3.--Comment was made upon the altered circumstances of the Norwich Assize
week:--"Alterations in our system of jurisprudence have caused some
change in the character of our Assizes, and diminished the number
attending them; whilst changes of our social system have led the higher
classes to join less in the popular amusements of the people."
10.--Potash Farm, formerly occupied by James Blomfield Rush, was sold by
auction by Mr. Butcher, for 3,100 pounds. The purchaser was Sir J. P.
Boileau, Bart.
17.*--"Messrs. E. and R. W. Blake, of Norwich, have purchased the Yarn
Factory, with its machinery, for 14,000 pounds, under direction of the
Master in Chancery, under the Winding-Up Act. The stock is valued at
7,219 pounds, making, with the purchase, the sum total of 21,219 pounds."
--Died, Hannah Sarah Hancock, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Wigg Hancock,
of St. Helen's parsonage, Norwich. She was born on November 8th, 1781.
At eight years of age she compiled a dictionary for children, and
throughout her life took great interest in music and painting. She
received the silver medal of the Society of Arts in 1805, and in 1807 was
granted a second silver medal by the same society for an oil painting
after the design by Rubens in the altarpiece at Antwerp.
--Considerable inconvenience was caused at Norwich by a strike of the
firemen and engine-drivers on the Eastern Counties Railway.
24.--Died at Birkenhead, Lieut.-Col. Edwin Cruttenden. Of an old Norfolk
family, he was born in 1784. He received a commission in the Royal
Artillery in 1804, was stationed ten years in the Mauritius, and in 1814
was engaged in the capture of Oswego, North America. He was appointed
lieutenant-colonel in 1841.