23.--A two days' cricket match commenced on the Lakenham Ground, Norwich,
between a team of "Aboriginal Australians" and the Carrow Club. The
Australians showed surprising skill with the bat, and in the first day's
play made 177, against the Carrow score of 82.
26.--Died, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth of Cranworth. His
lordship was the eldest and only surviving son of the Rev. Edward Rolfe,
and was born December 18th, 1790. His father, like his uncle,
grandfather, and great grandfather, was a plain country clergyman,
holding the livings of Cockley Cley and of Cranworth, and it was at the
rectory house of the latter parish that he was born, and from which he
selected his title just 60 years afterwards. His mother was a Miss
Alexander, a granddaughter of Dr. Monsey, the physician of Chelsea
Hospital. Having received his early education at Bury St. Edmund's, he
was transferred to Winchester College, and in due course proceeded to
Cambridge, took his B.A. degree as 17th wrangler in 1812, and was elected
to the Fellowship of Downing College. He entered Lincoln's Inn, and was
called to the Bar in 1816. One of his first public appointments was that
of Recorder of Bury St. Edmund's, and he more than once, as a Liberal,
contested the representation of the borough against the powerful interest
of the Marquis of Bristol. In 1832 he obtained a silk gown, and in the
same year was returned to Parliament. On becoming Solicitor-General, in
1834, he received the honour of knighthood, and at the close of 1839
accepted a puisne judgeship as one of the Barons of Exchequer. In 1850
he was nominated a Vice-Chancellor, a post which, in the following year,
he exchanged for that of a Justice of Appeal in Chancery, which he
continued to hold until the Great Seal of the kingdom was entrusted to
his hands by Lord Aberdeen, on the formation of the Coalition Cabinet in
December, 1852. In the same year he was raised to the Peerage, and as
Lord Cranworth again held the Great Seal in 1865-66. His lordship
married Miss Carr, of Froghall Park, Hampstead.
27.--Mr. Simmons ascended in his large balloon from the Victoria Gardens,
Yarmouth, and descended at Caister. On August 6th he made an ascent from
the Greenhill Gardens, Norwich, and descended in Horstead Park. Mr.
Simmons, on August 13th, exhibited the balloon in Norwich Market Place,
where, in a captive state, it made several ascents. The aeronaut,
accompanied by Mr. William Maris, then ascended to the height of 10,000
feet in the space of two minutes, when the balloon drifted away in a
north-easterly direction. The passengers made a perilous descent near
the sea coast. They narrowly escaped with their lives by jumping out of
the car, and the balloon, blown out to sea, fell into the water two and a
half miles off Sheringham. The voyage from Norwich lasted only fifteen
minutes.
29.--A great Volunteer _fete_ and _al fresco_ entertainment took place in
the grounds of Quebec House, East Dereham, the residence of Capt. Bulwer.
The _fete_, which was attended by many hundreds of persons, was in aid of
the funds of the corps.
31.--Died at his residence, St. George's Middle Street, Norwich, aged 75,
the Rev. John Alexander, for nearly 50 years pastor of Prince's Street
chapel. "He was honoured and loved by his congregation as a
kind-hearted, liberal-minded, and truly Christian gentleman."