Feb. 2nd.—Miss Hulley had given a concert and a ball at the Town Hall, when Mr. Norfor sang two songs with judgment and the ball was well attended.
The Gaol was so full “that it was almost impossible to provide sufficient accommodation for the sleeping of the prisoners.”
Feb. 9th.—Messrs. Youell and Co. had received Her Majesty’s commands to supply her with some plants from their nursery.
“On Tuesday, owing to the badness of the road, the London Mail arrived so late that the letters could not be delivered till one o’clock.”
The third concert of the Musical Society had been held at the Town Hall, when Mrs. Barnwell and Messrs. Palmer, Norfor, West, Springall, Offord, Hardingham, and Brightwen, took part in the proceedings.
Feb. 16th.—H. Patteson and C. J. Palmer, Esqs., attended before the Magistrates and obtained their certificates, that the whole of the capital of £150,000 had been subscribed for the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway Company.
Feb. 23rd.—Two cargoes of iron had arrived for the Railway.
“Button Smith, a notorious highwayman,” had been taken at Norwich, and was to be examined before the Yarmouth Justices on account of his depredations in the neighbourhood.
A man of “very respectable dress and genteel appearance” persisted in standing near Mr. Bell’s malthouse door, which he stated was “the entrance to Hell,” and as he seemed to be suffering from monomania he was placed under the care of his brother, who was the captain of a ship in the Roads.
March 2nd.—It was proposed to place a lightship at the “Cockle Gat.”