11.*—“The tobacco manufacturers residing in Norwich have obtained from the Lords of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Customs the privilege of bonding that article at Yarmouth, where a warehouse has been specially fitted up for the purpose, and is now stored with manufactured tobacco of the value of about £5,000 when the duty is paid on it. Mr. Newbegin and Mr. Wigham are the first importers.”
18.*—“By the official account of the duty on hops of the growth of 1837 we find Norfolk makes a return of £48 10s. 0d.”
21.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was agreed, on the motion of Mr. Barwell, to appoint a committee to consider the propriety of encouraging the establishment of a school of design, with the view to the improvement of the manufactures of the city. (See May 9th, 1838.)
29.—Died at his house, St. Catherine’s Close, Norwich, in his 92nd year, Mr. John Morse. “This justly respected gentleman was Father of the old Corporation of Norwich.” He was elected an alderman of the North Mancroft Ward in 1777, served the office of Sheriff in 1779, and was twice Mayor, namely, in 1781 and 1803.
30.—The 24th Article of the Deed of Settlement having empowered a general meeting of the members to make bylaws for the regulation and government of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, to be binding when confirmed by two other general meetings summoned for that purpose, the third general meeting was held on this date, with the object of finally confirming the bylaws adopted at a general meeting on November 2nd, and confirmed by a second general meeting on November 16th. An extraordinary degree of interest was manifested, and deputations arrived at Norwich from all parts of the kingdom. The meeting, which was held in a booth erected in Mr. Bignold’s garden, was attended by about 300 or 400 persons. Mr. O’Connell, M.P., the famous Irish agitator, was present. “On this occasion his whole course was pre-eminently marked by good feeling, excellent temper, and discreet judgment, united to a gentlemanlike exercise of his acknowledged tact and talent in furtherance of a most salutory object, in which he was happily successful,” namely, the obtaining of a unanimous expression of approval of the reports made by the committee for revising the bylaws.
—Mr. O’Connell, M.P., was entertained at dinner at the Angel Inn, Norwich, by members of the Whig-Radical interest. Mr. T. O. Springfield presided. At nine o’clock on the following morning, prior to his departure from the city, Mr. O’Connell addressed a large meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall.
DECEMBER.
4.—In the House of Commons a petition was presented by Sir F.
Burdett against the return of Messrs. Rumbold and Wilshere as members for Yarmouth. It was alleged that the grossest bribery had been practised. (See April 28th, 1838.)
14.—A pauper named John Cawdron died at Norwich Workhouse, of which institution he had been an inmate 47 years, 8 months, 3 days, at the cost of £350 16s. 7d.