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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Yarmouth Notes + 1830-1872. Collected from the File of the Norwich Mercury + + +Author: Frederick Danby Palmer + + + +Release Date: June 5, 2012 [eBook #39920] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YARMOUTH NOTES*** +</pre> +<p>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.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"F. Danby Palmer" +title= +"F. Danby Palmer" +src="images/p0s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h1>Yarmouth Notes</h1> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">1830–1872.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Collated from the File of the +Norwich Mercury</i>.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br +/> +FREDERICK DANBY PALMER.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">GREAT +YARMOUTH:</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">PRINTED BY J. BUCKLE, KING +STREET.</span><br /> +1889.</p> +<h2><a name="page1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +1</span>PREFACE.</h2> +<p>The following pages are a reprint of extracts from the file of +the <i>Norwich Mercury</i>, which, under the heading of +“Yarmouth Notes,” have recently appeared in the +columns of the <i>Yarmouth Mercury</i>; and in consequence of a +very generally expressed wish on the part of the public, +re-appear in the present form.</p> +<p>At the time these notices of Yarmouth News appeared in the +<i>Norwich Mercury</i>, 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.</p> +<p>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 <i>Norwich Mercury</i>, (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.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">F. D. P.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Hall Quay</span>,<br /> + <i>December</i>, 1889.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page3"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 3</span><span class="GutSmall">TO</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">THE RIGHT HONOURABLE</span><br /> +CHARLES LORD SUFFIELD,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">P.C., K.C.B., &c, &c.</span></p> +<p><i>The following pages</i>, <i>relating to a Town</i>, <i>in +the welfare of which his Lordship and his noble forefathers have +taken so deep an interest for many years</i>, <i>are with his +permission</i>, <i>inscribed by</i></p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="GutSmall">HIS OBEDIENT +SERVANT</span>,<br /> +THE AUTHOR.</p> +<p><i>Great Yarmouth</i>,<br /> + <i>December</i>, 1889.</p> +<h2><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 5</span>FIRST +SERIES, 1830–40.</h2> +<blockquote><p>“When found, make a note +of”—</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Capt. +Cuttle</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<h3>1830.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 28th.—Charles John Palmer, Esq., had been elected a +F.S.A.</p> +<p>Feb. 4th.—Navigation was stopped by the frost.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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, <a name="page6"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 6</span>Esq., Samuel Tolver, Esq. +(Town-clerk), and Mr. Ferrier took part, and a resolution was +carried against the proposal to build the church.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 22nd.—Much damage had been done to the shipping +and in the town by a gale.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 3rd.—Owing to the death of King George IV. the +paper appeared in mourning.</p> +<p>July 8th.—The Hon. Col. Anson and Mr. Rumbold had +arrived to canvass the Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 15th.—Messrs. Anson and Rumbold had been returned +“after a severe opposition by almost the entire force of +the Corporation.” The <a name="page7"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 7</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Sept. 2nd.—On the “decollation of S. John” +the following officers were elected for the Borough for the +ensuing year:—</p> +<p>Mayor elect—Edmund Preston, Esq.</p> +<p>Chamberlain—Mr. Robert B. Fenn.</p> +<p>Churchwardens—I. Preston, Esq. and Mr. J. T. Bracey.</p> +<p>Auditors—G. Bateman, Esq., F. R. Reynolds, Esq., Mr. I. +Preston, and Mr. E. Youell.</p> +<p>Collectors—Charles Costerton, Esq., and Mr. James +Clarke.</p> +<p>Muragers—Charles Symonds and Charles J. Palmer, +Esqs.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<h3>1831.</h3> +<p>Feb. 10th—<i>The Gorleston and Southtown Magazine</i> +had been issued in weekly numbers or monthly parts, and contained +a biographical notice of Mr. Dawson Turner, F.S.A., &c.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>March 5th.—Contains the following notice of Mr. +Palmer’s Fancy Dress Ball:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center">MR. PALMER’S +FANCY BALL.</p> +<p>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, <a +name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>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 +name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>April 14th.—The Preston (Capt. Woodthorpe), with +passengers, for Prince Edward’s Island and Quebec, had been +towed down the Harbour.</p> +<p>May 5th.—This number contains the following account of +the Borough Election, consequent upon the rejection of a Reform +Bill:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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.)</p> +<p>Mr. B. Dowson, in a brief but emphatic address, put in +nomination the Hon. George Anson, this was seconded by R. Palmer +Kemp, Esq.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>I. Preston, Esq., jun., and — White, Esq., nominated A. +Colville, Esq., and J. Lacon, Esq., jun., and Mr. J. Laws +nominated W. Bliss, Esq.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>Mr. +Bliss had not arrived at that time.</p> +<p>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—</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Col. Anson</p> +</td> +<td><p>748</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>748</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Colville</p> +</td> +<td><p>503</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Bliss</p> +</td> +<td><p>497</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>The poll was adjourned till Monday.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>On Monday the books opened, and at the close the final numbers +were—</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Col. Anson</p> +</td> +<td><p>903</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>903</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Colville</p> +</td> +<td><p>547</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Bliss</p> +</td> +<td><p>541</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>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 <a +name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>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.”</p> +<p>The Chairing of the Members had taken place amid the most +enthusiastic cheers.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 26th.—The men employed by Messrs. Grout, Baylis, and +Co., had an excellent dinner provided for them at J. B. +Bales’, Apollo Gardens.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>June 16th.—The population had increased 3,024 since the +census of 1821, the numbers being—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>1831.</p> +</td> +<td><p>22,028 including 913 sailors.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1821.</p> +</td> +<td><p>19,004.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>3,024 increase.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 23rd.—“Our venerable and highly respected +Recorder, Robert Alderson, Esq., had delivered in his +resignation.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Males</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8,980</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Females</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12,135</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">21,115</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sailors</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">913</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22,028</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>Inhabited houses</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,570</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Number of families</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,869</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Houses building</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">23</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Houses uninhabited</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">191</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>July 7th contains the following notice of the laying the first +stone of St. Peter’s Church:—</p> +<p>“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.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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, <span class="smcap">mdcccxxxi</span>., 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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The children sang the 100th Psalm during the operation of +inserting <a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>“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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<p>Mayor-Elect—John Preston, Esq.</p> +<p>Chamberlain—Mr. E. Youell.</p> +<p>Churchwardens—S. Paget, Esq., and Mr. T. E. Laws.</p> +<p>Auditors—R. Cory, jun., Esq., E. Preston, Esq., G. +Danby-Palmer, Esq., and Mr. J. M. Bell.</p> +<p>Sept. 8th.—The Coronation Day was observed as a +holiday.</p> +<p><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>The +Races had been held on the 6th and 7th, as follows:—</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“<span class="smcap">First +Day</span>—Tuesday, September 6th.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">The Gold Cup Stakes</span> 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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Palmer named Lord Exeter’s ch m Schumla, by +Selim, out of Bess, 4 years old, 8st. 1lb. (Hornsby)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Col. Wilson’s ch h Ringleader, by Merlin, out of +Spotless, 4 years old, 8st. 4lbs.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lord Stradbroke’s b f by Morisco, out of Arethusa, 3 +years old, 6st. 11lbs.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>3 dis.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Half-Bred Stake</span>. Heats, one +mile and distance; 5 sovs. each.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Munro’s b h Charley, aged, 11st.</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Smith’s ch g Sportsman, aged, 11st.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The Members’ Plate</span> of 50 +sovs. The winner to be sold for 180 sovs. if demanded, +&c. Heats, two miles and distance.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Bromley’s ch m Miss Nicolo, 4 years old, 7st. +13lbs.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>3 dr.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Pettit’s b m Ipsala, by Sultan, 4 years old, +8st. 21bs. (C. Edwards)</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Col. Wilson’s br c Whiskey, by Tuesias, out of +Schedam, 3 years old, 6st. 12lbs.</p> +</td> +<td><p>4</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p>3 dr.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lord Stradbroke’s b m Gallopade, 5 years old, 8st. +13lbs.</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Palmer’s gr m Christina, 4 years old, 8st. +2lbs</p> +</td> +<td><p>5</p> +</td> +<td><p>4</p> +</td> +<td><p>3</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>An excellent race; the heats with difficulty decided. +The winner was well rode by C. Edwards.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Second +Day</span>—Wednesday, 7th September.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Town and Country Gentlemen’s +Plate</span> of 50 sovs. The winner to be sold for 250 +sovs. if demanded, &c. Heats, two miles and +distance.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Pettit’s b m Ipsala, by Sultan, 4 years old, +8st. 6lbs.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>(A dead heat.)</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Col. Wilson’s ch h Ringleader, 4 years old, 8st. +9lbs. (Gosling)</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>A severely contested race of four heats.</p> +<p><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span><span +class="smcap">Handicap Sweepstakes</span> of 10 sovs. each, with +the remainder added. Heats, one mile and distance.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Lord Stradbroke’s b f by Morisco, out of Arethusa, 3 +years old, 7st. 2lbs</p> +</td> +<td><p>1 w.o.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Pettit’s b m Ipsala, by Sultan, 4 years old, +8st. 5lb.</p> +</td> +<td><p>2 dr.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 17th.—A Board of Health had been established for +the better cleansing the streets and lanes, and the removal of +nuisances.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>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.”</p> +<h3>1832.</h3> +<p>Jan. 5th.—The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew had distributed +the prizes to the Sunday School children.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th.—Dr. Cox had delivered a very interesting +lecture on “Physiology.”</p> +<p>Feb. 2nd.—The Rev. Henry Squire was advertised to +deliver a course of lectures at the Old Meeting.</p> +<p>The case of the King against the Aldermen of Yarmouth is +reported.</p> +<p>Feb. 9th.—With regard to which the following notice +appears this week:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">THE KING AGAINST THE ALDERMEN OF +YARMOUTH.</span></p> +<p>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 <i>bona fide</i>; 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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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 <a name="page17"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 17</span>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.”</p> +<p>March 22nd.—The National Fast had been observed +“with a decent solemnity.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>May 10th.—The southern bastion of the fort had fallen +“with an immense crash.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>May 17th.—The news that the Duke of Wellington had +“given in <a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>and that Lord Grey was then at the palace” was +received with joy, and the bells had been rung.</p> +<p>May 24th.—The Rattlesnake (180 tons) had been launched +from Mr. F. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>The mackerel fishery was going on badly, and there was great +distress in the town, as thousands depended on that industry for +a living.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 14th.—The following notice appears as to the Reform +Act:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">REFORM.</span></p> +<p>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, <a name="page20"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 20</span>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>During the Spring eight vessels had sailed from Yarmouth to +different parts of the Canadas, carrying 916 passengers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Conservatives had not announced any candidates, and it was +considered probable that Messrs. Anson and Rumbold would be +re-elected.</p> +<p>The Rev. Mr. Griffith, junr., had delivered a very impressive +sermon on board the Cyrus under the Bethel Flag.</p> +<p>June 28th.—The Corporation had voted an address to the +King upon his escape from the late “atrocious” attack +upon him.</p> +<p>A vessel was lying off the Pier Head with the Yellow Flag +(cholera) flying.</p> +<p>July 5th.—A public dinner was to be held to celebrate +the passing <a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>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.</p> +<p>July 12th.—The Dreadnought lugger (having on board a +large cargo of smuggled goods) had been captured.</p> +<p>The Sylvan (belonging to J. H. Palmer, Esq.,) had arrived at +Quebec with emigrants.</p> +<p>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 <i>toute ensemble</i> 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.”</p> +<p>The Theatre had opened with <i>Guy Mannering</i> and <i>Damp +Beds</i>. There was a very poor house.</p> +<p>The brig Ida (188 tons) had been launched from Mr. F. +Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 22</span>The +Summer Fishing had commenced; 300 lasts of herring had already +been brought in.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>The following Corporate officers had been elected:—</p> +<p>Mayor-Elect—John Baker, Esq.</p> +<p>Chamberlain—Mr. R. Ferrier.</p> +<p>Churchwardens—John Preston and Charles Symonds, +Esqs.</p> +<p>Auditors—I. Preston, John Danby-Palmer, T. F. Garwood, +and Charles J. Palmer, Esqs.</p> +<p>Collectors—John Danby-Palmer, Esq., and Mr. Henry +Costerton.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th.—The Races had been held and proved very +successful.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Oct. 11th.—The herring fishing had been very +unsuccessful. This was attributed to warm weather.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page23"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 23</span>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.”</p> +<p>Oct. 25th.—The wandering piper had begun his rounds and +had lunched with the Mayor.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th.—Mr. Colville had arrived in the Borough and +addressed the electors from the “Star” balcony.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th.—Contains the following article:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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 <a +name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 24</span>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 <a name="page25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <i>red</i> 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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>715</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Anson</p> +</td> +<td><p>699</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Colville</p> +</td> +<td><p>631</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And at the close on the second day—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>838</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Anson</p> +</td> +<td><p>829</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Colville</p> +</td> +<td><p>751</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<h3><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>1833.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 10th.—A large alligator had been taken by a Dutch +fishing boat off Orford Ness.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Jan. 31st.—A suggestion had been made at the Corporation +assembly as to reform of that body, but was not supported.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Feb. 21st.—The Flora, a French frigate, had arrived in +the Roads.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>March 7th.—It was proposed to start a steam packet for +the conveying of goods and passengers to Hull.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A petition had also been adopted by the members of the +“Yarmouth Union of the Working Classes” against +“The Irish Coercion Bill.”</p> +<p>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 <a name="page27"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 27</span>Town Clerk, and the Water Bailiff, +while Messrs. Worship, Barth, Shelly, and Barrett represented the +Town Committee.</p> +<p>March 21st.—The works at St. Peter’s Church were +“at a stand” for the want of funds, £600 being +required.</p> +<p>April 4th.—The Haven Commission were indebted +£25,000.</p> +<p>The Sessions were held with the “light calendar of 15 +prisoners.”</p> +<p>April 18th.—Lord Orford had accepted the office of Lord +High Steward of the Borough, rendered vacant through the death of +Lord Exmouth.</p> +<p>The Rev. Mark Waters had been appointed one of the ministers +of St. George’s Chapel.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 23rd.—The mackerel fishing had been very +unsuccessful.</p> +<p>A meeting had been held to approve of the proposed Rules for +the intended Proprietary Grammar School.</p> +<p>May 30th.—A Commission had been appointed to inquire +into Corporate affairs “on the spot.”</p> +<p>Sir F. Palgrave had obtained from H.M. Commissioners of +Records the presentation of some valuable publications to the +Library.</p> +<p>June 13th.—Lord Exmouth had arrived in his yacht, and +subsequently sailed with his brother, the Vicar (the Hon. E. +Pellew), for St. Petersburgh.</p> +<p>June 20th.—Vice-Admiral Parker had been appointed a +K.C.B.</p> +<p>July 11th.—The following is the account of the Burgh +Water Frolic:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>August 22nd.—“As early as nine o’clock on +Friday morning an <a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>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—<a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>“And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, +&c.” [832 young persons were confirmed by the +Bishop of Winchester.]”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—The following is the report of the Yarmouth +Guild Day:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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., <a name="page32"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 32</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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 <a name="page33"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 33</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th.—A fine schooner named the Fairy Queen, 150 +tons register, had been launched from W. Lubbock’s +yard.</p> +<p>Dec. 28th.—The altar piece presented to St. +Peter’s Church by Col. Mason was put up on Christmas +Eve.</p> +<h3>1834.</h3> +<p>Jan. 9th.—Samuel Tolver and Charles John Palmer, Esqs., +had been appointed Perpetual Commissioners for the counties of +Norfolk and Suffolk.</p> +<p>Jan. 16th.—News had been received that the Lion, +belonging to G. D. Palmer, Esq., had arrived at Civita Vecchia on +the 26th ult.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A requisition was being signed for the purpose of having the +“upper” ferry established.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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. <a name="page34"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 34</span>Mr. Betts, J. B. Palmer, Esq., Rev. +T. Tait, Mr. D. Chapman, Rev. H. Squire, and Rev. A. Creak.</p> +<p>Feb. 20th.—Capt. Manby had given “an elegant and +fully attended fete” at the Barracks.</p> +<p>Feb. 29th.—The Municipal Commissioners were sitting at +the Tolhouse.</p> +<p>March 6th.—The Commissioners having finished their +investigation were entertained by Alderman Bath at Dinner.</p> +<p>April 10th.—Mr. G. Garson had been appointed +Lloyd’s Surveyor.</p> +<p>The annual silver cup, given by Mr. Bales to the members of +the “Yarmouth British Yacht Club,” was to be sailed +for in May.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 1st.—A brig called the Friends, of 190 tons +register, had been launched from Mr. A. Palmer’s yard.</p> +<p>May 15th.—The “New Proprietary Grammar +School” had been opened, John Danby Palmer, Esq., being +Chairman during the proceedings.</p> +<p>June 5th.—The Misses Seaman had been appointed +postmistresses.</p> +<p>June 12th.—“A remarkably fine ship of 374 +tons” had been launched from the dockyard of Ambrose +Palmer, Esq.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +35</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>July 24th.—Mr. William Mabson had been chosen a Common +Councilman in the room of Mr. John Robson, deceased.</p> +<p>July 31st.—The annual water frolic had been held, Mr. +Stephen Miller’s Water Witch taking the prize.</p> +<p>Aug. 14th.—Messrs. C. Davie, Samuel Palmer, Frederick +Paget, Capt. Todman, R.N., and the Rev. Mark Waters had been +elected Paving Commissioners.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 28th.—The Stratheden, 400 tons register, had been +launched from Mr. F. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 2nd.—Contains the following report of the +proceedings on the “Mayor’s Day”:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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. <a name="page36"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 36</span>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Oct. 9th.—Harry Worship, Esq., had delivered a very +interesting lecture on the “Philosophy of +Dreams.”</p> +<p>Oct. 16th.—The frequency of robbery at sea had induced +the fishermen to keep an unusually sharp look out.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd.—Charles J. Palmer, Esq., had been elected an +Alderman in the place of Dr. Bateman, deceased.</p> +<p>It appears from the report of the proceedings at the Revision +Court that the lower ferry was then let at £30 a year +only.</p> +<p>Oct. 30th.—The “Blues” claimed a gain of 50 +on the revision of the Freeman’s list.</p> +<p><a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>The +fishing was reported as going on “very badly.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<h3>1835.</h3> +<p>Jan. 8th, contains the following account of the +election:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <a name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +38</span>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 <a name="page39"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 39</span>for them, or at any rate to make the +guilty individual perpetrators pay the penalty of such +acts!”</p> +<p>“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 <a name="page40"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 40</span>be altogether overcome. The +final close of the poll left Messrs. Baring and Praed a majority +of 88.</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Anson</p> +</td> +<td><p>680</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>675</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baring</p> +</td> +<td><p>772</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Praed</p> +</td> +<td><p>768</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>Jan. +15th.—About 100 supporters of Messrs. Anson and Rumbold +dined at the Masonic Hall, when both those gentlemen were +present.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th contains the following account of a sailing match +from Yarmouth to Venice:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 2nd.—Mr. C. Aldred had given a lecture on the +“Philosophy of Sleep.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. F. Preston had launched a very fine vessel of 464 tons +called the Mary Anne.</p> +<p>A Society for promoting the Purity of Election had been +formed.</p> +<p>April 23rd.—The members (Messrs. Baring and Praed) +attended a <a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +42</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 2nd.—Mr. Praed had presented a petition against the +Corporation Reform Bill from the town.</p> +<p>July 30th.—The following notice appears of the death of +J. Shelly, Esq.:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <a +name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 43</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>August 13th.—The petition in favour of Corporation +Reform had been signed by 2,500 persons.</p> +<p>August 20th.—The following notice appears:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <a +name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 44</span>Russell might +not know his own child again.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>October 8th contains the following paragraph:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>October 18th contains a notice of Brock’s miraculous +escape from drowning.</p> +<p>Oct. 22nd.—The first Oddfellows’ funeral in this +town is thus recorded:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Nov. 5th.—A meeting to consider the question of +constructing a railway had been held. Admiral Sir G. +Parker, William Barth, Esq., <a name="page45"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 45</span>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 12th.—The following gentlemen had been nominated by +the Whig party as the candidates for election to the Reformed +Corporation:—<i>Gorleston Ward</i>: William Barth, Thomas +Hammond, J. S. Bell, H. Martin, P. Stead, and J. W. Dowson. +<i>Nelson Ward</i>: George Danby Palmer, R. Palmer Kemp, S. +Robinson, J. Symonds, G. W. Garson, and M. Butcher. <i>St. +George’s Ward</i>: C. Sayers, H. V. Worship, Thomas Lettis, +William Grave, George Penrice, M.D., and William Barker. +<i>Regent Ward</i>: John Brightwen, S. Palmer, S. C. Marsh, C. +Davie, B. Dowson, and J. Tomlinson. <i>Market Ward</i>: E. +M. Clowes, William Johnson, W. Hammond, S. Cobb, E. Sewell, and +B. Cobb. <i>St. Nicholas’ Ward</i>: 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 10th.—The retiring Aldermen (except Mr. Barth) were +entertained by their Tory friends previous to their quitting +office.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3><a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +46</span>1836.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd.—The following is the account of the first +election of Town Councillors under the Municipal Reform +Act:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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:—</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">NORTH WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Richard Hammond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">108</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William N. Burroughs</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Abraham Sewell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">94</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Charles George Doughty</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Benjamin Sherrington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">90</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. H. L. Preston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MARKET WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Simon Cobb</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">135</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William Johnson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">134</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William Hammond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">131</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Benjamin Cobb</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">129</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Edward N. Clowes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">128</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Edward Sewell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">124</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">REGENT WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Brightwen</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">98</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Samuel Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">98</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. C. Marsh</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">98</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Joseph Tomlinson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">98</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Davie</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">97</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Benjamin Dowson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">95</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ST. GEORGE’S WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Sayers</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Grave</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>George Penrice, M.D.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Barber</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>H. V. Worship</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">90</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thomas Lettis</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">SOUTH WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>G. D. Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">147</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. P. Kemp</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">137</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>George Garson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">127</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>M. Butcher</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">124</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Symonds</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">122</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Samuel Robinson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">118</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">GORLESTON AND SOUTHTOWN, OR ST. ANDREW’S +WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. S. Bell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">115</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thomas Hammond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">111</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. W. Dowson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">105</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William Barth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">101</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Hezekiah Martin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>P. Stead</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">87</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 47</span>Jan. +7th.—The first meeting of the Reformed Corporation is +reported as follows:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +<p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Jan. 14th contains the following report:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <a name="page48"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 48</span>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 <i>ex-officio</i> 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 <a name="page49"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 49</span>£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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Jan. 21st.—The Earl of Orford had been removed from his +office of High Steward and the Earl of Lichfield elected in his +place.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sixteen new watch and policemen, and two superintendents had +been appointed.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Feb. 4th.—The Tories had held a dinner in the Theatre in +honour of Messrs. Baring and Praed. Seven hundred persons +attended.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th.—Has the following report of a high +tide:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 +<a name="page50"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 50</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. F. Preston had launched a fine ship of 370 tons from his +yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 7th.—A poll had taken place for two Haven and Pier +Commissioners, as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>George Danby Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p>375</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William Barth</p> +</td> +<td><p>375</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sir E. Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p>207</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Samuel Paget</p> +</td> +<td><p>168</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>and Messrs. Palmer and Barth were consequently elected.</p> +<p>April 14th contains the following paragraph as to the recent +bribery prosecution:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“Yesterday there was a grand public dinner +at the Angel Inn, to <a name="page51"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 51</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Twenty gentlemen, all of Reform principles, had been elected +select Vestrymen.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 28th.—The seamen had “struck” for an +increase of wages.</p> +<p>Several persons had been fined for keeping disorderly +houses.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 5th.—The town was suffering from a number of dogs +prowling about, one of which had severely bitten a young +lady.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 9th—Mr. Jefferies Barth had been elected Clerk of +the Peace.</p> +<p>June 17th.—Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., had been appointed +Recorder.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 30th.—The Cross was ordered to be pulled down.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page52"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 52</span>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.”</p> +<p>The destruction of the Cross is thus noticed:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>August 9th.—The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew had been +presented with plate of the value of £100 by the +parishioners.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd.—172 persons holding Corporation leaseholds +had intimated their desire to purchase the freehold of their +properties, at prices amounting to £6,911.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th.—The price of herrings was £23 to +£24 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd.—The result of the Municipal Election is +reported as follows:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <i>worthy</i>, who, after promising constantly to +vote for Nuthall and Sherrington, was suddenly not to be found; +but about five <a name="page53"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +53</span>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:—<i>St. Nicholas’ Ward</i>: Mr. +Sherrington and Mr. Preston. <i>Market</i>: Mr. E. N. +Clowes and Mr. Sewell. <i>Regent</i>: Mr. Cufaude Davie and +Mr. John Fish. <i>St. George’s</i>: Mr. Worship and +Mr. Lettis. <i>Nelson</i>: Mr. Robinson and Mr. +Symonds. <i>St. Andrew’s</i>: Mr. Martin and Mr. +Frederick Preston.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Nov. 10th.—A dinner, attended by 200 gentlemen, had been +given to William Barth, Esq. (the Mayor.)</p> +<p>Nov. 24th.—The old Bridge had been sold in one lot for +£96.</p> +<p>Dec. 22nd.—Mr. F. Preston had launched a beautiful brig +called the “Catherine,” of 212 tons register.</p> +<p>Dec. 29th.—Heavy weather prevailed, with so much snow +that the coaches were obliged to cease running.</p> +<h3>1837.</h3> +<p>Jan. 5th.—The “Isis,” of this port, and a +sloop belonging to Wells, had been towed off the beach into the +harbour.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Improvements were being effected at the Bath Rooms.</p> +<p>A floating-light was to be placed at St. Nicholas’ +Gat.</p> +<p>Jan. 19th.—The increase in the Customs for the year +ended 5th January, 1837, was £7,000.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th.—A meeting had been held for the purpose of +moving for the abolition of Church Rates.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd.—Mr. Kay, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, had +been down with a view to bringing the Town under the Poor Law +Amendment Act.</p> +<p><a name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>March +23rd.—The “Export Merchants” had given a dinner +to their friends at the Star Hotel, when George Danby Palmer, +Esq., presided.</p> +<p>March 30th.—At the Vestry meeting the parishioners +claimed and exercised the right of electing both +Churchwardens.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 4th.—The Guardians had fixed the site for the new +Workhouse on the North Denes.</p> +<p>May 11th.—Mr. Harry Worship and Mr. J. Bayly had been +elected parish surgeons.</p> +<p>May 18th.—Mackerel were selling at £2 14s. per +hundred.</p> +<p>May 25th.—The inhabitants had voted an address to the +Princess Victoria.</p> +<p>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>i.e.</i>, on 21st June.)</p> +<p>June 29th.—Mr. Baring had given £25 to the +Methodist Chapel.</p> +<p>The Queen had been proclaimed by the Mayor “in front of +the Hall” and at other places in the town.</p> +<p>Kerrison Kerrison, Esq., son of M. Kerrison, Esq., of +Ranworth, had been drowned while bathing from the beach.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 55</span>The +poll closed—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>790</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wilshere</p> +</td> +<td><p>779</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baring</p> +</td> +<td><p>699</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gambier</p> +</td> +<td><p>685</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Sept. 14th.—The “Foxhound” (Captain Betts), +belonging to G. Danby Palmer, Esq., had sailed with 1,250 barrels +of herrings for Venice.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 21st.—£21 had been voted for pulling down +the Pudding Gates.</p> +<p>Sept. 28th.—The Lord Bishop had held a confirmation, and +received an address from the Corporation at the Guild Hall.</p> +<p>Oct. 5th.—The Reformers claimed a gain of 56 at the +Revision Court.</p> +<p>The “Parroch Hall,” a fine ship of 450 tons, had +been launched from Mr. I. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th.—Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, had +visited the town.</p> +<p>The “Tantivy,” schooner had been launched from +Messrs. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd.—The Liberal candidates had been re-elected in +all the Wards without opposition.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 23rd.—Mr. Joseph Fiddes, James N. Sherrington, and +James Raven had been elected Commissioners of the Borough Court +of Requests.</p> +<p><a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 56</span>The +“Harlequin,” 350 tons burthen, had been launched from +Mr. L Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. Joseph Bayly had been elected a Councillor for St. +George’s Ward.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st.—Mr. William Danby Palmer had been elected a +Councillor for St. Andrew’s Ward, in the place of Mr. +Dowson, deceased.</p> +<p>Dee. 28th.—A Temperance sermon had been preached by the +Rev. T. Clowes from <span class="smcap">i.</span> Cor., viii., 8, +13.</p> +<p>The weather had been remarkably mild, warmer than it was often +in May and June.</p> +<h3>1838.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>May 17th.—The schooner “Stamboul” had been +launched from Messrs. A. Palmer and Son’s yard.</p> +<p>May 24th.—A suggestion appears to found a Dispensary in +Yarmouth and that the Council fund should be applied towards this +end. <a name="page57"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +57</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 21st.—Suggestions were being made for the +celebration of the Queen’s Coronation.</p> +<p>Messrs. Henry Emms and William Simms had been appointed +Relieving Officers.</p> +<p>The donations for the proposed Hospital were £200 and +the annual subscriptions £280.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page58"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 58</span>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.”</p> +<p>“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.”</p> +<p>July 7th contains the following record of the result of such +action:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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 <a +name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 59</span>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.</p> +<p>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 +<i>full costume</i>; 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. <a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +60</span>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>July 14th.—The Corporation had voted an address to the +Queen, of which the following is the notice:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The Mayor, preceded by the Regalia, had walked to church, +“unaccompanied by a single member of the Town +Council.”</p> +<p>July 5th.—Col. Thompson had declined to come +forward.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Corporation address to Her Majesty had been presented by +Messrs. Barth, R. P. Kemp, and S. Palmer.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 61</span>August +9th.—The Queen had signified her intention of becoming a +patron of the Hospital.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Wilshere</p> +</td> +<td><p>735</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baring</p> +</td> +<td><p>702</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>August 30th.—The friends of Mr. Wilshere had dined +together at the “Star.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th.—Mr. Wilshere had arrived in Yarmouth and +addressed the electors.</p> +<p>C. F. Burton, Esq., had died from the effects of a fall from +his horse on the Southtown Road.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 20th.—At the Roads Regatta the +“Brilliant” was first, the <a name="page62"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 62</span>“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.</p> +<p>Sept. 27th.—In consequence of the long continuance of +calm weather the millers had not been able to grind any corn for +three weeks.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. William Nolloth, jun., had been elected organist of St. +George’s Chapel.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th.—There had been a strong wind from the <span +class="smcap">w.n.w.</span>, 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.</p> +<p>The “Reis Effendi,” schooner, had been launched +from Messrs. A. Palmer and Son’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th.—The Tories had commenced their +“Municipal campaign.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 63</span>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Tomlinson</p> +</td> +<td><p>89</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Marsh</p> +</td> +<td><p>73</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Plummer</p> +</td> +<td><p>72</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The following was the general return for the +town:—<i>St. Nicholas’ Ward</i>: Messrs. R. Hammond +and W. N. Burroughs. <i>Market Ward</i>: Messrs. S. Cobb +and W. Johnson. <i>Regent Ward</i>: Messrs. J. Tomlinson +and C. Marsh. <i>St. George’s Ward</i>: Dr. Penrice +and Mr. A. Clarke. <i>Nelson Ward</i>: Messrs. G. Danby +Palmer and R. Palmer Kemp, all of whom were of the Liberal +party.</p> +<p>A meeting of the members of the “Operative Conservative +Club” had been held, Mr. Thomas Paul, printer, in the +chair.</p> +<p>Nov. 25th.—Messrs. Thomas Hammond and Samuel Crowe had +been elected Councillors for the South Ward.</p> +<p>The fishing-boats “Mary,” “Reward,” +and “Walter and Ann” had been lost with all +hands.</p> +<p>Mr. F. Preston had launched a brig of 250 tons named the +“Undaunted.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Samuel Costerton, ballast lessee, had been fined 40s. and +costs for contravention of the Harbour Act.</p> +<p>It was contemplated to hold a meeting in favour of the repeal +of the Corn Laws.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 64</span>The +“Columbine,” brig, built for Messrs. G. and A. +Steward, had been launched.</p> +<p>Dec. 27th.—Mr. W. Saunders had been elected a Councillor +for the St. George’s Ward, in the place of Mr. Grave, +deceased.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1839.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd.—The first half-yearly meeting of the governors +and subscribers to the Hospital had been held, and is reported as +follows:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +65</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A very handsome vessel named the “Jenny Jones” had +been launched from Mr. F. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 31st.—An Anti-Corn Law meeting had been held at the +Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Feb. 14th.—The Town Council adopted a petition for the +abolition of the Corn Laws with only two dissentients.</p> +<p>Feb. 21st.—Mr. John Owles had been elected a Councillor +in the place of Mr. Cobb, who had been raised to the Aldermanic +Bench.</p> +<p>Mr. Wilshere had presented the town petition against the Corn +Laws; it was signed by 2,355 persons.</p> +<p>Mr. Owen had delivered a lecture on +“Socialism.”</p> +<p>March 7th.—The use of the Town Hall had been refused to +Mr. Hallock, a “Socialist” lecturer.</p> +<p>March 14th.—Mr. Rumbold had presented the +Corporation’s petition for the repeal of the Corn Laws.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 21st.—The Rev. W. Squire had lectured at the +Masonic Hall in reply to Mr. Owen. More than 1,200 persons +were present.</p> +<p><a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 66</span>March +28th.—The sixteen Liberal candidates had been elected +Guardians.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 11th.—The election of Haven Commissioners had +resulted as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For George Danby Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p>511</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Barth</p> +</td> +<td><p>473</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. H. L. Preston</p> +</td> +<td><p>380</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. J. Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p>277</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>April 18th.—A petition had been adopted in favour of a +penny postage.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There were 23 prisoners for trial at the Sessions.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Races were not likely to be held, owing to a want of +funds.</p> +<p><a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 67</span>June +20th.—The Rev. George Anguish, of Somerleyton Hall, had +given £50 towards the Hospital fund.</p> +<p>July 4th contains the following as to the Yarmouth Hospital +and Dispensary:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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, <i>vice</i> Rev. J. North, who had left the town, J. +Tidswell, Esq., was chosen in his room.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page68"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 68</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The amendment being put, only six voted for it, and the +original motion was carried.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>J. G. Fisher, Esq., proposed the thanks of the meeting to the +Mayor for his conduct in the chair, which was carried by +acclamation.</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A band of music had been engaged to perform near the Jetty on +Wednesday and Saturday evenings during the summer.</p> +<p><a name="page69"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 69</span>July +11th.—A vessel named the “Cadmus” had been +launched from Teasdell’s Wharf.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>July 18th.—The “Galatea” (schooner) had been +launched from Mr. A. Palmer’s, jun., yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Pleasure yachts were allowed to enter the Harbour free of +dues.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Matthews were filling the +Theatre nightly.</p> +<p>At the Regatta, “The Widgeon,” a London yacht, had +carried off the prize.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>August 15th.—Sir Jacob Preston, John Penrice, and +Charles Steward, Esqs., were announced as Stewards of next +year’s Races.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Sept. 5th.—Mr. Preston had launched the “George +Lord,” of 205 tons register.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—The Revision Court had been held, and the +Liberals claimed a gain of 58 on the return.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p><a name="page70"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 70</span>There +were “nightly depredations” taking place at +Gorleston.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 7th.—The Earl of Lichfield had given £30 to +the Hospital Fund.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 5th.—Capt. Pearson had been elected an Alderman in +the place of John B. Palmer, Esq., deceased.</p> +<p>An anti-poor law meeting had been held; only 52 persons +present.</p> +<p>Dec. 19th.—The Mayor (S. Jay, Esq.) had commenced a +round of Civic entertainments of a most +“recherchê” character.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth Savings’ Bank had 2,137 accounts and +£63,513 13s. 7d. on deposit.</p> +<p>Dec. 26th.—The Mayor and Corporation had attended St. +Nicholas’ Church, after which his Worship entertained a +large party of friends at lunch.</p> +<p>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.’”</p> +<h3>1840.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd contains the following as to “Yarmouth +Hospital”:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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 <a name="page71"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 71</span>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.</p> +<p>F. R. Reynolds, Esq., thought the reduction would be made in +less than seven years.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>This resolution was moved by H. V. Worship, Esq., and seconded +by C. J. Palmer, Esq., and carried unanimously.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was stated that the number of out-patients had never been +less than 100 throughout the past half-year.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Jan. 16th.—The first subscription Ball had been held at +the Town Hall, when about 70 or 80 of the <i>elite</i> were +present. Howlett’s band had been engaged for the +occasion.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 72</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. Fellows had launched the “Lucy,” a +schooner of 100 tons register.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Capt. Love had been elected Inspector of Police by thirteen +votes to one vote. There were twelve candidates for the +office.</p> +<p>March 26th.—Mr. Joseph Fiddes had been elected an +Alderman in the place of Mr. William Barber, deceased.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 9th.—Sixteen Whigs had been elected Guardians by +very large majorities.</p> +<p>April 23rd.—Messrs. C. Davie, William Johnson, and S. V. +Moore had been nominated at the Vestry meeting as Churchwardens, +and a poll demanded.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page73"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 73</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 30th.—Messrs. Davie and Johnson had been elected +Churchwardens, three votes only having been polled for Mr. +Moore.</p> +<p>Not a single case of theft or disorderly conduct had been +reported at the Fair, “a circumstance unparallelled in the +history of Yarmouth.”</p> +<p>May 14th.—A petition for the repeal of the Corn Laws had +been signed by 1,400 persons.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 28th.—Complaints had been made of the +“screaming” and “bell-ringing” of the +steamboats, which the editor thought should be “reformed +altogether.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 6th.—The carcase of a grampus had been towed on to +the Beach.</p> +<p>June 11th.—The Mayor (S. Jay, Esq.) had again +entertained his friends at luncheon after Divine Service.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 2nd.—The new police had made “their maiden +turn out” under Capt. Love. Mr. J. Nolloth had +supplied the uniforms.</p> +<p><a name="page74"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 74</span>The +annual Hospital meeting had been held at the Board Boom of that +institution.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Three young men were capsized and two of them, Mr. John Rivett +and Mr. Walter Feek, drowned.</p> +<p>“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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. Guthrie (son of Capt. Guthrie) had saved a boy from being +drowned at the Jetty.</p> +<p>The “Maid of Athens” had been launched from Mr. I. +Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>As Stewards for next year, Henry Stracey, Alexander Shafto +Adair, and Samuel Palmer, Esqs., were chosen.</p> +<p>At the Regatta, Lord A. Paget’s “Sabrina” +won the £25 cup.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 16th.—Youell’s gardens were “most +attractive;” there were 3,000 pairs of carnations and +picotees in bloom.</p> +<p>Samuel Jay, Esq., had been appointed a Justice of the Peace +for the Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. A. Thrower had been elected a Councillor in the place of +Mr. F. Preston.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page75"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +75</span>of houses on the Beach to the south of the Royal Hotel +(the Victoria Building Company.)</p> +<p>Mr. John Clowes had been thrown from his gig on the Quay.</p> +<p>Sept. 17th.—Lord and Lady Wodehouse were staying at the +Royal Hotel; his Lordship had consented to patronise the New +Building Company.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th.—Madame Persiani, and Signors Nigri, Rubini, +and Puzzi, had given a grand concert at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A letter had been received at the Post-office, directed +“Mr. Thompson, Row next my grandmother’s, +Yarmouth.”</p> +<p>Nov. 5th.—The following was the result of the Municipal +election:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">NORTH WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. N. Sherrington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">119</p> +</td> +<td><p>J. C. Smith</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">98</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. G. Doughty</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">116</p> +</td> +<td><p>J. F. Costerton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">68</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">NELSON WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center">M. Butcher and J. +G. Connell (no opposition.)</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ST. ANDREW’S WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wm. Barth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">100</p> +</td> +<td><p>John G. Rivett</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">77</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wm. Danby Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">88</p> +</td> +<td><p>Henry Teasdell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">56</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ST. GEORGE’S WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Joseph Bayly</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +<td><p>John Algar</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John L. Cufaude</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +<td><p>Charles Cory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">83</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p>And the Alderman gave his casting vote in +favour of Messrs Bayly and Cufaude</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">REGENT WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center">Samuel Palmer and +John Barker (no opposition.)</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MARKET WARD.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center">D. A. Gourlay and +Charles Miller (no opposition.)</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page76"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 76</span>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.</p> +<p>The “Hamlet,” 400 tons, had been launched from Mr. +A. Palmer’s, jun., yard.</p> +<p>Nov. 12th.—Mr. Samuel Palmer had been elected Mayor.</p> +<p>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 £.</p> +<p>Dec. 3rd.—The Council had voted the usual loyal +addresses on the birth of the Princess Royal.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>That to Prince Albert, by Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and +George Danby Palmer, Esq.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 24th.—An anti-slavery meeting had been held (the +Mayor in the chair.)</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Samuel Jay, Charles Pearson, William Johnson and J. W. Shelly, +qualified as Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p76b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative graphic" +title= +"Decorative graphic" +src="images/p76s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h2><a name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 77</span>SECOND +SERIES, 1841–51.</h2> +<blockquote><p>“When found, make a note +of”—</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Capt. +Cuttle</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<h3>1841.</h3> +<p>Jan. 14th.—A meeting for the relief of the poor had been +held, when £300 was raised in the room.</p> +<p>Jan. 21st.—Mr. E. R. Palmer had been appointed Inspector +of Corn Returns.</p> +<p>Jan. 28th—The “Greyhound” (Barker) had +arrived at Naples in fifteen days, “being the quickest +passage ever known.”</p> +<p>Feb. 11th.—About fifty tradesmen had dined at the +“Star” to commemorate the baptism of the Princess +Royal.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>On Tuesday, the whole of the London traders, sixteen in +number, were lying in the harbour, owing to the late frost.</p> +<p>A meeting of the Conservative ratepayers had been held to +protest against the 1s. 3d. poor’s rate.</p> +<p>Feb. 25th.—A meeting had been held at the Town Hall for +promoting a railway from Yarmouth to London.</p> +<p>March 11th.—The works of the Victoria Building Company +had been commenced, and the Mayor had been requested to lay the +first stone.</p> +<p>The “Saucy Jack,” 250 tons, had been launched from +Mr. I. Chapman’s yard.</p> +<p>March 18th.—Wm. Barth, Esq., had received an appointment +in the Money Order Office of the Post Office, London.</p> +<p><a name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 78</span>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Bro. Richard Ferrier, P.M.—“So mote it +be.”</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A public dinner was afterwards held at the Royal Hotel, George +Danby-Palmer, Esq., in the chair.</p> +<p>April 1st.—The election of Guardians had ended in +“the signal defeat of the Tories.”</p> +<p>April 15th.—Messrs. C. Davie and D. A. Gourlay had been +elected Churchwardens by the Vestry.</p> +<p>April 22nd.—Mr. F. Preston’s shipyard was likely +to be given up, thus throwing many men out of employment.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page79"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 79</span>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.</p> +<p>May 6th.—At the Leveé, S. Palmer, Esq., and Sir +E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., had been presented by W. Wilshere, Esq., +M.P.</p> +<p>Six hundred persons had been confirmed at St. Nicholas’ +Church by the Bishop of Norwich.</p> +<p>The “Indiaman,” 821 tons, had been launched from +Mr. Preston’s yard for Mr. Somes. She was estimated +to cost £18,000.</p> +<p>May 13th.—The “Highlander,” 122 tons, had +been launched from Mr. D. King’s yard.</p> +<p>Mr. W. Johnson had been appointed a “tradesman to Her +Most Gracious Majesty.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Norfolk Yeomanry, under the command of Major Loftus, had +entered the town for seven days’ duty.</p> +<p>May 27th.—The Officers of this corps had given a +splendid ball at the Bath Rooms, at which 200 persons were +present.</p> +<p>Mr. G. Blake had been summoned for refusal, on conscientious +grounds, to pay the Church Rate.</p> +<p>June 3rd.—A meeting had been held “in support of +Her Majesty’s Ministers.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 17th.—Mr. G. Blake had been ordered to pay 1s. 6d., +the amount of the Church Rate, “which he did and +departed.”</p> +<p>The census had been taken, showing a population of 25,000.</p> +<p>During the week the roof had been placed on the hotel and +houses forming the south end of Kimberley Terrace.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Norfolk,” 120 tons, had been launched by Mr. +A. R. Palmer.</p> +<p><a name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 80</span>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>C. E. Rumbold</p> +</td> +<td><p>943</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Wilshere</p> +</td> +<td><p>945</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. Baring</p> +</td> +<td><p>501</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Soames</p> +</td> +<td><p>491</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>July 15th.—Alex. Shafto Adair, Esq., (the late candidate +for East Suffolk) had accompanied S. Palmer, Esq. (with whom he +was staying), to church.</p> +<p>The “Vanguard,” built by Mr. W. Teasdel, had +sailed for London.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 22nd.—“Mr. R. R. B. Norman, surgeon dentist, +had been admitted a Licentiate of “Apothecaries’ +Hall, London.”</p> +<p>The “Good Samaritan” Lodge had held its +anniversary at the Gallon Can, Gaol Street.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>An explosion of fireworks had taken place at the Vauxhall +Gardens, but, fortunately, no one was injured.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +81</span>“Vigilance,” and the Tally-Ho Stakes (for +Hunters) by Mr. Wm. Danby-Palmer’s +“Daniel.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At night the Vauxhall Gardens had “a bumper.”</p> +<p>August 5th.—A splendid terrace, road, and promenade was +being formed on the Victoria Building Company’s Estate by +Mr. George Fenn.</p> +<p>A very superb silver soup tureen weighing 230 ozs., was to be +presented to Samuel Paget, Esq., by the Shipping Assurance +Association.</p> +<p>A <i>dejeuner</i> 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.</p> +<p>August 12th.—The census showed the population of the +Borough to be as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Males.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Females.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Total.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10,427</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,524</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">23,951</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sailors</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,300</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,300</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Totals</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11,727</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,524</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25,251</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>August 19th.—The “Rosa Anna,” 115 tons, had +been launched from Mr. Lubbock’s yard.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The Mayor and Mrs. Palmer had given a bespeak at the +Theatre.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The “Oriental” (schooner), had been launched from +Mr. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>Sept. 16th.—There had been a fire at the house of Mr. +Simon Jay, surgeon, Regent Street.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th.—The Brethren of Lodge “United +Friends” had given <a name="page82"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 82</span>a dinner to their late W.M., Capt. +Harmer, R.N., previous to his departure in the +“Driver,” at the Star Hotel.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At the Sessions, the Grand Jury presented the disorderly state +of the Market Place every evening between eight and ten +o’clock.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 4th.—The Municipal election had passed over without +contests, the following was the return:—<i>St. +Nicholas’ Ward</i>: R. Hammond and W. N. Burroughs. +<i>Market</i>: W. Johnson and John Owles. <i>Regent</i>: J. +Tomlinson and S. C. Marsh. <i>St. George’s</i>: T. +Lettis, jun., and J. W. Shelly. <i>Nelson</i>: G. Danby +Palmer and W. Chambers. <i>St. Andrew’s</i>: T. +Hammond and S. Crowe.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>Wm. Johnson, Esq., had been requested by 38 Councillors to +allow himself to be nominated for the office of Mayor.</p> +<p>Nov. 11th.—On the 9th November, Mr. Johnson had been +elected to that office.</p> +<p>Nov. 25th.—The “Arab,” 175 tons, had been +launched from Mr. Teasdel’s yard.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The Magistrates had cautioned Mr. I. Mayers and Mr D. L. Cohen +(Jews) as to Sunday trading.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 83</span>Dec. +23rd.—The Savings’ Bank report showed 2,378 accounts +and £71,521 16s. 10d. amount deposited.</p> +<p>The Rev. H. N. Burrows, A.M., had been elected Head-Master of +the Proprietary Grammar School.</p> +<h3>1842.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st.—The half-yearly Hospital meeting had been +held.</p> +<p>The prisoners had been regaled by the Mayor with roast beef, +plum pudding and one pint of beer each.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A meeting had been held to consider the question of the +erection of a Corn Exchange.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Feb. 3rd.—The London Mail did not get in until 12.38; +the frequent delays in these Mails were a source of serious +inconvenience.</p> +<p><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 84</span>Feb. +10th.—The Vicar had issued an address, calling attention to +the spiritual destitution of the town, and the restoration of St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Christopher Taylor had been appointed agent and surgeon to +the sick and wounded seamen, in the place of Wm. Taylor, Esq., +deceased.</p> +<p>March 3rd.—2,300 inhabitants of Yarmouth had signed the +petition for the total Repeal of the Corn Laws.</p> +<p>March 10th.—Wm. Worship, Esq., had been elected a +Councillor for the North Ward.</p> +<p>March 31st.—A “Gold Coronation Medal” had +been presented by the Queen to Capt. Manby, for preservation of +lives from shipwreck.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A petition was to be “got up” against the tax.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>April 14th.—A Hemsby boat, which had put off to a +vessel, had been lost and nine hands drowned out of her.</p> +<p><a name="page85"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 85</span>May +5th.—The Vauxhall Gardens had been opened for the season, +and 100 gentlemen had partaken of a cold collation there on the +occasion.</p> +<p>Charges of manslaughter had been preferred before the +Magistrates in respect of the cases of Ebbage and Cox.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 9th.—Mr. Matthew Hastings Swann had had the degree +of “Doctor of Philology” conferred on him by the +University of Berlin.</p> +<p>The Victoria hotel had been completed, and was to be opened by +Mr. Balls of St. James’ Square, London.</p> +<p>June 23rd.—The Victoria hotel had been opened with a +public dinner, at which J. E. Lacon, Esq., presided.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 14th.—Commissioners had been appointed for the +purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Income Tax +Act.</p> +<p>July 21st.—Samuel Palmer, Esq., had been chosen clerk to +such Commissioners.</p> +<p>July 28th.—A prospectus had been issued for the purpose +of establishing “Shampooing Baths” at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>The Mayor had attended the Water Frolic; the first match was +won by the “Red Rover” (S. C. Marsh, Esq.)</p> +<p>August 4th.—There had been a fire at Mr. Harvey’s +tan yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>August 25th.—A “young lady from +Lincolnshire,” about 18 years of age, had eloped from +lodgings on the Beach with a Yarmouth gentleman.</p> +<p>Sept. 8th.—At the Races, the Gold Cup was won by Mr. +Wilshere’s “Evasion”; the Vauxhall Stakes by +Mr. H. Stracey’s “Protempore”; <a +name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 86</span>the +Member’s Plate, and the Gentlemen’s Plate by Mr. S. +Palmer’s “Everilda”; and the Handicap Stakes by +Mr. Bignold’s “Camille.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Bruce” had been launched from Mr. +Chapman’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Race ball had been held at the Bath Rooms, which only 68 +persons had attended.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd.—H.M. the Queen had passed through the roads +in the “Trident,” accompanied by two other +steamers.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th.—The “India” had, after extensive +repairs, been launched from Mr. A. R. Palmer’s yard.</p> +<p>Mr. R. Lubbock had launched the “Isabella” (200 +tons) for S. Sherrington, Esq.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th.—One of Mr. Shuckford’s boats had brought +in 23½ lasts of herring, valued at £700.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th.—There had been a fire at the “New +Commercial” club house.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The following Councillors had been elected:—</p> +<p><i>North Ward</i>: Mr. W. H. Bessey and Mr. C. May (vice Mr. +E. H. L. Preston retired.)</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>: Mr. E. Sewell and Mr. S. Miller, jun. +(vice Mr. <a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +87</span>E. N. Clowes, resigned). The polling being for</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Sewell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">162</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Miller</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">142</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Richmond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">29</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Lawn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">29</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>: Messrs. C. Davie and J. Fish +(re-elected.)</p> +<p><i>St. George’s Ward</i>: Mr. Lettis and P. Pullyn, Esq. +(vice A. Woods, Esq., resigned.)</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>: Messrs. Robinson and Symonds +(re-elected.)</p> +<p><i>St. Andrew’s Ward</i>: Messrs. Thrower and W. H. +Palmer (re-elected.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In the evening a dinner took place at the Star Hotel, the +Mayor in the chair.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 17th.—A “Total Abstinence” lecture had +been delivered by Mr. Smeeton, at the Guild Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The opening dinner had been held at the +“Bear.”</p> +<p>Nine hundred lasts of herring had been caught “between +Thursday se’night and the succeeding Sunday,” which +was considered an extraordinary catch of fish.</p> +<p><a name="page88"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 88</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1843.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Some young fig trees had sprung up in Mr. H. Fellows’ +Dock.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>Jan. 19th.—A meeting of the Trustees of the Acle +Turnpike Road had been held in regard to the state of their +accounts.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th.—Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Laws had given a grand +ball at the Corn Exchange.</p> +<p>The Hospital had received £120 from the Managers of the +Norwich Festival</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Gaol was so full “that it was almost impossible to +provide sufficient accommodation for the sleeping of the +prisoners.”</p> +<p>Feb. 9th.—Messrs. Youell and Co. had received Her +Majesty’s commands to supply her with some plants from +their nursery.</p> +<p>“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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 89</span>Feb. +23rd.—Two cargoes of iron had arrived for the Railway.</p> +<p>“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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 2nd.—It was proposed to place a lightship at the +“Cockle Gat.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>March 30th.—Sixteen Liberal Guardians had been again +elected.</p> +<p>April 13th.—It was understood that the contracts for +building the new Bridge had been taken for something less than +£10,000.</p> +<p>April 20th.—Messrs. C. Davie and D. A. Gourlay had been +re-elected churchwardens by the Vestry.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 1st.—A new Jetty was projected opposite the +Victoria Terrace, at which steampackets could land passengers and +goods.</p> +<p>June 18th.—A single-wicket game of cricket had been +played on the <a name="page90"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +90</span>Denes between six members of the Amateur Club, the +players being Messrs. Chamberlin, Tyrrell, and Diver, <i>v.</i> +Greenacre, Aldred and Nolloth, the latter won by 23 to 8 +runs.</p> +<p>June 24th.—Mr. H. Worship had resigned the office of +Parish Surgeon.</p> +<p>June 29th.—Mr. F. N. Palmer had been elected to that +office in Mr. Worship’s place.</p> +<p>Many gentlemen had been fined for riding across the corner of +the pavement near the Star.</p> +<p>July 6th.—The London letters now arrived before eight +o’clock by “Patent Mail” in lieu of the +Telegraph Coach.</p> +<p>July 13th.—The “Hudson” had been lengthened +and launched from Mr. F. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>A shark, seven feet long, had been taken by some +fishermen.</p> +<p>July 20th.—S. Tolver, Esq., had presented an hydraulic +bed to the Hospital.</p> +<p>Robert Stevenson, Esq., had been in Yarmouth and determined on +the site for the Terminus.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Water Frolic had been held, the Mayor and Corporation +attending in a Barge.</p> +<p>August 10th.—Wm. Steward, Esq., had bequeathed +£100 to the Hospital.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>August 17th.—The Races had afforded little real sport; +the Gold Cup race was “drawn” as there were only two +entries for it.</p> +<p>The Magistrates had issued a notice against gambling.</p> +<p>There had not been a single case of pocket picking reported at +the Races.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 91</span>Sept. +7th.—The Government Inspector was very dissatisfied with +the state of the Gaol.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth Mail had been upset near the Suspension +Bridge.</p> +<p>Sept. 14th—Capt. Pike had been elected an Alderman in +the room of Dr. Penrice, deceased.</p> +<p>The Council had determined not to appoint a chaplain in +future, and to let the Vicarage “as any other property is +let.”</p> +<p>Sept. 21st.—The Norwich and Yarmouth Cricket Clubs had +played a match here with the result:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">1st ins.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2nd ins.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Total.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">79</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">50</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">129</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">96</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">42</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">138</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center">(And three +wickets.)</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Oct. 5th.—The hotels and lodging-houses continued well +filled, and the roadstead was crowded with shipping.</p> +<p>Oct. 12th.—Four Women and a man had been baptized by +immersion in the sea from three of Mr. Bowles’ +machines.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>An awful storm of wind from the S.E. had visited the town, and +several ships had been driven on to the Beach.</p> +<p>The following Councillors had been elected:—</p> +<p><i>North Ward</i>:—Messrs. Wm. Worship and Peter +White.</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>:—Messrs. D. A. Gourlay and C. +Miller.</p> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>: Messrs. S. Palmer and J. D. Chapman.</p> +<p><i>St. George’s Ward</i>: Messrs. J. Bayly and W. A. +Burton.</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>: Messrs. J. G. Cannell and Wm. Thos. +Clarke.</p> +<p><i>Gorleston Ward</i>: Messrs. W. Danby-Palmer and John +Hammond.</p> +<p>Nov. 9th.—There were then forty-seven Liberals and one +Conservative in the Town Council.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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, <a name="page92"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 92</span>W. Danby Palmer, C. Pearson, R. S. +Lonsdale, W. S. Ferrier, H. Worship, and G. W. Holt, Esqs.</p> +<p>The Mayor had entertained 200 gentlemen on his return from +Church on Mayor’s Sunday.</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">THE FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN HARMER, R.N.</span></p> +<p>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:—</p> +<p style="text-align: right">H.M.S. “Thalia,” at +Chusan, China,<br /> +17th April, 1843.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>H.M.S. “Thalia.”—Four boats, three +lieutenants, purser, naval <a name="page93"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 93</span>instructor, two medical officers, one +midshipman, three volunteers (1st class.)</p> +<p>H.M.S. “Minden.”—Three boats, two +lieutenants, master, purser, two medical officers, two volunteers +(1st class), one sergeant and ten marines.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The colours of all the squadron will be hoisted half-mast high +at eight o’clock, and remain so till sunset.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">Signed,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Chas. Hope</span>,</p> +<p style="text-align: right">Captain of H.M.S. +“Thalia,” and senior officer Chusan.</p> +<p>P.S.—The boats will be provided with ensigns and +pendants, but only the former will be half-mast high.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The merchant ships, following the example of the squadron, +kept their colours half-mast high until sunset.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>A swindler, calling himself “Clinton,” had been +victimising the inhabitants.</p> +<p><a name="page94"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 94</span>Dec. +9th.—The first subscription concert had been held at the +Town Hall.</p> +<p>Dec. 16th.—It was stated that the value of the Yarmouth +living was then estimated at £430 per annum.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A light vessel had been placed in the Cockle Gat.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1844.</h3> +<p>Jan. 6th.—At a concert and ball given at the Town Hall, +a violin duet, by the Masters Hulley, was played with +“great spirit.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th.—The Railway Company had abandoned their plan +of erecting a bridge over the river with wharfs on the North +Quay.</p> +<p>Jan. 20th.—The congregation of the Mariner’s +Chapel had presented a testimonial to their minister, Mr. Joseph +Pike.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Borough Lands Committee recommended that the Rev. H. +Mackenzie (the incoming Vicar) should have the parsonage house at +the yearly rent of 1s.</p> +<p><a name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 95</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was proposed to appoint a schoolmaster at the Gaol, with a +salary of £50 a year.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 2nd.—The electric telegraph had been laid along +the railway.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 23rd.—The Town Council had determined to expend +£500 in alterations at the Gaol.</p> +<p>The Rev. R. G. Mason, “the Father Matthew of +Scotland,” had held two meetings at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. Pellew had been presented with the testimonial by Sir E. +Lacon and B. Dowson, Esq., on behalf of the subscribers.</p> +<p>April 6th.—Messrs. Wm. Cross, John Richmond, Wm. Burton, +and J. T. Buston had been appointed overseers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page96"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 96</span>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.</p> +<p>A <i>dejeneur</i> 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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 18th.—The Yarmouth Anti-Corn Law League had held a +meeting at the Masonic Hall, Mr. D. A. Gourlay in the chair.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Nelson had stated to Mr. Lacon that he could not redeem +his pledge to complete Kimberley Terrace.</p> +<p>Mr. T. C. Foreman (confectioner), had been assaulted by Mr. +Bidden (surgeon).</p> +<p><a name="page97"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 97</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Victoria Brass Band had commenced playing on the +Terrace.</p> +<p>June 15th.—Madame Vestris and Chas. Matthews were to +appear at the Theatre.</p> +<p>July 6th.—The “Byzantium,” 290 tons, had +been launched from Mr. F. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>August 3rd.—The Regatta had proved a success, the +following is the report given of the sport:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.</p> +<p>A silver cup and cover, value £50, for Yachts not +exceeding 25 tons, belonging to a Yacht Club.</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page98"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +98</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Yachts</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">tons.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Owners.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Colours.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mystery</p> +</td> +<td><p>25</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lord A. Paget</p> +</td> +<td><p>b & w Maltese cross</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>2.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gnome</p> +</td> +<td><p>25</p> +</td> +<td><p>Thos. Meeson</p> +</td> +<td><p>b & w with crown</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>Carried away gaff topsail yard, and gave up.</p> +<p>A silver cup, value £12, by Pleasure Boats, 19 feet on +the ram and upwards.</p> +<p>Won by “Leviathan,” (Mr. W. Bessey), beating four +others.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Aug. 10th.—Five individuals were living in a house in +the Lion and Lamb Row, whose united ages amounted to 385 +years.</p> +<p>Aug. 24th.—The tide had flowed up to Victoria Terrace +and beyond Ansell’s Buildings, affording an enchanting +sight to the visitors.</p> +<p>The foundation stone of the New Wesleyan Chapel had been laid +at Gorleston.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A choir was about to be formed, under Mr. Warne.</p> +<p>Oct. 5th.—The Victoria Building Company had sold the +ground for the purpose of the erection of Brandon Terrace.</p> +<p>Oct. 19th.—The Magistrates had determined upon +memorialising the <a name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +99</span>Postmaster General to have the mails transmitted by +railroad.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>November 9th contains the following legal report:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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 <a +name="page100"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 100</span>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Justice Patteson—You do not put this as being a +provocation to a breach of the peace?</p> +<p>Mr. Martin—It was an actual breach of the peace, for an +assault was committed.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <i>nisi</i> granted.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 23rd—Colliers were getting 7s. a ton for +freight.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th.—Complaint was made that the Bridport nets +were driving <a name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +101</span>the nets made in Yarmouth by women and girls out of +use.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st.—The grocers had determined to close their +shops at 8 o’clock.</p> +<h3>1845.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st.—A meeting had been held to assist the widows +and children of the men lost on the 26th January then last.</p> +<p>Progress was being made in building Brandon Terrace.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 8th.—The Board of Trade had remitted £20 to +the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the late storm.</p> +<p>Feb. 15th.—And her Majesty the Queen had sent a like sum +to the same fund.</p> +<p>Feb. 22nd.—The Town Council had petitioned against the +Income Tax, and in favour of the Waveney Valley Railway.</p> +<p>The rivers were “fast with frost.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 8th.—Large quantities of wreck were floating in +the Roads.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 15th.—A petition had been adopted against the +Dereham Railway Bill.</p> +<p>C. J. Harley, Esq., had bequeathed £100 to the +Hospital.</p> +<p>There were only four cases at the Quarter Sessions.</p> +<p><a name="page102"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 102</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 26th.—“In the Bail Court, Saturday, 19th +April, 1845. Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">The Queen on the prosecution of +Samuel Charles Marsh, Esq., v. Charles Cory Aldred.</p> +<p>Mr. Martin—My Lord, in the case of the Queen v. Aldred, +my learned friend, Mr. Robinson, will address your Lordship.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Justice Coleridge—Very well.”</p> +<p>Yarham (who figured in the Chandler murder case) had “at +length <a name="page103"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +103</span>been compelled, by the expression of public feeling, to +quit the town.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page104"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +104</span>Bridge, which hung perpendicularly below the surface of +the river. As suddenly the struggle for life was past to +all but a few.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Never since the devastating plague in 1664, which swept off +2000 of its inhabitants, has Yarmouth, notwithstanding its +numberless shipwrecks, <a name="page105"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 105</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <i>sine die</i>. The following list of the +victims is given:—</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>No.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Age</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Adams, Robert, Rainbow Corner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>2.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Augur, Caroline, Garden Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bussey, Harriett, Ferry Boat Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>4.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Beloe, George John Henry, Fuller’s Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page106"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +106</span>5.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Buttifant, Sarah Ann, Row 2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">18</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>6.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Borking, Emily Hanworth, George Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>7.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Burton, Benjamin Patteson, Row 54</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>8.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barber, Christopher, Pudding Gates</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>9.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bradberry, Isaac, King Street, Norwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>10.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Beckett, Ann, Priory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>11.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barker, Leonard, Surrey Street, Norwich (not yet +found)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>12.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Buck, James Seaman, Row 17 (not yet found)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>13.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Balls, Reeder Thurston, Bath Place</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>14.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Church, James, Rainbow Corner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>15.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Crowe, Eliza, Row 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>16.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Church, Caroline, Horn Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>17.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Conyers, Elizabeth, Row 13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>18.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Cole, Jane, Row 65</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>19.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Durrant, William, Row 24</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>20.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Ditcham, Mary Ann, Row 18</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">64</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>21.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Duffield, Eliza, Rainbow Corner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>22.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Dye, Charles, Moat</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>23.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Dye, Benjamin, Rainbow Corner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>24.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Edwards, Maria, Garden Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>25.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Ebbage, David, Row 17</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>26.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Field, Hannah, Row 14</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>27.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Fulcher, James, Row 34</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>28.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Fulcher Elizabeth, St. John’s Head Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>29.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Funnell, John, Wortwell (not yet found)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>30.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Fox, John Horace, Butcher’s Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>31.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Field, Susannah, Say’s Corner Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>32.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gilbert, Sarah, Row 14</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>33.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gotts, Alice, Conge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">52</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>34.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gotts, Alice, jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>35.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Grimmer, William, Moat</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>36.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hendle, William, Ferry Boat Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>37.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hunn, Sarah, Row 3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>38.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hunnibal, Elizabeth Jane, Row 110</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>39.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hatch, Elizabeth, East Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>40.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Johnson, Elizabeth, Row 23</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>41.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Johnson, Sarah Ann, Row 23</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>42.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Johnson, Thomas (or Robert), Row 1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +107</span>43.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Jenkerson, Mary Ann, Row 1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>44.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Juniper, Maud, at Workhouse</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>45.</p> +</td> +<td><p>King, Mary Ann, Apollo Walk</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>46.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lucas, Frederick, Row 21</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">62</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>47.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lake, Mary Ann, George and Dragon Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>48.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lyons, William, Row 1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>49.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Little, Harriet Mary, Market</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>50.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Livingstone, Joseph, King Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>51.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Livingstone, Matilda, King Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>52.</p> +</td> +<td><p>May, Clara, Row 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>53.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mears, Susan, Ferry Boat Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>54.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Manship, Elizabeth, Rainbow Corner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">28</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>55.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Morgan, Elizabeth, Row 1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">62</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>56.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Maze, Robert, Charlotte Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>57.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Powley, Elizabeth, Row 2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">21</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>58.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Powley, Richard, Row 3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>59.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Parker, Charlotte, Row 13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>60.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Powley, Amelia, White Lion Opening</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>61.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Richardson, Phœbe, Row 99</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>62.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Roberts, Lydia, Pudding Gates</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>63.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Roberts, Mary Ann, Pudding Gates</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>64.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Read, Elizabeth, Rainbow Corner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>65.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Scotten, Ann Maria, Row 3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>66.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Stolworthy, Maria, King’s Arms Yard</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>67.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tann, Harriett, George and Dragon Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>68.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tennant, John, Railway Walk</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>69.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tennant, William, ditto</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>70.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Thorpe, Heppy, Row 2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>71.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Trory, William Townshend, George Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>72.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Thompson, Mary Ann, British Lion Alley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>73.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Utting, Louise, Row 33 (not yet found)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>74.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Utting, Sarah, Gaol Paved Row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">18</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>75.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Utting, Caroline, Row 33</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>76.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Vincent, Maria, Apollo Walk</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>77.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Vincent, Richard, missing</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">—</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>78.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Watts, William Walter, Coble’s Buildings, Pudding +Lane (not yet found)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">—</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>79.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Young, Emily, Fuller’s Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>80.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Yallop, Martha, George Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page108"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 108</span>The +following is the list of persons who were rescued, as far as +ascertained:—</p> +<p>Sarah Ann Thorpe, aged 13, who continues very ill.</p> +<p>Mary Ann Arnold, with child in her arms.</p> +<p>Mrs. Thomas Money, reported to be in great danger.</p> +<p>Rebecca Page.</p> +<p>Mary Church, was taken out near the lime kiln.</p> +<p>Hannah Eliza Lake, an infant.</p> +<p>Widow Edwards, reported to be in a dangerous state.</p> +<p>Martha Field, aged 7 years.</p> +<p>Mr. Frederick Nathaniel Palmer, surgeon.</p> +<p>Mr. William Jackson.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Martha Field, a young woman, who came into Court, but had her +head tied up and seemed much bruised.</p> +<p>Elizabeth Cuddon, a young woman from Ipswich.</p> +<p>Mary Utting, mother of Caroline Utting.</p> +<p>Ann Bowles, aged 11 years.</p> +<p>Mrs. David Little and one child, another being drowned.</p> +<p>Mrs. Livingstone and one child, two having been drowned.</p> +<p>Mrs. Louisa Beloe and one child, another child drowned.</p> +<p>Mrs. Susan Money and one child.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Susan Knights stated that she was on the West end of the +Bridge with three children, all of whom were happily saved.</p> +<p>Maria Smith went down twice, when she caught hold of a boat +and was taken into a wherry.</p> +<p>Elizabeth Bowles was on the end of the Bridge, but happily +escaped.</p> +<p>Grace Duffell, mother of Elizabeth Duffell.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A little girl, sister of Maria Stolworthy.</p> +<p>Betsy Wright left the Bridge a minute or two before it +fell.</p> +<p><a name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +109</span>Alfred Norman on hearing a cracking noise ran off on +the West side of the Bridge, when he saw the Bridge fall.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Robert Whitlock left the Bridge to look for his brother, and +the Bridge fell before he returned.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A young man named Simmons, (whose leg was also fractured in +extricating them from the bended iron of the Bridge with a +crowbar).</p> +<p>Robert Marshall, aged 16, escaped with a scalp wound.</p> +<p>Sarah Linder, aged 12, Bow 132, was also rescued with a +wounded scalp.</p> +<p>Martha Ann Stolworthy, aged 7 years.</p> +<p>Mr. John Lake’s servant and one child saved.</p> +<p>A brother of B. P. Burton’s.</p> +<p>A young woman named Cook, living in Bow 65.</p> +<p>Harriett Hunnibal, Row 110.</p> +<p>Caroline Roberts was standing quite at the foot of the Bridge, +and escaped without going into the water.</p> +<p>John Watts, aged 16, and three brothers were saved.</p> +<p>Tresor Steward, aged 12, Priory.</p> +<p>Hannah Watering, aged 8, Priory.</p> +<p>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’”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A meeting of the Beachmen’s Relief Fund had been held, +Wm. H. <a name="page110"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +110</span>Palmer, Esq., in the chair, when the following account +was presented:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">£</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Annuities to widows</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">438</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Weekly allowances to children</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">434</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gratuities to widows of Warner, Poyntz, and S. George</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">50</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Star Company for loss of yawl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">212</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Survivors for loss of clothes, &c.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">60</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£1,194</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. Marsh had attended the <i>levée</i>.</p> +<p>May 24th.—The Rev. H. Mackenzie had proposed the +restoration of S. Nicholas’ Church, which he estimated +would cost £5,000.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>May 31st.—A temporary bridge had been opened across the +Bure.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth and Norwich line was thrown out as regarded the +bridge and tramway, so that no second bridge would be built that +year.</p> +<p>June 7th.—The Royal Hospital on the South Denes was +being converted into a Naval Lunatic Asylum.</p> +<p>June 14th.—Three of the houses on Brandon Terrace were +nearly ready for occupation.</p> +<p>An arrangement had been come to between the Directors of the +<a name="page111"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 111</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <i>Bury Post</i> to be +£26,000.</p> +<p>Many influential traders were moving to get the terminus fixed +at Southtown near the bridge foot.</p> +<p>A new Roman Catholic Chapel was projected on a site near +Paget’s brewery (North Quay.)</p> +<p>June 28th.—The “Vauxhall Gardens” had passed +from Mr. Symonds to Mr. Franklin, and a magnificent saloon +upwards of 60 feet erected there.</p> +<p>July 5th.—The Church trustees had determined to spend +£1,250 on repairs of the fabric of S. Nicholas’ +Church.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 12th.—Fifty persons had taken a trip to Holland in +the steamer “Cambridge” of Hull.</p> +<p>Sunday night had been one of incessant thunder and +lightning.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>July 26th.—The Borough Members (Messrs. Rumbold and +Wilshere) had attended an Anti-Corn Law League meeting at the +Corn Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +112</span>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.)</p> +<p>A dinner was given during the day to the beachmen in a tent on +the Beach, and the lifeboats tested.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was computed that not less than 2,000 persons attended the +Vauxhall Gardens, among whom were the members for the +Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The only mails then brought to Yarmouth by rail were those +from London and Norwich.</p> +<p>The “Repository” sale at the Bath Room on the +Regatta day had realized £82.</p> +<p><a name="page113"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 113</span>Mr. +C. D. Arnott had had conferred on him the degree of M.D. by the +Edinburgh University.</p> +<p>Aug. 16th.—A Poor’s rate of 1s. 4d. in the £ +had been made.</p> +<p>The Railway Company was forwarding its own goods by water as +the cheaper process.</p> +<p>Aug. 23rd.—Messrs. Youell’s nurseries were very +attractive, they had 4,000 carnations and 180 fuchsias in +bloom.</p> +<p>Complaints had been made that “for two Sundays +past” great quantities of herring had been despatched to +London by rail.</p> +<p>Six hundred sail of colliers and merchant vessels which had +been wind-bound here had proceeded to sea.</p> +<p>Aug. 30th.—The abolition of the coal dues, and the +question of the better delivery of the mails were being +agitated.</p> +<p>Mrs. Spooner (Dr. Bateman’s sister) had met with a fatal +accident by falling downstairs.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th.—£3,600 had been subscribed for the S. +Nicholas’ Church restoration.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The allotment of Waveney Valley shares was to take +place. The applications exceeded 80,000.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The Freemasons meeting at the “Star Tavern” (Lodge +313) had been honoured by the presence of Lord Suffield, +Provincial Grand Master.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 8th.—At the Municipal Election, Henry Danby Palmer, +Esq., had been returned for the North Ward, vice C. May; Mr. +James Lawn <a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +114</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th.—A report had been circulated that Yarham had +confessed that he was the murderer of Mrs. Chandler.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1846.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd.—The friends of total abstinence had held their +ninth anniversary and festival at the Town-hall on 26th +December.</p> +<p>Yarham had been privately examined on the charge of murdering +Mrs. Chandler, and remanded to the 5th inst.</p> +<p>Jan. 10th.—Yarham had been further examined privately +and a further remand granted.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th.—Yarham had been committed for trial on the +capital charge by S. Palmer, W. H. Palmer, and W. Johnson, +Esqs.</p> +<p>Feb. 7th—Disputes had arisen with regard to the rating +of houses on the Denes.</p> +<p><a name="page115"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 115</span>The +Borough Lands Committee had resolved to allow the enclosure of +the land in front of the Workhouse by the Guardians.</p> +<p>The question of supplying the town with water by Water Works +was being mooted.</p> +<p>Feb. 14th.—Mr. W. Beeching had launched the +“Joseph and Mary.”</p> +<p>Feb. 21st.—The “Speedy” (Lieut. G. Spray) +had arrived to receive Volunteers.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th.—Mr. Cufaude Davie had called the +Mayor’s attention to the formation of a proper fire brigade +for the town.</p> +<p>The Rev. W. H. Clarke had been presented with a testimonial, +consisting of a purse of £205.</p> +<p>March 14th.—The fishmerchants had determined to take +steps to improve and extend the Jetty.</p> +<p>The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had delivered a lecture on “Alfred +the Great” at the Corn Exchange.</p> +<p>Coals were being retailed at 8d. a cwt. on the Quay.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 28th.—The question of tramways on the Quay was +under consideration.</p> +<p>April 11th.—The price of gas had been reduced from 8s. +to 6s. 8d. per 1000 cubic feet.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 18th.—Messrs. C. Davie and D. A. Gourlay had been +elected churchwardens by the Vestry.</p> +<p>Yarham had been executed at Norwich.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Town Council had proposed to present the Town-Clerk (S. <a +name="page116"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 116</span>Tolver, +Esq.) with his portrait, which offer that gentleman declined to +accept.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 6th.—A meeting had been held in favour of the +Waveney Valley Railway line.</p> +<p>Tenders had been invited for the restoration work at St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>June 13th.—The “Norfolk,” steamer, had made +her first trip to London.</p> +<p>Owing to the fine weather a large number of visitors were +arriving.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The annual distribution of prizes had been made by the Rev. H. +Mackenzie at the Proprietary school.</p> +<p>July 17th.—The Mayor had refused to allow the use of the +Town Hall for the Regatta Ball.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Regatta cups had been supplied by Mr. Simpson, Mr. Last, +and Mr. Hunt.</p> +<p>Aug. 22nd.—Annoyance had been caused by bathing from the +Beach between the Victoria Hotel and Nelson’s Monument.</p> +<p>The Theatre was “doing well”; on Monday, 100 +persons had been turned away from its doors.</p> +<p>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. <a name="page117"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 117</span>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.</p> +<p>The Tradesmen’s Ball at Noverre’s room was thinly +attended.</p> +<p>Sept. 19th.—The “Norfolk” and +“Enterprise,” steamers, had arrived with cargoes from +Rotterdam.</p> +<p>Herring was selling at from £35 to £40 per +last.</p> +<p>There was a great demand for vessels for the export of +grain.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—The Rev. H. N. Burrows had left the +Proprietary School, on which occasion he had been presented with +a handsome silver waiter.</p> +<p>A Committee had been appointed to carry out the building of S. +Peter’s Schools.</p> +<p>Several locusts had been captured at Youell’s nursery +ground and at Ormesby.</p> +<p>Oct. 17th.—About 70 lunatics had arrived at the Naval +Asylum (late Hospital) on the South Denes.</p> +<p>The “Enterprise” had encountered bad weather, and +had to throw half of her cargo of sheep and bullocks +overboard.</p> +<p>Nov. 7th.—One of Mr. Shuckford’s boats had brought +in an enormously large quantity of herrings.</p> +<p>The following notice of the Municipal Election +appears:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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 <i>if they could</i>. 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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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, <a name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +118</span>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th.—Mr. W. N. Burroughs had been elected Mayor, +and a dinner given at the Star to celebrate the event.</p> +<p>Nov. 21st.—The Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Steam Packet +Company was providing suitable vessels for the station.</p> +<p>F. R. Reynolds, Esq. had been appointed Receiver of Admiralty +Droits for Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th.—And Samuel Palmer, Esq. to the like office +for the Norfolk coast.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 5th.—It had been resolved to place gas lamps on the +South Market Road.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th.—Spencer T. Smyth, Esq., had lectured at the +Young Men’s Institute on “Physiological +Anatomy.”</p> +<p>£2,256, 12s. 4d. had been raised for S. Nicholas’ +Church restoration.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 26th.—Upwards of £200 had been subscribed for +the Ragged School on the Caister Road.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3><a name="page119"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +119</span>1847.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd.—The Mayor had purchased a seventy stone ox, +and distributed the meat from it to the poor.</p> +<p>Jan. 9th.—Chas. J. Palmer, Esq., had been appointed +Receiver of Admiralty Droits in the place of F. R. Reynolds, +Esq., deceased.</p> +<p>Jan. 16th.—A meeting had been held to consider the +distress in Ireland, and a subscription list opened for the +purpose of affording relief.</p> +<p>A meeting had been held to consider and forward, if possible, +the building of a new bridge over the river.</p> +<p>The frost in Holland had caused the steamers to cease running +between that country and Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd.—A densely crowded Railway meeting had been +held at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Charles John Palmer, Esq., had been appointed Clerk to the +Southtown Turnpike Trust, in the place of F. R. Reynolds, Esq., +deceased.</p> +<p>Jan. 30th.—There had been heavy gales, at one time +approaching a “complete hurricane.”</p> +<p>Feb. 6th.—Seven persons had recently died in the +Workhouse, whose joint ages amounted to 562 years.</p> +<p>A meeting had been held to protest against the “light +dues” on shipping.</p> +<p>Feb. 13th.—There had been a heavy fall of snow +accompanied by frost, and the traffic with Rotterdam was again +interrupted.</p> +<p>The Chancel of S. Nicholas’ Church was already occupied +for Divine service.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>March 6th.—James Paget, Esq., had been elected one of +the Assistant Surgeons of St. Bartholemew’s Hospital, +London.</p> +<p>There was at this time a uniform depth of nine feet of water +on the bar at low water.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 13th.—Mrs. Gooderham had bequeathed £500 to +be invested for the benefit of the New Meeting House.</p> +<p>A Commission of inquiry had been opened on the state of mind +of <a name="page120"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +120</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Hilling, engineer, had prepared a scheme for draining the +town.</p> +<p>March 27th.—The Dissenters were agitating against the +proposals of the Committee of the Council on education.</p> +<p>A solemn fast had been observed.</p> +<p>April 3rd.—Miss Lettis had been presented with a silver +salver by the poorer members of the Unitarian Congregation.</p> +<p>The “Media” had been launched from Mr. Henry +Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>March 10th.—The burial ground at the east-end of the +Churchyard had been consecrated by the Lord Bishop of +Norwich.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Church Trustees having liquidated, the church debt had +become “extinct.”</p> +<p>Both the Churchwardens had been re-elected by the Vestry, and +a Church rate agreed to.</p> +<p>April 17th.—A Shipowner’s Protection Society had +been formed, the necessary funds to be raised by a subscription +of 7d. per ton register.</p> +<p>The weather at the Fair had been cold and the business +transacted of a “limited amount.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Judge Birch had held his first Court for trials at the +Tolhouse Hall, <a name="page121"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +121</span>there were only three cases heard—“Lettis +<i>v.</i> Dye,” “Vale <i>v.</i> Fenn,” and +“Nolloth <i>v.</i> Rooke,” all for the recovery of +small debts.</p> +<p>May 1st.—The Bishop of Norwich had confirmed 383 young +people, (of whom 270 belonged to Yarmouth) at S. Nicholas’ +Church.</p> +<p>It was stated at the Council that while the prisoners cost 4s. +6½d., the paupers only cost 2s. 9d. per head.</p> +<p>May 8th.—The first stone of a new Jews’ Synagogue +had been laid by Mr. D. L. Cohen.</p> +<p>May 15th.—Mr. Samuel Wm. Aldred had received the first +prize for midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The poor’s rate was 1s. 10d. in the £ for the +current quarter, being nearly double the former average.</p> +<p>May 22nd.—Eighty cases had been entered in the County +Court.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The figures of the boy and girl had been placed in front of +the Charity School, they had previously been in S. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Messrs. C. C. Aldred and F. Palmer had complained to the +Justices of the dirty state of the fish market.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 12th.—A rule had been granted for a writ of +certiorari to remove the appointment of Overseers into the +Queen’s Bench.</p> +<p>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 +<i>dear</i> a place to contest.”</p> +<p>Samuel Palmer, Esq., S. Cobb, Esq., and Mr. D. A. Gourlay had +gone to town to find a candidate.</p> +<p>“Marsh <i>v.</i> Travers.—In compliance with Mr. +Chancellor Evans’ <a name="page122"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 122</span>order on Saturday last, the +defendant (Dame Anne Palmer Travers) duly performed retraction in +the house of the Minister at Yarmouth.”</p> +<p>The foundation of Britannia Terrace was progressing +slowly.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>Mr. D. A. Gourlay was spoken of as Mayor for the ensuing +year.</p> +<p>Mr. C. J. Palmer had resolved to print Manship’s +Yarmouth, the M.S. of which was in his possession.</p> +<p>A Caister yawl had upset near Caister Rails, and three men, +Church, Key, and Howes, drowned.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The Dissenters also had held a meeting at which Mr. I. W. +Shelly took the chair.</p> +<p>“At the Quarter Sessions, the Recorder sat without his +wig, that appendage having been stolen.”</p> +<p>A batch of informations had been laid against +“respectable bakers” for selling short weight bread; +they were fined 11s. each and cautioned.</p> +<p>July 3rd.—Upwards of 40 fish-owners had signed a notice +stating their desire to suppress smuggling.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The subscriptions to the Hospital “continued to +decline” and then amounted to only £315 16s. per +annum.</p> +<p><a name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 123</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 24th.—About 50 or 60 Nonconformist electors had +held a <a name="page124"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +124</span>meeting at the Congregational Schoolroom, when the +pledges of Mr. Bagshaw were considered satisfactory to the +meeting.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Goldsmid had also addressed the electors at the +“King’s Head.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Mayor’s bespeak at the Theatre for the benefit of +the Hospital had raised £25 6s. 6d.</p> +<p>July 31st.—Mr. D. A. Gourlay had been toasted at the +Water Frolic by Mr. S. Palmer, as Mayor elect.</p> +<p>The following was the return of the polling:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Rumbold.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Goldsmid.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Lennox.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Coope.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>At</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +<td><p>a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">174</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">175</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">140</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">140</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">334</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">330</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">326</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">323</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">469</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">461</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">502</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">493</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">579</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">561</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">601</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">587</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p>p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">639</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">617</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">687</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">674</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">672</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">643</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">754</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">737</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">709</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">671</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">788</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">772</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, (close)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">729</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">698</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">844</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">813</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page125"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 125</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Lodgers had experienced a difficulty in finding accommodation +in the town.</p> +<p>It was anticipated that Britannia-terrace would be completed +in three weeks’ time.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th.—Complaints were again being made as to +Sunday trading.</p> +<p>Mr. Goldsmid’s friends entertained no doubt as to the +success of his petition. He had entertained twenty +gentlemen at the Royal-hotel.</p> +<p>Oct. 2nd.—It was considered likely that Mr. Gourlay +would decline the Mayoralty, and that Dawson Turner, Esq., would +accept that office.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th.—The Liberals claimed a gain of 37 at the +Revision Court.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page126"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 126</span>The +increase of buildings was proceeding on the Denes very +rapidly.</p> +<p>Coals were very scarce. On the previous Saturday a +vessel had arrived and sold her cargo at 21s. per ton.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th.—A vessel of 400 tons was about to be launched +from Mr. Barber’s dock.</p> +<p>A herring had been caught off Yarmouth, measuring 15¼ +inches in length and weighing above 15 ozs.</p> +<p>The following had been the result of the Municipal +election:—</p> +<p><i>North Ward</i>.—The Mayor (W. N. Burroughs) and R. +Hammond re-elected.</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>.—No return given.</p> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>.—Samuel Charles Marsh (re-elected) +with Dawson Turner (vice Tomlinson resigned).</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. C. Smith (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">112</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. G. Plummer (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. Lettis, jun. (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">103</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>M. Butcher, jun. (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>George Danby Palmer (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">186</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William Chambers (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">133</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Henry Jay (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">113</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. H. L. Preston (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">148</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William Hammond (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">141</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Samuel Crow (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">96</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. Hammond (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Messrs. T. Lettis, T. Hammond, and S. Crow, who were old +members of that body, thus losing their seats in the Council.</p> +<p>Nov. 13th.—Mr. D. Turner had resigned his office as +Borough Treasurer and had been re-elected for the Regent +Ward.</p> +<p>The “Cordelia” (400 tons) had been launched from +Mr. Barber’s yard.</p> +<p>At the Town Council meeting on the 9th, Mr. Geo. Danby Palmer +moved and Mr. R. Hammond seconded, Philip Pullyn, Esq., for +Mayor.</p> +<p>And Mr. Ferrier proposed and Mr. E. H. L. Preston seconded, +the re-election of the Mayor (Mr. Burroughs).</p> +<p>The following was the voting on this:—</p> +<p>For Mr. Pullyn—Messrs. Cobb, Pike, Fellows, Barker, R. +Hammond, <a name="page127"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +127</span>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.</p> +<p>For Mr. Burroughs—Messrs. Bessey, Worship, C. Miller, +Ferrier, Jay, Plummer, Smith, W. H. Palmer, John Hammond, Rivett, +Preston, W. Hammond, and Rivett.—13.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Votes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>For C. Pearson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">24</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, S. Cobb</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">27</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Geo. Bateman</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, C. J. Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ W. Walpole</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Edmund R. Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">24</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, R. Hammond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ H. Boulter</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, A. Steward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>In the evening about fifty gentlemen dined with the Mayor at +the Star.</p> +<p>Nov. 20th.—A new gas holder, which had been +“dignified” by being named after the Queen, had been +erected.</p> +<p>Six vessels had taken in cargoes of herring for the +Straits.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th.—Capt. Manby having completed his 82nd year, +had made his annual distribution of bread to 37 poor +families.</p> +<p>Dec. 18th.—There had been 150 cases disposed of in the +County Court.</p> +<p>A young gentleman had been fined £5 for wrenching off +knockers from houses on the Denes.</p> +<p>Dec. 25th.—The fishowners had formed a society for the +prosecution of thieves, subscription 10s. for each member.</p> +<h3><a name="page128"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +128</span>1848.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1.—The elder Brethren of the Trinity House had +declined to take Nelson’s Monument into their hands.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 8th.—Five vessels had been fitted out for the sole +and turbot fishery in the style of the Barking smacks.</p> +<p>Jan. 15th.—The Mayor had entertained 140 guests at a +dinner in the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The pumps in Regent street had suddenly become dry.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 29th.—The “Venus,” belonging to G. D. +Palmer, Esq., had been lost off Elsinore.</p> +<p>Feb. 5th.—A wild duck had been shot just above the Haven +Bridge.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 19th.—The Members had been unseated and the +disfranchisement of the freemen suggested by this Committee.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 26th.—A requisition was being signed requesting Mr. +John E. Lacon to offer himself as a candidate for the +Borough.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Thomas Hammond (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">152</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Robins Purdy (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">52</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Majority for Hammond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">100</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>March 25th.—There had been an eclipse of the moon.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page129"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 129</span>April +8th.—Mr. W. R. Last had erected an illuminated clock in +King Street which was a great accommodation to the +inhabitants.</p> +<p>Messrs. George Danby Palmer and John Barker had been elected +Haven Commissioners, and Messrs. D. A. Gourlay and R. Hammond +Supernumary Commissioners.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 6th.—The fair “although pretty well attended +so far as numbers was concerned was altogether as spiritless a +concern as could be desired.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>William S. Ferrier, Esq., coroner, had died.</p> +<p>May 20th.—The Race Committee had resolved (as there were +no Borough Members) not to hold any Races this year.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dawson Turner, Esq., proposed, and Mr. D. A. Gourlay seconded, +Mr. Frederick Nathaniel Palmer (surgeon).</p> +<p>Mr. Richard Hammond proposed, and Mr. Walpole seconded, Mr. +Charles H. Chamberlin for the office.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 3rd.—Mr. Chamberlin had held his first inquest at +the “New Fountain Tavern,” on the body of Elizabeth +Maria Crowe.</p> +<p><a name="page130"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 130</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Goldsmid had determined not to contest the Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 15th.—At the nomination Mr. S. Cobb proposed and +Mr. Sewell seconded, C. E. Rumbold, Esq.</p> +<p>Mr. S. H. Aldred proposed, and Mr. W. H. Bessey seconded, John +Sandars, Esq.</p> +<p>And Mr. T. Hammond and J. Jackson proposed and seconded, +Robert John Bagshaw, Esq.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Sandars.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rumbold.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bagshaw.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>10 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">121</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">134</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">156</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>12½ p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">292</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">279</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">244</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1 „</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">312</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">301</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">253</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1½ ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">330</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">323</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">264</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>2 „</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">358</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">338</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">275</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3½ „</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">393</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">366</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">298</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>4 „</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">416</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">386</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">300</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>July 22nd.—Mr. Edward Sewell (a quaker) who had been +denounced <a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +131</span>by Mr. Shelly for voting for Sandars and Rumbold, +vindicated his conduct in this issue.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Regatta had been held, the band of the 16th Lancers coming +from Norwich, and there was an immense concourse of people +present.</p> +<p>In the first match, a purse of £60 for yachts, the +following entered:—</p> +<p>1.—“Esk,” R. Antrem, Esq., 25 tons, white +with red border, R.T.Y.C.</p> +<p>2.—“Prima Donna,” J. L. Ives, Esq., 25 tons, +white with blue cross, R.T.Y.C.</p> +<p>3.—“Mosquito,” C. Mare, Esq., 50 tons, blue +and orange quartered, R.T.Y.C.</p> +<p>4.—“Secret,” I. Wicks, Esq., 25 tons, blue +and white crescent, R.T.Y.C.</p> +<p>5.—“Gauntlet,” J. Penrice, Esq., 15 tons, +red and white zigzag, R.V.Y.C.</p> +<p>6.—“Blue Bell,” Lord A. Conyngham, 30 tons, +light blue, S.Y.C.</p> +<p>7.—“Daring,” G. Cook, Esq., 31 tons, red +burgee R.T.Y.C.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The times at which they came in were as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">1<span +class="smcap">st rnd.</span></p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">2<span +class="smcap">nd rnd.</span></p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">3<span +class="smcap">rd rnd.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Mosquito”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">55</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">54</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">52</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">47</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Blue Bell”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">33</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">54</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">31</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Prima Donna”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">54</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">33</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">38</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">31</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Gauntlet”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">18</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">44</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">59</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">30</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The “Mosquito,” is a very superior vessel, built +by Mr. Mare of <a name="page132"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +132</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>9.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Reindeer,” Young Company, 70 feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>8.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Royal Victoria,” Denny’s Company, 60 +feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>“Royal Sovereign,” Young Company, 60 feet, +drawn.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>7.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Bees’ Wing,” Star Company, 65 feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>4.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Queen Victoria,” Holkham Company, 64 ft.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>0.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Swiftsure,” Southwold, 49 feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Greyhound,” Lowestoft, 45 feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>X</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Royal Standard,” Standard Company, 51 +feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>6.</p> +</td> +<td><p>“Gratitude,” Star Company, 53 feet.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">1<span +class="smcap">st rnd.</span></p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">2<span +class="smcap">nd rnd.</span></p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">3<span +class="smcap">rd rnd.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Royal Victoria”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">42</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">44</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Queen Victoria”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">47</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">46</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">21</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Gratitude”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">33</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">37</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">54</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">49</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.:—</p> +<p>The four which came in first, arrived at the winning point at +the time affixed to their names, the others were not +timed:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Caroline,” Richard Sutton, 19½ +feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Four Sisters,” John Edmonds, 20 feet</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">27</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Defiance,” Robert Blake, 19 feet</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">32</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">48</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Who would have thought it,” Jas. Woods, 20 +feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +133</span>“Paragon,” William Lodge, 20 feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Anne,” Robert Drane, 18½ feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Viper,” Richard Harrod, 19 feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Blossom,” Mrs. Larn, 19 feet</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Robert and Maria,” Robert Garwood, 21 +feet</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Providence,” Henry Hellenburgh, 20 feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Elizabeth,” Georges Ives, 20½ +feet.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>“Guardian,” Young Company</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Star,” Star Company, did not start.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Fearnought,” Holkham Company</p> +</td> +<td><p>3</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Jenny Lind,” Lowestoft</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The first of these came in at 6h. 48m. 5s.</p> +<p>A dinner was provided at the Norfolk Hotel, at which several +gentlemen were present.</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The body was picked up on the following morning.</p> +<p>Mr. J. W. Shelly returned to the charge against Mr. Sewell, +and accused him of unduly influencing a voter named Carr.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page134"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 134</span>Aug. +5th.—Mr. Carr and Mr. Sewell repudiated Mr. Shelly’s +suggestions, and totally denied his statements to be correct.</p> +<p>The following is the report of the inquest held on the body of +Miss Sayers:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>A. J. Impey, M.D.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">173</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Dunn, M.D.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">74</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Spencer Smyth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">227</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. B. Dashwood</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">184</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Josh. Bayly</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">143</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>G. Dimock</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">28</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>and Dr. Impey and Messrs. Smyth, Dashwood and Bayly were +declared duly elected.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page135"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 135</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 9th.—The “Hudson” had been launched +from Mr. Barber’s yard, after extensive repairs.</p> +<p>Sept. 23rd.—The Rev. G. Hills had “read himself +in” at St. Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Captain Kisbee, R.N., was making experiments with a +“patent float.”</p> +<p>Sept. 30th.—The Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield were +staying at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page136"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +136</span>Richard Bell, Collector of customs, had died from an +attack of the gout.</p> +<p>Oct. 21st.—A meeting had been held, the Mayor in the +chair, for purpose of considering the question of the +establishment of Water Works.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<p><i>North Ward</i>.—Mr. W. H. Bessey and Mr. Henry Danby +Palmer re-elected, no opposition.</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>.—Mr. Sewell retired, and Mr. Lawn was +unseated.</p> +<p>The poll being—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>John E. Barnby, C</p> +</td> +<td><p>123</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Fenn, C</p> +</td> +<td><p>120 (sic)</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>James Lawn, L</p> +</td> +<td><p>120</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Christopher Steward, L</p> +</td> +<td><p>120</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i> (sic), (<i>a</i>) The Mayor (P. Pullyn, +Esq.) was re-elected with Mr. R. Ferrier, jun., a Tory, in the +place of Mr. Lettis (a Whig) resigned.</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>.—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>John Symonds, L</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">120</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A. J. Impey, L</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">114</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. H. Barnby, C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">105</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>H. Jay, C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">96</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><i>Gorleston Ward</i>.—Messrs. Wm. H. Palmer, (L), and +S. Miller (C), returned without opposition.</p> +<p>The result was a Conservative gain of 5 seats.</p> +<p>(<i>a</i>) 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. [<span class="smcap">Ed.</span> Y. M.]</p> +<p>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. <a name="page137"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 137</span>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th.—The case of Reg. <i>v.</i> 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.</p> +<p>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 <i>Marsh</i>.</p> +<p>A high tide had flowed up to the Victoria and Britannia +Terraces.</p> +<p>Dec. 2nd.—A dinner had been given to the Mayor at the +“Star” Tavern, at which Mr. W. N. Burroughs +presided.</p> +<p>The town had been thrown “into a complete ferment by the +report of the catastrophe at Stanfield Hall.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>John E. Lacon, Esq., had died, to the great grief of the +townsfolk.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1849.</h3> +<p>Jan. 13th.—The “Cosmopolite,” 312 tons +register, had been launched from Mr. Brandford’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 10th.—Mr. John Lomas Cufaude had been unanimously +elected Clerk of the Peace, in the place of Mr. J. Barth +resigned.</p> +<p>Feb. 17th.—Mr. Ferrier, upon wishing to leave the +Council found the door locked, and made a disturbance by kicking +it “with great violence.”</p> +<p><a name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 138</span>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.”</p> +<p>March 3rd.—Complaint was made as to the decay of the +South Quay trees.</p> +<p>March 10th.—A religious service had been held on board +the “Cosmopolite,” before her first voyage, she being +bound to Singapore.</p> +<p>The Mayor (P. Pullyn, Esq.) had entertained the Recorder, the +Bar, and several friends at a sumptuous dinner at the +“Star.”</p> +<p>March 30th.—Contains a full account of the trial of Rush +for the Stanfield Hall murders.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 21st.—One hundred and ten ladies and gentlemen had +attended the second Subscription Ball.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 19th.—The Mayor had given a dinner at the Star.</p> +<p>June 2nd.—The “Yarmouth Bridge Bill” had +passed the Committee stage, and it was confidently expected that +Breydon would now be deepened.</p> +<p>On Whit-Monday the Temperance Society had held a meeting at +the Masonic Hall, Mr. W. T. Fisher in the chair.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 139</span>A +petition in favour of a national poor’s rate was in course +of signature.</p> +<p>June 9th.—Col. Mason had presented a very handsome +carved lectern to St. Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Most of the lodging houses on or near the Victoria Terrace +were let. The Marchioness of Wellesley was staying in the +town.</p> +<p>June 16th.—The report of the British School showed that +there were then 200 scholars at that establishment.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Guildhall was in progress of demolition.</p> +<p>There had been a good catch of mackerel, one boat having +brought upwards of 6,000 fish.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Cynthia,” won the cup.</p> +<p>Upwards of 2,300 passengers were conveyed to Yarmouth by the +Railway to witness these sports.</p> +<p>The Mayor’s windows had been broken and a reward of +£10 offered.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 1st.—Lady Agnes Buller, Sir William and Lady +Wimper, and Mr. and Mrs. Wood had taken houses on Brandon +Terrace.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Great complaint had been made of persons smoking cigars on +Victoria Terrace to the annoyance of ladies.</p> +<p>Reports as to the appearance of cholera were prevalent in the +town.</p> +<p><a name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 140</span>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.</p> +<p>St. Peter’s Church had been lighted with gas and opened +for evening service.</p> +<p>Sept. 15th.—The Theatre had been closed after a +disastrous season, it was considered that Mr. Clarence had lost +£100 by this venture.</p> +<p>Mr. Cufaude and another gentleman amateur had appeared at the +Theatre, in <i>A new way to pay old Debts</i>, and had been +received with “rapturous applause.”</p> +<p>The Drainage question had been discussed at a meeting of the +inhabitants (the Mayor in the chair).</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd.—The transfer of the parsonage house from the +Corporation to the Vicar, had been virtually completed.</p> +<p>Oct. 13th.—The tide had flowed up to Britannia +Terrace.</p> +<p>A bed of oysters had been discovered between the Monument and +North Pier.</p> +<p>“Dogfish” had damaged the fishermen’s nets +and devoured a “large quantity of herring.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 141</span>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 17th.—A “Sanitary Inquiry” had been +held before Wm. Lee, Esq.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The inmates of the Workhouse had been regaled with a dinner of +plum pudding and roast beef, with a pint of strong beer each.</p> +<h3>1850.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The parsonage house had been purchased from the Corporation by +private subscription.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had delivered a lecture on +“Nineveh.”</p> +<p>The “Enterprise,” steamer, was being repaired by +Mr. A. R. Palmer, prior to her resuming her passage between this +port and Rotterdam.</p> +<p><a name="page142"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 142</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th.—An endeavour was being made to reduce the +wages paid to coalheavers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Henry Pickard (relieving officer) had been charged before +the Magistrates for the manslaughter of Sarah Auger (aged 20) and +acquitted.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 9th.—The “Sacramento” (400 tons) had +been launched from Mr. H. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Benjamin Button had been appointed one of the parish +surgeons in the place of Mr. William Burgess deceased.</p> +<p>The highest tender for the ballast dues had not been taken +owing to a mistake of the Deputy Town Clerk.</p> +<p>The conduct of the prisoners in the gaol had been of an +extremely disorderly character.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Five wherries had broken adrift at night and fouled the Haven +bridge but they had all been secured by the river watch.</p> +<p>March 30th.—There had been a heavy fall of snow and +intense cold, the thermometer standing at 23 deg.</p> +<p><a name="page143"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 143</span>Two +new oyster beds had been discovered in the roadstead, and oysters +vended at 1d. to 3d. per quarter.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>William Barth, Esq., had died in London.</p> +<p>Mr. Robert Waters’ mill at Southtown had been +burnt. It was insured for £1,600 in the Sun and +Norwich Union Fire Offices.</p> +<p>April 13th.—The death of Admiral Hills is recorded.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 20th.—A petition for the abolition of Church Rates +was being signed in the town.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dr. Smyth had delivered a lecture on “Respiration and +Atmospheric Air,” at the Y.M.I. The attendance was +small.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Poor’s box in the Parish Church had been broken +open, and the contents, believed to be a large amount, +stolen.</p> +<p>May 11th.—Mr. E. H. L. Preston had been appointed +Receiver of Admiralty Droits in the place of Mr. Samuel Palmer +deceased.</p> +<p>The following compensation had been awarded, with regard to +the properties taken for the approach to the new +bridge:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Puncher</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£1,757</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Teasdel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£418</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Messrs. Preston’s case was going to a Suffolk jury.</p> +<p><a name="page144"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 144</span>May +18th.—The “Bear Hotel,” was being demolished +for the new bridge approach.</p> +<p>The Jury impannelled in the case of Preston <i>v.</i> 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 1st.—The Queen <i>v.</i> 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.</p> +<p>The Southtown tolls had been let by auction to Mr. W. Matson +for £344 per annum. In 1820 these tolls had only +realised £248.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 15th.—It appeared from the Guardians accounts that +25 per cent. was allowed in their accounts “for waste in +the consumption of meat.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>William Johnson, Esq., of Southtown, had given an +entertainment on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter to +William Mart, Esq., of London.</p> +<p>July 27th.—A meeting had been held with regard to the +“Public Health Act.”</p> +<p><a name="page145"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 145</span>Aug. +3rd.—A Mrs. Baker (a visitor) had attempted to commit +suicide in one of Mr. Brown’s bathing machines.</p> +<p>Aug. 10th.—Youell’s nurseries were in full +bloom.</p> +<p>Mr. John Morton, of Caister, had taken the degree of a M.C.S. +Edin.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 24th.—Col. Peel, M.P., J. S. Dunkald, Esq., and Sir +E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., had acted as Stewards of the Races.</p> +<p>The Ferries had been let by William Walpole, Esq., by auction, +the upper ferry for £250, and the Gorleston ferry for +£175 per annum.</p> +<p>Aug. 31st.—Lady Bolton, a niece of Lord Nelson, had +visited Capt. Manby, who had been a schoolmate of his Lordship 79 +years previously.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 28th.—There was likely to be an appeal against +this supplemental poor’s rate.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 12th.—The season, in consequence of the high +position Lowestoft had taken as a watering place, had been far +from prosperous.</p> +<p>Sept. 26th.—The new Roman Catholic Church had been +licensed for marriages.</p> +<p><a name="page146"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 146</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A special Sessions had been held to hear upwards of 250 +appeals against the recently made Poor’s Rate.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The following was the polling:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Gorleston +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. H. L. Preston, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">185</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Hammond, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">170</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. Crowe, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">78</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>F. S. Costerton, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">64</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Jackson, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">108</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. N. Burroughs, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">105</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. Nightingale, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">90</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Cory, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">68</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. C. Marsh, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">105</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. D. Chapman, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">103</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>H. R. Harmer, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">94</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>F. Palmer, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">83</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page147"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 147</span><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. G. Plummer, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">130</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. C. Smith, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">116</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Barker, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">101</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>G. D. Palmer and T. Lettis, (unopposed).</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Aldred, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">129</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>F. Worship, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">123</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Owles, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">104</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Cobb, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">84</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The price of Gas had been reduced to 5s. per thousand cubic +feet.</p> +<p>H. Palmer, Esq., had notified his intention to resign the Town +Clerkship.</p> +<p>Mr. Cufaude, Mr. C. Cory, and Mr. J. Clowes, were spoken of as +probable candidates.</p> +<p>Mr. G. Johnson had been elected master of the Workhouse.</p> +<p>Nov. 23rd.—The crew of a Sheringham smack had been fined +£100 each, or six months’ imprisonment for smuggling +2,760 lbs. of tobacco.</p> +<p><a name="page148"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 148</span>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st.—W. Lee, Esq., had held an Inquiry as to the +drainage of the Denes.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p148b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative graphic" +title= +"Decorative graphic" +src="images/p148s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h2><a name="page149"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +149</span>THIRD SERIES, 1851–60.</h2> +<blockquote><p>“When found, make a note +of”—</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Capt. +Cuttle</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<h3>1851.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>J. Tolver, Esq. had sent in his resignation as Clerk to the +Paving Commissioners.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There was great complaint against these Commissioners for not +properly lighting the Denes.</p> +<p>Wm. Sumner, an ex-constable was bound over to keep the peace +at the instance of Samuel Tolver, Esq.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st.—The following notice appears as to No. 4, +South Quay:—</p> +<blockquote><p>A tradition has long existed in connection with +the Elizabethian House upon the Quay, formerly belonging to John +Carter, the regicide, <a name="page150"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 150</span>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page151"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 151</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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 <a name="page152"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 152</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>This issue contains the following report of the Sailors’ +Strike and Riot:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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 <a +name="page153"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 153</span>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 <a name="page154"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +154</span>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:—</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“Borough of Great Yarmouth, +22nd Feb., 1851.</p> +<p>“<span class="smcap">Notice</span>.—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.</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Charles +Pearson</span>, Mayor.”</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page155"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 155</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page156"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 156</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page157"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 157</span>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>On the succeeding Monday the several cases were dealt with +arising out of these proceedings.</p> +<p>Mr. I. Preston appeared to prosecute, Mr. C. Cooper +(instructed by Mr. F. S. Costerton) representing the +prisoners.</p> +<p>Robert Watson (for obstructing Captain Love, Surperintendent +of Police) fined 10s.</p> +<p>James King (for threatening E. H. L. Preston, Esq.,) fined +40s.</p> +<p>Samuel Bowles (like offence) fined £3.</p> +<p>John Crow (ditto) fined £1.</p> +<p>James Harvey, William Balls and William Stoddard (ditto) +discharged with a caution.</p> +<p>Samuel Gowing (ditto) fined £1.</p> +<p>Henry Walpole (charged by William Danby-Palmer, Esq., with a +like offence) fined £2.</p> +<p>James Vincent (for creating a disturbance) fined 10s.</p> +<p>George Walton (charged by Mr. S. S. Barber) for a +“rescue,” fined £5.</p> +<p>Alfred Pye (for assaulting Police-constable Lattimore) fined +£2.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>H.M. ships “Black Eagle” and +“Lightning” had entered the Harbour and laid on the +west side of the river.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page158"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 158</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was proposed to form a “Pilot” Steam Tug +Company (capital, £1,000 in £5 shares.)</p> +<p>George Danby-Palmer and J. Barker, Esqs., had been elected +Haven Commissioners, and D. A. Gourlay and R. Hammond, Esqs., +Supernumerary Haven Commissioners.</p> +<p>April 19th.—Mr. T. Brightwen was urging the appointment +of a Chaplain at the Workhouse.</p> +<p><a name="page159"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 159</span>The +Conservatives had secured, for the first time, several scats at +the Board of Guardians, the following forming the new +Board:—</p> +<p>Nominated by both parties—Messrs. B. Fenn, S. C. Marsh, +and S. V. Moore.</p> +<p>Liberals—Messrs. G. Danby-Palmer, D. A Gourlay, and T. +Brightwen.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Captain Ellis, R.N., had exhibited the model of a fast sailing +yacht.</p> +<p>Captain James Day had been fined £5 for assaulting Mr. +Nolloth, tailor.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Upon a division the amendment was lost by 15 to 23, and the +original motion declared to be carried by 23 to 17 votes.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The sailors had held a meeting to consider the +“Ticket” system and the “Muster Roll” +fund.</p> +<p>May 17th.—In consequence of the removal of the window +tax, bricklayers were busy throughout the town opening out +windows formerly blocked up.</p> +<p>Mr. Cosgrove’s saxhorn band was to perform on the North +and South Terraces during the season.</p> +<p><a name="page160"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 160</span>The +census head been taken with the following result:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Houses inhabited.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Uninhabited.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Total.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Building.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5,984</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">344</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6,328</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">78</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Families.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Males.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Females.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Total.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6,154</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11,544</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">15,014</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26,558</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Increase of population per cent., 10.3. This included +347 inmates of the Workhouse.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At this time Gorleston had a population of 2,586, and +Southtown of 1,412 persons.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 31st.—Visitors were beginning to arrive.</p> +<p>June 7th.—A project was on foot for laying out the +Chapel Denes as an ornamental walk for the public.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>James Gedge, a pauper lunatic, had escaped from the Workhouse, +having only a shirt on.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page161"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 161</span>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.</p> +<p>July 26th.—The Bill nevertheless passed through +Committee by a majority of 92 against 12.</p> +<p>Sir J. Walmsley had opposed and Lord Seymour supported the +measure, but eventually it passed the House of Commons without a +division.</p> +<p>The paupers were much dissatisfied at not being allowed, as +formerly, to attend places of Worship in the town on Sundays.</p> +<p>Mr. C. Houchen had delivered an address on this subject, and +denounced the action of the Guardians.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Captain Smyth, R.N., had been raised to the rank of +Post-Captain.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The East Norfolk and Suffolk Horticultural Show had been held +under the patronage of the Mayoress, Lady Lacon, and Mr. S. C. J. +Palmer.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Beeching’s newly-built lifeboat had been submitted +to several tests opposite the Crane.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page162"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 162</span>Teasdel, +Great Yarmouth; Harvey and Son, Ipswich, and George Farrow, South +Shields.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. G. Blyth (Reporter to the <i>Norfolk News</i>) 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.</p> +<p>Sept. 13th.—The Justices had refused to grant any fresh +licenses at the Brewster Sessions.</p> +<p>The “Reindeer” yawl (manned by Beachmen) had +challenged the “America” yacht to sail for +£105.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Two of the vessels belonging to the Franklin Exploration +Expedition were in the Roads.</p> +<p>Oct. 11th.—Harris Wilshak had been charged with being +concerned in smuggling 14lbs. of tobacco.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th.—Mr. J. W. Crowe had been elected Surgeon to +the Hospital School.</p> +<p>The new Valuation Lists had increased the assessment of the +parish by £47,000.</p> +<p>Active preparations were being made for the Municipal +contests.</p> +<p><a name="page163"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 163</span>Mr. +Wilshak had been acquitted on the charge of smuggling.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th.—The Priory was being fitted for National +Schools.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1851—219 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Nightingale, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">108</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. H. Bessey, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">103</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Mainprice, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">97</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. D. Palmer, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">95</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1850—208 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Jackson, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">108</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Burroughs, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">105</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Nightingale, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">90</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Cory, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">68</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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!</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1851—270 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. E. Barnby, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">148</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Fenn, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">132</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. John Cobb, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">120</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1850—261 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. C. Aldred, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">129</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. F. Worship, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">123</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Owles, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">104</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. S. Cobb, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">84</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page164"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 164</span>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1851—244 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sir E. H. K. Lacon, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">115</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Cherry, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">114</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. F. Palmer, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">101</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Clowes, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">90</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1850—234 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Chapman, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">104</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Marsh, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">104</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Harmer, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">93</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. F. Palmer, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">84</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1851—256 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. R. Ferrier, jun., C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Jay, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. P. Pullyn, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">76</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. W. Shelly, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">66</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1850—250 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Plummer, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">130</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. C. Smith, C.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">116</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Barker, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">101</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page165"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 165</span>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1851—341 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Dr. Impey, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">132</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. V. Moore, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">132</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1850—317 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. G. D. Palmer, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Lettis, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">119</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Gorleston +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1851—344 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Miller, C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">136</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. H. Palmer, C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">135</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. H. Harrison, L</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">76</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. N. Sterry, L.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">74</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">1850—337 +Voters.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. E. H. L. Preston, C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">185</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Hammond, C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">169</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Crow, L</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">78</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Costerton, L</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">64</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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 <a +name="page166"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 166</span>upwards of +100 for Messrs. Miller and Palmer, and only about two votes for +each of their opponents! This, however, was only a <i>ruse +de guerre</i>, 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>Mr. Worlledge had moved the Court of Queen’s Bench for a +“<i>quo warranto</i>” to try the legality of Mr. +Hammond’s election as a Councillor for the St. +Andrew’s Ward, and the rule had been granted.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dr. Wolff (the traveller) had offered to give some lectures in +the town in aid of the National Priory Schools.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page167"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +167</span>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 22nd.—A dinner had been given to the Mayor at the +Star-hotel, when 45 members of the Council and others +attended.</p> +<p>A Poor’s Rate of 1s. 2d. in the £ had been +made. Great dissatisfaction existed as to the new +assessment of the parish.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A meeting had been held with regard to the new assessment, Mr. +J. H. Harrison in the chair.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Enterprise,” 600 tons, had been launched from +Mr. Branford’s Yard; she was christened by Miss Barber and +Miss Holt.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p><a name="page168"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 168</span>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 27th—The Overseers had applied for, and obtained a +fresh rate of 1s. 2d. in the £.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1852.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd.—The new Railway Bridge had been opened.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>William Rising, Esq., of Somerton Hall, had entertained a +large party of sporting friends at the Angel Hotel.</p> +<p>A portion of the Gorleston Cliff had fallen away, carrying +with it the Misses Barber, who were subsequently dug out of the +sand below.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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,</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page169"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 169</span>Mr. +Worlledge had again appeared before the Queen’s Bench in +the case of “The Queen <i>v.</i> Hammond,” and the +Court had granted the rule.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 14th.—Mr. Harrison had presided at another meeting +of ratepayers who were dissatisfied with the action of the +Justices as to the assessment.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th.—“The Queen Charlotte” and +“Mad Bess” steam-packets were advertised as going to +run between this port and Rotterdam.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Henry Austin, Esq., (Secretary to the General Board of +Health), had visited and inspected the town.</p> +<p>March 13th.—Mr. Beeching continued to receive numerous +orders for his improved lifeboats.</p> +<p>The Mormons had engaged the School of Industry as a +“Church.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page170"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 170</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. George Barrett had been elected Master of the Blue Coat +Charity School in the place of the late Mr. Gershom Davie.</p> +<p>Captain Ellis, R.N., and the Coastguard had seized 162 bales +of tobacco on board the collier “Martha.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The meeting was a crowded one, and the candidates appear to +have been heartily received.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Rev. Partridge, A.M., had been recommended by the +Committee to the proprietors for the post of Head Master at the +Grammar School.</p> +<p>The Priory Schools had been commenced.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. W. Green, W. Wright, S. Lessey, and J. Borking had +been re-elected Overseers.</p> +<p>Captain John Pike (one of the Aldermen) had died.</p> +<p><a name="page171"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 171</span>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.</p> +<p>The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had been appointed Chaplain to the +Military Asylum, vice the Rev. C. Davie, M.A., resigned.</p> +<p>The following Guardians had been elected:—</p> +<p><i>St. Nicholas’ Ward</i>.—Messrs. Thomas +Brightwen, E. H. L. Preston, and S. Nightingale.</p> +<p><i>Regent</i>.—Messrs. W. Worship, S. C. Marsh, and D. +A. Gourlay.</p> +<p><i>St. George’s</i>.—Messrs. B. Fenn, R. Ferrier, +and P. Coble.</p> +<p><i>Market</i>.—There was a contest here as +under:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>E. R. Aldred</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">248</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Laws</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">238</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Edward Harvey</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">161</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Edward B. Jay</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The first three were elected.</p> +<p>In the <i>Nelson Ward</i> the return was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>George Danby-Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">327</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Charles Woolverton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">286</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. V. Moore</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">276</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Yetts</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">176</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. H. Harrison</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">147</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The first four were therefore elected.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page172"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 172</span>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.”</p> +<p>The election of an Alderman was then proceeded with, when the +voting—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Mr. Yetts</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">23</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Mr. Pullyn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">23</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And the Mayor gave his casting vote in favour of Mr. +Pullyn.</p> +<p>Mr. Palmer had obtained a rule in the Queen’s Bench for +a new trial in the case of Bradstreet <i>v</i> Hammond.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The agents of the Custom House had taken into custody the +landlord of the “Honest Lawyer.”</p> +<p>May 8th.—The coffer-dam at the new Bridge works had +“blown up;” on the following day the old Bridge had +been on fire.</p> +<p>The Cricket Club had been re-established.</p> +<p>The Freemen’s Petition had received 972 signatures.</p> +<p>A tradesman in the town had given a dinner to four old people, +whose united ages amounted to 368 years.</p> +<p>May 15th.—It was stated that the Rev. — Smith had +left £14,000 to endow two scholarships at Caius College for +natives of Yarmouth.</p> +<p>The Poor’s Rate was to be 1s. 2d. in the £, the +sum of £2,521 being required for that purpose by the +Guardians.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page173"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 173</span>At a +mooting of the Sailors’ Association, Mr. J. D. Chapman had +been presented with a silver medal.</p> +<p>The Directors of the Victoria Building Company had dined +together at the Victoria Hotel, (B. Dowson, Esq., in the +chair.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. Rumbold, it was supposed, would retire, his case being +considered (by the “Blues”) hopeless.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Associated Democrats” had held a meeting at +the Masonic Hall, when Messrs. J. T. Blow and Royal took part in +the proceedings.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Trustees of the Southtown Turnpike had obtained power to +light that road with gas.</p> +<p>Gas in Yarmouth had been reduced from 5s. 6d. to 5s. per 1,000 +feet.</p> +<p>The British School had been inspected by Mr. Fletcher, who +considered that its state reflected the “greatest +credit” upon Mr. Daniel Tomkins.</p> +<p>At the Sessions, Messrs. C. C. Aldred, B. Fenn, R. Steward and +J. G. Plummer were qualified as Magistrates.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page174"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 174</span>prevailed on this occasion, and Mr. +Chapman presented each of the candidates with a rosette and some +appropriate lines from the ladies of Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">McCullagh.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Napier.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Lacon.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Rumbold.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>8.30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">66</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">63</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">46</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">43</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>9</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">118</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">116</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">102</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">101</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>9.30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">189</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">185</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">199</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">196</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">239</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">233</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">239</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">234</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">268</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">264</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">278</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">269</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>11.30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">344</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">342</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">373</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">352</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">386</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">384</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">430</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">400</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>12.15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">410</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">407</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">467</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">423</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">435</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">430</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">493</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">455</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">460</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">448</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">519</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">472</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>2.15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">470</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">455</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">521</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">473</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>At this point (the Editor says) practices which may be +imagined, <i>and which will hereafter be described</i>, decided +the poll, and in a quarter of an <a name="page175"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 175</span>hour the numbers stood—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">McCullagh.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Napier.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Lacon.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Rumbold.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">483</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">463</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">542</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">492</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">499</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">476</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">572</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">515</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">McCullagh.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Napier.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Lacon.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Rumbold.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3.30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">516</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">484</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">601</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">541</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">521</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">486</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">611</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">547</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>After the close of the poll Mr. McCullagh again addressed the +electors, and a fracas ensued, during which two or three persons +were injured.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was stated that the boy who was injured during the election +at Mr. Feltham’s was progressing favourably.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 24th.—The town was very full of visitors, and the +price of provisions much enhanced thereby.</p> +<p>July 31st.—The Mayor had not attended the Water +Frolic.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A curious mural painting had been discovered in St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p><a name="page176"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 176</span>Mr. +Craske had recovered 30s. from George Thurtell, Esq., for damages +to his coat on the Election day.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">£</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">d.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">£</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Brown, damages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> costs</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Gooderich, damages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> costs</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Magistrates’ Clerk’s fees</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£29</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 28th.—Commander Henry J. Lacon had been appointed +to the “Daring,” 12, brig.</p> +<p>W. T. McCullagh, Esq., had been staying with the Mayor, and +had visited Grout’s factory.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 11th.—Messrs. Harrison had launched the +“Water Witch,” 37, smack, from their yard.</p> +<p>The Bridge works had been stopped owing to +“quicksands.”</p> +<p>Sept. 18th.—The Paper appears in mourning for the Duke +of Wellington.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page177"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 177</span>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 2nd.—The “Lady Haven Estate” in +Southtown had been sold for £7,000.</p> +<p>At the Nelson-ward Election, the opposition to Mr. +Clarke’s return was only a nominal one, the numbers +being—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Clarke (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">122</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Owles (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The numbers in the Council were thus balanced 24 to 24.</p> +<p>Oct. 9th.—Records the death of Admiral Fisher.</p> +<p>An appeal was made for the restoration of the Nelson +Column.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was proposed to erect a monument to the memory of the late +Dr. Impey.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Bishop of Norwich had confirmed 136 candidates.</p> +<p>Oct. 30th.—A man named Horth had been committed for +trial on the charge of attempting to murder Mrs. Proudfoot.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dr. Dunne had been elected Physician to the Hospital (vice +Impey deceased).</p> +<p>Nov. 6th.—Mr. J. S. Cobb had lectured on the +“Objects and Uses of Botany.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MUNICIPAL +ELECTION.</span></p> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>.—Barber (C) and Fish (L).</p> +<p><i>St. George’s Ward</i>.—Ferrier and B. Jay +(C).</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>.—W. Yetts and C. J. Palmer (C).</p> +<p><i>Gorleston</i>.—R. Steward (C) and W. T. Clarke +(L.)</p> +<p>The returns for the <i>North</i> and <i>Market Wards</i> could +not be given.</p> +<p><a name="page178"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 178</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Norfolk,” 300 tons, had been launched from +Mr. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The funeral of the Duke of Wellington had been observed as a +general day of mourning.</p> +<p>A fire had nearly been occasioned by an accident in the +Town-hall kitchen during the Mayor’s Dinner.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. O’Brien had been retained by +Mr. F. S. Costerton in the matter of the Election petition.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page179"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 179</span>in the town. Mr. W. Worship +strongly deprecated this proceeding.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The petition had been defeated, as the Examiner had reported +“the sureties to the petition to be informal and +invalid.”</p> +<p>The Tories had sent the bellman round the town to announce +this fact.</p> +<p>Captain Fisher, R.N., had been appointed to the command of the +“Magician,” 16 gun steam frigate, 400 +horse-power.</p> +<p>It was proposed to start a “Conservative Land +Society” at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 25th.—A “wholesale robbery” of fish had +taken place at Mr. Charles Cannell’s office.</p> +<p>The Government had been defeated upon the Budget, Sir E. H. K. +Lacon voting with, and Mr. C. E. Rumbold against, them.</p> +<h3>1853.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page180"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 180</span>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.</p> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Mr. William Hammond</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">132</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Henry Danby-Palmer, Esq.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">88</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">44</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The Tories gave “their usual breakfast. Many of +the electors on both sides did not poll.”</p> +<p>The Rev. Bowyer Vaux had presided at the Annual Public Library +Meeting.</p> +<p>Jan. 22nd.—At the “Great Metropolitan Poultry +Show,” E. H. L. Preston, Esq., Mr. E. Hughes and Mr. Henry +Turrell had won prizes.</p> +<p>One hundred and thirty persons had attended the first +Subscription Ball at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Jan. 29th.—Considerable progress was being made with the +new Bridge works.</p> +<p>Bro. Oswald Diver had been installed Master of Lodge +Friendship at the Duke’s Head.</p> +<p>Feb. 5th.—The return of paupers showed—In-door, +331: out-door, 1,289; cost of out-relief, £83 15s. +11¾d. for the week.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th.—The Wellington Pier Bill was reported as +having complied with standing orders.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Chamberlin (Coroner) required the Council to seal his +appointment: this had been neglected in 1848 when he was +appointed to that office.</p> +<p>Feb. 26th.—The Yarmouth Water Works Bill had been read a +second time in the House of Commons.</p> +<p><a name="page181"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 181</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 2nd.—At the Vestry Meeting, Messrs. Steward and +Aldred had been re-elected Churchwardens, and a Church rate of +1½d. in the £ voted.</p> +<p>The retiring Guardians had been re-elected.</p> +<p>Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., had visited the town and called on +several of his more active supporters at the recent contest.</p> +<p>April 9th.—Messrs. Borking, Green, Wright, and Bradbeer +had been elected Overseers.</p> +<p>The Wellington Pier and Water Works Bills had passed the +Commons.</p> +<p>The East Norfolk Militia were to meet for training on April +19th.</p> +<p>April 16th.—The Town Council had proceeded to elect a +Surveyor, when the voting was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Mr. Laing</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Mr. Parker</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And Mr. Laing was consequently appointed to that post.</p> +<p>April 23rd.—The East Norfolk Militia had assembled and +paraded in the Lunatic Asylum yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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. <a name="page182"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +182</span>Captain and Miss Money, Colonel Mason and officers of +the East Norfolk Militia, Captain Adsbrighton and the officers of +the 4th Light Dragoons, &c.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>G. W. Haggard, Esq., had delivered a lecture on “The +Militia.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 21st.—The East Norfolk Militia had been +disbanded.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Reform Association of Great Yarmouth had been addressed by +Mr. McCullagh in a speech of two hours’ duration.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 11th.—Sir C. Napier, K.C.B., had been appointed +Vice-Admiral of the Blue.</p> +<p>June 26th.—The driving of the first pile of the +Wellington-pier was advertised to take place on the 28th +inst.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 9th.—At the Regatta the “Phantom,” +“Thought,” and “Maude,” yachts, contended +for the prize, which was won by the former.</p> +<p>July 30th.—At the Water Frolic the “Shannon” +(lateen), Brighten, Beccles, won the first, and the +“Oberon” (cutter), Morton, Aylsham, the second +prize.</p> +<p><a name="page183"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 183</span>The +Monument was still in a dilapidated state.</p> +<p>Aug. 6th—The Baptist Chapel in Row 15 had been re-opened +after extensive repairs.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sep. 3rd.—John Mortlock Lacon, Esq., had died suddenly; +he was in his 68th year.</p> +<p>At the general Licensing day it was moved by James Cherry, +Esq., and seconded by R. Steward, Esq., “That no fresh +licenses be granted.”</p> +<p>Mr. Clinker Newson had appealed against the poor rate on the +novel ground that he was rated at too low an amount.</p> +<p>Sep. 10th.—The “Clarissa” barque, of 335 +tons register, had been launched from Mr. Chapman’s +yard.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st.—Mr. Peter Coble had died suddenly from disease +of the heart before his medical adviser, Mr. C. C. Aldred, could +attend him.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At the Municipal Election in the <i>North Ward</i>, Messrs. +Burroughs (L) and Jackson (L) were re-elected without +opposition.</p> +<p>In the <i>Market Ward</i> the polling was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>F. Worship (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">125</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. R. Aldred (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">118</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Owles (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">92</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Cobb (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">68</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>In the <i>Regent Ward</i>, S. C. Marsh (C) and J. D. Chapman +(L) and in the <i>St. George’s Ward</i> J. G. Plummer (C) +and J. C. Smith (C) were not opposed.</p> +<p>In the <i>Nelson Ward</i> 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 <i>St. Andrew’s Ward</i> +the polling was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>H. Teasdel (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">139</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. H. L. Preston (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">134</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. Crowe (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">41</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Sterry (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page184"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 184</span>The +Conservatives, on the whole, had increased their majority by +one.</p> +<p>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.”—<i>Morning Chronicle</i>.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Bunn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">21</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, T. Foreman</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">21</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, W. C. Reynolds</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">27</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, J. G. Rivett</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ G. S. Shingles</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, E. P. Youell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, R. Hammond, junr.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Boulter</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, J. Brown</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, E. R. Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Sir E. Tavers</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, H. Worship</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, S. Paget</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Nov. 26th.—Court “Buck of the Forest,” +A.O.F., had been opened at the Buck Inn.</p> +<p>One hundred and nineteen persons had been confirmed by Bishop +Spencer at St. Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Dec. 3rd.—It was proposed to establish a School of +Design in the town.</p> +<p>Captain Manby had attained his 88th year.</p> +<p>Dec. 24th.—A parochial Museum was being formed at the +Priory.</p> +<p><a name="page185"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 185</span>The +Local Board District Rate was signed at 1s. 4½d. in the +£.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st.—Mr. C. J. Palmer had presided at the annual +dinner of the subscribers of the Public Library.</p> +<h3>1854.</h3> +<p>Jan. 7th.—Several houses had been damaged by a +“fearful” storm.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 21st.—At a meeting of the Town Council it had been +determined to oppose the “Waveney Valley Drainage +Bill.”</p> +<p>Captain Broadhead, R.N., was engaged at this port raising a +corps of Sea Fencibles.</p> +<p>Jan. 28th.—The first Subscription Ball had been held, +for which Cosgrove’s Band was engaged, and dancing kept up +until four o’clock.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 28th.—N.B. This is the first issue of the +<i>Norwich Mercury</i> as a bi-weekly newspaper.</p> +<p>The following improvements were noted:—The now Haven +Bridge and also the Wellington Pier were nearly completed.</p> +<p>The Water Works were being formed.</p> +<p>The Southtown Gas Works would soon be opened.</p> +<p>The new Bank of Messrs. Gurney and Co., was in the course of +erection.</p> +<p>Many new streets were being formed on the North, East, and +South Denes.</p> +<p>The Marine Drive was projected.</p> +<p><a name="page186"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 186</span>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.</p> +<p>On the other hand the state of the Chapel Denes had, however, +long been “a disgrace to the town.”</p> +<p>There had been an “immense fleet” of vessels in +the Roads.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st.—There had been snow-drifts 5 feet deep on the +line between Yarmouth and Reedham.</p> +<p>Feb. 8th.—Mr. Burroughs had, at the Council meeting, +denounced certain gentlemen as “traitors to the town” +and “tools of Mr. Peto.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 22nd.—A Tradesmen’s Ball had been held in the +Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There had been another high tide, the Quay being in several +places inundated; the surf rolling over the old Jetty.</p> +<p>March 1st.—Owing to the sitting of the County Court, the +Council had met in the Grand Jury Room at the Tolhouse.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>March 8th.—A Tender has arrived to take off the +Coastguardsmen and Naval Volunteers.</p> +<p>Rear-Admiral Plumridge had been summoned to London for the +purpose of hoisting his flag in the Baltic Fleet under Sir +Charles Napier.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page187"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +187</span>March. 11th.—The Baltic Fleet was expected to +pass Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 25th.—A memorial brass had been placed in St. +Nicholas’ Church to the memory of the late Dr. A. +Impey.</p> +<p>A meeting in favour of “Sabbath Observance” had +been held.</p> +<p>March 20th.—Contains the Royal proclamation of the war +with Russia.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The following had been result of the Guardians’ +Election:—</p> +<p><i>St. Nicholas’ Ward</i>.—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.</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>.—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.</p> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>.—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; <a name="page188"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 188</span>Frederick Palmer, surgeon, 102; +William Livingstone, draper, &c., 68: John A. Norman, jun., +cottage owner, 66.</p> +<p><i>St. George’s Ward</i>.—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.</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>.—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.</p> +<p>April 19th.—Proceedings were threatened with regard to +the Election of Guardians by the Liberals.</p> +<p>April 22nd.—Both Churchwardens had been re-elected by +the Vestry, and a Church rate of 1½d. in the £ +voted.</p> +<p>April 26th.—Notice of “the Closing of the +Churchyards” had been issued.</p> +<p>Eleanor Warren had died in the old prison Row, aged nearly 103 +years.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The following law report appears in this issue:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Before the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. +Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. +Justice Crompton.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Regina</i> v +<i>Eagleton</i>.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page189"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 189</span>Mr. +Bodkin and Mr. Mills appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Bulwer +for the prosecution.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>May 10th.—The Rev. R. J. Palmer, M.A., had lectured on +“Mount Sinai and Arabia Petrœa.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Lord Hastings entertained several noblemen and gentlemen at +dinner at the Royal Hotel.</p> +<p>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 <i>recherche</i> 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Seven thousand pounds had been expended on the Wellington Pier +works, where the Norfolk Artillery Band occasionally +performed.</p> +<p>May 24th.—The North Denes had been selected for rifle +practice.</p> +<p>The Mayor (J. Cherry, Esq.,) had given a ball to 200 guests at +the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The “Contest” schooner, of 150 tons, had been +launched from Messrs. Beeching’s yard.</p> +<p><a name="page190"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 190</span>May +31st.—Sir James Plumridge had been promoted to be +Rear-Admiral of the White.</p> +<p>The Military Lunatic Asylum was to be converted into an +Hospital for wounded seamen from the Baltic Fleet.</p> +<p>No. 3, Brighton Terrace, and No. 2, Queen’s Road had +been struck by lightning.</p> +<p>June 3rd.—The “Otter,” war steamer, had put +into the Roads.</p> +<p>The “Carolina,” Russian brig, had arrived in this +port for condemnation.</p> +<p>June 14th.—H.M.S. “Zeyphr” had been in the +Roads.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 17th.—Two vessels with wounded seamen were expected +for the Hospital.</p> +<p>A small steamboat, the property of J. Penrice, Esq., had +exploded near the Bridge.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The premises occupied by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston +Institute had been purchased by C. J. Palmer, Esq., for +£1,780.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A meeting to promote the “Roads Regatta” had been +held.</p> +<p>July 8th.—The month of June had been intensely cold on +the East coast.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Four thousand persons had arrived in one day by excursion +trains from Norwich, Ipswich and Lynn.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Lord Sondes had been appointed Lord High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p><a name="page191"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 191</span>Aug. +2nd.—Many visitors were arriving, chiefly from Cambridge +and the Isle of Ely.</p> +<p>A Poor’s rate of 1s. 6d. in the £ had been +signed.</p> +<p>Aug. 5th.—At the Roads Regatta the following yachts +entered:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Name.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Tons.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Owner.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Phantom</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">25</p> +</td> +<td><p>S. Lane, Esq.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thought</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">28</p> +</td> +<td><p>C. Coope, Esq.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sheldrake</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">17</p> +</td> +<td><p>Capt. Love.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The Sheldrake gave up and the others were timed as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">1st round.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">2nd round.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">3rd round.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thought</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">56</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">48</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">41</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Phantom</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">58</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">50</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">48</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>In the yawl match the “Queen Victoria” beat the +“Eclipse,” “Royal Victoria” and +“Cambridge Lass.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Steamers continued to pass through the Roads on their way to +the Baltic.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>Aug. 12th.—Sir John Walsham had held an Inquiry as to +the Election of Guardians and “impounded” several +voting papers.</p> +<p>The screw frigate “Horatio” had been in the Roads +and visited by numbers of persons.</p> +<p>It was rumoured that some 40 vessels, known as “Barking +Smacks” were likely to be added to the local fishing +fleet.</p> +<p>The Centenary of the Baptist Church, Church Plain, had been +celebrated.</p> +<p>Messrs. Charles Gill and William Sidney had become lessees of +the Theatre.</p> +<p>Aug. 19th.—The “Amateur,” latteen (F. +Brown), Norwich, won the prize at the Water Frolic.</p> +<p>Aug. 26th.—Seven thousand excursionists had been brought +by train from Norwich and other places to the Races.</p> +<p><a name="page192"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +192</span>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 30th.—“Lodgings was scarcely to be +obtained” in the town.</p> +<p>There was a band of thieves about who had extracted “the +contents of many pockets.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sep. 2nd.—A meeting had been held (the Rev. G. Hills +presiding) to consider the further restoration of St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Thirty boats were gone to the Scotch fisheries, and herring +was selling at from £8 to £14 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sep. 6th.—The gas lamps at Gorleston and Southtown had +been lighted for the first time.</p> +<p>No minister had attended at St. Mary’s, Southtown, to +conduct the Sunday morning service.</p> +<p>Sep. 9th.—The Justices had again refused to grant any +fresh licenses.</p> +<p>Sep. 18th.—The “Ada,” a barque of 435 tons, +had been launched from Mr. Thomas Barber’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sep. 23rd.—The French frigate “Expeditive,” +20 guns, was anchored in the Roads, and a dead body had been +landed from her for interment.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page193"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 193</span>After +the 1st of October the drapers had determined to close their +shops at seven o’clock.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Thanksgivings had been offered in all places of worship for +the abundant harvest.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>An “impudent thief” had picked a woman’s +pocket, while she was in the Police-court.</p> +<p><a name="page194"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 194</span>Oct. +21st.—The New Bridge had been completed, and formally +opened to the public, at a cost of little less than +£60,000.</p> +<p>H.M. yacht “Fairy” had arrived in the Harbour.</p> +<p>Ladies were collecting linen rags for the wounded soldiers in +the East.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Gælan,” a French man-of-war, had +entered the Harbour for the purpose of coaling.</p> +<p>One hundred and thirteen young persons had been confirmed at +St. Nicholas’ Church by the Bishop of Norwich.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th.—At the Municipal Election “it was +rumoured that no small amount of ready cash had been sent into +circulation.”</p> +<p>The result of the polling was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Jay (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">137</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. R. Ferrier, junr. (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">139</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Captain Pearson R.N. (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Jas. Scott (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart. (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">128</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Cherry (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. John Clowes (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">88</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Henry Danby-Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">87</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Fenn (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">186</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. E. Barnby (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">184</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Cobb (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">133</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. D. R. Fowler (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">123</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page195"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 195</span><i>St. +Nicholas’ Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Nightingale (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">203</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. H. Bessey (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">187</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. R. Hammond (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">187</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Boulter (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">173</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And the Alderman gave his casting vote in favour of Mr. +Bessey.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Clark (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">184</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. V. Moore (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">182</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. H. Harrison (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">122</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Gorleston +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. William H. Palmer (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">131</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Hammond (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">118</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. G. Blake (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Sterry (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">46</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Messrs. Henry Palmer, C. J. Palmer, C. H. Chamberlin, William +T. Clarke, E. R. Palmer, and F. W. Ferrier had been appointed +Admiralty Commissioners.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th.—The question of the formation of a +“Burial Board” was being discussed.</p> +<p>The Naval Hospital was being prepared for 350 sick and wounded +from the Black Sea fleet.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th.—The Mayor (C. J. Palmer, Esq.), had issued +cards for an entertainment at the Town Hall on the 30th inst.</p> +<p>Mr. J. L. Porter had been appointed manager of the National +Provincial Bank at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>The Police had contributed one day’s pay to the +Patriotic Fund.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 22nd.—Messrs. Gurney & Co’s. new Bank had +been opened.</p> +<p>A poll had been taken on the question of the formation of a +“Burial Board,” when the voting on the first day +was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For the Board</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">312</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Against it</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">311</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page196"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 196</span>A +meeting of Ratepayers was subsequently held and the scheme +denounced by several speakers.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th.—The Town Council had re-appointed the Rev. G. +Hills, gaol chaplain “with only two +dissentients.”</p> +<p>Nearly £1,000 had been raised for the Patriotic +Fund.</p> +<p>The polling for the Burial Board had closed as +under—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">468</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Against</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">544</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">76</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The “Sir William Jolliffe” had been placed on the +station in the place of the “Tourist.”</p> +<p>Dec. 13th.—Messrs. Dumbleton, Bradbeer, Palmer, and Bunn +had complained to the Bench of the obstructions on the Quay.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd.—The Council had “suspended” the +sexton for alleged misconduct.</p> +<p>The grocers and drapers had determined to close their shops on +the day following Christmas Day.</p> +<p>“The Skimmer of the Sea,” a barque of 320 tons, +had been launched from Mr. Branford’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>T. Brightwen, Esq., had qualified as a Magistrate.</p> +<p>Several large packages of warm clothing had been forwarded by +the ladies of the town for the use of the soldiers in the +Crimea.</p> +<p>C. J. Palmer, Esq., had entertained the inmates of the +Gaol.</p> +<p>Pickpockets were again in town, and John Webb had been robbed +by them of £4 15s.</p> +<p>Mr. Smyth had been appointed Surgeon to the Gaol in the place +of Mr. H. Worship deceased.</p> +<h3>1855.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page197"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 197</span>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.</p> +<p>It was considered too cold to drill the Militia on the +South-denes.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th.—The following quantity of fish had been +forwarded from Yarmouth during the preceding year:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Packages.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Tons.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Cwt.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>From Jan. to Sep.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">282,441</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10,591</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Oct. to Dec.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">250,981</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9,411</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">533,422</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20,003</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>During the week 20 men of the East Norfolk Militia had +volunteered for the line.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th.—The Norfolk Artillery Militia had received an +order to be permanently embodied from the 23rd inst.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Winter had set in “with all the vigour and severity +peculiar to this portion of the Eastern Coast.”</p> +<p>Jan. 24th.—The weather continued intensely cold, and the +navigation of the rivers were stopped by the accumulation of +ice.</p> +<p>The District Visiting Society was doing great work in the way +of alleviating distress.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Bro. William Lucia had been elected W.M. of Lodge +“Friendship,” in succession to Bro. Oswald Diver.</p> +<p><a name="page198"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 198</span>Feb. +14th.—The business of the Port had been much affected by +the rigour of the weather.</p> +<p>Feb. 17th.—Thirty-four men had volunteered from the +Norfolk Militia Artillery for the Royal Artillery.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The town was infested by a gang of thieves.</p> +<p>Four deserters from the Royal Navy had been captured in the +town.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th.—A thaw had commenced, and it was hoped that +the River traffic would soon be able to be resumed.</p> +<p>Mr. Gyngell had superintended a grand display of fireworks on +the Star Quay, which was witnessed by about 7,000 or 8,000 +persons.</p> +<p>March 3rd.—A ship of war was likely to be stationed in +the Roads to protect the shipping there.</p> +<p>The first of the frozen-in wherries had been liberated at +Reedham, and the Steam Packet communication had been resumed with +London.</p> +<p><a name="page199"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 199</span>March +10th.—The Norfolk Militia Artillery had been removed to +London <i>en route</i> for Eastbourne; when 170 men and the +following officers, Captain Penrice, Adjutant Gilbertson, +Lieutenants Tredcroft, North, and Micklewaite, left the town.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 17th.—Lectures had been delivered by the Rev. R. +Cory on “Jerusalem,” and by Mr Craft (a man of +colour) upon “American Slavery.”</p> +<p>Bro. Robert Harmer had presided at the annual dinner of the +“Druids, Trinity Lodge, 220.”</p> +<p>March 21st.—Several complaints had been made of +unprovoked assaults by members of the East Norfolk Militia upon +respectable inhabitants of the town.</p> +<p>March 24th.—At the Quarter Sessions, the Grand Jury +presented the foul state of the Court House at the Tolhouse.</p> +<p>The national Fast Day had been strictly observed.</p> +<p>Robberies continued to be very frequently committed in the +town.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 14th.—A militiaman had been buried with military +honours.</p> +<p>Messrs. Aldred and Steward had been re-elected Churchwardens +by the Vestry.</p> +<p>The Vestry decided on the question of making a Church rate, +when <a name="page200"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +200</span>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.</p> +<p>The Guardians’ Election had resulted as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Jackson (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">258</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Mainprice (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">252</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. W. Craske (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">198</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Nightingale (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">246</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. E. H. L. Preston (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">214</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Wright (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">193</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. D. A. Gourlay (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">226</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. C. Steward (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">165</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. A. Ames (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">136</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Laws (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">252</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. C. C. Aldred (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">247</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Browne (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">200</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. John Clowes (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">120</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. F. Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">147</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. A. Norman (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">147</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Worship (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">198</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. C. Marsh (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">196</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Foreman (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">164</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Lettis, Jun., (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">159</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Scott (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">127</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. B. Fenn (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">223</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. R. Ferrier (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">217</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. G. Plummer (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">194</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. H. Harrison (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">203</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. G. Danby-Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">225</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. V. Moore (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">193</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. T. Fisher (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">131</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. C. Reynolds (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">176</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Clark (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">187</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. C. Woolverton (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">249</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Brightwen (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">218</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page201"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 201</span>April +18th.—A proposal had been made to have all the houses in +the town numbered.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 2nd.—Mr. Lane had been appointed Collector of +Poor’s rates for the Market Ward.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nelson’s Column was still allowed to fall into +decay.</p> +<p>May 9th.—Mr. Allcock had been appointed Poor’s +Rate Collector for the Nelson and Regent Wards.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Letters could now be posted as late as 8.10 p.m.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>May 12th.—The Victoria Gardens had been laid out and +were likely to outvie any in the neighbourhood.</p> +<p>May 19th.—Mr. Lummis had resigned the office of +Librarian.</p> +<p>The Workhouse had been lighted with gas.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Tories complained that this meeting was “got +up” by the Liberals for party purposes.</p> +<p><a name="page202"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 202</span>May +23rd.—The Water Company had offered to supply water for +street-watering purposes free of expense.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Eight additional gas lamps had been placed on the Wellington +Pier.</p> +<p>May 30th.—The first stone of the Wesleyan Free Church, +on the Regent Road, had been laid by S. C. Marsh, Esq.</p> +<p>June 2nd.—The Russian brig “Phœnix” +had been brought in by a prize crew.</p> +<p>June 9th.—The mackerel fishing was going on badly, and +many boats had lost nets.</p> +<p>July 18th.—A brace of tench, weighing between eight and +nine pounds, had been taken at Ormesby.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The following notice again appeared with regard to the case +of</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“REGINA v. EAGLETON.”</span></p> +<p>“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 <a name="page203"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +203</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 4th.—The Mayor had presided at a meeting called to +consider the “Small Tenements Act.”</p> +<p>Eighty-five boats engaged in the Mackerel Fishery had taken +fish to the value of £27,994.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page204"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 204</span>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.</p> +<p>Between £170 and £180 had been raised by a bazaar +for the Congregational Chapel, King Street.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Eighty ladies and gentlemen had attended the Race Ball.</p> +<p>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 +<i>Mercury</i> and <i>Norfolk News</i>; bail was placed at +£100 and two securities of £50 in each case.</p> +<p>Sept. 8th.—150 men of the Horse Artillery had been +encamped on the North Denes, under the command of Captain +Mountain and three Lieutenants.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th.—These troops had been reviewed on the South +Denes in the presence of several thousands of persons.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—Sunday had been a day of thanksgiving for the +success of the allied armies in the Crimea.</p> +<p>Oct. 10th.—The “Scampo,” a Russian prize, +had been brought into the Harbour.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>John Eagleton had been sentenced to three months’ +imprisonment.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th.—A very brisk corn trade was being carried on, +vessels coming in light to load with corn for France and +Holland.</p> +<p>Robert Steward, Esq., had been fined 20s. and costs for +obstructing the Quay-head.</p> +<p><a name="page205"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 205</span>Oct. +27th.—The East Suffolk Railway was projected.</p> +<p>In 1855, 258,121 quarters of corn had been shipped at this +port.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 31st.—Messrs. Beeching and Son had launched a +beautiful lifeboat for the Gorleston beachmen.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd.—Only two Wards had been contested. The +returns were:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Nicholas’ Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Worship (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">405</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. B. Hilton (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">405</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Henry Danby-Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">262</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Mainprice (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">262</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. D. Barber (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">224</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. R. B. Norman (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">224</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Clowes (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">159</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John Fish (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">159</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The names of the other re-elected Councillors are not +given.</p> +<p>Four gun-boats had come into the Roads from the Baltic.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th.—The “Meander,” 44 gun frigate, +was at anchor off the Monument.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th.—Lieut. Matthew Gooda, late of the East +Norfolk Militia, had died at Southtown, aged 76.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page206"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +206</span>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 8th.—Mr. Wright (of the Adelphi) had been +performing at the Theatre.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th.—The Mayor had attended the magnificent +reception given to the King of Sardinia by the Corporation of +London.</p> +<p>Dec. 22nd.—The stormy easterly winds had driven several +vessels on to the Beach.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 26th.—The Norfolk Artillery Militia had marched +into the Southtown Barracks under the command of Colonel +Astley.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 +<i>Globe</i> stated on authority, was without foundation.</p> +<p>At the Quarter Sessions, a conviction of R. Steward, Esq., by +the Justices, for obstructing the quay, was quashed with +costs.</p> +<p>The question of the legality of the Rev. G. Hills’ +appointment as chaplain to the gaol was again considered by the +Recorder and Justices.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>N.B.—The file for the +Year</i> 1856 <i>is missing</i>.</p> +<h3>1857.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 10th.—There had been a loan exhibition at the +Priory Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th.—The “Britannia Pier Bill” was +projected, and the Wellington Pier Company had determined not to +oppose that undertaking.</p> +<p><a name="page207"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 207</span>The +body of a whale, which had been taken at Winterton, was being +exhibited on the Church Plain.</p> +<p>The Rev. W. D. Wade, the new minister of St. Mary’s, +Southtown, had, before leaving Southsea, been presented with a +purse of £61.</p> +<p>Jan. 21st.—The “Sisters” had been in +collision with one of the stone piers of the Bridge, which it had +considerably damaged.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Poor’s Rate was 1s. 6d. for the quarter.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th.—H.M. Line of Battle-ship +“Blenheim,” 74, had steamed into the Roads.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page208"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 208</span>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.</p> +<p>March 4th.—The “Branch,” a schooner of 150 +tons, had been launched from Messrs. Fellows and Son’s +yard.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The address of Messrs. Torrens McCullagh and Edward Watkin to +the electors appears in this issue.</p> +<p><a name="page209"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 209</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There had been a high tide, which had dashed over the new +Marine Drive works.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 +<i>Palmer’s</i> kiss.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Venus,” 150 tons register, had been launched +from Mr. Rust’s yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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. <a name="page210"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +210</span>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.</p> +<p>George Tewsley, Sergeant in the London Constabulary, had been +elected Superintendent of the Borough Police Force.</p> +<p>The case against Mr. Garson Blake had been heard as to +non-payment of Church Rate and the usual order made.</p> +<p>Mr. S. Waters Spelman had submitted to public competition +various freehold estates, belonging to the late Mrs. Ann Marsh, +which realised £8,672.</p> +<p>March 25th.—The Election was “assuming all the +features of a bitter, as well as a strong contest.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. W. Sidney had again opened the Theatre.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>April 1st.—The polling had resulted as +follows;—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Nine.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Ten.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Eleven.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Twelve.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><a name="page211"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 211</span>One.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Two.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Three.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Four.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>McCullagh</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">161</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">304</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">416</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">527</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">562</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">587</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">600</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">609</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Watkin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">150</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">296</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">405</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">507</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">541</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">568</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">582</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">596</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">122</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">234</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">335</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">430</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">443</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">481</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">492</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">521</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vereker</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">115</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">220</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">305</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">383</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">393</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">419</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">428</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">451</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Majority for the Liberals: 158.</p> +<p>After the declaration of the poll Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin +addressed from 12,000 to 15,000 persons from the Star leads.</p> +<p>April 8th.—Messrs. W. Green, J. Borking, J. Clayton, and +W. Harbord had been re-appointed overseers of the parish.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. J. Owles had presided at a meeting of the Liberal +Registration Society.</p> +<p>The following was the result of the Guardians’ +Election:—<i>North Ward</i>: Messrs. J. Mainprice, S. +Nightingale, and E. H. L. Preston re-elected. <i>Market +Ward</i>: Messrs. D. A. Gourlay, C. C. Aldred, and W. Laws, +re-elected. <i>Regent Ward</i>: Messrs. W. Worship, S. C. +Marsh, and R. D. Barber, re-elected. <i>St. George’s +Ward</i>: Messrs. B. Fenn and J. G. Plummer, re-elected, with Mr. +T. Foreman in the place of Mr. J. Clark resigned, and in the +<i>Nelson Ward</i> (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.</p> +<p>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, <a name="page212"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 212</span>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.</p> +<p>Measures were being taken by Mr. M. Butcher and others with a +view to establishing a School of Art.</p> +<p>April 22nd.—The Artillery Band was performing on the +Hall-quay.</p> +<p>Trade at the Fair “had been brisk.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The East Norfolk Militia Band had performed on the +Hall-quay.</p> +<p>The Poor’s rate was 1s. 4d. for the quarter.</p> +<p>The Insignia belonging to the Corporation had been sent to the +Manchester Art Exhibition.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 20th.—This petition had been presented to the House +of Commons.</p> +<p>May 23rd.—A young woman, residing in the Star and Garter +Row, had been charged before the Justices “with illegally +detaining a silver <a name="page213"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +213</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 30th.—The guarantee fund for opposing the petition +had reached the sum of £2,400.</p> +<p>Two Russian guns had been received by the Corporation.</p> +<p>It was proposed to carry on the trawl fishery by means of +“iron screw welled smacks of 150 tons burden.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “small silver mace” above referred to had been +delivered up by the Carter family to the Corporation.</p> +<p>June 6th.—Fourteen hundred persons had visited the town +by excursion train from Norwich on Whit-Monday.</p> +<p>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 <i>one +enemy</i>.”</p> +<p>The <i>Yarmouth Standard</i>, started three months since as an +advocate “of Conservative and true Christian +principles,” had ceased to exist.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 20th.—Mackerel were selling from 31s. to 32s. per +100. The “Fisherman” (Mr. James Woolverton) +being the “head boat.”</p> +<p>June 24th.—The “Russian guns” were to be +placed either on the Marine Parade, Hall Quay, or Chapel +Denes.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Eastern Unitarian Christian Society” had +celebrated its 44th Anniversary at Great Yarmouth. The Rev. +Dr. Sadler preached from <a name="page214"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 214</span>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.</p> +<p>At the quarterly meeting of the Primitive Methodist Society, +it was stated that their members had increased by 100 during the +last quarter.</p> +<p>One boat had brought in 6 lasts of herring, selling at from +£20 to £28 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>C. E. Bartram</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">112</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. H. Harrison</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">84</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Bishop preached from Col. iii., 1, 2, 3 and 4.</p> +<p>July 18th.—There was to be no Regatta this year.</p> +<p>Mr. Harmer’s coloured photographic portraits were much +admired.</p> +<p>Mackerel had been scarce, owing, it was supposed, to the +coldness of the weather.</p> +<p>July 25th.—A detachment of Royal Artillery, about 145 +strong, was encamped on the North-denes.</p> +<p>James Ablett a pauper nurse at the Workhouse, had been +committed for trial at the Assizes for the wilful murder of Angus +Steward.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st.—This Committee had unseated both those +gentlemen.</p> +<p><a name="page215"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 215</span>At +the Water Frolic for the first match the following entries were +made:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Kathleen</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Messrs. Diver and Chamberlin</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Belvidere</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Mr. T. Read, jun.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Victorine</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Mr. J. Fiddes</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ontario</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Mr. F. Frere</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pysche</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Mr. J. Fenn, jun.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Iris</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Mr. A. D. Stone</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>At the finish the Kathleen beat the Belvidere by some 300 +yards.</p> +<p>The second match was won by Mr. Green’s +“Enchantress” (latteen.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 8th.—Among the Tories “vacillation, +uncertainty, and lukewarmness prevailed.” Sir Samuel +Hogg, Mr. Mackenzie, and Sir Henry Stracey had been tried without +avail.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 13th.—Sir E. Lacon had retired from the +contest.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. McCullagh and Watkin subsequently addressed the +electors from the Star Hotel.</p> +<p>Aug. 23rd.—About 90 ladies and gentlemen had attended +the Race Ball at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Herrings were selling at from £20 to £26 per +last.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th.—A new organ had been built for St. +Peter’s Church at a cost of £400.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page216"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 216</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—The Britannia Pier Works were being actively +pushed on.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Rev. J. S. Russell had preached his farewell sermon at the +King Street Chapel, where he had laboured for the past 14 +years.</p> +<p>Oct. 10th.—The Day of National Fast and Humiliation had +been observed in the town “in a most becoming +manner.”</p> +<p>Herring was selling at from £10 to £18 per +last.</p> +<p>Oct. 17th.—Three hundred pounds had been collected for +the Indian Relief Fund.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page217"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 217</span>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 <i>bona fide</i> 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 <i>sine +die</i>.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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 <a name="page218"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 218</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sir E. H. K. Lacon, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">118</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Cherry, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">114</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Owles, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>F. Palmer, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">78</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. E. Barnby, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">128</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Fenn, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Scott, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">110</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>G. W. Clowes, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">107</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. J. Foreman, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>H. Jay, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">117</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A. D. Stone, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">85</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Fill, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">80</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. V. Moore, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">211</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Clark, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">151</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Clowes, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">127</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. Nightingale, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">144</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. H. Bessey, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">132</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Mainprice, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Cobb, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">109</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page219"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 219</span><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Hammond, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">185</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>William H. Palmer, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">174</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Henry Danby-Palmer, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">164</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Barker, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">150</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Poor’s rate was 1s. 4d. in the £.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th.—Thirty-six gentlemen had attended the dinner +given to the Ex-Mayor at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Herring was selling at from £12 to £20 a last.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page220"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +220</span>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 <i>bona fide</i> +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.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th.—The polling of the Vestry had been concluded +as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For the Rate</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">651</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Against</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">771</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>and at 10 o’clock on Saturday, Mr. Hills stated that the +poll would not be re-opened.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page221"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 221</span>Nov. +21st.—Mr. D. Tomkins, of the British School, had again +satisfied the Government Inspector.</p> +<p>R. Hammond, Esq., had presented 40 cwt. of coal to the inmates +of the Fisherman’s Hospital.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th.—It was calculated that there were 400 boats +then engaged in the Herring Fishing belonging to Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 30th.—There were 30 prisoners in the Gaol, and they +had been regaled with a Christmas dinner by the Mayor.</p> +<p>The Clocks at the Parish Church and St. George’s Chapel +had been set going again at the instance of the Town Council.</p> +<h3>1858.</h3> +<p>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 <a name="page222"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +222</span>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.”</p> +<p>The Hospital meeting showed a deficit of from £40 to +£50 on the annual accounts.</p> +<p>Jan. 6th.—It was rumoured than an addition would shortly +be made to the local Magistracy.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th.—Mr. Roach (Station-master) was, much to the +regret of the inhabitants, leaving Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Russian guns were to be placed at the South end of the +Hall Quay.</p> +<p><a name="page223"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 223</span>Court +“Star of the East,” A.O.F., had held its anniversary +at the Regent Tavern.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd.—The Rev. F. W. Johnson had been appointed +minister at St. John’s Church.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 20th.—It was proposed to extend the Marine +Parade.</p> +<p>The 9th Regiment of Foot had left Yarmouth for Bradford. +During its stay here some 200 recruits had been obtained.</p> +<p>Mr. Frederick Palmer had qualified as a Justice of the +Peace.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. J. Barker and P. Pullyn had qualified as +Magistrates.</p> +<p><a name="page224"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 224</span>Feb. +27th.—The 24-pounders at the Batteries were to be replaced +by 74 pound guns.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was hoped that the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway would be +opened by the 1st of September next.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Complaint was made of the “niggardly” way in which +the Southtown Road was lighted.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>March 27th.—Mr. J. S. Cobb had delivered a lecture on +“Chemistry.”</p> +<p>April 3rd.—Mr. R. Steward had protested against the +Senior Magistrate taking the chair in Petty Session as a matter +of right.</p> +<p>April 7th.—Ten publicans had been fined for keeping +their houses open at illegal hours.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page225"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +225</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 24th.—St. John’s Church had been consecrated +by the Lord Bishop of Norwich.</p> +<p>H.M.S. “Edinburgh,” 74 tons, and two gun-boats had +passed through the Roads.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 1st.—Ninety ladies and gentlemen had attended a ball +at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>May 5th.—Reference is made to the drowning of the only +son of Captain Ellis, R.N., at Southwold.</p> +<p>The Poor’s rate was 1s. 4d. in the £.</p> +<p>The Summer excursion trains had commenced running, and had +brought many visitors from Norwich.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 22nd.—The mackerel fleet (about 100 sail) were +nearly all at sea, and prices had varied from 35s. to 45s. per +hundred.</p> +<p>The “Nil Desperandum” (500 tons) had been launched +from Mr. Rust’s yard.</p> +<p><a name="page226"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 226</span>June +12th.—Records the death of Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart., one of +the M.P’s. for East Norfolk.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>John Berry had committed suicide by shooting himself on the +South Denes.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 3rd.—The poll had been declared as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>The Hon. W. C. W. Coke</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2933</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sir H. J. Stracey</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2720</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">213</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>An analysis of the polling at Yarmouth showed—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Coke.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Stracey.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Yarmouth Voters</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">288</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">301</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E&W. Flegg ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">150</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">195</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Out ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">36</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">58</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gorleston ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Southtown ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Mr. Isaac Shuckford had been elected an Alderman in the place +of Alderman T. Foreman deceased.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 10th.—The “Minstrel” had been launched +from Mr. Symonds’ and the “Success” from Mr. +Chapman’s yard.</p> +<p><a name="page227"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 227</span>July +14th.—“Frequent collisions” were taking place +between the Irish Militia and the inhabitants.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A “Marine Horticultural Fête” had been held +on this pier.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 24th.—Fifty-seven sick and wounded soldiers, mostly +Indian sufferers, had arrived at the Royal Naval Hospital.</p> +<p>July 28th.—It was computed that there were between 8,000 +and 9,000 visitors then in the town.</p> +<p>There had been a heavy gale from the S.W.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">Came in</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Eclipse</p> +</td> +<td><p>54 ft.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">32</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Royal Standard</p> +</td> +<td><p>49 ft.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">58</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">40</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Queen Victoria</p> +</td> +<td><p>63 ft.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">50</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lady Hume</p> +</td> +<td><p>59 ft.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">54</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Young Prince</p> +</td> +<td><p>47 ft.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">withdrew</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Glance</p> +</td> +<td><p>47 ft.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">23</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page228"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 228</span>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 7th.—At the Water Frolic, Mr. O. Diver acted as +hon. secretary, and in the first match the following yachts +competed:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Endora</p> +</td> +<td><p>(latteen)</p> +</td> +<td><p>Cooke</p> +</td> +<td><p>Horstead</p> +</td> +<td><p>13 feet</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nautilus</p> +</td> +<td><p>(cutter)</p> +</td> +<td><p>—</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bungay</p> +</td> +<td><p>12 ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Clara</p> +</td> +<td><p>(cutter)</p> +</td> +<td><p>C. Smith</p> +</td> +<td><p>Aylsham</p> +</td> +<td><p>14 ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fairy Queen</p> +</td> +<td><p>(latteen)</p> +</td> +<td><p>R. Morton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>13 ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Unique</p> +</td> +<td><p>(cutter)</p> +</td> +<td><p>W. Teasdel</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gorleston</p> +</td> +<td><p>14 ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The Endora won. In the second race the entries +were:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Belvidere</p> +</td> +<td><p>T. Read</p> +</td> +<td><p>Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p>28 feet</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Victorine</p> +</td> +<td><p>J. Fiddes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>—</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Iris</p> +</td> +<td><p>A. D. Stone</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>27 „</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tantivy</p> +</td> +<td><p>Messrs. Morgan</p> +</td> +<td><p>Norwich</p> +</td> +<td><p>19 ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The Belvidere won. The third contest was for a cup, +presented by D. Falcke, Esq., for shrimp boats; the +“Smack” won.</p> +<p>During the sports Mr. Gardiner (editor of the <i>Yarmouth +Independent</i>) was knocked overboard by the boom of Mr. +Diver’s boat, but, being a swimmer, escaped with a +“good ducking.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 18th.—The sum of £139 18s. 6d. had been +contributed for the Beachman’s Institute.</p> +<p><a name="page229"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 229</span>Aug. +25th.—The Norfolk Hotel, Marine Drive, had been purchased +by Messrs. Hills and Underwood for the sum of £2,160.</p> +<p>Sept. 1st.—The sum of £448 had been subscribed for +the restoration of the Nelson Monument.</p> +<p>About 100 vessels were then engaged in the North Sea herring +fishing, the fish realising from £12 15s. to £26 per +last.</p> +<p>George Wells Holt, Esq., who had officiated as +Magistrates’ Clerk for more than 22 years, had resigned +that appointment.</p> +<p>Mr. W. Holt (son of the late Clerk), Mr. H. R. Harmer and Mr. +Costerton were candidates for the office.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The emoluments of the office were then about £375 per +annum.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Artillery Militia had assembled for 21 days’ +drill.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A fancy fair in aid of the Sailors’ Institute was being +held in three marquees fronting the Norfolk Hotel.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 15th.—The Fermanagh Militia had left Yarmouth for +Bradford, and were to be succeeded by the Louth Rifles.</p> +<p><a name="page230"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 230</span>The +comet (visible with the naked eye) was getting brighter every +night.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd.—One of a recently-arrived advance party of +the Louth Rifles named John Carret had been found drowned in the +Yare.</p> +<p>Sept. 25th.—Herring were selling at from £3 to +£4 per last for manure.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Colley was acting as House Surgeon at the Hospital.</p> +<p>Oct. 2nd.—The East Norfolk Militia had been inspected by +Colonel Lewis prior to being disbanded.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th.—The mortality in the town was then 23 in 1,000 +persons.</p> +<p>Oct. 9th.—The fishing had improved, and herring was +selling at from £19 5s. to £22 per last.</p> +<p>William Holt, Esq., had given a dinner at the Crown and Anchor +to the officials connected with the Police Court.</p> +<p>Mr. S. J. F. Stafford had been elected Surgeon for the North +District.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th.—It was understood that R. Steward, Esq., +would be Mayor for the ensuing year.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page231"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 231</span>Oct. +30th.—The Bishop of Norwich had confirmed 115 persons at +St. Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd.—The following Councillors had been elected +without opposition:—<i>North Ward</i>: Messrs. W. Worship +and J. B. Hylton. <i>Market Ward</i>: Messrs. E. R. Aldred +and D. A. Gourlay. <i>Regent Ward</i>: Messrs. R. D. Barber +and R. R. B. Norman. <i>St. George’s Ward</i>: +Messrs. R. Ferrier and B. Jay. <i>Nelson Ward</i>: Messrs. +Charles J. Palmer and Charles Woolverton. <i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>: Messrs. Robert Steward and William T. +Clarke.</p> +<p>Captain Ryder, R.N., Government Inspector, had examined 42 +pupils at the School of Navigation.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th.—It was “confidently reported” that +the Vicar (the Rev. G. Hills) had been appointed Bishop of +British Columbia.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>A complimentary dinner had been given by the Council to the +ex-Mayor, at which C. J. Palmer, Esq., presided.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 20th.—Attention was directed to the “Wonders +of the Microscope, published by Mr. Harmer, the photographist of +Great Yarmouth.”</p> +<p>Dec. 4th.—The Royal National Lifeboat Institution had +sent one of its 30 foot single-banked boats to this station.</p> +<p>The Mayor had issued invitations for a dinner at the Town Hall +to 170 gentlemen connected with the town and district.</p> +<p>The Rev. R. H. Nevill had been appointed to the Vicarage, +which was supposed to be worth some £350 per annum.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page232"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 232</span>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.</p> +<p>Mr. J. Petts had been promoted to be Chief Coastguard Officer +at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Dec. 11th.—It was proposed to present Bishop Hills with +a silver Communion Service.</p> +<h3>1859.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Mayor (R. Steward, Esq.), had given away 300 cwts. of coal +to poor persons.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 22nd.—The East Suffolk Railway was to be opened on +the 1st March.</p> +<p>Jan. 29th.—The Rev. G. Hills had preached his farewell +sermon.</p> +<p>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, <a name="page233"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 233</span>Donald, Norman, Bond, Aldred, +Lettis, Woolverton, Butcher, Barnby, Ayers, Reeve, Laws, Bayly, +Chamberlin, Dashwood, Bracey, Palmer, Shuckford, Smith, Smyth, +Plummer, Barber, &c.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 5th.—The ladies had presented plate to the value of +50 guineas to the Rev. G. Hills.</p> +<p>Mrs. Gray had given a “ball and reception” at the +Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th.—A “Reform” Meeting had been held, +Mr. Livingston in the chair.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 19th.—Mr. Nevill, the new Incumbent, had arrived, +and was going “to read himself in” on the next +Sunday.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd.—This ceremony had been duly performed by +him.</p> +<p>A Reading-room had been established in connection with the +Subscription Library on the Quay.</p> +<p>Mr. J. C. Smith had presided at Mrs. Sizeland’s annual +dinner at the Royal Hotel.</p> +<p>A high tide had washed over the Beach up to the Marine Drive +wall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 2nd.—Dr. Hills had been consecrated Bishop of +British Columbia at Westminster Abbey.</p> +<p>The first train from Yarmouth had run over the East Suffolk +line.</p> +<p>March 5th.—A search for treasure had been made at the +“Stone Cairn” on the North Denes, it seems from the +report, without effect.</p> +<p>The old Jetty was to be repaired.</p> +<p><a name="page234"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 234</span>The +officers of the Louth Rifles had given a Ball at the Town Hall, +for which about 180 invitations were issued.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 23rd—There was a “rage” for new +buildings in the town.</p> +<p>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.”)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A new Coastguard Station was being erected at a cost of +£3,500. Mr. Norfor, contractor.</p> +<p>April 6th.—The action of “Morant <i>v.</i> +Chamberlin” had been referred to Mr. Barstow.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 13th.—Both parties had held meetings, the Liberals +at the “Star” and the Conservatives at the +“Fish Stall House.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The barque “Athelstan” (Captain John Bracey) was +to be launched from Fellows’ yard on the 19th.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page235"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 235</span>April +23rd.—Contains the following report as to</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“THE ELECTION.”</span></p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The “Athelstan” had been launched; she was of 500 +tons burden, and was to take out Bishop Hills’ effects to +British Columbia.</p> +<p>The “Haddiscoe Swamp” had caused a great +difficulty on the East Suffolk line, which was consequently still +not open for traffic.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page236"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 236</span><span +class="GutSmall">“THE NOMINATION”</span></p> +<p>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 <a +name="page237"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 237</span>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 +<a name="page238"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 238</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">“THE +TIN CANISTER.”</span></p> +<p>A report had been “current that a mysterious old +gentleman had <a name="page239"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +239</span>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 <i>as well</i>, 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.”</p> +<p>Mr. J. Cherry proposed, and Mr. R. Dumbleton seconded Sir E. +H. K. Lacon.</p> +<p>Mr. R. Hammond proposed, and Mr. J. Owles seconded Mr. +Watkin.</p> +<p>Mr. E. H. L. Preston proposed, and Mr. S. C. Marsh seconded +Sir H. J. Stracey,</p> +<p>And Mr. J. W. Shelly proposed and Mr. P. Pullyn seconded Mr. +Young.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 4th.—The poll had been taken in Wards as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Lacon.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Stracey.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Watkin.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Young.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Nicholas’</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">97</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">76</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">71</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Market</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">117</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">113</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">100</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Regent</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">112</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">108</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">88</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. George’s</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">102</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">94</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">89</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">84</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nelson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">166</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">153</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">119</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">106</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Andrew’s</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">105</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">102</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">93</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">88</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">699</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">659</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">568</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">536</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page240"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 240</span>But +it was stated that “there were many cases of bribery, and +the defeated party threatened a petition against this +‘return.’”</p> +<p>May 7th.—Between £500 and £600 had been +promised as subscriptions to that end.</p> +<p>There had been a fashionable ball at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The Norfolk Artillery Militia had left for Sheerness.</p> +<p>Miles Swiney had been shot in the side by one of the Louth +Rifles on the North Denes.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>Meetings of electors had been held to promote the +petition.</p> +<p>May 18th.—The petition was “likely to reveal a +‘<i>high</i> state of political morality in the +Borough.’”</p> +<p>May 21st.—Contains the Lord Lieutenant’s +proclamation as to the formation of Rifle Corps.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 28th.—On the Queen’s Birthday, the Mayor had +given a luncheon and ball at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page241"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 241</span>June +1st.—Contains the following report of a</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“MEETING TO ESTABLISH A VOLUNTEER RIFLE +CORPS.”</span></p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page242"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 242</span>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. Ferrier seconded.—Carried unanimously.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Mayor said it was out of the scope of the present meeting +to discuss an Artillery Corps.</p> +<p>Mr. Orde said Government had intended that they would sanction +and approve the formation of Artillery Corps.</p> +<p>Mr. Marsh’s motion was then put and carried.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page243"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +243</span>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.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The proceedings then concluded.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page244"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 244</span>Mr. +Bradnum’s shop at Gorleston had been struck by +lightning.</p> +<p>June 11th.—Mr. Mellor, Q.C., M.P. for Nottingham, had +presented the petition against the return of the M.Ps.</p> +<p>June 15th.—The Mayor and the Town Clerk had had a +serious “difference of opinion,” and the former +gentleman had declined to accept the “<i>amende +honorable</i>” tendered him by the latter.</p> +<p>It was stated that some 60 persons were ready to join the +Rifle Corps.</p> +<p>June 18th.—The paper had opened a branch office at No. +31, King Street, Great Yarmouth, with Mr. Clarke as +correspondent.</p> +<p>Lord Chelmsford, before resigning the seals, had appointed Mr. +Francis Worship, Mr. John Clarke, and Mr. E. P. Youell, +Magistrates for the Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Forty invalid soldiers had arrived at the Royal Naval +Hospital.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>There were from 8,000 to 10,000 persons on the Piers, Drive, +&c., on Sunday evening.</p> +<p>July 6th.—Mr. Mellor had given notice that he should +call attention to the state of the Yarmouth Bench of +Magistrates.</p> +<p>The following cricket match had been played on the South +Denes:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Mr. Overend’s Side</span>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Mr. Willis’ Side</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Lawry</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Ling</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Jackson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Borlase</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Fenner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Ellis</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page245"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +245</span>Lieutenant Townley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Larke</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Ablitt</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Clarke</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Overend</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Willis</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Cocks</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Davey</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Edwards</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. T. B. Stevenson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Baker</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Tewsley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Dr. Stephenson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Stolworthy</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Wright</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Green</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Byes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p> Byes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Wides</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p> Wides</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">41</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">48</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Afterwards the players dined at the Crown and Anchor +Hotel.</p> +<p>July 16th.—Owing to his altercation with the Town Clerk, +the Mayor declined to attend the meetings of the Council.</p> +<p>July 20th.—One of the petitions against the M.Ps’ +return had been withdrawn.</p> +<p>The Rifle Companies numbered over 200. Mr. Orde’s +Company mustered 80 at their first drill in the Barrack +Square.</p> +<p>There were then on the Parish Books 272 indoor and 1,247 +outdoor paupers, as against 1,134 in the preceding year.</p> +<p>July 27th.—Lieutenant-Colonel Mason had retired from the +command of the East Norfolk Militia.</p> +<p>The Foresters had held a “gala” at the Vauxhall +Gardens.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd.—A very large number of Speaker’s +Warrants had been issued in connection with the Election +Petition.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Donegal Regiment was to succeed the Louth Rifles at +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th.—The porch of the Parish Church was being +restored.</p> +<p><a name="page246"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 246</span>There +had been a great deal of rain, but the town was very full of +visitors.</p> +<p>Aug. 24th.—It was reported that the shock of an +earthquake had been felt at Hopton.</p> +<p>One hundred and fifty Horse Artillery had been encamped on the +North Denes.</p> +<p>Mr. Marsh’s Company of Volunteers were to be equipped as +Artillery.</p> +<p>Mr. Orde’s Company had drilled on the South Denes in +public for the first time.</p> +<p>The expenses of the Borough Election had been returned by the +auditor as follows:—Conservatives, £809 15s.; +Liberals, £603 17s. 4d.</p> +<p>Visitors were flocking to the town, and it was supposed that +the standard population had thus been doubled; beds were fetching +the “highest prices.”</p> +<p>The “Prophet Jack” was preaching on the Beach.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<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.”</p> +<p>William Ingram, a labourer, had been scalded to death in Mr. +Frosdick’s Tanning Copper.</p> +<p>Sept. 10th.—The Magistrates had had another +“warm” discussion on Licensing Day, as to the +granting of new licenses.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Rev. W. Griffiths had been “ordained” at the +King Street Chapel.</p> +<p>Two or three “Dutch schuyts” had visited the +port.</p> +<p>The officers of Mr. Orde’s Company had received their +commissions.</p> +<p>The Donegal Militia had marched out for their first drill on +the Denes under the command of Major Todd.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page247"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 247</span>There +were a great number of Rate appeals from the North Ward.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 21st.—Three “gents” having hired a +house in Brandon Terrace, had been victimising the tradesmen.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The North Sea herring voyage was “fairly alive,” +as much as £30 a last having been realised for some of the +fish.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Preston, however, subsequently threw up his tender, and +the dues were offered to Mr. Smith (an ex-lessee) for £550 +per annum.</p> +<p>There had been a “fine illustration of the Northern +Lights.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Captain Marsh and Lieutenant Foreman had received their +commissions, and thereupon taken the oaths before the +Magistrates.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A Poor’s Rate of 1s. 4d. in the £ (to raise +£3,365 3s.) had been signed.</p> +<p>One Corporal and three Privates of the Donegal Militia had +been heavily fined by the Justices for assaulting Mr. Nall +(printer) and several policemen.</p> +<p><a name="page248"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 248</span>Oct. +22nd.—Lord Claude Hamilton and officers of the Donegal +Militia had entertained the officers of the French steamer +“Galilee.”</p> +<p>Oct. 26th.—The appointment of officers and +non-commissioned officers in the Volunteer Companies had been +made, as follows:—</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Rifle Company: Captain: J. H. Orde; Lieutenant: Youell; +Ensign: J. Tomlinson, junr.; Sergeants: Harmer, Bunn, Preston, +and James; Corporals: Dick, Willis, Fellows, and Pearson.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th.—Sixty feet of the Britannia Pier had been +carried away by a vessel during a gale which prevailed on the +coast.</p> +<p>Mr. Chapman had retired from the representation of the Regent +Ward.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd.—The “Shipping Interest” was in a +distressed state.</p> +<p>The Herring Fishing was going on satisfactorily, £15 per +last being given for fish.</p> +<p>Nov. 5th.—Five wards had been contested. In the +<i>Regent Ward</i> Mr. S. B. Cory beating Mr. F. Palmer by one +vote. The following were the Councillors +elected:—<i>North</i>: W. N. Burroughs and H. +Boulter. <i>Market</i>: C. C. Aldred and F. Worship. +<i>Regent</i>: S. C. Marsh and S. B. Cory. <i>St. +George</i>: J. G. Plummer and J. C. Smith. <i>Nelson</i>: +G. D. Palmer and C. E. Bartram. <i>Gorleston</i>: E. H. L. +Preston and H. Teasdel.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Herring was making from £18 to £20 per last.</p> +<p>Bribery had been practised (it was stated) in the Regent Ward, +“to a disgraceful extent.”</p> +<p>A drinking fountain was being erected at the north end of the +Town Hall.</p> +<p>On Tuesday, the gale which had commenced on the previous +Tuesday abated, and the weather since that day, had continued to +improve.</p> +<p><a name="page249"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 249</span>The +Regatta Committee Accounts showed a balance in hand of about +£60.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 16th.—Owing to the damage sustained by the +structure, it had been determined to shorten the Britannia Pier +by about 100 feet.</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“ON ALDERMANIC SIXES.”</span></p> +<p>“At Norwich, Tories loud complain,<br /> + ’Cause Liberals are elected;<br /> +At Yarmouth, he’s alleged <i>insane</i><br /> + Who growls that they’re rejected.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Nov. 23rd.—The Municipal Elections on November 21st had +been held as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. C. Reynolds</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">110</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Frederick Palmer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">77</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Mr. Richmond elected without opposition.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>It was proposed to raise, by shares, £8,000 for the +purpose of building Assembly-rooms on the Marine Drive.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th.—The Rifle Company had met “in full +dress at the Victoria-gardens,” mustering between 80 and 90 +strong on this occasion.</p> +<p>Dec. 3rd.—The foundation-stone of the +“Wherryman’s Church” had been laid by W. +Worship, Esq., the Mayor.</p> +<p>The Mayor had presented rich window hangings and carpets to +the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Dec. 7th.—It was proposed to form a second Company of +Artillery Volunteers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page250"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 250</span>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.</p> +<p>Mr. E. R. Palmer had offered a prize of £3 3s., to be +shot for by the 1st N.A.V.</p> +<p>The Mayor had presented £50 to the District Visiting +Society.</p> +<p>About 100 Rate Summonses had been issued.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st.—The Rifle Volunteers had attended St. +Nicholas’ Church on Sunday in uniform.</p> +<p>The Magistrates were discussing the question as to who was +entitled, in the absence of the Mayor, to the chair at the Petty +Sessions.</p> +<p>Dec. 24th.—The Rev. F. W. Johnson, Minister of St. +John’s, had died in London somewhat suddenly.</p> +<h3>1860.</h3> +<p>Jan. 4th.—The Artillery Company had secured the services +of a band, and armed the trumpeters “with +swords.”</p> +<p>Several herring boats had again proceeded to sea.</p> +<p>Jan. 7th.—Mr. Hulley and Sergeant Cattermole were +playing in the N.A.V. Band.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th.—The “canard” that one of the +M.Ps. intended to retire was denied.</p> +<p>Petitions were being largely signed in favour of marriage with +a deceased wife’s sister.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 18th.—The daughter of Mr. R. Guthrie (aged 6 years) +had been run over by a cart.</p> +<p>Mr. Bowgin’s house at Southtown had been broken into and +several articles stolen therefrom.</p> +<p><a name="page251"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 251</span>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.</p> +<p>Several houses had been broken into by thieves.</p> +<p>Jan. 25th.—The Rev. H. Nevill had “politely +requested” well dressed persons not to frequent the +Beachman’s Church.</p> +<p>“Ghosts” were said to haunt Southtown, and had +specially amazed one Macdonald, an engine cleaner at the +Southtown Station.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A second Company of Volunteers was being raised.</p> +<p>Bro. W. Wright had been installed W.M. of Lodge +“Friendship.”</p> +<p>Feb. 8th.—It was supposed that the Prince of Orange was +likely to become the husband of the Princess Alice.</p> +<p>Wild rifle practice was being indulged in at Cobholm Island +and other parts of the town, to the danger of the +inhabitants.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Medical Staff of the Military Hospital had given a ball to +120 guests at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Mr. C. Melly had erected a drinking fountain in front of the +Port Dues Office.</p> +<p>“Tom Sayers” was reported to be about to spend +three weeks in the town previous to his “set to” with +Heenan, the American.</p> +<p>Feb. 15th.—W. Worship, Esq., (Mayor and Chairman of the +Board of Guardians) had given a treat to 293 inmates of the +Workhouse.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th.—An amateur performance had been given at the +Theatre in aid of the Hospital. In the first piece <i>Used +Up</i>, Captain Hayes, Mr. <a name="page252"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 252</span>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 <i>Irish +Attorney</i> 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 <i>Done on both sides</i>. +About £25 was thus realised for the charity.</p> +<p>There had been a “great fire” on the Middle Market +Road.</p> +<p>Many persons who had promised to subscribe to the +“Petition Fund” were “backing out.”</p> +<p>E. P. Youell, Esq., was to be Captain of the 2nd Company of +Rifle Volunteers.</p> +<p>On Valentine’s Day the ladies took great advantage of +the fact of its being “Leap Year” in sending these +missives to the gentlemen.</p> +<p>Feb. 22nd.—The Donegal Militia had given a second +afternoon dance at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Mr. T. M. Read had been elected second Lieutenant in the +N.A.V.</p> +<p>“Monday was Cock (antique) or Orange Fair, when the +Market Place was thronged by the usual ‘fair’ +attractions.”</p> +<p>March 3rd.—“A most violent and destructive +hurricane” had visited the town and country.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Captain Foreman and Lieutenant Morant had been gazetted to the +first N.A.V.</p> +<p>The following had been elected officers of the second Company +of Rifles:—Captain, Mr. Youell; Lieutenant, Mr. Harmer; +Ensign, Mr. E. Preston.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 24th.—The “Donegals” had celebrated +St. Patrick’s Day, beginning at five o’clock in the +morning. In the afternoon the Officers <a +name="page253"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 253</span>gave +another dance at the Town Hall and entertained a numerous party +of friends at their mess at the Southtown Barracks.</p> +<p>April 7th.—Mr. J. Lee-Barber had been elected a Second +Lieutenant in the N.A.V.</p> +<p>In the Rifle Corps, Corporals Dick and Pearson and Privates +Barber and Cobb had been elected Sergeants.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. Steward and Aldred had been re-elected Churchwardens +by the Vestry.</p> +<p>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.).</p> +<p>April 28th.—Great complaint was made as to the mode of +levying the Poor’s Rate.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The E.N.M. had been inspected on the Denes by Major-General +Douglas. The Rifle Volunteers were also on the ground.</p> +<p>Bro. Hanworth, Secretary of the “Good Samaritan” +Lodge, M.U.O.F., had been presented with an ornamental silver +inkstand.</p> +<p>May 9th.—A Ball “of a very elegant +character” had taken place at the Town Hall.</p> +<p><a name="page254"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 254</span>The +E.N.M. had been disembodied, when “many of the men +celebrated the event by getting drunk.”</p> +<p>The 1st N.A.V. had received 19,000 cartridges and 23,000 +percussion caps.</p> +<p>A fine porpoise had been gambolling in the river, near the +Haven Bridge.</p> +<p>May 16th.—The first lot of mackerel (300 fish) had been +landed, and realised £4 per hundred.</p> +<p>May 23rd.—On the Queen’s Birthday, the 1st N.A.V. +had fired a salute from the South Star Battery.</p> +<p>There was a scarcity of labour in the town.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 2nd.—Sixty recruits were drilling for the Rifle +Corps.</p> +<p>Mr. Watkin had addressed a “Reform” meeting at the +Corn Hall.</p> +<p>The Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton had confirmed 50 +children and adults at St. Mary’s Church, Regent Road.</p> +<p>June 7th.—It was now stated that eleven fishing luggers +had been lost with all hands.</p> +<p>Twelve fishermen out of the village of Horsey alone had been +drowned.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 20th.—The Mackerel voyage was only a +“moderate success.” This fish was making 36s., +and herring 12s. 6d., per hundred.</p> +<p>June 23rd.—Henry Fayerman had been committed for trial +on a charge of perjury.</p> +<p><a name="page255"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 255</span>The +Rifle Volunteers had shown themselves “remarkably well +instructed in the theory and practice of the rifle.”</p> +<p>£2,240 had been raised for the families of the drowned +fishermen.</p> +<p>“The actions against Sir E. Lacon for libelling the +Liberal Committee had been postponed to next term.”</p> +<p>July 4th contains the following account of the</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">VISIT OF THE CHANNEL FLEET.</span></p> +<p>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 <a name="page256"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +256</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page257"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 257</span>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 <a +name="page258"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +258</span>(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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sunday morning, as had been anticipated by the Yarmouth +innkeepers and others, brought an immense number of people into +the town, the <a name="page259"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +259</span>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—</p> +<p>“How proud must be our Admiral<br /> +Of such a bonny barque.”</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page260"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 260</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The following Commissions had been issued:—“Great +Yarmouth Rifle Volunteer Corps—Frederick Palmer, Esq., to +be Surgeon; Henry Ralph Nevill to be Hon. Chaplain.”</p> +<p>The trident had been struck by lightning from the hand of +Britannia on the Nelson Column.</p> +<p>July 7th.—The “Good Samaritan” Lodge, +M.U.O.F., had voted £5 5s. to the Fishermen’s +Fund.</p> +<p>Mr. Job Smith had presided at a Working Man’s Reform +Meeting, held in Crowe’s Assembly Rooms.</p> +<p>July 21st.—The Fisherman’s Widows and +Orphans’ Fund exceeded £7,300.</p> +<p>The new building for the Sailors’ Home was progressing +rapidly.</p> +<p><a name="page261"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +261</span>“The hot weather had brought large numbers of +excursionists to the sea-side.”</p> +<p>July 25th.—The Donegal Militia had left the town for +Ireland, where they were to be disembodied.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st.—“Benjamin Hollis, a fine young man +belonging to the Artillery Volunteers,” had been buried +with Military honours.</p> +<p>Aug. 4th.—The 3rd and 4th Companies of the Rifle +Volunteers had appeared for the first time in uniform.</p> +<p>A “young lady about twenty years of age had +disappeared” at the same time as the Militia left the +town.</p> +<p>Aug. 8th.—At the Water Frolic the “Iris” won +the cutter match, and the “Enchantress” the latteen +match.</p> +<p>“A reward of £100 had been offered for the +apprehension of John D. Chapman, late of this town.”</p> +<p>At the Regatta the following had been the result of the +matches:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FIRST GLASS YAWLS.</span></p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Queen Victoria, Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Eclipse, Lowestoft</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gipsy Queen, Winterton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Belvidere, (T. M. Read,) Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Kestrel, (W. Butcher), Norwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">SECOND CLASS YAWLS.</span></p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Good Tidings, California</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Volunteer, Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Flying Fish, ditto</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page262"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 262</span>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.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Shooting Star, Winterton</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Champion, Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Quebec, Pakefield</p> +</td> +<td><p>3</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Some more rowing by ships’ boats, sculling, and a duck +hunt brought the programme to a close.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 22nd.—The E.N.M. (which had been embodied since the +5th April, 1857) had been disembodied.</p> +<p>Gipsies “infested the Beach” to the annoyance of +the public.</p> +<p>Aug. 25th.—The N.A.M. had been disembodied at +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge had inspected the Rifle +Volunteers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p><a name="page263"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 263</span>A +roulette table had been an attraction in the town, and several +gentlemen had “dropped” their money at that game.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th.—The following had been the result of the +Prize Shooting:—</p> +<p>1.—Borough Members’ Prize of £10, shot for +at ranges of 300, 400, and 500 yards. Winner, Fenner.</p> +<p>2.—Officers’ Cup, value £5, shot for at +ranges of 200 and 300 yards. Winner, Davis.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The pugilist Mace was training at Yarmouth previous to his +fighting Bob Brettle.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>After this, the Mayor invited those present to dance, himself +leading off with Lady Lacon.</p> +<p>Mr. E. R. Aldred had supplied the cups, and champion’s +medal.</p> +<p>The Volunteer Artillery had appeared in “busbies” +for the first time.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page264"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 264</span>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.”</p> +<p>Sept. 26th.—The number of the Volunteer Artillery +present at the Review was stated to have been 156.</p> +<p>Herring was selling at from £23 to £30 per +last.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th.—“Several hundreds of vessels had +passed through the Roads for the North in full sail, and one +close fleet.”</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—James Denny Chapman had absconded and been +declared bankrupt, with debts estimated at £30,000.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th.—St. Andrew’s Church had been +consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd.—At the Municipal Election there was a contest +in the <i>Regent Ward</i>, resulting as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Reynolds (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">106</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wright (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">101</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Livingston (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">61</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>For the other wards the following gentlemen were returned +without opposition:—</p> +<p><i>North</i>—William H. Bessey and Samuel Nightingale +(C’s.)</p> +<p><i>Market</i>—John Fenn and John E. Barnby +(C’s).</p> +<p><i>St. George’s</i>—William J. Foreman and Charles +Palmer (C’s).</p> +<p><i>Nelson</i>—John Clarke (C.) and John Clowes (L).</p> +<p><i>Gorleston</i>—Samuel C. Richmond and Thomas W. Gooda +(C’s).</p> +<p>It was “darkly hinted” that Mr. S. Nightingale +would be the next Mayor.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th.—At the Council Meeting on the 9th, Mr. +Charles J. Palmer proposed, and Mr. F. Worship seconded, the +election of Mr. <a name="page265"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +265</span>Samuel Nightingale as Mayor of the Borough, and, there +being no opposition, he was elected to that office +accordingly.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 24th.—“Practical jokes” prevailed, one +“joker” finding next morning that he had been over +night “cracking his own panes.”</p> +<p>The “political actions at law” against Sir E. +Lacon were “in course of settlement.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: right">“Great +Yarmouth,<br /> +“Nov. 29th, 1860.</p> +<p>“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.</p> +<p>“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.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">“Yours truly,<br /> +“<span class="smcap">Edm. H. K. Lacon</span>.”</p> +<p>W. T. Clarke, Esq.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>At the Police Court, Mr. Owles again called attention to the +<a name="page266"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +266</span>“practical” joking question, when Sergeant +Barnes stated that the jokers “were attired in cloaks, and +one wore a uniform cap.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<h2><a name="page267"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +267</span>FOURTH SERIES, 1861–1872.</h2> +<blockquote><p>“When found, make a note +of”—</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Capt. +Cuttle</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<h3>1861.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd.—The poor rate assessment had been raised some +£14,000, and a 1s. 2d. rate thereon made.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 5th.—The Revenue cutter, in attempting to run for +the harbour, had fouled the pier and was sunk.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th.—“The strong frost had literally stopped +the river traffic.”</p> +<p>It had been decided to give £124 worth of coal to the +poor.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th.—Dr. Stephenson had been appointed Surgeon for +the South District.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 30th.—The Guardians were calling attention to the +“Compulsory Vaccination Act.”</p> +<p><a name="page268"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 268</span>Feb. +2nd.—The annual Sailors’ Home meeting had been held +in the new building on the Drive.</p> +<p>Mr. Henry R. Harmer had been appointed a Chancery +Commissioner.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 9th.—Two hundred and eighty-eight appeals had been +lodged against the Poor’s Rate.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th—“Costerton <i>v.</i> 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.</p> +<p>Feb. 20th.—The poll of the parish had closed as +under:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For applying the Vestry Act</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">737</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Against</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">414</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">323</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>March 2nd.—The Prince of Wales had visited the town +“incog.”</p> +<p>March 6th.—One Cox, “a magician of Friars’ +Lane,” had been before the Justices.</p> +<p>March 9th.—The Hon. Harbord Harbord had been hunting the +district with his pack of harriers during the week.</p> +<p>Part of a house had been blown down on the Regent Road.</p> +<p>March 13th.—The Artillery Corps had adopted white (in +lieu of blue) facings to their uniform.</p> +<p>March 16th.—The Fitzroy storm signals had been hoisted +in the town.</p> +<p><a name="page269"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 269</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 30th.—“Cufaude <i>v</i> 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. J. H. Harrison then made a complaint to the Court of +damages to his property by these “jokers.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p><a name="page270"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 270</span>The +following gentlemen had been elected Guardians:—</p> +<p><i>North Ward</i>—S. Nightingale, E. H. L. Preston, and +J. B. Hylton.</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>—C. C. Aldred, W. Laws, and J. +Fenn.</p> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>—W. Worship, R. D. Barber, and D. A. +Gourlay.</p> +<p><i>St. George’s Ward</i>—J. G. Plummer, C. E. +Bartram, and C. Miller.</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>—T. Brightwen, C. Woolverton, W. C. +Reynolds, and J. Clarke.</p> +<p>It was stated that only 7s. 6d. had been subscribed by the +lodging-house keepers to the Race Fund.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>“Great reductions” had been made upon the +Poor’s Rate appeals.</p> +<p>April 13th.—Captain Holmes had been appointed Adjutant +to the Rifle Volunteers.</p> +<p>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 <i>v.</i> Cory.” Mr. +Hotson attended it on behalf of Mr. Cory.</p> +<p>April 17th.—Two batteries of Royal Artillery had arrived +in the town.</p> +<p>April 20th.—A gunboat, with the men of the Revenue +cutter on board, had run into the pier-head.</p> +<p>An illuminated clock had been placed at the Sailors’ +Home.</p> +<p>A rule “nisi” had been granted in the action of +“Cufaude <i>v.</i> Cory” on the ground of excessive +damages.</p> +<p>April 27th.—The “Harmony,” missionary ship, +had been launched from Messrs. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>There had been “numerous” arrivals of invalids +from India at the R.N. Hospital.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 4th.—The Rifle Volunteers had held a +“Mess” at the Star Hotel, when Host Diver catered for +them.</p> +<p><a name="page271"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 271</span>May +8th.—The following “Census” returns had been +made for the parish:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Males.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Females.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Total.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Excess of Females.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>North Ward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3620</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4330</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7950</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">710</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Market Ward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2211</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2706</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4917</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">485</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Regent Ward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1553</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2382</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3935</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">829</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. George’s Ward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1777</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2419</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4196</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">632</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nelson Ward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3873</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4885</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8758</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1002</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,034</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16,722</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">29,756</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3658</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Workhouse</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">173</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">159</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">332</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,207</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16,881</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">30,088</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p>Estimate Gorleston & Southtown & +afloat</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6,000</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">36,088</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 18th.—So few mackerel had been brought in, that they +were selling at 1s. each.</p> +<p>May 22nd.—A very old house (formerly part of the +Convent) had fallen down in Friars’ lane.</p> +<p>There had been two military rows between the Royal Artillery +and the E.N. Militiamen.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 29th.—“Mace,” the local pugilist, (being +known in the neighbourhood) was being heavily +“backed” for the fight for the championship.</p> +<p>June 1st.—Sergeant Seeley (E.N.M.) had died from the +effects of choking himself by swallowing a piece of meat.</p> +<p>A “handsome new schooner” had been launched by Mr. +Brandford.</p> +<p>A “considerable number” of new fishing and +pleasure boats were being built at the port.</p> +<p><a name="page272"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 272</span>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.</p> +<p>June 8th.—The mackerel voyage had been very +unsuccessful.</p> +<p>A “Turkish” bath was to be opened in a few +week’s time.</p> +<p>June 15th—Mr. Frederick Danby-Palmer had passed the +legal examination (in honors.)</p> +<p>A case of alleged “Witchcraft” at Gorleston had +occupied the Bench.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>June 24th.—At 12 o’clock the poll stood—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Cory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">270</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chamberlin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">194</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>And closed—</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">366</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chamberlin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">269</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>June 25th.—it closed—</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">701</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chamberlin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">512</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>June 26th.—It finally closed—</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">848</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chamberlin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">620</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority for Cory</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">228</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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. <a +name="page273"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 273</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 10th.—Mr. S. B. Cory had commenced his duties of +Vestry Clerk.</p> +<p>The mackerel fishing was a failure, and the Summer fishing +“very slow.”</p> +<p>July 17th.—At the Water Frolic, the “Red +Rover” won the cutter, and the “Vampire” the +lateen, prize.</p> +<p>The Rev. H. Squire had, after a pastorate of 30 years, +resigned the Unitarian Chapel Ministry.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A “furious tempest, including thunder, whirlwind, and +lightning” had burst over the town.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 7th.—The Vestry Clerk and the Overseers could not +“gee” together.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Aug. 17th.—The Rifle Volunteers were holding their Prize +Shooting Match on the North Denes. Messrs. Wilshak, +Ferrier, and Swann had won prizes.</p> +<p>A great shoal of dog-fish had visited the Eastern coast.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page274"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 274</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Aug. 28th.—Two ladies had been robbed of their watches +on the Wellington Pier.</p> +<p>Sept. 7th.—The Volunteers were drilling for the review +at Holkham.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Drapers (with one exception) had agreed to close on +Thursdays at four o’clock.</p> +<p>Sep. 18th.—The Volunteer Corps under the command of +Major Marsh and Major Orde, had attended the Review at +Holkham.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th.—The Volunteers had, after their return from +Holkham, “annoyed and disturbed the inhabitants by an +irregular firing of musketry” in the streets.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 2nd.—Mr. E. P. Youell was mentioned as the next +Mayor. He was described as “not a prejudiced partizan +on either side.”</p> +<p><a name="page275"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 275</span>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.</p> +<p>The following was the list of winners:—</p> +<p>“Tradesmen’s Cup,” Mr. Fyson; 2nd prize, Mr. +Hudspith.</p> +<p>“A Neck Pin,” Captain Youell; “A Cup,” +Mr. Wilshak; and other prizes Messrs. Gunton, Teasdel, Banham, +Osborn, Kennett, and Swann.</p> +<p>“The Ladies’ Challenge Cup,” Mr. Fenner; and +“The Officers’ Cup,” Captain Tomlinson.</p> +<p>Oct. 12th.—Extensive repairs were being carried on at +the Southtown Barracks.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd.—It was stated that Mr. Palmer was to be the +new Mayor.</p> +<p>Mr. D. Hogarth (Postmaster) had died.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th.—The Lord Bishop had held a Confirmation in +the Parish Church.</p> +<p>Eleven hundred persons had been excused from payment of the +Poor’s Rate.</p> +<p>Oct. 30th.—Mr. Neave and Mr. Livingston (Radicals) were +going to contest the North and Regent Wards respectively.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Justices had signed a 1s. 2d. Poor’s Rate.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd.—The trawling business was increasing, 100 +smacks then hailing from the port.</p> +<p>Two new vessels had been launched at Southtown, one for Mr. +Womack and one for Mr. Powell.</p> +<p>Mr. Todd had also built a new smack called the +“Christiana.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page276"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 276</span><span +class="GutSmall">MUNICIPAL ELECTION.</span></p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A new Lifeboat had been stationed near the Britannia Pier.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 27th.—Mr. Downing’s fish-offices had been +destroyed by fire.</p> +<p><a name="page277"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 277</span>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.</p> +<p>The Artillery Volunteers had salved a boat and obtained +£7 salvage money to the annoyance of the Beachmen</p> +<p>The Parish Authorities “remained at loggerheads” +with the Vestry Clerk.</p> +<p>In the opinion of the inhabitants the “robes +question” seemed only a plan to run up a bill for another +“folly.”</p> +<p>The Police had been furnished with “Southwester” +hats.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th.—It was stated that the robe business had +cropped up, as the Mayor was going to Court, and it was felt</p> +<blockquote><p>“That if, this year, the Mayor’s not +knighted,<br /> +The Corporate ‘status’ will be blighted.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Herring was making £35 per last, and 1,000 packages of +trawl fish had been forwarded to the market.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th.—“Deerfoot,” an American runner, +had been performing in the town, when he accomplished 10 miles in +53 minutes.</p> +<p>The Treasurer to the Rifle Corps (Mr. Clarke) and the +Quarter-Master (Mr. C. Diver) were about to be appointed +Supernumerary Lieutenants.</p> +<p>Dec. 18th.—Owing to the death of the Prince Consort, the +paper appeared in mourning.</p> +<p>The flags had been hoisted at half-mast on the Town Hall and +other public buildings on receipt of this mournful news.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st.—The Artillery Volunteers had given an +entertainment at the Theatre.</p> +<p>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 <i>Saul</i> was played, and the Rifle Volunteers +returned with muffled drums, the bells ringing at the same +time.</p> +<p><a name="page278"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 278</span>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.</p> +<p>The Town Council met and voted an address of condolence to Her +Majesty.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Rifle Corps had again on the invitation of Major Orde +visited Hopton.</p> +<h3>1862.</h3> +<p>Jan. 4th.—Parcels containing Christmas fare “had +fallen among thieves” on the Railway.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>It was again proposed to start a Conservative Newspaper in +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Jan. 25th.—At the Gorleston Vestry Meeting the Church +Rate was not pressed for.</p> +<p>Feb. 8th.—The Corporation’s costs in “Morant +<i>v.</i> Chamberlin” amounted to £1,402 17s. 6d.</p> +<p>Feb. 19th.—Mr. A. W. Morant had resigned his commission +in the Artillery Volunteers.</p> +<p>A cargo of pickled herrings had arrived from Norway.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page279"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +279</span>March. 5th.—The Town Council had determined to +oppose the “Railway Amalgamation Bill.”</p> +<p>March 12th.—Private H. Fenner (Champion Rifle Volunteer +Shot) had been elected a Sergeant.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In the Divorce Court, the case of “Burroughs <i>v</i> +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.</p> +<p>March 22nd.—Mr. Henry Danby-Palmer had died +suddenly.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 16th.—The East Suffolk Artillery Militia was +stationed at the Southtown Barracks.</p> +<p>April 26th.—Colonel Adair (commanding that Regiment) had +delivered a lecture at the Corn Hall “On the land defences +of the Eastern Counties.”</p> +<p>Upon this Regiment leaving; the Norfolk Artillery Militia, +under Colonel Astley, were to occupy the Barracks for five +weeks.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 30th.—Colonel Pippon had inspected the E.N.M. on +the South Denes, when the Regiment mustered 700 rank and +file.</p> +<p>“Tom Sayers’” Circus had attended the +Fair.</p> +<p>May 3rd.—Owing to want of funds the Parish Beadle at +Gorleston had been discharged.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 14th.—It was proposed to erect a Memorial to the +late Prince Consort in the town.</p> +<p><a name="page280"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +280</span>Practical joking still continued in the Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The following table of precedence had been drawn up by the +Council:—</p> +<p>1.—The Mayor.</p> +<p>2.—The Recorder.</p> +<p>3.—The Town Clerk.</p> +<p>4.—The M.P.’s for the Borough.</p> +<p>5.—The Members of the Council who had served the office +of Mayor according to priority of election.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At the Parish Audit, the Auditor remarked that “in some +instances the amount (of the rate) excused exceeded the sum +collected.”</p> +<p>May 17th.—The following appears as to the Corporate +Robes of Office:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“THE ROBES OF OFFICE.”</span></p> +<p>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 <i>handsome</i> 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.</p> +<p>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 <i>costume</i> 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 <a +name="page281"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 281</span>“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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page282"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +282</span>For the Vestry Clerk</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">143</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Against him</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And next morning Mr. Marsh attended and declared the poll +closed.</p> +<p>May 28th.—Five vessels of war (part of the Channel +fleet) were in the Roads.</p> +<p>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.”)</p> +<p>June 4th.—This issue contains the following account +of</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“THE CHANNEL FLEET AND PRINCE +ALFRED.”</span></p> +<p>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 +<a name="page283"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 283</span>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, +<i>incognito</i>, 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 <a name="page284"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +284</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page285"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 285</span>The +Ball at the Town Hall was well attended, and went off with great +<i>éclat</i>. 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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Colonel Ibetson had inspected the Rifle Volunteers on the +Denes.</p> +<p>The “Ino” (a pleasure boat) had capsized when +alongside the “St. George,” but all the people in her +were saved.</p> +<p>June 11th.—At the Vestry Meeting, the “Small +Tenements Act” was proposed to be applied to the +parish.</p> +<p>Several houses and men had been struck by lightning during a +thunderstorm.</p> +<p>June 14th.—The programme for the Volunteer Review had +been published; it was expected that 3,324 men would take part in +it.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page286"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 286</span>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.”</p> +<p>June 28th.—Major Marsh (of the artillery) had resigned +his commission.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 12th.—“Blondin” had been performing at +the Victoria Gardens.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>July 19th.—Mr. Henry R. Harmer had been appointed an +Admiralty Commissioner.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Caister Lifeboat had been struck by lightning while on the +Beach and several persons who were taking shelter under her bow +injured.</p> +<p><a name="page287"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 287</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page288"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 288</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. S. Nightingale had backed his “Red Rover” +against Mr. Barber’s “Wanderer” for four +matches at £50 aside.</p> +<p>Thieves had “drank the Sacramental wine and robbed the +Poor’s box” at the Independent Chapel, Gorleston.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>August 23rd.—It was proposed to raise a Rifle Corps at +Ormesby.</p> +<p>August 27th.—Sir H. Stracey, had invited the members of +the Corporation to spend a day at Rackheath.</p> +<p>August 30th.—Sir E. Lacon, Bart., had been gazetted +Major of the N.A.V., (vice Marsh resigned.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Council had determined to place an illuminated clock on +the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The Southtown Barracks had been repaired at considerable +expense.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 10th.—This shooting had been continued, and prizes +won by Sergeant Pearson, Sergeant Swann, and Volunteer +Barrett.</p> +<p>Sept. 17th.—The High Sheriff of Norfolk had given a +grand Volunteer Review and Fête at Crown Point, the Norfolk +Artillery <a name="page289"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +289</span>(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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Next day the High Sheriff also entertained upwards of 4,000 +poor people at Crown Point.</p> +<p>Sept. 20th.—Mr. Fenner and Mr. Chipperfield had been +shooting well at the County Association Meeting.</p> +<p>Messrs. Youell and Co., (Florists) had won two prizes at the +Kensington Autumn Flower Show.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Mr. G. V. Brooke was attracting crowded houses at the +Theatre.</p> +<p>Oct. 4th.—A French and an English corvette were on this +station to protect the fisheries.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page290"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 290</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At the Police Court, Mr. Gardiner, Editor of the <i>Yarmouth +Independent</i>, 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.”</p> +<p>Oct. 18th.—A narrative of the proceedings at the +Volunteer Review had been prepared by Mr. C. J. Palmer, and +published.</p> +<p>Oct. 22nd.—There had been disastrous storms at sea, and +it was known that four vessels had foundered in the roads.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>One thousand persons had visited the Exhibition (London) by a +cheap train.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th.—The Mayor had entertained a large party of +invited guests at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The Dutchmen had already arrived “in the schuyts or +sea-tubs” for the fishing.</p> +<p>Nov. 1st.—Several shipments of herring had been made for +the Mediterranean.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 8th.—Line fishing from boats and the Britannia Pier +had become a fashionable amusement.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page291"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 291</span>Sir +E. H. K. Lacon proposed, and C. J. Palmer, Esq., seconded, the +re-election of the Mayor, which motion was carried <i>nem. +dis.</i>, and the retiring aldermen, Messrs. J. T. Bracey, J. +Bunn, B. Fenn, H. R. Harmer, W. Laws, and W. Mabson were +re-elected.</p> +<p>Nov. 19th.—The prizes recently shot for by the Rifle +Volunteers had been distributed at the Victoria Gardens by the +Mayor.</p> +<p>Nov. 22nd.—The local Charity Trustees’ scheme for +the establishment of a Grammar School had been approved by the +Charity Commissioners.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In one day 1,500 lasts of herring had been brought into the +harbour.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 13th.—Two hundred barrels of herring had been sent +to Manchester for the Relief Fund by the fish merchants.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 20th.—During the week more than 600 articles of +wearing apparel had been forwarded to Manchester for the Relief +Fund.</p> +<p>The fishing had proved a “successful and profitable +season.”</p> +<p>Dec. 24th.—Mr. Rust had launched a fine new brig for the +Mediterranean trade.</p> +<p>Dec. 27th.—£850 had been raised for the Lancashire +Relief Fund.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st.—Steps were being taken to induce the Norfolk +Agricultural Association to visit Yarmouth.</p> +<p>The Rev. B. Vaux had presided at the Hospital meeting.</p> +<p>The Artillery and Rifle Volunteers had been brigaded together +on the South Denes.</p> +<h3><a name="page292"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +292</span>1863.</h3> +<p>Jan. 10th.—An inquiry was being held in respect of +certain charges against the crew of the lifeboat.</p> +<p>Mr. B. Fenn had presided at the annual library meeting.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. E. P. Youell had executed some sleight-of-hand tricks <i>a +la Frickel</i> with neatness and dexterity at the Priory +Entertainment.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th.—Four hundred persons sat down to tea at the +Tract Lenders’ Festival.</p> +<p>A prize fight had taken place near the town, on a marsh next +the Acle Road.</p> +<p>Jan. 24th.—There had been a “tremendous +gale.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 14th.—Harriet Cattermole had jumped into the river, +but had been floated by her crinoline until rescued by the +police.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 25th.—C. J. Palmer, Esq., (the President), had +taken the chair at the meeting of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ +Society, when it appeared <a name="page293"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 293</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>March 16th.—The town had been <i>en fete</i> 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 <i>feu de joie</i> in the Market-place.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page294"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +294</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 28th.—The Poor’s Rate, (which had been 1s. +8d.), was reduced to 1s. 2d. in the £.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Coxon, postmaster, had died somewhat suddenly.</p> +<p><a name="page295"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 295</span>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.</p> +<p>April 18th.—The East Norfolk Militia had mustered 780 +strong at their annual training.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>J. G. Plummer, Esq., J.P., and a member of the Council, had +died.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>H.M.S. “Porcupine” was in the Roads.</p> +<p>An “Old Crome” late the property of Mr. Hunt, had +been sold for £110 to Mr. J. J. Colman.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Norfolk Artillery Militia, under command of Colonel +Astley, had assembled, 600 strong, for its annual training.</p> +<p>Mr. Marsh’s wine and spirit stores at the corner of +Regent and King Streets, had been sold by auction for +£3,210.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page296"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 296</span>May +27th.—This contest terminated for:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>W. J. Brand</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">150</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Rivett</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">145</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>June 3rd.—The Bishop had ordained five deacons and four +priests at St. Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 10th.—The “Red Rover” had reached +Sheerness in nine hours on her way to compete at Erith for the +Prince of Wales’ Cup.</p> +<p>The deliveries of mackerel had been “very +small.”</p> +<p>June 17th.—The Bill for incorporating the Yarmouth Gas +Company was before the Committee of the House of Commons.</p> +<p>June 20th.—Mr. Jeremiah Barnes had passed the Legal +Examination.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Miss Caroline Fellows (Mrs. Tomkins) had obtained the National +Medallion for drawing at the Kensington competition.</p> +<p>The Committee of the Commons had declared the preamble of the +Gas Bill proved.</p> +<p><a name="page297"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 297</span>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. Youell, florists, were displaying beautiful specimens +of the “Lilium Giganteum.”</p> +<p>July 4th.—The “Egbert,” barque, of 410 tons +register, had been launched from Messrs. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>The new Assembly Rooms were proving a great attraction to +visitors; the Artillery Band had been engaged by the +directors.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 11th.—Mr. Morant had resigned the Town +Surveyorship.</p> +<p>The magistrates on the salvage rota had been restrained from +charging, as heretofore, fees of £2 2s. by the Secretary of +State.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Three thousand excursionists had arrived in one day from East +Suffolk.</p> +<p>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, <a name="page298"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +298</span>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page299"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +299</span>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.”</p> +<p>The Fleet were, however, compelled to leave on the Sunday +afternoon.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>And at the Water Frolic, the “Red Rover” (S. +Nightingale, Esq.,) had beaten the “Wanderer” (R. +Harvey, Esq.,) and the “Little Yankee” (Captain +Cholmondley).</p> +<p>The Regatta Dinner had been held at the Norfolk Hotel, +(Winder, proprietor).</p> +<p>£80 had been realised at the Bazaar.</p> +<p>Aug. 5th.—The Volunteers had been inspected on the South +Denes by Colonel Ibbetson.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 12th.—It was noted that the two drinking fountains +were not used by the public.</p> +<p>Aug. 19th—Bishop Hills had preached at St. +Nicholas’ Church in aid of the Columbia Mission.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Artillery Volunteers (170 strong) had been inspected by +Colonel Knox.</p> +<p>Aug. 22nd.—One thousand excursionists had arrived from +Newmarket and Bury.</p> +<p><a name="page300"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 300</span>The +Town Clerk stated in Council that the costs of the Corporation in +opposing the Gas Bill would amount to £800.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th.—The memorial stone of the new Baptist Chapel +on the Denes had been laid by J. J. Colman, Esq.</p> +<p>Sept. 2nd.—Records the death of Samuel C. Marsh, Esq., +“after a prolonged and grievous affliction.”</p> +<p>Sept. 5th.—Mr. Falcke was suggested as a candidate for +the Regent Ward to fill the late Mr. Marsh’s place in the +Council.</p> +<p>Sept. 9th.—The “Justice Roll” could not be +found, and there was a “scene” on the Bench in +consequence.</p> +<p>Sept. 16th.—On Licensing Day there had been the usual +“drum up” of Justices, who were classed as follows by +the editor:—</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Three hundred lasts of herring had been landed in one day, +“but proving of inferior quality,” had scarcely +realised £10 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>At the Registration Court, Mr. Clowes appeared for the +Liberals, and Mr. W. C. Reynolds for the Tories.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page301"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 301</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Regent Ward Election had terminated—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Stagg</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">83</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Livingston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">57</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Sept. 30th.—James Scott and William Briggs, Esqs., had +qualified as Justices.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd.—Corporal H. H. Baker had won the Champion +Medal at the Artillery Volunteer Prize Shooting.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th.—The Market had been “glutted” with +fish, and the prices consequently remained very low.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 21st.—Mr. Newcomb had been appointed +Postmaster.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Bishop had confirmed 180 young persons at St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th.—The following had been the result of the +Municipal Election:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Messrs. Bessey and Nightingale (Cons.) not +opposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page302"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 302</span><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Messrs. W. C. Reynolds and W. Wright (Cons.) +not opposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Messrs. Palmer and Foreman (Cons.) not +opposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. H. Harrison (politics doubtful)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">148</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Clark (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">129</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Clowes (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">81</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Barnby (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Nuthall (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Bivett (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>G. W. Clowes (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">70</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Richmond (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">251</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gooda(Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">220</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rivett (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">100</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>There had been a very heavy gale from the N.N.W.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <i>nem dis</i>.</p> +<p>The Government had purchased the waste ground between the R.N. +Hospital and the Drive, and were about to enclose it.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 25th.—Five corn stacks, valued at upwards of +£600, had been burnt on Mr. Hammond’s premises at +Gorleston.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th.—The sum of £135 had been raised for the +purpose of presenting a testimonial to the Mayor.</p> +<p>The price of gas had been reduced to 4s. 6d. per 1,000 cubic +feet.</p> +<p><a name="page303"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 303</span>Mr. +Critten had launched a new lifeboat, named “The Friend of +all Nations.”</p> +<p>Dec. 5th.—Tremendous gales from the S.S.W. had visited +the coast and much damage done to the shipping.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th.—The new Methodist Chapel at Burgh had been +partly blown down by the gale.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The presentation took place at the Drill-room, Regent-street, +when the Mayor presided, and Captains Foreman and Barber also +addressed the Volunteers.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd.—The thirteen smacks above-named were still +missing.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Mayor’s Testimonial Fund had reached the sum of +£200.</p> +<p>The “Medusa” frigate was searching for the missing +smacks.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The following gentlemen then held commissions in the local +Volunteer Corps.</p> +<p>Artillery.—Major, Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.; Captains, +W. J. Foreman, John Lee Barber, and H. P. Green; First +Lieutenants, A. <a name="page304"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +304</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>N.B.—The file for the +Year</i> 1864 <i>is missing</i>.</p> +<h3>1865.</h3> +<p>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).</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 18th.—John Barker, Esq., one of the Borough +Magistrates and a Haven Commissioner, had died in his 69th +year.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Antelope” cutter had been launched from Mr. +Winter’s yard, for Messrs. Smith and Son.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page305"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 305</span>Feb. +15th.—A “very violent storm” had arisen at the +meeting of the Corporation Committee sitting upon the Haven and +Port Bill.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The fishing interest had held a meeting (Mr. B. Fenn in the +chair), and condemned the proposed Corporation Fishwharf +scheme.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 11th.—Mr. H. Boulter, for many years one of the +Councillors for the North Ward, had died.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 25th.—At the contest in the North Ward, consequent +on the death of Mr. Boulter, the numbers were—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>J. H. Bly (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. F. Neave (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">76</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Hopton Church, which had recently been destroyed by fire, was +to be rebuilt on a new site at a cost of £2,500.</p> +<p>April 1st.—During a heavy gale the vessels “Jenny +R” and “Londonderry” had been stranded on the +Beach.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page306"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 306</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The shipwrights, who had been on strike, had returned to their +employment.</p> +<p>April 22nd.—The debt on St. Nicholas’ Church was +then £6,700.</p> +<p>The contest in the Nelson Ward had resulted as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>H. H. Barber (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">150</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. K. Smith (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">117</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And “the proceedings throughout the day had all the +characteristics of a general election.”</p> +<p>Messrs. C. S. D. Steward and E. R. Aldred had been re-elected +Churchwardens by the Vestry.</p> +<p>May 13th.—The “George” schooner had been +launched from Mr. Rust’s yard.</p> +<p>May 27th.—There had been no special demonstration of +loyalty on the Queen’s birthday.</p> +<p>The Dowager Lady Lacon had bequeathed £200 to the +Hospital.</p> +<p>A “French Club,” of which M. Butel was the tutor, +was meeting at the Norfolk Hotel.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 17th.—H.M.S. “Dauntless,” 31 guns, was +anchored in the Roads.</p> +<p>Mr. S. Barge had obtained the contract for enclosing the land +to the east of the Naval Hospital.</p> +<p>Mr. H. R. Harmer had been presented with an elegant silver +salver <a name="page307"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +307</span>upon the occasion of his resigning his commission of +Lieutenant in the Rifle Volunteers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Conservatives had also held a meeting, convened by +circular, which had been addressed by Sir E. H. K. Lacon and Mr. +Goodson.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The farmers in East Norfolk were agitating for a repeal of the +Malt Tax, and had adopted Mr. Clare Sewell Read as their +candidate.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The show of hands was by an “immense majority” +found in favour of Messrs. Brogden and Vanderbyl.</p> +<p>The polling took place on the following day, and this +description is given of</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page308"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 308</span><span +class="GutSmall">“THE ELECTION.”</span></p> +<p>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">State of the +Poll.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Nine +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">298</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">294</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">235</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">226</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Ten +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">541</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">526</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">447</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">425</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Eleven +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">608</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">574</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">506</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">481</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page309"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 309</span>Twelve +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">746</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">712</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">595</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">557</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">One +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">758</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">708</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">610</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">571</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Two +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">798</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">757</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">618</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">573</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Four +o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">828</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">784</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brogden</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">634</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Vanderbyl</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">589</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>The following detail is given of the polling in +the various Wards.</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Lacon.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Goodson.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Brogden.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Vanderbyl.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Nicholas’</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">86</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">78</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">74</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Market</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">146</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">140</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">120</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">109</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Regent</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">152</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">146</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">106</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. George’s</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">104</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">100</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">96</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nelson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">189</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">173</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">138</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">130</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Southtown</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">146</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">139</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">96</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">86</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">828</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">784</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">634</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">589</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>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, <a +name="page310"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 310</span>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>July 22nd.—The voting in the town of Yarmouth had been, +with regard to this contest, as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Coke</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">340</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Beauchamp</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">314</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Howes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">297</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Read</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">267</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>But the general return was—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Howes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,100</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Read</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,985</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Beauchamp</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,150</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Coke</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,994</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>July 29th.—The Regatta had, owing to the exertions of F. +Harmer, Esq., been very successfully conducted.</p> +<p>A Swimming Association had been formed in the town, and Mr. +George Archard had won the 1,000 yards match.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. J. Clowes, (solicitor), appeared for the appellants, and +Mr. C. Diver, for the respondents.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 30th.—The Rifle Volunteers were competing for +prizes.</p> +<p><a name="page311"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 311</span>Sept. +6th.—The Volunteer Rifle Corps had mustered 230 strong when +inspected by Colonel Deshon.</p> +<p>Mr. Shales, of the Star-hotel, had been thrown from his horse +on the Drive, and fractured his collar-bone.</p> +<p>Sept. 9th.—The Band of the Coldstream Guards had been +performing at the Victoria Gardens, and on the Wellington +Pier.</p> +<p>Sept. 20th.—The Haven Commissioners had drafted certain +clauses to be inserted in the New Haven Bill.</p> +<p>Owing to the high prices of provision, strikes were threatened +by the working men.</p> +<p>Sept. 23rd.—The Band of the 13th Hussars had given two +concerts at the Victoria Gardens.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th.—Herring was selling at from £23 to +£25 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st.—Albert Hensman had been killed by Henrich +Erenschinsen at the City of London tavern.</p> +<p>Oct. 21st.—The Poor Law Inquiry had been resumed, and +was proceeding at the Tolhouse before Sir J. Walsham.</p> +<p>Prime herring was fetching £35 per last.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th.—There had been a heavy gale from the N.E.</p> +<p>Oct. 28th.—One hundred and thirty young persons had been +confirmed by the Bishop of Norwich.</p> +<p>Nov. 1st.—It was reported that 21 lives had been lost in +the recent gale.</p> +<p><a name="page312"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 312</span>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th.—The demand for herring continued very great, +and prices ranged up to £28 per last.</p> +<p>Mr. Neave had been declared to be elected a Guardian (in the +place of Mr. Shuckford) by the Poor Law Board.</p> +<p>Nov. 25th.—The Rifle Volunteer Shooting prizes had been +presented (the Mayor presiding) at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The Ladies’ Challenge Cup was on this occasion handed +over to Private Pestell.</p> +<p>B. Fenn, Esq., (one of the Justices, and formerly an Alderman +of the Borough) had died at the age of 73 years.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 13th.—The cattle plague had attacked the cows in +Mr. Fox’s and Mr. Thacker’s dairies.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd.—An Art Exhibition was being held at the Town +Hall, where J. Owles, Esq’s. china was much admired.</p> +<p>Dec. 30th.—There had been a meeting of farmers to +consider a proposed Cattle Plague Rate of 2d. in the £.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>N.B.—The file for the +Year</i> 1866 <i>is missing</i>.</p> +<h3><a name="page313"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +313</span>1867.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>David Falcke, Esq., had died; his widow had sent £5 for +the poor of the town.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th.—The “South-end Mission,” which +had been erected at a cost of £500, had been opened: the +Corporation attended this ceremony.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There had been heavy gales; much damage sustained by the +shipping; the Railway traffic had been impeded by the +snowdrifts.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th.—A meeting had been held to relieve the +distress of the poor, when £289 was raised in the room.</p> +<p>Dr. Moxon had presided at the anniversary meeting of the +“Sir Edmund Lacon” Lodge, N.I.O.F., held at the +Volunteer tavern.</p> +<p>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—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Mr. Charles Cory (Town-clerk)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, ,, Robert Steward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">24</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, ,, E. H. L. Preston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Feb. 27th.—Mr. Rumbold had been unanimously elected (in +the place of Harbert retired), one of the relieving officers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page314"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 314</span>On +the revision of the Proxy Book, Mr. C. Diver had appeared for the +Conservatives and Mr. F. Danby-Palmer for the Liberals.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Eighteen hundred and sixty-seven changes had been rung on St. +Nicholas’ bells on the 1st and 2nd inst., by the Parish +ringers.</p> +<p>March 6th.—The proposal of the Government to +disfranchise the Borough was the subject of general comment.</p> +<p>W. H. Bessey, Esq., J.P. and Town Councillor, had died in his +68th year.</p> +<p>March 9th.—The Town Council had adopted a petition to +Parliament deprecating the proposed disfranchisement of the +Borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The seat on the newly constructed Haven Board held by the +shipowners had been contested with the following +result:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>For Mr. Watling</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">191</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ Mr. Scott</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">91</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>And the former was consequently elected.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page315"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 315</span>The +following Guardians had been elected:—</p> +<p><i>North Ward</i>: Messrs. S. Nightingale, J. T. Buston, and +J. F. Neave.</p> +<p><i>Market Ward</i>: Messrs. W. Laws, C. C. Aldred, and J. +Rivett.</p> +<p><i>Regent Ward</i>: Messrs. W. Worship, R. D. Barber, and C. +Diver.</p> +<p><i>St. George’s Ward</i>: Messrs. W. T. Foreman, C. +Moore, and E. Stagg.</p> +<p><i>Nelson Ward</i>: Messrs. G. W. Moore, J. Clowes, C. +Woolverton, and H. H. Barber.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 24th.—Messrs. Spence, Everard, Moore, Fenner, +Veale, Neave, Harrison, Douglas and Silvers had been upset on +Ormesby Broad and narrowly escaped drowning.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 4th.—The East Norfolk Militia had been inspected by +Colonel Ross, and the Officers had given a ball at the Town +Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 22nd.—Mr. Edmond Beales had attended a Reform +Demonstration held on the Hall Quay, when the Rev. Shelley +occupied the chair.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The Ringers being still “on strike,” the Church +bells were silent on this occasion.</p> +<p>June 5th.—The House of Commons had passed the clause +disfranchising the Borough.</p> +<p>A halibut had been caught by one of the fishing craft, +measuring 6 feet long, 30 inches broad, and weighing 161 lbs.</p> +<p>June 8th.—The marriage of Joseph Tomlinson, Esq., to +Miss Ellen Larkman, had been celebrated, with much rejoicing, at +Belton Church.</p> +<p><a name="page316"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 316</span>June +12th.—There had been an alarming fire on Mr. Barnes’ +and Mr. Gooda’s premises at Southtown.</p> +<p>June 29th.—And another fire at Gorleston on Mr. +Kemp’s premises, where the damage was estimated at from +£1,200 to £1,500.</p> +<p>Captain Smyth, R.N. (Pier Master) had been granted a Greenwich +Hospital out-pension of £65 a year.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>E. H. L. Preston, Esq., had been nominated a Knight of the +Belgian Order of Leopold.</p> +<p>July 13th.—The “Hermit” (smack) had been +launched for Mr. H. K. Swann, from Mr. Ambrose J. Palmer’s +yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Only three yawls competed with the following +results:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">S.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Glance”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">58</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Star of the East”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">46</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Eclipse”</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">30</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 24th.—The Mayor had given a ball at his residence +at Gorleston, when about 60 ladies and gentlemen were +present.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page317"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 317</span>Sep. +7th.—The Mortuary Chapel at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, +Caister Road, had been consecrated by the Roman Catholic Bishop +of Demerara.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sep. 11th.—The Fish Wharves and Market were nearly +completed and would shortly be opened; they had cost about +£12,000.</p> +<p>The fire engines had been condemned and were about to be +replaced by more powerful ones constructed by Messrs. Shand and +Mason.</p> +<p>Sep. 14th.—Herring was selling at from £12 to +£15 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sep. 21st.—Prime herring was selling at £30 per +last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th.—Owing to a glut of fish, some herring were +selling so low as £6 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A small steam boat, the property of Mr. Laurie, had been +launched from Mr. Blyth’s iron works at Cobholm.</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page318"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 318</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>James Sharman, a Trafalgar veteran and keeper of the Nelson +Monument, had died at the age of 82 years.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>T. George (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">124</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. Todd (Ind.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">114</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Livingston (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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).</p> +<p>Dec. 4th.—There had been a “tremendous gale and +tide,” and Southtown was flooded.</p> +<p>Dec. 7th.—The “Rescuer” Gorleston lifeboat +had been upset at the Harbour’s mouth and 25 lives +lost.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1868.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st.—A. Brogden, Esq., had given 20 tons of coals +to the poor of the borough.</p> +<p>Jan. 8th.—“Fenian scare.” The +Magistrates had held a private Meeting, which was attended by +Major Jones and Captain Scovell, (96th <a +name="page319"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 319</span>Regiment) +with a view to adopting measures for the more efficient +protection of property within the borough.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th.—The “United Brothers” Lodge, +A.I.O.F., had held its 4th annual festival in St. John’s +Schoolroom.</p> +<p>Jan. 15th.—Mr. Matthew Butcher, junr., had been +appointed Consular Agent to the Italian Government at +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th.—The lugger “Flying Fish” had +struck upon a sunken wreck, and immediately foundered.</p> +<p>The “North Sand” had dried to a very considerable +extent.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 26th.—Contains the account of the presentation, at +the Cape, of a watch and address to Captain F. Diver, of the +“Roman.”</p> +<p>March 7th.—Mr. S. Aldred had been appointed treasurer to +the Race Committee (vice Mr. C. Steward, deceased.)</p> +<p>Mr. C. C. Newcomb, post-master, had died.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<blockquote><p>“<span class="smcap">The Cigar +Ship</span>.—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 <a name="page320"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 320</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 8th—Messrs. Ellis, Pestell, Skoulding, and Harbord +had been re-appointed overseers.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 2nd.—The “Everette” had foundered at her +anchors in the Roads.</p> +<p>The Fish Wharf was to be extended 1,100 feet, for which work +Mr. Parmenter’s tender of £1,375 had been +accepted.</p> +<p>May 23rd.—The property “without the Walls” +had been for the first time assessed to the land tax.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 30th,—That Regiment had been inspected by Colonel +Knox.</p> +<p>June 6th.—Mr. Shuckford, Master of the Workhouse, had +died.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page321"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 321</span>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.</p> +<p>July 4th.—Mr. and Mrs. Blyth had been elected Master and +Matron of the Workhouse.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>July 11th.—Fifty thousand mackerel had been landed in +one day and sold at from 10s. to 12s. per 120.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. C. Woolverton, E. R. Aldred, C. E. Bartram, and R. D. +Barber had been “secretly” appointed Justices by the +Lord Chancellor.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Simmons had made a successful balloon ascent from the +Victoria Gardens.</p> +<p>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. <a name="page322"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 322</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 19th.—Gorleston had been made one of the polling +places for East Suffolk.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The “Sultana” (brig of 301 tons) had been launched +from Messrs. Fellows’ yard for Messrs. Stone and +Company.</p> +<p><a name="page323"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 323</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There was a glut of herring, and prices “ruled +low.”</p> +<p>Oct. 21st.—This state of affairs continued, and prices +only averaged from £7 to £8 per last.</p> +<p>Oct. 28th.—There had been heavy gales, with loss of life +at sea, which had interrupted the fishing.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th.—James Coleby had escaped from the Borough +Gaol.</p> +<p>The polling in the contested Wards had terminated as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. Stagg (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">177</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Burton (Con)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">128</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. Todd (Ind.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">92</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. C. Aldred (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">174</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>E. Fyson (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">158</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. F. Neave (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">133</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. G. Overend (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">119</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. P. Baumgartner (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">276</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>F. Dendy (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">274</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>H. Teasdel (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">173</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. Dumbleton (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">176</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The Liberals thus gaining two seats at Gorleston.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page324"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 324</span>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.</p> +<p>And Mr. H. Teasdel (the recently defeated candidate at +Southtown) was appointed an Alderman in the place of Mr. John +Brown.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th.—There had been heavy gales from the N.N.W., +and a schooner had been driven through the Britannia Pier.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th.—The poll had been declared as +under:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Walpole</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,642</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,574</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wodehouse</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,237</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gurdon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,081</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>At Yarmouth it was stated that:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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:—</p> +</blockquote> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">948</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Walpole</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">890</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wodehouse</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">505</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gurdon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">469</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p><a name="page325"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +325</span>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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Dec. 12th.—Mr. Nutman (Relieving Officer for the North +District) had died.</p> +<p>It was alleged that an “aged imbecile pauper,” had +been taken out of Rollesby Workhouse by a Guardian to vote for +the Tory candidates.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Admiralty Jurisdiction had been conferred on the Yarmouth +County Court.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<h3><a name="page326"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +326</span>1869.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 6th.—Mr. J. D. Hayes had been elected one of the +Relieving Officers in the place of Mr. Nutman deceased.</p> +<p>John Coleby alias “Jack Sheppard,” who had +recently broken out of gaol, had been re-captured.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. W. Doughty (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">104</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Hammond (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 17th.—There had been severe gales from the +Eastward, causing much damage to shipping.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 27th—The boiler of the “Bold +Buccleugh,” Hull steamer, had exploded while that vessel +was at her Yarmouth Wharf.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Chipperfield (the late Secretary) had been presented with +a testimonial by the Yarmouth Building Society.</p> +<p>Two otters had, during a run of the harriers, been captured in +a field near Thrigby Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page327"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 327</span>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.</p> +<p>Messrs. C. S. D. Steward and E. R. Aldred had been re-elected +Churchwardens.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Rifle Corps had held a Church parade.</p> +<p>April 17th.—William Danby-Palmer, Esq., had accepted the +command of the local batteries of Artillery Volunteers.</p> +<p> </p> +<p>Major Orde had presided at the soireé of the Norfolk +and Suffolk Building Society held in the Corn Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The Duke’s Head had been purchased by Mr. Davey for +£1,520.</p> +<p>May 12th.—The Officers of the East Norfolk Militia had +given a ball to 200 persons at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 12th.—Mr. Charles Cory (Town Clerk) had died of +gastric fever in Italy in his 57th year.</p> +<p>June 16th.—Messrs. Charles J. Palmer, C. Diver, and H. +R. Harmer were candidates for the office thus rendered +vacant.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. H. Orde</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. E. H. L. Preston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>July 14th.—The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers (under +command of Captain W. Danby-Palmer) had attended St. +Peter’s Church.</p> +<p><a name="page328"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 328</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Aug. 4th.—The late P. Stead, Esq., had bequeathed +£1,000 to the Hospital.</p> +<p>Aug. 28th.—The corner-stone of the Grammar School on +Trafalgar Road had been laid by S. Nightingale, Esq. +(Mayor).</p> +<p>Sept. 11th.—Upwards of 300 lasts of herring had been +landed at the Fish Wharf, and prices ranged from £10 to +£25 per last.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Wm. Jas. Palmer had been elected House Surgeon at the +Hospital in the place of Mr. Colley resigned.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th.—The following had been the result of the +Municipal Election:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Nicholas’ Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. Nightingale (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">266</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. E. H. L. Preston (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">228</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. F. Neave (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">176</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page329"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 329</span><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. E. Barnby (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">246</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Nuthall (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">209</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. A. Norman (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">195</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. George (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">158</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Wright (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">156</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. F. Danby-Palmer (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. John Clowes (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">72</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. W. de Caux (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">156</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. J. Foreman (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">151</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Chas. Palmer (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">137</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Hammond (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">132</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Messrs. Veale and Bracey (Con.) unopposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Messrs. Gooda and Richmond (Con.) +unopposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Nov. 10th.—Charles Woolverton, Esq., had been +unanimously elected Mayor.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>1,500 wind-bound vessels had sailed through the Roads +northwards.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<h3>1870.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st.—Charles Dashwood, Esq., had given a ball at +the Assembly Rooms.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th.—Thomas Brightwen, Esq., had died at the age +of 59.</p> +<p>Damage had been occasioned to several houses in the town by a +heavy gale.</p> +<p><a name="page330"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 330</span>Jan. +26th.—Another wrecked vessel had been in contact with the +Britannia Bier.</p> +<p>Jan. 29th.—Mr. J. H. Orde had been elected Borough +Treasurer in the place of Mr. T. Brightwen deceased.</p> +<p>Two vessels had been in collision with the Newarp +lightship.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th.—J. Tomlinson, Esq., had been elected +Commodore of the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club.</p> +<p>There had been a boiler explosion at Messrs. Bracey and +Son’s Ropery.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th.—There had been very heavy gales and much loss +to the shipping.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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).</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 9th.—Captain Smyth, R.N., and Captain Dent, R.N., +had been promoted to the rank of Admiral.</p> +<p>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, <a +name="page331"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 331</span>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.</p> +<p>April 16th.—Mr. Cufaude had submitted an elaborate +statement upon Mr. Neave’s case to the Local Government +Board.</p> +<p>The constitution of the Guardians was then 10 Tories and 6 +Liberals.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Messrs. Mills and Blake had launched a new barge.</p> +<p>Mrs. Bowyer Vaux, her son, and a friend, had been upset in a +sailing boat on Breydon.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 4th.—Sir Alexander Shafto Adair, Bart., (Lib.), and +Lord Mahon (Con.) were candidates for East Suffolk.</p> +<p>May 14th.—Mr. J. Fenn had caught a perch weighing +3½ lbs. and 18 inches in length.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 21st.—The Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club Dinner had +taken place at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>May 25th.—“It is stated that the gallant +gentleman, (Major Foreman) who figured in the <i>melée</i> +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.)”</p> +<p>The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers (under the command of +Captain Commandant William Danby-Palmer) had attended St. +Peter’s Church.</p> +<p>May 28th.—On Her Majesty’s Birthday, the Rifle +Volunteers under the command of Major Orde had fired a <i>feu de +joie</i> 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. <a name="page332"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 332</span>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.</p> +<p>June 4th.—The following had been the result of the East +Suffolk Election:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Lord Mahon (Con.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,456</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sir A. S. Adair, Bart. (Lib.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,285</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Captain Alderson and Lieutenant Partridge, of the Norfolk +Artillery Militia, had given a Ball at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 15th.—Admiral Smyth, R.N., had resigned the office +of Pier-Master after 35 years service.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 22nd.—The brigantine “Ethel” had been +launched from Mr. Rust’s yard.</p> +<p>June 25th.—The officers of the Norfolk Artillery Militia +had given a grand Military Ball at the Assembly Rooms.</p> +<p>Mr. C. S. D. Steward and party had caught 10 perch on Ormesby +Broad, four of which weighed 12lbs.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth Co-operative Society was in liquidation, and Mr. +Lovewell Blake, the liquidator, had summoned several of the +contributors for arrears of call.</p> +<p>July 2nd.—Quarter-Master Doughty, Colour-Sergeant +Chipperfield, Sergeants Lay and Wilshak and Privates Harpour and +Wales had been selected to go to Wimbledon.</p> +<p>Mr. I. Preston, accompanied by his friend, Mr. T. M. Baker, +had sailed for Holland in the river yacht +“Otter.”</p> +<p><a name="page333"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 333</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Captain Youell had (after eleven years’ service) retired +from the Rifles.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Upwards of 60 boats had delivered fish at the Wharf, the price +being £16 to £22 per last for fresh fish.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th.—The Queen’s bounty had been forwarded +to Mrs. Spurge.</p> +<p><a name="page334"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 334</span>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.</p> +<p>Mr. J. Petts, R.N., had resigned his command in the Coastguard +after 40 years’ service, twelve of which had been spent in +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Oct. 15th.—No minister had attended at St. Peter’s +Church to perform service in the afternoon of Sunday.</p> +<p>The old Jetty had been lengthened 60 feet.</p> +<p>Mr. E. Stagg (one of the Councillors for the Regent Ward) had +died.</p> +<p>£149 13s. 6d. had been raised for the purpose of +presenting a testimonial to Sergeant Berry (of the Police).</p> +<p>Mr. S. K. Smith had landed from one of his boats 24 lasts of +herrings, which sold for £264.</p> +<p>It was calculated that some 2,000 French fishermen were then +in Gorleston.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th.—Mr. Robert Rising (of Horsey) had been +elected a Haven and Pier Commissioner in the place of Mr. +Burroughes resigned.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">“MUNICIPAL ELECTION.”</span></p> +<p>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 <i>en route</i> to the various +polling-places or committee-rooms.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page335"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 335</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In the Nelson Ward there was no contest, Messrs. Woolverton, +(C), and Stone (L) being unopposed.</p> +<p><a name="page336"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 336</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OFFICIAL +DECLARATION.</span></p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="page337"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 337</span>The +following is the official return:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Hilton (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">395</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Worship (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">384</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ Neave (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">371</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ Blyth (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">287</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. A. Norman (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">402</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, I. Preston, Junr. (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">376</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Combe, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">336</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Garratt (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. J. Tomlinson (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">281</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ R. D. Barber (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">261</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Woodger (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">86</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ R. Page (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. F. Danby-Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">292</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, H. Hammond (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">291</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Baker (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">164</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Doughty (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">142</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Messrs. Woolverton (C) and Stone (L) +unopposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Southtown or St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. R. Steward (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">365</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Hammond (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">358</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Beevor (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">309</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>,, Nelson (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">300</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>As the result of this election, it was believed that Mr. E. H. +L. Preston would be Mayor for the ensuing year.</p> +<p>Mr. F. Ferrier had been returned in the place of Mr. Stagg, +deceased, for the Regent Ward.</p> +<p>An effort was being made to restore St. George’s +Chapel.</p> +<p>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 <i>nem. dis.</i></p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page338"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 338</span>Nov. +16th.—C. E. Bartram, Esq., J.P. and Councillor for the +South Ward had died.</p> +<p>Nov. 19th.—The Volunteers had received “Snider +Rifles.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 26th.—The following had been the result of the +election in the Nelson Ward:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Fredk. Palmer (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">447</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ Isaac Hill (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">269</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>After the declaration of the poll a procession, headed by a +band, had paraded the principal streets.</p> +<p>Twelve vessels had already cleared with 28,390 barrels of +herring for Italian ports.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>In the Nelson Ward Mr. H. Fenner (C.) had been returned in his +place, having beaten Mr. Woodger (L.) by 85 votes.</p> +<p>The fishing-boats were “making up” after a very +successful voyage.</p> +<p>It was proposed to lay down a tramway from Yarmouth to +Lowestoft.</p> +<p>Dec. 17th.—The Mayor had presented the testimonial to +Inspector Berry; it consisted of a 20 guinea watch and a purse of +£145.</p> +<p>One fishing boat had caught 142 lasts of herring during the +season.</p> +<p>It was estimated that £40,000 would be paid to the +fishermen in wages.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page339"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 339</span>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 24th.—Records the death of Mr. Henry Fellows, +shipbuilder, aged 70.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st.—Mr. J. H. Want had obtained the contract for +the erection of a new Post Office in Regent Street.</p> +<h3>1871.</h3> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A young Danish girl had been discovered working as a sailor on +board a vessel.</p> +<p>Jan. 10th.—One Thacker, a veteran gunner, generally +known as “Old Stork” had brought down five swans at +one shot on Breydon.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Jan. 15th.—The Magistrates had refused to convict in a +vaccination case, which conduct was greatly exercising the Board +of Guardians.</p> +<p>Jan. 25th.—The schooner “Starling” had +foundered in the fair way of the harbour between the piers, and +thus blocked the navigation.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page340"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 340</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. Woodger had given 20 tons of coal to the poor in the South +Ward.</p> +<p>Feb. 8th.—Contains the following account of the death of +Robert Steward, Esq.:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“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.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A quantity of human remains had been discovered in a vault in +Row 112.</p> +<p><a name="page341"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 341</span>Feb. +11th.—A fine hare had been captured in the Market Place, +after an exciting chase.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. E. H. H. Combe had been returned as a member of the +Council for the Southtown Ward.</p> +<p>March 8th.—Police-constable Shreeve had met with a fatal +accident by falling from the fire escape.</p> +<p>The pauper lunatics, 18 in number, had been removed from +London to the Ipswich Asylum.</p> +<p>An old house in Row 132 had fallen down.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>March 22nd.—A fine pike, weighing upwards of 25lbs., had +been shot in one of the neighbouring Broads.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. F. Neave (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">844</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>H. Blyth (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">662</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. Nightingale (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">662</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. T. Buston (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">567</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Rant (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">542</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>S. Barge (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">478</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page342"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 342</span><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. A. Norman (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">621</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wm. Laws (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">476</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. G. Overend (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">427</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. Dumbleton (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">418</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. B. Ellis (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">397</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. D. Barber (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">470</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Worship (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">426</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. H. Norman (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">375</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Diver (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">367</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Clowes (Grocer) (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">289</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>R. Bryant (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">198</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. W. de Caux (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">557</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Scott (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">478</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Rivett (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">371</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. J. Foreman (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">298</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Harrison (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">248</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>D. Gooch (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">244</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. Todd (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">115</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>F. Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">966</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>C. Woolverton (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">934</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Bracey (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">766</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. Clowes (Solicitor) (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">678</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. T. Fisher (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">534</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>T. C. Foreman (N)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">376</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>G. Harvey (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">267</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. H. Harrison (N)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p>Previous to the declaration of the numbers by the +returning officer,</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page343"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 343</span>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>April 22nd.—Mr. Bowgin, who had died at the age of 90, +had left a considerable sum of money to local charities.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>The smack “Sevastopol” (belonging to Mr. H. +Fenner) had been destroyed by fire on the fishing grounds.</p> +<p>Judge Worlledge had been appointed Chancellor of the Diocese +in the place of Mr. Howes, deceased.</p> +<p><a name="page344"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 344</span>May +6th.—The <i>Free Lance</i>, a notorious local newspaper, +had been proceeded against for libelling Mr. King, of +Gorleston.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>The Guardians had decided to allow Nonconformist Ministers to +visit at the Workhouse.</p> +<p>May 17th.—One boat had landed 1,000 mackerel, and that +fish was selling at from 20s. to 25s. per hundred.</p> +<p>May 20th.—The late Mr. Hammond had left the following +charitable legacies:—Hospital, £50; Sailors’ +Home, £19 19s.; Priory schools, £50; <a +name="page345"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 345</span>and St. +John’s, St. Andrew’s, St. Peter’s and Primitive +Methodist schools, £19 19s. each.</p> +<p>The cost of taking the census had amounted to £110 +15s.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Mr. I. Preston’s “Otter” had made a passage +from Yarmouth to Harwich, a distance of 52 miles in four and a +half hours.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page346"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +346</span>Messrs. J. Tolver Waters, Frank Burton, and F. W. Dendy +had passed the Legal examination.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 24th.—The “Oleander,” a barque of 440 +tons had been launched from Messrs. Fellows and Son’s +yard.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There had been a destructive fire at Mr. Bland’s +premises on the Queen’s Road.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There had been a proposal made to abolish the Fair.</p> +<p>The newly-appointed Magistrates, Messrs. Palmer, Blake, and de +Caux had qualified.</p> +<p>Aug. 19th.—The Council had voted an address of +congratulation to Sir James Paget upon his being created a +Baronet.</p> +<p>The Prince of Wales had consented to accept the Hon. Colonelcy +of the Norfolk Artillery Militia, vacant through the death of +Lord Hastings.</p> +<p>Aug. 26th.—Tomlinson’s Brewery and the houses +attached to it had been sold in lots by public auction.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 27th.—M. Desfongerais (the re-called French +Consul) had been presented with a testimonial before leaving +Yarmouth.</p> +<p><a name="page347"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 347</span>Sept. +30th.—Heavy gales had prevailed from the E. and S.E.</p> +<p>“Low prices and heavy deliveries” continued to +characterise the fishing.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th.—E. P. Youell, Esq., had presided at a meeting +called to consider the restoration of Gorleston Church.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th.—Five of the Wards had been contested, with the +following result:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Neave (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">565</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bly(C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">541</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Buston (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">464</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Blyth (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">432</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fyson (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">394</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baker (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">374</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Garratt (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">349</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Clowes (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">321</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Burton (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">239</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ferrier (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">212</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Goodwin (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">137</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Livingston (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">117</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Todd (I)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">385</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Scott (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">324</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Smith (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">150</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woodger (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">742</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fenner (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">467</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">407</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Dendy (L) and Baumgartner (L), unopposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page348"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 348</span>Mr. +Edward S. Preston, who had been in the field, having retired at +the eleventh hour.</p> +<p>The general result was a gain of one to the Liberal party.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Rear-Admiral Thomas L. Gooch had been promoted to be a retired +Vice-Admiral.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>Nov. 18th.—Mr. Woodger had entertained 40 of his friends +at a dinner given by him at St. George’s Tavern, King +Street.</p> +<p>The Liberals were organising Working Men’s Associations +in the several Wards.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th.—Three companies of the 33rd Regiment had +arrived at the Southtown Barracks.</p> +<p>Captain Harvey was making experiments with his sea torpedoes +in the Roads, accompanied by Baron de Grancy and M. +Vavasseur.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th.—There had been disastrous gales, causing great +destruction of shipping property and loss of life.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dee. 30th.—Reference is made to the “New Law of +Merchant Shipping” (Plimsoll’s Act.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page349"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 349</span>Mrs. +Walpole, of Southtown, had bequeathed legacies of £50 to +the Hospital and £19 19s. to the Sailors’ Home.</p> +<p>It was estimated that the 600 boats hailing from Yarmouth paid +“something like £4000 for towage to the Tug +Companies.”</p> +<p>Mr. J. F. Neave had erected a new Primitive Methodist Chapel +at Bradwell.</p> +<h3>1872.</h3> +<p>Jan. 6th.—Mr. J. T. Clarke had been appointed an +Admiralty Commissioner.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>There had been a heavy gale from the S.S.W.</p> +<p>Jan. 27th.—It was stated that within 12 years five penny +newspapers had been started in Yarmouth, all of which had ceased +to exist.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Bro. James Carter had been installed W.M. of Lodge +“Friendship.”</p> +<p>A new route (the loop line) was being constructed between +Yarmouth and Lowestoft at a cost of £15,000.</p> +<p>Feb. 14th.—Mr. F. Danby-Palmer had been unanimously +elected Clerk to the Board of Guardians.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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),</p> +<p>And for Mr. Harmer: Messrs. Bunn, Harmer, Youell, William +Danby-Palmer, Worship, Hilton, Neave, Nuthall, Fyson, Barber, <a +name="page350"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 350</span>Tomlinson, +Foreman, do Caux, F. Danby-Palmer, Scott, J. Bracey, Stone, +Woodger, Combe and Baumgartner (20).</p> +<p>Mr. Attwood declined to vote. After the voting the +following “scene” took place between the Mayor and +Mr. Harmer:—</p> +<blockquote><p>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.’</p> +<p>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 <a +name="page351"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 351</span>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.)</p> +<p>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,</p> +<p>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.)</p> +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="page352"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 352</span>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.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th.—Mr. I. Preston, jun., the newly-elected Clerk +of the Peace, had entertained the Recorder and Bar at the +Sessions.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 6th.—Mr. C. S. D. Steward and Captain Gilbertson +had been re-appointed Churchwardens, and Messrs. Ellis, +Skoulding, Lay and Pestell, Overseers.</p> +<p>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.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 13th.—The following had been the result of the +Guardians’ Election.—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Stafford (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,163</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Neave (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">861</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Skoulding (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">758</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Buston(C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">664</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Blyth (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">562</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rant (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">365</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norman (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">679</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Dumbleton (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">675</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Laws (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">599</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Overend (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">524</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ellis (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">515</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brand (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">472</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page353"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 353</span><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barber (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">540</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norman (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">486</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Diver (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">428</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">426</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bryant (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">337</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rant (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">299</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>de Caux (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">613</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Scott (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">522</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rivett (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">400</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Foreman (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">266</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bunn (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">250</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Todd (I.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">214</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gooch (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">204</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,166</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woodger (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,090</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Clowes (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">921</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher (L.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">770</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Woolverton (C) and Bracey (C) (numbers not given.)</p> +<p>The result was that 10 Liberals to 4 Tories had been +elected.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>April 24th.—The first week in June had been fixed for +the Prince of Wales’ visit to the town.</p> +<p>Mr. Frederick Palmer had been re-appointed chairman, and +Messrs. J. A. Norman and J. F. Neave, vice-chairmen of the Board +of Guardians.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>May 8th.—Funds were being raised for the purpose of +decorating the town on the occasion of the Prince of Wales’ +visit.</p> +<p>May 11th.—The Town Council had formed itself into a +committee to consider the public steps to be taken with regard to +that event.</p> +<p>May 25th.—Simms Reeve, Esq., had been appointed Judge of +the Borough Court of Record.</p> +<p><a name="page354"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 354</span>May +29th.—Mr. de Caux had met with an accident through falling +from a cart on the Drive.</p> +<p>June 1st.—James Scott, Esq., J.P., and one of the +Councillors for the St. George’s Ward, had died.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>June 15th.—Mr. S. K. Smith had been elected a Councillor +for St. George’s Ward in the place of Mr. J. Scott +deceased.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>A man named Howes had been killed through the bursting of a +rocket at the Coastguard Station during the Prince’s +visit.</p> +<p>June 22nd records the funeral of the late Mr. Edward Fyson, a +member of the Town Council and Captain in the Rifle +Volunteers.</p> +<p>The Rev. J. J. Raven had had the degree of D.D. conferred upon +him by the University of Cambridge.</p> +<p>June 26th.—Mr. Simms Reeve had sat as Recorder for the +first time at the Quarter Sessions.</p> +<p>The Town was filling rapidly with visitors.</p> +<p>June 29th.—The polling in the Market Ward had resulted +as follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. John Garratt (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">418</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Tyrrell (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">168</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Majority</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">250</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.”</p> +<p><a name="page355"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 355</span>July +6th.—The late Mr. E. Fyson had left legacies of £250 +each to the Sailors’ Home and the Hospital.</p> +<p>The new organ at St. Mary’s, Southtown, was estimated to +cost £250.</p> +<p>Mural paintings had been discovered in Gorleston Church.</p> +<p>July 13th.—A ghost was reported to be frequenting the +Churchyard; upwards of 1,000 persons attended at one time to see +it.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Coal had advanced to 32s. per ton.</p> +<p>Mr. Palmer had returned from his cruise along the Dutch coast +in the yacht “Oasis.”</p> +<p>July 31st.—The men at Lacon’s Brewery had struck +for and obtained an advance of 3s. a week in their wages.</p> +<p>Aug. 10th.—The observance of the Bank Holiday Act had +resulted in an “enormous influx” of +excursionists.</p> +<p>Aug. 17th.—Messrs. Fellows, Dendy, and Spelman had been +appointed Borough Justices.</p> +<p>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:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Green (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">401</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. S. K. Smith (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">281</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. C. Foreman (N)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Aug. 21st.—The Mayor (E. H. L. Preston, Esq.,) had died +in the 66th year of his age.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>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 <a name="page356"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +356</span>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.</p> +<p>Sept. 4th.—Records the departure of the Fleet.</p> +<p>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</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. Skoulding (C.)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">434</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. H. Blyth (L.).</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">190</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Thus, upon a register of some 1,300 voters, only 629 persons +polled.</p> +<p>Sept. 14th.—Mr. Bunn had been elected a Haven +Commissioner by the Council in the place of the late Mr. +Preston.</p> +<p>Gas had been increased from 4s. to 5s. per 1000 feet +“owing to the increased cost of coal and labour.”</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Oct. 12th.—The fish merchants were urging their +grievances against the Railway Company.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<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.</p> +<p>The town had been visited by a heavy gale from the S.W.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th.—Coal was reduced in price from 34s. to 27s. +per ton.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page357"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 357</span>Nov. +2nd.—Mr. J. Owles’ collection of china had been sold +in 1,800 lots.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th.—The Municipal Election had resulted as +follows:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>North +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nightingale, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">558</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Skoulding, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">503</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Livingston, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">240</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woodger, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">200</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Foreman, (N)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">18</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Market +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barnby, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">258</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Martins, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">216</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Reeder, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lawn, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">53</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tyrrell, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">53</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Regent +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Burton, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">213</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Blake, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">186</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>George, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">181</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wright, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">173</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +George’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Foreman, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">276</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>de Caux, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">257</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wiltshire, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">241</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Green, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">220</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Nelson +Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bracey, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">613</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Veale, (C)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">538</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">375</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Clowes, (L)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">306</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>St. +Andrew’s Ward</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Gooda, (C), and Attwood, (L), unopposed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>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.</p> +<p><a name="page358"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 358</span>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.</p> +<p>Nov. 16th.—Mr. William Worship had been injured in an +accident which had happened on the Great Eastern line near +Kelvedon.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th.—Mr. A. E. Cowl had passed the Legal +Examination.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th.—A Mrs. Harvey had died at Rollesby at the age +of 104 years.</p> +<p>A very heavy gale, almost rivalling that of 1860, had visited +this coast.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<p>Dec. 18th.—Garson Blake, Esq. had been appointed Belgian +Consul in succession to the late Mr. Preston.</p> +<p>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.</p> +<div class="gapmediumdoubleline"> </div> +<p>With this year ends the file of the <i>Norwich Mercury</i>, +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.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YARMOUTH NOTES***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 39920-h.htm or 39920-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/9/9/2/39920 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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