5.--At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Blofield
John Rix and Henry Senior were charged with stealing, embezzling, and
misappropriating various sums of money, to the amount of 10,589 pounds
18s., the property of their employers. Both prisoners were employed at
the Diss Bank. The proprietor, Mr. Dyson, was taken seriously ill in the
month of December, 1848, and an arrangement was made that Mr. Thomas
Lombe Taylor, son of Mr. Meadows Taylor, a former partner with Mr. Dyson,
should be taken into partnership, and the partnership commenced in 1849.
On January 19th Mr. Dyson died, and Mr. Taylor intended to dispose of the
business to the firm of Messrs. Harveys and Hudson. It became necessary
to go through the accounts, and then the frauds were discovered. The
prisoners were tried on a charge of simple larceny, whereupon they
pleaded guilty, and were sentenced, Rix to 18 months' and Senior to 12
months' imprisonment.
--The action, Berney _v._ Delane and Co., was tried at the Norfolk
Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock. The question at issue was the
right to the use of the stream which worked Taverham Mills. The
defendants manufactured the paper for "The Times" newspaper, "and their
broadsheets were every day scattered round the terrestrial globe, and
were to be found in every corner of the earth." In order to carry on
their business, the defendants had the right to raise the stream behind
their mills; they had not only raised it to the height they were entitled
to enjoy, but very much higher; so high that they had flooded the lands
of Mr. Thomas Trench Berney, and had rendered them useless for sheep
grazing. The case was ultimately referred to Mr. Russell Gurney, and a
verdict for the plaintiff was taken on account of the damage laid in the
declaration, subject to such reference.
17.--The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Woodcock) having offered to provide an
illuminated clock and clock turret at the Guildhall, on condition that
the Corporation removed the false ceiling in the Council Chamber and laid
open the old roof, it was unanimously resolved to accept the clock. It
was made by Messrs. Moore, of Clerkenwell, London, and fixed in a turret
designed by Mr. Kerr, in the month of October.
30.--The headquarters of the 16th Lancers marched from Norwich for
Hounslow.