9.--Died at Southtown, Yarmouth, Commander Francis Harris, R.N. He
entered the Navy on July 12th, 1805, as first-class volunteer on board
the Temeraire, 98, Captain Harvey and Sir Charles Hamilton, in which ship
he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. From 1826 to 1860 he was
employed with the Coast Guard, and retired with the rank of commander.
13.--Died at Tunstead, the Rev. G. H. Harris, aged 57, for twenty years
rector of the parish. Mr. Harris was well known for his exertions in
behalf of church bell-ringing, and was the means of reviving the art not
only in his own neighbourhood, but in other parts of the county. He was
the originator and honorary secretary of the Norwich Diocesan Association
of Ringers.
14.--In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, before
Vice-Chancellor Bacon, an order was made for the compulsory winding-up of
the Norwich Equitable Fire Insurance Company, which was stated to be
insolvent.
25.--Died at East Dereham, where he had spent the declining years of his
life, Mr. Antonio James Oury, the celebrated violinist. Mr. Oury was
born in London in 1800. His father, a native of Nice and of noble
descent, left home to follow the early campaigns of the then General
Bounaparte, and was taken prisoner by the British and landed near
Southampton, at which place he married, in 1799, the daughter of a Mr.
Hughes, a musician and dancing master. Young Oury at the age of three
years commenced violin playing under the tuition of his father and George
Macfarren. In 1812 he became the pupil of three eminent professors,
Mori, Spagnoletti, and Kiessewetter; and in 1820 he went to Paris to
study under Baillot, Kreutzer, and Lupont. Returning to England, he made
his debut at the London Philharmonic Society, and afterwards became joint
leader with Francis Cramer at the Birmingham, York, Leicester, and Derby
Musical Festivals, and made several operatic tours in Ireland. In 1826
he was engaged as leader of the ballet, sub-leader of the opera, and solo
violinist at the King's Theatre, and as successor to Mori and Lacy he
held this tripartite post for five years. Oury married, in 1831, the
distinguished pianist, Mdlle. Belleville, whose father had been an
officer of Napoleon's. In 1832 they left England for Hamburg, Berlin,
St. Petersburg, and Moscow, gave twenty-three concerts during a residence
of two years in Russia, and returned to Berlin. They next visited
Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, and Vienna. After a brilliant sojourn of two
years in the Austrian capital Oury visited Pesth and Buda, gave seven
concerts with great success and profit, played in the presence of the
Imperial Court at the Bourge Theatre, Vienna, and returned to Munich.
Accompanied by Madame Oury he gave concerts in all the principal towns on
the Rhine, and arrived in Holland, where his wife was attacked by a
serious illness, which interrupted several professional engagements.
They subsequently visited a number of other places on the Continent, and
returned to England after an absence of nine years. In 1846-47 Oury and
his accomplished partner visited Italy, gave concerts at Rome, Naples,
Venice, and Milan, and returned to England in 1848. Oury removed to
Norwich in 1868, and after being some years resident there, proceeded to
Dereham, where he lived with Mr. Arthur Mori.