1.--This being the day on which the "negro apprentices" of the West
Indies were admitted to freedom, the event was commemorated by a united
prayer meeting, presided over by Mr. Alexander, at Prince's Street
chapel, Norwich.
2.--A "foot-steeplechase" took place at Whitlingham. The competitors had
to pass several times through the river. The event was chiefly
remarkable for "the perfect deluge of base coin put in circulation by the
swell mob from London." The landlord of Whitlingham Gardens alone took 4
pounds worth of bad silver. In the disturbance which ensued a constable
named Hansell had his leg broken.
3.--The High Sheriff (Sir James Flower) arrived at Norwich to attend the
Judges of Assize, Mr. Justice Parke and Mr. Justice Littledale. With
Lady Flower he took up his quarters at the Norfolk Hotel, and, as at
previous Assizes, dispensed hospitality with most ostentatious
liberality.
13.--Died in Norwich, aged 38, Mr. Horatio Beevor Love, portrait painter.
17.--Died at her house in Surrey Street, Norwich, in her 96th year, Miss
Elizabeth Lany, the last survivor of the three daughters and sole
children of the Rev. Benjamin Lany, rector of Mulbarton. "On both
paternal and maternal sides she was allied to some of the best families
in Norfolk and Suffolk."
21.--A grand bazaar was held at the New Inn, Cromer, in aid of the fund
for maintaining the "defence wall." After the sale "the jetty, the
Victoria Parade (between the walls), and the cliffs were thronged with
fashionable promenaders," and in the evening "120 ladies and gentlemen
repaired to the New Inn ball room, where quadrilles and waltzes were got
up."
28.--This was the hottest day of the summer. The thermometer stood at 83
degrees in the shade. A thunderstorm occurred in the evening, and Mrs.
Roach, a schoolmistress at Wroxham, was killed by lightning. The weather
on the 29th was cold, wet, and boisterous.