4.--Lord Stanley was re-elected member of Parliament for the borough of
King's Lynn, on his appointment as Secretary to the Colonial Department.
On June 5th his lordship was again re-elected, on accepting the
presidency of the Board of Control, vacated by Lord Ellenborough.
--Died at his residence, South Quay, Yarmouth, Sir Eaton Stanley Travers.
A son of Mr. John Travers, of Hethyfield Grange, co. Cork, he was born in
1782, and entered the Navy September 15th, 1798, as midshipman, on board
the Juno. He saw much active service, and was nine times mentioned in
despatches. He was nominated K.H. on February 4th, 1834, and on March
5th in the same year had conferred upon him the honour of knighthood.
Sir Eaton Travers was a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk. He married in
April, 1815, Anne, eldest daughter of William Steward, of Yarmouth, by
whom he had issue five sons and two daughters.
6.*--"Within the last few days a stone has been placed in the churchyard
at East Dereham, in memory of Jean de Narde, a French prisoner of war,
who, in the year 1796 while _en route_ from Yarmouth to Norman Cross
prison, was lodged in the lower chamber of the bell tower of the church,
and escaped therefrom. He was pursued by the guard, and, after some
search, was espied in a tree on the Scarning Road, and when summoned by a
soldier to descend and surrender he did not comply. His non-compliance
forfeited his life, for he was shot off it like a crow. The stone was
erected by the vicar and two other gentlemen."
8.--Miss Vandenhoff, tragic actress, from Drury Lane and Haymarket
Theatres, commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, in her play,
"Woman's Heart." She also appeared in "Love's Sacrifice," "Ingomar,"
"Macbeth," and "The Stranger."
22.--In the House of Lords, Lord Sondes presented a petition from the
Town Council and certain magistrates of Yarmouth, praying for an inquiry
into a recent appointment of justices for that borough. It was stated
that the magistrates were constant in their attendance upon the Bench,
and were sufficiently numerous. The borough contained 31,000
inhabitants, there were 31 magistrates, and 31 policemen. Upon the Bench
every shade of political feeling was represented, but all the
newly-appointed magistrates were of one political party. The Mayor of
Yarmouth had interviewed the Lord Chancellor, and his lordship had
intimated that it was his intention to persist in the appointment, and,
moreover, he felt it his duty to appoint new magistrates of one
particular party. The action of the Lord Chancellor had excited much
feeling in the borough. Lord Cranworth now informed the House that he
felt bound to put the magistracy in a position in which justice should
not be partially administered, and if an inquiry were instituted it
should have his entire concurrence. No further action resulted.
23.--At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a resolution was
adopted expressing surprise and indignation that a covert attempt had
been made to pervert the Grammar School and the Commercial School
proposed to be established into exclusive institutions, which would not
only deprive a large proportion of the inhabitants of the advantage of
the schools, but would condemn them in public estimation, and tend to the
frustration and utter subversion of the proposed scheme. The Charity
Trustees were requested to resist this proceeding, to ascertain at whose
instance the suggestion was made, and to consider whether recent
complaints did not imperatively demand that a searching inquiry should be
instituted into the conduct and management of the Grammar School. The
Master of the Rolls, on July 17th, gave his decision upon the Grammar
School case, which had long been before the Courts. It was ordered that
twenty-one governors be appointed; the sum of 1,000 pounds per annum
derived from land and house property was to be appropriated to the
maintenance of the Grammar School and Commercial School; the benefits of
the Grammar School were to be open to all England; and all the expenses
to which the Corporation and those who represented Norwich had been put
were to be paid by the Charity Trustees. On December 4th the NORFOLK
CHRONICLE made the following remarkable statement in relation to the
treatment of boys at the Grammar School: "We have recently been informed
of a circumstance connected with the Grammar School which we could
scarcely have credited but for the authority upon which we have received
it. It is that there exists in that school a form of punishment which
ought long since to have been unknown in a civilised country, amounting
very nearly to bodily torture. We have been assured that for offences of
a not very serious character boys are placed for hours between shelves so
constructed that they cannot stand upright, but are obliged to stoop
until the head is brought nearly level with the knees." At a meeting of
the Governors of the School, on December 8th, it was resolved, "That in
consequence of the informant declining to come to the Governors and
substantiate the charge referred to in the CHRONICLE newspaper of last
Saturday, we proceed no further in the matter; but that we intimate to
Dr. Vincent that we strongly disapprove of the mode of punishment alluded
to in that newspaper, and if it has been practised, we request it may be
discontinued." The accusation was not denied, either by Dr. Vincent or
by anyone on his behalf. On December 27th Dr. Vincent resigned his
appointment as headmaster.
25.--Died at Hempnall, John Holmes, aged 104. "The deceased leaves
behind him a son, Thomas, aged 87 years, and a grandson, aged 60 years,
the latter himself being a great-grandfather, thus presenting the
remarkable fact of a man living to witness the sixth generation, and to
see his great-grandson become a grandfather."
30.--The first annual dinner of the Norfolk and Norwich Anglers' Society
was held at the Bell Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. R. N.
Bacon.