3.--Died, on his return from Madeira, aged 29, Dr. Thomas Martineau.
4.--The 3rd Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry was inspected at Sprowston at the
conclusion of permanent duty at Norwich.
7.--The Yarmouth Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart.,
were inspected by Major Deare, 8th Hussars, after permanent duty.
--Townshend, the pedestrian, "undertook to pick up with his mouth, on
Monday last, from the ground in Finches' Gardens, 300 stones placed one
yard apart and to deposit the same in a basket in eleven successive
hours, being a distance of 51 miles 540 yards." The feat was performed
sixteen minutes within the time. On June 14th he undertook to walk 40
miles backwards in ten hours at the same Gardens, but failed owing to the
unfavourable state of the weather.
8.--The commissioners appointed under the Norwich Paving Act determined
to apply to Parliament for leave to bring in a Bill for amending the Act
and for raising additional funds.
--A prize fight took place at Poringland between Fenn and Camplin, of
Norwich. Three thousand persons were present, and 76 rounds fought. The
contest terminated in favour of Fenn.
9.--McMullon, a youth of sixteen, at the Prussia Gardens, Norwich, walked
12.5 miles in two hours; and on the 14th walked forty miles in eight
hours.
16.--Died at Gissing, aged 86, Mr. J. Hunt, surgeon, and founder of the
Ebenezer Chapel in Ber Street, Norwich. "He was a man of extraordinary
piety and extensive benevolence, who was singularly infatuated by a
diversity of religious opinions as to render his character in the highest
degree eccentric. Having successively embraced the profession of
Presbyterian, Independent, Anabaptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, and
Methodist, he recently founded and endowed a chapel at Gissing to a
profession made up of a heterogeneous mixture of doctrines. That nothing
might be wanting to complete his religious character he was a constant
attendant on the worship of the parish church, keeping his meeting closed
on those occasions, and a regular communicant with the minister of the
parish till a short time before his death, when his advanced age and
increasing infirmities precluded the possibility of his attendance."
17.--A trotting match took place on St. Stephen's Road, Norwich, the best
two of three one mile heats, between a pony belonging to Mr. Durrant, of
the Norfolk Hotel, and a pony the property of Mr. Davey, horse dealer.
The former won easily.
--The 8th Hussars marched from Norwich Barracks for Ipswich.
19.*--"One day last week Messrs. James Stannard, T. Turner, Samuel Poll,
and Alfred Stannard, four oars, rowed from Norwich to Yarmouth and back
in eight hours, notwithstanding wind and tide were full against them in
crossing Breydon."
--The season's benefits at Norwich Theatre were announced to have been as
follow: Mr. Smith, 125 pounds; Mr. Chippendale, 39 pounds; Mr. Vining,
114 pounds; Mr. Beacham, 89 pounds; Miss Pindar, 40 pounds; Mr. G. Smith,
70 pounds; Mr. Harrison, 46 pounds; Mr. Clifford, 67 pounds; Mr. and Mrs.
Sloman, 156 pounds; Mr. Benson, 69 pounds; the Misses Glover, 91 pounds;
Mr. Crook, 63 pounds; Miss Wensley, 72 pounds; Miss Mason, 74 pounds; Mr.
and Mrs. Hamerton, 51 pounds; Mr. Brundall, 45 pounds; Mr. Wharton, 41
pounds; Mr. Mueller, 62 pounds; Mr. Thorne, 28 pounds; Miss Tubby, 99
pounds; Mr. Hunt, 78 pounds; Mr. Chippendale (second benefit), 57 pounds.
The total amount was 1,556 pounds; average, 70 pounds 14s. 9.75d.
22.--Guild Day at Norwich. The Mayor-elect, Mr. Henry Francis,
entertained 806 guests at the guild feast, and the ball at Chapel Field
House was fully attended. The streets in the parish of St. Stephen's,
where the Mayor resided, were decorated.
29.--Great rejoicings took place at Costessey in celebration of the
elevation to the peerage of Sir George Jerningham, Bart., by the title of
Baron Stafford, of Stafford Castle, in Staffordshire, of Shiffnall in
Shropshire, and of Costessey in Norfolk. A large cavalcade attended by a
band of music proceeded to Easton, where Lord and Lady Stafford and their
daughters were received with enthusiastic cheering and escorted to
Costessey Hall. Sheep were roasted, 500 loaves of bread distributed, and
many barrels of beer consumed.