1.--The Annual Moveable Committee of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows
commenced its sittings at Norwich. There were 110 delegates present, and
Mr. Cox ("Grand Master") presided. The meetings, which were held daily
at the Bazaar (afterwards known as Victoria Hall), concluded on the 6th.
The dinner, held at St. Andrew's Hall on the 3rd, was presided over by
Sir Samuel Bignold, and in the course of the proceedings, Mr. Samuel
Daynes was presented with a gift of 160gs., in recognition of the
valuable work he had done for the Order.
1.--Died at Costessey, aged 88, Mr. John Culley, one of the leading
agriculturists of the county. "It was to him and a few others that the
farmers in this locality are indebted for the establishment of the Hail
Storm Society, and the subscriptions which followed the memorable
hailstorm in this county a few years since." Mr. Culley took a prominent
part in the movement for the erection of the Norwich Corn Exchange.
11.--A familiar object, known as the "Bassingham Gateway," in London
Street, Norwich, was sold by auction. The purchaser was Mr. William
Wilde, and the price 12 pounds. The hope was expressed that this relic
of antiquity would not be removed from the city. On September 5th it was
announced: "The Bassingham Gateway has been erected at the magistrates'
entrance at the Guildhall, where it is quite out of character with the
building, or, at any rate, that part of it. Above the gate are the arms
of Henry VII., the arms of the Goldsmiths' Company, to which its builder,
Mr. John Bassingham, belonged, and of the city of Norwich. Having been
cleaned, the carved work is brought out in bold relief."
--An amateur sculling match took place for 10 pounds, from Bramerton to
Whitlingham (about three miles), between Mr. Henry Watling and Mr. Henry
Balls. A foul resulted, Mr. Watling claimed stakes, and the referee, Mr.
Vyall, decided in his favour.
13.*--"The Marine Parade (Yarmouth) may now be looked upon as completed,
and certainly in almost every particular it has exceeded the expectations
formed of it. It was planned and carried out under the immediate
superintendence of the Town Surveyor, Mr. A. W. Morant, and the cost will
not exceed the sum estimated, 1,700 pounds."
16.--At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Grammar School
Committee reported that the hearing took place, before the Master of the
Rolls, on June 10th, of the suit, the Attorney-General _v._ Hudson, when
the principal differences which had existed in reference to the new
scheme for the administration of the School and Hospital had been
amicably adjusted. The sum of 1,000 pounds per annum, exclusive of the
cost of buildings, was to be taken from the Great Hospital funds and
appropriated, under the management of separate trustees, to the purposes
of education. Two schools were to be established--a Grammar School and a
Commercial School. The course of instruction in the Grammar School would
embrace English, Latin, French, and German, &c., and in the Commercial
School, English, French, and the rudiments of Latin, &c. Prizes and
scholarships were to be given to both schools, and the boy who obtained
an upper class scholarship in the Commercial School would be entitled to
education in the Grammar School without cost. The payments for boys
educated in the Grammar School were to range from 6 gs. to 8 gs. per
year, and in the Commercial School 30s. per year. The masters were to be
paid a fixed salary, besides which their stipends would be augmented in
the Grammar School by four-sixths of the money received from the pupils,
and in the Commercial School by three-sixths. (_See_ March 23rd, 1858.)
17.--A revival of the Dereham Race Meeting attracted thousands of
spectators to the Common. The subscriptions amounted to 150 pounds, and
horses were run by Lord Suffield and other sportsmen of the county.
18.--Workmen engaged in deepening a dry dock belonging to Mr. Ambrose
Palmer, at Yarmouth, turned up in one spadeful from 700 to 1,000 silver
pennies of Edward I. and of Alexander III., the contemporary King of
Scotland. The coins were discovered 17 feet beneath the level of the
quay.
23.--Mr. A. A. H. Beckwith, Governor of the Norwich Court of Guardians,
performed the ceremony of turning the first sod upon the line marked out
for the main front of the new Norwich Workhouse.
24.--Mr. Spurgeon, "the celebrated revivalist," preached two sermons at
the Corn Exchange, Lynn, in aid of a fund for repairing the local Baptist
chapel. Two thousand six hundred tickets were issued, and the
collections amounted to 110 pounds 15s.
27.--Died of cholera, at Kurnaul, aged 59, Major-General the Hon. George
Anson, Commander-in-Chief of the troops in India. He was the second son
of Thomas, first Viscount Anson, and brother of the first Earl of
Lichfield, served in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and was present at the
battle of Waterloo. In 1818 he was returned for Yarmouth, and
represented the borough in several Parliaments before and after the
passing of the Reform Bill. By hereditary descent and by personal
conviction he was a Liberal in politics, and invariably sided with the
leaders of the Whig party. He became Major-General on November 11th,
1851. He was a zealous patron of the Turf, on which he was better known
as Colonel Anson.