MAY.
6.—At the sale of effects at Gunton Hall, very high prices were realised for the wine, liquors, and ale. Griffith’s port (1830) sold at 81s. per dozen; Fontignac, at £8 per dozen; curaçoa, £13 per dozen; brandy, £9 per dozen; ale, £4 per barrel. At Tattersall’s, 49 horses and colts belonging to Lord Suffield produced £4,400, and the pack of 47 couples and 13 bitches with their whelps £280.
9.—The Yarmouth Town Council accepted the tender of the Rev. Mark Waters for the presentation to St. George’s chapel. The minimum price fixed was £620; the highest tender £661.
14.—The Purple and Orange Club, at a meeting presided over by Mr. W. J. Utten Browne, and held at the Maid’s Head Inn, adopted an address to the Queen, expressing regret at the threatening aspect of affairs in our Colonial possessions, and of sedition manifest in England, and imploring her Majesty to summon to her counsels “all those upright and enlightened statesmen whose consistent advocacy of Conservative principles has obtained for them the respect and confidence of the nation.” On the 23rd the Norwich Town Council adopted a counter address, “thanking her Majesty for her choice of ministers who deserve the regard of the nation by righteous taxation, by extending commerce, by improving criminal and civil laws, by commuting tithes, by amending the Poor-laws, by granting self-government to the people by municipal corporations, and by making provision for national education.”
15.—By the fall of a floor at Taverham paper-mills, a man and a woman were killed.
25.*—“A tomb of novel construction has lately been erected in Diss churchyard. It is constructed entirely of cast-iron, and for neatness, security, and durability excels anything of the kind we have ever noticed.”
27.—The Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution closed its rooms at the Assembly House, Norwich. The library was opened at the new rooms adjoining the Museum in St. Andrew’s Street, on July 8th.
—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry mustered on Thornage Green and marched to Holt for six days’ permanent duty, under the command of Major Loftus.
JUNE.
1.*—“A respectable young man a few days since, at Norwich, undertook