18.—The 7th Hussars left Norwich for Ipswich, where they joined headquarters and marched for Hounslow. They were succeeded by the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), with headquarters and staff. “This regiment received its nom de guerre from being the first corps which carried the modern carbine.”
20.—The Norwich Board of Health was established as a permanent institution at a meeting held at the Guildhall. Among its objects was
the encouragement of vaccination amongst the poor. The Bishop of Norwich was elected president, and the Mayor vice-president.
21.—Many hundreds of persons attended a steeplechase meeting at East Dereham. “The course from the Common was marked out by flags describing a circle round the country, over Mr. Greenacre’s piece, across Mr. Neale’s land, and round to the Common again, making a distance of three and a half miles in two rounds.”
—The first stone of the Cromer sea-wall was laid by the vicar, the Rev. W. Sharp, in the presence of the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and Lord Porchester. The contractors were Messrs. Wright and Cattermole, of Norwich, and the engineer Mr. J. Wright, of Westminster. On the same day the first pile of the new jetty was driven. The works were opened amid much festivity on August 7th.
23.—The North Cove Hall estates were sold at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by Mr. Simpson, for £36,960.
29.—At a meeting of “The Friends of Permanent and Universal Peace,” held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. J. J. Gurney, it was resolved: “That in consideration of the points now at issue between this country and the United States of America, involving, as they do, the question of war or peace, an address be presented to the magistrates and to the ministers of the several denominations of the city of Norwich in Connecticut, and generally to the people of the United States, asking them to use their endeavours to avert war.”
30.—At the Norwich Police Court, Mr. George Thurtell, horticulturist, was charged with assaulting a Mr. Riches, of St. George Colegate. Mr. Riches was the Norwich correspondent of the “Daily News,” and he had sent to that journal a notice of Mr. Thomas Thurtell’s death “and a private communication respecting one of Mr. Thurtell’s sons.” Mr. George Thurtell was greatly incensed on seeing the paragraph, more particularly as his father was not dead at the time, although he had been ill for some weeks, and meeting the complainant in the Market Place, he severely chastised him with a whip. The Bench, who considered the paragraph highly improper, imposed upon the defendant the nominal fine of one shilling. (See January 5th, 1848.)
MAY.
8.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry commenced eight days’ permanent duty at Cromer.