JUNE.
6.—The 2nd Dragoon Guards marched from Norwich for Hampton Court Barracks.
15.—A cricket match was played at Litcham “with the six Alexanders, of Hingham, and the five Cushions, of Shipdham, on the one side, against the town of Litcham on the other.” The stakes, 22 sovereigns a-side, were won by the “families” by one wicket. The families, 55-88; Litcham, 82-60.
18.—The last performances took place at the old Norwich Theatre. The pieces were “The Provoked Husband” and the farce “A Roland for an Oliver.” The concluding season had proved very productive to the patentee and the performers. The total amount accruing from the twenty benefits was £1,732, an average of £86 12s. exclusive of “ticket nights.”
20.—A special meeting of the Yarmouth Corporation was held for the purpose of promoting the erection of a new church in the town.
The sum of £1,500 was voted in aid of the fund, and a piece of land given as an eligible site.
21.—Guild Day at Norwich. The aldermen, Sheriffs, and Town Clerk had breakfast with the Mayor-elect, Mr. T. S. Day, and afterwards went to the house of the Mayor (Mr. H. Francis), “their carriages passing through the newly-made opening in the city wall at the end of Pottergate Street, where an arch had been formed with boughs.” The subsequent procession to the Cathedral was headed by two bands of musicians and “Snap.” The guests at the Guild feast at St. Andrew’s Hall numbered 450, and “the proceedings, from the excellence of the wines, were protracted till about eleven o’clock, when the worthy donor of the feast retired from the chair.”
30.—Died at his house in Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. William Manning, of Ormesby, in his 94th year. “This gentleman was the Father of the Magistracy of Norfolk, and had been 65 years on the commission.”
JULY.
2.—The steam packet Lowther started from Yarmouth on a pleasure excursion to Rotterdam, and arrived at its destination at six o’clock on the evening of the 3rd. The vessel returned to Yarmouth on the 10th after a passage of 27 hours.