9.—The funeral of Lord Townshend, who died at Hutton Lodge, Yorkshire, on June 28th, aged 56 years, took place at Bintry church.
14.—Major Boxall, of Swaffham, was killed at the brewery of Mr. Morse, in that town, by the fall of a portion of the roof.
16.—At a meeting of the yeomanry and tenantry of both political parties, held at the Swan Inn, Norwich, it was decided to erect, by public subscription, a monument to the memory of the late Earl of Leicester. (See January 7th, 1843.)
23.—A correspondent, writing under this date to the Norfolk Chronicle, complained of the danger and annoyance caused on the public roads by vehicles drawn by dogs. “If,” he wrote, “Parliament deemed it necessary two years ago to pass an Act prohibiting, under a severe penalty, the use of dogs as beasts of draught or burden in London and its neighbourhood for twenty miles around, surely the same necessity, as well on the score of humanity as of personal security to the public, does exist in reference to every other portion of the kingdom.”
24.—Died, aged 60, at Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, John Sell Cotman.
AUGUST.
1.—An acrobat, named Alleni, was descending a rope “in his chariot of fire,” at the Greyhound Gardens, Ber Street, Norwich, when his apparatus failed, the rope broke, and the unfortunate performer, falling a distance of thirty feet, was seriously injured.
6.—A correspondent complained that the “unrivalled tower” of Norwich Cathedral, then undergoing restoration, was “under the care of a plasterer, to be patched and pieced in his best manner with a compound of villainous ingredients scarcely tolerable on a shop front.” Mr. John Brown, the Cathedral architect, replied, on August 10th, to the effect that the substance used was not plaster, but “hydraulic cement, calcined limestone and sand, which is more durable than stone.” Much newspaper controversy ensued.
20.*—“Last week a block of granite of nearly two tons weight was fixed on the south battlement of Norwich Castle, containing the following inscription:—“This Royal Castle, built by William Rufus, as Knychton testifies in his Chronicle, on the site of one much more ancient, has been used as a county gaol since the year 1345, and was finally vested in the magistrates of Norfolk for that purpose by Royal grant confirmed by Parliament in 1806. The ornamental work and facing of the exterior having fallen into a state of extreme decay, the same was ordered to be restored at the expense of the county by the Court of Quarter Sessions, in April, 1834. Its restoration was carried
into effect with the most careful adherence to the details of the antient work in Bath stone, as most resembling that of Normandy, which had been originally used, under the superintendence of the visiting justices, and completed in 1839. The battlements and corbel table were designed from the best discoverable authorities, as no portion remained of the original termination of the building. Anthony Salvin, Esq., of London, architect; Mr. James Watson, of Norwich, stonemason.” [The Norfolk Chronicle expressed regret “at the necessity, if any such existed, for the adoption of a process which has for ever hidden from human eyes the whole exterior of this celebrated Anglo-Norman keep.”]