4.--The Royal Horse Artillery marched from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich,
_en route_ to Woolwich, and were escorted to the city boundary by the
Rifle Volunteers.
9.--An extraordinary case, arising out of the sudden disappearance of a
lad named Vansittart, came before the Norwich magistrates. The lad was a
son of Mr. Vansittart, member of Parliament for Windsor, and had been
placed at school under the care of the Rev. F. H. S. Hodgson, rector of
Rackheath. At Brighton, some time previously, he had developed Roman
Catholic tendencies, and his friends were anxious to remove him from the
sphere of such influences. Mr. Hodgson, while engaged in parochial
duties, missed the youth, and gave information to the police at Norwich,
who found him at the house of a Roman Catholic jeweller, named Beha. The
lad made a very singular statement, to the effect that an Italian priest,
attired in a long blue cloak, had persuaded him to leave school and join
the Roman Catholics in London; that he had gone to Norwich and met Canon
Dalton, the priest at St. John Maddermarket Roman Catholic chapel, to
whom he had shown a watch belonging to a school-fellow; that Canon Dalton
had advanced him six shillings, and recommended him to take the watch to
Beha, for the purpose of raising sufficient money to pay the balance of
his railway fare to London; and that he was preparing to start for town
when he was detained by the police. Canon Dalton declared that he had
not seen the lad prior to his coming to St. John Maddermarket. The
matter was adjourned for further inquiry, and on the 11th Canon Dalton,
Jacob Beha, Matthew Beha, and Thomas Foulsham were required to attend
before the magistrates, when the proceedings were deferred until the
18th, the persons named protesting against the course adopted by the
Bench, and urging that no charge had at present been preferred against
them. Another adjournment took place until the 25th, when Mr. Serjeant
Ballantine appeared for the prosecution, and preferred a charge of
conspiracy against Canon Dalton and the Behas. The boy Vansittart gave
evidence, and, in cross-examination by Mr. Woollett, counsel for the
defence, admitted that he had told "a tissue of lies," and that the main
points of his story were entirely invented by himself. The magistrates
dismissed the case, but expressed the opinion that the conduct of Canon
Dalton was exceedingly reprehensible in not advising the lad to return to
his father.
18.--Died at his residence, at Thorpe, General Sir Robert J. Harvey,
C.B., K.T.S., Knight Commander of the Order of St. Bento d'Avis, F.R.S.,
F.A.S. Sir Robert, who was in his 75th year, saw much active service
during his military career. He was present at the battles of the Douro
and Busaco, the battle of Salamanca, the siege of Burgos, and at
Vittoria, the Pyrenees (where he was wounded in the thigh by a musket
shot), Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. The long-protracted war
having been brought to a close in 1815 by the crowning victory at
Waterloo, on the anniversary of which he died, he returned to Norwich and
became an acting partner in the bank of Harveys and Hudson, and was head
of the firm at the time of his death. He was a magistrate and a Deputy
Lieutenant of Norfolk, president of the Norwich Union Life Office and the
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, chairman of the General
Reversionary Interest Society in London, and founder of several other
important institutions of a kindred character. In politics he was a
Conservative, but took no prominent part in local affairs. Sir Robert
married a daughter of Mr. Robert Harvey, of Walton, Suffolk, a distant
relative, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Mr. R. J. H. Harvey. The
will of the deceased was proved on February 21st, 1861, when the
personalty was sworn under 350,000 pounds. "Mr. R. J. H. Harvey has
purchased all his brother's (Mr. E. K. Harvey's) interest under the will,
so that he is now in possession of the whole of the real and personal
property of his late father, subject to Lady Harvey's life interest in
the Mousehold estates and to the annuities named in the will."
19.--At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was agreed,
"That the Lords of the Treasury having sanctioned the sale to the New
Street Company of the property required by them belonging to the
Corporation for the sum of 3,260 pounds, and having required to be
informed of the purpose to which the Corporation propose to apply such
purchase-money, this Council agrees, with the sanction of the Lords of
the Treasury, to apply 2,000 pounds towards the making of the new street,
which, on its completion, will be vested in the Corporation, and, the
remaining 1,260 pounds towards the widening of the present approach to
the Cattle Market by Rose Lane."
30.--The Channel Fleet, under the command of Admiral Sir C. Fremantle,
K.C.B., arrived in Yarmouth Roads. Since the year 1814 no two ships of
the line had been moored at the same time off Yarmouth. The fleet
consisted of nine ships of the line, two frigates, a corvette, and a
tender. The Mayor and Corporation of the borough waited upon the Admiral
and invited the officers to a ball, but orders came for the fleet to sail
early on the morning of July 2nd.