1.--Mr. Charles Turner and Mr. William Moore were returned to the Court
of Aldermen, who elected the former as Mayor of Norwich for the year
ensuing.
--May Day was celebrated at Lynn with the usual display of garlands and
devices emblematical of the season, by persons arrayed in fancy costumes.
5.--Two troops of the 2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards, under the command of
Major Kearney, marched into Norwich Barracks from Nottingham, to relieve
the 3rd Dragoons, who, on the same day, marched for Ipswich.
8.--The leading postmasters of Norwich announced that they had reduced
the rate of posting to 1s. 4d. per mile.
13.--A petition to Parliament against the proposed measure for separating
religious instruction from the system of education hitherto prevailing at
the Universities was unanimously adopted at a meeting summoned by
requisition and held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of
the Mayor (Mr. Bignold).
16.--The dwelling-house, outbuildings, and corn stacks of Mr. Helsden
Larner, at North Walsham, were destroyed by fire. A labourer named
Jeremiah Cutting was buried beneath the falling roof of the stable and
burned to death.
21.--The West Norfolk Agricultural Association held its first annual
meeting at Downham Market. A second division of the society was formed
at Fakenham on June 19th.
26.--A new drama, entitled, "Sir Roger de Coverley, or the Old English
Gentleman," written by Mr. G. Smith, second son of the manager, was
produced for the first time at Norwich Theatre. It was described as "a
composition which exhibited talent of no common order."
28.--The King's birthday was observed in Norwich with great festivity.
The first business at the special Assembly of the Corporation was to pass
an address of congratulation to his Majesty, "praying him not to sanction
the proposed measure for admitting Dissenters to graduate in the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge." The Mayor and Corporation then
went to service at the Cathedral, and at noon the Queen's Bays fired a
_feu de joie_ in the Market Place. The officers were entertained at the
Guildhall, the sum of 5 pounds was distributed among the privates, and in
the evening the Mayor (Mr. Bignold) gave a dinner at Chapel Field House.
29.--Died at Hingham, aged 93, the Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse. He was
elevated from a baronetcy to a seat in the House of Lords in 1797, after
having represented the county for many years. His lordship was succeeded
in his title and estates by Col. Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of the
county. The remains of the deceased nobleman were buried at Kimberley
with great pomp on June 9th.
31.--At the close of the Norwich theatrical season, Mr. George Smith
delivered an address, in which he lamented that "theatrical taste had of
late years declined in the city, either from commercial depression or
from the still more fatal growth of indifference."