2.--Loveday's English Grand Opera Company commenced an engagement at
Norwich Theatre. The principals included Madame Florence Lancia, Mdlle.
Ella Miraldi, Miss Annie Leng, Miss Fanny Leng, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler,
Mr. Grantham, Mr. Oliver Summers, and Mr. Henry Rowland. The repertory
included "La Somnambula," "Il Trovatore," "Don Giovanni," "Faust,"
"Dinorah," "Der Frieschutz," "Lucrezia Borgia," "Norma," and "Satanella."
3.--Died at Hethel Hall, John Davy Brett, formerly major in the 17th
Lancers, and lieut.-colonel of the 1st Norfolk Battalion of Volunteers,
aged 51.
5.--The marriage of the Right Hon. Charles Adolphus Murray, seventh Earl
of Dunmore, and Lady Gertrude Coke, third daughter of the Lord Lieutenant
of Norfolk, took place at Holkham. The ceremony was honoured by the
presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, who arrived at the Hall on
the 4th, as the private guests of the Earl and Countess of Leicester.
9.--Died at Chequers Court, Herts., aged 56, Lieut.-Col. Francis
L'Estrange Astley, commandant of the Norfolk Militia Artillery. He was
born in 1810, and married first in 1835, Charlotte, second daughter of
Mr. N. Micklethwait, of Taverham; and secondly, in 1854, Rosalind Alicia,
fifth daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, Bart.
21.--The Norwich sewerage scheme was further considered by the Town
Council. A scheme known as the Hope scheme, introduced at a previous
meeting, was abandoned, and the future management of the matter referred
to a committee selected from members opposed to the scheme. On May 12th
appeared the announcement that preliminary steps had been taken in
Chancery by the inhabitants of Thorpe and a bill filed against the Mayor
and Corporation for an injunction to compel them to desist from emptying
sewage into the river. On May 15th a special committee reported that
certain attempts made to cleanse the river had been attended with
considerable success, and at the same meeting a memorial was presented by
the inhabitants of the city, expressing regret and disappointment at the
abandonment of the proposed plan for diverting the sewage from the river,
and stating that under no circumstances whatever should the stream be
made use of as a sewer. Acting upon counsel's opinion, the Corporation,
on May 31st, determined that it was needful at once to take measures for
the diversion of the sewage from the river. The Sewerage Committee
resigned, and a new committee was appointed. This committee, on July
10th, recommended the hiring "of 1,300 acres of land on the Crown Point
estate, for the purpose of irrigating the same with the Norwich sewage."
The recommendation was agreed to. On October 9th the Town Clerk was
authorised, under the direction of the Special Sewerage Committee, to
give the necessary notices to enable application to be made in the next
Session of Parliament for an Act of Parliament for carrying out sewerage
works, and for the preparation of the necessary plans to be deposited in
conformity with the Standing Orders of the House. (_See_ January 15th,
1867.)
22.--The Rev. John Alexander, minister of the Independent congregation
meeting at Prince's Street, Norwich, resigned the pastorate of the
chapel, after a service of nearly half a century. Mr. Alexander came to
Norwich on April 4th, 1817, and for a time officiated at the Tabernacle
belonging to Lady Huntingdon's Connexion. His small congregation next
met at the Lancastrian School, and in order to retain his services they
built the Prince's Street chapel, where he ministered until the date of
his resignation. He was succeeded by the Rev. G. S. Barrett, B.A., of
the Lancashire Independent College.
24.--Died at Coltishall Hall, Mr. William Burroughes. The younger son of
a family seated in Norfolk for considerably more than one hundred years,
he was educated at Norwich Grammar School "in the palmy Valpeian days,"
and at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was upon the commission of the
peace for the county, chairman of the visiting justices, and joint
secretary of the Norfolk Agricultural Association.
30.--The Great Yarmouth Fish Wharves and Tramways Bill and the Great
Yarmouth Haven, Port, and Rivers Bill, were before a Committee of the
House of Commons. The first-named Bill went through Committee without
opposition on May 7th, and the latter was ordered to be reported on May
28th. The Port and Haven Bill, among other matters, provided that the
Commission should consist of thirteen members, namely, four for Yarmouth
(two to be elected by the Corporation, one by the registered shipowners
and payers of dues, and one by the owners of fishing vessels and payers
of dues on fish); three elected by the justices of Norfolk; three by the
justices of Suffolk; and three by the Corporation of Norwich, one of each
set of Commissioners for Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich being a merchant
residing and carrying on business within the district for which he was
elected. (_See_ October 28th, 1867.)