9.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the death of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. The bells of the city churches were tolled.
29.—Mrs. Charles Gill (Miss Vining) appeared at Norwich Theatre, after an absence of five years, and was enthusiastically received by a crowded house.
AUGUST.
3.—Comment was made upon the altered circumstances of the Norwich Assize week:—“Alterations in our system of jurisprudence have caused some change in the character of our Assizes, and diminished the number attending them; whilst changes of our social system have led the higher classes to join less in the popular amusements of the people.”
10.—Potash Farm, formerly occupied by James Blomfield Rush, was sold by auction by Mr. Butcher, for £3,100. The purchaser was Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart.
17.*—“Messrs. E. and R. W. Blake, of Norwich, have purchased the Yarn Factory, with its machinery, for £14,000, under direction of the Master in Chancery, under the Winding-Up Act. The stock is valued at £7,219, making, with the purchase, the sum total of £21,219.”
—Died, Hannah Sarah Hancock, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Wigg Hancock, of St. Helen’s parsonage, Norwich. She was born on November 8th, 1781. At eight years of age she compiled a dictionary for children, and throughout her life took great interest in music and painting. She received the silver medal of the Society of Arts in 1805, and in 1807 was granted a second silver medal by the same society for an oil painting after the design by Rubens in the altarpiece at Antwerp.
—Considerable inconvenience was caused at Norwich by a strike of the firemen and engine-drivers on the Eastern Counties Railway.
24.—Died at Birkenhead, Lieut.-Col. Edwin Cruttenden. Of an old Norfolk family, he was born in 1784. He received a commission in the Royal Artillery in 1804, was stationed ten years in the Mauritius, and in 1814 was engaged in the capture of Oswego, North America. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel in 1841.