6.--At the sale of effects at Gunton Hall, very high prices were realised
for the wine, liquors, and ale. Griffith's port (1830) sold at 81s. per
dozen; Fontignac, at 8 pounds per dozen; curacoa, 13 pounds per dozen;
brandy, 9 pounds per dozen; ale, 4 pounds per barrel. At Tattersall's,
49 horses and colts belonging to Lord Suffield produced 4,400 pounds, and
the pack of 47 couples and 13 bitches with their whelps 280 pounds.
9.--The Yarmouth Town Council accepted the tender of the Rev. Mark Waters
for the presentation to St. George's chapel. The minimum price fixed was
620 pounds; the highest tender 661 pounds.
14.--The Purple and Orange Club, at a meeting presided over by Mr. W. J.
Utten Browne, and held at the Maid's Head Inn, adopted an address to the
Queen, expressing regret at the threatening aspect of affairs in our
Colonial possessions, and of sedition manifest in England, and imploring
her Majesty to summon to her counsels "all those upright and enlightened
statesmen whose consistent advocacy of Conservative principles has
obtained for them the respect and confidence of the nation." On the 23rd
the Norwich Town Council adopted a counter address, "thanking her Majesty
for her choice of ministers who deserve the regard of the nation by
righteous taxation, by extending commerce, by improving criminal and
civil laws, by commuting tithes, by amending the Poor-laws, by granting
self-government to the people by municipal corporations, and by making
provision for national education."
15.--By the fall of a floor at Taverham paper-mills, a man and a woman
were killed.
25.*--"A tomb of novel construction has lately been erected in Diss
churchyard. It is constructed entirely of cast-iron, and for neatness,
security, and durability excels anything of the kind we have ever
noticed."
27.--The Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution closed its rooms at the
Assembly House, Norwich. The library was opened at the new rooms
adjoining the Museum in St. Andrew's Street, on July 8th.
--The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry mustered on Thornage Green and marched to
Holt for six days' permanent duty, under the command of Major Loftus.