6.--Mr. Thomas Jefferson Hogg and Mr. John Buckle, Municipal
Commissioners, opened an inquiry at the Tolhouse Hall into the corporate
affairs of Yarmouth. After sitting for 20 days the Commissioners
adjourned _sine die_.
14.--A _fete_ was given at Yarmouth Barracks by Captain Manby, "to mark
the close of the labours that had so long engaged his attention for
saving life." This was the twenty-seventh anniversary of "the saving of
the first crew by the projection of a rope from the shore by the force of
gunpowder, and thus effecting communication with a vessel on a lee shore.
By this expedient upwards of 600 British sailors have been saved."
26.--Died at Lynn, Mr. Ezekiel Walker, aged 94. He was for many years a
regular contributor to Nicholson and Tillock's "Philosophical Magazine,"
and published a collection of his essays, chiefly on electrochemical
subjects.
27.--The ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Yarn Factory at
Norwich was performed by the Mayor (Mr. Bignold). A procession, in which
were characters representing Bishop Blaize, shepherds and shepherdesses,
together with 80 wool combers, and many women and children, marched from
Lakenham to the site of the new building in St. Edmund's. The directors
and shareholders afterwards dined at the Norfolk Hotel.