May 27th.—Several friends of the sitting Members had received Speaker’s warrants, as also had Sir E. H. K. Lacon, who was served as he was about to start on a Continental tour; Messrs. B. Powell and George Byford had also been served.
May 30th.—The guarantee fund for opposing the petition had reached the sum of £2,400.
Two Russian guns had been received by the Corporation.
It was proposed to carry on the trawl fishery by means of “iron screw welled smacks of 150 tons burden.”
June 3rd.—The police had been re-modelled. Originally the force consisted of 4 sergeants, 16 privates, beside 4 non-permanent men who formed the “river watch.” Of these a sergeant and six privates had been discharged, and in their stead a sergeant and 13 privates appointed; the force, therefore, then consisted of a Superintendent, four sergeants, and 23 privates.
The “small silver mace” above referred to had been delivered up by the Carter family to the Corporation.
June 6th.—Fourteen hundred persons had visited the town by excursion train from Norwich on Whit-Monday.
June 10th.—Contains an obituary notice of Mr. Rumbold, who had died at Brighton on the 31st. ult., aged 69. It was stated that he had “not left behind him one enemy.”
The Yarmouth Standard, started three months since as an advocate “of Conservative and true Christian principles,” had ceased to exist.
June 13th.—The mackerel fishery had improved, Mr. Mainprice’s Company of 14 boats had sent in 12,000, and Mr. Shuckford’s 10,000 fish.