7.--Father Mathew attended a temperance festival at Norwich. He
addressed a meeting on St. Martin-at-Palace Plain in the morning, and a
public gathering at St. Andrew's Hall in the evening, at which the Lord
Bishop and Mr. J. J. Gurney were present. On the 8th Father Mathew, from
twelve to six o'clock, "administered the pledge to all who cared to
receive it." The NORFOLK CHRONICLE observed: "We cannot but feel that
the members of the Church of England are pledged to temperance already,
and have therefore no necessity to repeat the pledge before a Romish
priest."
11.--The Earl of Leicester laid the foundation-stone of the new quay at
Wells-next-the-Sea.
16.--A platform was erected on the summit of the spire of Norwich
Cathedral by a party of Sappers and Miners, to support an observatory for
the purpose of the trigonometrical survey then being made throughout the
kingdom, by order of the Board of Ordnance.
23.*--"Died, lately, aged 101, Mr. Robert Holmes, of St. Augustine's,
Norwich."
27.--Died at Ramsgate, Lieut.-General Beevor. He was the last surviving
son of Mr. James Beevor, of Norwich. He served in Flanders in the
campaigns of 1793-4-5; in 1801-2 he was actively employed in Egypt, and
he took part in the protracted operations in the Peninsula and Portugal.