2.--Victoria Gardens, Norwich, for so many generations the popular resort
of the citizens, were dismantled on this date, when Mr. William Wilde,
auctioneer, sold "the ranges of drinking boxes, seats and tables, the
scenery, fittings, and machinery in the theatre, the fittings, benches,
&c., in the circus and saloon, the materials of the firework house, the
porter bar, cake-room, &c." The sale was held by order of the directors
of the Eastern Union Railway Company, who had acquired the property as
the site for their Norwich terminus.
3.--Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., Sir Joshua Walmisley, M.P., Mr. George
Thompson, M.P., Mr. J. H. Parry, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, M.P., and other
members of the National Reform Association, addressed a large meeting
held at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, under the auspices of the local
branch of the association. Mr. J. H. Tillett presided.
22.--Madame Sontag, Signor Calzobari, Signor Bolletti, Signor F.
Lablache, and M. Thalberg appeared at a grand concert given at St.
Andrew's Hall, Norwich. A second performance took place on the 23rd.
--A public meeting was held at the Independent chapel, Diss, for the
purpose of hearing statements from Mr. James Everett respecting the
expulsion of himself and Messrs. Dunn and Griffith from the Wesleyan
Conference. On the 24th a similar meeting was held at St. Andrew's Hall,
Norwich, when resolutions were passed condemnatory of the action of the
Conference and expressive of sympathy with the expelled ministers. The
agitation was continued until June 22nd, 1850, on the 19th of which month
another meeting took place at St. Andrew's Hall, at which the Wesleyan
Reformers uttered "violent tirades against the Conference, the Missionary
Committee, and other ruling bodies of Wesleyanism." In December, 1850, a
series of disturbances occurred at Lenwade, where the services of the
chapel were stopped and the preacher, the Rev. C. Povah, assaulted with
stones and burnt in effigy. Magisterial proceedings at Reepham were
followed by an application in the Court of Chancery for an injunction to
restrain certain persons from interrupting Mr. Povah and other ministers
in the performance of religious worship at the Wesleyan chapel, Cawston.
The affidavits read disclosed a number of gross outrages upon the
ministers, extending over the period of six months. Issue of the
injunction was stayed upon the defendants entering into an undertaking
not to disturb or molest the plaintiffs in the exercise of their duties.
26.--Immense quantities of fish were caught off Yarmouth. The herring
boats had from 100,000 to 200,000 fish on board. Cartloads of fish were
taken to Norwich and sold at the following rates:--Fresh herring, 10 for
one penny; boaters, 25 for sixpence; cod, one penny per pound; soles,
from three halfpence to twopence per pair.
30.--Died at Quidenham Hall, the Earl of Albemarle. Born on May 14th,
1772, he married, on April 9th, 1792, the Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, four
years his junior, who became the mother of sixteen children. Mr. T. W.
Coke, though old enough to be Lord Albemarle's father, became his
son-in-law in 1822, when he espoused Lady Anne Keppel. His lordship
married secondly, on February 11th, 1822, Charlotte Susannah, daughter of
Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.