—Commander Henry J. Lacon had been appointed to the “Daring,”
+12, brig.
+
+W. T. McCullagh, Esq., had been staying with the Mayor, and had visited
+Grout’s factory.
+
+Sept. 4th.—There were 182 applicants for renewal of licenses; no new
+licenses were granted, although in respect of one ease the Justices
+divided five against five, and a “scene of confusion” ensued.
+
+Sept. 11th.—Messrs. Harrison had launched the “Water Witch,” 37, smack,
+from their yard.
+
+The Bridge works had been stopped owing to “quicksands.”
+
+Sept. 18th.—The Paper appears in mourning for the Duke of Wellington.
+
+Sept. 25th.—Lieutenant Chambers had ascended in the Prince of Wales
+balloon from the Vauxhall-gardens; it contained 36,000 cubic feet of gas.
+He descended on a marsh near the Norwich-road at no great distance from
+the place of ascent.
+
+Dr. Impey’s sudden and lamented death had caused a vacancy in the
+Nelson-ward, and the Conservatives had started Mr. John Clarke as their
+nominee.
+
+Oct. 2nd.—The “Lady Haven Estate” in Southtown had been sold for £7,000.
+
+At the Nelson-ward Election, the opposition to Mr. Clarke’s return was
+only a nominal one, the numbers being—
+
+Mr. J. Clarke (Con.)            122
+Mr. Owles (Lib.)                  4
+
+The numbers in the Council were thus balanced 24 to 24.
+
+Oct. 9th.—Records the death of Admiral Fisher.
+
+An appeal was made for the restoration of the Nelson Column.
+
+At the Registration Court, Mr. C. Chamberlin appeared for the Liberals
+and Mr. Cufaude for the Conservatives, and the former claimed a gain of
+42 upon the revision.
+
+Oct. 16th.—At the Court held for the Revision of the Burgess Roll, Mr.
+Chamberlin again appeared for the Liberals and Mr. Ferrier for the
+Conservatives, and the former again claimed a gain upon the proceedings.
+
+It was proposed to erect a monument to the memory of the late Dr. Impey.
+
+Oct. 23rd.—Peter Le Neve Arnold, Esq., a dumb gentleman, had been found
+to be of unsound mind since January, 1840.  This Inquiry was conducted at
+the Victoria Hotel.
+
+The Bishop of Norwich had confirmed 136 candidates.
+
+Oct. 30th.—A man named Horth had been committed for trial on the charge
+of attempting to murder Mrs. Proudfoot.
+
+The names of Messrs. S. C. Marsh, J. G. Plummer, and C. J. Palmer (the
+Mayor-Elect in 1835), were mentioned as probable holders of the Mayoralty
+during the ensuing year.
+
+Dr. Dunne had been elected Physician to the Hospital (vice Impey
+deceased).
+
+Nov. 6th.—Mr. J. S. Cobb had lectured on the “Objects and Uses of
+Botany.”
+
+                           MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
+
+_Regent Ward_.—Barber (C) and Fish (L).
+
+_St. George’s Ward_.—Ferrier and B. Jay (C).
+
+_Nelson Ward_.—W. Yetts and C. J. Palmer (C).
+
+_Gorleston_.—R. Steward (C) and W. T. Clarke (L.)
+
+The returns for the _North_ and _Market Wards_ could not be given.
+
+Nov. 13th—At the Council Meeting Mr. Alderman Fenn had proposed, and Mr.
+Preston seconded, S. C. Marsh, Esq., as Mayor for the ensuing year, and
+that gentleman was thereupon elected without opposition.
+
+Upon the re-election of Corporation officers, Mr. Bales (the old officer)
+was opposed by Mr. Collins as second Mayor’s officer, and the latter
+appointed, 8 Liberals voting for Bales, and 21 Conservatives for Collins.
+
+The Mayor’s Dinner was held at the Town-hall.  Cosgrove’s Brass Band
+attended and a number of ladies were in the gallery; the decorations were
+very rich and elegant; 186 gentlemen were present, amongst whom
+were—Viscount Le Franchien, Sir E. Travers, K.H., H. N. Burroughes, Esq.,
+M.P., Rev. R. Bent, Messrs. T Browne, T. Brightwen, R. D. Barber, J.
+Baker, M. Brown, C. Brown, E. Bell, W. H. Bessey, J. Bracey, C. Cherry,
+C. Cory, W. Clementson, J. L. Cufaude, T. W. Clarke, C. Chamberlin, W.
+Dowson, C. B. Dashwood, W. H. Diver, Captain P. Eyton, R.N., R. Ferrier,
+B. Fenn, J. G. Fisher, Captain Gooch, R.N.  D. A. Gourlay, W. Johnson, H.
+Jay, B. Jay, J. Jackson, H. Matchett, S. Nightingale, E. H. L. Preston,
+Captain Pearson, R.N., A. Preston, William Danby-Palmer, C. J. Palmer, W.
+H. Palmer, P. Pullyn, J. G. Plummer, W. Rising, Captain Smyth, R.N., F.
+Steward, R. Steward, S. W. Spelman, J. C. Smith, W. Thurtle, H. Teasdel,
+Rev. B. Vaux, Captain White, R.N., Rev. M. Waters, H. V. Worship, F.
+Worship, W. Worship, R. S. Watling, J. D. Waters, W. Yetts, E. P. Youell,
+&c.
+
+The “Norfolk,” 300 tons, had been launched from Mr. Fellows’ yard.
+
+Nov. 20th.—The Right Hon. M. T. Baines had presented the petition against
+the return of Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Mr. Rumbold, whereupon “Mr. Rumbold
+(who was present) took up his hat and left the House.”
+
+The funeral of the Duke of Wellington had been observed as a general day
+of mourning.
+
+A fire had nearly been occasioned by an accident in the Town-hall kitchen
+during the Mayor’s Dinner.
+
+Nov. 23rd.—Sir E. Lacon and Mr. Rumbold (accompanied by Mr. W. H. Palmer)
+had had an interview with the Right Honourable J. W. Henley, and
+presented the Shipowners’ Memorial.
+
+Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. O’Brien had been retained by Mr. F. S.
+Costerton in the matter of the Election petition.
+
+Mr. Robert Steward had caused the Attorney-General to serve writs on
+several members of the Town Council, with a view to testing the validity
+of the renewal of leases by that body under a custom then in force in the
+town.  Mr. W. Worship strongly deprecated this proceeding.
+
+Dec. 4th.—At the Council meeting it was resolved, on the motion of Mr.
+Ferrier, seconded by Mr. C. C. Aldred, that the Town Clerk defend the
+actions so commenced at the instance of Mr. Steward.
+
+The petition had been defeated, as the Examiner had reported “the
+sureties to the petition to be informal and invalid.”
+
+The Tories had sent the bellman round the town to announce this fact.
+
+Captain Fisher, R.N., had been appointed to the command of the
+“Magician,” 16 gun steam frigate, 400 horse-power.
+
+It was proposed to start a “Conservative Land Society” at Yarmouth.
+
+Dec. 11th.—Messrs. George Danby-Palmer, W. N. Burroughs, John W. Shelly
+and R. Hammond, junr., had petitioned the House of Commons for redress as
+regarded the action of the Examiner as to the Election petition.
+
+Dec. 18th.—A public meeting had been held to consider the construction of
+“a Marine Parade and Drive.”  About 300 or 400 persons were present; the
+Mayor presided, and was supported by Charles Pearson, Esq., R.N., C. E.
+Bartram, C. Aldred, J. Jackson, J. Chapman, E. Aldred, C. J. Palmer, F.
+Palmer, R. Dowson, C. Miller, E. Preston, J. C. Smith, R. Ferrier, H. D.
+Palmer, R. Steward, J. Cherry, W. C. Reynolds, F. Worship, W. Worship,
+&c.  Mr. C. J. Palmer moved, and Mr. D. R. Fowler seconded a resolution
+in favour of the proposal; and Mr. Amis moved, and Mr. J. Cobb seconded
+as an amendment “That those who wanted a Parade should pay for it,” which
+amendment the Mayor declared, amid some confusion, to be carried.
+
+Dec. 25th.—A “wholesale robbery” of fish had taken place at Mr. Charles
+Cannell’s office.
+
+The Government had been defeated upon the Budget, Sir E. H. K. Lacon
+voting with, and Mr. C. E. Rumbold against, them.
+
+
+
+1853.
+
+
+Jan. 8th.—A meeting of Liberal electors had been addressed by Mr.
+McCullagh relative to the rejection on technical grounds of the petition
+against the return of the M.Ps.  George Danby-Palmer, Esq., occupied the
+chair, and Messrs. F. S. Costerton, P. Pullyn, R. Hammond, J. Clowes, C.
+E. Bartram, J. Jackson, J. Bayly, W. N. Burroughs, J. D. Chapman, J.
+Cobb, W. Livingstone, S. Parker, J. Mainprice, D. R. Fowler, P. White and
+others were present.
+
+It was rumoured that Mr. Rumbold would not again offer himself for the
+Borough, owing to his having voted against the Government, which had
+angered his Tory supporters.
+
+Jan. 15th.—An election had been held for a Councillor in the Gorleston
+Ward, owing to the death of Mr. S. Miller.  The numbers polled were—
+
+For Mr. William Hammond                132
+,, Henry Danby-Palmer, Esq.             88
+                        Majority        44
+
+The Tories gave “their usual breakfast.  Many of the electors on both
+sides did not poll.”
+
+The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had presided at the Annual Public Library Meeting.
+
+Jan. 22nd.—At the “Great Metropolitan Poultry Show,” E. H. L. Preston,
+Esq., Mr. E. Hughes and Mr. Henry Turrell had won prizes.
+
+One hundred and thirty persons had attended the first Subscription Ball
+at the Town Hall.
+
+Jan. 29th.—Considerable progress was being made with the new Bridge
+works.
+
+Bro. Oswald Diver had been installed Master of Lodge Friendship at the
+Duke’s Head.
+
+Feb. 5th.—The return of paupers showed—In-door, 331: out-door, 1,289;
+cost of out-relief, £83 15s. 11¾d. for the week.
+
+Feb. 12th.—The Wellington Pier Bill was reported as having complied with
+standing orders.
+
+Mr. James W. Crowe had been appointed Medical Officer for the North
+District in the place of Mr. Button appointed to a similar office for the
+Workhouse.
+
+Feb. 19th.—Mr. C. J. Palmer brought to the notice of the Council the
+dilapidated state of the Nelson Monument, and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Mr.
+Palmer, Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Ferrier, Captain Pearson, and Mr. Steward were
+appointed a Committee to consider the subject.
+
+Mr. Palmer also called attention to the state of the town’s muniments,
+and it was agreed that Mr. Harrod should be engaged to arrange same at a
+fee of £20.
+
+Mr. Chamberlin (Coroner) required the Council to seal his appointment:
+this had been neglected in 1848 when he was appointed to that office.
+
+Feb. 26th.—The Yarmouth Water Works Bill had been read a second time in
+the House of Commons.
+
+March 12th.—Mr. Jarvis, jeweller, Broad Row, had been committed for trial
+on the charge of attempting to defraud an Insurance Company by setting
+fire to his premises.
+
+March 19th.—The House of Commons Committee had decided that the preamble
+of the Water Works Bill was proved.  Mr. Webster appeared for the
+promoters, and Mr. Lynde for certain landowners who petitioned against
+it.  Evidence was given in support of the measure by Messrs. R. Ferrier,
+Charles Cory, W. Rising, and Spelman.
+
+April 2nd.—At the Vestry Meeting, Messrs. Steward and Aldred had been
+re-elected Churchwardens, and a Church rate of 1½d. in the £ voted.
+
+The retiring Guardians had been re-elected.
+
+Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., had visited the town and called on several of
+his more active supporters at the recent contest.
+
+April 9th.—Messrs. Borking, Green, Wright, and Bradbeer had been elected
+Overseers.
+
+The Wellington Pier and Water Works Bills had passed the Commons.
+
+The East Norfolk Militia were to meet for training on April 19th.
+
+April 16th.—The Town Council had proceeded to elect a Surveyor, when the
+voting was—
+
+For Mr. Laing            22
+,, Mr. Parker            15
+
+And Mr. Laing was consequently appointed to that post.
+
+April 23rd.—The East Norfolk Militia had assembled and paraded in the
+Lunatic Asylum yard.
+
+April 30th.—At a meeting of the Wellington Pier Company (S. C. Marsh,
+Esq., in the chair), it was determined to proceed with the erection of
+that structure at once.
+
+May 7th.—The second Subscription Ball had been attended by upwards of 170
+of the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, including the
+Mayor, Mrs. Marsh and party, Captain, Mrs. and Miss Pearson, Mr. and Mrs.
+Caldecott, Misses Caldecott (2) and Miss Leathes, Rev. F. Steward, Mrs.
+and Miss Steward, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Brown (Thrigby), Mr. and Mrs.
+Harcourt (Burgh Castle), Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Rev. S. T. Preston
+and Miss Preston, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. L. Preston and Miss H. Preston, Mr.
+and Mrs. C. S. Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. H. Reeve (Lowestoft), Mr. and Mrs. A.
+Steward and party, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Reynolds and Miss Pellew, Rev. E.
+B. Frere, Mrs. Frere and party, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ferrier, Mr. and Mrs. J.
+Steward and Miss Stephens.  Captain and Miss Money, Colonel Mason and
+officers of the East Norfolk Militia, Captain Adsbrighton and the
+officers of the 4th Light Dragoons, &c.
+
+May 14th.—Colonel Mason and the officers of the East Norfolk Militia had
+been entertained at a Ball at the Town Hall give by some of the principal
+inhabitants.
+
+G. W. Haggard, Esq., had delivered a lecture on “The Militia.”
+
+E. H. L. Preston, Esq., had been offered £31 10s. for seven chickens,
+hatched in February, the off-set of his prize white Cochin China fowls.
+
+May 21st.—The East Norfolk Militia had been disbanded.
+
+A Spanish hen, the property of Mr. Josiah Stevenson, had laid an egg
+measuring 8 inches round, 6½ inches in length, and weighing more than 3½
+ounces.
+
+May 28th.—The Queen’s Birthday had been celebrated, the Mayor and a
+number of gentlemen dining at Bird’s Royal Hotel on the occasion.
+
+The Reform Association of Great Yarmouth had been addressed by Mr.
+McCullagh in a speech of two hours’ duration.
+
+June 4th.—Experiments in “table moving” were being made at the Young
+Men’s Institute by the Hon. Secs., Messrs. John Fellows, S. C. Sothern,
+John Beattie and Barcham Sayer.
+
+June 11th.—Sir C. Napier, K.C.B., had been appointed Vice-Admiral of the
+Blue.
+
+June 26th.—The driving of the first pile of the Wellington-pier was
+advertised to take place on the 28th inst.
+
+July 2nd.—A report of which event appears in this issue, when a marquée
+was erected near the Victoria Hotel, and at the request of Mr. Waddington
+(Chairman of the Company), Mr. S. C. Marsh (the Mayor), performed the
+ceremony.  The following was the inscription:—“This, the first pile of
+the Wellington Pier, was driven on the 28th of June, 1853, by S. C.
+Marsh, Esq., Mayor of this borough; David Waddington, Esq., M.P.,
+Chairman of the Board of Directors; Peter Ashcroft, Esq., Engineer;
+Charles J. Palmer, Esq., Secretary.”  In the evening between 50 and 60
+gentlemen dined at the Victoria Hotel, the Mayor in the chair and C. J.
+Palmer, Esq., in the vice-chair.
+
+July 9th.—At the Regatta the “Phantom,” “Thought,” and “Maude,” yachts,
+contended for the prize, which was won by the former.
+
+July 30th.—At the Water Frolic the “Shannon” (lateen), Brighten, Beccles,
+won the first, and the “Oberon” (cutter), Morton, Aylsham, the second
+prize.
+
+The Monument was still in a dilapidated state.
+
+Aug. 6th—The Baptist Chapel in Row 15 had been re-opened after extensive
+repairs.
+
+Aug. 20th.—Mr. W. C. Nutman (clerk to Mr. J. L. Cufaude) had been elected
+a Relieving-officer in the place of Mr. Thomas Thornton.
+
+Sep. 3rd.—John Mortlock Lacon, Esq., had died suddenly; he was in his
+68th year.
+
+At the general Licensing day it was moved by James Cherry, Esq., and
+seconded by R. Steward, Esq., “That no fresh licenses be granted.”
+
+Mr. Clinker Newson had appealed against the poor rate on the novel ground
+that he was rated at too low an amount.
+
+Sep. 10th.—The “Clarissa” barque, of 335 tons register, had been launched
+from Mr. Chapman’s yard.
+
+Oct. 1st.—Mr. Peter Coble had died suddenly from disease of the heart
+before his medical adviser, Mr. C. C. Aldred, could attend him.
+
+Oct. 8th.—The Registration Court had been held, Mr. Watson (of Norwich)
+and Mr. Preston appearing for the Tories, and Mr. J. Clowes and Mr. W. S.
+Costerton for the Liberals, who claimed a gain of 120 on the Borough
+Register.
+
+Nov. 5th.—Five hundred and fifty feet of the Wellington Pier had been
+opened to the public, the Corporation attending, and in the evening there
+was a public dinner at the Victoria Hotel in honour of the event.
+
+At the Municipal Election in the _North Ward_, Messrs. Burroughs (L) and
+Jackson (L) were re-elected without opposition.
+
+In the _Market Ward_ the polling was—
+
+F. Worship (C)              125
+E. R. Aldred (C)            118
+J. Owles (L)                 92
+J. Cobb (L)                  68
+
+In the _Regent Ward_, S. C. Marsh (C) and J. D. Chapman (L) and in the
+_St. George’s Ward_ J. G. Plummer (C) and J. C. Smith (C) were not
+opposed.
+
+In the _Nelson Ward_ there was a contest, but no numbers are given; Dr.
+Dunn and Mr. W. Thurtell (Cs) opposing the re-election of Mr. George
+Danby-Palmer and Mr. Thomas Lettis (Ls) who were again returned, and in
+_St. Andrew’s Ward_ the polling was—
+
+H. Teasdel (C)                  139
+E. H. L. Preston (C)            134
+S. Crowe (L)                     41
+W. Sterry (L)                     7
+
+The Conservatives, on the whole, had increased their majority by one.
+
+The following paragraph appears in this issue:—“Among the passengers by
+the “Argo” s.s. from Sydney, is Mr. Harrison, of Great Yarmouth, who
+brings with him 3,000 ounces of gold dust, valued at between £11,000 and
+£12,000.”—_Morning Chronicle_.
+
+The first Subscription Ball of the season had been held at the Town Hall,
+90 persons being present, the hall had been re-painted a light green in
+lieu of the old salmon colour, and four beautiful statues of “Clio,”
+“Erato,” and “The Dancing Girls of Canova,” had been placed in the
+niches.
+
+Nov. 12th.—At the Council meeting, on the nomination of Mr. W. Worship,
+seconded by Mr. C. J. Palmer, James Cherry, Esq., had been elected Mayor.
+
+The following Whig Aldermen then went out of office;—R. Hammond, jun., E.
+R. Palmer, H. Boulter, C. E. Barham, and W. Walpole with B. Fenn (C), and
+the following voting took place to fill these vacancies:—
+
+Mr. T. Bunn                     21
+,, T. Foreman                   21
+,, W. C. Reynolds               27
+,, J. G. Rivett                 26
+„ G. S. Shingles                26
+,, E. P. Youell                 26
+,, R. Hammond, junr.            10
+,, Boulter                       6
+,, J. Brown                      5
+,, E. R. Palmer                  8
+,, Sir E. Tavers                 1
+,, H. Worship                    1
+,, S. Paget                      1
+
+Nov. 26th.—Court “Buck of the Forest,” A.O.F., had been opened at the
+Buck Inn.
+
+One hundred and nineteen persons had been confirmed by Bishop Spencer at
+St. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Dec. 3rd.—It was proposed to establish a School of Design in the town.
+
+Captain Manby had attained his 88th year.
+
+Dec. 24th.—A parochial Museum was being formed at the Priory.
+
+The Local Board District Rate was signed at 1s. 4½d. in the £.
+
+Dec. 31st.—Mr. C. J. Palmer had presided at the annual dinner of the
+subscribers of the Public Library.
+
+
+
+1854.
+
+
+Jan. 7th.—Several houses had been damaged by a “fearful” storm.
+
+The “Seamen’s Association” had held a demonstration with a procession
+round the town.  At a subsequent meeting held at their Club House the
+following toasts were given:—“The Queen,” “May British Sailors weather
+the Storm,” “England expects every man will do his duty,” “The Owners and
+Merchants of Yarmouth,” “May British Sailors never want for grog and
+tobacco.”
+
+Jan. 14th.—The “Eleanor Palmer,” belonging to W. H. Palmer, Esq., had
+been “totally lost” on the coast near Athens.  This was the third vessel
+that gentleman had lost since 1853.
+
+Jan. 21st.—At a meeting of the Town Council it had been determined to
+oppose the “Waveney Valley Drainage Bill.”
+
+Captain Broadhead, R.N., was engaged at this port raising a corps of Sea
+Fencibles.
+
+Jan. 28th.—The first Subscription Ball had been held, for which
+Cosgrove’s Band was engaged, and dancing kept up until four o’clock.
+
+Sergeant Johnson had been charged by Mr. George William Moore with having
+been drunk and assaulting him.  The parties, together with Mr. Silvers,
+Mr. J. H. Harrison, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Howlett, and Mr. W. Wright appear to
+have been in Cosgrove’s public-house at three o’clock in the morning,
+when the alleged offences were said to have been committed.
+
+Jan. 28th.—N.B.  This is the first issue of the _Norwich Mercury_ as a
+bi-weekly newspaper.
+
+The following improvements were noted:—The now Haven Bridge and also the
+Wellington Pier were nearly completed.
+
+The Water Works were being formed.
+
+The Southtown Gas Works would soon be opened.
+
+The new Bank of Messrs. Gurney and Co., was in the course of erection.
+
+Many new streets were being formed on the North, East, and South Denes.
+
+The Marine Drive was projected.
+
+The town had been selected for the Militia Barracks, and it was said that
+the Victoria Esplanade was likely to be carried as far as the South
+Battery.
+
+On the other hand the state of the Chapel Denes had, however, long been
+“a disgrace to the town.”
+
+There had been an “immense fleet” of vessels in the Roads.
+
+Feb. 1st.—There had been snow-drifts 5 feet deep on the line between
+Yarmouth and Reedham.
+
+Feb. 8th.—Mr. Burroughs had, at the Council meeting, denounced certain
+gentlemen as “traitors to the town” and “tools of Mr. Peto.”
+
+Feb. 11th.—A considerable quantity of human bones had been found near the
+Caister Road, which were supposed to be the remains of persons who died
+of the plague and received burial from the Leper Houses which formerly
+existed there.
+
+Feb. 18th.—There had been extremely high tides, a violent storm, and a
+heavy gale.  Several dockyards had been overflowed, and about thirty
+balks of timber had been lost from Mr. Steward’s yard.
+
+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.
+
+A public meeting in favour of the Reform Bill had been held at the Corn
+Hall (George Danby-Palmer, Esq., in the chair), when the following
+gentlemen took part in the proceedings:—Mr. W. N. Burroughs, Mr.
+McCullagh, Mr. J. W. Shelly, Mr. C. E. Bartram, Mr. J. Clowes, Mr. J.
+Owles, Mr. Jackson, Mr. D. A. Gourlay, and Mr. R. Hammond.
+
+March 18th.—A meeting had been held at the Star Hotel, Mr. J. H. Harrison
+in the chair, to consider the rating of cottage property.
+
+March 25th.—A memorial brass had been placed in St. Nicholas’ Church to
+the memory of the late Dr. A. Impey.
+
+A meeting in favour of “Sabbath Observance” had been held.
+
+March 20th.—Contains the Royal proclamation of the war with Russia.
+
+April 1st.—The Baltic Fleet was at Kiel, and Admiral Plumridge was likely
+to shift his flag from the “Leopard” to the “St. Jean d’ Acre.”
+
+April 12th.—At the meeting for the Election of Haven Commissioners,
+Captain Scott proposed and Captain Briggs seconded George Danby-Palmer,
+Esq.; W. Yetts, Esq., proposed, and C. J. Palmer Esq., seconded, R.
+Ferrier, Esq.; J. Jackson, Esq., proposed, and Garson Blake, Esq.,
+seconded, J. Barker, Esq.; H. Palmer, Esq., proposed, and S. Cobb, Esq.,
+seconded, Richard Hammond, Esq., junr.; and Mr. J. Owles proposed, and
+Mr. T. Lettis seconded, D. A. Gourlay, Esq.  Mr. Ferrier declined to go
+to a poll, and thereupon Messrs. Palmer and Barker were elected
+Commissioners and Messrs. Hammond and Gourlay Supernumerary Commissioners
+without opposition.
+
+The following had been result of the Guardians’ Election:—
+
+_St. Nicholas’ Ward_.—James Jackson, cottage owner, 200, elected; Samuel
+Nightingale, brewer, 167, elected; John Mainprice, spirit merchant, 159,
+elected; Henry Boulter, confectioner, 129; William Wright, building and
+cottage owner, 123; Edward H. L. Preston, timber merchant, 112; Abraham
+Amis, cottage owner, 107.
+
+_Market Ward_.—William Laws, grocer, 194, elected; David Abraham Gourlay,
+shipowner, 168, elected; Joseph Harvey, tanner, 132, elected; John Cobb,
+currier and leather seller, 102; Robert Tooley, miller, 76; Richard
+Ecclestone, draper, 71; William Woolston, cottage owner, 56.
+
+_Regent Ward_.—Samuel Charles Marsh, wine merchant, 160, elected; William
+Worship, solicitor, 156, elected; Thomas Foreman, shipowner and cottage
+owner, 126, elected; James Denny Chapman, draper, 116; Frederick Palmer,
+surgeon, 102; William Livingstone, draper, &c., 68: John A. Norman, jun.,
+cottage owner, 66.
+
+_St. George’s Ward_.—Richard Ferrier, brewer, 225 elected; Joseph
+Goulding Plummer, shipowner, 223, elected; Benjamin Fenn, fish merchant,
+222, elected; Cubitt Engal Bartram, gentleman, 116; Christopher Steward,
+pawnbroker, 83; Robert Page, cottage owner, 65.
+
+_Nelson Ward_.—George Danby-Palmer, shipowner, 258, elected; James
+Hargrave Harrison, cottage owner, 235, elected; Charles Woolverton,
+plumber, 212, elected: Thomas Brightwen, gentleman, 206, elected; Samuel
+Velzi Moore, anchorsmith, 177; Thomas Lettis, jun., fish merchant, 130;
+Benjamin Powell, merchant, 126; John Clarke, shipowner, 158.
+
+April 19th.—Proceedings were threatened with regard to the Election of
+Guardians by the Liberals.
+
+April 22nd.—Both Churchwardens had been re-elected by the Vestry, and a
+Church rate of 1½d. in the £ voted.
+
+April 26th.—Notice of “the Closing of the Churchyards” had been issued.
+
+Eleanor Warren had died in the old prison Row, aged nearly 103 years.
+
+April 29th.—The men of the East Norfolk Militia and Norfolk Artillery
+Militia had assembled in the Market Place under the command of Colonel
+Mason and Lord Hastings, respectively.
+
+May 3rd.—The Stewards for the next Subscription Ball were to be the
+Mayor, Captain Pearson R.N., S. C. Marsh, Esq., C. J. Palmer, Esq., and
+M. Lacon, Esq.
+
+The following law report appears in this issue:—
+
+                          COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.
+
+     Before the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Cresswell,
+                 Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Justice Crompton.
+
+                            _Regina_ v _Eagleton_.
+
+    The indictment in this case contained ten counts, seven of which
+    charged an attempt to defraud, and the last three an attempt to
+    obtain money by false pretences.  The defendant had entered into a
+    contract with the Board of Guardians of Great Yarmouth to supply
+    loaves of bread of the weight of three pounds and a half to the poor,
+    and had supplied many of the out-door paupers with loaves weighing
+    only 3lbs. 4 ozs., and had represented to the Overseers of the poor
+    that the loaves supplied were of the contract weight, and had
+    endeavoured to obtain payment accordingly.  This case was sent back
+    to the Recorder of Great Yarmouth to be amended, in order to have the
+    question fully argued.
+
+    Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Mills appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Bulwer
+    for the prosecution.
+
+May 10th.—The Rev. R. J. Palmer, M.A., had lectured on “Mount Sinai and
+Arabia Petrœa.”
+
+May 20th.—The Earl of Leicester (Lord Lieutenant) had presented new
+colours to the East Norfolk Militia, which were received by Major Sir E.
+Lacon and Captain Bloomfield, the service of consecration being performed
+by the Rev. Bowyer Vaux, assisted by the Rev. John Bampton.
+
+Lord Hastings entertained several noblemen and gentlemen at dinner at the
+Royal Hotel.
+
+The officers of the East Norfolk Militia kept “open house” at the
+Victoria from two to six o’clock, and in the evening gave a ball at the
+Town Hall, at which the Earl of Leicester (Lord Lieutenant), Lord
+Hastings, Lord Walsingham, Lord Royston, the Hon. Jacob Astley, the Hon.
+and Rev. Delaval and Mrs. Astley, Lady Lacon, Mrs. and Miss Lee Warner,
+Mr. and Mrs. Hoste, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gay (Thurning), Mr. and Miss Day, the
+Officers of the Militia Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel Custance and the
+Officers of the West Norfolk Militia, Captain Norman, R.N., T. R.
+Buckworth, Esq., W. Norris, Esq., T. Browne, Esq., the Mayor of Yarmouth,
+Mr. and Mrs. C. Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. C. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
+Preston, Mr. E. R., Mrs., and the Misses Palmer, the Reverend Mr. and
+Mrs. and Miss Waters, Captain and Mrs. Marcon, Captain Pearson, R.N., Mr.
+and Miss Pearson, Mr. Mortlock Lacon, Mr. and Mrs. A. Steward and the
+Misses Steward were present.  The refreshments and the supper, both of
+the most _recherche_ description, were supplied by Mr. Wilson, of this
+city.  Weippert’s admirable band was engaged, and the dance was kept up
+until near the dawn of day.  Thus ended a day of pleasure without alloy,
+and next day the Regiment was inspected by Colonel Kelly.
+
+A fine Russian brig of 400 tons, laden with salt, had been brought into
+the Roads, a prize of war.  She subsequently proceeded to Sheerness.
+
+Seven thousand pounds had been expended on the Wellington Pier works,
+where the Norfolk Artillery Band occasionally performed.
+
+May 24th.—The North Denes had been selected for rifle practice.
+
+The Mayor (J. Cherry, Esq.,) had given a ball to 200 guests at the Town
+Hall.
+
+The “Contest” schooner, of 150 tons, had been launched from Messrs.
+Beeching’s yard.
+
+May 31st.—Sir James Plumridge had been promoted to be Rear-Admiral of the
+White.
+
+The Military Lunatic Asylum was to be converted into an Hospital for
+wounded seamen from the Baltic Fleet.
+
+No. 3, Brighton Terrace, and No. 2, Queen’s Road had been struck by
+lightning.
+
+June 3rd.—The “Otter,” war steamer, had put into the Roads.
+
+The “Carolina,” Russian brig, had arrived in this port for condemnation.
+
+June 14th.—H.M.S. “Zeyphr” had been in the Roads.
+
+Mr. John Clowes declined to pay £1 2s. due for Board of Health rate, on
+the ground that the Board was indebted to him for services rendered
+whilst he was Town Clerk.  A distress was ordered to be issued.
+
+June 17th.—Two vessels with wounded seamen were expected for the
+Hospital.
+
+A small steamboat, the property of J. Penrice, Esq., had exploded near
+the Bridge.
+
+June 21st.—Mr. McCullough, Mr. Chamberlin, Captain Briggs, and Mr. Scott
+had attended the Right Hon. E. Cardwell as a deputation from the
+“Shipping Association.”
+
+The premises occupied by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Institute had
+been purchased by C. J. Palmer, Esq., for £1,780.
+
+July 1st.—The Norfolk Artillery had completed their 50 days’ training,
+the gun practice being for 24-pounders at a target range of 1,250.
+
+A meeting to promote the “Roads Regatta” had been held.
+
+July 8th.—The month of June had been intensely cold on the East coast.
+
+July 15th.—The mackerel fishing had been very successful, the returns
+then amounting to £30,000, which sum would be probably increased to
+£40,000 before the boats made up.
+
+July 22nd.—The “Hornet” screw frigate, 16 guns, had anchored in the
+Roads, on her way to join Sir Charles Napier’s Fleet in the Baltic.
+
+Four thousand persons had arrived in one day by excursion trains from
+Norwich, Ipswich and Lynn.
+
+S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P., had laid the foundation stone of the King Street
+Congregation Chapel; afterwards there was a dejeuner at the Victoria
+Hotel, where J. W. Shelly, Esq., presided.
+
+Lord Sondes had been appointed Lord High Steward of the Borough.
+
+Aug. 2nd.—Many visitors were arriving, chiefly from Cambridge and the
+Isle of Ely.
+
+A Poor’s rate of 1s. 6d. in the £ had been signed.
+
+Aug. 5th.—At the Roads Regatta the following yachts entered:—
+
+    Name.         Tons.           Owner.
+Phantom             25      S. Lane, Esq.
+Thought             28      C. Coope, Esq.
+Sheldrake           17      Capt. Love.
+
+The Sheldrake gave up and the others were timed as follows:—
+
+                   1st round.                 2nd round.                 3rd round.
+              H.       M.       S.       H.       M.       S.       H.       M.       S.
+Thought          12       56        0        1       48        0        2       41        6
+Phantom          12       58       45        1       50       48        2       45        5
+
+In the yawl match the “Queen Victoria” beat the “Eclipse,” “Royal
+Victoria” and “Cambridge Lass.”
+
+The dinner was held at the Victoria Hotel, the Mayor in the chair.  The
+Earl of Albemarle, Mr. Butcher, Mr. C. Cory, Mr. C. J. Palmer, and Mr.
+Seaman took part in the after dinner proceedings.
+
+Steamers continued to pass through the Roads on their way to the Baltic.
+
+Aug. 9th.—Edward Tupman and Edward Gill, captains of vessels, bound for
+the North, had been charged with assaulting S. C. Marsh, Esq.,
+Deputy-Mayor, and fined £5 each or two months’ imprisonment, and also
+50s. each and 15s. damage to clothes, for assaulting Mr. Joseph Giles
+(gaoler).
+
+Aug. 12th.—Sir John Walsham had held an Inquiry as to the Election of
+Guardians and “impounded” several voting papers.
+
+The screw frigate “Horatio” had been in the Roads and visited by numbers
+of persons.
+
+It was rumoured that some 40 vessels, known as “Barking Smacks” were
+likely to be added to the local fishing fleet.
+
+The Centenary of the Baptist Church, Church Plain, had been celebrated.
+
+Messrs. Charles Gill and William Sidney had become lessees of the
+Theatre.
+
+Aug. 19th.—The “Amateur,” latteen (F. Brown), Norwich, won the prize at
+the Water Frolic.
+
+Aug. 26th.—Seven thousand excursionists had been brought by train from
+Norwich and other places to the Races.
+
+George Winkfield (Yarmouth), John Chambers (Hull), George Bell,
+(Fakenham), Robert Todd (Yarmouth), J. Bitten (Yarmouth), Charles Reed
+(Yarmouth), and T. R. Mills (Southtown), were charged with obstructing
+the Hall Quay (but in fact for holding a religious service there.)  They
+were defended by Mr. Tillett, of Norwich; Chambers was fined 40s. and
+costs.
+
+Aug. 30th.—“Lodgings was scarcely to be obtained” in the town.
+
+There was a band of thieves about who had extracted “the contents of many
+pockets.”
+
+The question of the “open air preachers” was again before the Justices,
+when the fine proposed to be inflicted on Chambers was abandoned, it
+being, in fact, admitted that, under the circumstances of the case there
+was no power to inflict it.
+
+Sep. 2nd.—A meeting had been held (the Rev. G. Hills presiding) to
+consider the further restoration of St. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Thirty boats were gone to the Scotch fisheries, and herring was selling
+at from £8 to £14 per last.
+
+A foot race for £5 over 100 yards had been run on the South-denes, when
+Mr. Browne beat Mr. George Diver by half a yard.
+
+Sep. 6th.—The gas lamps at Gorleston and Southtown had been lighted for
+the first time.
+
+No minister had attended at St. Mary’s, Southtown, to conduct the Sunday
+morning service.
+
+Sep. 9th.—The Justices had again refused to grant any fresh licenses.
+
+Sep. 18th.—The “Ada,” a barque of 435 tons, had been launched from Mr.
+Thomas Barber’s yard.
+
+The Russian Barque “Carolina” had been sold by E. H. L. Preston, Esq., at
+the Star, for £1,110, and her cargo of 321 tons of salt for £347, making
+a total of £1,457.
+
+Sep. 20th.—The proposed grant of a piece of land by the Corporation, for
+the purpose of a cemetery, had been approved by the Secretary of State.
+
+Sep. 23rd.—The French frigate “Expeditive,” 20 guns, was anchored in the
+Roads, and a dead body had been landed from her for interment.
+
+Sept. 27th.—The coal trade was unusually brisk; during the week 70
+colliers had arrived at the port, and these, with the other daft there,
+crowded the Harbour.
+
+After the 1st of October the drapers had determined to close their shops
+at seven o’clock.
+
+Messrs. Mann, Giles, and Freeman, “extensive fish salesmen,” had been
+summoned for allowing “swills” to remain on the Quay longer than
+necessary for their business purposes.
+
+Oct. 4th.—At the revision of the Burgess List, the Liberals had lodged 59
+objections and put in 347 new claims, and the Tories had made 373
+objections.
+
+The telegraphic announcement of the great victory of the allied armies
+over the Russians (Battle of the Alma) had been received shortly after
+eleven o’clock, and created intense excitement; the flags had been
+hoisted on the Town Hall and the Church, and but for the interference
+with divine service, the bells, doubtless, would have sent forth a merry
+peal.
+
+Thanksgivings had been offered in all places of worship for the abundant
+harvest.
+
+Oct. 7th.—The Borough Revision Court had been engaged with the Lists for
+three days and a half; the Liberals sustained 300 claims, as against 50
+sustained by the Tories.
+
+Oct. 11th.—Mr. Wright (who had been objected to) was charged before the
+Justices for assaulting Sergeant James Gowen (the Tory objector) and
+bound over to keep the peace.  There was a warm discussion on the Bench
+during these proceedings between Mr. R. Hammond and Mr. R. Steward.
+
+At the Revision of the Parliamentary List, Mr. Cufaude and Mr. Preston
+appeared for the Tories, and Mr. Costerton for the Liberals, and the
+latter claimed a gain upon the proceedings.
+
+Oct. 18th.—A “great meeting” of Liberals had been held at the Star Inn;
+G. Danby-Palmer, Esq., (chairman), Captain Pearson, R.N., J. W. Shelly,
+Esq., R. Hammond, Esq., W. T. McCullagh, Esq., J. Clowes, Esq., J. Owles,
+Esq., and Mr. Jackson took part in the proceedings.
+
+At the Gaol Sessions, N. Palmer, Esq., (Recorder) and R. Steward, Esq.,
+(acting as Visiting Justices) had dismissed the Gaol Chaplain (Rev.
+George Hills).  This action was deprecated by some of the Justices, and
+ultimately the question was referred by them to the Quarter Sessions.
+
+An “impudent thief” had picked a woman’s pocket, while she was in the
+Police-court.
+
+Oct. 21st.—The New Bridge had been completed, and formally opened to the
+public, at a cost of little less than £60,000.
+
+H.M. yacht “Fairy” had arrived in the Harbour.
+
+Ladies were collecting linen rags for the wounded soldiers in the East.
+
+Oct. 25th.—Mr. R. Hammond and the Mayor (Mr. Cherry) were at
+“loggerheads” with regard to certain statements made by the former
+gentleman at the Liberal meeting.
+
+The “Gælan,” a French man-of-war, had entered the Harbour for the purpose
+of coaling.
+
+One hundred and thirteen young persons had been confirmed at St.
+Nicholas’ Church by the Bishop of Norwich.
+
+Nov. 1st.—A “patriotic fund” meeting had been held at the Town Hall, the
+Mayor (J. Cherry, Esq.) in the chair.  Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P.,
+Sir E. Travers, K. H., Rev. J. S. Russell, Rev. B. Vaux, Rev. J. B.
+Bampton, Rev. McSwiney, C. J. Palmer, R. Steward, R. Hammond, George
+Danby-Palmer, J. W. Shelly, C. C. Aldred, Esqs., and Captains Gilbertson
+and Roberts, and others were present, and a subscription list opened,
+which was headed by donations of £25 each from Messrs. Gurney & Co.,
+George Danby-Palmer, Esq., and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P.
+
+Nov. 4th.—At the Municipal Election “it was rumoured that no small amount
+of ready cash had been sent into circulation.”
+
+The result of the polling was—
+
+            _St. George’s Ward_.
+Mr. H. Jay (C)                           137
+Mr. R. Ferrier, junr. (C)                139
+Captain Pearson R.N. (L)                  99
+Mr. Jas. Scott (L)                        99
+               _Regent Ward_.
+Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart. (C)            128
+Mr. J. Cherry (C)                        126
+Mr. John Clowes (L)                       88
+Mr. Henry Danby-Palmer (L)                87
+               _Market Ward_.
+Mr. J. Fenn (C)                          186
+Mr. J. E. Barnby (C)                     184
+Mr. J. Cobb (L)                          133
+Mr. D. R. Fowler (L)                     123
+           _St. Nicholas’ Ward_.
+Mr. S. Nightingale (C)                   203
+Mr. W. H. Bessey (C)                     187
+Mr. R. Hammond (L)                       187
+Mr. H. Boulter (L)                       173
+
+And the Alderman gave his casting vote in favour of Mr. Bessey.
+
+             _Nelson Ward_.
+Mr. J. Clark (C)                     184
+Mr. S. V. Moore (L)                  182
+Mr. J. H. Harrison (L)               122
+           _Gorleston Ward_.
+Mr. William H. Palmer (C)            131
+Mr. W. Hammond (C)                   118
+Mr. G. Blake (L)                      61
+Mr. Sterry (L)                        46
+
+Messrs. Henry Palmer, C. J. Palmer, C. H. Chamberlin, William T. Clarke,
+E. R. Palmer, and F. W. Ferrier had been appointed Admiralty
+Commissioners.
+
+Nov. 11th.—At the Council meeting Mr. E. H. L. Preston proposed and Mr.
+Worship seconded, Charles J. Palmer, Esq., as Mayor for the ensuing year,
+and he was elected to that office without opposition.
+
+Nov. 15th.—The question of the formation of a “Burial Board” was being
+discussed.
+
+The Naval Hospital was being prepared for 350 sick and wounded from the
+Black Sea fleet.
+
+Nov. 18th.—The Mayor (C. J. Palmer, Esq.), had issued cards for an
+entertainment at the Town Hall on the 30th inst.
+
+Mr. J. L. Porter had been appointed manager of the National Provincial
+Bank at Yarmouth.
+
+The Police had contributed one day’s pay to the Patriotic Fund.
+
+The “Tourist,” London passenger steamer, Captain Dawson, had been lost on
+the North Sand.  She was a very old vessel, and it was stated that this
+would have been her last voyage if no accident had happened to her; she
+was fully insured.
+
+Nov. 22nd.—Messrs. Gurney & Co’s. new Bank had been opened.
+
+A poll had been taken on the question of the formation of a “Burial
+Board,” when the voting on the first day was—
+
+For the Board            312
+Against it               311
+
+A meeting of Ratepayers was subsequently held and the scheme denounced by
+several speakers.
+
+Nov. 29th.—The Town Council had re-appointed the Rev. G. Hills, gaol
+chaplain “with only two dissentients.”
+
+Nearly £1,000 had been raised for the Patriotic Fund.
+
+The polling for the Burial Board had closed as under—
+
+For                 468
+Against             544
+     Majority        76
+
+The “Sir William Jolliffe” had been placed on the station in the place of
+the “Tourist.”
+
+Dec. 13th.—Messrs. Dumbleton, Bradbeer, Palmer, and Bunn had complained
+to the Bench of the obstructions on the Quay.
+
+Dec. 23rd.—The Council had “suspended” the sexton for alleged misconduct.
+
+The grocers and drapers had determined to close their shops on the day
+following Christmas Day.
+
+“The Skimmer of the Sea,” a barque of 320 tons, had been launched from
+Mr. Branford’s yard.
+
+Dec. 30th.—The East Norfolk Militia having been permanently embodied, had
+assembled under the command of Colonel Mason, but the Norfolk Militia
+Artillery had not been called up.
+
+T. Brightwen, Esq., had qualified as a Magistrate.
+
+Several large packages of warm clothing had been forwarded by the ladies
+of the town for the use of the soldiers in the Crimea.
+
+C. J. Palmer, Esq., had entertained the inmates of the Gaol.
+
+Pickpockets were again in town, and John Webb had been robbed by them of
+£4 15s.
+
+Mr. Smyth had been appointed Surgeon to the Gaol in the place of Mr. H.
+Worship deceased.
+
+
+
+1855.
+
+
+Jan. 6th.—There had been a high tide and heavy flood; 130 yards of the
+rails between Yarmouth and Reedham had been carried away by the latter.
+
+The following gentlemen had been chosen as the Library Committee.—The
+Mayor (C. J. Palmer, Esq.), Rev. J. B. Bampton, Rev. H. Squire, and
+Messrs. B. Fenn, R. R. B. Norman, J. Bayly, and S. C. Burton.
+
+It was considered too cold to drill the Militia on the South-denes.
+
+Jan. 13th.—The following quantity of fish had been forwarded from
+Yarmouth during the preceding year:—
+
+                        Packages.        Tons.       Cwt.
+From Jan. to Sep.            282,441       10,591         10
+,, Oct. to Dec.              250,981        9,411         15
+               Total         533,422       20,003          5
+
+During the week 20 men of the East Norfolk Militia had volunteered for
+the line.
+
+At the Tract Lenders’ Festival 400 persons had partaken of tea at the
+Priory.  They were addressed by the Rev. G. Hills, Rev. G. W. Grogan and
+other friends.
+
+Jan. 17th.—The Norfolk Artillery Militia had received an order to be
+permanently embodied from the 23rd inst.
+
+Jan. 20th.—Sixty more men had volunteered from the East Norfolk Militia
+for the line, making a total of 300 of such volunteers in all.
+
+Winter had set in “with all the vigour and severity peculiar to this
+portion of the Eastern Coast.”
+
+Jan. 24th.—The weather continued intensely cold, and the navigation of
+the rivers were stopped by the accumulation of ice.
+
+The District Visiting Society was doing great work in the way of
+alleviating distress.
+
+Pickpockets were still at work.  A woman had been robbed by one of them
+in the Market Row of 8s. 6d., and Mrs. Pole, of Burgh Castle, had
+suffered a loss of £2 17s. in this way.
+
+Jan. 27th.—The Norfolk Artillery Militia had assembled,—156
+non-commissioned officers and men, with the following officers: Captain
+Astley, Lieutenants Penrice, Tredcroft and North, Adjutant Gilberton, and
+Surgeon C. C. Aldred.  Lord Hastings had not yet joined them.
+
+The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had announced to the Hospital Committee that the
+Medical Library of the late Mr. Harry Worship would be presented to that
+Institution.
+
+Bro. William Lucia had been elected W.M. of Lodge “Friendship,” in
+succession to Bro. Oswald Diver.
+
+Feb. 14th.—The business of the Port had been much affected by the rigour
+of the weather.
+
+Feb. 17th.—Thirty-four men had volunteered from the Norfolk Militia
+Artillery for the Royal Artillery.
+
+The South-quay was blocked by the coal carts near the Town Hall, and
+great complaints being made about this it was suggested that the colliers
+should unload at a wider part of the quay.
+
+Feb. 21st.—The Subscription Ball had been attended by the Mayor and Mrs.
+Charles Palmer, Lieutenant-Colonel Mason, the Honourable Mr. Harbord, Mr.
+Astley, Mr. Graver Brown, Mrs. E. Graver Brown, Reverend A. B. Smyth,
+Captain Gay, Captain and Mrs. Rippingall, Captain and Mrs. Mathew,
+Captain, Mrs., and Miss Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Meadwell, Mr., Mrs., and
+Miss E. H. L. Preston, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Marsh, Mr., Mrs., and the
+Misses Steward, Mr. and Miss Chevallier, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, Mr. and
+Mrs. Ferrier, Mr. Smith, (East Norfolk Militia) Mr. Smyth (East Norfolk
+Militia) and Mrs. Smyth, Mr. Palgrave, Mr. and the Misses Barber, Mr.
+Boycott, Mr. Press, Mr. Aldred, Mr. Eyre, &c., &c.
+
+The town was infested by a gang of thieves.
+
+Four deserters from the Royal Navy had been captured in the town.
+
+A meeting had been held for the relief of the poor, the Mayor presided,
+and the Rev. G. Hills, and Messrs. R. Hammond, E. H. L. Preston, T.
+Brightwen, S. Dowson, R. Steward, R. Ferrier, and W. N. Burroughs took
+part in the proceedings.  Mr. George Danby-Palmer sent £10 to the fund,
+and more than £200 was then collected in the room.
+
+Feb. 24th.—Full power to act as a Burial Board had been vested in the
+Town Council, and the following Committee of that body appointed to carry
+out the Act:—The Mayor, and Messrs. R. Ferrier, F. Worship, E. R. Aldred,
+W. N. Burroughs, J. Jackson, C. E. Bartram, P. Pullyn, and T. Foreman.
+
+Feb. 28th.—A thaw had commenced, and it was hoped that the River traffic
+would soon be able to be resumed.
+
+Mr. Gyngell had superintended a grand display of fireworks on the Star
+Quay, which was witnessed by about 7,000 or 8,000 persons.
+
+March 3rd.—A ship of war was likely to be stationed in the Roads to
+protect the shipping there.
+
+The first of the frozen-in wherries had been liberated at Reedham, and
+the Steam Packet communication had been resumed with London.
+
+March 10th.—The Norfolk Militia Artillery had been removed to London _en
+route_ for Eastbourne; when 170 men and the following officers, Captain
+Penrice, Adjutant Gilbertson, Lieutenants Tredcroft, North, and
+Micklewaite, left the town.
+
+A meeting, at the Angel Hotel, had been held for the purpose of
+establishing a pack of harriers; Mr. H. Grimmer was chairman, Mr. Jex, of
+Hopton, undertook to purchase the hounds, and Mr. J. L. Cufaude to act as
+honorary secretary to the Committee.
+
+March 14th.—The Market was to be held on Tuesday the 20th, as Wednesday,
+the 21st, had been proclaimed a day for fasting and humiliation.
+
+The Batteries were being armed with 24-pounders, and it was proposed to
+construct a fort on Gorleston Cliff, to be armed with 68 pound guns.
+
+March 17th.—Lectures had been delivered by the Rev. R. Cory on
+“Jerusalem,” and by Mr Craft (a man of colour) upon “American Slavery.”
+
+Bro. Robert Harmer had presided at the annual dinner of the “Druids,
+Trinity Lodge, 220.”
+
+March 21st.—Several complaints had been made of unprovoked assaults by
+members of the East Norfolk Militia upon respectable inhabitants of the
+town.
+
+March 24th.—At the Quarter Sessions, the Grand Jury presented the foul
+state of the Court House at the Tolhouse.
+
+The national Fast Day had been strictly observed.
+
+Robberies continued to be very frequently committed in the town.
+
+April 4th.—H.M.S. “Harrier” (17 guns) was then stationed in the Roads,
+and a rendezvous had been opened for Volunteers to the North Sea fleet.
+
+Three hundred men of the East Norfolk Militia had claimed a right to be
+dismissed, having served 56 days in the then year under the terms of
+their enlistments, and they were dismissed accordingly.
+
+April 7th.—Messrs. Green, Borking, Clayton, and Harbord had been
+appointed Overseers, which, as a “partizan” step, was justified by Mr. C.
+C. Aldred, and objected to by Mr. R. Hammond.
+
+April 14th.—A militiaman had been buried with military honours.
+
+Messrs. Aldred and Steward had been re-elected Churchwardens by the
+Vestry.
+
+The Vestry decided on the question of making a Church rate, when there
+appeared 64 for and 87 against the rate, but the majority did not press
+the matter any further, and ultimately a rate of 1½d. in the £ was agreed
+to.
+
+The Guardians’ Election had resulted as follows:—
+
+             _North Ward_.
+Mr. J. Jackson (L)                  258
+Mr. J. Mainprice (L)                252
+Mr. J. W. Craske (L)                198
+Mr. S. Nightingale (C)              246
+Mr. E. H. L. Preston (C)            214
+Mr. W. Wright (C)                   193
+            _Market Ward_.
+Mr. D. A. Gourlay (L)               226
+Mr. C. Steward (L)                  165
+Mr. A. Ames (L)                     136
+Mr. H. Laws (C)                     252
+Mr. C. C. Aldred (C)                247
+Mr. J. Browne (C)                   200
+            _Regent Ward_.
+Mr. John Clowes (L)                 120
+Mr. F. Palmer (L)                   147
+Mr. J. A. Norman (L)                147
+Mr. W. Worship (C)                  198
+Mr. S. C. Marsh (C)                 196
+Mr. T. Foreman (C)                  164
+         _St. George’s Ward_.
+Mr. T. Lettis, Jun., (L)            159
+Mr. J. Scott (L)                    127
+Mr. B. Fenn (C)                     223
+Mr. R. Ferrier (C)                  217
+Mr. J. G. Plummer (C)               194
+            _Nelson Ward_.
+Mr. J. H. Harrison (L)              203
+Mr. G. Danby-Palmer (L)             225
+Mr. S. V. Moore (L)                 193
+Mr. W. T. Fisher (L)                131
+Mr. W. C. Reynolds (C)              176
+Mr. J. Clark (C)                    187
+Mr. C. Woolverton (C)               249
+Mr. T. Brightwen (C)                218
+
+April 18th.—A proposal had been made to have all the houses in the town
+numbered.
+
+April 25th.—A purse of money had been presented to Mr. Farrow, the
+Secretary of the Liberal Association, “for his long-continued service in
+the Reform cause.”
+
+April 28th.—The Poor’s Rate was estimated at 1s. 6d. in the £, to meet
+£3,000 required by the Guardians for the Quarter, who had then £430 in
+hand to meet demands amounting to £1,450.
+
+May 2nd.—Mr. Lane had been appointed Collector of Poor’s rates for the
+Market Ward.
+
+George Danby-Palmer, Esq., had almost entirely recovered from the
+indisposition which he had been suffering from during the winter, and it
+was proposed to entertain him at a public dinner.
+
+May 5th.—The new burial ground comprised about 10 acres in extent, and
+the following tender was recommended by the Committee to the Council: J.
+Thompson, for walls, £1,388; gates, £50; levelling, £110; total, £1,548,
+with respect to fitting it for use.
+
+Nelson’s Column was still allowed to fall into decay.
+
+May 9th.—Mr. Allcock had been appointed Poor’s Rate Collector for the
+Nelson and Regent Wards.
+
+The sale of part of the landed property of the late Mr. Ambrose Palmer
+had taken place, the ship-yard and docks bringing £1,100 and £900
+respectively.  The leasehold premises on the west side of the river were
+bought by Mr. Joseph Powell, and the building sites near Queen’s Road
+fetched about 20s. per foot frontage with a ground rental of about 2s.
+per yard upon the same.
+
+Letters could now be posted as late as 8.10 p.m.
+
+Water had been conveyed by the Company’s mains to Yarmouth from Ormesby
+for the first time.  One of these pipes burst near the “Gallon Can.”
+
+May 12th.—The Victoria Gardens had been laid out and were likely to
+outvie any in the neighbourhood.
+
+May 19th.—Mr. Lummis had resigned the office of Librarian.
+
+The Workhouse had been lighted with gas.
+
+A meeting for the purpose of advocating “Administrative Reform” had been
+held at the Town Hall, when Mr. R. Hammond presided, and Mr. McCullagh
+delivered a stirring address.
+
+The Tories complained that this meeting was “got up” by the Liberals for
+party purposes.
+
+May 23rd.—The Water Company had offered to supply water for
+street-watering purposes free of expense.
+
+H.M.S. “Harrier” had been firing shell to a distance of 1,200 yards in
+the direction of Scroby; the Queen’s Birthday had been observed in the
+usual way.
+
+May 26th.—The Water Works had been opened, and in the evening 80
+gentlemen dined at the Town Hall, under the presidency of the Mayor (C.
+J. Palmer, Esq.), who was supported by Sir E. H. K. Lacon, M.P., and
+Lieut.-Col. Mason.
+
+Mr. F. Maryson and Mr. D. D. Offord, the candidates for the post of
+Librarian, having each obtained 27 votes, the Mayor gave his casting vote
+in favour of Mr. Offord, who was thus elected to the post.
+
+Eight additional gas lamps had been placed on the Wellington Pier.
+
+May 30th.—The first stone of the Wesleyan Free Church, on the Regent
+Road, had been laid by S. C. Marsh, Esq.
+
+June 2nd.—The Russian brig “Phœnix” had been brought in by a prize crew.
+
+June 9th.—The mackerel fishing was going on badly, and many boats had
+lost nets.
+
+July 18th.—A brace of tench, weighing between eight and nine pounds, had
+been taken at Ormesby.
+
+Mr. Stracey (afterwards Sir Edward Stracey, Bart.), the Tory candidate
+for East Norfolk had visited the town.  (He was returned, on this
+occasion, without opposition.)
+
+July 21st.—At the Regatta the following prizes were offered for
+luggers:—£50, £20, and £10, and there were ten entries; during the match
+the “Race-horse” (Mr. I. Shuckford) was run down by the “Ocean Star”
+(Smith and Son).  Her crew was rescued by the yawls “Queen Victoria” and
+“Standard,” but the master of the lugger (Lark) had two of his ribs
+broken.  The “Brothers” (T. Lettis, jun.) won the first prize, the
+“Henry” (H. Swann, jun.) and the “Prima Donna” (J. Minns) taking the
+other two prizes.  The yawl prizes were not awarded.
+
+The following notice again appeared with regard to the case of
+
+                            “REGINA v. EAGLETON.”
+
+    “The defendant, John Eagleton, a baker, at Yarmouth, who had
+    contracted with the Guardians of Yarmouth to supply the poor with
+    bread, was tried before the Recorder, N. Palmer, Esq., at the Quarter
+    Sessions in March, 1854, upon an indictment charging him, in the
+    seven first counts, with an offence at common law, in fraudulently
+    supplying the poor with bread of short weight; and, in the three last
+    counts, with attempting to obtain payment from the Guardians, by
+    falsely pretending that he had supplied full weight.  He was found
+    guilty by the jury, but the Recorder reserved a case for the opinion
+    of the Court of Criminal Appeal, as to the proprietory of the
+    conviction in point of law.  On the first argument on April 29th,
+    1854, before Pollock, C.B., Parke, B., Creswell, J., and Williams,
+    J., the case was referred back to the Recorder, for him to state the
+    whole evidence given at the trial, which he did accordingly, and the
+    case, as re-stated, was, on the following 3rd of June, argued before
+    Lord Campbell, C. J., Alderson, B., Coleridge, J., Martin, B., and
+    Crowder, J., and they, having doubts as to the proprietory of the
+    conviction, desired the case to be argued before the 15 judges, and
+    on the 2nd December, 1854, it was argued before Jervis, C. J.,
+    Pollock, C. B., Parke, B., Maule, J., Wightman, J., Erle, J., Platt,
+    B., Martin, B., and Crompton, J., and again on the 3rd of February
+    last, before Jervis, C. J., Parke, B., Maule, J., Wightman, J.,
+    Creswell, J., Erle, J., Platt, B., Williams, J., Martin, B., and
+    Crompton, J.—Mr. Bulwer appeared in support of the conviction, and
+    Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Clerk, and Mr. J. H. Mills on behalf of the
+    Defendant.  The Judges took time to consider, and on July the 9th,
+    Mr. Baron Parke delivered their judgment, affirming the conviction on
+    the last three counts.  The defendant will, therefore, have to appear
+    before the Recorder at the next October Sessions to receive
+    judgment.”
+
+July 25th.—One hundred and thirty ladies and gentlemen had attended the
+Regatta Ball at the Town Hall, among whom were—the Mayor and Mrs. Palmer,
+Lord Hastings, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., Lieut.-Col. Mason,
+Captains Longe, Markham Gay, and other Officers of the East Norfolk
+Militia, &c.  Howlett’s band attended, and dancing was kept up until
+4.30.
+
+July 28th.—The Grand Jury had found a true bill against Messrs. R.
+Ferrier, sen., and R. Ferrier, jun., for assault upon John William de
+Caux, and it was stated that the case would be tried at the next Assizes.
+
+Aug. 4th.—The Mayor had presided at a meeting called to consider the
+“Small Tenements Act.”
+
+Eighty-five boats engaged in the Mackerel Fishery had taken fish to the
+value of £27,994.
+
+Aug. 18th.—All hope of raising the “Racehorse,” which was sunk at the
+Regatta, had been abandoned.  The attempt to do so had cost £150.
+
+Aug. 22nd.—C. J. Palmer, Esq., Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., and
+Captain D. Lane had acted as Stewards of the Races, and 6,000 persons had
+been brought to the sports by rail.
+
+Between £170 and £180 had been raised by a bazaar for the Congregational
+Chapel, King Street.
+
+Aug. 25th.—Mr. E. H. L. Preston had had the small bone of his arm broken
+whilst endeavouring to quell a disturbance which had arisen between some
+of the Artillery Militiamen.
+
+Eighty ladies and gentlemen had attended the Race Ball.
+
+Aug. 29th.—Mr. J. H. Tillett had produced the “Bench Warrant” for the
+apprehension of the Messrs. Ferrier for the assault upon Mr. J. W. de
+Caux, reporter to the _Mercury_ and _Norfolk News_; bail was placed at
+£100 and two securities of £50 in each case.
+
+Sept. 8th.—150 men of the Horse Artillery had been encamped on the North
+Denes, under the command of Captain Mountain and three Lieutenants.
+
+Sept. 12th.—These troops had been reviewed on the South Denes in the
+presence of several thousands of persons.
+
+Sept. 15th.—The news of the evacuation of the Southern part of Sebastopol
+by the Russians had been received by the general public with incredulity,
+they saying “too good news to be true.”
+
+Sept. 22nd.—A hare had taken to the sea, and was picked up by a person
+who went after it in a boat; having killed it, he sold it for 2s. 6d.
+
+Oct. 3rd.—Sunday had been a day of thanksgiving for the success of the
+allied armies in the Crimea.
+
+Oct. 10th.—The “Scampo,” a Russian prize, had been brought into the
+Harbour.
+
+At the Quarter Sessions there was another discussion between the Recorder
+and Mr. Steward on the one hand and the Visiting Justices on the other
+side, as to the validity of the appointment of the Rev. G. Hills as
+Chaplain to the Gaol.
+
+John Eagleton had been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
+
+Oct. 17th.—The Liberals claimed a gain of 44 on the Municipal Revision,
+when Mr. Costerton appeared for the Liberal, and Mr. Cufaude for the
+Tory, party.
+
+Oct. 20th.—A very brisk corn trade was being carried on, vessels coming
+in light to load with corn for France and Holland.
+
+Robert Steward, Esq., had been fined 20s. and costs for obstructing the
+Quay-head.
+
+Oct. 27th.—The East Suffolk Railway was projected.
+
+In 1855, 258,121 quarters of corn had been shipped at this port.
+
+The “Hopton Harriers” had held their first meet at the Kennel at Hopton.
+Mr. W. Jex provided luncheon.  The next meet was to be at Haddiscoe.
+
+Oct. 31st.—Messrs. Beeching and Son had launched a beautiful lifeboat for
+the Gorleston beachmen.
+
+Nov. 3rd.—Only two Wards had been contested.  The returns were:—
+
+        _St. Nicholas’ Ward_.
+W. Worship (C)                    405
+J. B. Hilton (C)                  405
+Henry Danby-Palmer (L)            262
+John Mainprice (L)                262
+           _Regent Ward_.
+R. D. Barber (C)                  224
+R. R. B. Norman (C)               224
+John Clowes (L)                   159
+John Fish (L)                     159
+
+The names of the other re-elected Councillors are not given.
+
+Four gun-boats had come into the Roads from the Baltic.
+
+Nov. 10th.—The Mayor of Norwich had given a grand ball, in St. Andrew’s
+Hall; Mr., Mrs. and the Misses Marsh, the Officers of the East Norfolk
+Militia and Norfolk Artillery Militia, the Misses Steward, the Mayor of
+Yarmouth and Mrs. Palmer, Mr. W. Danby-Palmer, Mr. F. Danby-Palmer, and
+others had attended it from Yarmouth.
+
+Nov. 14th.—The “Meander,” 44 gun frigate, was at anchor off the Monument.
+
+Nov. 28th.—Lieut. Matthew Gooda, late of the East Norfolk Militia, had
+died at Southtown, aged 76.
+
+Dec. 1st.—The dinner, commemorative of the re-election of C. J. Palmer,
+Esq., to the office of Chief Magistrate, had been held at the Town Hall.
+His Worship was supported on his right by the Hon. H. Byng, Sir E. H. K.
+Lacon, Bart., M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Astley, the Rev. George Hills, and J.
+Harcourt, Esq., and on his left by the Recorder (N. Palmer, Esq.), Sir H.
+J. Stracey, Bart., M.P., the Mayor of Norwich and Captain Broadhead, R.N.
+The Mayor’s guests on this occasion numbered upwards of 100 persons.
+
+George Danby-Palmer, Esq., had presided at a meeting called for the
+purpose of promoting a national testimonial to Admiral Sir Charles
+Napier, K.C.B.
+
+Dec. 8th.—Mr. Wright (of the Adelphi) had been performing at the Theatre.
+
+Dec. 12th.—The Mayor had attended the magnificent reception given to the
+King of Sardinia by the Corporation of London.
+
+Dec. 22nd.—The stormy easterly winds had driven several vessels on to the
+Beach.
+
+On the north of the Jetty were four brigs, viz., the “Friends,” of
+London; the “George,” of Yarmouth; the “Boa,” of Colchester; and another.
+And on the south, one brig, a sloop (the “Telegraph,”) and a billy-boy.
+
+Dec. 26th.—The Norfolk Artillery Militia had marched into the Southtown
+Barracks under the command of Colonel Astley.
+
+The following Magistrates had been selected to hear salvage cases:—George
+Danby-Palmer, R. Steward, R. Hammond, J. G. Plummer, J. W. Shelly, B.
+Fenn, E. H. L. Preston, and W. H. Palmer, Esqs.
+
+Dec. 29th.—The Hon. Colonel Vereker was spoken of as a colleague for Sir
+E. H. K. Lacon, should Mr. Rumbold resign his seat, but this rumour as to
+Mr. Rumbold’s resignation, the _Globe_ stated on authority, was without
+foundation.
+
+At the Quarter Sessions, a conviction of R. Steward, Esq., by the
+Justices, for obstructing the quay, was quashed with costs.
+
+The question of the legality of the Rev. G. Hills’ appointment as
+chaplain to the gaol was again considered by the Recorder and Justices.
+
+             _N.B.—The file for the Year_ 1856 _is missing_.
+
+
+
+1857.
+
+
+Jan. 3rd.—The fourth anniversary of Court “Crown and Anchor” A.O.F. had
+been celebrated by a dinner at Bro. Franklin’s, Hall Quay.  Mr. C. B.
+Dashwood occupied the chair, and it was stated that the Court then
+consisted of 90 members.
+
+Jan. 10th.—There had been a loan exhibition at the Priory Hall.
+
+Messrs. Charles J. Palmer, B. Fenn, Rev. H. Squire, Dumbleton, R. R. B.
+Norman, Burton, and J. Bayly had been elected the members of the Public
+Library Committee.
+
+Jan. 17th.—The “Britannia Pier Bill” was projected, and the Wellington
+Pier Company had determined not to oppose that undertaking.
+
+The body of a whale, which had been taken at Winterton, was being
+exhibited on the Church Plain.
+
+The Rev. W. D. Wade, the new minister of St. Mary’s, Southtown, had,
+before leaving Southsea, been presented with a purse of £61.
+
+Jan. 21st.—The “Sisters” had been in collision with one of the stone
+piers of the Bridge, which it had considerably damaged.
+
+Feb. 4th.—An Anti-Income Tax meeting had been held at the Town Hall.  The
+Mayor presided, and the following took part in the proceedings:—Messrs.
+George Danby-Palmer, Bradbeer, Garson Blake, W. Livingston, S. B. Cory,
+R. Hammond, J. Clowes, J. H. Harrison, J. Rivett and J. Fiddes.  Mr. S.
+Bradbeer appeared to be the mover in this matter.
+
+The Poor’s Rate was 1s. 6d. for the quarter.
+
+Feb. 18th.—H.M. Line of Battle-ship “Blenheim,” 74, had steamed into the
+Roads.
+
+Feb. 21st.—A “Poor’s Rate” meeting had been held at the Masonic Hall.
+Mr. W. Livingston presided, and a resolution protesting against the 1s.
+6d. quarterly rate was adopted.  Messrs J. Rivett, Joseph Neave, Royal,
+R. Bailey, Nichols, and F. Starling spoke on the subject, while the
+conduct of the Guardians was defended by Mr. J. H. Harrison, one of the
+Board.
+
+Feb. 25th.—A case which excited considerable interest, had been heard at
+the County Court, Tolhouse-hall, before the Judge (T. J. Birch, Esq.)
+The plaintiff was Mr. John Cobb, leather merchant, for whom Mr. C. H.
+Chamberlin appeared; the defendants were Messrs. W. N. Burroughs and G.
+D. Palmer, who were represented by Mr. J. L. Cufaude.  The plaintiff
+stated that he was a candidate for the office of Councillor for the
+Market-ward, in November, 1851, and that he became such at the
+solicitation of Messrs. W. N. Burroughs and G. D. Palmer.  At the time he
+became a candidate he distinctly told them that he would not pay out of
+his own pocket more than £10 towards the expenses of the election, and it
+was understood that the Liberal party, to which he belonged, would
+subscribe the remainder.  The evening before the election he received an
+estimate of what the expenses were likely to be, and in consequence of
+that he at once saw both Mr. Burroughs and Mr. G. D. Palmer.  That
+estimate, he believed, amounted to about £45, while the subscriptions
+altogether amounted to but £42.  After some conversation they agreed to
+hold him harmless of the amount of the expenses that might exceed the sum
+subscribed, and he and Mr. Burroughs then went to the Committee-room of
+the North-ward, where Mr. Burroughs said they had made arrangements for
+their friend John Cobb winning the Market-ward.  The expenses of the
+election, which he (the plaintiff) lost, amounted altogether to £58 1s.
+7d.  The balance, therefore, which he now claimed from the defendants was
+£16 1s. 7d.—The plaintiff, in cross-examination by Mr. Cufaude, admitted
+that £39 of the whole amount was for — —.—Mr. Cufaude contended that if,
+as the plaintiff stated, the defendants had given him a guarantee for the
+surplus expenses, the guarantee ought to have been in writing.  And,
+assuming the evidence was true, which, however, he disputed, it was
+impossible for the plaintiff to recover, inasmuch as he himself had
+allowed that a large part of the whole of the expenses was for — —, which
+was an illegal act.—Mr. Chamberlin contended that the plaintiff, after
+receiving the promise from the defendants, acted only upon the faith of
+that promise, and that therefore, as they had entered upon an engagement
+to pay the money, they were liable.  The money, moreover, had not been
+spent by the plaintiff, but by the committee appointed to conduct the
+election, and until the election was over, the plaintiff was not aware
+that any of the money had been spent in — —.—His Honour said it was clear
+the guarantee should have been in writing.  He was of opinion, also, that
+the plaintiff was not bound to pay the illegal charges, and consequently
+he could not bring his action for the money which he claimed.—The
+plaintiff was, accordingly, non-suited.
+
+March 4th.—The “Branch,” a schooner of 150 tons, had been launched from
+Messrs. Fellows and Son’s yard.
+
+A distress warrant had been issued against the effects of Mr. James Lawn,
+draper, Broad Row, for 5s. 3d. due for Church rate.  Mr. Cufaude, who
+appeared for the Churchwardens, stated that the amount of defalcations on
+the present rate was “about £14 or £15.”
+
+A meeting of the shareholders in the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway had
+been held at the Star Hotel.  R. Hammond, Esq., presided, and there were
+present—C. C. Aldred, Esq., (the Mayor), C. J. Palmer, T. Brightwen,
+William H. Palmer, E. H. L. Preston, W. C. Reynolds, E. P. Youell, G. G.
+Day, H. Danby-Palmer, and William Day, Esqs.
+
+March 11th.—N. Palmer, Esq., (Recorder), had appointed John B. Bales
+(late Sergeant-at-Mace) an Inspector of Weights and Measures in the room
+of Mr. Wall.
+
+The address of Messrs. Torrens McCullagh and Edward Watkin to the
+electors appears in this issue.
+
+March 14th.—The Liberal electors had held a meeting at the Corn Exchange,
+J. Shelly, Esq., in the chair, when both candidates delivered addresses,
+and a resolution pledging the meeting to support them was unanimously
+carried.
+
+Mr. Cufaude had applied for 17 more summonses against Church Rate
+defaulters, and Mr. Garson Blake had been summoned for a like default by
+the Gorleston Churchwardens.
+
+There had been a high tide, which had dashed over the new Marine Drive
+works.
+
+March 16th.—Mr. J. W. Shelly had presided over a meeting at the ‘Star,’
+when Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin were adopted as the Liberal candidates.
+
+There was a suggestion of a local gentleman’s name as a candidate, to
+which the Editor refers to by the quotation—“and palm to palm is holy
+_Palmer’s_ kiss.”
+
+March 18th.—The Liberal electors and non-electors had been addressed by
+both the Liberal candidates at the Duke’s Head public-house at Gorleston.
+S. Dowson, Esq., presided, and there were present—Messrs. J. H. Fellows,
+N. Sterry, A. Markland, Captains Manthorpe, Stanford, and Tunbridge, and
+Messrs. J. Page, A. King, J. Ling, G. Reynolds, C. E. Bartram, and J.
+Cobb.
+
+The four candidates, Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin and Sir E. H. K. Lacon
+and Colonel Vereker, had been invited to attend a meeting of electors at
+the Masonic-hall.  None of them were present, but, nevertheless, a
+resolution pledging the meeting to support the Liberal candidates was
+carried.
+
+The “Venus,” 150 tons register, had been launched from Mr. Rust’s yard.
+
+March 21st.—D. A. Gourlay, Esq., had presided at a great Liberal meeting
+held in the Corn Exchange, when Messrs. J. W. Shelly, P. Pullyn, S.
+Dowson, F. S. Costerton, W. Briggs, C. Sayers, S. Palmer, C. E. Bartram,
+J. D. Chapman, J. Bailey, F. Dendy, J. Cobb and others were present.
+
+The Conservatives had also convened a meeting at Crowe’s Assembly-rooms,
+Chapel-denes, when E. H. L. Preston, Esq., presided.  Sir E. H. K. Lacon,
+Colonel Vereker, and J. Cherry, Esq., addressed the assembly.
+
+Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart., and Major-General C. A. Windham, the Liberal
+candidates for East Norfolk, had held a meeting in the Corn-hall.  Mr. R.
+Hammond presided, and was supported by Messrs. Benjamin Dowson, J.
+Clowes, C. H. Chamberlin, P. Pullyn, A. W. Biddulph, S. Palmer, T. Burton
+Steward, F. Palmer, W. N. Burroughs, C. E. Bartram, E. R. Palmer, J. H.
+Harrison, J. Owles, J. Cobb, &c.
+
+George Tewsley, Sergeant in the London Constabulary, had been elected
+Superintendent of the Borough Police Force.
+
+The case against Mr. Garson Blake had been heard as to non-payment of
+Church Rate and the usual order made.
+
+Mr. S. Waters Spelman had submitted to public competition various
+freehold estates, belonging to the late Mrs. Ann Marsh, which realised
+£8,672.
+
+March 25th.—The Election was “assuming all the features of a bitter, as
+well as a strong contest.”
+
+J. Shelly, Esq., had presided at another Liberal meeting held in the Corn
+Hall, and Mr. J. Royal at a meeting of non-electors in the same interest
+held at the Masonic Hall.
+
+The Church Rate question had again been before the Justices, when Mr.
+Chamberlin appeared for the defaulters, who were Henry Boulter (baker),
+4s. 6d.; Joseph Neave (twine-spinner), 1s. 9½d.; George Goodrich
+(shoemaker), 3s. 6d.; Henry Blyth (shoemaker), 4s.; George Clowes
+(ironmonger), 5s.; William Curtis (cork-cutter), 5s. 1d.; James Rivett
+(baker), 4s.; Frederick Starling (shoemaker), 1s. 10½d.; Angelina Cox and
+W. P. Brown (brokers), 4s. 2½d.; John Clowes (grocer), 4s.; William
+Livingston (draper), 3s.; Robert Browne (gentleman), 2s.; George
+Danby-Palmer (Esquire), 8s. 6¾d.; and George Danby-Palmer and Salmon
+Palmer (Esquires), 3s. 6d.
+
+Mr. W. Sidney had again opened the Theatre.
+
+March 28th.—A monster meeting of Liberals had been held on the Hall Quay
+in front of the Star, when Mr. W. Briggs occupied the chair; 500 Liberals
+had attended a meeting at the Globe Inn, Gorleston, where Mr. T. Burton
+Steward presided.  Both meetings were very enthusiastic.  It was said the
+Tory candidates were “Sir Edmund Lay—on and Colonel Very—queer.”
+
+April 1st.—The polling had resulted as follows;—
+
+                Nine.       Ten.      Eleven.     Twelve.       One.       Two.       Three.      Four.
+McCullagh            161        304         416         527         562        587         600         609
+Watkin               150        296         405         507         541        568         582         596
+Lacon                122        234         335         430         443        481         492         521
+Vereker              115        220         305         383         393        419         428         451
+
+Majority for the Liberals: 158.
+
+After the declaration of the poll Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin addressed
+from 12,000 to 15,000 persons from the Star leads.
+
+April 8th.—Messrs. W. Green, J. Borking, J. Clayton, and W. Harbord had
+been re-appointed overseers of the parish.
+
+April 11th.—At the Election of Haven Commissioners Captain Scott
+proposed, and Mr. J. H. Harrison seconded the re-election of George
+Danby-Palmer, Esq., “to whom the town was greatly indebted for his long
+and valuable services.”  Mr. T. Lettis, junr., proposed, and Mr. Henry
+Danby-Palmer seconded Mr. J. Barker.  Mr. F. Palmer proposed and Captain
+Briggs seconded H. Hammond Esq.; and Mr. G. Blake proposed, and Captain
+Manthorpe seconded Mr. D. A. Gourlay, whereupon the two former were
+declared to be elected Commissioners, and the two latter Supernumerary
+Commissioners.
+
+Mr. J. Owles had presided at a meeting of the Liberal Registration
+Society.
+
+The following was the result of the Guardians’ Election:—_North Ward_:
+Messrs. J. Mainprice, S. Nightingale, and E. H. L. Preston re-elected.
+_Market Ward_:  Messrs. D. A. Gourlay, C. C. Aldred, and W. Laws,
+re-elected.  _Regent Ward_: Messrs. W. Worship, S. C. Marsh, and R. D.
+Barber, re-elected.  _St. George’s Ward_: Messrs. B. Fenn and J. G.
+Plummer, re-elected, with Mr. T. Foreman in the place of Mr. J. Clark
+resigned, and in the _Nelson Ward_ (Mr. J. H. Harrison having resigned)
+the polling was—Brightwen 402, Woolverton 431, Reynolds 309, Clark 339,
+and Moore 287, Mr. Clark thus taking the place of Mr. Harrison.
+
+April 18th.—At the annual Vestry Meeting there was a large attendance.
+The Rev. George Hills presided, and Mr. Hammond proposed, and Mr. T.
+Brightwen seconded, the re-election of C. S. D. Steward as Churchwarden.
+Mr. Lawn then proposed Mr. George Danby-Palmer, but that gentleman
+declined the honour and explained that the reason why he would not pay
+the Church Rate was that the Churchwardens, while pressing the poor,
+discharged the rich, and especially Mr. Talbot, from payment of that tax.
+Mr. B. Fenn proposed, and Mr. S. C. Marsh seconded Mr. Edward Aldred; Mr.
+J. H. Harrison and Mr. Neave addressed the meeting amid “great uproar,”
+and eventually the appointment of Mr. Steward and Mr. Aldred was carried
+by a large majority.  Messrs. Hammond, Fenn, and Harrison were appointed
+a Committee to look into the question of the St. Nicholas Estate, and Mr.
+R. Hammond was re-appointed Auditor of the Vestry’s accounts.
+
+Measures were being taken by Mr. M. Butcher and others with a view to
+establishing a School of Art.
+
+April 22nd.—The Artillery Band was performing on the Hall-quay.
+
+Trade at the Fair “had been brisk.”
+
+April 25th.—The Rope-walks “which had caused such great annoyance” were
+to be removed, and the following compensations had been paid to owners of
+them:—Mr. Bracey, £750; Mr. T. Lettis, jun., £550; Mr. Green, an annuity
+for himself and Mrs. Green equal to £420; and to Mr. R. Barber (who had
+refused £200), £615 under the award of C. Evans, Esq., of Norwich.
+
+April 29th.—A meeting had been held at Mr. Paget’s late residence for the
+purpose of forming a School of Navigation in connection with the School
+of Art.
+
+May 2nd.—A petition in favour of the removal of Jewish Disabilities was
+being signed in the town, and the Mayor (C. C. Aldred, Esq.), George
+Danby-Palmer, R. Hammond, J. W. Shelly, J. Fenn, D. A. Gourlay, W.
+Johnson, P. Pullyn, and R. Steward, Esqs., had supported the movement.
+
+The East Norfolk Militia Band had performed on the Hall-quay.
+
+The Poor’s rate was 1s. 4d. for the quarter.
+
+The Insignia belonging to the Corporation had been sent to the Manchester
+Art Exhibition.
+
+May 6th.—The entire Police force (with the exception of the
+Superintendent) had received one month’s notice to quit the force, with
+liberty to apply for re-appointment.
+
+May 16th.—A petition, signed by E. H. L. Preston and R. Ferrier, Esqs.,
+(Mr. C. Moore being surety for the required £1,000), was about to be
+lodged against the return of Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin.
+
+May 20th.—This petition had been presented to the House of Commons.
+
+May 23rd.—A young woman, residing in the Star and Garter Row, had been
+charged before the Justices “with illegally detaining a silver mace, the
+property of the Corporation.”  Defendant said that she did not know where
+it was, but that her mother, who had been dead three years, “wished it to
+be buried with her.”  The case was adjourned for a week, when the
+defendant “bounced out of Court.”
+
+May 27th.—Several friends of the sitting Members had received Speaker’s
+warrants, as also had Sir E. H. K. Lacon, who was served as he was about
+to start on a Continental tour; Messrs. B. Powell and George Byford had
+also been served.
+
+May 30th.—The guarantee fund for opposing the petition had reached the
+sum of £2,400.
+
+Two Russian guns had been received by the Corporation.
+
+It was proposed to carry on the trawl fishery by means of “iron screw
+welled smacks of 150 tons burden.”
+
+June 3rd.—The police had been re-modelled.  Originally the force
+consisted of 4 sergeants, 16 privates, beside 4 non-permanent men who
+formed the “river watch.”  Of these a sergeant and six privates had been
+discharged, and in their stead a sergeant and 13 privates appointed; the
+force, therefore, then consisted of a Superintendent, four sergeants, and
+23 privates.
+
+The “small silver mace” above referred to had been delivered up by the
+Carter family to the Corporation.
+
+June 6th.—Fourteen hundred persons had visited the town by excursion
+train from Norwich on Whit-Monday.
+
+June 10th.—Contains an obituary notice of Mr. Rumbold, who had died at
+Brighton on the 31st. ult., aged 69.  It was stated that he had “not left
+behind him _one enemy_.”
+
+The _Yarmouth Standard_, started three months since as an advocate “of
+Conservative and true Christian principles,” had ceased to exist.
+
+June 13th.—The mackerel fishery had improved, Mr. Mainprice’s Company of
+14 boats had sent in 12,000, and Mr. Shuckford’s 10,000 fish.
+
+June 20th.—Mackerel were selling from 31s. to 32s. per 100.  The
+“Fisherman” (Mr. James Woolverton) being the “head boat.”
+
+June 24th.—The “Russian guns” were to be placed either on the Marine
+Parade, Hall Quay, or Chapel Denes.
+
+One thousand silver penny pieces of the reign of King John, the two first
+Edwards, and Alexander I. of Scotland had been found at a depth of about
+17 feet in Mr. Ambrose Palmer’s dry dock.
+
+The “Eastern Unitarian Christian Society” had celebrated its 44th
+Anniversary at Great Yarmouth.  The Rev. Dr. Sadler preached from 1 Cor.
+xii., 27.  At the subsequent meeting, Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., presided,
+and Mr. J. W. Dowson, Mr. Mills (Norwich), Mr. W. N. Burroughs, the Rev.
+H. Squint, Mr. S. Dowson, Rev. D. Davis, Mr. Welham and Mr. C. Freeman
+took part in the proceedings, afterwards 70 members partook of a cold
+collation at the Victoria Hotel.
+
+At the quarterly meeting of the Primitive Methodist Society, it was
+stated that their members had increased by 100 during the last quarter.
+
+One boat had brought in 6 lasts of herring, selling at from £20 to £28
+per last.
+
+July 1st.—A cricket match had been played on Gunton-denes between the
+Yarmouth and Lowestoft Clubs, in which the latter was victorious.  The
+Yarmouth team consisted of Messrs. Graystone, Jennings, G. Clarke, Reeve,
+J. S. Browne, Young, R. Clarke, Vaughan, E. Clarke, Steward, and C.
+Diver.
+
+Mr. T. Lettis, jun., had been found dead in his counting-house, and the
+Jury had returned a verdict “That deceased destroyed himself while in a
+state of temporary insanity.”
+
+July 8th.—Mr. C. E. Bartram had been elected a Councillor for the
+Nelson-ward in the room of the late Mr. Lettis, the polling being—
+
+C. E. Bartram             112
+J. H. Harrison             84
+
+July 11th.—The Lord Bishop had laid the corner-stone of St. John’s
+Church.  Mr. J. A. Hakewell was the architect.  Mr. A. W. Morant
+supervised the erection, and Mr. R. Steward was the contractor for the
+entire work at £1,246.
+
+The Bishop preached from Col. iii., 1, 2, 3 and 4.
+
+July 18th.—There was to be no Regatta this year.
+
+Mr. Harmer’s coloured photographic portraits were much admired.
+
+Mackerel had been scarce, owing, it was supposed, to the coldness of the
+weather.
+
+July 25th.—A detachment of Royal Artillery, about 145 strong, was
+encamped on the North-denes.
+
+James Ablett a pauper nurse at the Workhouse, had been committed for
+trial at the Assizes for the wilful murder of Angus Steward.
+
+July 29th.—The Committee (which consisted of the Earl of March, chairman,
+Mr. H. M. Clifford, Mr. C. J. Dupre, Mr. W. J. Garnet, and Colonel
+Maxwell), was sitting upon the petition against the return of Messrs.
+McCullagh and Watkin as M.P.’s for the Borough.
+
+Aug. 1st.—This Committee had unseated both those gentlemen.
+
+At the Water Frolic for the first match the following entries were made:—
+
+Kathleen             Messrs. Diver and Chamberlin
+Belvidere                       Mr. T. Read, jun.
+Victorine                           Mr. J. Fiddes
+Ontario                              Mr. F. Frere
+Pysche                          Mr. J. Fenn, jun.
+Iris                              Mr. A. D. Stone
+
+At the finish the Kathleen beat the Belvidere by some 300 yards.
+
+The second match was won by Mr. Green’s “Enchantress” (latteen.)
+
+Aug. 5th.—There had been a monstre Liberal Demonstration, when Mr. A. W.
+Young and Mr. J. Mellor, Q.C., were accepted as the candidates of that
+party.  Some 10,000 to 12,000 persons were present.
+
+Aug. 8th.—Among the Tories “vacillation, uncertainty, and lukewarmness
+prevailed.”  Sir Samuel Hogg, Mr. Mackenzie, and Sir Henry Stracey had
+been tried without avail.
+
+The Hon. Ernest Duncombe had visited the Borough, and left without taking
+further action; so Sir Edmund Lacon was still alone in the field as a
+Conservative candidate.
+
+Aug. 13th.—Sir E. Lacon had retired from the contest.
+
+The nomination had taken place outside the Town Hall, when Mr. J. W.
+Shelly proposed, and Mr. H. Danby-Palmer seconded Mr. A. W. Young; and
+Mr. R. Hammond proposed, and Mr. P. Pullyn seconded Mr. J. Mellor, Q.C.,
+and there being no other nomination, those gentlemen were declared duly
+elected.
+
+Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin subsequently addressed the electors from the
+Star Hotel.
+
+Aug. 23rd.—About 90 ladies and gentlemen had attended the Race Ball at
+the Town Hall.
+
+Mr. Allen’s tender of £3,156 11s. 5d. for the erection of the Britannia
+Pier, and Mr. Thompson’s tender of £200 for making the approaches to it,
+had been accepted.
+
+Herrings were selling at from £20 to £26 per last.
+
+Sept. 12th.—A new organ had been built for St. Peter’s Church at a cost
+of £400.
+
+Sept. 23rd.—The Mayor had convened a meeting for the purpose of raising a
+fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian Mutiny.  Among those
+present were—Sir Eaton Travers, the Revs. G. Hills, J. S. Russell, J. B.
+Brampton, B. Vaux and D. Oliver, Dr. Dunne, and Messrs. J. W. Shelly, S.
+Tolver, P. Pullyn, J. G. Fisher, R. Ferrier, sen., S. Dowson, A. R.
+Palmer, G. Blake, E. P. Youell, C. Preston, E. R. Aldred, W. Davie, &c.;
+the sum of £233 17s. was subscribed in the room.
+
+Sept. 30th.—The following shareholders had attended the ordinary general
+meeting of the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway Company:—Sir E. H. K. Lacon
+(Chairman), Sir M. Peto, R. Hammond, J. Clowes, B. Fenn, C. E. Bartram,
+and W. H. Palmer, Esqs., &c., and power was given to the Directors to
+raise £25 000 by way of mortgage.
+
+Oct. 3rd.—The Britannia Pier Works were being actively pushed on.
+
+Mr. J. H. Harrison (the Ballast lessee) had called a meeting of 120
+masters of vessels at the St. George’s Hall, for the purpose of receiving
+a statement from that gentleman, during which he said that he proposed to
+give a donation of £8 to the Fishermen’s Hospital, which sum he had
+received from a dispute (in which he did not concur) with the
+Corporation.  Mr. Harrison was loudly cheered by the meeting, which he
+regaled with choice wines and spirits.
+
+The Rev. J. S. Russell had preached his farewell sermon at the King
+Street Chapel, where he had laboured for the past 14 years.
+
+Oct. 10th.—The Day of National Fast and Humiliation had been observed in
+the town “in a most becoming manner.”
+
+Herring was selling at from £10 to £18 per last.
+
+Oct. 17th.—Three hundred pounds had been collected for the Indian Relief
+Fund.
+
+Oct. 21st.—Contains the following report:—“A Vestry meeting was held in
+the Town-hall, on Friday, for the purpose of considering the propriety of
+making a Church rate.  There was a large attendance; the minister of the
+parish (the Rev. G. Hills, B.D.), of course presided.—The Chairman, in
+opening the proceedings, stated that the rate which would be proposed
+would be, in all respects, a legal one; it would include a charge for St.
+Peter’s Church, as the Churchwardens had been advised that that edifice
+was chargeable upon the rate in the same way that the Parish Church was.
+With regard to the new church of St. John’s, a fund had been raised which
+would be invested for keeping it in repair, so that it might never become
+chargeable to the parishioners.  The Churchwardens, in order to preserve
+as much harmony as possible, would only ask for a rate for the repair of
+the fabrics, and for the payment of such legal charges as they were
+compelled to include in the rate; the items which would be left out
+would, therefore, amount to between £60 and £70, and would have to be
+defrayed by voluntary contribution.—Messrs. C. S. D. Steward and E. R.
+Aldred, the Churchwardens, moved and seconded that a rate of 1½d. in the
+pound be levied for the ensuing year; the amounts which it was estimated
+would be required were—for the Parish Church, £142 5s. 4d.; for St.
+George’s Chapel, £32 6s. 6d.; for St. Peter’s Church £32; and for general
+purposes £35.—Mr. W. T. Fisher moved, and Mr. J. Lawn seconded, “That at
+a time when it is expected that the Government will pass a bill for the
+abolition of Church rates, it appears to this vestry that it is
+inexpedient to increase the rates by including St. Peter’s Church, as it
+may ultimately add to increased taxation.”  Mr. Fisher also moved, and
+Mr. Joseph Neave seconded, “That time be given for the ratepayers to
+examine the estimates, and that the meeting do therefore adjourn for
+three weeks for that purpose.”—The Chairman refused to put either of the
+above amendments—the first because Mr. Fisher would not alter it by
+leaving out the words “By including St. Peter’s Church,” and the second
+because he did not consider it to be a _bona fide_ objection.—Mr. Fisher
+entered written protests, signed by himself, against the decision of the
+chairman, which protests he requested might be entered in the Vestry
+Clerk’s minutes of the meeting.—Mr. J. H. Harrison moved, “That until
+after the committee, which was appointed in April last to confer with the
+Churchwardens relative to the property belonging to the Parish Church,
+had made its report to a further vestry, it is inexpedient to make a
+rate.”  Mr. F. Starling seconded the amendment.—The Chairman, in
+endeavouring to prevail upon Mr. Harrison to withdraw his amendment,
+stated that in March next, property which now let at from £29 to £30 a
+year, and that in September, 1859, property which now realised £50 per
+annum, would fall in; he agreed with them that the greatest care ought to
+be taken in properly administering this property, and said he believed
+its value would be increased threefold.—The amendment was carried by an
+immense majority, and the meeting, therefore, was adjourned _sine die_.
+
+Oct. 28th.—Many vessels had been lost, and amongst them the “Betsy” (G.
+D. Palmer, Esq., owner), on Palling Beach.  (N.B.—She was at that time
+the oldest vessel afloat hailing from the port, and had belonged to the
+Palmer family for more than 100 years.)
+
+Oct. 31st.—The Liberal electors had held a grand soireè at the Town Hall,
+Messrs. A. W. Young, M.P., and J. Mellor, Q.C., M.P., being present; 220
+persons attended, amongst whom were R. Hammond, Esq., (Chairman), and
+Messrs. G. D. Palmer, J. W. Shelley, W. N. Burroughs, P. Pullyn, C. E.
+Bartram, D. A. Gourlay, J. Clowes, G. Blake, W. T. Clarke, F. Palmer, H.
+D. Palmer, D. B. Palmer, W. T. Fisher, J. Cobb, J. Mainprice, W. Briggs,
+J. H. Harrison, J. Owles, J. Neave, &c.  Mr. McCullagh was unable to
+attend, but the meeting was addressed by Messrs. Young, Mellor, and
+Watkin, and the utmost unanimity prevailed.
+
+Nov. 4th.—Some 2,000 persons had attended an open-air Liberal
+Demonstration on the Hall-quay, at which G. Danby-Palmer, Esq., presided,
+and which was addressed by Mr. Watkin.
+
+At the Municipal Election the Tories had been successful, the Liberals
+“not going in to win.”  At the close of the poll the Conservative
+procession, consisting of a band of music, some flags, bearing such
+inscriptions as “Cheap Bread and Economy,” and about four or five cabs
+formed and paraded through the principal thoroughfares.  The returns
+were—
+
+            _Regent Ward_.
+Sir E. H. K. Lacon, (C)            118
+J. Cherry, (C)                     114
+J. Owles, (L)                       82
+F. Palmer, (L)                      78
+            _Market Ward_.
+J. E. Barnby, (C)                  128
+J. Fenn, (C)                       126
+J. Scott, (L)                      110
+G. W. Clowes, (L)                  107
+         _St. George’s Ward_.
+W. J. Foreman, (C)                 121
+H. Jay, (C)                        117
+A. D. Stone, (L)                    85
+J. Fill, (L)                        80
+            _Nelson Ward_.
+S. V. Moore, (L)                   211
+J. Clark, (C)                      151
+J. Clowes, (L)                     127
+            _North Ward_.
+S. Nightingale, (C)                144
+W. H. Bessey, (C)                  132
+J. Mainprice, (L)                  126
+J. Cobb, (L)                       109
+         _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+J. Hammond, (C)                    185
+William H. Palmer, (C)             174
+Henry Danby-Palmer, (L)            164
+J. Barker, (L)                     150
+
+Mr. J. Clowes had entered a protest against the return in the Nelson Ward
+“on the ground of the presiding alderman having left his post during the
+election.”
+
+Nov. 7th.—The first general meeting of the Shareholders of the Britannia
+Pier Company had been held, the accounts showing £1,365 received, and
+£781 12s. 6d expended.
+
+Nov. 11th.—At the Council Meeting, Mr. E. H. L. Preston proposed, and Mr.
+Palmer (Deputy-Mayor) seconded, Mr. Francis Worship for the office of
+Mayor.  Mr. R. Steward then proposed Mr. W. H. Bessey, who declining the
+honour, Mr. Steward suggested the name of Mr. Plummer, who also refusing
+to serve, the Mayor declared Mr. Worship unanimously elected to the
+office.
+
+The Poor’s rate was 1s. 4d. in the £.
+
+Nov. 14th.—Thirty-six gentlemen had attended the dinner given to the
+Ex-Mayor at the Town Hall.
+
+Herring was selling at from £12 to £20 a last.
+
+The adjourned Vestry Meeting for the purpose of considering the propriety
+of making a Church rate had been held in the Town Hall.  There was a
+large attendance of ratepayers, who were, of course, presided over by the
+minister of the parish.  The Committee appointed to consider the value of
+the Church property recommended that that which had fallen in, and which
+would fall in on the 25th of March next, should be re-let on repairing
+leases of 14 years’ duration, at a rental of £76 16s.—Mr. J. H. Harrison,
+one of the committee, gave a detailed account of all the Church property,
+both of that which fell in in September last, and that which will fall in
+during next year and 1859 and 1860.  He had no doubt, whatever, that if
+the property was properly managed, there would be no necessity for asking
+for a Church rate after 1860.—Mr. C. S. D. Steward and Mr. E. R. Aldred,
+the Churchwardens, moved and seconded respectively, “That in consequence
+of the increased rental of the estate belonging to St. Nicholas’ Church
+not being available for the current year, a rate of 1½d in the pound be
+now made and assessed.”—Mr. J. H. Harrison thought that St. Peter’s
+Church ought not to be included in the rate, and moved as an amendment,
+“That St. Peter’s Church having been erected by voluntary contributions,
+with an understanding that it should be maintained and supported by its
+pew rents, and should in no way become a charge upon the parish, this
+Vestry deems it advisable to refuse making a rate until the Churchwardens
+do exclude the said Church of St. Peter wholly from their estimate.”—Mr.
+J. Lawn seconded the amendment, but the Chairman refused to put it, on
+the ground that he could not consistently with his duty do so.—After
+considerable discussion, in the course of which the Clerk stated that St.
+Peter’s Church could be legally included in the rate, Mr. W. T. Fisher
+moved, and Mr. J. Lawn seconded, on the ground that the Church property,
+if re-let at its full value, would realize more than sufficient for the
+necessary repairs of the Parish Church, and that money, which could
+afterwards be repaid out of the surplus, could be borrowed to defray the
+expenses for the next two years,—“That this meeting resolves to adjourn
+for four weeks, to obtain the necessary amount and thereby to avoid the
+necessity of making a Church rate.”—The Chairman conscientiously refused
+to put this amendment on the ground that it was not a _bona fide_ one,
+and also the following amendment, which was likewise moved by Mr. W. T.
+Fisher, “That in order to give the Churchwardens time to prepare a proper
+estimate, the Vestry to adjourn for three weeks.”—Mr. J. H. Harrison then
+moved, “That it is inexpedient and inadvisable to make a Church rate at
+this meeting.”—The Chairman, however, refused to put this, as also
+another amendment by Mr. J. H. Harrison to the effect, “That a Church
+rate of a farthing in the pound be levied.”—After a great deal of uproar,
+the motion of the Churchwardens was lost by a considerable majority.  A
+poll was then demanded, when the Chairman appointed Mr. J. L. Cufaude to
+be the assessor, and the meeting adjourned.  The following numbers were
+polled during the afternoon:—For the rate 225, against it 195.
+
+Nov. 18th.—The polling of the Vestry had been concluded as follows:—
+
+For the Rate            651
+Against                 771
+
+and at 10 o’clock on Saturday, Mr. Hills stated that the poll would not
+be re-opened.
+
+On the following day (Sunday) the clocks at the Parish Church and St.
+George’s Chapel were stopped, and the bells “tolled” at the hour for
+performance of divine service.
+
+Nov. 21st.—Mr. D. Tomkins, of the British School, had again satisfied the
+Government Inspector.
+
+R. Hammond, Esq., had presented 40 cwt. of coal to the inmates of the
+Fisherman’s Hospital.
+
+Nov. 28th.—It was calculated that there were 400 boats then engaged in
+the Herring Fishing belonging to Yarmouth.
+
+Dec. 12th.—The Mayor’s “feast” had been held at the Town Hall, 120
+gentlemen being present, including Lord Sondes (High Steward), Sir E. N.
+Buxton, Bart., M.P., Sir H. Stracey, Bart., Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.,
+Colonel Elmhirst, Colonel Sankey, Major Taylor, Captain Nugent, Captain
+Dunt, the Revs. B. Vaux, J. Gunn, M. Waters and J. B. Bampton, Messrs. R.
+Hammond, W. N. Burroughs, C. J. Palmer, C. Cory, E. H. L. Preston, E. P.
+Youell, W. Yetts, R. Steward, B. Jay, C. H. Chamberlin, R. S. Watling, I.
+Preston, jun., W. C. Reynolds, R. Ferrier, W. H. Palmer, C. Preston, F.
+Palmer, H. D Palmer, J. C. Smith, D. A. Gourlay, &c.
+
+The “recruiting staff” of the 9th Regiment, then at Yarmouth, consisted
+of Lieut.-Colonel C. Elmhirst, Brevt-Colonel Sankey, Major A. Taylor,
+Captains W. Dunt, H. F. Manton, W. Nugent, D. A. Barnett, R. P. O’Shea,
+J. W. MacFarlane, — Carden, and J. Graham, Lieutenants H. G. H. Grubbe,
+H. Gipps, and A. F. B. Wright, Adjutant Bolton, Ensigns C. S. Perry, J.
+L. Bradshaw, S. Lynne and C. T. Coote, Quarter-Master Arrowsmith, and 19
+Sergeants and 10 Corporals.
+
+Dec. 30th.—There were 30 prisoners in the Gaol, and they had been regaled
+with a Christmas dinner by the Mayor.
+
+The Clocks at the Parish Church and St. George’s Chapel had been set
+going again at the instance of the Town Council.
+
+
+
+1858.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—Contains the following article on the Old Year:—“1857 has been
+a good year for our port.  Our fisheries have prospered; our mercantile
+and shipping report is favourable; and our commercial credit has stood
+firm and upright against the pressure of a severe monetary crisis.  We
+have proved the elasticity of our resources, and have demonstrated the
+strength and stability of our enterprise.  The fashionable season has
+also been one on which we have to congratulate ourselves.  During the
+summer and autumn of 1857, Yarmouth was full of visitors; our beach was
+crowded with company; and our hotels and lodging houses were all full.
+In short, on New Year’s Day we find that we can strike a balance on the
+right side, and look forward with hope based on the solid foundation of
+proved success.  There is but one great drawback to the seasonable
+satisfaction such a state of things affords.  Our political divisions
+have materially diminished the account in our favour, and have seriously
+interfered with the social harmony of the town.  We have suffered
+ourselves to be led away into personal altercations, and have so departed
+from the straight road of a defined and thought-out principle.  This has
+been a grave mistake, as we are now beginning to discover.  But generally
+we have yet to learn that political zeal is not inconsistent with the
+courtesies of society, and that ill-tempered advocacy is worse than
+useless.  Let us hope, however, that the moderate men of both political
+opinions, who must, we are sure, see the error of this course, will for
+the future guard against indiscretions, which are as inherently wrong as
+they are manifestly prejudicial to any cause that stands upon Principle
+and is supported by its own Truth.  We know we express the opinion of the
+thinking portion of the constituency in advising an abstinence from the
+littleness of factious strife, and in suggesting a more elevated view of
+political verities, we are satisfied we are answering to the wish of the
+most respectable members of the opposing parties, and are explaining what
+is only wanting to consolidate the established prosperity of Yarmouth.”
+
+The Hospital meeting showed a deficit of from £40 to £50 on the annual
+accounts.
+
+Jan. 6th.—It was rumoured than an addition would shortly be made to the
+local Magistracy.
+
+Jan. 9th.—Mr. C. J. Palmer occupied the chair at the annual Library
+Meeting.  It was stated that there were then nearly 10,000 volumes
+belonging to that Institution, of which about 22 were circulated daily.
+
+Jan. 13th.—Mr. Roach (Station-master) was, much to the regret of the
+inhabitants, leaving Yarmouth.
+
+Jan. 16th.—Mr. George Danby-Palmer had presided at a dinner given to B.
+Fenn, Esq., when that gentleman was presented with 203 oz. of plate
+(value £100) by the Great Yarmouth Provident Fisherman’s Society, of
+which he had acted as Hon. Sec. for 30 years.
+
+The Russian guns were to be placed at the South end of the Hall Quay.
+
+Court “Star of the East,” A.O.F., had held its anniversary at the Regent
+Tavern.
+
+Jan. 23rd.—The Rev. F. W. Johnson had been appointed minister at St.
+John’s Church.
+
+A meeting of the Town Council had been held to consider the question of
+the proposed appointment of Justices, when Mr. E. H. L. Preston moved,
+and Mr. B. Fenn seconded, the adoption of a memorial to the Lord
+Chancellor, deprecating the proposed appointment of Messrs. P. Pullyn, D.
+A. Gourlay, Frederick Palmer, William T. Clarke, John Barker, and John
+Owles, and Mr. George Danby-Palmer moved, and Mr. Chapman seconded, an
+amendment in favour of such appointments, which, on a division, was lost
+by 25 to 5 votes.  The Mayor made some warm remarks of a personal nature,
+which brought a similar retort from Mr. Chapman, and it was stated that
+“the last portion of these remarks was given amid applause in the gallery
+and laughter of the members, the meeting breaking up in great confusion.”
+
+Feb. 6th.—The same question had been discussed at a meeting of
+Magistrates, when the Clerk was directed to apply to the Lord Chancellor
+for the correspondence with regard to the proposed appointments.
+
+Feb. 10th.—This request had been declined by his Lordship, and it
+appeared that the Roll had been sent for, which led to a discussion of a
+personal character.
+
+Feb. 13th.—The Town Council, on the motion of Mr. C. J. Palmer, seconded
+by Mr. Burroughs, had voted an address to the Queen on the occasion of
+the marriage of the Princess Royal.
+
+A letter was read at the same meeting, stating that the Lord Chancellor
+had added the names of the six before mentioned gentlemen to the
+Commission of the Peace.
+
+Feb. 20th.—It was proposed to extend the Marine Parade.
+
+The 9th Regiment of Foot had left Yarmouth for Bradford.  During its stay
+here some 200 recruits had been obtained.
+
+Mr. Frederick Palmer had qualified as a Justice of the Peace.
+
+St. John’s Church had been opened for service, when the Revs. F. W.
+Johnson and George Hills preached in the morning and afternoon
+respectively.
+
+Feb. 24th.—The cost of the maintenance of the poor of the parish had
+increased since the passing of the 9th and 10th Vic. cap. 56 from about
+£9,000 to £10,376 per annum.
+
+Messrs. J. Barker and P. Pullyn had qualified as Magistrates.
+
+Feb. 27th.—The 24-pounders at the Batteries were to be replaced by 74
+pound guns.
+
+March 6th.—Records the death of Rear-Admiral Sir Eaton Travers, K.H.,
+aged 70.  The dates of his appointments were—Lieutenant 1804, Commander
+1814, Captain 1829, Rear-Admiral 1855.  He had seen much service, and was
+nominated a K.H. on 4th of February, 1834.  He possessed the silver naval
+medal with one clasp, had a good service pension, and was a D.L. for the
+county.  Sir Eaton married in April, 1815, Anne Palmer, eldest daughter
+of William Steward, Esq., by whom he had issue five sons and two
+daughters.
+
+It was hoped that the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway would be opened by
+the 1st of September next.
+
+March 13th.—A dispute had arisen between the Local Board of Health and
+George Danby-Palmer, Esq., with regard to certain land at the south-end
+of the town, and Mr. Chamberlin, acting as Mr. Palmer’s solicitor, had
+complained to the Bench of having been assaulted by Mr. Morant (Town
+Surveyor), upon the “locus in quo,” and what was described as a “scene”
+had ensued.
+
+March 20th.—The Naval Hospital was being fitted up for the reception of
+sick and wounded men from India; it was noticed that although fitted up
+in a similar way during the Russian war, it had never then been used.
+
+Complaint was made of the “niggardly” way in which the Southtown Road was
+lighted.
+
+March 24th.—Lord Sondes had presented a petition from the Town Council to
+the House of Lords on the subject of the Magisterial appointments, but
+after an explanation by the Lord Chancellor, who justified his action,
+“the subject dropped.”
+
+March 27th.—Mr. J. S. Cobb had delivered a lecture on “Chemistry.”
+
+April 3rd.—Mr. R. Steward had protested against the Senior Magistrate
+taking the chair in Petty Session as a matter of right.
+
+April 7th.—Ten publicans had been fined for keeping their houses open at
+illegal hours.
+
+April 10th.—At the appointment of Overseers, Mr. E. H. L. Preston moved
+the appointment of Messrs. William Green, James Borking, John Clayton,
+and William Harbord; and Mr. Owles proposed Mr. James H. Harrison in the
+place of Mr. Green.  Upon the votes being taken, there appeared: For Mr.
+Preston’s list—The Mayor and Messrs. William Danby-Palmer, E. H. L.
+Preston, J. C. Smith, W. Yetts, W. Thurtell, B. Jay, W. H. Bessey, J.
+Fenn, William Hurry Palmer, J. Cherry, R. Steward, C. C. Aldred, J. G.
+Plummer, and B. Fenn; and for Mr. Owles’ list—Messrs. Geo. Danby-Palmer,
+J. W. Shelley, W. Johnson, R. Hammond, P. Pullyn, D. A. Gourlay,
+Frederick Palmer, W. T. Clarke, J. Barker, and J. Owles.
+
+April 17th.—From 3,000 to 4,000 persons had witnessed the launch of the
+“Froderica,” of 600 tons burthen, from Mr. Branford’s yard.
+
+April 24th.—St. John’s Church had been consecrated by the Lord Bishop of
+Norwich.
+
+H.M.S. “Edinburgh,” 74 tons, and two gun-boats had passed through the
+Roads.
+
+April 28th.—Mr. John Clowes had been returned as a Councillor for the
+Nelson Ward without opposition in the place of Mr. Samuel V. Moore,
+deceased.
+
+May 1st.—Ninety ladies and gentlemen had attended a ball at the Town
+Hall.
+
+The sum of £137 had been collected at the Consecration Services at St.
+John’s Church.  The Communion plate and stone pulpit in this church had
+been paid for from the proceeds arising from the sale of the second
+edition of the “Story of John Brock.”
+
+May 5th.—Reference is made to the drowning of the only son of Captain
+Ellis, R.N., at Southwold.
+
+The Poor’s rate was 1s. 4d. in the £.
+
+The Summer excursion trains had commenced running, and had brought many
+visitors from Norwich.
+
+May 8th.—Seventy invalids from Colchester camp were under treatment at
+the Naval Hospital.  The officers in charge were Captain Jervois,
+Commandant; Captain Naylor, Pay-master; Staff-Surgeons, Bradford and Joy,
+and Mr. Rippon, Purveyor.
+
+May 15th.—Disturbances had taken place between some of the Fermanagh
+Militia and townsmen at Southtown, and the conduct of the Mayor was
+impugned with regard to his desire to repress the report of this, when
+Mr. de Caux vindicated the reports sent by him to the newspapers he
+represented.
+
+May 22nd.—The mackerel fleet (about 100 sail) were nearly all at sea, and
+prices had varied from 35s. to 45s. per hundred.
+
+The “Nil Desperandum” (500 tons) had been launched from Mr. Rust’s yard.
+
+June 12th.—Records the death of Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart., one of the
+M.P’s. for East Norfolk.
+
+June 16th.—Sir Henry Stracey, a candidate for the seat thus vacant, had
+met the Conservative electors at the Angel-hotel, when Mr. E. H. L.
+Preston occupied the chair.  It was stated that “Sir Henry is a favourite
+in Yarmouth from the interest he has taken in all that relates to the
+interest of the town.”
+
+June 19th.—The Liberals had met at the Star Hotel, Mr. B. Dowson in the
+chair, when a resolution accepting the Hon. Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke
+as the candidate in the Whig interest had been adopted.
+
+John Berry had committed suicide by shooting himself on the South Denes.
+
+June 26th.—Mr. Falcke (a gentleman whose father formerly lived in the
+town) had given subscriptions to the Hospital and the Ragged and British
+Schools.
+
+June 30th.—At the County election, Mr. E. Fellowes, M.P., proposed, and
+Colonel Fitzroy seconded Sir H. J. Stracey, Bart., and Mr. Bulwer
+proposed, and Mr. Upcher seconded the Hon. Wenman C. W. Coke; the show of
+hands was in favour of Sir H. J. Stracey, whereupon Mr. Bulwer demanded a
+poll on behalf of the Hon. Mr. Coke.
+
+July 3rd.—The poll had been declared as follows:—
+
+The Hon. W. C. W. Coke            2933
+Sir H. J. Stracey                 2720
+                   Majority        213
+
+An analysis of the polling at Yarmouth showed—
+
+                        Coke.       Stracey.
+Yarmouth Voters              288            301
+E&W. Flegg ,,                150            195
+Out ,,                        36             58
+Gorleston ,,                   6              4
+Southtown ,,                  14             14
+
+Mr. Isaac Shuckford had been elected an Alderman in the place of Alderman
+T. Foreman deceased.
+
+A fight had taken place on the North Denes between Plumb (of Bungay) and
+Swash (of Yarmouth) for £10 a side.  It lasted 1 h. and 35 min., and 93
+rounds were fought.  Ultimately Swash was beaten.
+
+July 10th.—The “Minstrel” had been launched from Mr. Symonds’ and the
+“Success” from Mr. Chapman’s yard.
+
+July 14th.—“Frequent collisions” were taking place between the Irish
+Militia and the inhabitants.
+
+July 17th.—Britannia Pier had been opened.  The Mayor attended with the
+“civic authorities;” on his arrival two rockets were let off and cannon
+were discharged.  At the “dejeuner” subsequently held, C. C. Aldred and
+C. Cory, Esqs., presided at the tables, faced by D. A. Gourlay, and G. B.
+Palmer, Esqs.
+
+A “Marine Horticultural Fête” had been held on this pier.
+
+July 21st.—A Provincial Grand Lodge of Norfolk Freemasons had been held
+at the Priory Hall, which 150 brethren attended.  Subsequently a banquet
+was held at the Town Hall, when P.G.M. Bro. B. Bond Cabbell presided,
+Bros. Sir H. J. Stracey and C. H. Chamberlin occupying the vice-chairs.
+
+July 24th.—Fifty-seven sick and wounded soldiers, mostly Indian
+sufferers, had arrived at the Royal Naval Hospital.
+
+July 28th.—It was computed that there were between 8,000 and 9,000
+visitors then in the town.
+
+There had been a heavy gale from the S.W.
+
+July 31st.—At the Regatta, which was held from the Wellington
+Pier,—umpires, Lieut.-Col. Beckham and Mr. M. Butcher; hon. secretary,
+Mr. Henry R. Harmer;—in the first yacht race the “Violet” (J. E. Kirby)
+beat the “Aretion” (J. Goodson, Esq.), and the “Silver Star” (— Mann,
+Esq.).  The following yawls competed as under:—
+
+                                         Came in
+                                  H.       M.       S.
+Eclipse            54 ft.             6        0       32
+Royal Standard     49 ft.             5       58       40
+Queen Victoria     63 ft.             5       50       20
+Lady Hume          59 ft.             5       54       30
+Young Prince       47 ft.               withdrew
+Glance             47 ft.             6        3       23
+
+In the next race (for small yachts) the “Kestrel” (W. Butcher) beat the
+“Belvidere” (T. Read), “Isabella” (O. Diver), “Rover” (T. Palmer), and
+“Gipsy Queen” (Harcourt); there were several other races.  On this
+occasion 1,700 persons visited the Wellington Pier, upwards of £40 was
+taken at the gates, and it was computed that some 12,000 persons were on
+the Beach; 3,000 persons visited the Victoria Gardens, where “Sam
+Collins” performed, and Mr. Coe had the management of the display of
+fireworks.
+
+Aug. 4th.—The acting Charity Trustees, Messrs. George Danby-Palmer and
+Thomas Brightwen, had selected the following additional Trustees of the
+Town Charity Estate:—The Rev. George Hills, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, and
+Messrs. C. J. Palmer, J. Brightwen, B. Jay, E. H. L. Preston, C. C.
+Aldred, Charles Cory, William H. Palmer, R. Hammond, W. P. Dowson, W. N.
+Burroughs, and J. W. Shelley.  Objection had been taken to the names of
+Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Messrs. Aldred, Cory, C. J. Palmer, E. H. L.
+Preston, and W. P. Dowson, and the names of Messrs. Pullyn, C. Miller, G.
+Blake and J. Fenn proposed as Trustees.
+
+Aug. 7th.—At the Water Frolic, Mr. O. Diver acted as hon. secretary, and
+in the first match the following yachts competed:—
+
+Endora        (latteen)     Cooke         Horstead      13 feet
+Nautilus      (cutter)      —             Bungay        12 ,,
+Clara         (cutter)      C. Smith      Aylsham       14 ,,
+Fairy Queen   (latteen)     R. Morton          ,,       13 ,,
+Unique        (cutter)      W. Teasdel    Gorleston     14 ,,
+
+The Endora won.  In the second race the entries were:—
+
+Belvidere       T. Read            Yarmouth       28 feet
+Victorine       J. Fiddes               ,,        —
+Iris            A. D. Stone             ,,        27 „
+Tantivy         Messrs. Morgan     Norwich        19 ,,
+
+The Belvidere won.  The third contest was for a cup, presented by D.
+Falcke, Esq., for shrimp boats; the “Smack” won.
+
+During the sports Mr. Gardiner (editor of the _Yarmouth Independent_) was
+knocked overboard by the boom of Mr. Diver’s boat, but, being a swimmer,
+escaped with a “good ducking.”
+
+Aug. 14th.—A meeting had been held for the purpose of establishing a
+“Beachman’s Institute.”  The Mayor occupied the chair, and G. Harcourt,
+Esq., addressed the meeting at some length; Mr. Fisher and the Rev. G.
+Hills also took part in these proceedings.
+
+A mirage had been seen off the coast, presenting the appearance of a
+number of ships sailing between two chalk cliffs, thought by some to
+pourtray the Isle of Wight.  Nothing of a similar kind had been seen in
+Yarmouth for 75 years.  It was noticed the weather had been close and
+sultry and the tides low.
+
+Aug. 18th.—The sum of £139 18s. 6d. had been contributed for the
+Beachman’s Institute.
+
+Aug. 25th.—The Norfolk Hotel, Marine Drive, had been purchased by Messrs.
+Hills and Underwood for the sum of £2,160.
+
+Sept. 1st.—The sum of £448 had been subscribed for the restoration of the
+Nelson Monument.
+
+About 100 vessels were then engaged in the North Sea herring fishing, the
+fish realising from £12 15s. to £26 per last.
+
+George Wells Holt, Esq., who had officiated as Magistrates’ Clerk for
+more than 22 years, had resigned that appointment.
+
+Mr. W. Holt (son of the late Clerk), Mr. H. R. Harmer and Mr. Costerton
+were candidates for the office.
+
+Sept. 8th.—The following Magistrates attended on the appointment being
+filled up:—F. Worship, Esq., (Mayor), R. Hammond, B. Fenn, J. G. Plummer,
+W. Johnson, P. Pullyn, F. Palmer, R. Steward, D. A. Gourlay, W. T.
+Clarke, J. Fenn, E. H. L. Preston, B. Jay, W. H. Palmer, W. Yetts, C. C.
+Aldred, W. H. Bessey, G. D. Palmer, W. Thurtell, T. Brightwen, J. Owles,
+and J. C. Smith, Esqs., and on the motion of Mr. Hammond, seconded by Mr.
+Steward, Mr. William Holt was unanimously elected.
+
+The emoluments of the office were then about £375 per annum.
+
+Messrs. Mellor and Young, the M.P’s. for the town, had arrived, the
+former at the Norfolk, and the latter at the Royal Hotel.
+
+The Artillery Militia had assembled for 21 days’ drill.
+
+There had been further disturbances between the Fermanagh Militia and the
+townspeople, which had led to a conference between the Magistrates and
+the officer commanding that Regiment, since which the soldiers had not
+been allowed to enter the town after 6.30 p.m., and a picket had been
+stationed on the Bridge.
+
+A fancy fair in aid of the Sailors’ Institute was being held in three
+marquees fronting the Norfolk Hotel.
+
+H.M.S. “Pembroke,” 60 guns, had sailed for Harwich, after remaining in
+the Roads 14 days.  During her stay 40 volunteers had been entered upon
+her books.
+
+The King of Prussia’s yacht “Grille” had arrived in the Harbour; she was
+of 400 tons, and rigged as a three-masted schooner.  The officers on
+board were Captain baron Bothwell, Lieutenants Baron St. Paul, Baron
+Dobenack, and Count Moate.
+
+Sept. 15th.—The Fermanagh Militia had left Yarmouth for Bradford, and
+were to be succeeded by the Louth Rifles.
+
+The comet (visible with the naked eye) was getting brighter every night.
+
+Sept. 22nd.—One of a recently-arrived advance party of the Louth Rifles
+named John Carret had been found drowned in the Yare.
+
+Sept. 25th.—Herring were selling at from £3 to £4 per last for manure.
+
+Sept. 29th.—The subscriptions to the Races amounted to only £289 18s.
+6d., leaving the balance to be raised by sale of race-cards, &c.
+
+Mr. Colley was acting as House Surgeon at the Hospital.
+
+Oct. 2nd.—The East Norfolk Militia had been inspected by Colonel Lewis
+prior to being disbanded.
+
+The Louth Rifles, 500 strong, had arrived, and marched into the Southtown
+Barracks.  The officers were Colonel Lord Bellew, Lieut.-Colonel Sir J.
+Robinson, Bart.; Major Taaffe, Adjutant Bellingham, Surgeon Dixon,
+Quarter-Master Edward Burke, Paymaster J. Burke, Captains O’Reiley,
+Smith, Singleton, and Murray, Lieutenants Evans, Osborne, Townley,
+Murphy, and Cormack, and Ensigns Mason, Lindsay, Standidge, O’Donald and
+Twentyman.
+
+Oct. 6th.—The mortality in the town was then 23 in 1,000 persons.
+
+Oct. 9th.—The fishing had improved, and herring was selling at from £19
+5s. to £22 per last.
+
+William Holt, Esq., had given a dinner at the Crown and Anchor to the
+officials connected with the Police Court.
+
+Mr. S. J. F. Stafford had been elected Surgeon for the North District.
+
+Oct. 16th.—The County Revision had been held before Mr. R. Couch at the
+Tolhouse, Mr. Clowes appearing for the Liberals and Mr. Cufaude for the
+Tories; also for the Borough, when Mr. Costerton appeared for the
+Liberals, and Mr. Cufaude for the Tories.  The Liberals claimed gains on
+both these registers.
+
+Oct. 20th.—It was understood that R. Steward, Esq., would be Mayor for
+the ensuing year.
+
+The Mayor (with Messrs. Pilgrim and Cooper as assessors) had held the
+Municipal Revision, Mr. Costerton appearing for the Liberals and Mr.
+Cufaude for the Conservatives; the former claimed a gain of 73 on the
+proceedings.
+
+Oct. 27th.—Lieutenant Mends, R.N., had been presented with a handsome
+gold pencil-case by the crew of H.M.S. “Dolphin,” (Revenue cruiser on
+this station), on his resigning his command.
+
+Oct. 30th.—The Bishop of Norwich had confirmed 115 persons at St.
+Nicholas’ Church.
+
+Nov. 3rd.—The following Councillors had been elected without
+opposition:—_North Ward_: Messrs. W. Worship and J. B. Hylton.  _Market
+Ward_: Messrs. E. R. Aldred and D. A. Gourlay.  _Regent Ward_: Messrs. R.
+D. Barber and R. R. B. Norman.  _St. George’s Ward_: Messrs. R. Ferrier
+and B. Jay.  _Nelson Ward_: Messrs. Charles J. Palmer and Charles
+Woolverton.  _St. Andrew’s Ward_: Messrs. Robert Steward and William T.
+Clarke.
+
+Captain Ryder, R.N., Government Inspector, had examined 42 pupils at the
+School of Navigation.
+
+Nov. 6th.—It was “confidently reported” that the Vicar (the Rev. G.
+Hills) had been appointed Bishop of British Columbia.
+
+Nov. 10th—A claim had been made by a person whose father had served in
+the army from 1802 to 1816, to sell excisable articles without a license,
+under the 56 George III. cap. 67.
+
+Nov. 13th.—At the Council meeting held on the 9th, Mr. William H. Palmer
+proposed, and Mr. Hylton seconded, Robert Steward, Esq., as Mayor for the
+ensuing year, and he was declared unanimously elected, but as “the late
+Mayor was about to invest him with the chain of office, His Worship
+rather prematurely took hold of the chain and placed it on the seat.”
+
+A complimentary dinner had been given by the Council to the ex-Mayor, at
+which C. J. Palmer, Esq., presided.
+
+Nov. 17th.—The Mayor had dispensed with the formality of being preceded
+by the maces and other insignia of the Corporation in attending divine
+service and taking his seat on the Bench.  He had also declined wearing
+the gold chain on the same occasions.
+
+Nov. 20th.—Attention was directed to the “Wonders of the Microscope,
+published by Mr. Harmer, the photographist of Great Yarmouth.”
+
+Dec. 4th.—The Royal National Lifeboat Institution had sent one of its 30
+foot single-banked boats to this station.
+
+The Mayor had issued invitations for a dinner at the Town Hall to 170
+gentlemen connected with the town and district.
+
+The Rev. R. H. Nevill had been appointed to the Vicarage, which was
+supposed to be worth some £350 per annum.
+
+Dec. 11th.—Mr. J. H. Harrison had lent the St. George’s Hall to the
+tradesmen, who were getting up a concert for the benefit of the Hospital.
+
+Dec. 15th.—The Mayor, Sir John Robinson, Bart., S. C. Marsh and C. J.
+Palmer, Esqs., had acted as Stewards of the first Subscription Ball, and
+there were also present—the Mayoress, Captain Winyard, R.N., Captain
+O’Reiley, Dr. Dixon, Captain Smith, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Harcourt, Mrs. and
+Miss Gwynne, Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mr. Cubitt and family, Mr. and Mrs.
+Ferrier, Mr. W. Travers, Mr. E. and Miss Preston, Mrs. S. C. Marsh and
+family, Mr. H. Lacon, Mr. and Mrs. Barber and family, Mr. Jolly, Mr. F.
+Danby-Palmer, Mr. Bullock, Mrs. A. Thompson, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Venning,
+Mrs. and Miss Pearson, Dr. Button, Mr. and Mrs. Biddulph, Mrs. R.
+Steward, Rev. Mr. Gott and family, Mr. Harmer, &c.
+
+Mr. J. Petts had been promoted to be Chief Coastguard Officer at
+Yarmouth.
+
+Dec. 11th.—It was proposed to present Bishop Hills with a silver
+Communion Service.
+
+
+
+1859.
+
+
+Jan. 5th.—A meeting had been held (C. J. Palmer, Esq., in the chair) for
+the purpose of raising a fund with a view to presenting a testimonial to
+the Rev. George Hills.  Sir E. H. K. Lacon, and Messrs. R. Hammond, T.
+Brightwen, C. C. Aldred, E. H. L. Preston, C. S. D. Steward, and C. Cory,
+took part in the proceedings, and £145 was raised in the room.
+
+The Mayor (R. Steward, Esq.), had given away 300 cwts. of coal to poor
+persons.
+
+Jan. 12th.—It was reported that 20 missionary clergymen would accompany
+the Rev. G. Hills to his new mission, and that Mr. Lupson, Scripture
+Reader, should be ordained and go as one of these.
+
+Jan. 15th.—The members of the Ship Insurance Society, to the number of
+30, had held their annual dinner at the “Crown and Anchor”; Mr. D. A.
+Gourlay occupied the chair, and Mr. D. B. Palmer the vice-chair.
+
+Jan. 22nd.—The East Suffolk Railway was to be opened on the 1st March.
+
+Jan. 29th.—The Rev. G. Hills had preached his farewell sermon.
+
+The Mayor had given a Juvenile Ball to 130 children at the Town Hall.
+Among those present were members of the following families:—Reynolds,
+Youell, Harcourt, Cufaude, Marsh, Impey, Tompson, Clarke, Donald, Norman,
+Bond, Aldred, Lettis, Woolverton, Butcher, Barnby, Ayers, Reeve, Laws,
+Bayly, Chamberlin, Dashwood, Bracey, Palmer, Shuckford, Smith, Smyth,
+Plummer, Barber, &c.
+
+Bro. John Cobb had been installed W.M. of Lodge “Friendship” by Bros. O.
+Diver and J. W. Bunn, and he had appointed the following officers:—Bros.
+W. Wright, S.W.; G. Harley, J.W.; C. L. Chipperfield, S.D.; J. H. Bly,
+J.D.; and George Knox, I.G.
+
+Feb. 5th.—The ladies had presented plate to the value of 50 guineas to
+the Rev. G. Hills.
+
+Mrs. Gray had given a “ball and reception” at the Town Hall.
+
+Feb. 9th.—About 100 Foresters had attended the funeral of Bro. Hatch, at
+Gorleston, on Sunday, which proceeding had been objected to by the Vicar.
+
+Feb. 12th.—A “Reform” Meeting had been held, Mr. Livingston in the chair.
+
+Feb. 16th.—Mr. Boning, of Cambridge, had accidentally injured himself
+while shooting on the Caister Marshes.  Dr. Smyth, Mr. F. Palmer, Mr.
+Skinner and Mr. Colley (Hospital) were attending the sufferer.
+
+Feb. 19th.—Mr. Nevill, the new Incumbent, had arrived, and was going “to
+read himself in” on the next Sunday.
+
+Feb. 23rd.—This ceremony had been duly performed by him.
+
+A Reading-room had been established in connection with the Subscription
+Library on the Quay.
+
+Mr. J. C. Smith had presided at Mrs. Sizeland’s annual dinner at the
+Royal Hotel.
+
+A high tide had washed over the Beach up to the Marine Drive wall.
+
+Feb. 26th.—The Foresters had held a dinner at the Corn Hall; 100 brethren
+attended.  The Chief Ranger (Bro. Franklin) presided, and Bros. Steele,
+Horne, E. Stagg, Dr. Smyth, Dumbleton and Thompson took part in the
+proceedings.
+
+March 2nd.—Dr. Hills had been consecrated Bishop of British Columbia at
+Westminster Abbey.
+
+The first train from Yarmouth had run over the East Suffolk line.
+
+March 5th.—A search for treasure had been made at the “Stone Cairn” on
+the North Denes, it seems from the report, without effect.
+
+The old Jetty was to be repaired.
+
+The officers of the Louth Rifles had given a Ball at the Town Hall, for
+which about 180 invitations were issued.
+
+March 19th.—Messrs. Mellor and Young had attended a Reform Meeting at the
+Corn Hall; from 1,000 to 1,200 persons were present.  Among the gentlemen
+accompanying the M.P.’s were Messrs. R. Hammond, P. Pullyn, Gourlay, F.
+Palmer, Clowes, Briggs, Barker, &c.
+
+March 23rd—There was a “rage” for new buildings in the town.
+
+March 30th.—A Court of Foresters had been opened at Hasbro’, the
+officiating officers being D.C.R.  Stratford and C.R.  Franklin (of Court
+“Crown and Anchor.”)
+
+April 2nd.—The question as to who were to be the Liberal candidates for
+the Borough was being “mooted”; it was reported that Mr. McCullagh was to
+be put on one side, that Mr. Mellor would withdraw, and that Messrs.
+Watkin and Young would take the field.
+
+A new Coastguard Station was being erected at a cost of £3,500.  Mr.
+Norfor, contractor.
+
+April 6th.—The action of “Morant _v._ Chamberlin” had been referred to
+Mr. Barstow.
+
+April 9th.—Both parties had been waiting for notice of the Dissolution of
+Parliament.  Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Sir H. J. Stracey were making a
+house-to-house canvas, accompanied by Messrs. W. Yetts, W. Thurtell, R.
+Ferrier, C. Cory, S. C. Marsh, W. Worship, E. H. L. Preston, J. G.
+Plummer, F. Ferrier, J. Fenn, &c.
+
+The Liberals had held a meeting on the Hall Plain, which 3,000 persons
+attended.  Mr. Briggs occupied the chair, and Messrs. J. Clowes, R.
+Hammond, J. Owles, J. W. Shelly, and P. Pullyn took part in the
+proceedings, which eventuated in the selection of Messrs. Watkin and
+Young as the Liberal candidates.
+
+April 13th.—Both parties had held meetings, the Liberals at the “Star”
+and the Conservatives at the “Fish Stall House.”
+
+April 16th.—Both parties expressed themselves confident of success, but
+it was supposed that Gorleston would turn the scale; the voters there
+were described as “dangerous men.”
+
+The barque “Athelstan” (Captain John Bracey) was to be launched from
+Fellows’ yard on the 19th.
+
+April 20th.—The Liberal electors “and their wives” had met at the Corn
+Exchange, while the Conservatives had held a meeting at the Victoria
+Gardens.
+
+April 23rd.—Contains the following report as to
+
+                               “THE ELECTION.”
+
+    The greatest activity prevails on both sides, and as the decisive day
+    approaches, the feelings of partizanship are becoming greatly
+    intensified.  The printers have had a lively time of it, and turn out
+    a great quantity of matter, an opinion appearing to be prevalent that
+    quality is a secondary consideration.  During the last few days,
+    songs, parodies upon songs, speeches, and gross personal abuse have
+    been issued by the supporters of Mr. Watkin, (for it must be admitted
+    that Mr. Young holds himself aloof from this scurrility) with the
+    object, we suppose, of doing that gentleman some good.  In our
+    opinion they will have a contrary effect, as we have heard many
+    respectable Liberal electors express themselves disgusted with such
+    unnecessary vulgarity.  It may be very true, that in addressing the
+    people, it is necessary to call a spade a spade, but it cannot be at
+    all requisite that the minds of the people should be attempted to be
+    influenced by strong specimens of the Billingsgate vocabulary.  Where
+    wit is lacking, silence is preferable to blackguardism.  On the
+    Conservative side there has also been a fair number of coloured bills
+    and printed addresses issued; but the writers in this interest have
+    abstained from attempting to be funny.  In printed abuse, however,
+    they endeavour to rival their opponents.  Betting, if that may be
+    considered a piece of electioneering business, is decidedly in favour
+    of the Conservative candidates.  Each party attributes motives of the
+    most improper kind to the other, and it will be seen that Mr. Watkin
+    fears that his opponents may indulge in “corruption.”  On the other
+    hand, Sir E. Lacon says voters had told him they dare not support
+    him, as they should be inclined to do, in consequence of persons on
+    the Liberal side having put the “screw” upon them.  Tradesmen
+    generally will be glad when the contest is over, as it is daily
+    creating much personal animosity.
+
+The “Athelstan” had been launched; she was of 500 tons burden, and was to
+take out Bishop Hills’ effects to British Columbia.
+
+The “Haddiscoe Swamp” had caused a great difficulty on the East Suffolk
+line, which was consequently still not open for traffic.
+
+William Howlett, “Red” bill-poster, and Robert Crisp, “Blue” bill-poster,
+had been before the Magistrates owing to a dispute arising out of the
+election placards.
+
+April 30th.—Both parties had been holding nightly meetings of a
+“convivial character.”  On Wednesday some 300 to 400 persons had paraded
+the town shouting “Down with Lacon and Stracey,” and had broken the
+windows of the Red Committee rooms in the Market-place.
+
+                               “THE NOMINATION”
+
+    took place on the Hall Plain; the platform, in the centre of which
+    was reserved a place for the Mayor and the Candidates and friends,
+    being on the Crown and Anchor “leads.”  The Blues were to the left of
+    the Mayor and the Reds to his right; and in front of the house there
+    was at the time proceedings commenced an assemblage numbering 4,000
+    or 5,000, including a number of females.  The Liberals were the first
+    to arrive on the “leads,” and on Mr. Watkin showing himself to the
+    crowd, he was loudly cheered, a compliment which the candidate duly
+    acknowledged.  Shortly afterwards the approach of the Conservative
+    party was indicated by the deep groans of the crowd, who manifested
+    some indications of hostility: but on its being discovered that the
+    Conservative cavalcade was headed by a party of very
+    pugilistic-looking persons, decorated with red ribbon, the
+    threatening attitude of the crowd was somewhat modified, and the two
+    Baronets, with their friends, were allowed to ascend to the “leads”
+    unmolested.  When the two parties had taken their places on the
+    balcony, the Liberals proposed three cheers, which were given by the
+    great majority, accompanied by the groans of the minority.  A number
+    of “beery” individuals struggled to the front, and were a source of
+    annoyance to the speakers throughout.  A few minutes before three
+    o’clock the Mayor arrived in state, preceded by his
+    sergeants-at-mace, and accompanied in his carriage by Mr. C. J.
+    Palmer, who acted as his solicitor for the occasion.  When his
+    Worship appeared in the balcony the Blues, for some reason, commenced
+    hissing him, much to the disgust of several of the leading gentlemen
+    of the Liberal party, who protested against such unseemly
+    proceedings.  We may state, before attempting to report the numerous
+    speeches that were delivered, that during the whole of the
+    proceedings—more especially when it was the turn of the Conservatives
+    to speak—the crowd was exceedingly disorderly, and by their loud
+    shouting and groaning rendered most of the speakers inaudable to
+    persons a few yards distant from them.  The Mayor was grossly
+    insulted at the commencement, and as the proceedings progressed
+    several fights were got up, and the interference of the police was
+    frequently required.  Anything more unreasonable and unreasoning than
+    the majority of the crowd it would be impossible to conceive, and
+    when the nomination closed there did not seem to be any person in the
+    balcony opposed to the opinion of the Mayor—that the “whole thing was
+    a farce.”  One side of the question was not heard at all, and the
+    majority shouted without knowing what about.  This was singularly
+    illustrated during the speech of Mr. Watkin, when that gentleman took
+    upon himself the functions of the returning-officer, by calling upon
+    the crowd for a show of hands, which, singularly enough, was against
+    him.  Mr. Watkin said, “All those that don’t want me to go to the
+    poll, hold up their hands.”  A forest of hands was exhibited to the
+    great amusement of the Conservatives, who cheered the result.  Mr.
+    Watkin then told his friends that they were mistaken, and having
+    explained the mistake to them, assuring them that they were too
+    intelligent to vote him down, he took another show of hands, which
+    was in his favour.  We shall be excused for commenting upon the
+    proceedings here; but the disorder and noise was so great that, as
+    most of the speakers could not be heard, we are necessitated to do
+    it, in order to make our report intelligible.  From the beginning to
+    the end “noise” had it in numbers; but in fighting the honour seemed
+    to be with the Reds, who exhibited considerable proficiency in the
+    pugilistic art.  The crowd, which was very closely packed, was
+    divided into two sections, the Blue and the Red, the former having
+    about ten to one of the latter.  At times both sections were very
+    ill-behaved, but their misconduct was kindly overlooked by the whole
+    of the speakers except Mr. Watkin, who took the liberty of
+    designating the minority of the “people” as “scoundrels” and
+    “ruffians.”  These polite designations appeared likely to stir up the
+    ill-blood of the people, inasmuch as four or five fights immediately
+    commenced, in one of which an unfortunate fellow sustained a severe
+    fracture of the proboscis, and it was not until the Mayor had, to use
+    a significant local word, “checked” Mr. Watkin, and warned him
+    against the violent nature of his harangue, that comparative order
+    was restored.  The fights in question are deserving of notice.  One
+    began between a female, whose bonnet was trimmed with yellow ribbon,
+    and a stout man in a blue guernsey.  Gallant Reds and Blues rushed
+    into the affray, doubtless with the object of protecting the woman,
+    and there was every probability of a general set-to.  The Mayor,
+    however, directed the police to interfere, and the contest was
+    suppressed, with apparently no worse results than the infliction of a
+    few disagreeable blows on the frontispieces of the combatants.  The
+    other fights were of less importance; but altogether this display of
+    pugnacity had the effect of causing the outside portion of the crowd
+    to run away from what they considered to be danger.  Other fights, as
+    will be seen from the report, also occurred.  One feature in the
+    general noise was much remarked by the gentlemen on the balcony, and
+    as it was amusing we notice it.  A half drunken beachman or
+    fisherman, just so far gone as to be witty, but who was unmistakeably
+    a Blue, planted himself in front of the balcony, and by his
+    extraordinary shouting succeeded in making himself heard above the
+    surrounding tumult.  There was some natural humour about this fellow,
+    and the way in which he shouted excited the laughter of the Mayor and
+    both parties on the balcony.  The man shouted until the veins grew
+    large in his forehead; he jumped and screamed—he laughed and waved
+    his hat, and others laughed with him—indeed, for a time all laughed
+    with him; he was in a state of ecstacy or violent enthusiasm.  It was
+    difficult for a time to make out what the man meant, but at length he
+    was understood, and his fun was appreciated.  Sir E. Lacon wears a
+    full moustache, and so does Sir H. Stracey, and those hirsute
+    ornaments were the objects of this excited individual’s enthusiasm.
+    He laughed and shouted—his voice being heard above the murmur of the
+    crowd,—for fully an hour,—“The beard! the beard! will nobody shave
+    him?  A shave! a shave!  Fetch a barber! fetch a barber!—(Loud
+    laughter.)—A clean shave!  A shilling for a razor! a razor! a razor!
+    O Lord, a clean shave,” &c.  Ultimately the man climbed to the top of
+    a post, and threw his hat into the face of a railway porter; the
+    porter ran to him and struck him in the mouth two or three times,
+    with a force that evidently astonished him, and as his scream then
+    became somewhat distressing, he was ignominiously removed to the
+    outside of the crowd.  Many other noticeable incidents occurred,
+    which will be found mentioned in our report.  But there is one
+    circumstance which did not altogether develop itself at the meeting,
+    that we feel compelled to notice.  Society, from experience, knows
+    that the prude is the loudest and severest advocate of virtue; but,
+    as Josephus has remarked, “Every man will think of this as it seemeth
+    good unto him.”  We have noticed the Gorleston voters, we have
+    recorded the boastings and professions on both sides, and we have
+    ventilated rumours which have been so far well founded.  The incident
+    we are about to mention we can vouch for; it is possible, should
+    circumstances necessitate it, of being proved.  On the Wednesday
+    evening, mob law, intimidation, corruption, “the screw,” and all the
+    worst elements of electioneering were resorted to; and we regret to
+    say that the parties who most publicly exhibited themselves as
+    disorderlies were persons whom we won’t classify, but who cried out,
+    “Down with Lacon and Stracey” and “Three cheers for Watkin.”
+
+                           “THE TIN CANISTER.”
+
+A report had been “current that a mysterious old gentleman had arrived
+from somewhere with a tin canister full of sovereigns, and from the way
+in which he was dressed it was generally supposed that he was either a
+Russian or a Shrewsbury man come for the purpose of bribery.  “Said
+person,” as the Yankees say, was seen in the rear of the balcony at the
+Crown and Anchor, defying anybody to penetrate the secret of his
+identity, but occasionally winking and ejaculating, with an occasionally
+eructory sound, the words, “All right—in for Watkin.”  This strange
+gentleman departed in the evening, minus, it is said, the canister.  We
+will now pass over the irregularities of the story, and give you the
+words of our informant, whose high standing and character place him
+beyond suspicion:—“I had attended the Yarmouth nomination, and took my
+railway seat, at 8.40 p.m. for Norwich.  There were two or three
+gentlemen in the first-class compartment in which I had placed myself;
+and one gentleman was a peculiar sort of mysterious individual.  After
+eyeing the party well, the gentleman gravely said, “Both sides are
+buying, I’m afraid, at Yarmouth.”  One of the party doubted the
+assertion, but the ancient traveller smiled and said, “No, no.”  Further
+explanations took place, until at length our interesting fellow-traveller
+volunteered this remark, after a feeler from one of the party, “You know
+I came down from Manchester yesterday, to see my particular friend W—.
+Deuced clever fellow—one of the best railway men in the country.  He did
+wonders for the Manchester and Lincolnshire line, and if we get him in we
+shall expect him to be one of the best railway men we have.”  One of the
+party asked, “Are you a Yarmouth voter, sir?”  Old Traveller: “No, but I
+wished to see my friend W— on very particular business, and so I just
+came down to Yarmouth to see how his election was getting on _as well_,
+and to add my mite of influence.”  This, perhaps, will account for the
+story of the tin canister.  The rest we shall leave to the report.”
+
+Mr. J. Cherry proposed, and Mr. R. Dumbleton seconded Sir E. H. K. Lacon.
+
+Mr. R. Hammond proposed, and Mr. J. Owles seconded Mr. Watkin.
+
+Mr. E. H. L. Preston proposed, and Mr. S. C. Marsh seconded Sir H. J.
+Stracey,
+
+And Mr. J. W. Shelly proposed and Mr. P. Pullyn seconded Mr. Young.
+
+The show of hands was in favour of Messrs. Watkin and Young, whereupon a
+poll was demanded for Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Sir H. J. Stracey.
+
+May 4th.—The poll had been taken in Wards as follows:—
+
+                  Lacon.       Stracey.      Watkin.       Young.
+St. Nicholas’            97            89            76           71
+Market                  117           113           100           99
+Regent                  112           108            91           88
+St. George’s            102            94            89           84
+Nelson                  166           153           119          106
+St. Andrew’s            105           102            93           88
+         Total          699           659           568          536
+
+But it was stated that “there were many cases of bribery, and the
+defeated party threatened a petition against this ‘return.’”
+
+May 7th.—Between £500 and £600 had been promised as subscriptions to that
+end.
+
+There had been a fashionable ball at the Town Hall.
+
+The Norfolk Artillery Militia had left for Sheerness.
+
+Miles Swiney had been shot in the side by one of the Louth Rifles on the
+North Denes.
+
+May 11th.—It had been proposed to raise a Yacht Club, Mr. H. Morgan
+acting as Treasurer, and £100 had been subscribed for the purpose.
+(N.B.—This was the starting of the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club.)
+
+Meetings of electors had been held to promote the petition.
+
+May 18th.—The petition was “likely to reveal a ‘_high_ state of political
+morality in the Borough.’”
+
+May 21st.—Contains the Lord Lieutenant’s proclamation as to the formation
+of Rifle Corps.
+
+May 25th.—A few persons were talking of raising one of such corps at
+Yarmouth, but no active steps had been taken in regard thereto.
+
+May 28th.—On the Queen’s Birthday, the Mayor had given a luncheon and
+ball at the Town Hall.
+
+The testimonial “consisting of silver candelabra, &c.,” and the
+Corporation address had been presented to Bishop Hills at the Town Hall.
+Some 250 persons were present, amongst whom were—Messrs. C. J. Palmer
+(who presided at the luncheon), Brightwen, C. Aldred, S. Aldred, Sir E.
+Lacon, M.P., Reynolds, Nash, C. Cory, R. Hammond, F. Worship, W. Worship,
+E. Frere, F. Palmer, F. Ferrier, T. Brightwen, Captain Holmes, Dr. Smith,
+Rev. Nevill, Johnson, &c.
+
+June 1st.—Contains the following report of a
+
+               “MEETING TO ESTABLISH A VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.”
+
+    On Friday, a meeting, called by the Mayor, was held at the Town Hall,
+    to take into consideration certain communications which his worship
+    had received from General Peel, the Secretary at War, and Lord
+    Leicester, the Lord Lieutenant of the County.  There was a very
+    numerous attendance.  Amongst the gentlemen present were—Sir E.
+    Lacon, Bart., M.P., Lieutenant Colonel Beckham, Captain Naylor,
+    Captain Holmes, Rev. J. B. Bampton, Rev. T. Lowe, Messrs. J. H. Orde,
+    F. Worship, W. Worship, W. Yetts, S. C. Marsh, C. C. Aldred, C. J.
+    Palmer, E. H. L. Preston, J. Clowes, Foreman, &c.
+
+    The Mayor stated that he had called the meeting in consequence of
+    communications he had received from General Peel and the Lord
+    Lieutenant, and in compliance with a requisition which he had
+    received, and which was signed by seventy gentlemen.  He read General
+    Peel’s letter and the requisition.  He had prepared no resolution or
+    anything of that sort, but should leave the gentlemen assembled to
+    propose anything they might think proper.
+
+    Mr. W. Worship said the subject upon which they had been called
+    together was one upon which there could be no difference of
+    opinion—(hear, hear)—and in order to put the proceedings into a
+    practical form, he should move that a committee be appointed, which
+    would include Sir E. Lacon and Mr. Orde.
+
+    Mr. R. Ferrier said he had much pleasure in seconding the motion, and
+    he hoped it would be understood that, although they were forming a
+    military corps, such men as himself might be allowed to contribute to
+    the expenses which would be incurred in its formation.  There were,
+    doubtless, many men in the town who could afford to pay for the
+    accoutrements and give up the necessary time; but there was also in
+    the town a fine class of men, in every way eligible, who could not
+    afford that.  It was, therefore, in assisting the latter class that
+    such men as himself could be useful.  (Hear, hear.)  He should be
+    glad himself to pay the annual expenses of some man who could not
+    afford to do it himself; and had no objection to put his name down at
+    once for £10 a year.  (Hear, hear.)
+
+    Mr. S. C. Marsh said he did not wish to interrupt the proceedings;
+    but before they formed the committee he thought they should, by some
+    resolution, declare it desirable to form a Rifle Corps.  (Hear,
+    hear.)  Having decided to form a corps, the next step would be to
+    form a committee to carry out the necessary arrangements.  He was
+    sure Englishmen would respond to the offer that had been made them to
+    allow themselves to form volunteer corps for the defence of the
+    country.  Norfolk had never been behindhand in the manifestation of
+    patriotic feeling, and he hoped that would not be the case on this
+    occasion.  Yarmouth had before shown what she could do for the
+    Governments of England and the defence of the country, and he hoped
+    she was prepared to do something now.  (Hear, hear.)  He begged to
+    move “That it is expedient to establish a Volunteer Rifle Corps for
+    Great Yarmouth and its vicinity.”
+
+    Mr. Ferrier seconded.—Carried unanimously.
+
+    Sir E. Lacon, M.P. said he thought it highly essential that a town
+    like Yarmouth should take a stand and come forward at once in
+    obedience to the proclamation that had been issued by the Queen.
+    They must all put their shoulders to the wheel, and wherever they saw
+    a fine young fellow who was a likely man for the corps, if he did not
+    come forward they must ask him to do so.  The duty they had to do
+    that day was very slight indeed, but for his own part, he would say
+    that he should give the movement all the encouragement that he
+    possibly could.  (Hear, hear.)  He should now move that a committee
+    be appointed, with power to appoint a sub-committee, and with
+    directions to go round the town and see what force could be got up.
+    (Hear, hear.)  Yarmouth was a large town it was true, but there were
+    also districts around it out of which to draw much assistance; but he
+    certainly thought it would be desirable to take in the Flegg Hundreds
+    and the Island.
+
+    Mr. J. Clowes said there were many men in the town who, from age and
+    other causes, would be unable to serve in a rifle corps, but who
+    would be very desirous of taking part in the defence of our
+    shores—men who were too old to sleep all night in the marsh ditches,
+    or under hedges.  (Laughter.)  For that class of men, he thought
+    there should be an Artillery Corps, as many of them, though not fit
+    to take the field, would be ready to man a gun or work a battery.
+
+    The Mayor said it was out of the scope of the present meeting to
+    discuss an Artillery Corps.
+
+    Mr. Orde said Government had intended that they would sanction and
+    approve the formation of Artillery Corps.
+
+    Mr. Marsh’s motion was then put and carried.
+
+    Sir E. Lacon, in answer to Dr. Stephenson, said it would, no doubt,
+    be a desirable thing to have a mounted Rifle Corps, only they could
+    not get the horses, and if they could get them, many would be unable
+    to keep them, besides which he should object, unless he wished to see
+    some of them killed, to their mounting horses.  (Loud laughter.)  But
+    he might say that, at an agricultural dinner, where he was the other
+    day, he heard the farmers express themselves strongly in favour of a
+    mounted force in the Fleggs and the Island.
+
+    Mr. C. J. Palmer suggested that all who wished to support the corps,
+    either by serving in it or by their subscriptions, should come
+    forward and put down their names at once.  (Hear, hear.)
+
+    The Mayor said he would take down the names of any gentlemen who
+    wished to join the corps.  When they saw who were willing to join,
+    they might name a committee, and appoint some gentleman to act as
+    secretary.  That being done, the future conduct of the movement would
+    remain with the committee.
+
+    The following gentlemen then gave in their names as members of the
+    corps:—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, M.P., Sir H. Stracey, M.P.,
+    Lieutenant-Colonel Beckham, S. C. Marsh, C. J. Palmer, B. Jay, R.
+    Ferrier, W. Worship, F. Palmer, F. Worship, W. J. Foreman, W. C.
+    Reynolds, S. Aldred, Dr. Stephenson, J. H. Orde, G. Harvey, G. Baker,
+    Rev. J. B. Bampton, H. Teasdel, J. W. Bunn, Captain Holmes, C. Brown,
+    J. Tomlinson, H. R. Harmer, G. Diver, H. H. Barber, J. Franklin, E.
+    Fyson, J. B. Stevens, J. Playford, G. B. Costerton, H. Teasdel, T. P.
+    Burroughs, Ambrose Palmer, A. W. Morant, Rev. T. Lowe, and J. Clowes.
+
+    Mr. R. Ferrier moved that the foregoing be appointed a committee to
+    carry out the arrangements for establishing the corps, with power to
+    appoint a sub-committee; and that Colonel Beckham be requested to act
+    as honorary secretary.
+
+    The motion was carried unanimously, and the book containing the list
+    of names was ordered to be left at the Police-station during the
+    ensuing week, to give persons desirous of joining the corps an
+    opportunity of entering their names.
+
+    The proceedings then concluded.
+
+June 8th.—The Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club had held its first meeting
+on Breydon Water, and subsequently the members (who appeared in Club
+uniform) dined at the Club House (Norfolk Hotel), when the healths of
+Colonel Wilson, Commodore; F. Brown, Esq., Vice-Commodore; Mr. Everitt,
+of Cove Hall, (father of the Club); Mr. Scott, Aylsham, and others were
+duly honoured.
+
+Mr. Bradnum’s shop at Gorleston had been struck by lightning.
+
+June 11th.—Mr. Mellor, Q.C., M.P. for Nottingham, had presented the
+petition against the return of the M.Ps.
+
+June 15th.—The Mayor and the Town Clerk had had a serious “difference of
+opinion,” and the former gentleman had declined to accept the “_amende
+honorable_” tendered him by the latter.
+
+It was stated that some 60 persons were ready to join the Rifle Corps.
+
+June 18th.—The paper had opened a branch office at No. 31, King Street,
+Great Yarmouth, with Mr. Clarke as correspondent.
+
+Lord Chelmsford, before resigning the seals, had appointed Mr. Francis
+Worship, Mr. John Clarke, and Mr. E. P. Youell, Magistrates for the
+Borough.
+
+June 22nd.—A meeting had been held at St. George’s Hall, (Mr. Harrison in
+the chair), for the purpose of taking steps to advertise the town.
+
+Forty invalid soldiers had arrived at the Royal Naval Hospital.
+
+June 29th.—There now appeared to be two petitions lodged against the
+return of Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Sir H. J. Stracey, one signed by Mr.
+John Clowes (solicitor), and the other by Mr. Bayly (surgeon) and Mr.
+Pilgrim (draper).
+
+A meeting of the first Company of Volunteers had been held at Crowe’s
+Sale-rooms.  This body now numbered 90 men, the second Company having 56
+members.  Mr. Dumbleton occupied the chair, and Mr. Marsh having
+explained the position of affairs, the following gentlemen were elected
+officers:—Mr. Marsh (captain), and Mr. Foreman (first), Mr. Brown
+(second), and Mr. Preston (third) Lieutenants.
+
+July 2nd.—The second Company had met at the Angel.  Major Nesbitt
+presided, and the following officers were elected:—Mr. Orde (captain),
+Mr. E. P. Youell (Lieutenant), and Mr. J. Tomlinson, jun., (ensign).
+
+There were from 8,000 to 10,000 persons on the Piers, Drive, &c., on
+Sunday evening.
+
+July 6th.—Mr. Mellor had given notice that he should call attention to
+the state of the Yarmouth Bench of Magistrates.
+
+The following cricket match had been played on the South Denes:—
+
+      MR. OVEREND’S SIDE.               MR. WILLIS’ SIDE.
+Mr. Lawry                     7  Mr. Ling                      1
+Mr. Jackson                   3  Mr. Borlase                   5
+Mr. Fenner                    1  Mr. Ellis                     0
+Lieutenant Townley           12  Mr. Larke                     0
+Mr. Ablitt                    7  Mr. Clarke                    2
+Mr. Overend                   7  Mr. Willis                    1
+Mr. Cocks                     0  Mr. Davey                     8
+Mr. Edwards                   0  Mr. T. B. Stevenson          17
+Mr. Baker                     0  Mr. Tewsley                   4
+Dr. Stephenson                4  Mr. Stolworthy                0
+Mr. Wright                    4  Mr. Green                     0
+   Byes                       2     Byes                       5
+   Wides                      2     Wides                      5
+                 Total       41                   Total       48
+
+Afterwards the players dined at the Crown and Anchor Hotel.
+
+July 16th.—Owing to his altercation with the Town Clerk, the Mayor
+declined to attend the meetings of the Council.
+
+July 20th.—One of the petitions against the M.Ps’ return had been
+withdrawn.
+
+The Rifle Companies numbered over 200.  Mr. Orde’s Company mustered 80 at
+their first drill in the Barrack Square.
+
+There were then on the Parish Books 272 indoor and 1,247 outdoor paupers,
+as against 1,134 in the preceding year.
+
+July 27th.—Lieutenant-Colonel Mason had retired from the command of the
+East Norfolk Militia.
+
+The Foresters had held a “gala” at the Vauxhall Gardens.
+
+Aug. 3rd.—A very large number of Speaker’s Warrants had been issued in
+connection with the Election Petition.
+
+Aug. 13th.—Eliza, second daughter of S. C. Marsh, Esq., had been married
+to Captain Burke, of the Louth Rifles, at the Roman Catholic and St.
+Nicholas’ Churches.  The bridesmaids were Miss Marsh, the Misses
+Victoria, Louisa and Emily Marsh and Miss Waters; the bridegroom’s men
+were Major Taafe and the officers of the Louth Rifles, and the carriages
+of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Kemp, Mr. and Mrs. W.
+Danby-Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. Walpole, Mr. and Mrs. Dashwood and others
+were present on the occasion.
+
+The Donegal Regiment was to succeed the Louth Rifles at Yarmouth.
+
+Aug. 17th.—The transport “Himalaya” had brought the former, and taken
+away the latter regiment; the Louth Rifles had given a ball on board that
+ship.
+
+Aug. 20th.—The porch of the Parish Church was being restored.
+
+There had been a great deal of rain, but the town was very full of
+visitors.
+
+Aug. 24th.—It was reported that the shock of an earthquake had been felt
+at Hopton.
+
+One hundred and fifty Horse Artillery had been encamped on the North
+Denes.
+
+Mr. Marsh’s Company of Volunteers were to be equipped as Artillery.
+
+Mr. Orde’s Company had drilled on the South Denes in public for the first
+time.
+
+The expenses of the Borough Election had been returned by the auditor as
+follows:—Conservatives, £809 15s.; Liberals, £603 17s. 4d.
+
+Visitors were flocking to the town, and it was supposed that the standard
+population had thus been doubled; beds were fetching the “highest
+prices.”
+
+The “Prophet Jack” was preaching on the Beach.
+
+Sept. 3rd.—Among the company present at the Races were Count Batthyany,
+Lord W. Powlett, the Hon. Harbord Harbord, Colonel Wilson, Sir E. H. K.
+Lacon, M.P., and Sir H. J. Stracey, M.P.
+
+Sept. 7th.—Colonel Henderson had attended at Yarmouth to report on the
+proposed Artillery Corps, and had informed the Mayor and Mr. Marsh that
+it “would have every encouragement from the Government.”
+
+William Ingram, a labourer, had been scalded to death in Mr. Frosdick’s
+Tanning Copper.
+
+Sept. 10th.—The Magistrates had had another “warm” discussion on
+Licensing Day, as to the granting of new licenses.
+
+There were 400 cases of appeal against the Poor’s Rate from the St.
+George’s Ward.  The Overseers proposed to compound up to a rental of £6
+10s. per annum.
+
+The Rev. W. Griffiths had been “ordained” at the King Street Chapel.
+
+Two or three “Dutch schuyts” had visited the port.
+
+The officers of Mr. Orde’s Company had received their commissions.
+
+The Donegal Militia had marched out for their first drill on the Denes
+under the command of Major Todd.
+
+Sept. 17th.—The 6th annual meeting of the Elocution Society had been
+held, Mr. W. Gill in the chair, when Mr. Lovewell Blake, the Secretary,
+brought up a favourable report of the proceedings of the Society.
+
+There were a great number of Rate appeals from the North Ward.
+
+The Mayor having determined to commit a prisoner named Angel, (in which
+course the other Justices did not concur) left the Bench, and had
+intimated by letter “That he should not sit again as a Magistrate.”  Next
+day His Worship again informed the Bench that he had been misled by Mr.
+Holt, and that he should not sit.
+
+Sept. 21st.—Three “gents” having hired a house in Brandon Terrace, had
+been victimising the tradesmen.
+
+Sept. 24th.—Two of these persons, who gave the names of Thomas T. George,
+and William Arnall, had been before the Bench and ordered to find two
+sureties for the peace in £50 each, themselves being bound for £100 each;
+subsequently George was bailed out by his stepfather, a London gentleman,
+who stated that the prisoner was an articled clerk in receipt of £200 a
+year from his mother.
+
+The North Sea herring voyage was “fairly alive,” as much as £30 a last
+having been realised for some of the fish.
+
+Sept. 28th.—The following were the tenders for the Ballast dues:—James
+Pumfrey. £405; D. S. Bayfield, £375; and Jacob Preston, £600.  The late
+lessee, Mr. J. H. Harrison, did not send in a tender.
+
+Mr. Preston, however, subsequently threw up his tender, and the dues were
+offered to Mr. Smith (an ex-lessee) for £550 per annum.
+
+There had been a “fine illustration of the Northern Lights.”
+
+Oct. 1st.—A special meeting of the Council had been held as to the
+Ballast question, when Mr. C. C. Aldred stated “they had been called
+together through Mr. Preston’s tomfoolery.”
+
+Captain Marsh and Lieutenant Foreman had received their commissions, and
+thereupon taken the oaths before the Magistrates.
+
+Oct. 5th.—The Revision of the Voters’ Lists had been proceeded with
+before Mr. Couch, Mr. W. C. Reynolds representing the Tories and Mr.
+Costerton the Liberals.  The latter claimed a gain of four votes as the
+result of the proceedings.
+
+Fifty members of the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers had been sworn in
+by B. Fenn, Esq., and were subsequently entertained by their officers at
+the Crown and Anchor Hotel.
+
+A Poor’s Rate of 1s. 4d. in the £ (to raise £3,365 3s.) had been signed.
+
+One Corporal and three Privates of the Donegal Militia had been heavily
+fined by the Justices for assaulting Mr. Nall (printer) and several
+policemen.
+
+Oct. 22nd.—Lord Claude Hamilton and officers of the Donegal Militia had
+entertained the officers of the French steamer “Galilee.”
+
+Oct. 26th.—The appointment of officers and non-commissioned officers in
+the Volunteer Companies had been made, as follows:—
+
+Artillery Company: Captain: S. C. Marsh; Lieutenant: Foreman;
+Sergeant-Major: Franklin; Sergeants: Dumbleton, Moody, and Stolworthy;
+Corporals: Suffling, Clarke, and Clements; Armoury-Sergeant: Offord;
+Orderly Clerk: Sergeant Crowe.
+
+Rifle Company: Captain: J. H. Orde; Lieutenant: Youell; Ensign: J.
+Tomlinson, junr.; Sergeants: Harmer, Bunn, Preston, and James; Corporals:
+Dick, Willis, Fellows, and Pearson.
+
+Oct. 29th.—Sixty feet of the Britannia Pier had been carried away by a
+vessel during a gale which prevailed on the coast.
+
+Mr. Chapman had retired from the representation of the Regent Ward.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—The “Shipping Interest” was in a distressed state.
+
+The Herring Fishing was going on satisfactorily, £15 per last being given
+for fish.
+
+Nov. 5th.—Five wards had been contested.  In the _Regent Ward_ Mr. S. B.
+Cory beating Mr. F. Palmer by one vote.  The following were the
+Councillors elected:—_North_: W. N. Burroughs and H. Boulter.  _Market_:
+C. C. Aldred and F. Worship.  _Regent_: S. C. Marsh and S. B. Cory.  _St.
+George_: J. G. Plummer and J. C. Smith.  _Nelson_: G. D. Palmer and C. E.
+Bartram.  _Gorleston_: E. H. L. Preston and H. Teasdel.
+
+Among the company present at a Ball held at the Town Hall, were—The Mayor
+and Miss Steward, Lieut.-Colonel Lord Hamilton, M.P., and Lady Hamilton,
+the Hon. Harbord Harbord, Sir H. Stracey, Bart., M.P., and Lady Stracey,
+Lady Plumridge, Mr. and Mrs. I. Preston and the Misses Preston, Mr. and
+Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. L. Preston, Mr. and Mrs. A.
+Steward, and the Misses Steward, Captain and Mrs. Marsh, Captain J. H.
+Orde, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, Mr. F. Danby-Palmer, Dr. Smith, Mr. Tilson,
+&c.
+
+Herring was making from £18 to £20 per last.
+
+Bribery had been practised (it was stated) in the Regent Ward, “to a
+disgraceful extent.”
+
+A drinking fountain was being erected at the north end of the Town Hall.
+
+On Tuesday, the gale which had commenced on the previous Tuesday abated,
+and the weather since that day, had continued to improve.
+
+The Regatta Committee Accounts showed a balance in hand of about £60.
+
+Nov. 12th.—At the Council Meeting, Mr. R. Ferrier proposed, and Mr.
+Nightingale seconded, Mr. William Worship as Mayor, and he was
+unanimously elected to that office.
+
+The retiring Aldermen were Messrs. T. Bunn, G. S. Shingles, W. C.
+Reynolds, J. G. Rivett, I. Shuckford, and E. P. Youell, the following
+Aldermen were elected:—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., T. Bunn, G. S.
+Shingles, I. Shuckford, E. P. Youell, and R. Purdy.
+
+Nov. 16th.—Owing to the damage sustained by the structure, it had been
+determined to shorten the Britannia Pier by about 100 feet.
+
+                            “ON ALDERMANIC SIXES.”
+
+    “At Norwich, Tories loud complain,
+       ’Cause Liberals are elected;
+    At Yarmouth, he’s alleged _insane_
+       Who growls that they’re rejected.”
+
+Nov. 23rd.—The Municipal Elections on November 21st had been held as
+follows:—
+
+          _Regent Ward_.
+Mr. W. C. Reynolds              110
+Mr. Frederick Palmer             77
+       _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+Mr. Richmond elected without
+opposition.
+
+Nov. 26th.—A dinner had been held at the Town Hall in honour of R.
+Steward, Esq., the ex-Mayor.  Sir E. H. K. Lacon presided, and C. J.
+Palmer and J. B. Hylton occupied the vice-chairs.
+
+It was proposed to raise, by shares, £8,000 for the purpose of building
+Assembly-rooms on the Marine Drive.
+
+Nov. 30th.—The Rifle Company had met “in full dress at the
+Victoria-gardens,” mustering between 80 and 90 strong on this occasion.
+
+Dec. 3rd.—The foundation-stone of the “Wherryman’s Church” had been laid
+by W. Worship, Esq., the Mayor.
+
+The Mayor had presented rich window hangings and carpets to the Town
+Hall.
+
+Dec. 7th.—It was proposed to form a second Company of Artillery
+Volunteers.
+
+The Rifle Corps had dined at the Corn Hall, when Captain Orde presided,
+and the Mayor, Lord C. Hamilton, Captain Marsh, Lieutenant Foreman, and
+Dr. Stephenson (1st N.A.V.), had been present.
+
+Dec. 17th.—At the Mayor’s Inaugural Dinner, 150 gentlemen had attended,
+the Volunteer Officers appearing in full uniform.  The following took
+part in the after-dinner proceedings:—The Mayor, Lord C. Hamilton, Rev.
+H. Nevill, Lord Sondes, Mr. E. Howes, M.P., Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.,
+M.P., Stracey, Bart., M.P., the Recorder, (Mr. N. Palmer), Captain Orde,
+Captain Marsh, Mr. F. Worship, the Town Clerk, Mr. R. Ferrier, and
+Captain Donelly.
+
+Mr. E. R. Palmer had offered a prize of £3 3s., to be shot for by the 1st
+N.A.V.
+
+The Mayor had presented £50 to the District Visiting Society.
+
+About 100 Rate Summonses had been issued.
+
+Dec. 21st.—The Rifle Volunteers had attended St. Nicholas’ Church on
+Sunday in uniform.
+
+The Magistrates were discussing the question as to who was entitled, in
+the absence of the Mayor, to the chair at the Petty Sessions.
+
+Dec. 24th.—The Rev. F. W. Johnson, Minister of St. John’s, had died in
+London somewhat suddenly.
+
+
+
+1860.
+
+
+Jan. 4th.—The Artillery Company had secured the services of a band, and
+armed the trumpeters “with swords.”
+
+Several herring boats had again proceeded to sea.
+
+Jan. 7th.—Mr. Hulley and Sergeant Cattermole were playing in the N.A.V.
+Band.
+
+Jan. 11th.—The “canard” that one of the M.Ps. intended to retire was
+denied.
+
+Petitions were being largely signed in favour of marriage with a deceased
+wife’s sister.
+
+About 30 gentlemen had attended the dinner of the Amicable Shipping Club,
+including Mr. Gourlay (who presided), the Mayor, Mr. R. Hammond, Mr.
+Burroughs, Mr. Martin, &c.
+
+Jan. 14th.—It was stated that Mr. French (whose smacks had been sold
+under a deed of assignment) had lost his wife’s stays, in which a sum of
+£400 was sewn up, and that the reward offered was £50 or £100.
+
+Jan. 18th.—The daughter of Mr. R. Guthrie (aged 6 years) had been run
+over by a cart.
+
+Mr. Bowgin’s house at Southtown had been broken into and several articles
+stolen therefrom.
+
+Court “Bear of the Forest,” 3187, had celebrated its first anniversary at
+the Bear Inn, Southtown.  Fifty members sat down to dinner, Bros.
+Mitchell and Palmer occupying the chair and vice-chair respectively.
+
+Several houses had been broken into by thieves.
+
+Jan. 25th.—The Rev. H. Nevill had “politely requested” well dressed
+persons not to frequent the Beachman’s Church.
+
+“Ghosts” were said to haunt Southtown, and had specially amazed one
+Macdonald, an engine cleaner at the Southtown Station.
+
+Jan. 28th.—The following further appointments had been made in the
+N.A.V.:—Corporal: W. Marsh.  Bombardiers: Rees, J. Fish, J. Taylor, and
+J. Myhill.  Acting ditto.: J. Bartram, R. Dumbleton, T. W. Larke, and W.
+Hunt.
+
+Feb. 4th.—At a meeting of the N.A.V., held at the Victoria Gardens,
+Lieut. Foreman and Gunner Morant were recommended to the Lord Lieutenant
+as Captain and Lieutenant of the second Battery which it was proposed to
+raise.
+
+The Donegal Militia had given an entertainment at the Town Hall from 2.30
+to 6.30 o’clock; the Band attended, and the company enjoyed a dance.
+
+A second Company of Volunteers was being raised.
+
+Bro. W. Wright had been installed W.M. of Lodge “Friendship.”
+
+Feb. 8th.—It was supposed that the Prince of Orange was likely to become
+the husband of the Princess Alice.
+
+Wild rifle practice was being indulged in at Cobholm Island and other
+parts of the town, to the danger of the inhabitants.
+
+Feb. 11th.—W. Rising, Esq. had presided at the annual Market Dinner at
+the White Horse, when Mr. Mortlock Lacon had repudiated the suggestion
+that Sir Edmund intended to retire from the representation of the town.
+
+The Medical Staff of the Military Hospital had given a ball to 120 guests
+at the Town Hall.
+
+Mr. C. Melly had erected a drinking fountain in front of the Port Dues
+Office.
+
+“Tom Sayers” was reported to be about to spend three weeks in the town
+previous to his “set to” with Heenan, the American.
+
+Feb. 15th.—W. Worship, Esq., (Mayor and Chairman of the Board of
+Guardians) had given a treat to 293 inmates of the Workhouse.
+
+Feb. 18th.—An amateur performance had been given at the Theatre in aid of
+the Hospital.  In the first piece _Used Up_, Captain Hayes, Mr. Robert
+Harmer, Dr. Kingdom, Sergeant-Major Greaves, Captain Darcus, J.
+McCormick, Esq., Ensign Lecky and two professional ladies appeared.
+Sergeant Bonner then danced an Irish jig, after which the _Irish
+Attorney_ was given, in which the parts of the Attorney and Hawk were
+taken by Mr. Courtenay and Mr. Burton Steward, and the performance
+terminated with _Done on both sides_.  About £25 was thus realised for
+the charity.
+
+There had been a “great fire” on the Middle Market Road.
+
+Many persons who had promised to subscribe to the “Petition Fund” were
+“backing out.”
+
+E. P. Youell, Esq., was to be Captain of the 2nd Company of Rifle
+Volunteers.
+
+On Valentine’s Day the ladies took great advantage of the fact of its
+being “Leap Year” in sending these missives to the gentlemen.
+
+Feb. 22nd.—The Donegal Militia had given a second afternoon dance at the
+Town Hall.
+
+Mr. T. M. Read had been elected second Lieutenant in the N.A.V.
+
+“Monday was Cock (antique) or Orange Fair, when the Market Place was
+thronged by the usual ‘fair’ attractions.”
+
+March 3rd.—“A most violent and destructive hurricane” had visited the
+town and country.
+
+The petition had been heard, and the members retained their seats, which
+news had caused great rejoicing amongst the Tories, while “the money”
+question was likely to cause some trouble to the petitioners.
+
+Captain Foreman and Lieutenant Morant had been gazetted to the first
+N.A.V.
+
+The following had been elected officers of the second Company of
+Rifles:—Captain, Mr. Youell; Lieutenant, Mr. Harmer; Ensign, Mr. E.
+Preston.
+
+An untanned leather bag, containing 70 coins of the reign of Henry VIII.
+had been found on the Beach after a great thickness of sand had been
+blown away by the late westerly gale.
+
+March 10th.—Lieutenant Read and 70 members of the N.A.V. had escorted
+Captain Marsh, Captain Foreman, Lieutenant Morant, and Dr. Stephenson to
+the Railway Station on their proceeding to the Leveè; the other officers
+then present were Captain Orde, Lieutenant Youell, Ensign Tomlinson, and
+Surgeon Frederick Palmer, of the Rifles.
+
+March 24th.—The “Donegals” had celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, beginning at
+five o’clock in the morning.  In the afternoon the Officers gave another
+dance at the Town Hall and entertained a numerous party of friends at
+their mess at the Southtown Barracks.
+
+April 7th.—Mr. J. Lee-Barber had been elected a Second Lieutenant in the
+N.A.V.
+
+In the Rifle Corps, Corporals Dick and Pearson and Privates Barber and
+Cobb had been elected Sergeants.
+
+April 11th.—On Good Friday both Volunteer Corps had “fraternised” and
+drilled together on the Denes; it was estimated that on this occasion,
+which was the first “turn out” of the kind, from 8,000 to 10,000
+spectators, including Sir E. Lacon, M.P., Captain Holmes, Major Todd, and
+many ladies and gentlemen, were present.
+
+April 14th.—There had been a grand Conservative banquet at the Theatre,
+at which 350 persons were present.  Mr. R. Dumbleton occupied the chair,
+and was supported by Sir E. Lacon, Bart., M.P., Sir H. Stracey, Bart.,
+M.P., the Mayor (W. Worship, Esq.), F. Worship, C. Cory, and C. J.
+Palmer, Esqs., Captain Marsh, Captain Mansfield, and Officers of the
+Donegal Militia and others; Mr. W. Wright and Mr. R. Breeze occupied the
+vice-chairs; Mr. Franklin catered for the party.
+
+Messrs. Steward and Aldred had been re-elected Churchwardens by the
+Vestry.
+
+April 25th.—The following Volunteer officers had been entertained at the
+Donegal Mess:—Captain Marsh, Lieutenants Burton Steward, A. W. Morant,
+John Lee Barber, and T. M. Read, and Dr. Stephenson (1st N.A.V.), and
+Captain Youell, Lieutenants Tomlinson, and Harmer, Ensigns Preston and
+Brown, and Surgeon Frederick Palmer (4th N.R.V.).
+
+April 28th.—Great complaint was made as to the mode of levying the Poor’s
+Rate.
+
+In the Divorce Court, James Cherry, Esq., had obtained a decree for the
+restitution of conjugal rites against his wife, who was entitled to the
+income derived from a sum of £8,000.
+
+May 5th.—The Mayor had given a grand Ball at the Town Hall, when dancing
+was kept up until four o’clock in the morning.
+
+The E.N.M. had been inspected on the Denes by Major-General Douglas.  The
+Rifle Volunteers were also on the ground.
+
+Bro. Hanworth, Secretary of the “Good Samaritan” Lodge, M.U.O.F., had
+been presented with an ornamental silver inkstand.
+
+May 9th.—A Ball “of a very elegant character” had taken place at the Town
+Hall.
+
+The E.N.M. had been disembodied, when “many of the men celebrated the
+event by getting drunk.”
+
+The 1st N.A.V. had received 19,000 cartridges and 23,000 percussion caps.
+
+A fine porpoise had been gambolling in the river, near the Haven Bridge.
+
+May 16th.—The first lot of mackerel (300 fish) had been landed, and
+realised £4 per hundred.
+
+May 23rd.—On the Queen’s Birthday, the 1st N.A.V. had fired a salute from
+the South Star Battery.
+
+There was a scarcity of labour in the town.
+
+May 26th.—The “launching foy” of the “Caroline” had been held in the Town
+Hall (this vessel had been launched from Powell’s yard, after being
+repaired at the expense of £5,000.)
+
+May 30th.—From 40 to 50 lives had been lost off Yarmouth in a “fearful
+hurricane,” during which one of the pinnacles had been blown off St.
+Peter’s Church and damage done to the fabric to the extent of some £200.
+
+June 2nd.—Sixty recruits were drilling for the Rifle Corps.
+
+Mr. Watkin had addressed a “Reform” meeting at the Corn Hall.
+
+The Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton had confirmed 50 children and
+adults at St. Mary’s Church, Regent Road.
+
+June 7th.—It was now stated that eleven fishing luggers had been lost
+with all hands.
+
+Twelve fishermen out of the village of Horsey alone had been drowned.
+
+The 1st. N.A.V. were forming a 3rd Company, of which Lieutenant
+Lee-Barber was to be Captain, Mr. Trafford 1st Lieutenant, and Mr. Green
+2nd Lieutenant.
+
+June 13th.—Fayerman (one of the witnesses at the hearing of the Election
+Petition) had been charged by Sir E. Lacon with perjury, while arising
+out of this charge actions for slander were being brought against that
+gentleman by some aggrieved “Blues.”
+
+June 16th.—A meeting had been held at the Town Hall to raise a fund for
+the relief of the widows and children of the fishermen lost in the recent
+gales.  About £500 was raised in the room.
+
+June 20th.—The Mackerel voyage was only a “moderate success.”  This fish
+was making 36s., and herring 12s. 6d., per hundred.
+
+June 23rd.—Henry Fayerman had been committed for trial on a charge of
+perjury.
+
+The Rifle Volunteers had shown themselves “remarkably well instructed in
+the theory and practice of the rifle.”
+
+£2,240 had been raised for the families of the drowned fishermen.
+
+“The actions against Sir E. Lacon for libelling the Liberal Committee had
+been postponed to next term.”
+
+July 4th contains the following account of the
+
+                         VISIT OF THE CHANNEL FLEET.
+
+    The Channel Fleet has at length visited our Roads, much to the
+    gratification of thousands of the Queen’s lieges, as well as to the
+    galling disappointment of thousands of the same excellent body.  The
+    squadron came in in the open day, clear to the gaze of multitudes,
+    but disappeared like a majestic phantom in the night.  A little more
+    than a week ago we were informed that the Channel Fleet had, after an
+    anchorage of sixteen days in St. Margaret’s Hope, Frith of Forth,
+    left its moorings under canvas, with auxiliary steam power, and
+    proceeded down the Frith and out to sea, destined for the Yarmouth
+    Roads.  As we stated in our last impression, the consequence of that
+    information being diffused was to put all the speculators and
+    quidnuncs of the town and neighbourhood on the alert.  Leaving St.
+    Margaret’s Hope on the Saturday, the fleet would certainly, it was
+    argued, be here on the Tuesday, on which day the Marine Parade and
+    the Beach were literally swarmed with expectant people, whose glasses
+    were searching the waters in every direction; but, owing either to
+    the perversity of Admiral Neptune, the weather office, or the
+    Vice-Admiral in command (who is admitted by everyone to be a pleasant
+    and courteous gentleman), the fleet did not arrive.  Much
+    disappointment and innumerable prophecies followed, and while some
+    knowing individuals averred positively, and “on undoubted authority”
+    that the fleet had passed and would not come in here, others were
+    equally confident, on the strength of telegrams and “unquestionable
+    information,” that the great ships would be seen, on the “next
+    flood.”  As, however, they put in no appearance up to Friday evening,
+    the conviction that they had omitted us began to be pretty general,
+    especially when “undoubted authority” satisfied us that the squadron
+    had been seen some distance to the south of this port, namely, in the
+    Wold.  A few persons held out, notwithstanding their belief that the
+    ships would visit us, and were stirring early on Saturday morning to
+    catch the latest intelligence, when lo! the rumour spread that the
+    fleet was in sight.  People began hurrying to the Beach, which,
+    between 8 and 10 o’clock a.m. presented, as to throng and bustle, an
+    appearance equal to that of Tuesday, with the single exception that
+    the fair sex had not had time to put on the gay attire in which they
+    looked so well on that day.  As the Royal Albert, three decker, flag
+    ship of Vice-Admiral Freemantle, came in sight, the cry was, “There
+    they are!” and as the magnificent vessel steamed up into the gat
+    there appeared something so triumphant and majestic in her appearance
+    as to make every one who saw her feel proud of the “wooden walls,”
+    which have so long defied all the enemies of Old England.  Britannia
+    from the top of the lofty pedestal in front of the gatway might look
+    down with pride upon the splendid ship which marched in stately
+    grandeur “o’er the mountain waves.”  The Royal Albert was seen to be
+    followed by a long dark line of smoke, and every few minutes other
+    great ships came in sight moving apparently with ease and
+    controllable but irresistible force.  As the flagship came through
+    the gat of St. Nicholas, the dense masses of people who lined the
+    shore expressed in a variety of forms their admiration of the
+    dimensions and commanding aspect of this great three decker.  The
+    seafaring people looked at the matter with a professional eye, and
+    amongst them might frequently be heard such expressions as “Old
+    Rounce (the Gorleston pilot) is bringing her in stunnin!”  On came
+    the great ship,—as gracefully and as gently as a swan would move upon
+    the surface of an untroubled lake,—until she was surprisingly near
+    the shore for a ship of her size.  She then glided round in a most
+    beautiful manner, as if looking for the best place to drop her
+    anchor, a point which was soon decided, when it was found that she
+    was in about an exact line with the Victoria Hotel.  The sight in the
+    gatway had now become grand in the extreme, as all the line of battle
+    ships were in sight, moving majestically forward by the aid of power
+    unseen, while the flagship was actively engaged in signalling to the
+    various ships as they came up as to the respective positions they
+    were to take.  The ships seemed to be managed with perfect ease, and
+    could be turned or moved in any direction with surprising celerity.
+    The scene while they were taking up their positions and dropping
+    their anchors was beautiful and will not soon be forgotten by those
+    who saw it.
+
+    The Locust, steam tender, had arrived in the Roads previously, and
+    the ships that arrived with the Royal Albert, which has 121 guns, and
+    carries 1,100 men, were the Edgar, 91, flagship of the Rear-Admiral
+    Erskine, the Mersey frigate, 40; the Donegal, 101; the Trafalgar, 91;
+    the Conqueror, the Centurion, the Mars, the Diadem, the Algiers, the
+    Aboukir, and the Greyhound corvette, 17, acting as tender to the
+    Royal Albert.  The fleet anchored in two lines, and presented a most
+    gratifying spectacle to the inhabitants, who felt what a security it
+    must be in a time of war, while at the same time they could not
+    refrain from reflecting on the terrible havoc that must be committed
+    were those quiet-looking ships to unbosom their thunders, and vent
+    their indignation upon the town for a space of about five minutes.
+    Soon after the Vice-Admiral’s flag ship had anchored, the Volunteer
+    Artillery fired a salute of 15 guns, but owing to the regulations of
+    the service, the ship was precluded from returning the compliment.
+    The band of the Artillery subsequently played on the Drive, and gave
+    a festive character to the morning.  Reports rapidly got afloat as to
+    how long the fleet would stay, some contending that it would not go
+    till Wednesday, as the Admiral and officers had accepted an
+    invitation to a ball which the Mayor purposed giving at the Town Hall
+    on Tuesday evening; while, on the other hand, it was asserted that
+    the fleet would depart in the course of the night, as during the day
+    they received five or six despatches from the Admiralty, and thus
+    disappoint the thousands who it was expected would come into the town
+    by rail on Sunday.  Neither of the predictions turned out to be true.
+    Had the ships not been detained at sea by the contrary winds, which
+    caused them to keep steam up even to the last, they would have been
+    here for four or five days.  Before coming in they had for two or
+    three days been within 60 miles of us, trying to reach here with
+    their sails alone.  They had not been long at anchor before sundry
+    mariners and bare-footed frolicsome and reckless tars, were seen
+    ashore, lugging away immense baskets of fresh bread, butter, &c., and
+    diversifying this duty by fraternising with as many of the girlhood
+    of the place as they happened to come in contact with.  The Blue
+    Jackets are decided favourites ashore, and few people seem disposed
+    to prevent them doing as they please.  It would give great
+    satisfaction to the inhabitants of this town, if, in their annual
+    cruises, the Channel Squadron would occasionally drop in here, for we
+    are sure that their present visit, besides being advantageous to the
+    town, will obtain many seamen; for who would wander about in a rotten
+    and miserable old collier when he might lead a worthy and a jolly
+    life amongst excellent fellows, on board a floating tower and mansion
+    equal to the most convenient and best regulated establishments
+    ashore?  It is a long time since a fleet was seen in our Roads,
+    although there is probably no point upon the coast where so much
+    shipping passes as this.  The last fleet that was in the Roads was in
+    1810, under the command of Admiral Somers, whose flagship was the
+    Victory (Nelson’s old ship), and that fleet passed here on its way to
+    the Baltic, the ports of which it was going to blockade.  There were
+    then in the fleet besides the Admiral’s ship of 98 guns, the
+    Formidable, 98; the St. George, 98; the Dreadnought, 98, now a
+    hospital ship, and a number of 74’s, making together fourteen sail,
+    some of which were with Admiral Sir John Ross, at the blockade of
+    Dantzic, in 1812 (and frozen up there in 1813).  In 1801, Nelson was
+    in here on his way to Copenhagen, and in 1807, Admiral Gambier’s
+    fleet was bound for the same place, and sailing hence fetched in the
+    ships and stores of the Danes.  In the time of those fleets, the
+    North Sea and Baltic Pilots of this port were of great service—a
+    class of men of whom, we believe, only one remains.  His name is
+    Richard Webb.  He was frozen up in the Baltic in 1812, while acting
+    as pilot (wintered there during the burning of Moscow), and was
+    altogether engaged for 15 years in piloting government vessels in the
+    wars of that time, important services for which the old boy alleges
+    he has received nothing but unfulfilled promises from the “great
+    guns” aloft.  One would think that an old sailor who had served in
+    the “battle and the breeze” for so long a period, and in such
+    momentous times, ought to have received some substantial recognition
+    of his services.
+
+    The fleet and the officers and men from it who came ashore during the
+    day have been closely scrutinized and gazed at, parties having been
+    on board the flagship, it became a question of interest as to what
+    they would do at night.  At sunset a gun was fired from the Admiral’s
+    ship, at the sound of which, as if by magic, the flags dropped from
+    the stern of every vessel at the same instant, though the topyards
+    did not go down as was expected.  That was about half-past eight
+    o’clock, and at nine bang went another gun from the Admiral’s ship
+    followed by the rattle of musketry on board the others, and seamen
+    said, ‘There’s the old Admiral a-fallen down the main hatchway,’ that
+    being the correct nautical form of indicating that the hands were
+    ordered to ‘turn in.’  At about the same time lights were shown in
+    front and at the sterns of the ships, producing a brilliant and
+    lively spectacle, taken in conjunction with the hundreds of lights on
+    small craft lying at anchor, and as shown by the screw colliers which
+    were ever and anon passing through the fleet and flowing out dark
+    volumes of smoke.  With Saturday Mr. Swann’s contract to supply beef
+    at 4½d. per lb., luckily for him, expired, and he agreed, we believe,
+    to execute the orders of the fleet at 6½d.
+
+    Sunday morning, as had been anticipated by the Yarmouth innkeepers
+    and others, brought an immense number of people into the town, the
+    trains from Norwich being very lengthy.  The weather was fine, and as
+    the fleet still remained in the Roads, there was every prospect of
+    enjoyment.  As the excursionists came into the town they proceeded,
+    after refreshing the inner man at the earliest opportunity, either to
+    the beach or on board the three steamers of Fill and Co. (Chesapeake,
+    Volunteer and Florence Nightingale), which were ready, as soon as
+    filled, to start for a journey round the fleet.  The Chesapeake was
+    the first to start, and as she steamed down the harbour the
+    excursionists had a good view of the quays and shipping, and also of
+    the hamlet of Gorleston.  As soon as the bar was crossed, the great
+    ships were all plainly visible, their sides bristling with guns, and
+    alive with seamen, who, on the visitors approaching, exchanged a few
+    friendly shouts with them.  From the middle of the two lines in which
+    they were moored, the ships had a noble and awe-inspiring effect upon
+    those who had not before seen such wonders of the sea—they were, in
+    fact, so many towers of strength filled with dauntless warriors.  The
+    Mersey, the smartest, the swiftest, and most powerful frigate of the
+    fleet, was greatly admired, as was also the Royal Albert, and many
+    thought—
+
+    “How proud must be our Admiral
+    Of such a bonny barque.”
+
+    Officers and men were at nearly all parts of the ship, and cordially
+    invited the excursionists to go on board, an offer which the steamer
+    declined, out of regard to the safety of the passengers.  Small
+    pleasure boats from the beach, however, were running to the fleet in
+    large numbers, cutting and plunging through the sea that might have
+    made some persons timid.  The steamers disembarked their freight at
+    the Britannia Pier (which found Sunday the most prosperous day of its
+    existence) and continued throughout the day to run to and from that
+    Pier without intermission.  Indeed, in the afternoon the Britannia
+    Pier, which was crowded almost from end to end, presented a
+    remarkable spectacle.  The beef, potatoes, and greens for the fleet
+    were brought to the pier-head in carts, and were stacked for
+    conveyance to the ships in the ships’ boats.  The sailors, amongst
+    whom was the usual per centage of black fellows, tossed the beef and
+    cabbages into the boats in a manner not at all ceremonious, and one
+    quarter to a certainty, though some say three or four, was pitched
+    into Davey Jones’s locker.  This scene of conveying away the carcases
+    of about 60 bullocks (so the number was stated, though we think over
+    the mark), of a few sheep, and goodness only knows how many cabbages
+    and loaves, was very interesting to the public, and kept the pier
+    crowded with spectators till six or seven o’clock.  There was in the
+    afternoon and evening the largest assemblage of people on the parade
+    and beach that the oldest inhabitant remembers to have seen in the
+    town, and it was not till a late hour that the last disappeared.  The
+    effect of so many strangers being in the town was to effect an entire
+    demolition of most of the eatable stores in the hands of the
+    innkeepers; and it is sufficient to say that a great thirst
+    prevailed.  The Jacks and officers who were ashore in some force in
+    the afternoon preferred wandering into the town and outskirts; and
+    the former, who as a rule were shoeless, seemed to pick up a good
+    deal of fun.  Besides the usual mode of conveyance of pouring in
+    visitors, we observed several original vehicles from the country
+    arrive in the afternoon, laden to excess and to the evident
+    inconvenience of the passengers.  The day passed off so well that the
+    majority of the inhabitants retired, hoping, we have no doubt, that
+    the Channel Fleet might remain a week.  Sinister rumours, however,
+    were at work, and some fears were secretly entertained.  Great bags
+    of letters had been taken from and sent to the Post Office, and
+    report was that despatches had been received ordering the fleet off
+    to Spithead at once.
+
+    When the general bulk of the population awoke on Monday morning,
+    alas! the fleet—with the exception of the Mars, which had lost an
+    anchor and was waiting to endeavour to regain it—were off!  They left
+    us between five and six o’clock; and many have a firm opinion that
+    the Mars was detained by some Providential influence, so that the
+    thousands of excursionists who came in on Monday, in the hope of
+    seeing the Channel Fleet, might not be utterly disappointed.  May a
+    British Fleet honour us again with its presence, at the earliest
+    opportunity.
+
+The following Commissions had been issued:—“Great Yarmouth Rifle
+Volunteer Corps—Frederick Palmer, Esq., to be Surgeon; Henry Ralph Nevill
+to be Hon. Chaplain.”
+
+The trident had been struck by lightning from the hand of Britannia on
+the Nelson Column.
+
+July 7th.—The “Good Samaritan” Lodge, M.U.O.F., had voted £5 5s. to the
+Fishermen’s Fund.
+
+Mr. Job Smith had presided at a Working Man’s Reform Meeting, held in
+Crowe’s Assembly Rooms.
+
+July 21st.—The Fisherman’s Widows and Orphans’ Fund exceeded £7,300.
+
+The new building for the Sailors’ Home was progressing rapidly.
+
+“The hot weather had brought large numbers of excursionists to the
+sea-side.”
+
+July 25th.—The Donegal Militia had left the town for Ireland, where they
+were to be disembodied.
+
+Aug. 1st.—“Benjamin Hollis, a fine young man belonging to the Artillery
+Volunteers,” had been buried with Military honours.
+
+Aug. 4th.—The 3rd and 4th Companies of the Rifle Volunteers had appeared
+for the first time in uniform.
+
+A “young lady about twenty years of age had disappeared” at the same time
+as the Militia left the town.
+
+Aug. 8th.—At the Water Frolic the “Iris” won the cutter match, and the
+“Enchantress” the latteen match.
+
+“A reward of £100 had been offered for the apprehension of John D.
+Chapman, late of this town.”
+
+At the Regatta the following had been the result of the matches:—
+
+                              FIRST GLASS YAWLS.
+
+    A Purse of £30, to be sailed for by yawls from all parts; of not less
+    than 45 feet in length, manned by the beachmen engaged in saving life
+    from shipwreck.  First prize, £15; second, £10; third, £5.  No
+    entrance fee.  The first yawl to pay £1, the second 15s., and the
+    third 7s. 6d. to the Regatta Fund.
+
+Queen Victoria, Yarmouth            1
+Eclipse, Lowestoft                  2
+Gipsy Queen, Winterton              3
+
+A Purse of £50, to be sailed for by Yachts belonging to any Royal Yacht
+Club in Great Britain, above 20 tons and not exceeding 50 tons register.
+No restrictions as to sails or men.  The winner to pay five guineas to
+the second yacht.
+
+Belvidere, (T. M. Read,) Yarmouth          1
+Kestrel, (W. Butcher), Norwich             2
+
+                             SECOND CLASS YAWLS.
+
+A purse of £20, to be sailed for by yawls from all parts, of not more
+than 45 feet in length, manned by beachmen.  First prize, £12; second
+prize, £5; third prize, £3.  First yawl to pay £1, second yawl 10s.,
+third yawl 5s. to the Regatta Fund.
+
+Good Tidings, California            1
+Volunteer, Yarmouth                 2
+Flying Fish, ditto                  3
+
+A Rowing Match for £15, by six-oared gigs, single banked, from any part.
+To be contended for in heats.  Four to start or no race.  No entrance
+fee.  First boat to receive £8; second boat, £5; third boat, £2; manned
+by those who usually work as beachmen.
+
+Shooting Star, Winterton       1
+Champion, Yarmouth             2
+Quebec, Pakefield              3
+
+Some more rowing by ships’ boats, sculling, and a duck hunt brought the
+programme to a close.
+
+The following were among the persons present at the Regatta Ball:—The
+Mayor, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., Lady Plumridge, Miss Plumridge,
+Lieut.-Colonel Astley, Major and Mrs. Rushbrooke, Major Penrice, Miss
+Penrice, Captain the Hon. R. Harbord, Count Melchoir de Weazle, Captain
+Longe, Mr. Stracey, Mr. Bedingfield, Mr. and Mrs. A. Steward and the
+Misses Steward, Mrs. F. Steward, Mr. and Mrs. Postle, Mr. and Mrs.
+Palmer, Mr. Waters and the Misses Waters, Captain and Mrs. Wynyard, Major
+Wodehouse, the Rev. G. Hawes and the Misses Hawes, Mrs. Patridge, Mr.
+Molyneux Steel, Mr. D’Eye, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Reynolds, Mrs. Mends, Miss
+Pearson, Miss Hubbard, Mrs. Foster, Miss Foster, Miss Gwynn, the Misses
+Cubitt, Mr. E. Frere, Mr. and Mrs. Orde, Captain and Mrs. Ives, Miss
+Lennard, Captain Jervoise, &c.
+
+Aug. 22nd.—The E.N.M. (which had been embodied since the 5th April, 1857)
+had been disembodied.
+
+Gipsies “infested the Beach” to the annoyance of the public.
+
+Aug. 25th.—The N.A.M. had been disembodied at Yarmouth.
+
+Sept. 1st.—Only 58 persons had attended the Race Ball, among whom were
+the Mayor, the Hon. H. Harbord, Captain Bedingfield, Captain Holmes, Mr.
+Orde, Mr. Marsh, Mr. Palmer, &c.
+
+Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge had inspected the Rifle Volunteers.
+
+Sept. 5th.—The Rifle Corps was holding its first prize shooting matches
+on the North Denes, the E.N.M. Band being on the ground and playing
+during the firing.  Mr. Fenner had won the Borough Members’ Prize, having
+at the 500 yards scored 8 against Lieutenant Brown’s 6 points.
+
+A hare had been hunted from the South Denes by “men, dogs, and boys” to
+Adam and Eve Gardens, and had been “transferred to a bake office before
+12 o’clock.”
+
+A roulette table had been an attraction in the town, and several
+gentlemen had “dropped” their money at that game.
+
+Sept. 18th.—The following had been the result of the Prize Shooting:—
+
+1.—Borough Members’ Prize of £10, shot for at ranges of 300, 400, and 500
+yards.  Winner, Fenner.
+
+2.—Officers’ Cup, value £5, shot for at ranges of 200 and 300 yards.
+Winner, Davis.
+
+3.—A “Turner” Rifle, presented by Major Orde, shot for at ranges of 500
+and 600 yards, for which Pearson and Leman tied, upon shooting off Leman
+was the winner.
+
+4.—Ladies’ Challenge Cup, value £35, shot for at ranges of 650, 700, 800,
+and 900 yards, the firing for which was not concluded, but Boreham and
+Boulton had the highest scores in this contest.
+
+Sept. 12th.—The Prize Shooting had been completed by Mr. Bly,
+(ironmonger) making 12 points out of 20 shots, 5 at each of the distances
+of 650, 700, 800, and 900 yards, in the Challenge Cup competition, and he
+was declared to be the winner, and the champion shot of the corps.
+
+The pugilist Mace was training at Yarmouth previous to his fighting Bob
+Brettle.
+
+Sept. 19th.—The prizes had been presented to the several winners in the
+recent Rifle Corps Competition by the Mayor at the Town Hall, when
+amongst those present were Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Lady and Miss Lacon, Major
+and Mrs. Orde, Captain Holmes, the Officers of the Rifle Corps, Major
+Todd, E. R. Palmer, Esq., Captain Jervoise, C. C. Aldred, Esq., Rev. M.
+Waters, C. J. Palmer, Esq., &c., &c.
+
+After this, the Mayor invited those present to dance, himself leading off
+with Lady Lacon.
+
+Mr. E. R. Aldred had supplied the cups, and champion’s medal.
+
+The Volunteer Artillery had appeared in “busbies” for the first time.
+
+Sept. 22nd.—The Yarmouth Volunteers had attended the Review of the County
+Corps held on Mousehold Heath, Norwich, by the Lord Lieutenant, who was
+accompanied by Major-General Wood, Lord Suffield, Colonel Astley, and the
+Hon. Harbord Harbord as aides-de-camp, and a brilliant staff.  The
+Yarmouth Rifles numbered 1 Field Officer, 4 Captains, 4 Lieutenants, and
+4 Ensigns, 1 Staff Officer, 11 Sergeants, 4 Drummers, and 172 Privates,
+total 201.  The total number of Volunteers on the field being between
+1,100 and 1,200.  The spectators are stated to have said as the
+Volunteers marched past—“These with the Hussar hats on are the Yarmouth
+Artillery,” and “These are the Yarmouth Rifles—well done Yarmouth.”
+
+Sept. 26th.—The number of the Volunteer Artillery present at the Review
+was stated to have been 156.
+
+Herring was selling at from £23 to £30 per last.
+
+Sept. 29th.—“Several hundreds of vessels had passed through the Roads for
+the North in full sail, and one close fleet.”
+
+Oct. 3rd.—James Denny Chapman had absconded and been declared bankrupt,
+with debts estimated at £30,000.
+
+Oct. 6th.—At the Revision Court Mr. Costerton had appeared for the
+Liberals and Mr. Reynolds for the Tories; the former claimed a gain of 88
+votes.
+
+Oct. 20th.—St. Andrew’s Church had been consecrated by the Bishop of
+Norwich.
+
+Nov. 3rd.—At the Municipal Election there was a contest in the _Regent
+Ward_, resulting as follows:—
+
+Reynolds (C.)             106
+Wright (C.)               101
+Livingston (L)             61
+
+For the other wards the following gentlemen were returned without
+opposition:—
+
+_North_—William H. Bessey and Samuel Nightingale (C’s.)
+
+_Market_—John Fenn and John E. Barnby (C’s).
+
+_St. George’s_—William J. Foreman and Charles Palmer (C’s).
+
+_Nelson_—John Clarke (C.) and John Clowes (L).
+
+_Gorleston_—Samuel C. Richmond and Thomas W. Gooda (C’s).
+
+It was “darkly hinted” that Mr. S. Nightingale would be the next Mayor.
+
+Nov. 10th.—The Mayor, the Rev. Mr. Peade, Messrs. C. S. Marsh, R. S.
+Watling, S. Nightingale, T. Brightwen, B. Dowson, and Mr. W. C. Reynolds
+had been nominated by a Public Meeting as a Committee for the purpose of
+founding a “Public Hall and Assembly Room.”  Mr. Palmer and Mr. Falcke
+had each offered to take 20 shares of £10 in the undertaking.
+
+Nov. 14th.—At the Council Meeting on the 9th, Mr. Charles J. Palmer
+proposed, and Mr. F. Worship seconded, the election of Mr. Samuel
+Nightingale as Mayor of the Borough, and, there being no opposition, he
+was elected to that office accordingly.
+
+The “Eleanor,” brig of 300 tons register, had been launched “in full rig”
+from Messrs. Beechings’s yard.  She was to proceed to the Mediterranean
+with herring.
+
+Nov. 17th.—“A nocturnal exploit of some Volunteer youths had been much
+talked of for several days past,” and a “dashing junior officer” had
+nearly fallen into the hands of the police.
+
+Nov. 24th.—“Practical jokes” prevailed, one “joker” finding next morning
+that he had been over night “cracking his own panes.”
+
+The “political actions at law” against Sir E. Lacon were “in course of
+settlement.”
+
+Dec. 8th.—An explosion had taken place on board the “Tonning” steamer at
+sea, and inquests on several bodies of the men killed held at Yarmouth.
+
+Dec. 22nd.—The Volunteer Artillery had given a concert at the Corn Hall,
+when Messrs. John Franklin, W. Offord, Clements, J. Bartram, J. Cocks, W.
+C. Mack and the Masters Nutman took part in the performance.
+
+The following was the form of apology upon which the actions against Sir
+E. Lacon had been settled, upon his payment of plaintiff’s costs:—
+
+                                                          “Great Yarmouth,
+                                                         “Nov. 29th, 1860.
+
+    “Dear Sir,—Upon full enquiry, I find that the statements made by me
+    in a speech at the dinner at the Theatre in April last, and
+    complained of by you as reflecting on yourself as a member of the
+    committee therein referred to, were made under an erroneous
+    impression of the facts of the case, as far as yourself and the
+    committee are concerned.
+
+    “Under these circumstances, I have no hesitation in withdrawing the
+    imputations you and the committee complain of, and the plea of
+    justification, and in expressing my regret that legal proceedings
+    were deemed necessary, which, being now ended, no difference will, I
+    trust, henceforth be made in the friendly feeling that has previously
+    existed between us.
+
+                                                             “Yours truly,
+                                                       “EDM. H. K. LACON.”
+
+    W. T. Clarke, Esq.”
+
+At the Police Court, Mr. Owles again called attention to the “practical”
+joking question, when Sergeant Barnes stated that the jokers “were
+attired in cloaks, and one wore a uniform cap.”
+
+Dec. 29th.—The Rifle Corps, 180 strong, had marched to Hopton, where
+Major Orde “regaled them on bread and cheese, hot sausage rolls, and
+plenty of old ale.”
+
+
+
+
+FOURTH SERIES, 1861–1872.
+
+
+    “When found, make a note of”—
+
+                                                             CAPT. CUTTLE.
+
+
+
+1861.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—The poor rate assessment had been raised some £14,000, and a
+1s. 2d. rate thereon made.
+
+Mr. F. Ferrier (Deputy Coroner) had held an inquest on the body of Thomas
+Algar, the clown who had expired at the Theatre immediately after the
+performance on the previous Friday.  The deceased was 34 years of age,
+and left a widow and one child.  The verdict was that deceased died from
+“natural causes”; Mr. C. C. Aldred (the Surgeon) and the Jury gave their
+fees to the family.
+
+Jan. 5th.—The Revenue cutter, in attempting to run for the harbour, had
+fouled the pier and was sunk.
+
+Jan. 12th.—“The strong frost had literally stopped the river traffic.”
+
+It had been decided to give £124 worth of coal to the poor.
+
+Jan. 19th.—A public meeting had been held to raise funds for that
+purpose.  The Mayor presided, and the following gentlemen took part in
+the proceedings:—Mr. W. Worship, the Rev. B. Vaux, Mr. R. Steward, Mr. C.
+C. Aldred, Mr. R. Hammond, Mr. T. Brightwen, Mr. C. Cory, Mr. L. Blake,
+and Mr. E. H. L. Preston.  Sir E. Lacon sent a cheque for £50, and £350
+was subscribed in the room.
+
+Jan. 26th.—Dr. Stephenson had been appointed Surgeon for the South
+District.
+
+The “Racehorse” (belonging to George Danby-Palmer, Esq.), had been
+abandoned near Cape Horn.  There had been a mutiny on board her, and a
+naval Court was inquiring into the affair at Calloa.
+
+Jan. 30th.—The Guardians were calling attention to the “Compulsory
+Vaccination Act.”
+
+Feb. 2nd.—The annual Sailors’ Home meeting had been held in the new
+building on the Drive.
+
+Mr. Henry R. Harmer had been appointed a Chancery Commissioner.
+
+Feb. 6th.—At a Vestry meeting it had been determined to take a poll of
+the parish as to whether the Vestry Act (13 and 14 Vic. cap. 57) should
+be applied to the parish.
+
+Feb. 9th.—Two hundred and eighty-eight appeals had been lodged against
+the Poor’s Rate.
+
+Feb. 16th—“Costerton _v._ Lacon” had been tried.  In this action the
+plaintiff, a solicitor at Yarmouth, complained of having been slandered
+by the defendant, who was M.P. for the town, and who ultimately consented
+to a verdict against him for 40s. and costs.
+
+Feb. 20th.—The poll of the parish had closed as under:—
+
+For applying the Vestry Act            737
+Against                                414
+                        Majority       323
+
+Mr. Clowes then proposed, and Mr. Livingston seconded, a resolution to
+the effect that a Vestry Clerk be appointed at a salary of £100 per
+annum, and ultimately this was carried, and a vote of thanks to the Vicar
+and his assessor (C. J. Palmer, Esq.), terminated the proceedings.
+
+Feb. 23rd.—The Conservatives had adopted Mr. C. H. Chamberlin (a Liberal)
+as their candidate for the office of Vestry Clerk, the other candidate
+being Mr. S. B. Cory.
+
+Feb. 27th.—The case of Morant v. Chamberlin (which involved the right of
+user of part of the Quay by George Danby-Palmer, Esq.), had been decided
+as follows: “Verdict for plaintiff, issue on the 4th plea for defendant.”
+
+March 2nd.—The Prince of Wales had visited the town “incog.”
+
+March 6th.—One Cox, “a magician of Friars’ Lane,” had been before the
+Justices.
+
+March 9th.—The Hon. Harbord Harbord had been hunting the district with
+his pack of harriers during the week.
+
+Part of a house had been blown down on the Regent Road.
+
+March 13th.—The Artillery Corps had adopted white (in lieu of blue)
+facings to their uniform.
+
+March 16th.—The Fitzroy storm signals had been hoisted in the town.
+
+March 23rd.—“Iconoclast” proposed to deliver lectures at the Theatre.
+This had been stopped by the Mayor, and an action was threatened against
+the proprietor of that building.  The following is a copy of the Bill
+issued:—“Theatre Royal, Great Yarmouth.  Iconoclast the well-known
+advocate of Secularism, and co-editor with Mr. Joseph Barker, &c., will
+deliver three lectures in the above place, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of
+March, 1861.  Subjects—Monday, “Were Adam and Eve our first parents?”
+Tuesday, “The History of the Crucifixion, self-contradictory and
+incredible.”  Wednesday, “The Atonement and its relation to sin and
+pardon.”  Admission—Lower boxes, 6d.; upper ditto, 4d.; pit, 3d.,
+gallery, 2d.  Iconoclast respectfully invites the clergy and ministers of
+Yarmouth to discuss his lectures; especially those who claim to have
+refuted him during his absence.”
+
+Major Orde, Mr. Chamberlin, and Captain Holmes had given readings from
+Dickens’ works in the saloon of the Victoria gardens before the members
+of the Rifle Corps and their friends; Captain Holmes was expected to be
+appointed adjutant of this corps.
+
+March 30th.—“Cufaude _v_ Cory” had been heard at the Assizes.  In this
+action damages were claimed by the plaintiff, Clerk to the Guardians
+against the defendant, Mr. S. B. Cory, for an alleged libel, he having
+stated in a handbill that Mr. Cufaude “cooked” the parish accounts.  Mr.
+O’Malley, Q.C., Mr. Power, Q.C., Mr. Keene and Mr. Cherry were for the
+plaintiff, and Mr. Palmer and Mr. Hotson for the defendant.  The Jury
+found for the plaintiff with £500 damages.
+
+April 3rd.—“The nocturnal jokes” were again the subject of inquiry; Mr.
+E. O. Johnson (a Volunteer Sergeant) had been discovered by a policeman
+taking away Dr. Smyth’s bell, but as that gentleman would not prosecute,
+the charge dropped.
+
+Mr. J. H. Harrison then made a complaint to the Court of damages to his
+property by these “jokers.”
+
+At the Vestry Meeting, Mr. R. Hammond proposed, and Mr. W. Worship
+seconded, the re-election of Mr. S. C. D. Steward as one of the
+Churchwardens, and Mr. Fenn proposed, and Mr. Laws seconded, the
+re-election of Mr. E. R. Aldred as the other warden, “and the Minister
+accepted the second nomination as his warden.”
+
+N.B.—This was the first attempt by a Vicar to take action of this sort,
+(the right of election of both Churchwardens being vested in the Vestry
+of the parish.)
+
+The following gentlemen had been elected Guardians:—
+
+_North Ward_—S. Nightingale, E. H. L. Preston, and J. B. Hylton.
+
+_Market Ward_—C. C. Aldred, W. Laws, and J. Fenn.
+
+_Regent Ward_—W. Worship, R. D. Barber, and D. A. Gourlay.
+
+_St. George’s Ward_—J. G. Plummer, C. E. Bartram, and C. Miller.
+
+_Nelson Ward_—T. Brightwen, C. Woolverton, W. C. Reynolds, and J. Clarke.
+
+It was stated that only 7s. 6d. had been subscribed by the lodging-house
+keepers to the Race Fund.
+
+April 10th.—It was understood that the Chairman and a majority of the
+Board of Guardians were favourable to the admission of Reporters to the
+Board meetings.
+
+“Great reductions” had been made upon the Poor’s Rate appeals.
+
+April 13th.—Captain Holmes had been appointed Adjutant to the Rifle
+Volunteers.
+
+Sir J. Walsham had held an inquiry as to the allegations with regard to
+the parish accounts, which had been alluded to in the recent action of
+“Cufaude _v._ Cory.”  Mr. Hotson attended it on behalf of Mr. Cory.
+
+April 17th.—Two batteries of Royal Artillery had arrived in the town.
+
+April 20th.—A gunboat, with the men of the Revenue cutter on board, had
+run into the pier-head.
+
+An illuminated clock had been placed at the Sailors’ Home.
+
+A rule “nisi” had been granted in the action of “Cufaude _v._ Cory” on
+the ground of excessive damages.
+
+April 27th.—The “Harmony,” missionary ship, had been launched from
+Messrs. Fellows’ yard.
+
+There had been “numerous” arrivals of invalids from India at the R.N.
+Hospital.
+
+May 1st.—Solomon Levy, a converted Jew, had been baptised at St. Peter’s
+Church, F. Worship, Esq., standing “as witness to the Baptism.”
+Afterwards the Rev. Bowyer Vaux preached from Titus iii, 5.
+
+May 4th.—The Rifle Volunteers had held a “Mess” at the Star Hotel, when
+Host Diver catered for them.
+
+May 8th.—The following “Census” returns had been made for the parish:—
+
+                  Males.       Females.      Total.      Excess of
+                                                          Females.
+North Ward             3620          4330         7950           710
+Market Ward            2211          2706         4917           485
+Regent Ward            1553          2382         3935           829
+St. George’s           1777          2419         4196           632
+Ward
+Nelson Ward            3873          4885         8758          1002
+         Total       13,034        16,722       29,756          3658
+     Workhouse          173           159          332
+                     13,207        16,881       30,088
+Estimate Gorleston & Southtown & afloat          6,000
+                                                36,088
+
+The Rifle Volunteers, 200 strong, had attended St. Nicholas’ Church.  The
+leading fish-merchants proposed to purchase two fast steamers as carriers
+to the London markets.
+
+May 11th.—Mr. Evans was sitting at the Town Hall to take evidence on the
+claims of the Ormesby and Scratby people to exemption from payment of
+Market Tolls at Yarmouth.
+
+May 18th.—So few mackerel had been brought in, that they were selling at
+1s. each.
+
+May 22nd.—A very old house (formerly part of the Convent) had fallen down
+in Friars’ lane.
+
+There had been two military rows between the Royal Artillery and the E.N.
+Militiamen.
+
+May 25th.—The Mayor and Magistrates had met Major Martin (E.N.M.) and
+Colonel Bruce (R.A.) on this subject, and steps had been taken to prevent
+the men meeting again.
+
+May 29th.—“Mace,” the local pugilist, (being known in the neighbourhood)
+was being heavily “backed” for the fight for the championship.
+
+June 1st.—Sergeant Seeley (E.N.M.) had died from the effects of choking
+himself by swallowing a piece of meat.
+
+A “handsome new schooner” had been launched by Mr. Brandford.
+
+A “considerable number” of new fishing and pleasure boats were being
+built at the port.
+
+Shops were being opened in Regent Street, under the Board of Health Act,
+which had overruled the old local act under which the houses there, were
+not to be so used.
+
+June 8th.—The mackerel voyage had been very unsuccessful.
+
+A “Turkish” bath was to be opened in a few week’s time.
+
+June 15th—Mr. Frederick Danby-Palmer had passed the legal examination (in
+honors.)
+
+A case of alleged “Witchcraft” at Gorleston had occupied the Bench.
+
+June 19th.—At a meeting of the Ratepayers Mr. J. Clowes proposed, and Mr.
+Burroughs seconded, Mr. S. B. Cory as a proper person to fill the office
+of Vestry Clerk.  Mr. Livingstone, Mr. Neave and Mr. Royal also took part
+in these proceedings.
+
+June 22nd.—At the Vestry meeting, held for the election of that officer,
+Mr. George Danby-Palmer proposed and Mr. Livingstone seconded Mr. S. B.
+Cory, and Mr. Charles Cory proposed, and Mr. G. A. Clarke seconded, Mr.
+C. H. Chamberlin.  The proceedings were of a most disorderly character,
+terminating “in a talk of many tongues, which accused each other of being
+‘liars’ and so on.”
+
+June 24th.—At 12 o’clock the poll stood—
+
+Cory                         270
+Chamberlin                   194
+And closed—
+Cory                         366
+Chamberlin                   269
+June 25th.—it closed—
+Cory                         701
+Chamberlin                   512
+June 26th.—It finally closed—
+Cory                         848
+Chamberlin                   620
+     Majority for Cory       228
+
+Mr. Cory and Mr. George Danby-Palmer then addressed the electors, and
+votes of thanks to the Vicar (Rev. H. Nevill) and his assessor (Mr. C. J.
+Palmer) terminated the proceedings.
+
+June 29th.—The election for, and meeting of, the “Eastern Counties Asylum
+of Idiots” had taken place at the Town Hall.  The Mayor presided, and
+there were also present, Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., Rev. T. Bailey, Rev.
+R. M. Bingley, Rev. Thos. Quintin, Rev. E. Postle, and Messrs. W.
+Worship, T. Brightwen, F. Palmer, John Crisp (Mayor of Beccles), J. H.
+Bly, &c.
+
+July 3rd.—M. Desfongerais had been appointed Consul for the French
+Government at Yarmouth, and had appeared for a French vessel in an
+adjudication case, held before F. Worship and F. Palmer, Esqs.
+
+July 10th.—Mr. S. B. Cory had commenced his duties of Vestry Clerk.
+
+The mackerel fishing was a failure, and the Summer fishing “very slow.”
+
+July 17th.—At the Water Frolic, the “Red Rover” won the cutter, and the
+“Vampire” the lateen, prize.
+
+The Rev. H. Squire had, after a pastorate of 30 years, resigned the
+Unitarian Chapel Ministry.
+
+July 20th.—Messrs. C. J. Palmer, C. C. Aldred.  W. Johnson, C. Cory, and
+J. Brightwen had been appointed a Committee to carry on the proposal to
+found a Grammar School in the town.
+
+A “furious tempest, including thunder, whirlwind, and lightning” had
+burst over the town.
+
+July 31st.—Mr. Lane had claimed £300 damages for libel against the Free
+Press Newspaper Company, but under the advice of the Chief Justice, a
+Juror was withdrawn, each party paying their own costs.
+
+Aug. 7th.—The Vestry Clerk and the Overseers could not “gee” together.
+
+Aug. 10th.—At the Regatta, the “Queen Victoria” and “Volunteer” won the
+yawl matches, and the “Red Rover” and the “Belvidere,” the pleasure-boat
+matches.  The yacht match fell through in consequence of only two vessels
+being prepared to sail in it.
+
+Aug. 14th.—A number of noisy women outside the Police Court, on the
+hearing of the claims to be excused payment of the Poor’s Rate, had
+“mobbed” the Vestry Clerk and had in short “taken possession of the Court
+and its entrance.”
+
+Aug. 17th.—The Rifle Volunteers were holding their Prize Shooting Match
+on the North Denes.  Messrs. Wilshak, Ferrier, and Swann had won prizes.
+
+A great shoal of dog-fish had visited the Eastern coast.
+
+Mr. S. B. Cory had been presented with a sum of money to cover his
+expenses occasioned by the contest for the office of Vestry Clerk.
+
+Aug. 24th.—The Mayor, Lord William Powlett, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.,
+M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Baker (10th Hussars), Captain Lane, and C. J.
+Palmer, Esq., had been nominated Stewards of the Race Ball.
+
+The old Dutch Clock on the South Quay was “to go.”  It had been stated
+that the custom prevailed of winding it up “with a hammer.”
+
+Aug. 28th.—Two ladies had been robbed of their watches on the Wellington
+Pier.
+
+Sept. 7th.—The Volunteers were drilling for the review at Holkham.
+
+The Race Ball had been attended by the Mayor, Lady and Miss Lacon, Mr. M.
+Lacon, Mr. Blake Humphrey, Mr. Blofeld, Captain and Mrs. Warren, Captain
+and Mrs. Dods, Lieut. Daveney, Captain Travers, Mr. Bedingfield, Mr. and
+Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Captain Dunne, Mr. Magnay, Captain Jervois, Mr.
+Stracey, Captain Turnour, R.N., Captain Ensor, Miss Wilson, Mr. and Mrs.
+F. Frere, Mr. and Mrs. H. Frere, Mr. and Mrs. Falcke and party, Mr. and
+Mrs. Brown, Mr. F. Danby-Palmer, Mr. Button, Mr. Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
+Gosnall, Mr. Rising, Mr. Waters, &c.
+
+The Drapers (with one exception) had agreed to close on Thursdays at four
+o’clock.
+
+Sep. 18th.—The Volunteer Corps under the command of Major Marsh and Major
+Orde, had attended the Review at Holkham.
+
+Sept. 18th.—The Volunteers had, after their return from Holkham, “annoyed
+and disturbed the inhabitants by an irregular firing of musketry” in the
+streets.
+
+A young actor, having gone mad through love for a lady in the town, had
+been taken to the Workhouse, where the lady’s portrait and letters were
+found upon him.
+
+Sept. 25th—Capt. Tomlinson had won the cup in the Volunteer Officers’
+Shooting Match with 10 points, Captains Youell and Holt making 8 points
+each.  The following also competed:—Captain Barber, Lieutenants Harmer
+and Moore, and Ensigns Brown and Aldred.
+
+Sept. 28th.—The Rev. C. Voysey had been presented with a private
+Communion Service by the poor attendants at the Wherrymen’s Church upon
+his leaving Yarmouth.
+
+A grand bowling match had been held on the Bear Green between the bowlers
+of Yarmouth and Lowestoft.  The latter won by 9 to 6 games.
+
+Oct. 2nd.—Mr. E. P. Youell was mentioned as the next Mayor.  He was
+described as “not a prejudiced partizan on either side.”
+
+Oct. 5th.—The Shooting Prizes had been distributed to the Rifle
+Volunteers at the Town Hall, when about 240 officers and members were
+present, and a number of ladies and gentlemen who had been invited by the
+Mayor, who entertained them with champagne on the occasion.
+
+The following was the list of winners:—
+
+“Tradesmen’s Cup,” Mr. Fyson; 2nd prize, Mr. Hudspith.
+
+“A Neck Pin,” Captain Youell; “A Cup,” Mr. Wilshak; and other prizes
+Messrs. Gunton, Teasdel, Banham, Osborn, Kennett, and Swann.
+
+“The Ladies’ Challenge Cup,” Mr. Fenner; and “The Officers’ Cup,” Captain
+Tomlinson.
+
+Oct. 12th.—Extensive repairs were being carried on at the Southtown
+Barracks.
+
+Oct. 23rd.—It was stated that Mr. Palmer was to be the new Mayor.
+
+Mr. D. Hogarth (Postmaster) had died.
+
+Oct. 26th.—The Lord Bishop had held a Confirmation in the Parish Church.
+
+Eleven hundred persons had been excused from payment of the Poor’s Rate.
+
+Oct. 30th.—Mr. Neave and Mr. Livingston (Radicals) were going to contest
+the North and Regent Wards respectively.
+
+In St. Andrew’s Ward, a meeting of electors had determined to again
+nominate Mr. R. Steward (Tory) and Mr. W. T. Clarke (Liberal) in a “if
+ye’ll claw me, I’ll claw ye; style of pastime.”
+
+An alarming fire had happened in Row 145, the centre of a thickly
+populated district; Mr. Self’s premises chiefly suffered, his damage
+being estimated at £300.
+
+The Justices had signed a 1s. 2d. Poor’s Rate.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—The trawling business was increasing, 100 smacks then hailing
+from the port.
+
+Two new vessels had been launched at Southtown, one for Mr. Womack and
+one for Mr. Powell.
+
+Mr. Todd had also built a new smack called the “Christiana.”
+
+Nov. 6th.—Alarming and destructive gales had raged along the whole coast
+on the 1st of November, and 27 shipwrecked seamen had been received at
+the Sailors’ Home.
+
+                             MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
+
+    The following account is given of this:—“With the exception of two or
+    three of the candidates who came forward as Liberals, the aspirants
+    for Municipal honours did not this year favour the public with any
+    printed expositions of their views, or any explanations of the
+    grounds upon which they came forward.  The elections of Friday,
+    however did not cause much excitement, although at the eleventh hour
+    the Conservatives found themselves opposed in all the wards except
+    St. Andrew’s, in which Messrs. W. T. Clarke, and R. Steward were
+    elected unopposed.  In the Market Ward, Mr. Gourlay (L) and Mr. E.
+    Aldred (C) sought re-election, and the new candidate was Mr. Lawn,
+    Liberal.  The result of the voting was—Gourlay, 60; Aldred, 59; Lawn,
+    20.  The two former, of course, were elected.  In the Regent Ward,
+    Mr. Barber, Conservative, sought re-election, and in the place of Mr.
+    Norman, surgeon (C), who retired, Dr. Stephenson (C) was put forward.
+    The candidates on the other side were Messrs. Livingston and de Caux.
+    The ward again showed its partiality for medicine, and polled as
+    follows:—Barber, 109; Stephenson, 106; Livingston, 81; de Caux,
+    69.—In St. George’s Ward, the Conservative candidates, who sought
+    re-election, were Messrs. R. Ferrier and B. Jay, opposed by Messrs.
+    Scott and Palmer.  The poll—Ferrier, 101; Jay 101; Palmer, 39; Scott,
+    37.—Nelson Ward: C. J. Palmer (C), 93, C. Woolverton (C), 93; G.
+    Moore (L), 3; Playford (L), 3.  North Ward: W. Worship (C), 118; J.
+    B. Hylton (C), 118; S. W. Bly (L), 83; J. Neave (L), 84.—It was
+    rumoured that during the day some bribery was effected by such
+    moderate sums as half-a-crown and five shillings per man.
+
+Nov. 13th.—At the Council meeting Mr. C. C. Aldred proposed, and Mr.
+Shingles seconded, Mr. Robert Steward as Mayor, and he was elected
+accordingly.
+
+Nov. 20th.—There were between 200 and 300 fishing vessels at sea during
+the recent gales, of which only 30 luggers were then unaccounted for.
+About 100 lasts of fish had been delivered on the Quay on the previous
+Saturday, when prices ranged from £15 upwards.
+
+A new Lifeboat had been stationed near the Britannia Pier.
+
+Nov. 23rd.—Among the smacks which had been injured in the gale was Mr.
+Todd’s new vessel the “Christiana;” some of this owner’s other vessels
+had suffered damage, and his loss was estimated altogether at £1,000.
+
+Nov. 27th.—Mr. Downing’s fish-offices had been destroyed by fire.
+
+Nov. 30th.—In the Town Council, Messrs. Gooda, Burroughs, Clowes, S. B.
+Cory, and another had voted against the question of the Mayor being
+“decorated by the wearing of a gown;” 17 members had, however, voted that
+the question be referred to the Lands Committee.
+
+The Artillery Volunteers had salved a boat and obtained £7 salvage money
+to the annoyance of the Beachmen
+
+The Parish Authorities “remained at loggerheads” with the Vestry Clerk.
+
+In the opinion of the inhabitants the “robes question” seemed only a plan
+to run up a bill for another “folly.”
+
+The Police had been furnished with “Southwester” hats.
+
+Dec. 4th.—It was stated that the robe business had cropped up, as the
+Mayor was going to Court, and it was felt
+
+    “That if, this year, the Mayor’s not knighted,
+    The Corporate ‘status’ will be blighted.”
+
+Herring was making £35 per last, and 1,000 packages of trawl fish had
+been forwarded to the market.
+
+Dec. 11th.—The Lands Committee had decided that the Mayor, Town-clerk,
+and Messrs. Collins, Ellis and Thompson (the officers) should wear gowns,
+but no head gear had been decided upon for them.
+
+Dec. 14th.—“Deerfoot,” an American runner, had been performing in the
+town, when he accomplished 10 miles in 53 minutes.
+
+The Treasurer to the Rifle Corps (Mr. Clarke) and the Quarter-Master (Mr.
+C. Diver) were about to be appointed Supernumerary Lieutenants.
+
+Dec. 18th.—Owing to the death of the Prince Consort, the paper appeared
+in mourning.
+
+The flags had been hoisted at half-mast on the Town Hall and other public
+buildings on receipt of this mournful news.
+
+Dec. 21st.—The Artillery Volunteers had given an entertainment at the
+Theatre.
+
+Dec. 25th.—There had been a Special Service at St. Nicholas’ Church on
+the occasion of the funeral of the Prince Consort, when the Vicar
+preached from the text, “And the King said unto his servants, know ye not
+that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel.”  Sam.
+iii., 38.  At the close of the service the “Dead March” in _Saul_ was
+played, and the Rifle Volunteers returned with muffled drums, the bells
+ringing at the same time.
+
+The Artillery Corps fired minute guns from the South Battery for an hour,
+and from twelve to two the shops throughout the town were closed.
+
+The Town Council met and voted an address of condolence to Her Majesty.
+
+Dec. 28th.—A special service had also been held at the Synagogue,
+commencing with Psalms 13, 19, 15, and 85, and concluding with a prayer
+for the Queen and the Royal Family, after which, on the motion of Mr.
+Pyke, an address of condolence to the Queen and Royal Family was adopted.
+
+The Rifle Corps had again on the invitation of Major Orde visited Hopton.
+
+
+
+1862.
+
+
+Jan. 4th.—Parcels containing Christmas fare “had fallen among thieves” on
+the Railway.
+
+Jan. 8th.—Up to the 30th ult., 9,257 offers had been received and 8,229
+Volunteers enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve; of this number 24 held
+Masters’ Certificates, 116 Mates’ Certificates, and the force embraced
+1,148 petty officers in the Merchant Service.
+
+Jan. 15th.—Two pugilists named Foxall and Chambers, (who were
+occasionally employed as Beachmen), had engaged in a prize fight.
+“Ducky” Chambers was the winner.
+
+Jan. 18th.—Major Orde, Captain Youell, and C. H. Chamberlin, Esq., had
+been entertaining the Rifle Volunteers at the Drill Hall with “Readings
+from Modern Authors.”
+
+It was again proposed to start a Conservative Newspaper in Yarmouth.
+
+Jan. 25th.—At the Gorleston Vestry Meeting the Church Rate was not
+pressed for.
+
+Feb. 8th.—The Corporation’s costs in “Morant _v._ Chamberlin” amounted to
+£1,402 17s. 6d.
+
+Feb. 19th.—Mr. A. W. Morant had resigned his commission in the Artillery
+Volunteers.
+
+A cargo of pickled herrings had arrived from Norway.
+
+Feb. 22nd.—Messrs. Hewett and Co. were about to transfer the greater part
+of their trawling business to Gorleston; thus about 100 families would be
+transferred from Barking to that village.
+
+The Anniversary Dinner of the “Pioneer” Lodge, No. 262 M.U.I.O.F., had
+been held at the Foundry Arms, Bro. Wells in the chair.
+
+March. 5th.—The Town Council had determined to oppose the “Railway
+Amalgamation Bill.”
+
+March 12th.—Private H. Fenner (Champion Rifle Volunteer Shot) had been
+elected a Sergeant.
+
+March 15th.—The Anniversary Dinner of the “Prince of Wales” Lodge,
+M.U.I.O.F., had been held at the Fish-Stall House, P.G. Robins in the
+chair and P.G. Crome vice-chair.
+
+In the Divorce Court, the case of “Burroughs _v_ Burroughs and Silcock”
+had resulted in the jury finding that the charges made against each party
+by the other were groundless; consequently the petitioner failed in his
+suit.
+
+March 22nd.—Mr. Henry Danby-Palmer had died suddenly.
+
+April 2nd.—The Mayor had called a meeting to forward the proposal for
+holding a Volunteer Review at Yarmouth.  The Mayor (Mr. R. Steward), Mr.
+R. Ferrier, Mr. D. R. Fowler, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mr. W. Worship, Mr. J.
+Clowes, and Mr. S. Nightingale took part in the proceedings, and about
+£250 was subscribed in the room.
+
+April 16th.—The East Suffolk Artillery Militia was stationed at the
+Southtown Barracks.
+
+April 26th.—Colonel Adair (commanding that Regiment) had delivered a
+lecture at the Corn Hall “On the land defences of the Eastern Counties.”
+
+Upon this Regiment leaving; the Norfolk Artillery Militia, under Colonel
+Astley, were to occupy the Barracks for five weeks.
+
+At the Vestry Meeting, Mr. R. Hammond proposed, and Mr. Bracey seconded,
+the re-election of Mr. C. S. D. Steward; and Mr. Hylton proposed, and Mr.
+Shingles seconded, the re-election of Mr. E. R. Aldred.
+
+April 30th.—Colonel Pippon had inspected the E.N.M. on the South Denes,
+when the Regiment mustered 700 rank and file.
+
+“Tom Sayers’” Circus had attended the Fair.
+
+May 3rd.—Owing to want of funds the Parish Beadle at Gorleston had been
+discharged.
+
+May 7th.—The first stone of the New Bethel had been laid.  This building
+was to replace the old Bethel which for so many years had been held in
+the ancient house, belonging for several generations to the Palmer
+family, near the Sailors’ Home.
+
+May 14th.—It was proposed to erect a Memorial to the late Prince Consort
+in the town.
+
+Practical joking still continued in the Borough.
+
+May 17th.—C. J. Palmer, Esq., had presented the Corporation with a
+scarlet silk gown and black gown formerly worn by the Mayors as robes of
+office.
+
+The following table of precedence had been drawn up by the Council:—
+
+1.—The Mayor.
+
+2.—The Recorder.
+
+3.—The Town Clerk.
+
+4.—The M.P.’s for the Borough.
+
+5.—The Members of the Council who had served the office of Mayor
+according to priority of election.
+
+6.—The Aldermen and Councillors according to priority of election, the
+former in Wards in which they resided, the latter in the Wards for which
+they were elected, commencing with the North Ward.
+
+At the Parish Audit, the Auditor remarked that “in some instances the
+amount (of the rate) excused exceeded the sum collected.”
+
+May 17th.—The following appears as to the Corporate Robes of Office:—
+
+                            “THE ROBES OF OFFICE.”
+
+    The Committee as to the Wearing of Robes of Office reported that Mr.
+    C. J. Palmer, had liberally presented to the Council a scarlet silk
+    gown, and a black gown formerly worn by the Mayors as their Robes of
+    Office; and the said were accepted by the Committee, and the thanks
+    of the Committee were voted to Mr. Palmer for the _handsome_
+    donation.  The Committee had resolved that the Mayor should wear the
+    black gown as a Robe of Office on all “Ordinary” occasions and the
+    scarlet gown on all “extraordinary” occasions.
+
+    The “Robes” or “Gown” movement, which was so much spoken of six
+    months ago, has at length—through the exertions of the Committee to
+    whom it was referred—come to maturity, and the Mayor now has a second
+    hand best gown for “extraordinary” occasions, and a second-hand
+    second best gown for “ordinary” occasions.  The old people about Gaol
+    Street, who caught a sight of the Mayor in his gown on Tuesday last,
+    look upon the revived _costume_ as a “degenerate resurrection;” for,
+    instead of there being completeness and congruity in the “fit out,”
+    there is a burlesque mixture of the ancient and modern.  The gown
+    which erst harmonised with the glorious cocked hat, short tights, and
+    silver buckled shoes, appears decidedly “at sea” in company with the
+    modern hat (or “4s. and 9d.”) and “peg-top” trousers.  Art critics
+    would object to so close a mixture of the mediæval and the modern, on
+    the ground of the same not being “in keeping.”  Perhaps, however,
+    when we see the style of dress on one of the “extraordinary”
+    occasions so judiciously and so elaborately provided for by the
+    Council, we may have something presented to notice which will not
+    cause every Councillor to grin on beholding it, and to talk, as an
+    old writer says, “most consumedly” about it afterwards.  Dressed as
+    he was on Tuesday, the Mayor of Yarmouth might, without difficulty,
+    have been mistaken (had he been away from home) for Shylock, for one
+    of the Japanese Embassy, or for an Arch Druid, so remarkably unusual
+    was his appearance.  Experience may, it is true, tone down the
+    angularities of the affair; but at the onset the revival of the use
+    of robes does not carry with it either the appearance of gravity or
+    wisdom.  On entering the Council Room on Tuesday, the Mayor was
+    preceded by four officials wearing, in addition to the ordinary
+    attire of various colours, gowns, and carrying the sword and two
+    maces as usual, with, on this occasion, the very handsome oar—a part
+    of the regalia which had, for some very “extraordinary” reason no
+    doubt, been disused.  Following the officers were the Mayor, who wore
+    in addition to his every day clothing a black robe, of somewhat
+    fierce cut, having a sort of fur or bear skin epulet at each
+    shoulder, ornamented with a description of rough filagree; and over
+    this finery his worship wore (we believe for the first time) the gold
+    chain of office.  After the Mayor, entered the Town Clerk in a black
+    robe of a more modest character.  For some little time there was much
+    winking and smiling amongst the Aldermen and Councillors.  The
+    business then proceeded, and, as will be seen from our report of the
+    meeting, arrangements were made (in spite of Mr. Richard Ferrier’s
+    “chaffing”) for the order of processions.  It was also decided to
+    give the Town Hall and the inhabitants the benefit of a public clock,
+    of which the Corporation are owners.  It was also jocularly suggested
+    that the Gas Company would be most willing gratuitously to illuminate
+    the dial, and through it the inhabitants.
+
+May 21st.—There had been an “Uproarious Vestry Meeting,” held for the
+object of passing a vote of censure on the Vestry Clerk; Mr. S. C Marsh
+presided, and in the result, the meeting being in favour of the Vestry
+Clerk, a poll was demanded.
+
+May 29th.—This poll had, after a protest by Mr. J. Clowes as to the
+regularity of the proceedings, been taken by Mr. C. Diver (acting as
+Assessor).  It closed on the first day—
+
+For the Vestry Clerk             143
+Against him                       61
+                  Majority        82
+
+And next morning Mr. Marsh attended and declared the poll closed.
+
+May 28th.—Five vessels of war (part of the Channel fleet) were in the
+Roads.
+
+May 31st.—The following ships were anchored abreast of the
+Jetty:—“Trafalgar” (86), Captain Dickson; the “Revenge” (91), Captain
+Fellowes; the “Emerald” (51), Captain Caning; the “Chanticleer” (17),
+Captain Sterling; and the “Porpoise” (tender to the “Revenge.”)
+
+June 4th.—This issue contains the following account of
+
+                    “THE CHANNEL FLEET AND PRINCE ALFRED.”
+
+    For several days after Wednesday last, a number of persons in this
+    town were almost in a fever of expectation as to the arrival of
+    Prince Alfred, in the “St. George;” and in spite of official
+    intimation that the Prince is to be considered on business when with
+    the fleet, and, as a consequence, exempt from municipal honours and
+    popular demonstrations, it was determined to make the most of him
+    here.  The forerunners of the “St. George” were boarded and teased by
+    all sorts of enquiries; bills were posted about with the words “the
+    arrival of Prince Alfred” upon them, and all imaginable measures
+    taken to get up excitement.  All, however, failed to draw a large
+    number of strangers to the town; and we do not exceed the fact when
+    we say that the visit of the Channel Squadron for a much briefer
+    period in 1860, brought to the town ten times the number of strangers
+    who have come on this occasion.  The Mayor of Yarmouth, soon after
+    the fleet arrived, offered to give the officers a dinner if they
+    would accept the invitation; but it was declined.  A ball was then
+    offered to be got up, and it was promised that such of the officers
+    as could attend would do so if the ships still remained in the Roads
+    and provided it were got up for the earliest possible day—Monday.  A
+    ball was, therefore, decided on for that evening.  But some
+    uneasiness was felt as to the non-arrival of the “St. George” with
+    Prince Alfred; and when, on Saturday, the ship did not appear, it
+    began to be feared that she would not come, and the people consoled
+    themselves with such information as that the Admiral—a jolly tar—had
+    amused himself by playing a game of bowls at the Vauxhall Green, &c.
+    Although Admiral Smart and the officers declined to dine with the
+    Mayor on shore, they invited his worship and other gentlemen to dine
+    with them afloat, which the Mayor accepted for Saturday night.  On
+    Sunday morning the “St. George” came quietly into the Roads through
+    the Cockle Gat, and anchored at the northern end of the line of
+    ships, abreast of the town, at about half-past eight o’clock.  It was
+    reported for some time that the ship which had just arrived was the
+    “Donegal,” but as it became known that it really was the “St.
+    George,” flags were run up in all directions, and persons went to
+    work with their spy glasses, apparently hoping to catch a sight of
+    the Prince.  The steamtugs, which ran as passenger boats round the
+    fleet, at once got better freights, and many who took trips in them
+    returned under the impression that they had seen the Prince in the
+    maintop of the “St. George.”  Others would have it that the Prince
+    was one of the young officers who was ashore on Sunday afternoon,
+    walking leisurely up and down the drive and elsewhere; this turned
+    out to be correct.  But as the Prince was, happily for him, not
+    recognised whilst ashore, he walked about unmolested.  Few persons
+    believed that so large a ship as the “St. George” (Captain Egerton)
+    would venture to enter the Roads through the Cockle, but to the
+    surprise of many local nautical authorities she sailed through as
+    cleanly as any fishing cutter, and dropped anchor in as familiar a
+    manner as might have been expected from an old visitant of these
+    waters.  Soon after she had anchored the “St. George” was boarded by
+    Mr. Watson, secretary of the Sailors’ Home, who brought off messages
+    and letters.  Prince Alfred went on shore, _incognito_, in the
+    afternoon, as did also a large number of other midshipmen and older
+    officers.  On Monday morning, the town authorities, and sightseers
+    generally, were on the alert—all being in search of the Prince.  But
+    again, as few individuals had a personal knowledge of his Royal
+    Highness, he escaped without recognition, and with Major Cowell (and,
+    we believe, other gentlemen) he drove out into the country.  As to
+    this and other proceedings of the Prince during the day, there were
+    scores of different reports; but we believe we are correct in saying
+    that, after his trip inland, His Royal Highness went from the Beach,
+    in the boat of which he is midshipman, on board the “St. George.”  On
+    board the ship the Mayor and Town Clerk were, we understand,
+    introduced to the Prince, and courteously received.  Between two and
+    three o’clock p.m., the Prince, Admiral Smart, Major Cowell, and the
+    Hon. Manners Sutton (with whom the Prince had consented to partake of
+    luncheon, at Kimberley Terrace), came on shore, accompanied in the
+    boat by the Mayor and Town Clerk.  His Royal Highness, the Hon.
+    Manners Sutton, and Major Cowell, then walked down to the Cricket
+    Ground at the South Denes, where a party of officers from the fleet
+    were playing a game of cricket with the members of the Yarmouth Club.
+    It had been reported that the Prince would visit the Cricket Ground,
+    and the consequence was that a large number of persons (probably
+    2,000) congregated there about two o’clock, over and above those
+    individuals who had been previously attracted to the spot by the
+    match itself, and by the two bands—one from the fleet, and that of
+    the East Norfolk Militia.  As soon as His Royal Highness was
+    recognised upon the ground, the crowd rapidly closed in around him,
+    and had it not been for the protection afforded him by the two
+    gentlemen by whom he was accompanied, he would in all likelihood have
+    undergone an unpleasant jostling.  So pressing and eager did the
+    inquisitive public become that in a few minutes the Royal sailor and
+    Mr. Sutton commenced a retrograde movement, whereupon the people
+    began running and pushing frantically—going in some instances as the
+    saying hath it, “head over heels.”  Remarks such as “That is he!”
+    with comments upon the Prince’s personal appearance, were loud and
+    frequent; and much surprise appeared to be felt that the “Duke of
+    York” should go abroad in the ordinary unassuming attire of a
+    midshipman.  Some faint attempts at cheering were assayed, but the
+    clamour of the “hunt” which was got up, overpowered everything but
+    the dust.  The Prince took all this good humouredly, and with his two
+    protectors walked sharply on to Kimberley Terrace, pursued all the
+    way up the drive by an immense crowd.  Most of the persons going
+    southward, and who met the crowd, had no idea what all the row was
+    about until they were told.  His Royal Highness got safely to Mr.
+    Sutton’s house, and in two or three minutes there was in front of the
+    house, close from the area railing to the coping-stones of the drive
+    on the eastward, a dense assemblage, which continued to increase up
+    to five o’clock, when we observed it still standing there.
+
+    Lunch over, the Prince, a little after five o’clock, escaped from the
+    back door, unobserved by the crowd, and was enabled to stroll into
+    the town.  He went up St. George’s Road, through King Street, down
+    Regent Street, and along the Quay, but did not venture into the
+    Market Row.  He then visited Mrs. Onslow, who son is chaplain on
+    board the “St. George,” and, we believe, a tutor of the Prince.
+
+    The cricket match terminated in favour of the naval men, who had, we
+    hear, 69 runs to spare.  In the first innings the Yarmouth players
+    had the best of it, but in the second the bowling of Midshipman
+    Lawson made sad havoc among the batsmen.
+
+    The Ball at the Town Hall was well attended, and went off with great
+    _éclat_.  The Prince, of course, was not present; but in the course
+    of the evening Admiral Smart and a party of naval officers—who were
+    brought up to the Quay-side, opposite the Hall, in the “Porpoise”
+    gunboat—joined the assembly and remained until after midnight.
+
+    The number of visitors to the ships increased considerably on Tuesday
+    (this) morning, when it became known that an order had been received
+    for the ships to hold themselves in readiness for sailing next day.
+
+    Altogether the visit of the fleet on this occasion has been a
+    brilliant affair; and the public have had ample time to inspect the
+    ships, some of which might much oftener, with advantage, find a berth
+    in Yarmouth Roads.
+
+    The town has not, we believe, been visited by a Royal personage since
+    the time that Prince William (afterwards King) and the Princess
+    Adelaide landed here, and remained for the night at the Angel Hotel.
+
+June 7th.—At the Channel Fleet Ball among those present were the Mayor,
+the Town Clerk, Sir E. Lacon, M.P., Admiral Smart, Captain Fellowes,
+R.N., Captain Egerton, R.N., Lieutenant the Hon. F. Gordon, Mr. and Miss
+I. Preston, Lord W. Kerr and other naval officers, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. L.
+Preston, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Aldred, Misses Cubitt, Mr. A. and Misses
+Steward, &c.  Next day a large number of persons visited the fleet, and
+dancing took place on the ships’ decks.
+
+Colonel Ibetson had inspected the Rifle Volunteers on the Denes.
+
+The “Ino” (a pleasure boat) had capsized when alongside the “St. George,”
+but all the people in her were saved.
+
+June 11th.—At the Vestry Meeting, the “Small Tenements Act” was proposed
+to be applied to the parish.
+
+Several houses and men had been struck by lightning during a
+thunderstorm.
+
+June 14th.—The programme for the Volunteer Review had been published; it
+was expected that 3,324 men would take part in it.
+
+June 18th.—The Dinner to the Volunteers on this occasion was to take
+place on St. George’s Denes; there were to be 17 tables, and the dining
+room to cover 7,550 feet of ground.  One quart of beer per man had been
+offered by Sir E. Lacon to the Volunteers.
+
+June 21st.—The Review had taken place and proved a great success: there
+were 3,324 men actually on the Denes.  At the Dinner held on St. George’s
+Denes, the Mayor presided, and after giving the toasts of “The Queen” and
+“The Royal Family,” he gave “The Army, Navy, and Militia,” to which
+Colonel Grey, C.B., Captain Lacon, R.N., and Colonel Adair responded.
+The Mayor then gave “The Volunteers,” to which Colonel Brett replied, and
+“The Lord Lieutenants of Norfolk and Suffolk,” which was acknowledged by
+Lord Suffield (Vice-Lieutenant of Norfolk) and Colonel Adair.  The Mayor
+then gave “The High Sheriff,” who responded.  The Mayor then gave “The
+Lord High Steward,” responded to by Lord Sondes, and “The health of
+Colonel Grey,” to which that officer replied; also “The Brigadiers of the
+Day,” replied to by Colonels Custance, Sir E. Lacon, and Astley.  The
+High Sheriff then proposed “The Mayor,” to which his Worship responded,
+and the healths of the Rev. H. Nevill, of the Noblemen and Gentlemen “who
+had honoured us with their presence,” of “Mr. Charles J. Palmer” and “The
+Ladies” were also given and responded to.  It was considered that “The
+Mayor and gentlemen who formed the Committee of Management, and
+particularly Mr. Charles J. Palmer, well deserved the thanks of the
+public and the Volunteers.”
+
+June 28th.—Major Marsh (of the artillery) had resigned his commission.
+
+July 2nd.—It was stated that Major Marsh would be succeeded in his
+command by Capt. John Lee Barber of the 1st Company, but Mr. Trafford was
+stated to have also resigned, and it was rumoured that the Artillery was
+likely to be amalgamated with the Rifle Corps.
+
+July 9th.—The Midsummer herring voyage was a failure.  Some attributed
+this to the 130 smacks then fishing from the port, and others to the
+early catches of immature fish.
+
+July 12th.—“Blondin” had been performing at the Victoria Gardens.
+
+July 16th.—Commissioner Cane had been holding an inquiry at the Workhouse
+to “ascertain the nature of the duties of the various public officers and
+method of their discharge.”
+
+July 19th.—Mr. Henry R. Harmer had been appointed an Admiralty
+Commissioner.
+
+July 23rd.—There had been a poll at Gorleston upon the Church Rate
+question, which had resulted in a majority of 142 against that impost.
+
+The Caister Lifeboat had been struck by lightning while on the Beach and
+several persons who were taking shelter under her bow injured.
+
+July 26th.—At the Regatta the “Audax,” J. H. Johnson, R.T.Y.C. won the
+yacht prize.  In the yawl race the “Star of the East,” the “Queen
+Victoria,” and the “Glance” competed, and the former won.  The “Wanderer”
+(Mr. J. L. Barber) won the River Yachts’ match, and the “Volunteer” the
+small Yawl match.
+
+Aug. 6th.—Contains the following notice of “The Water Frolic:—This event,
+which was formerly important from the fact of the ‘new’ Mayor being then
+chosen, and the official barge of the Mayor and Corporation being
+present, came off on Monday afternoon, at that part of the Waveney
+opposite Burgh Castle.  No official patronage was given to the affair,
+and consequently it was not, municipally, of any weight.  But as the
+weather was fine and sunny, with a ‘spanking’ southerly breeze, the
+yachts, which had arranged to attend and compete in two races, were sure
+of good sport, and the large crowds of persons who assembled early in the
+day on the North Quay, augured well for the steamboats which Mr. Fill—a
+worthy man of enterprise—always offers for the accommodation of the
+public (pay or not pay) either for trips to Cromer and Southwold, or even
+to Rotterdam fair, an event which East Anglians of old were wont to
+delight in.  At Burgh there was a large assemblage of craft—wherries,
+ships’ boats, punts, yachts, and, in fact, anything that would safely
+float.  Two matches were announced to take place, each for a stake value
+at £10, and the ordinary river yachts were the competitors, with the
+exception of the new and mischievous-looking boat of the High Sheriff of
+Norfolk—a boat which, although it could not out-run Mr. Barber’s ‘Flying
+Wanderer,’ will yet do credit to her build.  The ‘public-house wherries,’
+the pie stalls, the acrobats, and the rest of the contributors to the
+day’s fun were all active and appeared to do a good business.  The
+yachting competition—which the public ought to have considered the best
+business of the day—began with a match for £10, in which five
+cutter-rigged yachts sailed, viz., Mr. Barber’s ‘Wanderer,’ Mr.
+Nightingale’s ‘Red Rover,’ Mr. Read’s ‘Belvidere,’ Mr. R. J. H. Harvey’s
+‘Lady in White,’ and Mr. Morgan’s ‘Bittern.’  The Wanderer had the
+advantage throughout, and won—although she was occasionally closely
+pressed by the Red Rover.  The match extended over four rounds.  In the
+second match for a similar stake by latteens the ‘Vampire’ (Mr. Everett),
+the ‘Enchantress’ (Mr. Green), and the ‘Merlin’ (Mr. Humfrey) started,
+and continued in the order named to the close.  The ‘frolicers’ then
+commenced their homeward journey, and in the midst of music and song all
+arrived safely, we believe, at the Bridge Foot, after spending a
+convivial, if not a dignified, half day on the stream.  The frolic,
+however, in the absence of official support, is shorn of its ancient
+splendour.”
+
+August 13th.—The “Order of Precedence of the members of the Council” had
+been printed.  The Mayor had requested the members of that body to
+accompany him to church on Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas Day.
+
+Mr. S. Nightingale had backed his “Red Rover” against Mr. Barber’s
+“Wanderer” for four matches at £50 aside.
+
+Thieves had “drank the Sacramental wine and robbed the Poor’s box” at the
+Independent Chapel, Gorleston.
+
+August 16th.—At the Races, none of the Stewards (who were Lord W.
+Powlett, Count Batthyany, and Sir H. J. Stracey, Bart., M.P.,) had
+attended, and the usual Ball at the Town Hall had not been held through
+lack of patronage.
+
+August 20th.—The Yarmouth Cricket Club had played the “Visitors.”  The
+score was:—First Innings: Yarmouth, 29; Visitors, 15.  Second Innings:
+Yarmouth, 89; Visitors, 32.  Grand Totals: Yarmouth, 118; Visitors, 47.
+
+August 23rd.—It was proposed to raise a Rifle Corps at Ormesby.
+
+August 27th.—Sir H. Stracey, had invited the members of the Corporation
+to spend a day at Rackheath.
+
+August 30th.—Sir E. Lacon, Bart., had been gazetted Major of the N.A.V.,
+(vice Marsh resigned.)
+
+Sept. 3rd.—It was, at the Corporation’s visit to Rackheath, distinctly
+understood that Sir H. Stracey would offer himself again as a candidate
+for the Borough, and that Mr. Watkin was pledged to come forward again in
+the Liberal interest.
+
+The Council had determined to place an illuminated clock on the Town
+Hall.
+
+The Southtown Barracks had been repaired at considerable expense.
+
+Sept. 6th.—At the rifle prize shooting, Colour-Sergeant Chipperfield had
+taken the ladies’ challenge cup from Sergeant Fenner by one point.
+Corporal Denew had won the Chief Officers’ prize, and Sergeant Dick the
+Borough Members’ prize.
+
+Sept. 10th.—This shooting had been continued, and prizes won by Sergeant
+Pearson, Sergeant Swann, and Volunteer Barrett.
+
+Sept. 17th.—The High Sheriff of Norfolk had given a grand Volunteer
+Review and Fête at Crown Point, the Norfolk Artillery (Norwich and
+Yarmouth), mustered on the field 7 Officers, 42 Non-Commissioned
+Officers, 105 Gunners, and 23 Band, total 178; the Yarmouth Rifles (4
+Companies) were 235 strong, viz., one field Officer, 4 Captains, 8
+Subalterns, 5 Staff, 12 Sergeants, 4 Drummers, 185 rank and file, and 16
+Band.
+
+In the afternoon, the Volunteers and some 2,000 guests were entertained
+at dinner in marquees erected for the purpose, and various amusements
+provided.  The following Yarmouth names appear in the list of the
+competitors for the prizes:—Major Orde, Lieut. C. Diver, and Privates
+Mark Waters, Isaac Preston, J. B. Pearce, and C. Marsh, while among the
+guests were the following ladies and gentlemen from this locality:—Col.
+and Mrs. Baddeley, Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown, junr., Mr. B. Button, Mr. and
+Mrs. F Clowes, Capt. and Mrs. Cubitt, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel, Mr. and Mrs.
+Frere, Mr. and Mrs. Harmer, Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Lady Lacon, Capt. and
+Mrs. Lacon, Mr. T. Matravers, the Mayor of Yarmouth, Lieut. G. W. and
+Mrs. Moore, Lieut. and Mrs. Morant, Mr. Nightingale, Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
+Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. Danby-Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. F. Palmer, Mr. F.
+Danby-Palmer, Mr. and Miss I. Preston, the Rev. J. J. and Mrs. Raven, Mr.
+W. C. Reynolds, Mr. R. Rising, Capt. Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. S. Reeve, Capt.
+Turnour, Ensign and Mrs. Watling, Mr. W. and Mrs. Worship, Lieut. and
+Mrs. Wynyard, and Mr. E. P. and Mrs. Youell.
+
+Next day the High Sheriff also entertained upwards of 4,000 poor people
+at Crown Point.
+
+Sept. 20th.—Mr. Fenner and Mr. Chipperfield had been shooting well at the
+County Association Meeting.
+
+Messrs. Youell and Co., (Florists) had won two prizes at the Kensington
+Autumn Flower Show.
+
+Sept. 27th.—The Liberals claimed a gain of 50 upon the revision of the
+Borough Voters’ List, and it was stated the “the Liberal cause was much
+indebted to Mr. J. Eagleton, their Yarmouth agent, whose exertions in the
+Registration Court, in which the late Sir R. Peel said elections were to
+be won, had been unceasing.”
+
+Mr. G. V. Brooke was attracting crowded houses at the Theatre.
+
+Oct. 4th.—A French and an English corvette were on this station to
+protect the fisheries.
+
+Mr. Chamberlin had appeared before the Justices in support of an
+application against the form of the Poor’s Rate, but the Court had
+overruled his objections.
+
+Oct. 8th.—At the Municipal Revision Court, Mr. John Clowes and the Vestry
+Clerk, accused Mr. John Cooper of tampering with the latter gentleman’s
+papers, and a warm discussion ensued thereon.
+
+Oct. 15th.—At the Quarter Sessions, the Recorder (N. Palmer, Esq.) made
+an order quashing the Poor’s Rate.  Mr. C. Cooper appeared on behalf of
+Mr. J. Clowes as appellant, against the Churchwardens and Overseers,
+respondents in this case.
+
+At the Police Court, Mr. Gardiner, Editor of the _Yarmouth Independent_,
+craved sureties of the peace against Mr. J. H. Harrison, when, although
+the defendant called no evidence to rebut the charge made against him,
+the Bench (by a majority of two) decided against calling upon him to find
+sureties.  The complainant said he expected this when he saw such a “drum
+up” of Magistrates “who had been brought there as on Licensing day.”
+
+Oct. 18th.—A narrative of the proceedings at the Volunteer Review had
+been prepared by Mr. C. J. Palmer, and published.
+
+Oct. 22nd.—There had been disastrous storms at sea, and it was known that
+four vessels had foundered in the roads.
+
+The retiring Councillors were—North Ward: H. Boulter and W. N. Burroughs.
+Market Ward: F. Worship and C. C. Aldred.  Regent Ward: S. C. Marsh and
+S. B. Cory.  St. George’s Ward: J. G. Plummer and J. C. Smith.  Nelson
+Ward: G. Danby Palmer and C. E. Bartram.  St. Andrew’s Ward: E. H. L.
+Preston and H. Teasdel.
+
+One thousand persons had visited the Exhibition (London) by a cheap
+train.
+
+Oct. 25th.—The Mayor had entertained a large party of invited guests at
+the Town Hall.
+
+The Dutchmen had already arrived “in the schuyts or sea-tubs” for the
+fishing.
+
+Nov. 1st.—Several shipments of herring had been made for the
+Mediterranean.
+
+Nov. 5th.—At the Municipal election Mr. Mainprice had taken the place of
+Mr. Burroughs (who retired), and Mr. Rose had ousted Mr. S. B. Cory, who
+refused “to the curb to yield.”
+
+Nov. 8th.—Line fishing from boats and the Britannia Pier had become a
+fashionable amusement.
+
+Nov. 12th.—The Town Council had voted an address of loyalty to the Queen,
+and to the Prince of Wales, upon the latter attaining his majority.
+
+Sir E. H. K. Lacon proposed, and C. J. Palmer, Esq., seconded, the
+re-election of the Mayor, which motion was carried _nem. dis._, and the
+retiring aldermen, Messrs. J. T. Bracey, J. Bunn, B. Fenn, H. R. Harmer,
+W. Laws, and W. Mabson were re-elected.
+
+Nov. 19th.—The prizes recently shot for by the Rifle Volunteers had been
+distributed at the Victoria Gardens by the Mayor.
+
+Nov. 22nd.—The local Charity Trustees’ scheme for the establishment of a
+Grammar School had been approved by the Charity Commissioners.
+
+The Lancashire Relief Committee was in full work, and the following
+articles had been forwarded to Manchester:—63 coats, 70 cloaks and
+shawls, 21 dresses, 20 children’s frocks, 20 blankets and quilts, 28
+pairs of boots, 42 flannel waistcoats and shirts, 34 pairs of trousers,
+36 hats, and 361 other articles of clothing.
+
+In one day 1,500 lasts of herring had been brought into the harbour.
+
+Nov. 26th.—A public meeting in aid of the Lancashire Relief Fund had been
+held (the Mayor in the chair), and £160 subscribed in the room.
+
+Dec. 13th.—Two hundred barrels of herring had been sent to Manchester for
+the Relief Fund by the fish merchants.
+
+Dec. 17th.—The following rota of magistrates for salvage purposes had
+been appointed:—R. Hammond, E. H. L. Preston, J. W. Shelly, R. Steward.
+B. Jay, J. Clark, J. Fenn, and P. Pullyn.
+
+Dec. 20th.—During the week more than 600 articles of wearing apparel had
+been forwarded to Manchester for the Relief Fund.
+
+The fishing had proved a “successful and profitable season.”
+
+Dec. 24th.—Mr. Rust had launched a fine new brig for the Mediterranean
+trade.
+
+Dec. 27th.—£850 had been raised for the Lancashire Relief Fund.
+
+The town tolls had let as follows:—Market, £550 per annum; Fish Market,
+£55; and Ballastage, £660; the lessees being Messrs. Bowen and Co. of
+Leeds.
+
+Dec. 31st.—Steps were being taken to induce the Norfolk Agricultural
+Association to visit Yarmouth.
+
+The Rev. B. Vaux had presided at the Hospital meeting.
+
+The Artillery and Rifle Volunteers had been brigaded together on the
+South Denes.
+
+
+
+1863.
+
+
+Jan. 10th.—An inquiry was being held in respect of certain charges
+against the crew of the lifeboat.
+
+Mr. B. Fenn had presided at the annual library meeting.
+
+Jan. 14th.—At the lifeboat inquiry, after hearing evidence, the Rev. Mr.
+Steward moved, and Mr. Fellows seconded, “That the Beachmen were in no
+way culpable on the occasion, and that, on the contrary, their conduct
+was all that it ought to have been,” which motion was carried
+unanimously.
+
+Mr. E. P. Youell had executed some sleight-of-hand tricks _a la Frickel_
+with neatness and dexterity at the Priory Entertainment.
+
+Jan. 17th.—Four hundred persons sat down to tea at the Tract Lenders’
+Festival.
+
+A prize fight had taken place near the town, on a marsh next the Acle
+Road.
+
+Jan. 24th.—There had been a “tremendous gale.”
+
+Jan. 28th.—The following Charity Trustees had met for the purpose of
+appointing a head master of the Grammar School—Messrs. Charles J. Palmer
+(chairman), C. Cory, R. Hammond, W. N. Burroughs, E. H. L. Preston, B.
+Jay, and C. C. Aldred, when the Rev. H. J. Evans was elected; the other
+candidates being the Revs. Merryman, W. Algar, J. Partridge, C. Bachelor,
+and S. Eld.
+
+Jan. 31st.—Sad accounts continued to arrive from the Fishing Fleet,
+inconsequence of the late gales, “scarcely a smack arriving without
+bearing some marks of its fury, and the loss of spars and gear, while
+many of the crews have tales of horror to recount of vessels foundering,
+and all hands perishing before their eyes without the possibility of
+rescue.”
+
+Feb. 4th.—A meeting of the inhabitants had been held to consider what
+steps should be taken to celebrate the marriage of the Prince of Wales.
+
+Feb. 14th.—Harriet Cattermole had jumped into the river, but had been
+floated by her crinoline until rescued by the police.
+
+Feb. 21st.—P.G. J. C. Smith, Surgeon, had presided at the annual dinner
+of the “Prince of Wales’” Lodge, M.U.O.F., held at the Market Tavern, 46
+members and friends being present on the occasion.
+
+Feb. 25th.—C. J. Palmer, Esq., (the President), had taken the chair at
+the meeting of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, when it appeared that
+215 seamen and widows had been relieved during the past year, and that
+the income was £177 18s. 4d., as against an expenditure of £219 14s. 4d.
+
+Feb. 28th.—At the revision of the Proxy Book, it appeared that a number
+of persons claiming to act as proxies for the owners of property, were
+not authorised to do so by such owners, and Mr. Neave intimated that “the
+loss of his election last year was due to the scandalous manner in which
+the proxies had been worked against him.”
+
+March 16th.—The town had been _en fete_ upon the occasion of the marriage
+of the Prince of Wales, when the Corporation had attended St. Nicholas’
+Church; a special sermon had been preached by the Rev. H. R. Nevill, the
+Artillery had fired a salute of 21 guns from the South Battery, and the
+Rifles a _feu de joie_ in the Market-place.
+
+A Council meeting had also been held, when loyal addresses were moved,
+and seconded to the Queen and to the Prince and Princess of Wales by
+Messrs. E. H. L. Preston and John Clowes, and C. J. Palmer and W. Worship
+respectively.
+
+A volunteer banquet had been held on this occasion at Messrs. Lacon and
+Co.’s stores, when the following arrangements were made:—First table,
+Nos. 1 and 2 companies Artillery, (Captains J. L. Barber and W. Foreman);
+second table, 1 and 2 companies Rifles, (Captain Tomlinson and Lieutenant
+Harmer); third table, 3 and 4 companies Artillery, (Captains Green and
+Brown); fourth table, 3 and 4 Companies Rifles, (Captains W. Holt and H.
+Barber); the fifth table, Staffs of E.N.M., and N.M.A. Regiments.  In
+addition to the Volunteers, the following gentlemen were present as
+guests of Sir E. H. K. Lacon, the Mayor (R. Steward, Esq.), Rev. H.
+Nevill, Rev. B. Vaux, Captain Long, Major Penrice, Major Orde, Adjutant
+Gilbertson, Adjutant Smith, J. C. Smith, Esq., E.N.M., C. C. Aldred,
+Esq., Captain Dods, Lieutenant W. Danby-Palmer, E.N.M., Mr. Petts,
+Quarter-Masters Smith and Hardiment, &c.
+
+In the evening “the illuminations were on a most extensive scale,
+scarcely a house without a transparency or device.  The designs on the
+Town Hall and Hospital School were very beautiful, while many others on
+private houses were greatly admired.  On the Town Hall, facing the north,
+was fixed the principal illumination, consisting of a magnificent plume
+of feathers, having the letters “A. A.” on either side, and partly
+encircled with a wreath of oak leaves and acorns.  The height of the
+design was 18 feet by 30 feet in width, and was drawn by Mr. Morant, Town
+Surveyor, and manufactured by Mr. Doughty, of Gaol Street.  The fireworks
+were continued to a late hour, and we are happy to record that,
+notwithstanding the pressure of the crowd, no accident occurred to mar
+the pleasure of the day.  The arrangements of the police throughout were
+most satisfactory, and to the credit of our townsmen it must be stated
+that at the Police Court the following morning, the magistrates’ business
+was finished in two minutes and a half, the only charge being a case of
+drunkenness, which was graciously forgiven.  The ball at the Town Hall
+was fashionably and numerously attended and dancing was kept up to the
+music of Hulley’s quadrille band with unflagging spirit until an early
+hour the following morning.  During the day the inmates of the Workhouse
+and Gaol were regaled, the former at the expense of the Guardians, and
+the latter by the Mayor.  The inmates of the Fishermen’s Hospital were
+also regaled with plum pudding and roast beef, each man having, in
+addition, a pipe of tobacco, with a liberal supply of stout.  The women
+also partook of tea, with a plentiful supply of cake.  The inmates
+expressed themselves deeply grateful to the trustees of the charity for
+thus enabling them to participate in the festivities of the day.”
+
+March 18th.—A project had been suggested for the amalgamation of the two
+local Volunteer Corps, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Sir E. Lacon,
+Bart.
+
+March 21st.—At an adjourned meeting of the Rifle Corps this question was
+introduced by Major Orde, who advocated the suggestion, which was opposed
+by Ensigns Watling and Cobb, and the project was thereupon rejected by a
+majority of nearly 100; consequently the officers, (who were generally in
+favour of the movement), threatened to resign their commissions.
+
+March 28th.—The Poor’s Rate, (which had been 1s. 8d.), was reduced to 1s.
+2d. in the £.
+
+W. Yetts, Esq., had died at the age of 68; he had been for many years a
+member of the Corporation, and a Justice for the Borough.  “Mr. Yetts was
+possessed of considerable talent as an artist, and as a musician, and was
+at all times a liberal patron of the fine arts.”
+
+April 1st.—The action of “Bayly v. Woodrow” had been tried at the
+Assizes, the charge being one of slander upon the plaintiff, who was a
+surgeon, by the defendant, a baker in the town.  The verdict being for
+40s. and costs.
+
+Mr. Coxon, postmaster, had died somewhat suddenly.
+
+April 11th.—Messrs. Steward and Aldred had been re-elected Churchwardens;
+and Messrs. G. Danby-Palmer and J. Barker, Haven Commissioners, with
+Messrs. R. Hammond and D. A. Gourlay as supernumeraries.
+
+April 18th.—The East Norfolk Militia had mustered 780 strong at their
+annual training.
+
+The Election of Guardians had resulted in no change being made in the
+Board except as regarded the election of Frederick Palmer, Esq., a
+scrutiny of votes was threatened by the defeated candidates.
+
+April 22nd.—An otter had been captured on the Hall-quay and remained “in
+charge of the police,” and was the only “prisoner” before the Justices.
+
+May 2nd.—The Corporation addresses to the Prince and Princess of Wales
+had been presented by the Mayor, Lord Sondes, and Sir E. Lacon, Bart.
+
+J. G. Plummer, Esq., J.P., and a member of the Council, had died.
+
+May 9th.—The first ball of the season had been held at the new
+Assembly-rooms, South Beach, the Stewards being the Mayor, Sir E. H. K.
+Lacon, Bart., M.P., Major Marcon, Captain Ensor, Captain Longe, and Mr.
+C. J. Palmer.
+
+May 13th.—Mr. J. Scott had been elected a Councillor for the St. George’s
+ward in the place of the late Mr. Plummer without opposition, Mr. R.
+Norman (who had issued an address in the Conservative interest) having
+retired on the eve of the election.
+
+H.M.S. “Porcupine” was in the Roads.
+
+An “Old Crome” late the property of Mr. Hunt, had been sold for £110 to
+Mr. J. J. Colman.
+
+May 16th.—The Mayor had distributed prizes to the following members of
+the Norfolk Artillery Volunteers:—Sergeant-Major Stolworthy, Sergeant
+Sparrow, Sergeant Cocks, Corporal Page, Bombardiers Bullimore, Greenwood,
+Nutman, Self, and C. Bartram, and Corporal Baker.
+
+The Norfolk Artillery Militia, under command of Colonel Astley, had
+assembled, 600 strong, for its annual training.
+
+Mr. Marsh’s wine and spirit stores at the corner of Regent and King
+Streets, had been sold by auction for £3,210.
+
+The death of W. T. Clarke, Esq., J.P., had caused a vacancy for the St.
+Andrew’s Ward, and Mr. W. J. Brand had issued an address to the electors.
+
+May 27th.—This contest terminated for:—
+
+W. J. Brand            150
+W. Rivett              145
+
+And an amusing scene had taken place at the close of the poll between the
+Mayor and Mr. Rivett, the latter taunting his Worship for not coming up
+in time to record his vote, and “vowing in not the most correct English a
+fearful retaliation when his Worship’s term of office should expire.”
+
+June 3rd.—The Bishop had ordained five deacons and four priests at St.
+Nicholas’ Church.
+
+June 6th.—The following were the six best shots for the Wimbledon
+competition:—Corporal Wilshak, 105 points; Private Barrett, 101 points;
+Colour-Sergeant Chipperfield, 99 points; Sergeant Hudspith, 97 points;
+Captain Youell, 90 points; and Corporal Davey, 89 points.
+
+June 10th.—The “Red Rover” had reached Sheerness in nine hours on her way
+to compete at Erith for the Prince of Wales’ Cup.
+
+The deliveries of mackerel had been “very small.”
+
+June 17th.—The Bill for incorporating the Yarmouth Gas Company was before
+the Committee of the House of Commons.
+
+June 20th.—Mr. Jeremiah Barnes had passed the Legal Examination.
+
+June 24th.—The Norfolk Agricultural Society had held its annual show at
+Yarmouth in the Militia Barrack Square (with a considerable extra space
+which was boarded in to form the show yard) there was a great display of
+bunting, Messrs. Owles, Bond, Hylton, Parsons, Barnard, Mabson, Palmer,
+Fyson, Garratt, and Starling being chiefly noticeable in that respect;
+100 members and friends afterwards dined at the Town Hall under the
+presidency of the Mayor, when, in addition to his Worship, the following
+were the speakers:—The Hon. Wenman Coke, M.P., Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.,
+M.P., Sir Thomas W. P. Beauchamp, Bart., the Rev. B. Vaux, Sir W. Jones,
+Bart., Lord Walsingham, Lord Sondes, Mr. W. Burroughs, Mr. Field, Mr.
+Thomas Browne, Mr. Badham, and Mr. Blyth.
+
+D. Falcke, W. Briggs, and J. Scott, Esqs., had been appointed Justices in
+the place of W. Yetts, J. G. Plummer, and W. T. Clarke, Esqs., deceased.
+
+Miss Caroline Fellows (Mrs. Tomkins) had obtained the National Medallion
+for drawing at the Kensington competition.
+
+The Committee of the Commons had declared the preamble of the Gas Bill
+proved.
+
+June 27th.—Major Penrice had been installed W.M. of Lodge “United
+Friends,” and appointed J. Tomlinson, junr., S.W., F. W. Ferrier, J.W.,
+William Danby-Palmer, S.D., E. P. Youell, J.D., R. Rising, I.G., and C.
+Diver, Secretary.  The banquet was served at the Star by Host George
+Diver.
+
+Messrs. Youell, florists, were displaying beautiful specimens of the
+“Lilium Giganteum.”
+
+July 4th.—The “Egbert,” barque, of 410 tons register, had been launched
+from Messrs. Fellows’ yard.
+
+The new Assembly Rooms were proving a great attraction to visitors; the
+Artillery Band had been engaged by the directors.
+
+July 8th.—The “Red Rover” had beaten Mr. Trafford’s new boat the
+“Alabama,” at the Water Frolic, and Mr. Harvey’s “Myth” had taken the
+prize in the second match.  The “Vindex” had been sailed in a foul manner
+by her crew, much to the disgust of her owner, Mr. J. Tomlinson, junr.,
+who was acting as Hon. Secretary to the sports on the Committee-boat at
+the time.
+
+During these sports a frightful accident had happened in consequence of
+the hatches of the “Ruby” wherry falling upon two men, who were thereby
+crushed to death.
+
+July 11th.—Mr. Morant had resigned the Town Surveyorship.
+
+The magistrates on the salvage rota had been restrained from charging, as
+heretofore, fees of £2 2s. by the Secretary of State.
+
+July 15th.—Charles Rushmer, one of the men killed at the Water Frolic,
+who was a member of the Norfolk Artillery Volunteers, had been buried
+with military honours; it was stated that “this was the only death that
+had occurred among the Volunteers” since the formation of the corps in
+the town.
+
+Three thousand excursionists had arrived in one day from East Suffolk.
+
+July 18th.—The Channel Fleet, consisting of the following ships (under
+the command of Rear-Admiral Dacres) was in the Roads:—“Edgar” (flagship),
+71 guns, 800 men, 600 horse-power, Captain Church; “Emerald” (frigate),
+35 guns, 510 men, 600 horse-power, Captain Cummings; “Liverpool,” 39
+guns, 540 men, 600 horse-power, Captain Lambert; “Black Prince” (armour
+plated), 40 guns, 726 men, 1,200 horse-power, Captain Wainwright; “Royal
+Oak,” 35 guns, 547 men, 800 horse-power, Captain Campbell; “Resistance,”
+16 guns, 482 men, 600 horse-power, Captain Chamberlin; “Warrior,” 40
+guns, 706 men, 1,200 horse-power, Captain Cochrane; “Defence,” 16 guns,
+468 men, 600 horse-power, Captain Phillimore; “Trinculo,” (tender), 2
+guns, 20 men.  It was nearly dark by the time the last vessel of the
+squadron took up her moorings; numbers of persons, nevertheless, remained
+on the Beach to a late hour, watching the lights displayed by the vessels
+as they laid at their anchorage.
+
+At eight o’clock on Wednesday morning, a salute of eleven guns was fired
+from the Admiral’s ship, in acknowledgment of the salute by the
+Volunteers the previous evening.  During the whole of Wednesday the fleet
+was inspected by large numbers of visitors, who left the Britannia Pier
+in steamers plying to and from the squadron at reasonable fares, while
+the pier itself was the resort of many interested in watching the
+constant arrival and departure of men-of-war boats, freighted with
+provisions and stores, or in bringing officers on shore on leave.  At one
+o’clock, the Mayor, and a party on board, left the bridge in the
+steamboat “Emperor,” to pay an official visit to the Admiral.  The Mayor
+was accompanied on the occasion by C. J. Palmer, W. Nightingale, C. C.
+Aldred, W. Holt, G. S. Shingles, W. T. Foreman, W. Johnson, J. Clarke, B.
+Fenn, E. P. Youell, W. Laws, J. H. Orde, J. Stephenson, and J. Bunn,
+Esqs.  On arriving at the flag-ship the party were most courteously
+received by Captain Hornby, in the absence of the Admiral, who,
+unfortunately, was on shore.  After remaining a short time inspecting the
+“Edgar,” the party proceeded to the “Warrior,” where they were received
+by the Hon. Captain Cochrane, who escorted them over the ship.  This was
+by far the most interesting feature of the excursion the powerful
+armament and splendid construction of this truly noble vessel exciting
+the admiration of all.  The crew, numbering upwards of 700, were all
+found busily engaged at their varied avocations, some intent upon their
+drill at the huge Armstrong guns, while others were pursuing more
+peaceful avocations.  The interior arrangements of the “Warrior,” as a
+ship of war, have been so frequently and fully described, that it is
+unnecessary to allude further to them, suffice it to say that, after
+viewing all parts of the vessel, one could but feel that England had but
+little to fear from foreign invasion, while guarded by such bulwarks of
+defence.  The Mayor, with his friends, having made the tour of the fleet,
+returned to the Britannia Pier and disembarked.  The Mayor then proceeded
+to the Victoria Hotel, where the Admiral was understood to be staying,
+but was again unsuccessful in having an interview with him, as he had
+just previously left to go on board his flag-ship.  Under these
+circumstances, the Mayor addressed a letter to the gallant officer,
+expressing his regret at not meeting him, and tendering on behalf of the
+town an invitation to himself and officers to attend a ball at the Town
+Hall, on Monday evening, expressing a hope that his arrangements would
+enable him to accept it.”
+
+The Fleet were, however, compelled to leave on the Sunday afternoon.
+
+July 25th.—A Bazaar in aid of the Town Charities had been held, when Mrs.
+Nevill, Mrs. A. B. Crosse, Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mrs. J. Brown, Mrs. G.
+Palmer, Mrs. Rivers, Mrs. F. Frere, and Mrs. Harmer had stalls.
+
+July 29th.—Captain William Alfred Glasspoole had been appointed A.D.C. to
+Major-General Honner, C.B., commanding the Scinde Division of the Indian
+Army.
+
+Aug. 1st.—At the Regatta the “Gipsy Queen,” of Winterton, had won the
+yawl race, and the “Little Yankee” (Captain Cholmondley) and the
+“Belvidere” (T. M. Read, Esq.,) the small yacht races.
+
+And at the Water Frolic, the “Red Rover” (S. Nightingale, Esq.,) had
+beaten the “Wanderer” (R. Harvey, Esq.,) and the “Little Yankee” (Captain
+Cholmondley).
+
+The Regatta Dinner had been held at the Norfolk Hotel, (Winder,
+proprietor).
+
+£80 had been realised at the Bazaar.
+
+Aug. 5th.—The Volunteers had been inspected on the South Denes by Colonel
+Ibbetson.
+
+Aug. 8th.—A ring bearing the inscription “Maria Costerton, obit 18,
+October, 1788, aged 14 years,” had been dredged up on Breydon, and
+claimed by John Fisher Costerton, Esq., who had lost it some 60 years
+previously at a water party.
+
+Aug. 12th.—It was noted that the two drinking fountains were not used by
+the public.
+
+Aug. 19th—Bishop Hills had preached at St. Nicholas’ Church in aid of the
+Columbia Mission.
+
+The Mayor had refused the Bishop the use of the Town-hall for a meeting
+on the same subject, and it consequently had been held at the
+Priory-hall.  £90 was thus raised for the Fund.
+
+The Artillery Volunteers (170 strong) had been inspected by Colonel Knox.
+
+Aug. 22nd.—One thousand excursionists had arrived from Newmarket and
+Bury.
+
+The Town Clerk stated in Council that the costs of the Corporation in
+opposing the Gas Bill would amount to £800.
+
+The “Sir Edmund Lacon” Lodge, N.I.U.O.F., had been opened at the
+Volunteer Tavern, when Sir E. Lacon and H. R. Harmer, Esq., were invested
+with the respective offices of P.S.F. and P.G. and speeches delivered by
+those gentlemen and Dr. Stephenson.
+
+Aug. 26th.—Sir John Walsham was holding an inquiry as to the Guardians’
+election for the North Ward, where Mr. J. F. Neave claimed Mr. Hylton’s
+seat; there appeared to be grave irregularities in the Proxy List of
+Voters.
+
+Aug. 29th.—The memorial stone of the new Baptist Chapel on the Denes had
+been laid by J. J. Colman, Esq.
+
+Sept. 2nd.—Records the death of Samuel C. Marsh, Esq., “after a prolonged
+and grievous affliction.”
+
+Sept. 5th.—Mr. Falcke was suggested as a candidate for the Regent Ward to
+fill the late Mr. Marsh’s place in the Council.
+
+Sept. 9th.—The “Justice Roll” could not be found, and there was a “scene”
+on the Bench in consequence.
+
+Sept. 16th.—On Licensing Day there had been the usual “drum up” of
+Justices, who were classed as follows by the editor:—
+
+Regular Attendants—The Mayor, J. Fenn, J. Owles, B. Fenn, J. C. Smith, F.
+Palmer, E. Preston, P. Pullyn, R. Hammond, and J. Barker, Esqs.
+
+Occasional but useful attendants—J. Costerton, C. C. Aldred, W. Bessey,
+W. Thurtell, E. Youell, B. Jay, J. Clark, F. Worship and T. Brightwen,
+Esqs.
+
+Three hundred lasts of herring had been landed in one day, “but proving
+of inferior quality,” had scarcely realised £10 per last.
+
+Sept. 19th.—The alterations at the Naval Asylum, amounting to some £2,000
+or £3,000, had been entrusted to Mr. George Tyrell, of this town.
+
+At the Registration Court, Mr. Clowes appeared for the Liberals, and Mr.
+W. C. Reynolds for the Tories.
+
+The Elocution Society (Mr. Lovewell Blake, Secretary) had held its annual
+meeting and reunion at the Corn-hall, when 200 members sat down to tea.
+
+Sept. 23rd.—The Churchwardens (Messrs. Steward and Aldred) had been
+presented with silver tea services, as testimonials of the esteem and
+regard in which they were held by the parishioners.
+
+Mr. Falcke not being qualified to be elected a Councillor, Mr.
+Livingston, (Liberal) and Mr. Stagg (Tory) were before the electors in
+the Regent Ward.
+
+Sep. 26th.—The following noblemen and gentlemen had acted as Stewards of
+the Races:—Lord William Powlett, Lord Hastings, Sir E. H. K. Lacon,
+Bart., Edward Howes, Esq., M.P., Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. W. C. W. Coke,
+M.P., and Colonel Shafto Adair, A.D.C.  Mr. J. F. Clarke, as usual,
+officiated as Judge, and Mr. Samuel Clarke as Starter.
+
+The Regent Ward Election had terminated—
+
+For Stagg                83
+,, Livingston            57
+
+Sept. 30th.—James Scott and William Briggs, Esqs., had qualified as
+Justices.
+
+Oct. 3rd.—Corporal H. H. Baker had won the Champion Medal at the
+Artillery Volunteer Prize Shooting.
+
+Oct. 7th.—The Market had been “glutted” with fish, and the prices
+consequently remained very low.
+
+Oct. 17th.—The Mayor (R. Steward, Esq.,) had given his third banquet at
+the Town Hall, the Members for the Borough (Sir E. Lacon and Sir H.
+Stracey), the Recorder (N. Palmer, Esq.), and many others being present.
+
+Oct. 21st.—Mr. Newcomb had been appointed Postmaster.
+
+Oct. 24th.—At a dinner, given by Sir E. Lacon, to the members of the
+Conservative party, it had been determined to again offer the Mayoralty
+to R. Steward, Esq.
+
+The Bishop had confirmed 180 young persons at St. Nicholas’ Church.
+
+The prospects of the fishing were “of a most gloomy character.”  Two
+vessels, the “Leda” and “Isis” had left for Ancona, the former with 2,900
+and the latter with 2,550 barrels of fish, and several thousand barrels
+had been despatched by steamships trading with the Italian ports.
+
+Oct. 28th.—Three hundred lasts of herring had been landed on the Quay on
+Sunday, which had caused a great disturbance there, and the Magistrates
+proposed to take steps to prevent a recurrence of such scenes on the
+Lord’s day.
+
+Nov. 4th.—The following had been the result of the Municipal Election:—
+
+                 _North Ward_.
+Messrs. Bessey and Nightingale (Cons.) not
+opposed.
+                _Regent Ward_.
+Messrs. W. C. Reynolds and W. Wright (Cons.)
+not opposed.
+             _St. George’s Ward_.
+Messrs. Palmer and Foreman (Cons.) not
+opposed.
+                _Nelson Ward_.
+J. H. Harrison (politics doubtful)          148
+J. Clark (Con.)                             129
+J. Clowes (Lib.)                             81
+                _Market Ward_.
+J. Barnby (Con.)                            121
+C. Nuthall (Con.)                           121
+J. Bivett (Lib.)                             82
+G. W. Clowes (Lib.)                          70
+             _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+Richmond (Con.)                             251
+Gooda(Con.)                                 220
+Rivett (Lib.)                               100
+
+There had been a very heavy gale from the N.N.W.
+
+Messrs. Savage and de Caux had been proceeded against for placing swills
+on the South Quay, and Mr. Savage fined 40s. and costs, but the case
+against Mr. de Caux was not proceeded with.
+
+Nov. 7th.—Mr. C. J. Palmer had proposed and Mr. J. C. Smith seconded in
+the Council that £2.000 be expended in the further extension of the
+Marine Drive, which resolution was carried _nem dis_.
+
+The Government had purchased the waste ground between the R.N. Hospital
+and the Drive, and were about to enclose it.
+
+Nov. 11th.—Mr. R. Steward had, upon the nomination of Mr. Ferrier,
+seconded by Mr. Nightingale, been re-elected Mayor, and in returning
+thanks mentioned “his acknowledgments to C. J. Palmer, Esq., to whose
+advice much of the success that had followed his mayoralty was justly
+due, and he had pleasure in taking that opportunity of publicly thanking
+him for the valuable assistance he had at all times so cheerfully
+rendered.”
+
+Nov. 25th.—Five corn stacks, valued at upwards of £600, had been burnt on
+Mr. Hammond’s premises at Gorleston.
+
+Nov. 28th.—The sum of £135 had been raised for the purpose of presenting
+a testimonial to the Mayor.
+
+The price of gas had been reduced to 4s. 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet.
+
+Mr. Critten had launched a new lifeboat, named “The Friend of all
+Nations.”
+
+Dec. 5th.—Tremendous gales from the S.S.W. had visited the coast and much
+damage done to the shipping.
+
+Dec. 12th.—The new Methodist Chapel at Burgh had been partly blown down
+by the gale.
+
+Dec. 16th.—The following smacks were reported to be missing:—“Driving
+Mist” (Mr. Yaxley), “Leveret” and “Three Sisters” (Mr. Nockolds),
+“Ranger” (Mr. Norton), “Rhine” (Mr. Symonds), “Osprey” (Mr. Harrison),
+“Temperance Star” (Mr. Simlett), “Essex” (Mr. Carter), “Rainbow” (Mr.
+Moore), “Twilight” and “North Star” (Mr. Shuckford), “Gihon” (Mr. Todd),
+and the “Volunteer” (Mr. Veale.)
+
+The “Volunteer” steamtug, belonging to Mr. S Fill had been lost, owing to
+her having sprung a leak when about 40 miles from the land, while
+cruising about to find the missing smacks, and the crew reported that
+they had left her in a sinking state.
+
+Dec. 19th.—The following had been the winners of prizes in the N.A.V.
+competition:—Corporal Baker, and gunners Manship, Riches, Bartram,
+Shrimpling, Rainer; sergeant Steward; gunners Watson, Davy, Wetherell;
+sergeants Cocks and Robinson; corporal Beevor; bombardiers Greenwood,
+Nutman, Self; and gunners Stringer, Thompson, R. Cory and Howes.
+
+The presentation took place at the Drill-room, Regent-street, when the
+Mayor presided, and Captains Foreman and Barber also addressed the
+Volunteers.
+
+Dec. 23rd.—The thirteen smacks above-named were still missing.
+
+Dec. 26th.—C. J. Palmer, Esq. (President of the Institution) had read a
+paper upon the history of the building occupied as the Public Library and
+the Port Dues Office, at a Conversazione held therein.
+
+The Mayor’s Testimonial Fund had reached the sum of £200.
+
+The “Medusa” frigate was searching for the missing smacks.
+
+Dec. 30th.—There was a warm discussion going on as to the use of one of
+the Town fire engines at the burning of a vessel named the “Spray,” Mr.
+C. C. Aldred holding that it should not have been so used, while Mr.
+Falcke warmly supported the opposite view of the case.
+
+The following gentlemen then held commissions in the local Volunteer
+Corps.
+
+Artillery.—Major, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.; Captains, W. J. Foreman,
+John Lee Barber, and H. P. Green; First Lieutenants, A. W. Morant and J.
+W. C. Ewart; Second Lieutenants, T. M. Read, J. W. D. Gosnall, Robert
+Rising and John Brown; Hon. Chaplain, Rev. B. Vaux.
+
+Rifles—Major, James Henry Orde; Adjutant, R. C. Holmes (late Captain 10th
+Hussars); Captains, E. P. Youell, H. H. Barber, W. Holt, and J.
+Tomlinson; Lieutenants, H. R. Harmer, G. Moore, F. W. Ferrier, and S. W.
+Spelman; Ensigns, John Cobb, S. Aldred, E. Fyson, and R. Watling;
+Surgeon, Frederick Palmer; Hon. Chaplain, Rev. H. R. Nevill;
+Supernumerary Lieutenants, John Clark and Charles Diver.
+
+             _N.B.—The file for the Year_ 1864 _is missing_.
+
+
+
+1865.
+
+
+Jan. 7th.—A man, 60 years of age, had attended the Guardians, with a view
+to obtaining a wife out of the Workhouse.  He was referred back by the
+Board to his own parish (Clippesby).
+
+Jan. 11th.—Benjamin Dowson, Esq., had died in his 77th year; he was much
+respected, and the flags on the shipping and the public buildings had
+been hoisted at half-mast.
+
+Jan. 14th.—The Haven was in a bad state, and there was so little water on
+the bar that the “Rainbow” steamer had landed her passengers on the
+Beach.
+
+Jan. 18th.—John Barker, Esq., one of the Borough Magistrates and a Haven
+Commissioner, had died in his 69th year.
+
+Jan. 28th.—The Great Yarmouth Building Society had held its first meeting
+(Major Foreman in the chair), when Mr. Chipperfield was elected
+secretary, and the following gentlemen directors:—H. Buston, J.
+Stephenson, R. Dumbleton, E. Stagg, and J. Isaac.
+
+The “Antelope” cutter had been launched from Mr. Winter’s yard, for
+Messrs. Smith and Son.
+
+Feb. 4th.—Mr. C. J. Palmer had presided at the annual Sailors’ Home
+Meeting, when Captain Rivers, D. Falcke, W. Worship, S. Dowson, C. Rose,
+R. Norman, and J. Scott, Esqrs., Majors Orde and Foreman, and the Revs.
+Hurst and Harrison were present.
+
+A public meeting, over which Mr. E. H. L. Preston presided, had been held
+in opposition to the “Haven and Port Bill” which was being promoted by
+the Corporation, and the following committee appointed to watch that
+measure:—Messrs. E. H. L. Preston, W. N. Burroughs, R. Dumbleton, J. W.
+de Caux, James Scott, Robert Barber, and John Owles.
+
+Feb. 15th.—A “very violent storm” had arisen at the meeting of the
+Corporation Committee sitting upon the Haven and Port Bill.
+
+Feb. 22nd.—The shipowners had met (Mr. R. S. Watling in the chair), to
+consider the Bill, and had passed a resolution moved by Mr. G. Blake and
+seconded by Mr. J. B. Hylton, in favour of the measure.
+
+The fishing interest had held a meeting (Mr. B. Fenn in the chair), and
+condemned the proposed Corporation Fishwharf scheme.
+
+Feb. 25th.—At the Council meeting, Mr. E. H. L. Preston and Mr. C. C.
+Aldred had been “at loggerheads” with regard to the Haven Bill.
+
+March 11th.—Mr. H. Boulter, for many years one of the Councillors for the
+North Ward, had died.
+
+March 22nd.—There had been a heavy gale from the S.E., which had
+occasioned great damage to the shipping; Mr. Petts and the coastguard had
+done much good service with Manby’s apparatus, in saving life.
+
+March 25th.—At the contest in the North Ward, consequent on the death of
+Mr. Boulter, the numbers were—
+
+J. H. Bly (Con.)              121
+J. F. Neave (Lib.)             76
+
+Hopton Church, which had recently been destroyed by fire, was to be
+rebuilt on a new site at a cost of £2,500.
+
+April 1st.—During a heavy gale the vessels “Jenny R” and “Londonderry”
+had been stranded on the Beach.
+
+April 8th.—Reports the death of George Danby-Palmer, Esq., as
+follows:—“We regret to record the decease of this gentleman, who expired
+at his residence, South Quay, on Tuesday evening last.  Mr. Palmer was
+born July 5th, 1787, and was therefore in his 78th year.  He was a member
+of the old Corporation, and since the passing of the Municipal Reform
+Act, had continued in the new Corporation, although of late years illness
+had prevented him from taking any active part in the administration of
+municipal matters.  He was a Justice of the Peace for the County of
+Norfolk as well as the Borough, and also filled the office of Haven
+Commissioner.  Mr. Palmer throughout his long connection with the town
+was closely identified with the trade and commerce of the port, being a
+large shipowner, and deeply interested in the fisheries.  His loss will
+be felt by many, particularly among the poor, to whom he was a true
+friend.  As a tribute of respect to his memory, the flags have been
+hoisted on the shipping and principal buildings in the town during the
+week.”  In politics Mr. Palmer was a Whig, and possessed great influence
+in the town.
+
+April 15th.—Mr. H. H. Barber (Lib.) and Mr. S. K. Smith (Con.) were
+candidates for the seat thus rendered vacant in the Nelson Ward.
+
+The following Guardians had been elected:—North Ward: Messrs. S.
+Nightingale, J. B. Hylton, and I. Shuckford.  Market Ward: Messrs. J.
+Laws, C. C. Aldred, and J. Fenn.  Regent Ward: Messrs. W. Worship, R. D.
+Barber, and C. Diver.  St. George’s Ward: Messrs. F. Palmer, J. Scott,
+and B. Fenn.  Nelson Ward: Messrs. J. Clowes, W. T. Fisher, C.
+Woolverton, and G. W. Moore.
+
+The shipwrights, who had been on strike, had returned to their
+employment.
+
+April 22nd.—The debt on St. Nicholas’ Church was then £6,700.
+
+The contest in the Nelson Ward had resulted as follows:—
+
+H. H. Barber (Lib.)            150
+S. K. Smith (Con.)             117
+
+And “the proceedings throughout the day had all the characteristics of a
+general election.”
+
+Messrs. C. S. D. Steward and E. R. Aldred had been re-elected
+Churchwardens by the Vestry.
+
+May 13th.—The “George” schooner had been launched from Mr. Rust’s yard.
+
+May 27th.—There had been no special demonstration of loyalty on the
+Queen’s birthday.
+
+The Dowager Lady Lacon had bequeathed £200 to the Hospital.
+
+A “French Club,” of which M. Butel was the tutor, was meeting at the
+Norfolk Hotel.
+
+June 7th.—A meeting of the Conservative party had been held at the Star
+Hotel, which was attended by Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Mr. Goodson, and an
+active canvass had been commenced on behalf of those gentlemen, as the
+Conservative candidates for the Borough.
+
+June 10th.—The Liberals had met at the Angel Hotel, when Mr. E. W.
+Watkin, by letter, strongly recommended Mr. A. Brogden, and Mr. J. C.
+Marshman to the electors, and those gentlemen were, on the motion of Mr.
+Livingston, seconded by Mr. Moore, requested to visit the Borough with
+Mr. Watkin.
+
+June 17th.—H.M.S. “Dauntless,” 31 guns, was anchored in the Roads.
+
+Mr. S. Barge had obtained the contract for enclosing the land to the east
+of the Naval Hospital.
+
+Mr. H. R. Harmer had been presented with an elegant silver salver upon
+the occasion of his resigning his commission of Lieutenant in the Rifle
+Volunteers.
+
+June 21st.—The Liberals had held a monster meeting in the Market Place,
+when Mr. J. Clowes occupied the chair, and the Liberal candidates
+(Messrs. Brogden and Marshman) had delivered addresses.
+
+The Conservatives had also held a meeting, convened by circular, which
+had been addressed by Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Mr. Goodson.
+
+July 1st.—Both parties had held meetings at Gorleston, which had been
+addressed by their respective candidates; each of the candidates spoke of
+“certain success, with fair play.”
+
+July 5th.—The Editor states “that it is evident from the numbers who hold
+back their promises, that there is a great expectancy that the value of
+votes will rise in the market.”
+
+July 8th.—The Liberals had been holding meetings in each of the Wards,
+and it was stated that “both parties are professedly confident of
+achieving a victory.”
+
+July 12th.—Mr. Marshman had suddenly and unexpectedly retired from the
+contest, and Mr. Brogden had issued an address stating that Mr. Vanderbyl
+would take Mr. Marshman’s place as a candidate for the Borough; it was
+evident that “the struggle would be one of no ordinary character.”
+
+The farmers in East Norfolk were agitating for a repeal of the Malt Tax,
+and had adopted Mr. Clare Sewell Read as their candidate.
+
+July 15th.—Sir Thomas B. P. Beauchamp, Bart., had been selected as a
+colleague of the Hon. Colonel Coke, the sitting Liberal Member for that
+Division of the County.
+
+At the Borough nomination the appearance of the Liberal candidates “was
+the signal for a regular ovation.”  When something like a hearing could
+be obtained, Mr. E. H. L. Preston proposed, and Mr. Dumbleton seconded,
+Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, Bart., Mr. R. Hammond proposed, and Mr.
+J. Scott seconded, Alexander Brogden, Esq.; Mr. W. Worship proposed, and
+Mr. C. Woolverton seconded, James Goodson, Esq.; and Mr. G. Blake
+proposed, and Mr. J. Owles seconded, Philip Vanderbyl, Esq.
+
+The show of hands was by an “immense majority” found in favour of Messrs.
+Brogden and Vanderbyl.
+
+The polling took place on the following day, and this description is
+given of
+
+                               “THE ELECTION.”
+
+    The very general expectation that prevailed as to the severity of the
+    contest drew early together large numbers of persons, who thronged
+    the vicinity of the polling places and the streets throughout the
+    day.  The polling from eight to nine o’clock was very rapid, both
+    parties striving their utmost to bring up men so as to head the poll.
+    The popular feeling, which manifested itself unmistakeably in favour
+    of the Liberal cause, was sadly damped between the hours of nine and
+    ten o’clock by the appearance of a placard bearing the state of the
+    poll, and showing that the Conservatives, notwithstanding the
+    activity displayed by the other side, had stolen a march upon them,
+    and meant winning.  The result of the next hour’s polling had
+    considerably increased the Conservative majority, and, as a large
+    proportion of the electors had voted, it became evident that the
+    battle, as far as Liberal interests were concerned, was all but lost.
+    As the day advanced, the position of the Liberals on the poll became
+    worse, and all chance of retrieving their position was hopeless.  The
+    excitement was very great in the town, but the crowd continued to
+    conduct themselves pretty quietly, contenting themselves with venting
+    their disappointment by groaning heartily at every vehicle bearing
+    placards of “Vote for Lacon and Goodson.”
+
+   State of the Poll.
+     Nine o’clock.
+Lacon                298
+Goodson              294
+Brogden              235
+Vanderbyl            226
+      Ten o’clock.
+Lacon                541
+Goodson              526
+Brogden              447
+Vanderbyl            425
+    Eleven o’clock.
+Lacon                608
+Goodson              574
+Brogden              506
+Vanderbyl            481
+    Twelve o’clock.
+Lacon                746
+Goodson              712
+Brogden              595
+Vanderbyl            557
+      One o’clock.
+Lacon                758
+Goodson              708
+Brogden              610
+Vanderbyl            571
+      Two o’clock.
+Lacon                798
+Goodson              757
+Brogden              618
+Vanderbyl            573
+     Four o’clock.
+Lacon                828
+Goodson              784
+Brogden              634
+Vanderbyl            589
+
+    The following detail is given of the polling in the various Wards.
+
+                 Lacon.       Goodson.      Brogden.     Vanderbyl.
+St.                     91            86            78            74
+Nicholas’
+Market                 146           140           120           109
+Regent                 152           146           106            99
+St. George’s           104           100            96            91
+Nelson                 189           173           138           130
+Southtown              146           139            96            86
+        Total          828           784           634           589
+
+    July 19th.—At the Nomination for East Norfolk, Sir T. B. P. Beauchamp
+    (failing to satisfy the Malt-tax Repeal party), Mr. Clare Sewell Read
+    was proposed as a candidate for the Division, as also were Colonel
+    Coke, Mr. Howes, and Sir Thomas; the show of hands being in favour of
+    Howes and Read, a poll was demanded for the Whig candidates (the Hon.
+    Colonel Clarence Wenman Walpole Coke and Sir Thomas Brograve
+    Proctor-Beauchamp, Bart.,) who proceeded to Yarmouth, where their
+    agent (Mr. F. Danby-Palmer) at once organised a meeting of 6,000
+    persons in the Market-place, Mr. R. Hammond presided, and General Sir
+    Charles A. Windham, Colonel Coke, Viscount Bury, and Sir Thomas
+    Beauchamp addressed the assembly.
+
+    The Tories also held a meeting in front of the Crown and Anchor
+    Hotel, which was addressed by the Mayor (R. Steward, Esq.), Mr. C. S.
+    Read, and Mr. E. H. L. Preston; the crowd then, however, gave “three
+    cheers for Brogden and Vanderbyl, and as many groans for Howes and
+    Read.”
+
+July 22nd.—The voting in the town of Yarmouth had been, with regard to
+this contest, as follows:—
+
+Coke                 340
+Beauchamp            314
+Howes                297
+Read                 267
+
+But the general return was—
+
+Howes                3,100
+Read                 2,985
+Beauchamp            2,150
+Coke                 1,994
+
+July 29th.—The Regatta had, owing to the exertions of F. Harmer, Esq.,
+been very successfully conducted.
+
+A Swimming Association had been formed in the town, and Mr. George
+Archard had won the 1,000 yards match.
+
+Sir John Walsham had opened an inquiry at the Tolhouse as to the election
+of Messrs. I. Shuckford, W. J. Foreman, and C. Diver, (Guardians for the
+parish), whose seats were claimed by Messrs. J. F. Neave, C. Steward, and
+J. Clowes (grocer), respectively.
+
+Mr. J. Clowes, (solicitor), appeared for the appellants, and Mr. C.
+Diver, for the respondents.
+
+Aug. 26th.—The Race Ball had been numerously attended, and amongst those
+present were Lord Suffield, the Hon. Mrs. Harbord and party, Major and
+Mrs. Orde and party, Mrs. Cubitt and party, Mr. E. H. L. Preston, Miss
+Preston, Mr. E. S. Preston, Mr. I. Preston, Mr. F. Danby-Palmer and Miss
+Palmer, Captain and Mrs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W. Danby-Palmer, Mr. T. M.
+Baker, Mr. T. Burton Steward, Mr. E. Frere, Mr. and Mrs. F. Ferrier, Mr.
+C. J. Palmer, Mr. Tompson, Mr. Penrice, Mr. Trafford, &c.
+
+Aug. 30th.—The Rifle Volunteers were competing for prizes.
+
+Sept. 6th.—The Volunteer Rifle Corps had mustered 230 strong when
+inspected by Colonel Deshon.
+
+Mr. Shales, of the Star-hotel, had been thrown from his horse on the
+Drive, and fractured his collar-bone.
+
+Sept. 9th.—The Band of the Coldstream Guards had been performing at the
+Victoria Gardens, and on the Wellington Pier.
+
+Sept. 20th.—The Haven Commissioners had drafted certain clauses to be
+inserted in the New Haven Bill.
+
+Owing to the high prices of provision, strikes were threatened by the
+working men.
+
+Sept. 23rd.—The Band of the 13th Hussars had given two concerts at the
+Victoria Gardens.
+
+Sept. 30th.—Herring was selling at from £23 to £25 per last.
+
+Oct. 7th.—Mr. W. J. Foreman had been declared a duly elected Guardian for
+the St. George’s Ward, but nothing had yet transpired as to the result of
+the petitions against Messrs. Shuckford and Diver.
+
+A ball in honour of the French and English steamers now in the port, had
+been given in the Assembly Rooms.  Among those present were the Mayor,
+Mayoress and Miss Steward, Major and Mrs. Orde and party, Captain and
+Mrs. Cubitt, the Misses Cubitt, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer and Miss Tapp,
+Mrs. Gott, the Misses Gott and party, Miss Maitland, Mrs. and Miss
+Seppings, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. L. Preston, Miss Preston, the Misses
+Larkman, Mr. and Mrs. Gosnall, Miss Pearson, Miss Poole, Mr. and Mrs. J.
+Brown, Mr. F. Danby and Miss Palmer, the officers of the English and
+French ships, Mr. A. Steward, Mr. T. M. Baker, Mr. E. S. Preston, Mr.
+Frere, Mr. W. Danby-Palmer, Mr. M. Waters, Mr. T. B. Steward, &c.
+
+A large ferry boat, while delivering ice to a smack in the roads, had
+been upset, but fortunately none of the men in her had been drowned.
+
+Oct. 1st.—Albert Hensman had been killed by Henrich Erenschinsen at the
+City of London tavern.
+
+Oct. 21st.—The Poor Law Inquiry had been resumed, and was proceeding at
+the Tolhouse before Sir J. Walsham.
+
+Prime herring was fetching £35 per last.
+
+Oct. 25th.—There had been a heavy gale from the N.E.
+
+Oct. 28th.—One hundred and thirty young persons had been confirmed by the
+Bishop of Norwich.
+
+Nov. 1st.—It was reported that 21 lives had been lost in the recent gale.
+
+Nov. 4th.—There had only been contests in the Nelson Ward, where Mr. de
+Caux opposed the re-election of Messrs. Bartram and Barber (Libs.), and
+in the St. Andrew’s Ward, where Mr. Downing opposed the re-election of
+Messrs. Preston and Teasdel (Cons.), but in both cases the “opposition
+proved fruitless.”
+
+Sixteen and a half lasts of fish delivered from the “Ethelbert,” (Messrs.
+Smith and Son) had realised £377 14s., and 8 lasts from the “Secret” had
+made £182 15s. 3d.
+
+Nov. 11th.—At the Council Meeting on the 9th, Mr. F. Worship proposed,
+and Mr. C. Woolverton seconded, Mr. C. C. Aldred as Mayor, who upon his
+election left the Court with Mr. Steward in order to be invested with the
+robe and chain, when “considerable surprise was manifested” at Mr.
+Steward declining to return to the Council Chamber with the newly-elected
+Mayor.
+
+Nov. 18th.—The demand for herring continued very great, and prices ranged
+up to £28 per last.
+
+Mr. Neave had been declared to be elected a Guardian (in the place of Mr.
+Shuckford) by the Poor Law Board.
+
+Nov. 25th.—The Rifle Volunteer Shooting prizes had been presented (the
+Mayor presiding) at the Town Hall.
+
+The Ladies’ Challenge Cup was on this occasion handed over to Private
+Pestell.
+
+B. Fenn, Esq., (one of the Justices, and formerly an Alderman of the
+Borough) had died at the age of 73 years.
+
+Dec. 6th.—J. T. Birch, Esq., had presided for the last time as Judge of
+the Yarmouth County Court, having exchanged that appointment with J.
+Worlledge, Esq. (the Judge of the Suffolk Courts), for part of his
+district.
+
+Dec. 13th.—The cattle plague had attacked the cows in Mr. Fox’s and Mr.
+Thacker’s dairies.
+
+Dec. 20th.—It had been determined to lodge a petition against the return
+of Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Mr. Goodson on the ground of “gross bribery and
+corruption.”
+
+Dec. 23rd.—An Art Exhibition was being held at the Town Hall, where J.
+Owles, Esq’s. china was much admired.
+
+Dec. 30th.—There had been a meeting of farmers to consider a proposed
+Cattle Plague Rate of 2d. in the £.
+
+             _N.B.—The file for the Year_ 1866 _is missing_.
+
+
+
+1867.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—An attack had been made upon the Recorder (N. Palmer, Esq.),
+whose ill-health had caused his absence from the Quarter Sessions, by
+Messrs. R. Steward and C. C. Aldred, and the Mayor (Mr. E. P. Youell) by
+his casting vote, gave effect to this action.
+
+David Falcke, Esq., had died; his widow had sent £5 for the poor of the
+town.
+
+Jan. 12th.—The “South-end Mission,” which had been erected at a cost of
+£500, had been opened: the Corporation attended this ceremony.
+
+Jan. 16th.—The attempt to deprive Mr. Palmer of the Recordership was
+“strongly condemned,” and it was believed that the Secretary of State
+would not entertain the Magistrates’ application.
+
+Jan. 19th.—This proved to be true, and the Mayor (Mr. E. P. Youell) had
+been considerably snubbed by that official in his reply to the letter
+forwarded by him.
+
+There had been heavy gales; much damage sustained by the shipping; the
+Railway traffic had been impeded by the snowdrifts.
+
+Jan. 26th.—A meeting had been held to relieve the distress of the poor,
+when £289 was raised in the room.
+
+Dr. Moxon had presided at the anniversary meeting of the “Sir Edmund
+Lacon” Lodge, N.I.O.F., held at the Volunteer tavern.
+
+Feb. 23rd.—The Corporation had held a meeting for the purpose of electing
+two Haven Commissioners under the recently passed Haven Act, when the
+voting was—
+
+For Mr. Charles Cory (Town-clerk)          25
+,, ,, Robert Steward                       24
+,, ,, E. H. L. Preston                     22
+
+Mr. Preston thus losing his seat on the Board, and that gentleman, after
+regretting that Mr. Youell, (the Mayor) and others should have “put such
+an insult upon him,” stated “that he severed himself from such a
+disgraceful party.”
+
+Feb. 27th.—Mr. Rumbold had been unanimously elected (in the place of
+Harbert retired), one of the relieving officers.
+
+March 2nd.—The Norfolk and Suffolk Building Society had held a meeting at
+the Oddfellows’-hall, Gorleston, when Mr. W. J. Brand presided, and
+addresses were delivered by Messrs. F. Palmer, L. Blake, J. F. Neave,
+Ling, Sacret, and W. S. Page.
+
+On the revision of the Proxy Book, Mr. C. Diver had appeared for the
+Conservatives and Mr. F. Danby-Palmer for the Liberals.
+
+Mr. Copeman, of Long Stratton, had purchased No. 4, South-quay, (the
+Elizabethan mansion restored by the late John Danby-Palmer, Esq.), for
+£1,150 and £60 for fixtures.
+
+Eighteen hundred and sixty-seven changes had been rung on St. Nicholas’
+bells on the 1st and 2nd inst., by the Parish ringers.
+
+March 6th.—The proposal of the Government to disfranchise the Borough was
+the subject of general comment.
+
+W. H. Bessey, Esq., J.P. and Town Councillor, had died in his 68th year.
+
+March 9th.—The Town Council had adopted a petition to Parliament
+deprecating the proposed disfranchisement of the Borough.
+
+Lord Bury (accompanied by Mr. F. Danby-Palmer) was sounding the
+constituency of East Norfolk with a view to contesting the division upon
+the next vacancy.
+
+The seat on the newly constructed Haven Board held by the shipowners had
+been contested with the following result:—
+
+For Mr. Watling            191
+„ Mr. Scott                 91
+
+And the former was consequently elected.
+
+March 13th.—The Conservative electors had met at the “Star” (W. Worship,
+Esq., in the chair), and proposed, if disfranchisement could be avoided,
+a compromise as to the future representation of the Borough.
+
+March 16th.—The Liberals had also held a meeting at the “Angel,” when the
+majority of those present repudiated the suggested compromise; Mr. R.
+Hammond (chairman), Mr. J. Clowes, Mr. J. Lawn, Mr. R. Barber, Mr. J.
+Garratt, Mr. L. Blake, Mr. J. W. de Caux, Mr. W. Livingston, Sir Thomas
+Beevor, and Mr. J. Scott took part in this discussion.
+
+April 6th.—There had been a “Magisterial field-day” for the appointment
+of Overseers, when the following Justices were present:—Conservatives—The
+Mayor and Messrs. R. Steward, C. C. Aldred, J. Fenn, B. Jay, J. C. Smith,
+J. C. Clark, and F. Worship; and Liberals—Messrs. R. Hammond, P. Pullyn,
+F. Palmer, J. Owles and J. Scott.  The Tory nominees were appointed after
+a warm altercation, in which Mr. Steward, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Palmer and Mr.
+Aldred took prominent parts.
+
+The following Guardians had been elected:—
+
+_North Ward_: Messrs. S. Nightingale, J. T. Buston, and J. F. Neave.
+
+_Market Ward_: Messrs. W. Laws, C. C. Aldred, and J. Rivett.
+
+_Regent Ward_: Messrs. W. Worship, R. D. Barber, and C. Diver.
+
+_St. George’s Ward_: Messrs. W. T. Foreman, C. Moore, and E. Stagg.
+
+_Nelson Ward_: Messrs. G. W. Moore, J. Clowes, C. Woolverton, and H. H.
+Barber.
+
+The following tenders had been accepted for the new Fish
+Wharves:—Bricklaying.  Norfor, £533; masonry, Bartram, £1,780; paviour,
+Chappel, £1,866 7s. 1d.; slater, Dawber, £530; carpenter, Norfor, £1,820;
+smith, Barnes, £700; plumber, Wright, £600; total, £7,899 7s. 1d.
+
+April 24th.—Messrs. Spence, Everard, Moore, Fenner, Veale, Neave,
+Harrison, Douglas and Silvers had been upset on Ormesby Broad and
+narrowly escaped drowning.
+
+April 27th.—The bell-ringers had “struck,” owing to their not being
+allowed to ring a peal on the occasion of a marriage which took place in
+Passion week.
+
+May 4th.—The East Norfolk Militia had been inspected by Colonel Ross, and
+the Officers had given a ball at the Town Hall.
+
+May 11th.—Some Races, called “The Spring Meeting,” had been held on the
+Denes under the management of Messrs. D. R. Fowler, E. Stagg, A. Watling,
+C. Steward, J. T. Savage, and H. Crowe, Mr. Cufaude acting as judge and
+Mr W. Crowe as starter.
+
+May 22nd.—Mr. Edmond Beales had attended a Reform Demonstration held on
+the Hall Quay, when the Rev. Shelley occupied the chair.
+
+May 29th.—The first stone of the Volunteer Drill Hall (Ensign F.
+Danby-Palmer, hon. secretary) had been laid by the Mayor (Captain
+Youell), after the Rev. B. Vaux had offered up a prayer.  Major Orde and
+Lord Suffield then addressed the corps, which fired several volleys, the
+band playing “God Save the Queen.”
+
+The Ringers being still “on strike,” the Church bells were silent on this
+occasion.
+
+June 5th.—The House of Commons had passed the clause disfranchising the
+Borough.
+
+A halibut had been caught by one of the fishing craft, measuring 6 feet
+long, 30 inches broad, and weighing 161 lbs.
+
+June 8th.—The marriage of Joseph Tomlinson, Esq., to Miss Ellen Larkman,
+had been celebrated, with much rejoicing, at Belton Church.
+
+June 12th.—There had been an alarming fire on Mr. Barnes’ and Mr. Gooda’s
+premises at Southtown.
+
+June 29th.—And another fire at Gorleston on Mr. Kemp’s premises, where
+the damage was estimated at from £1,200 to £1,500.
+
+Captain Smyth, R.N. (Pier Master) had been granted a Greenwich Hospital
+out-pension of £65 a year.
+
+July 6th.—Bro. William Danby-Palmer had been installed W.M. of Lodge
+“United Friends” 313, and during the subsequent banquet at the Star
+Hotel, the band of the Rifle Volunteers had performed on the “leads.”
+
+E. H. L. Preston, Esq., had been nominated a Knight of the Belgian Order
+of Leopold.
+
+July 13th.—The “Hermit” (smack) had been launched for Mr. H. K. Swann,
+from Mr. Ambrose J. Palmer’s yard.
+
+July 24th.—Mr. I. Preston, jun., acted as secretary at the “Water Frolic”
+(vice Tomlinson resigned), when the following yachts competed:—“Spray,” 8
+tons, F. Foster, Esq.; “Iris,” 7, Messrs. Harrison and Veale;
+“Fleur-de-Lis,” 5, P. Gandy, Esq.; “Fleetwing,” 9, Messrs. Hart and
+Asker; “Warrior,” 9, H. K. Thompson, Esq.; “Blue Bell,” 6, J. E. Preston,
+Esq.; “Syren,” 4, Press Bros.; “Vixen,” 10, P. S. Millard, Esq.; and
+“Enchantress,” 10, H. H. Barber, Esq.  The “Blue Bell” won.
+
+Aug. 3rd.—At the Regatta, the “Red Rover” declined to try conclusions
+with the “Satanella” and the “Eva,” the former of which yachts won the
+prize.
+
+Only three yawls competed with the following results:—
+
+                         H.       M.       S.
+“Glance”                     2       58       30
+“Star of the East”           3        4       46
+“Eclipse”                    3        5       30
+
+It was remarked that no Yarmouth yawl was entered for the match.  On this
+occasion Mr. F. Harmer acted as starter, and Mr. J. H. Bly as Hon.
+Secretary.
+
+Aug. 24th.—The Mayor had given a ball at his residence at Gorleston, when
+about 60 ladies and gentlemen were present.
+
+Aug. 28th.—The town was full of visitors.  It was estimated that from
+15,000 to 20,000 persons were at one time on the Marine Drive on the
+preceding Sunday.
+
+Sep. 7th.—The Mortuary Chapel at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Caister
+Road, had been consecrated by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Demerara.
+
+The Corporation land at and near “Norfolk Square” had been offered for
+sale, and several lots sold to Messrs. H. Teasdel, J. Clowes, J. Isaac,
+C. Woolverton, and E. Stagg.
+
+Sep. 11th.—The Fish Wharves and Market were nearly completed and would
+shortly be opened; they had cost about £12,000.
+
+The fire engines had been condemned and were about to be replaced by more
+powerful ones constructed by Messrs. Shand and Mason.
+
+Sep. 14th.—Herring was selling at from £12 to £15 per last.
+
+The Corporation had been selling sites near the Naval Hospital, and Grout
+& Co.’s Factory, which had realised an average rent of £1 2s. 5d. per
+site.
+
+Sep. 21st.—Prime herring was selling at £30 per last.
+
+Sep. 25th.—J. T. Abdy, Esq., had attended as Revising Barrister for East
+Norfolk, when Mr. I. O. Howard Taylor and Mr. F. Danby-Palmer represented
+the Liberals, and Mr. Charles Diver and Mr. Eagleton the Conservatives,
+each party had made 56 claims and lodged 130 objections.
+
+Oct. 16th.—Owing to a glut of fish, some herring were selling so low as
+£6 per last.
+
+Oct. 26th.—The following were the retiring Councillors:—Messrs. W.
+Worship, J. D. Hilton, C. J. Palmer, C. Woolverton, R. Ferrier, B. Jay,
+R. D. Barber, J. Tomlinson, D. A. Gourlay, E. R. Aldred, R. Steward, and
+W. J. Brand; all of whom (except Mr. C. J. Palmer) proposed to seek
+re-election.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—Mr. de Caux had appeared as a candidate in the South Ward and
+Messrs. Neave and Frosdick in the St. George’s Ward.
+
+A small steam boat, the property of Mr. Laurie, had been launched from
+Mr. Blyth’s iron works at Cobholm.
+
+Nov. 9th.—The Drill Hall had been opened, when the Volunteers and a large
+number of guests were entertained by the officers of the Corps, (Major
+Orde, Captains Youell, H. H. Barber, W. Holt, J. Tomlinson, Lieutenants
+G. W. Moore, S. Aldred, R. E. Dowson, Fyson, C. Diver; Ensigns, Ambrose
+J. Palmer, F. Danby-Palmer, and Adjutant F. A. Cubitt), among whom were
+the Rev. H. Nevill, Major Foreman, and the Officers of the Norfolk
+Artillery Volunteers, Captain James, Captain Cubitt, Captain Gilbertson,
+Captain Calthorpe, Captain Ensor, Captain Rivers, and Messrs. Brightwen,
+R. Steward, C. H. Chamberlin, S. Dowson, S. Nightingale, C. C. Aldred, J.
+Baumgartner, C. Cory, A. Steward, W. Danby-Palmer, Frederick Palmer, F.
+Worship, J. Starling, R. D. Fowler, T. George, T. P. Burroughs, T. Olley,
+C. Rose, J. Dumbleton, J. Bracey, E. Stagg, G. W. Giles, T. Moore,
+Maclean, Shales, Barge, E. Cooke, J. Mainprice, Boning, &c., and there
+were also a number of ladies present.
+
+Nov. 13th.—At the Council meeting, on the motion of Sir E. H. K. Lacon,
+Bart., seconded by Mr. C. Woolverton, William Worship, Esq., had been
+elected Mayor.
+
+James Sharman, a Trafalgar veteran and keeper of the Nelson Monument, had
+died at the age of 82 years.
+
+Nov. 25th.—There had been a contest in the Regent Ward, consequent upon
+Mr. W. C. Reynolds’ retirement from the Council, when the polling was as
+follows:—
+
+T. George (Con.)             124
+T. Todd (Ind.)               114
+Livingston (Lib.)             26
+
+Nov. 27th.—A detachment from the 35th, 90th, and 96th Regiments had
+arrived at the Southtown Barracks under the following officers:—Captain
+Caldecott (35th), Ensigns Cooper and Aldridge (35th), Lieut. Jones
+(96th), and Ensign Blockwell (96th).
+
+Dec. 4th.—There had been a “tremendous gale and tide,” and Southtown was
+flooded.
+
+Dec. 7th.—The “Rescuer” Gorleston lifeboat had been upset at the
+Harbour’s mouth and 25 lives lost.
+
+Dec. 11th.—In the action of “Henderson v. Lacon, Bart.,” the directors of
+the late Royal Hotel Company had been held personally liable for
+mis-statements contained in that Company’s prospectus.
+
+Dec. 25th.—The Rifle Volunteer Officers had invited 1,100 ladies and
+gentleman to an entertainment at the Drill Hall, when Major Orde, Captain
+Youell, the Rev. J. J. Raven, Mr. C. H. Chamberlin, Mr. H. R. Harmer, and
+Mr. E. H. Combe took part in the performances and readings.
+
+
+
+1868.
+
+
+Jan. 1st.—A. Brogden, Esq., had given 20 tons of coals to the poor of the
+borough.
+
+Jan. 8th.—“Fenian scare.”  The Magistrates had held a private Meeting,
+which was attended by Major Jones and Captain Scovell, (96th Regiment)
+with a view to adopting measures for the more efficient protection of
+property within the borough.
+
+The ammunition stores had been removed from the Batteries to the Barracks
+and the Military had paraded and marched to Church with muskets and side
+arms.
+
+Jan. 11th.—The “United Brothers” Lodge, A.I.O.F., had held its 4th annual
+festival in St. John’s Schoolroom.
+
+Jan. 15th.—Mr. Matthew Butcher, junr., had been appointed Consular Agent
+to the Italian Government at Yarmouth.
+
+Jan. 25th.—The Norfolk and Suffolk Building Society had held its first
+annual general meeting, Frederick Palmer, Esq., in the chair; the report
+was a very favourable one, and, being laid before the meeting by Mr. L.
+Blake (the Secretary), was unanimously adopted.
+
+Jan. 29th.—A fatal fire had occurred at Mr. Pigg’s shop and
+dwelling-house in the Market Row.  Mrs. Pigg and two children had been
+burned to death, and damage sustained to the estimated amount of some
+£3,000.
+
+Feb. 12th.—The lugger “Flying Fish” had struck upon a sunken wreck, and
+immediately foundered.
+
+The “North Sand” had dried to a very considerable extent.
+
+Feb. 19th.—There had been a fracas in the hunting field at Toft Monks,
+consequent upon Mr. Colman causing a hare to be shot during a run of the
+Norfolk and Suffolk Harriers, and thereupon having been assaulted by one
+of the sportsmen.
+
+Feb. 26th.—Contains the account of the presentation, at the Cape, of a
+watch and address to Captain F. Diver, of the “Roman.”
+
+March 7th.—Mr. S. Aldred had been appointed treasurer to the Race
+Committee (vice Mr. C. Steward, deceased.)
+
+Mr. C. C. Newcomb, post-master, had died.
+
+March 11th.—The Quarter Sessions could not be held, as neither the
+Recorder, or a deputy on his behalf, appeared on the day fixed for
+holding this Court.
+
+    “THE CIGAR SHIP.—This novel specimen of marine architecture, known as
+    the ‘cigar ship,’ put into this harbour on Friday last, and has since
+    continued to be an object of great curiosity among our seafaring
+    population.  The vessel, which is named the ‘Walter S. Winans,’ was
+    built by the firm of Messrs. Winans, American contractors, and is
+    stated to be on an experimental cruise, with the view of thoroughly
+    testing her sea-going qualities.  She is fitted with a screw
+    propeller, the fans of which are entirely submerged.  Her engines are
+    of 35 horse power, but can be worked up to 50, and it is stated she
+    has attained a speed of 14 miles an hour.  The peculiarity of her
+    build gives her a singular appearance, her cone-shaped bow projecting
+    for some distance clear of the water, while her stern is more
+    depressed.  This gives her a very unsightly look, and it is evident
+    that her builders have sacrificed everything in her construction to
+    attain a high rate of speed, her berthing and general accommodation
+    being of an inferior character compared with other sea-going
+    steamers.”
+
+April 4th.—The question of purchasing the Ferries had been considered by
+the Town Council, the price asked for them being £9,500, and the
+Committee of the Council had recommended the purchase, but on division
+the motion to do this was lost by 11 to 10 votes.
+
+April 8th—Messrs. Ellis, Pestell, Skoulding, and Harbord had been
+re-appointed overseers.
+
+April 15th.—The following Guardians had been elected:—North Ward: Messrs.
+Nightingale, Neave, and Buston.  Market Ward: Messrs. Laws, Aldred, and
+Fenn.  Regent Ward: Messrs. Worship, Barber, and Diver.  St. George’s
+Ward: Messrs. Scott, Foreman, and Palmer.  Nelson Ward: Messrs.
+Woolverton, Moore, Bracey, and Clowes.
+
+April 22nd.—Large numbers of codling, plaice, and whiting were being
+taken in the dykes near the Acle New Road.  It was supposed that these
+salt-water fish were left there by the floods of the previous December,
+when the Breydon Wall had been broken.
+
+May 2nd.—The “Everette” had foundered at her anchors in the Roads.
+
+The Fish Wharf was to be extended 1,100 feet, for which work Mr.
+Parmenter’s tender of £1,375 had been accepted.
+
+May 23rd.—The property “without the Walls” had been for the first time
+assessed to the land tax.
+
+May 27th.—The Queen’s Birthday had been observed as a general holiday,
+and a salute of 21 guns fired from the South Battery by the Norfolk
+Artillery Militia, under the command of Colonel Lord Suffield.
+
+May 30th,—That Regiment had been inspected by Colonel Knox.
+
+June 6th.—Mr. Shuckford, Master of the Workhouse, had died.
+
+June 10th.—A meeting, convened by Messrs. O. Diver and H. Brand, had been
+held for the purpose of organising an opposition Steam-packet Service.
+
+June 27th.—The following had taken part in an Amateur performance at the
+Regent Hall for the benefit of the Hospital:—Miss Lawes, Miss T. Lawes,
+Messrs. Colley, Meadows, Lawes, Cattermole, Fenn, Watson, Godfrey, Cooke,
+Spence, H. Baker, J. Franklin, and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Young.
+
+July 4th.—Mr. and Mrs. Blyth had been elected Master and Matron of the
+Workhouse.
+
+The British Medical Association had held a meeting at the Town Hall, Dr.
+Vores in the chair; the following Yarmouth medical men were also
+present:—Dr. Macleod, R.N., Dr. Smyth, and Messrs. J. C. Smith, Frederick
+Palmer, Charles Palmer, D. Meadows, T. Moxon, R. R. B. Norman, Bately and
+C. B. Rose.
+
+July 11th.—Fifty thousand mackerel had been landed in one day and sold at
+from 10s. to 12s. per 120.
+
+July 22nd.—Messrs. E. R. Wodehouse and R. T. Gurdon had been accepted as
+Liberal, and Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Major Walpole as Tory, candidates for
+the then newly-constituted division of North Norfolk.
+
+Messrs. C. Woolverton, E. R. Aldred, C. E. Bartram, and R. D. Barber had
+been “secretly” appointed Justices by the Lord Chancellor.
+
+July 30th.—Contains the following as to the coming contest:—“The Liberal
+candidates are announced to address the electors at the Angel Hotel,
+Market Place, on Wednesday evening next.  Mr. Wodehouse arrived on
+Saturday last, and there is little doubt of both the candidates receiving
+an enthusiastic welcome on their first public appearance before the
+Liberal portion of the constituency.  The selection of Messrs. Wodehouse
+and Gurdon for the Northern Division of the County has been regarded with
+general satisfaction here, even among Liberals of the more advanced
+school of politics, and the coming contest promises to see the Liberal
+party of this borough thoroughly united and more than usually perfect in
+its electoral organisation.”
+
+Aug. 1st.—The Liberal electors had been addressed by their candidates in
+the Long Room, Angel Hotel, J. Clowes, Esq., presiding, and among those
+present were Sir T. Beevor, Bart., Messrs. J. Scott, F. Palmer, P.
+Pullyn, C. E. Bartram, H. Brand, W. T. Fisher, Revs. Shelley, Tritton,
+&c.
+
+Mr. Simmons had made a successful balloon ascent from the Victoria
+Gardens.
+
+Aug. 5th.—The Tories had held a meeting at the “Star,” E. H. L. Preston,
+Esq., in the chair, and amongst those present were Messrs. T. Brightwen,
+I. Preston, W. Holt, E. H. H. Combe, C. Diver, Captain Dods, J. C. Smith,
+W. J. Foreman, G. S. Shingles, R. Gorell, T. George, B. Dumbleton, J. T.
+Bracey, J. Bracey, F. Ferrier, H. Cowl, B. Jay, C. Preston, E. Stagg, T.
+Todd, T. W. Doughty, J. Bunn, J. Cooper, J. Buston, J. G. Ellis, G. Beck,
+E. Boult, W. Mabson, J. H. Bly, T. C. Foreman, Burgess, &c., &c.
+
+Aug. 8th.—At the Regatta the “Ariel” (T. M. Read), won the prize for
+schooner yachts, and the “Red Rover” (Nightingale) and the “Belvidere”
+(H. Teasdel), the other yacht prizes.  Mr. I. Preston acted as secretary,
+Messrs. J. Clowes and Petts as umpires, Mr. F. Harmer as starter, and Mr.
+J. Cobb as time-keeper on this occasion.
+
+Aug. 19th.—Gorleston had been made one of the polling places for East
+Suffolk.
+
+Aug. 29th.—The Races had been held, the Stewards being the Mayor (W.
+Worship, Esq.), Lord Hastings, Baron Rothschild, J. Goodson, Esq., M.P.,
+and F. Barne, Esq.
+
+Sep. 5th.—A number of persons had been victimized by the advertisement of
+a “Trip to Cromer by Steamer,” which was to call for them at the Jetty;
+no steamboat, however, appeared, and the promoters ran off with the
+passengers’ fares.
+
+Sep. 12th.—Messrs. Wodehouse and Gurdon, with Mr. McCullagh Torrens,
+M.P., had addressed the electors from the Angel Hotel; amongst those
+present were Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., and Messrs. J. J. Colman, R.
+Hammond, Bircham, Rev. Shelley, J. Scott, J. Clowes, C. E. Bartram, F.
+Palmer, F. Danby-Palmer, J. Mainprice, G. Blake, L. Blake, S. C. Blake,
+J. Fellows, A. Davie, W. T. Fisher, S. Page, J. Humphries, D. R. Fowler,
+W. J. Brand, W. Livingston, &c., &c.
+
+Sep. 19th.—Dr. Abdy had held the County Revision Court at the Tolhouse,
+when Mr. I. O. Howard Taylor and Mr. F. Danby-Palmer appeared for the
+Liberals and Mr. C. Diver for the Conservatives.
+
+Sept. 23rd.—The Liberals claimed a gain of 81 on the revision, and it was
+stated “that great credit was due to the Liberal agents, Messrs. I. O.
+Taylor (Norwich) and F. Danby-Palmer (Yarmouth) for the care bestowed in
+preparing the claim and objection lists.”
+
+Sept. 26th.—The B Battery of the C Brigade, R.H.A., under Colonel Bishop,
+had arrived at the Southtown Barracks; it was composed of 180 men, with
+140 horses, and six nine-pound Armstrong guns.
+
+The “Sultana” (brig of 301 tons) had been launched from Messrs. Fellows’
+yard for Messrs. Stone and Company.
+
+Oct. 7th.—The Mayor, with Messrs. W. T. Fisher and R. B. Ellis as
+assessors, had held the Municipal Revision Court at the Tolhouse, when
+Mr. F. Danby-Palmer appeared for the Liberals and Mr. C. Diver for the
+Conservatives.
+
+Oct. 10th.—The following were the retiring Councillors:—North Ward:
+Messrs. J. Mainprice and J. H. Bly.  Market Ward: Messrs. F. Worship and
+C. C. Aldred.  Regent Ward: Messrs. C. B. Rose and E. Stagg.  St.
+George’s Ward: Messrs. J. C. Smith and J. Scott.  Nelson Ward: Messrs. C.
+E. Bartram and H. H. Barber.  St. Andrew’s Ward: Messrs. E. H. L. Preston
+and H. Teasdel.
+
+Oct. 17th.—A vestry meeting had been held with a view to the removal of
+the organ from the west end of St. Nicholas’ Church, the Rev. H. Nevill
+presided, and Messrs. E. H. Preston, W. Mabson, C. S. D. Steward, R.
+Hammond, and C. Cory took part in the proceedings.
+
+There was a glut of herring, and prices “ruled low.”
+
+Oct. 21st.—This state of affairs continued, and prices only averaged from
+£7 to £8 per last.
+
+Oct. 28th.—There had been heavy gales, with loss of life at sea, which
+had interrupted the fishing.
+
+Nov. 4th.—James Coleby had escaped from the Borough Gaol.
+
+The polling in the contested Wards had terminated as follows:—
+
+            _Regent Ward_.
+E. Stagg (Con.)                     177
+J. Burton (Con)                     128
+T. Todd (Ind.)                       92
+            _Market Ward_.
+C. C. Aldred (Con.)                 174
+E. Fyson (Con.)                     158
+J. F. Neave (Lib.)                  133
+J. G. Overend (Lib.)                119
+         _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+J. P. Baumgartner (Lib.)            276
+F. Dendy (Lib.)                     274
+H. Teasdel (Con.)                   173
+R. Dumbleton (Con.)                 176
+
+The Liberals thus gaining two seats at Gorleston.
+
+Nov. 7th.—Mr. Lane (Rate Collector) and Mr. R. Page (Bill poster), had
+been before the Justices in consequence of a row arising out of the
+election.
+
+Nov. 14th.—At the Council meeting, S. Nightingale, Esq., had been on the
+motion of Mr. C. C. Aldred, seconded by Mr. Woolverton, elected Mayor.
+
+And Mr. H. Teasdel (the recently defeated candidate at Southtown) was
+appointed an Alderman in the place of Mr. John Brown.
+
+Nov. 18th.—There had been heavy gales from the N.N.W., and a schooner had
+been driven through the Britannia Pier.
+
+Nov. 25th.—The nomination for North Norfolk had taken place at Aylsham,
+when the Rev. H. Lombe proposed, and Mr. E. H. L. Preston seconded, Sir
+E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.; Mr. H. R. Upcher proposed, and Mr. J. W. Shelly
+seconded, Mr. Edmond Robert Wodehouse; Mr. E. Fellowes, M.P., proposed,
+and Mr. R. Leaman seconded, the Hon. Frederick Walpole; Mr. Bulwer
+proposed, and Mr. Richard England seconded, Mr. Robert T. Gurdon; and the
+High Sheriff (Lord Ranelagh) having declared the show of hands equally
+divided between the candidates, a poll was demanded on behalf of all of
+them.
+
+Nov. 28th.—The poll had been declared as under:—
+
+Walpole              2,642
+Lacon                2,574
+Wodehouse            2,237
+Gurdon               2,081
+
+At Yarmouth it was stated that:—
+
+    “the proceedings throughout the day in connection with the polling
+    for this part of the district were characterised by considerable
+    excitement.  The Conservatives from the opening of the poll took a
+    prominent position, and as hour by hour passed away their majority
+    steadily increased, until by three o’clock they were, according to
+    their published returns, nearly 400 ahead.  No statement of the poll
+    was made during the day by the Liberals, but every exertion was made
+    to reduce the Conservative majority.  Cabs and carriages bearing
+    placards of “Vote for Wodehouse and Gurdon” were dashing about in all
+    directions, keeping up the excitement; but, despite every effort, the
+    influence of the local candidate proved too strong to be successfully
+    resisted, and at four the Conservative declaration of numbers showed
+    the following result:—
+
+Lacon                948
+Walpole              890
+Wodehouse            505
+Gurdon               469
+
+    The polling at Ormesby for the Hundreds of East and West Flegg was
+    also, as might have been anticipated, greatly in favour of the
+    Conservative candidates.  Despite these adverse returns, the Liberal
+    agents were sanguine of better results in other parts of the
+    district, but their majorities at Cromer, Wells, and Holt, failed to
+    make any material change, so far as the issue of the election was
+    concerned, and it became at length apparent that the hopes of the
+    Liberal majority in North Norfolk were at an end.  Notwithstanding
+    the excitement engendered by the contest, the election was conducted
+    throughout with great good humour.  During the day the streets and
+    approaches to the polling places were thronged by persons who amused
+    themselves by cheering and shouting in favour of their respective
+    candidates, but there was, during the afternoon, an entire absence of
+    the drunkenness and violence that characterised previous borough
+    elections.  If the numbers polled be examined, it will be found that
+    in the county (excluding Yarmouth) Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. Gurdon are
+    in a slight majority.  It was in Yarmouth where the majority was
+    obtained, and which, we hear, will yet be found to have been obtained
+    by illegal practices.”
+
+Dec. 12th.—Mr. Nutman (Relieving Officer for the North District) had
+died.
+
+It was alleged that an “aged imbecile pauper,” had been taken out of
+Rollesby Workhouse by a Guardian to vote for the Tory candidates.
+
+Dec. 19th.—The directors of the Britannia Pier Company had decided to
+hand over that structure to Mr. Isaac in consideration of his taking over
+the mortgage upon it.
+
+Admiralty Jurisdiction had been conferred on the Yarmouth County Court.
+
+Dec. 30th, contains the following notice of the death of Richard Ferrier,
+Esq.:—“We regret to announce the death of Mr. R. Ferrier, who expired at
+his residence, Trafalgar Road, on Sunday morning, after a protracted
+illness.  The deceased gentleman represented St. George’s Ward for many
+years in the Town Council, though for some time past his ill health had
+incapacitated him from the discharge of his public duties.  He was a man
+of sound judgment and excellent business habits, and his opinion on all
+practical matters had great weight with the Council.  Mr. Ferrier was in
+politics a Conservative, and in his younger days was distinguished by the
+zeal and energy with which, at all times, he worked for his party.  In
+respect to his memory the flags were hoisted half-mast high on the Town
+Hall.”
+
+
+
+1869.
+
+
+Jan. 2nd.—The average price of herring during the fishing had been £8
+17s. 6d. per last, and the money thus expended had amounted to £146,000.
+
+Jan. 6th.—Mr. J. D. Hayes had been elected one of the Relieving Officers
+in the place of Mr. Nutman deceased.
+
+John Coleby alias “Jack Sheppard,” who had recently broken out of gaol,
+had been re-captured.
+
+Jan. 16th.—There had been a contest in St. George’s Ward to fill the
+vacancy caused by Mr. R. Ferrier’s death; when the following was the
+poll:—
+
+Mr. T. W. Doughty (Con.)            104
+Mr. H. Hammond (Lib.)                82
+
+Jan. 27th.—A faculty had been obtained for the removal of St. Nicholas’
+organ from the west end of that church to the North Transept; this had
+been strongly opposed by Mr. E. H. L. Preston.
+
+Feb. 17th.—There had been severe gales from the Eastward, causing much
+damage to shipping.
+
+Feb. 21st.—Mr. John L. Cufaude (Clerk to the Guardians) had been arrested
+in respect of a claim “for which (as he stated to that Board) he had no
+right in justice to be arrested”; subsequently he made himself a
+bankrupt, when it appeared that he had been involved in racing
+transactions, where he had figured as Mr. De La-Cè.
+
+Feb. 27th—The boiler of the “Bold Buccleugh,” Hull steamer, had exploded
+while that vessel was at her Yarmouth Wharf.
+
+March 13th.—Mr. Williams, of Cardiff, had been given the “St. Nicholas’
+Church Contract,” although his price (£4,755) exceeded that of Mr. Hood
+(Norwich), which was £4,194.
+
+The following gentlemen (out of 27 candidates) had been elected members
+of the newly-formed Gorleston Board of Health:—Messrs. Dendy,
+Baumgartner, Gooda, J. Hammond, Beevor, Gambling, Teasdel, W. Nelson and
+J. Nelson.
+
+Mr. Chipperfield (the late Secretary) had been presented with a
+testimonial by the Yarmouth Building Society.
+
+Two otters had, during a run of the harriers, been captured in a field
+near Thrigby Hall.
+
+March 20th.—Mr. S. B. Cory had been elected Clerk to the Gorleston Board
+at a salary of £50 per annum, and Mr. F. Dendy chairman of that body.
+
+April 7th.—The following Guardians had been elected:—North Ward: S.
+Nightingale, J. T. Buston, and J. F. Neave.  Market Ward: C. C. Aldred
+and W. Laws (with a tie between J. A. Norman and R. Tunbridge).  Regent
+Ward: W. Worship, R. D. Barber and C. Diver.  St. George’s Ward: J. W. de
+Caux, J. Scott, and J. Rivett.  Nelson Ward: C. Woolverton, J. T. Bracey,
+J. H. Harrison, and G. W. Moore.
+
+Messrs. C. S. D. Steward and E. R. Aldred had been re-elected
+Churchwardens.
+
+April 14th.—Mr. J. A. Norman had been seated as a Guardian for the Market
+Ward; there were then 9 Conservatives and 7 Liberals upon the Board.
+
+The Rifle Corps had held a Church parade.
+
+April 17th.—William Danby-Palmer, Esq., had accepted the command of the
+local batteries of Artillery Volunteers.
+
+
+
+Major Orde had presided at the soireé of the Norfolk and Suffolk Building
+Society held in the Corn Hall.
+
+May 1st.—The Rifle Corps had given a series of amateur dramatic
+representations at the Drill Hall, in which Messrs. Wiltshire, Youell,
+Applewaite, Giles, Watson, Chipperfield, and others had taken part.
+
+The Duke’s Head had been purchased by Mr. Davey for £1,520.
+
+May 12th.—The Officers of the East Norfolk Militia had given a ball to
+200 persons at the Town Hall.
+
+June 5th.—Mr. E. H. L. Preston had presided at a meeting called for the
+purpose of presenting a testimonial to Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P.
+Captain Dods, and Messrs. William Mabson, William Danby-Palmer, C.
+Woolverton, R. D. Barber, and Dumbleton took part in the proceedings.
+
+June 12th.—Mr. Charles Cory (Town Clerk) had died of gastric fever in
+Italy in his 57th year.
+
+June 16th.—Messrs. Charles J. Palmer, C. Diver, and H. R. Harmer were
+candidates for the office thus rendered vacant.
+
+June 23rd.—At the Council meeting Mr. C. Diver (being the only person
+nominated), was unanimously elected Town Clerk, and a vacancy in the
+Aldermen being thus caused, the following voting took place:—
+
+Mr. J. H. Orde                  25
+Mr. E. H. L. Preston             3
+
+July 14th.—The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers (under command of Captain
+W. Danby-Palmer) had attended St. Peter’s Church.
+
+July 24th.—The following appointments had been made in the 2nd Norfolk
+Rifle Volunteers:—W. P. P. Matthews to be Captain, B. Wilson to be
+Lieutenant, William H. Palmer to be Ensign, W. E. Wyllys to be Surgeon,
+and T. W. Doughty to be Hon. Assistant Quarter-Master.
+
+July 31st.—At the Council meeting, Mr. C. C. Aldred was very abusive to
+Mr. J. C. Smith during the election of a Haven Commissioner in the place
+of the late Mr. Cory; the voting was as follows:—For Mr. W. Worship: The
+Mayor, and Messrs. Purdy, Shingles, Orde, Watling, Bunn, Teasdel,
+Worship, Hilton, Barnby, Nuthall, E. R. Aldred, C. C. Aldred, R. D.
+Barber, Tomlinson, Foreman, Doughty, Jay, Woolverton, Bartram, and
+Steward; total 21.  For Mr. E. H. L. Preston: Messrs. Youell, Harmer,
+Laws, Mabson, Bly, Fyson, Wright, George, Stagg, J. Burton, W. D. Palmer,
+Smith, Scott, Veale, J. T. Bracey, Stone, Barber, Richmond, Gooda, Brand,
+Dendy, and Baumgartner; total 22.  Absent, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, and
+Messrs. Mainprice, J. Bracey, Gourlay and Shuckford.
+
+Aug. 4th.—The late P. Stead, Esq., had bequeathed £1,000 to the Hospital.
+
+Aug. 28th.—The corner-stone of the Grammar School on Trafalgar Road had
+been laid by S. Nightingale, Esq.  (Mayor).
+
+Sept. 11th.—Upwards of 300 lasts of herring had been landed at the Fish
+Wharf, and prices ranged from £10 to £25 per last.
+
+Sept. 25th.—Dr. Hills (Bishop of Columbia) had addressed two public
+meetings at the Town Hall, and preached at St. Nicholas’ in aid of that
+Mission; the total sum thus realised was £64 11s.
+
+Oct. 2nd.—Mr. R. H. Palmer (Revising Barrister) had been holding Courts
+at Yarmouth, Ormesby, and Gorleston, when Messrs. C. Diver, F.
+Danby-Palmer, and F. W. Ferrier were the agents appearing before him.
+
+Mr. Wm. Jas. Palmer had been elected House Surgeon at the Hospital in the
+place of Mr. Colley resigned.
+
+Nov. 6th.—The following had been the result of the Municipal Election:—
+
+          _St. Nicholas’ Ward_.
+Mr. S. Nightingale (Con.)              266
+Mr. E. H. L. Preston (Con.)            228
+Mr. J. F. Neave (Lib.)                 176
+              _Market Ward_.
+Mr. J. E. Barnby (Con.)                246
+Mr. Nuthall (Con.)                     209
+Mr. J. A. Norman (Lib.)                195
+              _Regent Ward_.
+Mr. T. George (Con.)                   158
+Mr. W. Wright (Con.)                   156
+Mr. F. Danby-Palmer (Lib.)              82
+Mr. John Clowes (Lib.)                  72
+           _St. George’s Ward_.
+Mr. J. W. de Caux (Lib.)               156
+Mr. W. J. Foreman (Con.)               151
+Mr. Chas. Palmer (Con.)                137
+Mr. H. Hammond (Lib.)                  132
+              _Nelson Ward_.
+Messrs. Veale and Bracey (Con.)
+unopposed.
+           _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+Messrs. Gooda and Richmond (Con.)
+unopposed.
+
+Nov. 10th.—Charles Woolverton, Esq., had been unanimously elected Mayor.
+
+Owing to the recent gales, the following fishing smacks were reported as
+missing:—The “Prince Albert,” “Thomas and Fanny,” “Armada,” “Echo,”
+“Royal Diadem,” “Lord Raglan,” “Eugene,” “Garland,” and “Pursuit.”
+
+1,500 wind-bound vessels had sailed through the Roads northwards.
+
+Dec. 4th.—The Justices had dismissed a summons for payment of rate in
+consequence of the action of the Overseers in not placing the rated
+person on the Municipal list, Mr. F. Danby-Palmer arguing the case for
+the ratepayer, and the Vestry-Clerk appearing for the Overseers.  As this
+raised a large question on the Register, it had caused some excitement in
+political circles, and further action was threatened.
+
+
+
+1870.
+
+
+Jan. 1st.—Charles Dashwood, Esq., had given a ball at the Assembly Rooms.
+
+Jan. 12th.—Thomas Brightwen, Esq., had died at the age of 59.
+
+Damage had been occasioned to several houses in the town by a heavy gale.
+
+Jan. 26th.—Another wrecked vessel had been in contact with the Britannia
+Bier.
+
+Jan. 29th.—Mr. J. H. Orde had been elected Borough Treasurer in the place
+of Mr. T. Brightwen deceased.
+
+Two vessels had been in collision with the Newarp lightship.
+
+Feb. 12th.—J. Tomlinson, Esq., had been elected Commodore of the Norfolk
+and Suffolk Yacht Club.
+
+There had been a boiler explosion at Messrs. Bracey and Son’s Ropery.
+
+Feb. 16th.—There had been very heavy gales and much loss to the shipping.
+
+During one of these gales the Assembly Rooms had been discovered to be on
+fire, and this building thus sustained damage to the extent of £700 or
+£800.
+
+Feb. 19th.—A meeting had been held at the Town Hall for the relief of the
+poor.  The Mayor presided, and the Rev. Canon Nevill, Mr. Hammond, Major
+Orde, Mr. W. N. Burroughs, Mr. Gorell, Mr. John Clowes, Mr. Neave, and
+Mr. Laws took part in the proceedings.  Between £200 and £300 was raised
+in the room.
+
+Feb. 26th.—The organ in the Parish Church had been re-opened.  This
+instrument appears from the report then issued to have been built by
+Jordan in 1732, and previously repaired in 1812 and 1840; the repairs
+this time costing £820.
+
+March 12th.—Mr. Longley had been holding an Inquiry at the Tolhouse with
+regard to the alleged neglect of a pauper patient by Mr. Stafford
+(Surgeon for the North District).
+
+March 19th.—Messrs. Blott had been prosecuted by the Haven Commissioners
+for obstructing the North River, when they were defended by Mr. F.
+Danby-Palmer, and the case adjourned in order to effect a settlement.
+
+March 26th.—The Rifle Corps had attended Gorleston Church, and afterwards
+marched round that village.  This was the first time such a parade had
+taken place.
+
+April 9th.—Captain Smyth, R.N., and Captain Dent, R.N., had been promoted
+to the rank of Admiral.
+
+April 13th.—The following had been the polling of the elected Guardians
+(there being in all 32 candidates).—North: S. Nightingale (C), 356; J. F.
+Neave (L), 308; J. D. Hilton (C), 292; S. Barge (C), 248.  In this ward
+Mr. Cufaude had decided that Mr. Neave was disqualified, and had
+consequently declined to declare that gentleman elected, Mr. Neave’s
+solicitor (Mr. F. Danby-Palmer) had, however, taken a different view of
+the affair, and this question was to form the subject of further
+proceedings.  Market: J. A. Norman (L), 429; C. C. Aldred (C), 365; W.
+Laws (C), 345.  Regent: R. D. Barber, W. Worship, and C. Diver (no
+figures given.)  St. George’s: J. W. de Caux (L), 356; J. Scott (L), 312;
+W. J. Foreman (C), 284.  Nelson: G. Woolverton (C), 615.; J. Bracey (C),
+548; F. Palmer (L), 392; J. Clowes (L), 345.
+
+April 16th.—Mr. Cufaude had submitted an elaborate statement upon Mr.
+Neave’s case to the Local Government Board.
+
+The constitution of the Guardians was then 10 Tories and 6 Liberals.
+
+April 23rd.—“Yachting Items”: Mr. Palmer was building a schooner yacht.
+Mr. Preston had purchased the “Otter.”  The “Red Rover” (Nightingale) was
+being altered, as was also the “Syren.”
+
+Messrs. Mills and Blake had launched a new barge.
+
+Mrs. Bowyer Vaux, her son, and a friend, had been upset in a sailing boat
+on Breydon.
+
+April 30th.—At a sale of Gas Shares, those of £30 realised £45 per share,
+and those of £7 10s., £11 10s. per share.  It was stated that the maximum
+dividend of 8½ per cent. was regularly paid on this stock.
+
+May 4th.—Sir Alexander Shafto Adair, Bart., (Lib.), and Lord Mahon (Con.)
+were candidates for East Suffolk.
+
+May 14th.—Mr. J. Fenn had caught a perch weighing 3½ lbs. and 18 inches
+in length.
+
+May 18th.—There was a report current of a fracas having taken place
+between two leading members of the Tory party during a meeting at the
+Star Hotel.
+
+May 21st.—The Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club Dinner had taken place at
+the Town Hall.
+
+May 25th.—“It is stated that the gallant gentleman, (Major Foreman) who
+figured in the _melée_ that arose at the late conference of the
+Conservative party is about to seek legal redress for the attack made
+upon him (by Mr. E. H. L. Preston.)”
+
+The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers (under the command of Captain
+Commandant William Danby-Palmer) had attended St. Peter’s Church.
+
+May 28th.—On Her Majesty’s Birthday, the Rifle Volunteers under the
+command of Major Orde had fired a _feu de joie_ in the Market Place, and
+the Artillery, under the command of Captain William Danby-Palmer, had
+fired a salute of 21 guns from the South Battery.  In the evening the
+officers messed at the Crown and Anchor, when the following were among
+the guests present—The Mayor (C. Woolverton, Esq.), the Deputy-Mayor (S.
+Nightingale, Esq.), Rev. B. Vaux, J. C. Smith, Esq., E.N.M., C. Diver,
+Esq., (Town Clerk), Captain Cubitt, Captain Alderson, N.M.A., Major
+Foreman, C. J. Palmer, Esq., and I. Preston, Esq.
+
+June 4th.—The following had been the result of the East Suffolk
+Election:—
+
+Lord Mahon (Con.)                        3,456
+Sir A. S. Adair, Bart. (Lib.)            3,285
+
+Captain Alderson and Lieutenant Partridge, of the Norfolk Artillery
+Militia, had given a Ball at the Town Hall.
+
+June 11th.—The Nottingham Order of Odd Fellows had held its annual
+festival at the Corn Hall, Bro. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., P.I.F.,
+taking the chair, supported by Bros. Moxon, E. P. Youell, W. Laws, W. J.
+Foreman, W. T. Fisher, J. H. Fellows, J. Bracey, and Mr. Wiltshire.
+
+Mr. Cattermole (Librarian) had been presented with a testimonial in the
+shape of a watch of the value of £25 and a cheque for £31 10s.
+
+June 15th.—Admiral Smyth, R.N., had resigned the office of Pier-Master
+after 35 years service.
+
+June 18th.—The decision of the Local Government Board being in favour of
+Mr. F. Danby-Palmer’s contention, and against that of Mr. Cufaude,
+consequent thereon Mr. Neave was entitled to his seat at the Board of
+Guardians.
+
+June 22nd.—The brigantine “Ethel” had been launched from Mr. Rust’s yard.
+
+June 25th.—The officers of the Norfolk Artillery Militia had given a
+grand Military Ball at the Assembly Rooms.
+
+Mr. C. S. D. Steward and party had caught 10 perch on Ormesby Broad, four
+of which weighed 12lbs.
+
+The Yarmouth Co-operative Society was in liquidation, and Mr. Lovewell
+Blake, the liquidator, had summoned several of the contributors for
+arrears of call.
+
+July 2nd.—Quarter-Master Doughty, Colour-Sergeant Chipperfield, Sergeants
+Lay and Wilshak and Privates Harpour and Wales had been selected to go to
+Wimbledon.
+
+Mr. I. Preston, accompanied by his friend, Mr. T. M. Baker, had sailed
+for Holland in the river yacht “Otter.”
+
+July 16th.—The opening services in connection with the New Middlegate
+Congregational Church had taken place.  The Rev. J. C. Harrison preached
+from Psalm cxvi., 12 and 13; the cost of this building, &c., (less sale
+of old material) had amounted to £3,515 8s. 8d.; the architect was Mr. J.
+T. Bottle, the contractor Mr. William Hood, and the sub-contractors
+Messrs. Burgess, Dumbleton, Sargeson, and Barge.
+
+The luncheon, in connection with the event, was held at the “Crown and
+Anchor,” when the Rev. W. Tritton presided; about 250 persons were
+present, addresses were delivered by the Chairman, the Rev. J. C.
+Harrison, the Rev. Dr. Mellor, and Messrs. S. W. Spelman, J. Crossley, J.
+T. Bottle and others.
+
+July 23rd.—The D Troop B Brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery had arrived
+at the Southtown Barracks under the command of Colonel Mitchell,
+comprising 150 officers and men with 120 horses and 6 guns.
+
+July 27th.—Upon Mr. Neave attending to take his seat at the Board of
+Guardians a “scene” took place, several members accusing Mr. Cufaude of
+partiality, which that gentleman indignantly denied.
+
+August 13th.—Mr. Attwood had been returned as a Councillor for the St.
+Andrew’s Ward without opposition, in the place of Mr. Richmond deceased.
+
+August 20th.—The following officers and men of the 1st Norfolk Artillery
+Volunteers had gone to Shoeburyness:—Captain Commandant William
+Danby-Palmer, Lieutenants T. Burton Steward and T. M. Baker, Sergeant
+Smith, Corporals Harrison and Sadd, Bombardiers Steward and Sayer,
+Gunners Allcock, Millican, and Woodhouse.
+
+Captain Youell had (after eleven years’ service) retired from the Rifles.
+
+Sept. 3rd.—A meeting had been held to raise a fund for the sufferers by
+the Franco-German war.  The Mayor, the Vicar, Dr. Vores, Mr. J. H. Orde,
+Mr. C. C. Aldred, the Rev. W. Griffiths, and Mr. S. W. Spelman took part
+in the proceedings, and upwards of £100 was raised in the room.
+
+Sept. 17th.—Mrs. Gray had bequeathed by will £100 to the Hospital, £19
+19s. to the Sailors’ Home, and £10 to the Lying-in Charity.
+
+Upwards of 60 boats had delivered fish at the Wharf, the price being £16
+to £22 per last for fresh fish.
+
+Sept. 24th.—The Queen’s bounty had been forwarded to Mrs. Spurge.
+
+Oct. 5th.—At a meeting held at the Turk’s Head, J. Scott, Esq., in the
+chair, Mr. F. Danby-Palmer and Mr. Hinchman Hammond had been selected as
+candidates to contest the St. George’s Ward in the Liberal interest.
+
+Mr. J. Petts, R.N., had resigned his command in the Coastguard after 40
+years’ service, twelve of which had been spent in Yarmouth.
+
+Oct. 15th.—No minister had attended at St. Peter’s Church to perform
+service in the afternoon of Sunday.
+
+The old Jetty had been lengthened 60 feet.
+
+Mr. E. Stagg (one of the Councillors for the Regent Ward) had died.
+
+£149 13s. 6d. had been raised for the purpose of presenting a testimonial
+to Sergeant Berry (of the Police).
+
+Mr. S. K. Smith had landed from one of his boats 24 lasts of herrings,
+which sold for £264.
+
+It was calculated that some 2,000 French fishermen were then in
+Gorleston.
+
+Oct. 26th.—Mr. Robert Rising (of Horsey) had been elected a Haven and
+Pier Commissioner in the place of Mr. Burroughes resigned.
+
+Nov. 5th.—Owing to the extension of the franchise and the “split” in the
+Conservative camp, the Municipal Election had excited a good deal of
+attention, as the following report shows:—
+
+                            “MUNICIPAL ELECTION.”
+
+    As was expected, these elections were fought out with considerable
+    spirit, the town throughout the day presenting all the aspects of a
+    contested general election, cabs duly placarded with the names and
+    claims of the candidates rushing about the streets in all directions
+    _en route_ to the various polling-places or committee-rooms.
+
+    In the North Ward the Conservatives were early at work, and were
+    enabled to put their candidates considerably ahead, Messrs. Worship
+    and Hilton counting a formidable majority at an early stage of the
+    contest.  The friends of Messrs. Neave and Blyth were, however, far
+    from dismayed, and worked with a degree of zeal that certainly
+    deserved if it did not ensure success.  In the course of the
+    afternoon the Conservative majority had been greatly reduced, and it
+    looked at one time as if Mr. Neave’s return would have been secured.
+    The aspect of things nerved the Conservatives to renewed efforts and
+    enabled them to keep ahead of their opponents, the result being the
+    return of their candidates, Messrs. Worship and Hilton.
+
+    In the Market Ward the greatest excitement prevailed, popular feeling
+    being in favour of Mr. J. Norman (L) and Mr. I. Preston.  The latter,
+    although a Conservative, came forward on independent grounds, and as
+    opposed to the compromise that has been entered into for the return
+    of Messrs. Norman and Combe.  The last-named gentleman was brought
+    out under the auspices of that section of the Conservative party,
+    better known as the “clique,” which evoked the determined opposition
+    of the “independent” portion of the party.  There was another
+    candidate in the person of Mr J. Garratt (L), but that gentleman
+    retired at an early stage of the contest in favour of Mr. Combe.
+    Soon after the commencement of the polling, it became evident that
+    Mr. Norman’s election would be safe, and that the real fight would be
+    between Messrs. Combe and Preston.  The last-named had a large staff
+    of energetic supporters, and he was soon placed in a majority which
+    no efforts on the part of his opponents could break down.  The
+    result, therefore, in this ward was the return of Messrs. Norman and
+    Preston, which must be regarded as a great blow to the dominant
+    section of the Conservative party, who strained every nerve to carry
+    their man.
+
+    The contest in the Regent Ward was of diminished interest as compared
+    with the other parts of the town, and resulted in the return of the
+    Conservative candidates, Messrs. Barber and Tomlinson.  Against these
+    gentlemen were arrayed Messrs. Woodger and Page; but the candidature
+    of the two last-named was carried on in a sort of guerilla fashion
+    that evinced little confidence in a successful result, and their
+    respective chances will be found very fully illustrated in the
+    returns given at the close of the poll.
+
+    In the St. George’s Ward the battle was between Messrs. Doughty and
+    Baker, (C), and Messrs. Palmer and Hammond (L).  Here a most
+    determined fight was made, the Liberals commencing the business of
+    the day in a style that evidently meant winning.  Soon after the
+    first hour’s polling, Messrs. Palmer and Hammond took a commanding
+    lead, and although the utmost zeal was evinced on the part of their
+    opponents, they kept increasing their majority until by noon it had
+    assumed such proportions as to place the issue of the contest beyond
+    all question.  The result was unexpected, and created quite a
+    sensation among the Conservatives, who chagrined at the turn of
+    affairs in the Market Ward, were little prepared for this fresh
+    source of annoyance and discomfiture.
+
+    In the Nelson Ward there was no contest, Messrs. Woolverton, (C), and
+    Stone (L) being unopposed.
+
+    The election in the Southtown or St. Andrew’s Ward was provocative of
+    the usual excitement, the Gorlestonians coming out in considerable
+    force, and testifying their Conservative or Liberal proclivities in
+    the liveliest manner.  The candidates were Messrs. Steward and
+    Hammond, (C), as opposed to Messrs. Beevor and Nelson.  The contest
+    was well fought throughout, and resulted in the election of the
+    Conservative candidates.
+
+    In celebration of the victory in the St. George’s Ward, the Liberals
+    paraded a band, which did honour to the occasion by playing a
+    selection of popular music through the principal streets.
+
+                            OFFICIAL DECLARATION.
+
+    The official swearing-in of the newly-elected members took place on
+    Thursday afternoon, the proceedings creating more than their wonted
+    interest from the expectation of a “scene.”  These anticipations were
+    fully realised.  Previous to the commencement of the usual routine,
+    Mr. J. F. Neave, one of the defeated Liberal candidates in the North
+    Ward, addressed Mr. S. Nightingale, and, in a tone of considerable
+    vehemence, charged that gentleman and his supporters with having
+    secured the election by unfair practices by bringing forward
+    individuals to personate voters who were dead or at sea, or by other
+    means equally discreditable.  The scene which ensued was of the most
+    lively character, some half-dozen Councillors speaking at once.
+    Those in the body of the Court showed their enjoyment by encouraging
+    shouts of “Go it Neave,” “Give it them,” an appeal, however, which
+    was scarcely necessary, as the North Ward champion appeared in fine
+    mettle, and continued his address, although the greater part of it
+    was lost in the general turmoil.  Referring to the result, Mr.
+    Nightingale was understood to say that Mr. Neave would never be so
+    near winning again, which elicited a rejoinder from the latter that
+    he had been told he should never be elected a Guardian, but he had
+    shown them what he could do, and if he were spared he would yet be in
+    the Council.  This declaration of future hostilities was received
+    with great uproar, which was with difficulty quelled sufficiently to
+    enable the business of the meeting to be proceeded with.  This having
+    been brought to a termination, after sundry interruptions, the
+    newly-elected hastily quitted the Court, the proceedings having
+    afforded a singular exhibition of political amenities, from a
+    Yarmouth point of view.
+
+The following is the official return:—
+
+             _North Ward_.
+Mr. Hilton (C)                      395
+,, Worship (C)                      384
+„ Neave (L)                         371
+„ Blyth (L)                         287
+            _Market Ward_.
+Mr. J. A. Norman (L)                402
+,, I. Preston, Junr. (C)            376
+,, Combe, (C)                       336
+,, Garratt (L)                        4
+            _Regent Ward_.
+Mr. J. Tomlinson (C)                281
+„ R. D. Barber (C)                  261
+,, Woodger (L)                       86
+„ R. Page (L)                         7
+         _St. George’s Ward_.
+Mr. F. Danby-Palmer (L)             292
+,, H. Hammond (L)                   291
+,, Baker (C)                        164
+,, Doughty (C)                      142
+            _Nelson Ward_.
+Messrs. Woolverton (C) and Stone (L)
+unopposed.
+   _Southtown or St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+Mr. R. Steward (C)                  365
+,, Hammond (C)                      358
+,, Beevor (L)                       309
+,, Nelson (L)                       300
+
+As the result of this election, it was believed that Mr. E. H. L. Preston
+would be Mayor for the ensuing year.
+
+Mr. F. Ferrier had been returned in the place of Mr. Stagg, deceased, for
+the Regent Ward.
+
+An effort was being made to restore St. George’s Chapel.
+
+Nov. 12th.—At the Council meeting, Mr. J. C. Smith proposed, and Mr.
+Bracey seconded, Mr. E. H. L. Preston, as Mayor, and this was carried
+_nem. dis._
+
+There had been an enormous catch of herring; Messrs. Smith’s “Ocean Wave”
+had taken 29 lasts, and on the Thursday it was computed that 1,409 lasts
+of fish had been landed at the Wharf.
+
+Nov. 16th.—C. E. Bartram, Esq., J.P. and Councillor for the South Ward
+had died.
+
+Nov. 19th.—The Volunteers had received “Snider Rifles.”
+
+Mr. J. H. Fellows had presided at a meeting at the “New Royal Standard”
+to select a candidate for the South Ward, when Mr. Fredk. Palmer was
+brought forward, the other candidates named being Mr. I. Hill, Mr. G.
+Harvey, and Mr. J. H. Harrison.
+
+Nov. 23rd.—Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant:—2nd N.R.V., Lieut.
+A. J. Palmer to be Captain, vice Youell resigned; Ensign E. H. H. Combe
+to be Lieut., vice Palmer promoted.
+
+Nov. 26th.—The following had been the result of the election in the
+Nelson Ward:—
+
+Mr. Fredk. Palmer (L.)            447
+„ Isaac Hill (C.)                 269
+
+After the declaration of the poll a procession, headed by a band, had
+paraded the principal streets.
+
+Twelve vessels had already cleared with 28,390 barrels of herring for
+Italian ports.
+
+Dec. 3rd.—A petition alleging bribery at St. George’s Ward Election, had
+been presented to the Town Council, and supported there by Mr. J. W. Bunn
+(one of the Aldermen).  Mr. F. Danby-Palmer repudiated the charge on
+behalf of Mr. Hammond and himself, and, ultimately, on the motion of Mr.
+Harmer, the document was ordered to be laid “under the table.”
+
+The death of Mr. H. H. Barber (one of the Councillors for the South Ward,
+and a Captain in the 2nd N.R.V.) is recorded.
+
+In the Nelson Ward Mr. H. Fenner (C.) had been returned in his place,
+having beaten Mr. Woodger (L.) by 85 votes.
+
+The fishing-boats were “making up” after a very successful voyage.
+
+It was proposed to lay down a tramway from Yarmouth to Lowestoft.
+
+Dec. 17th.—The Mayor had presented the testimonial to Inspector Berry; it
+consisted of a 20 guinea watch and a purse of £145.
+
+One fishing boat had caught 142 lasts of herring during the season.
+
+It was estimated that £40,000 would be paid to the fishermen in wages.
+
+Messrs. Woolverton and George had opened a Stock Sale at Acle, the former
+gentleman acting as auctioneer.  There were a large number of entries,
+and fat stock had realised 10s. 6d. per stone.
+
+Dec. 21st.—Miss Emma Pearson (daughter of the late Captain Pearson, R.N.)
+had written a letter from the seat of war at Orleans, where she was
+nursing the sick and wounded.
+
+Dec. 24th.—Records the death of Mr. Henry Fellows, shipbuilder, aged 70.
+
+Herring had averaged £10 per last during the season, and it was computed
+that the money value of the fish caught during the season was £180,000.
+
+Dec. 28th.—Mr. Wyllys’ sledge had upset at the corner of Regent Street,
+and knocked over a woman, but no serious damage had been sustained.
+
+Dec. 31st.—Mr. J. H. Want had obtained the contract for the erection of a
+new Post Office in Regent Street.
+
+
+
+1871.
+
+
+Jan. 4th.—Records the abandonment of what was known as the “Ordering up
+system,” under which complainants had been accustomed, on payment of a
+fee of 2s. (without summons), to have persons brought before the
+Magistrates by the police.
+
+A young Danish girl had been discovered working as a sailor on board a
+vessel.
+
+Jan. 10th.—One Thacker, a veteran gunner, generally known as “Old Stork”
+had brought down five swans at one shot on Breydon.
+
+Jan. 14th.—The Mayor (E. H. L. Preston, Esq.), had given a ball at the
+Town-hall; about 180 guests were present; Mr. Sturge led the band; and
+Mr. Collins provided the refreshments.
+
+A large otter, measuring 4¾ feet and weighing 30 lbs., had been shot near
+the North River; it had previously been pursued by a skater, who had
+seized it by the tail, when it turned upon him and inflicted a
+considerable wound on his wrist.
+
+Jan. 15th.—The Magistrates had refused to convict in a vaccination case,
+which conduct was greatly exercising the Board of Guardians.
+
+Jan. 25th.—The schooner “Starling” had foundered in the fair way of the
+harbour between the piers, and thus blocked the navigation.
+
+Feb. 1st.—The first subscription ball was advertised with the following
+list of stewards:—The Mayor, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., Henry E.
+Buxton, Charles Sharpe Sharpe, and William Danby-Palmer, Esqs.
+
+Feb. 4th.—Bro. Edward Howes had been installed W.M. of Lodge
+“Friendship,” the members of which lodge had presented a testimonial to
+Bro. C. L. Chipperfield.
+
+Mr. W. J. Foreman had presided at the meeting of the Great Yarmouth
+Building Society, and Mr. Frederick Palmer at the meeting of the Norfolk
+and Suffolk Building Society.  Each institution published a favourable
+report of its proceedings and declared bonuses of £15 and £16 13s. 4d.
+respectively.
+
+Mr. Woodger had given 20 tons of coal to the poor in the South Ward.
+
+Feb. 8th.—Contains the following account of the death of Robert Steward,
+Esq.:—
+
+    “We regret to record the death of this gentleman who expired suddenly
+    at his residence in Cambridge, on Saturday evening.  Mr. Steward for
+    a number of years occupied a very prominent position in this borough,
+    having filled the office of Chief Magistrate on five occasions.  He
+    was until recently an active member of the Town Council, having
+    represented the Southtown or St. Andrew’s Ward for a lengthened
+    period, during which time he exhibited a warm interest in all that
+    related to the welfare of the borough.  Mr. Steward was one of the
+    first to associate himself with the Volunteer movement, and was ever
+    ready with his purse to aid the cause.  It was the occasion of his
+    fifth election to the Mayoralty that his fellow-townsmen determined
+    to present him with a testimonial in recognition of his public
+    services, and so heartily was the appeal responded to, that a sum was
+    soon raised sufficient for the purchase of a handsome service of
+    plate, which was publicly presented at the Town Hall.  Latterly Mr.
+    Steward had been suffering from failing health, and had taken up his
+    residence at Cambridge, but on all occasions when anything of public
+    interest was under discussion he was at his accustomed post in the
+    Town Council.  Mr. Steward was a Justice of the Peace for the
+    Borough, and also for the County of Suffolk.  As a public man his
+    loss will be much felt, for though occasionally overbearing and
+    impetuous, his faults were overlooked in the thorough earnestness
+    with which he applied himself to the promotion of those measures
+    which he considered for the general good.  Out of respect the flags
+    on the Town Hall and shipping have been hoisted half-mast.”
+
+A quantity of human remains had been discovered in a vault in Row 112.
+
+Feb. 11th.—A fine hare had been captured in the Market Place, after an
+exciting chase.
+
+Feb. 15th.—Mr. E. H. H. Combe and Mr. Nelson had been nominated to fill
+the vacancy, created by Mr. Steward’s death, in the Southtown Ward.
+
+J. C. Smith, Esq., had presided at the anniversary of the “Loyal Prince
+of Wales Lodge,” M.U.O.F., at the Market Tavern, when about sixty
+brethren were present.
+
+Feb. 25th.—There were 900 boats then engaged in the fishing, of the gross
+tonnage of 14,788 tons, manned by 4051 men and 531 boys.
+
+Mr. E. H. H. Combe had been returned as a member of the Council for the
+Southtown Ward.
+
+March 8th.—Police-constable Shreeve had met with a fatal accident by
+falling from the fire escape.
+
+The pauper lunatics, 18 in number, had been removed from London to the
+Ipswich Asylum.
+
+An old house in Row 132 had fallen down.
+
+March 11th.—The late R. Steward, Esq., had bequeathed a legacy of £19
+19s. to each of the following charities:—The Great Yarmouth Hospital, the
+Priory, St. Peter’s, and Gorleston National Schools, the Norfolk and
+Norwich Hospital, the Norwich Blind Institution, the National School
+Society, the Boys’ Hospital School (Norwich), the C. M. Society, and the
+S. P. G. Society.
+
+March 22nd.—A fine pike, weighing upwards of 25lbs., had been shot in one
+of the neighbouring Broads.
+
+April 18th.—At the Guardians’ Election the new and largely augmented
+constituency was polled for the first time.  There was a regular party
+fight, Mr. John Cooper acting as Conservative agent, and Mr. F.
+Danby-Palmer for the Liberals, the following being the result:—
+
+             _North Ward_.
+J. F. Neave (L)                      844
+H. Blyth (L)                         662
+S. Nightingale (C)                   662
+J. T. Buston (C)                     567
+J. Rant (L)                          542
+S. Barge (C)                         478
+             _Market Ward_.
+J. A. Norman (L)                     621
+Wm. Laws (C)                         476
+J. G. Overend (L)                    427
+R. Dumbleton (C)                     418
+R. B. Ellis (C)                      397
+             _Regent Ward_.
+R. D. Barber (C)                     470
+W. Worship (C)                       426
+J. H. Norman (L)                     375
+C. Diver (C)                         367
+J. Clowes (Grocer) (L)               289
+R. Bryant (L)                        198
+          _St. George’s Ward_.
+J. W. de Caux (L)                    557
+J. Scott (L)                         478
+J. Rivett (L)                        371
+W. J. Foreman (C)                    298
+W. Harrison (C)                      248
+D. Gooch (C)                         244
+T. Todd (C)                          115
+             _Nelson Ward_.
+F. Palmer (L)                        966
+C. Woolverton (C)                    934
+J. Bracey (C)                        766
+J. Clowes (Solicitor) (L)            678
+W. T. Fisher (L)                     534
+T. C. Foreman (N)                    376
+G. Harvey (C)                        267
+J. H. Harrison (N)                     8
+
+    Previous to the declaration of the numbers by the returning officer,
+
+    Mr. John Cooper, on behalf of the Conservative candidates, who had
+    met the previous night, announced his intention not to proceed with
+    the scrutiny before the returning officer, who had no authority to
+    call witnesses, but stated that the whole conduct of the election
+    would be laid before the Poor Law Board with a view to a thorough
+    enquiry being instituted.  The election had been conducted in a
+    fraudulent manner.  Mr. Cooper, in support of his assertion,
+    instanced the case of Hurr, one of the collectors, who, he alleged,
+    had only returned 113 papers out of 300.  Names had also been put on
+    various papers without authority, while the collector (Hurr) had
+    taken his papers to the house of one of the candidates, where they
+    were examined and sorted.  Another collector in the Liberal interest,
+    named Norman, had been convicted and sentenced to twelve months’
+    imprisonment for robbery.  Mr. Cooper went on to say that in the
+    Market Ward (Hurr’s district) upwards of twenty papers had never been
+    called for, and he understood that there were upwards of 50 which had
+    been signed by one person.  The election had been conducted in such
+    an unfair and scandalous manner, that the Conservatives had resolved
+    upon demanding a Poor Law enquiry.
+
+    Mr. Livingston said it would be for Mr. Cooper and his friends to
+    make good the allegations just made.  He hoped if there had been any
+    irregularity it would be fully enquired into.
+
+    Mr. J. A. Norman (who headed the poll for the Market Ward) supposed
+    that Mr. Cooper had suspected the Liberals had been adopting the
+    former tactics of their opponents, and had taken a leaf out of their
+    book.  (Laughter.)
+
+    Mr. Overend (another successful candidate for the Market Ward) denied
+    that the papers had been sorted in the shop as alleged, and said the
+    collector called for information.
+
+    Mr. Cufaude (the Returning-officer) said the collector ought not to
+    have done this, as it was most irregular and contrary to the
+    instructions given to the collectors.  He then gave the return as
+    above, and the proceedings closed.
+
+    The result has caused considerable heart-burning among the
+    Conservatives, who have so long held the sway in all matters
+    pertaining to local administration, and they cannot be expected to
+    view with equanimity the storming of one of their chief strongholds
+    by the enemy.
+
+April 22nd.—Mr. Bowgin, who had died at the age of 90, had left a
+considerable sum of money to local charities.
+
+April 26th.—At the first meeting of the recently elected Board of
+Guardians, Mr. Frederick Palmer and Mr. John A. Norman were respectively
+elected chairman and vice-chairman, in the place of Mr. C. Woolverton and
+Mr. W. Laws.
+
+The smack “Sevastopol” (belonging to Mr. H. Fenner) had been destroyed by
+fire on the fishing grounds.
+
+Judge Worlledge had been appointed Chancellor of the Diocese in the place
+of Mr. Howes, deceased.
+
+May 6th.—The _Free Lance_, a notorious local newspaper, had been
+proceeded against for libelling Mr. King, of Gorleston.
+
+May 10th.—Records the death of Richard Hammond, Esq., as follows:—“It is
+with deep regret that we announce the death of this much respected
+gentleman, who expired at his residence, Regent Road, on Saturday morning
+last, after a rather lengthened illness.  Mr. Hammond during his long
+career has occupied so prominent a position, and has ranked so high in
+the opinion of all classes of his fellow-townsmen, that his death,
+although regarded as imminent, created much sensation.  The deceased, who
+was born in 1792, and was consequently at the time of his decease in his
+79th year, was one of the oldest Magistrates of the borough, having been
+called to the Bench in 1841.  During the long period that Mr. Hammond was
+associated with the administration of justice he was remarkable for his
+uprightness and thorough independence of character.  Wealthy, but yet
+conspicuous for his unostentatious mode of life, he was at all times
+accessible to those of his poorer fellow townsmen, many of whom were wont
+to seek his counsel, and advice.  In the exercise of his magisterial
+functions, he was ever disposed to temper justice with mercy, and in his
+death there must be many who must feel that they have lost a true and
+valued friend.  The deceased for many years occupied a leading position
+as among the most prominent, forward, yet consistent members of the
+Liberal party, and although he had of late ceased to take any active part
+in political controversies, he was always deeply interested in everything
+that pertained to the advancement of the cause which he had so greatly at
+heart.  Mr. Hammond, who was largely connected at one time with the
+fisheries, had also a considerable stake in the shipping of the port, and
+accumulated a large property, the bulk of which will, doubtless, have
+been bequeathed to his three nieces, as he was unmarried.  Out of respect
+to the deceased, the flags on the Town Hall, public buildings, and
+shipping have been hoisted half-mast, while many private families have
+shown similar marks of regard to the memory of the deceased.”
+
+The Guardians had decided to allow Nonconformist Ministers to visit at
+the Workhouse.
+
+May 17th.—One boat had landed 1,000 mackerel, and that fish was selling
+at from 20s. to 25s. per hundred.
+
+May 20th.—The late Mr. Hammond had left the following charitable
+legacies:—Hospital, £50; Sailors’ Home, £19 19s.; Priory schools, £50;
+and St. John’s, St. Andrew’s, St. Peter’s and Primitive Methodist
+schools, £19 19s. each.
+
+The cost of taking the census had amounted to £110 15s.
+
+June 3rd.—Records the death of David A. Gourlay, Esq., as follows:—“We
+regret to record the death of this gentleman, who expired at his
+residence on Wednesday, at the advanced age of 89 years.  During his long
+connection with the town, Mr. Gourlay contrived to amass considerable
+wealth, having been largely connected with the shipping interest of the
+port.  The deceased was a much respected member of the Liberal party in
+the borough, and in 1849 filled the office of Mayor.  He was also a
+Magistrate, having been placed on the roll of Justices in 1858, and for
+many years represented the Market Ward in the Town Council, which
+position he only resigned last year.  Mr. Gourlay was of a singularly
+quiet habit, devoting his entire time to business pursuits, which he
+continued until advancing years and infirmities compelled retirement.
+The deceased was deeply interested in the educational movements of the
+town, and a few years since presented the magnificent donation of £1,000
+towards the Wesleyan Schools.  As a mark of respect to his memory the
+flags on the Town Hall and shipping have been hoisted half mast.  The
+number of borough magistrates who have died since 1863 has now reached
+15.”
+
+June 10th.—There had been a stormy discussion in the Council with regard
+to the proposal to appoint Messrs. Salmon Palmer, Garson Blake, and John
+W. de Caux, Justices for the Borough, when Mr. James W. Bunn moved, and
+Mr. C. Woolverton seconded a resolution to the effect that such
+appointments “would be objectionable”; and Mr. F. Danby-Palmer moved, and
+Mr. James Scott seconded an amendment approving such appointments, which
+was lost by 25 to 7 votes, those voting in the minority being Messrs. F.
+Danby-Palmer, J. Scott, Frederick Palmer, J. W. de Caux, T. W. Attwood,
+H. Hammond, and J. A. Norman.
+
+Mr. I. Preston’s “Otter” had made a passage from Yarmouth to Harwich, a
+distance of 52 miles in four and a half hours.
+
+June 14th.—Mr. Stafford had resigned the surgeonship for the North
+District, his salary being £100; he stated that he had 2,093 paupers on
+his books.
+
+June 17th.—One hundred and twenty-seven men of the R.H.A. were encamped
+on the North Denes, the officers being Captains Fox-Strangeways and
+Scott; Lieutenants Rothe, Hardinge-Brown, and P. F. Blackwood;
+Surgeon-Major Lewer, and Vet.-Surgeon Walker.
+
+Messrs. J. Tolver Waters, Frank Burton, and F. W. Dendy had passed the
+Legal examination.
+
+June 21st.—Mr. A. D. Stone had been elected a Haven Commissioner in the
+place of Mr. Hammond, deceased, without opposition, owing to Mr. de
+Caux’s nomination paper having been left at the wrong office.
+
+June 24th.—The “Oleander,” a barque of 440 tons had been launched from
+Messrs. Fellows and Son’s yard.
+
+July 12th.—At the Water Frolic the “Halcyon” won the first match, and the
+“Vivid” the second match; Mr. I. Preston, junr., acted as Secretary.
+
+There had been a destructive fire at Mr. Bland’s premises on the Queen’s
+Road.
+
+July 26th.—There had been a Volunteer Encampment on the North Denes with
+a brigade field day, when the troops were under the command of
+Major-General Murray.
+
+The Yarmouth Corps had entertained the Officers of the Norfolk and
+Suffolk Battalions, the Mayor, Major-General Murray, Brigade Major
+Ogilvie, Captain Alderson, N.A.M., and several other guests at the Royal
+Hotel.
+
+There had been a proposal made to abolish the Fair.
+
+The newly-appointed Magistrates, Messrs. Palmer, Blake, and de Caux had
+qualified.
+
+Aug. 19th.—The Council had voted an address of congratulation to Sir
+James Paget upon his being created a Baronet.
+
+The Prince of Wales had consented to accept the Hon. Colonelcy of the
+Norfolk Artillery Militia, vacant through the death of Lord Hastings.
+
+Aug. 26th.—Tomlinson’s Brewery and the houses attached to it had been
+sold in lots by public auction.
+
+Sept. 2nd.—St. George’s Denes had been for the first time enclosed for a
+“Floral Fete,” when Mr. James H. Harrison “with rather a rough element at
+the back” appeared as a champion of public rights.
+
+Sept. 6th.—The following Rifle Volunteer Officers had received
+certificates of proficiency under the new regulations:—Captains Holt,
+Matthews, and Palmer, and Lieutenants Buxton, Diver, Palmer and Wilson.
+
+Sept. 27th.—M. Desfongerais (the re-called French Consul) had been
+presented with a testimonial before leaving Yarmouth.
+
+Sept. 30th.—Heavy gales had prevailed from the E. and S.E.
+
+“Low prices and heavy deliveries” continued to characterise the fishing.
+
+Mr. W. B. Neslin, an eccentric character, who had accumulated hundreds,
+if not thousands of notes of various epitaphs, had died at the age of 70
+years.
+
+Oct. 18th.—E. P. Youell, Esq., had presided at a meeting called to
+consider the restoration of Gorleston Church.
+
+Oct. 21st.—The New Corn Hall in Howard Street had been opened with a
+public dinner, when about 200 gentlemen attended, the chair being taken
+by H. S. Grimmer, Esq., and the vice-chairs by Messrs. G. M. Beck, E. H.
+H. Combe, E. Press, and J. W. Bunn.
+
+Nov. 4th.—Five of the Wards had been contested, with the following
+result:—
+
+        _North Ward_.
+Neave (L)                 565
+Bly(C)                    541
+Buston (C)                464
+Blyth (L)                 432
+       _Market Ward_.
+Fyson (C)                 394
+Baker (C)                 374
+Garratt (L)               349
+Clowes (L)                321
+       _Regent Ward_.
+Burton (C)                239
+Ferrier (C)               212
+Goodwin (L)               137
+Livingston (L)            117
+    _St. George’s Ward_.
+Todd (I)                  385
+Scott (L)                 324
+Smith (C)                 150
+       _Nelson Ward_.
+Woodger (L)               742
+Fenner (C)                467
+Palmer (L)                407
+    _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+Dendy (L) and Baumgartner
+(L), unopposed.
+
+Mr. Edward S. Preston, who had been in the field, having retired at the
+eleventh hour.
+
+The general result was a gain of one to the Liberal party.
+
+Nov. 11th.—Mr. S Nightingale had proposed, and Mr. J. Scott seconded, the
+re-election of the Mayor (Mr. E. H. L. Preston) and he was re-elected
+accordingly.
+
+The following Aldermen had been re-appointed:—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, and
+Messrs. R. Purdy, G. S. Shingles, E. P. Youell, R. S. Watling, and W.
+Danby-Palmer.
+
+Rear-Admiral Thomas L. Gooch had been promoted to be a retired
+Vice-Admiral.
+
+The Rifle Volunteers shed on the North Denes had been burnt with the
+stores contained in it, “and no clue yet obtained to the perpetrator of
+this wanton piece of mischief.”
+
+Nov. 18th.—Mr. Woodger had entertained 40 of his friends at a dinner
+given by him at St. George’s Tavern, King Street.
+
+The Liberals were organising Working Men’s Associations in the several
+Wards.
+
+Nov. 22nd.—The “Reliance,” steamtug, had struck a piece of wreck near the
+Cross Sand, and become a total wreck.  She was valued at £2,500.
+
+Nov. 29th.—Three companies of the 33rd Regiment had arrived at the
+Southtown Barracks.
+
+Captain Harvey was making experiments with his sea torpedoes in the
+Roads, accompanied by Baron de Grancy and M. Vavasseur.
+
+Dec. 6th.—There had been disastrous gales, causing great destruction of
+shipping property and loss of life.
+
+Dec. 16th.—A meeting had been held at Gorleston with a view to the
+restoration of the Church; the Mayor presided, and Sir E. H. K. Lacon,
+Bart., M.P., the Revs. H. Nevill, T. Allnutt (Vicar), J. Walker, S. N.
+Vowler, and Messrs. E. P. Youell, H. E. Buxton, C. J. Palmer, E. H. H.
+Combe, W. Teasdel, G. B. Palmer, Stanier, Wilton, Holt, Baumgartner,
+Bottle, S. Bately, Bellamy, Ling, S. Dowson, W. S. Sandford, Dr. Bately,
+Capt. Matthews, Capt. Aldrich, &c., were present.
+
+Dee. 30th.—Reference is made to the “New Law of Merchant Shipping”
+(Plimsoll’s Act.)
+
+The Prince of Wales being restored to health, it was expected that he
+would visit Yarmouth with the N.A.M., of which Regiment he was Hon.
+Colonel, during their training in the Spring.
+
+Mrs. Walpole, of Southtown, had bequeathed legacies of £50 to the
+Hospital and £19 19s. to the Sailors’ Home.
+
+It was estimated that the 600 boats hailing from Yarmouth paid “something
+like £4000 for towage to the Tug Companies.”
+
+Mr. J. F. Neave had erected a new Primitive Methodist Chapel at Bradwell.
+
+
+
+1872.
+
+
+Jan. 6th.—Mr. J. T. Clarke had been appointed an Admiralty Commissioner.
+
+Jan. 20th.—The Town Council had voted congratulatory addresses to the
+Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, upon the occasion of the
+recovery of the Prince from his serious illness.
+
+There had been a heavy gale from the S.S.W.
+
+Jan. 27th.—It was stated that within 12 years five penny newspapers had
+been started in Yarmouth, all of which had ceased to exist.
+
+Jan. 31st.—Mr. John L. Cufaude, Clerk of the Peace, Clerk to the
+Guardians, and Superintendent Registrar had died at the age of 61 years.
+
+Feb. 3rd.—Messrs. Chamberlin, I. Preston, junr., H. R. Harmer and F. W
+Ferrier were candidates for the first and Messrs. F. Danby-Palmer and F.
+S. Costerton for the two latter of these appointments.
+
+Feb. 7th.—Mr. F. Danby-Palmer had been elected Superintendent Registrar
+by “a large majority,” the other candidates being Messrs. S. C. Burton
+and H. Cowl.
+
+Bro. James Carter had been installed W.M. of Lodge “Friendship.”
+
+A new route (the loop line) was being constructed between Yarmouth and
+Lowestoft at a cost of £15,000.
+
+Feb. 14th.—Mr. F. Danby-Palmer had been unanimously elected Clerk to the
+Board of Guardians.
+
+Feb. 17th.—At the Council meeting Mr. W. Laws proposed, and Mr. T. M.
+Baker seconded, Mr. I. Preston, junr.’s appointment as Clerk of the
+Peace, and Mr. J. W. Foreman proposed, and Mr. J. Bracey seconded, Mr. H.
+R. Harmer for that office.
+
+The voting was—For Mr. Preston: The Mayor and Messrs. J. T. Bracey, Laws,
+Mabson, Teasdel, Purdy, Nightingale, Bly, Barnby, Norman, Preston (Isaac
+junr.), Baker, Wright, George, Woolverton, Burton, Ferrier, Todd, Veale,
+Fenner, Gooda, and W. Hammond (22),
+
+And for Mr. Harmer: Messrs. Bunn, Harmer, Youell, William Danby-Palmer,
+Worship, Hilton, Neave, Nuthall, Fyson, Barber, Tomlinson, Foreman, do
+Caux, F. Danby-Palmer, Scott, J. Bracey, Stone, Woodger, Combe and
+Baumgartner (20).
+
+Mr. Attwood declined to vote.  After the voting the following “scene”
+took place between the Mayor and Mr. Harmer:—
+
+    Mr. Harmer said he had come forward as a candidate, considering his
+    long connection with the party entitled him to their support.  He
+    could not let that opportunity pass without expressing his thanks to
+    those gentleman who had accorded him their votes.  He could but think
+    if the Mayor had fought a ‘manly and open game’—(cries of ‘no, no,’
+    and uproar)—and postponed his canvassing from the Saturday to the
+    Monday, he should have been in a very different position there that
+    day.  (Renewed cheers and uproar.)  He believed he should have had
+    most of those promises which the Mayor had obtained on the Sunday.
+    (Cries of ‘no, no,’ and general uproar.)  He felt certain that a
+    great many of his friends in the Council whom he had known many
+    years, and who had been induced to vote against him, were sorry for
+    it, and had only been led to do so by the promise given the Mayor on
+    Sunday.  (Cries and groans and general tumult in the gallery.)  He
+    met an old friend the other day, and on asking him for his vote, he
+    replied, ‘I am very sorry I cannot give it you, as I promised the
+    Mayor on Sunday—(cheers and laughter)—but you have my sympathy, and I
+    hope you may win.’  He (Mr. Harmer) could not help replying, ‘Hang
+    your sympathy; give me your vote.’
+
+    The Mayor said he could not let Mr. Harmer’s remarks upon himself
+    pass without comment.  Coming home quietly from church on the Sunday
+    morning referred to following the mace-bearers, Mr. Harmer came up to
+    him and canvassed him for the Clerkship of the Peace, Mr. Cufaude not
+    being then dead.  (Hear, hear, and uproar.)  He told Mr. Harmer that
+    Mr. Cufaude was not dead and (he might as well tell them all that
+    passed), said he hoped to God he might live till after March, so that
+    they (the Conservatives) might have the opportunity of fighting the
+    Guardians.  (Cheers and counter cheers.)  In walking down to the
+    Station-house he said to Mr. Harmer, if that should be the case, and
+    they should get a majority at the Board of Guardians, Mr. Harmer
+    could go in for the Clerk of the Guardians, and he (the Mayor) for
+    the Clerk of the Peace,—(loud laughter)—and that they could work
+    together.  Mr. Harmer replied by saying that he should go in for both
+    appointments—(cheers and laughter)—and he (the Mayor) replied that he
+    could not do so, but if he (the Mayor) won one, he would support Mr.
+    Harmer in the other, and if Mr. Harmer was successful in one, he
+    could give him his help in trying to obtain the other appointment for
+    his son.  (Hear, hear.)  In the afternoon of that day Mr. Cufaude
+    died, and as he knew Mr. Harmer was canvassing, did they think he was
+    such a fool as to let him outstep him.  (Cheers and uproar.)
+
+    Mr. Harmer rose to reply, but the confusion became so great owing to
+    the shouting and recrimination, backed up by the adherents of the
+    respective parties in the gallery, that scarcely anything could be
+    heard amid the din of words.  During a temporary lull in the storm,
+
+    Mr. Harmer, who was still speaking excitedly, was understood to say
+    that he did not go between the bark and the tree, but that he wished
+    to tell the whole truth about the conversation between him and the
+    Mayor.  He asked the Mayor how Mr. Cufaude was, and he replied that
+    he was very bad indeed, and not expected to live.  (At this juncture
+    of Mr. Harmer’s reply several of the Councillors vacated their seats,
+    and left the room, and the disorder which had calmed down a little
+    again broke out.  Mr. Harmer, thus interrupted, stopped in his
+    speech, but in response to cries of ‘go on, go on,’ from the public,
+    he turned himself to the gallery, and addressing the occupants of
+    that place, continued his remarks.)  He said he observed to the
+    Mayor—‘In case anything happens, what do you intend to do?’  The
+    Mayor replied ‘If my son comes forward I must support him,’ to which
+    he (Mr. Harmer) replied ‘very naturally, too.’  He then told the
+    Mayor that he should be a candidate for the Clerkship of the Peace,
+    and as they walked down Regent-street the Mayor remarked to him, ‘If
+    we can only keep the poor fellow alive till after the next election
+    of Guardians, then we must all put our hands into our pockets and
+    turn them (the Liberals) out.’  (Cries of ‘Shame,’ ‘Bribery,’ and
+    general uproar.)  The Mayor then said ‘I will propose that you shall
+    be Clerk of the Peace and Isaac, Clerk of the Guardians.’  (Cheers
+    and laughter.)  His answer to that generous proposition was, ‘I shall
+    not stand that; I shall expect the better berth of the two.’
+    (Renewed laughter, and cries of ‘Go in Harmer.’)  The Mayor said
+    ‘Well, after all, perhaps Isaac would rather have the Clerkship of
+    the Peace, as there is not much to do, and as he is going to be
+    married, and will be very well off, he won’t want it.’  (Loud
+    laughter.)
+
+    Here the confusion became so great that nothing could be heard, and
+    as by this time the majority of the Councillors had dispersed, the
+    proceedings closed amid wild uproar.
+
+Feb. 24th.—Mr. Henry E. Buxton had been elected Commodore and Mr. I.
+Preston, jun., Vice-Commodore of the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club.  Mr.
+T. M. Read was building a new yacht at Beccles.
+
+Feb. 28th.—Mr. I. Preston, jun., the newly-elected Clerk of the Peace,
+had entertained the Recorder and Bar at the Sessions.
+
+In the Market Ward, Mr. R. Dumbleton and Mr. J. Garratt had been
+candidates for the seat vacated by Mr. Preston, when the former gentleman
+was elected by a majority of 191.
+
+April 6th.—Mr. C. S. D. Steward and Captain Gilbertson had been
+re-appointed Churchwardens, and Messrs. Ellis, Skoulding, Lay and
+Pestell, Overseers.
+
+April 3rd.—Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., Recorder, had died at Coltishall, aged
+79; it was stated that “The deceased was at one period of his career a
+prominent member of the Whig party, and was generally known as ‘Orator
+Palmer.’  He acted with the other members of the Palmer family and their
+cousins—the Stewards and Hurrys—and was with them instrumental in opening
+the borough of Great Yarmouth in 1818.”
+
+The following officers were then with the E.N.M. at its annual
+training:—Colonel Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel Glover,
+Major Matthew, Captains Dods, Ensor, Applewaite, Ambrose, and McEnry, and
+Lieutenants Haly, Howes, Long, Lacon, Haggard, Fryer, Barber and Napier.
+Captain Lacon being absent.
+
+April 13th.—The following had been the result of the Guardians’
+Election.—
+
+         _North Ward_.
+Stafford (C.)             1,163
+Neave (L.)                  861
+Skoulding (C.)              758
+Buston(C)                   664
+Blyth (L.)                  562
+Rant (L.)                   365
+        _Market Ward_.
+Norman (L.)                 679
+Dumbleton (C.)              675
+Laws (C.)                   599
+Overend (L.)                524
+Ellis (C.)                  515
+Brand (L.)                  472
+        _Regent Ward_.
+Barber (C.)                 540
+Norman (L.)                 486
+Diver (C.)                  428
+Preston (C.)                426
+Bryant (L.)                 337
+Rant (L.)                   299
+     _St. George’s Ward_.
+de Caux (L.)                613
+Scott (L.)                  522
+Rivett (L.)                 400
+Foreman (C.)                266
+Bunn (C.)                   250
+Todd (I.)                   214
+Gooch (C.)                  204
+        _Nelson Ward_.
+Palmer (L.)               1,166
+Woodger (L.)              1,090
+Clowes (L.)                 921
+Fisher (L.)                 770
+
+Woolverton (C) and Bracey (C) (numbers not given.)
+
+The result was that 10 Liberals to 4 Tories had been elected.
+
+The Town Council had recommended Mr. Mills for the office of Recorder, he
+having acted for several years as the late Mr. Palmer’s deputy in that
+office.
+
+April 24th.—The first week in June had been fixed for the Prince of
+Wales’ visit to the town.
+
+Mr. Frederick Palmer had been re-appointed chairman, and Messrs. J. A.
+Norman and J. F. Neave, vice-chairmen of the Board of Guardians.
+
+Mr. Simms Reeve had been appointed Recorder in the place of Mr. Palmer
+deceased; it was stated that he was called to the Bar in 1850 and was a
+member of the Norfolk Circuit.
+
+May 8th.—Funds were being raised for the purpose of decorating the town
+on the occasion of the Prince of Wales’ visit.
+
+May 11th.—The Town Council had formed itself into a committee to consider
+the public steps to be taken with regard to that event.
+
+May 25th.—Simms Reeve, Esq., had been appointed Judge of the Borough
+Court of Record.
+
+May 29th.—Mr. de Caux had met with an accident through falling from a
+cart on the Drive.
+
+June 1st.—James Scott, Esq., J.P., and one of the Councillors for the St.
+George’s Ward, had died.
+
+June 8th.—Records the first visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to the
+town, when he lodged at Mr. Cuddon’s house (Shaddingfield Lodge).  The
+town was very handsomely decorated, and His Royal Highness was received
+at the Southtown Railway Station by the Reception Committee which
+consisted of Lord Sondes, the Mayor, the Recorder, the Town Clerk, and
+Messrs. William Mabson, W. T. Attwood, R. D. Barber, F. Dendy, H. R.
+Harmer, Frederick Ferrier, E. H. H. Combe, F. Danby-Palmer, E. P. Youell,
+S. Nightingale, R. S. Watling, and Bessey.  After the Recorder had
+presented the Corporate address, His Royal Highness and the Committee
+proceeded to the Town Hall, where 200 guests were entertained.
+Subsequently His Royal Highness proceeded to the Grammar School and
+opened the newly-erected hall there.  In the evening the town was
+illuminated.
+
+June 15th.—Mr. S. K. Smith had been elected a Councillor for St. George’s
+Ward in the place of Mr. J. Scott deceased.
+
+June 19th.—“Notes and Queries” contained a notice of Palmer’s
+“Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,” 400 pages of which had then been
+issued from the press.
+
+A man named Howes had been killed through the bursting of a rocket at the
+Coastguard Station during the Prince’s visit.
+
+June 22nd records the funeral of the late Mr. Edward Fyson, a member of
+the Town Council and Captain in the Rifle Volunteers.
+
+The Rev. J. J. Raven had had the degree of D.D. conferred upon him by the
+University of Cambridge.
+
+June 26th.—Mr. Simms Reeve had sat as Recorder for the first time at the
+Quarter Sessions.
+
+The Town was filling rapidly with visitors.
+
+June 29th.—The polling in the Market Ward had resulted as follows:—
+
+Mr. John Garratt (L)            418
+Mr. Tyrrell (C)                 168
+                 Majority       250
+
+The marriage of Miss Watling (only daughter of Robert S. Watling, Esq.)
+and Mr. Samuel Nightingale (nephew of Samuel Nightingale, Esq.) had been
+celebrated “amid great rejoicing.”
+
+July 6th.—The late Mr. E. Fyson had left legacies of £250 each to the
+Sailors’ Home and the Hospital.
+
+The new organ at St. Mary’s, Southtown, was estimated to cost £250.
+
+Mural paintings had been discovered in Gorleston Church.
+
+July 13th.—A ghost was reported to be frequenting the Churchyard; upwards
+of 1,000 persons attended at one time to see it.
+
+July 20th.—It was stated that in the year 1871, 19,781 lasts of fish,
+weighing 39,562 tons, had been conveyed by rail from Yarmouth.
+
+Coal had advanced to 32s. per ton.
+
+Mr. Palmer had returned from his cruise along the Dutch coast in the
+yacht “Oasis.”
+
+July 31st.—The men at Lacon’s Brewery had struck for and obtained an
+advance of 3s. a week in their wages.
+
+Aug. 10th.—The observance of the Bank Holiday Act had resulted in an
+“enormous influx” of excursionists.
+
+Aug. 17th.—Messrs. Fellows, Dendy, and Spelman had been appointed Borough
+Justices.
+
+The following had been the result of the polling for a Guardian to supply
+the place of the late Mr. Scott in St. George’s Ward:—
+
+Mr. T. Green (L)                 401
+Mr. S. K. Smith (C)              281
+Mr. T. C. Foreman (N)            126
+
+Aug. 21st.—The Mayor (E. H. L. Preston, Esq.,) had died in the 66th year
+of his age.
+
+Aug. 31st.—Mr. C. Woolverton had, on the motion of Mr. Worship, seconded
+by Mr. Bunn, been elected Mayor for the residue of the year of office in
+the place of the late Mr. Preston deceased.
+
+Aug. 31st.—The Channel Fleet—consisting of the “Achilles,” flagship of
+Rear-Admiral Randolph, C.B., (Captain Hamilton), 6,121 tons, 1,250 horse
+power, 26 guns; “Hector,” (Captain Cochran), 4,019 tons, 800 horse power,
+18 guns; “Penelope,” (Captain Wake), 3,096 tons, 600 horse power, 11
+guns; “Audacious,” (Captain Hope), 3,774 tons, 800 horse power, 14 guns;
+“Vanguard,” (Captain Spain), 3,774 tons, 800 horse power, 14 guns; “Black
+Prince,” (Captain Lacey), 6,109 tons, 1,125 horse power, 28 guns;
+“Resistance” (Captain Montgomery), 3,710 tons, 600 horse power, 16 guns;
+“Favorite,” (Captain Ross), 2,094 tons, 400 horse power, 10 guns—had
+arrived in the Roads.  The Artillery Volunteers fired a salute of 13 guns
+from the South Battery in honour of the Fleet, and the Mayor, accompanied
+by Messrs. J. E. Barnby, W. Mabson, H. Teasdel, T. W. Attwood, C. Diver,
+R. Dumbleton, T. Todd, Major Orde, F. Danby-Palmer, F. Ferrier, Admiral
+Smyth, C. E. Nuthall, J. Tomlinson, J. Bracey, W. Laws, H. Hammond, Geo.
+Watson, and E. H. H. Combe, had visited the flagship.
+
+Sept. 4th.—Records the departure of the Fleet.
+
+Sept. 11th.—The first Election under the Ballot Act had been held.  This
+took place in the North Ward, upon the decease of the Mayor, and resulted
+in the return of the Conservative candidate, the numbers being for
+
+Mr. Skoulding (C.)            434
+Mr. H. Blyth (L.).            190
+
+Thus, upon a register of some 1,300 voters, only 629 persons polled.
+
+Sept. 14th.—Mr. Bunn had been elected a Haven Commissioner by the Council
+in the place of the late Mr. Preston.
+
+Gas had been increased from 4s. to 5s. per 1000 feet “owing to the
+increased cost of coal and labour.”
+
+Oct. 5th.—Mr. Leach’s oil and lamp shop and warehouse in the Market Place
+had been destroyed by fire.  Mr. Leach’s stock alone thus burnt was
+valued at £1,000; the house belonging to Mrs. Ellis; both these items
+were, however, covered by insurance.
+
+Oct. 12th.—The fish merchants were urging their grievances against the
+Railway Company.
+
+Oct. 16th.—The first rail of the tramway on the Southtown Road had been
+laid and fixed by Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P.
+
+In the evening a dinner had been given at the Town Hall in connection
+with the ceremony.  Jas. Goodson, Esq., presided, and there were also
+present—the Mayor, the Recorder, the Mayor of Beccles, Captain Penrice,
+C.B., Mr. Garnham and Mr. Cotching (Directors of the Tramway Company) and
+Messrs. E. P. Youell, E. H. H. Combe, W. H. Chambers, R. H. Harmer, H. B.
+Rathbone, Browne, F. Danby-Palmer, J. Hudspith, Jewson, Fox, Underwood,
+Geard, Brooks, Harrison, G. Billington, Davidson, Cooke, J. H. Bly,
+Bales, Light, C. J. Palmer, H. Martin, H. Fenn, Dickson, Brown, junr., J.
+W. Cockrill, May, Filby, J. Thomas, Leathes, A. Nelson, H. Catton,
+Shipley, &c.
+
+The town had been visited by a heavy gale from the S.W.
+
+Oct. 26th.—Coal was reduced in price from 34s. to 27s. per ton.
+
+Prices for herring had ruled from £7 to £13 for salted, and from £8 to
+£20 for fresh fish; 3,454 lasts had been landed.
+
+Nov. 2nd.—Mr. J. Owles’ collection of china had been sold in 1,800 lots.
+
+Nov. 6th.—The Municipal Election had resulted as follows:—
+
+         _North Ward_.
+Nightingale, (C)            558
+Skoulding, (C)              503
+Livingston, (L)             240
+Woodger, (L)                200
+Foreman, (N)                 18
+        _Market Ward_.
+Barnby, (C)                 258
+Martins, (C)                216
+Reeder, (L)                  99
+Lawn, (L)                    53
+Tyrrell, (C)                 53
+        _Regent Ward_.
+Burton, (L)                 213
+Blake, (L)                  186
+George, (C)                 181
+Wright, (C)                 173
+     _St. George’s Ward_.
+Foreman, (C)                276
+de Caux, (L)                257
+Wiltshire, (C)              241
+Green, (L)                  220
+        _Nelson Ward_.
+Bracey, (C)                 613
+Veale, (C)                  538
+Palmer, (L)                 375
+Clowes, (L)                 306
+     _St. Andrew’s Ward_.
+Gooda, (C), and Attwood, (L),
+unopposed.
+
+Subsequently a meeting of Liberals was held in the Regent-ward to
+congratulate Messrs. Burton and Blake upon their “victory” there.  Mr.
+Lovewell Blake (chairman), and Messrs. F. Palmer, J. Woodger, J. F.
+Neave, T. Green, Frank Burton, and J. H. Norman took part in this
+proceeding.
+
+Nov. 10th.—Upon the motion of Mr. E. P. Youell, seconded by Mr J. T.
+Bracey, Mr. C. Woolverton had been elected Mayor of the Borough.  The
+following were at that time the Ward Aldermen:—North, William Mabson;
+Market, W. Laws; Regent, William Danby-Palmer; St. George’s, G. S.
+Shingles; Nelson, H. R. Harmer; St. Andrews’, R. Purdy.
+
+Nov. 16th.—Mr. William Worship had been injured in an accident which had
+happened on the Great Eastern line near Kelvedon.
+
+Nov. 30th.—Mr. A. E. Cowl had passed the Legal Examination.
+
+Dec. 4th.—A Mrs. Harvey had died at Rollesby at the age of 104 years.
+
+A very heavy gale, almost rivalling that of 1860, had visited this coast.
+
+The following Income Tax Commissioners had been nominated:—The Mayor, and
+Messrs. S. C. Burton, E. P. Youell, W. Mabson, F. Danby-Palmer, J. W. de
+Caux, and J. T. Bracey.
+
+Dec. 18th.—Garson Blake, Esq. had been appointed Belgian Consul in
+succession to the late Mr. Preston.
+
+Dec. 28th.—The following gentlemen then held commissions in the Rifle
+Volunteers:—Major, James Henry Orde; Captains, William Holt, W. P. P.
+Matthews, A. J. Palmer, and G. W. Moore; Lieutenants, S. Aldred, C.
+Diver, B. Wilson, W. H. Palmer, and H. E. Buxton; Ensigns, F.
+Danby-Palmer, J. T. Clarke, W. Brown, and R. Stanier; Adjutant, F. A.
+Cubitt; Surgeon, W. E. Wyllys; Chaplain, H. R. Nevill; Quarter-Master, T.
+W. Doughty.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+With this year ends the file of the _Norwich Mercury_, which was
+preserved by the late Robert Palmer-Kemp, Esq., that gentleman dying at
+his seat, Coltishall Manor (which was devised to him by his grandfather,
+William Danby-Palmer, Esq.), on 11th May, 1873.  Mr. Kemp was for many
+years an active County Magistrate; and in the earlier part of his life,
+prior to leaving Yarmouth, took part, with his half-brother, Major Samuel
+Charles Marsh, and other members of his family, in our local politics;
+later on, however (although in the Commission of the Peace for our
+borough) he rarely visited his native town.  Leaving no issue, he devised
+his estates to his cousin, George William Danby-Palmer, Esq. (who
+subsequently assumed the name of Kerrison, under the provisions of the
+will of the late Charles Kerrison, Esq.), and that gentleman still holds
+the Coltishall property.
+
+
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