3.--This day (Sunday) a prize-fight took place on Costessey Common,
between Rix and Clarke, of Norwich, seconded by Cricknell and
Blanchflower, "of the new scientific school." Sixty-three rounds were
fought, in 1 hr. 20 mins. Rix was the victor. "Never were two men more
severely punished by each other."
6.--The Rev. W. J. Bakewell, upwards of eleven years minister of the
Unitarian chapel, Norwich, "who is about to embark for America," was
presented by his congregation with a purse of 105 sovs.
10.*--"The week before last, in a little more than three days, Sir
Richard Sutton, Bart., and a small party of friends shot 1,313 pheasants
and an immense quantity of hares, rabbits, partridges, and woodcock, on
his estate at Lynford and Tofts." (This was described as "killing, not
sporting.")
--Mr. William Dalrymple resigned office as one of the surgeons of the
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and Mr. J. Godwin Johnson was elected in
his place.
11.--A trotting match took place at Attleborough, between a horse named
Scroggins, belonging to Mr. Ling, of Besthorpe, and a cob the property of
Mr. Robert Large, of Ellingham. The match was run in two mile heats, and
was won by the former, in the presence of upwards of 3,000 spectators.
19.--Mr. Hotson, solicitor, of Long Stratton, while driving to Norwich,
was robbed of a purse of money and a case of bank notes, near Harford
Bridges. One of his assailants pulled him back in the gig and covered
his mouth with his hand while three others rifled his pockets. At the
Norwich Quarter Sessions, in April, a man named Daniel Archer was charged
with the offence, and acquitted.
21.--The litigation respecting the Norwich charities entered upon its
final stage in the House of Lords, when the appeal, Bignold and others
_v._ Springfield came on for hearing. Lord Wynford said the question he
had to propose was that the judges should state their opinion whether,
having reference to the 74th section of the Municipal Corporation Act,
the administration of the charities continued in the old Corporation
after August 1st, 1836. Mr. Justice Littledale asked for time to
consider the question. On June 24th the House decided in favour of the
then trustees. Lord Chief Justice Tindal said: "Upon the whole we think
the administration of the charity estates did not continue in the persons
described in the 71st section of the 5th and 6th William IV. after August
1st." The order was confirmed, with costs against the appellants.
--The Marquis of Douro presented to the House of Commons a petition
signed by 1,600 of the inhabitants of Norwich for leave to bring in the
Norwich Improvement Bill. The Bill was read a first time. It passed its
second reading on March 21st, and was read a third time on June 19th.
The object of the Bill was to repeal the then existing Acts and to
substitute a more effectual provision for the better paving, lighting,
and improvement of the city. At a special meeting of the Town Council on
July 16th it was agreed to petition the House of Lords in opposition to
the Bill "in the way it should come from the Commons." When the Bill was
before the Committee of the House of Lords on July 23rd objection was
taken that the notices on the part of the promoters were insufficient,
and the Bill was consequently lost. At a meeting of the Paving
Commissioners on December 17th it was reported that costs amounting to
1,500 pounds had been incurred in opposing the Bill.