5.--A meeting was held at Yarmouth in furtherance of the movement for
decreasing the hours of shop assistants. The employers were asked to
close their shops at eight o'clock from Michaelmas to Lady Day, and at
nine in the summer months, except on Saturday, when they should close at
ten o'clock in the evening. Like meetings were held at Norwich and Lynn.
9.--Mr. John Marshall was elected Mayor of Norwich, and Mr. Henry
Woodcock appointed Sheriff.
10.--The completion of the building of the new chimney of the Yarn
Factory near Whitefriars Bridge, Norwich, "was celebrated by a band of
music placed on the top playing national airs and 'God save the Queen,'
accompanied by the workmen joining in chorus, when a flag was hoisted and
several guns fired from the top. The shaft is 165 feet high, with a
coping of cast-iron weighing upwards of 4 tons." The builders were Mr.
Everett Cattermoul and Mr. C. Darkins.
22.--Tom Allen, "the faithful servant of Lord Nelson," died at Greenwich
Hospital. He was born at Burnham Thorpe, in 1764, and joined the Navy in
1793. He first served on board the Agamemnon, under the command of
Captain Nelson. After the death of Nelson, Allen entered the service of
Sir William Boston, R.N., at Costessey, and by the influence of Sir
Thomas Hardy, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, was enabled to end his
days at Greenwich.
24.--Died in Norwich, Mr. James Lambe, aged 56. "He was well known to
the managers of the Festivals and to many musical people as a noted and
accurate copyist. His endowments were not of an ordinary kind. He was a
ready versifier, with considerable humour and some share of imagination.
With the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and the poets of Queen Anne's time
he was intimately acquainted. He had lived on terms of familiarity with
Crabbe, to whom he had acted as amanuensis. Like many other sons of
genius, he had endured the extremes of poverty; but under every privation
and under many temptations he uniformly preserved his cheerfulness and
his integrity. His latter years were passed in comparative comfort,
through the kindness of a professional gentleman, who gave him constant
employment."
26.--North Walsham was lighted with gas for the first time, in
celebration of which a band of music paraded the town and a dinner took
place at the King's Arms Inn. The gas works were erected by Mr. John
Malem.
--The sloop Volharden, of Flushing, with a crew of nine hands, was
brought into Yarmouth Roads by the Badger Revenue cutter, Lieut. R.
Perceval, R.N., on suspicion of smuggling. Spirits in large quantities
were found on board. Two of the crew were sentenced to six months'
imprisonment by the Yarmouth magistrates on December 7th. Lieut.
Perceval recommended them to mercy, on the ground that they had rendered
valuable assistance to the Badger when she was in difficulties, and the
sentences were commuted to three months' imprisonment.