Norfolk Newspapers
Norfolk News
The full title of this newspaper is
The Norfolk News, Eastern Counties Herald, and Norwich, Yarmouth and Lynn
Commercial Gazette.
Extracts from Saturday February 1st 1845
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January 2004
Committed to Walsingham Prison, by the Rev. Edward Marsham, Clerk, and
Thomas Kerslake, Esq., Robert Willimot, for further examination, charged
on the oaths of Mr. Thomas Robinson Tingay, of West Rudham, farmer, and
others, with having on the evening of the 17 of January last, set fire to
a barn in the occupation of Mr. Tingay, at West Rudham.
By the same Magistrates, Robert Mott and William Arms, charged with having
stolen about six bushels of barley and one cwt. of linseed cake, the
property of the said R. Tingay.
By the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, William Baldwin and Jonathan Bangay,
charged on the oaths of George Lambly, Inspector of Police, and others,
with having stolen one silver dessert spoon, the property of the Rev.
Daniel Henry Lee Warner, of Walsingham Abbey.
By the same Magistrate, George Davis, charged on the oaths of Ann Doy, of
Thursford, and others, with having stolen 5s, the property of the said Ann
Doy, from her dwelling-house in the parish of Thursford.
By William Howe Windham. Esq., Timothy Puxley the younger and Joseph
Archer, charged with fowl stealing.
The North Walsham Literary and Scientific Institution was formed in
October, 1813, by the united efforts of five or six young men who were
desirous of providing a chief means of intellectual pleasure and
improvement for themselves and their neighbours. Unaided be pecuniary
donations, the monthly shillings of the gradually increasing members
have enabled the society, after paying all contingent expenses, to
accumulate about 300 volumes of various and instructive reading, to
which every week makes an addition. An unbroken series of monthly lectures
has also been given on the undermentioned subjects, viz. chemical
formation of water; stone pillars, cromlechs and rocking stones; rise and
origins of agriculture; physiology and structure of the organ of
vision; elementary geology; geology of East Norfolk; chemical properties
of the atmosphere; light and colours; revelations of the telescope; tumuli
or barrows; Stonehenge. Besides the regular lecture, a large proportion of
the members have met once a month for free and friendly discussion on some
question of speculative interest; and recently a musical class, emanating
from the society, has commenced a course of occasional concerts, the first
of which was well performed, well attended, and has induced a general
desire for a second.
The Institution consists, now, of about eighty members, of whom fifty or
sixty generally attend the fortnightly meetings. The leading reviews and
magazines form part of its library: from which, as well as from the
lectures and discussions, care is taken to exclude everything of
pernicious or doubtful tendency.
Mental and moral improvement; cheap, rational, and innocent enjoyment; the
cultivation and increase of social intercourse; these are the objects of
this, as of kindred institutions, and give it a right to the approval and
support of the educated and influential.
January 29th, 1845.
The Anniversary Dinner of the members of the market club was held at the
Feathers Inn, on Saturday last. Upwards of 20 gentlemen attended, and the
evening was spent in a most pleasant and harmonious manner. The dinner was
served in Mr. Parke's best style, and the wines were most excellent. In
the absence of Mr. Bolding, the president of the club, the chair was
filled by Mr. Withers, the vice-president.
On Sunday last, the wind blew very strong from the N.W., when the Gough,
120 tons register, of this port, Dew, master, made an attempt to enter the
harbour. A steam tug having been sent down to assist her, which from the
roughness of the sea and the violence of the wind, proved insufficient. In
the attempt, the above vessel drove too much to the East, where she
remained fixed, having but little hope of saving her, hands were sent down
to rescue all the materials and stores that could be obtained before the
next flood; previous to which the wind increased to a hurricane, and got
more out, the result of which, was that she broke up, and with her cargo
(coals) was totally lost.
About the same time, a schooner and a sloop were seen labouring heavily
off Weybourne, and soon after disappeared; it is feared that both, with
all hands, went down.
The tide was remarkably high on Sunday night, our streets being completely
under water, as also were the floors of the houses of those who had not
taken sufficient precaution to keep it out. We understand that much damage
has been done to the eastward on shore, but cannot report particulars to
be depended upon.
During the late gale this town has suffered considerably. About nine
o'clock on Sunday evening, the jetty was seen to part in the middle,
with a tremendous crash; the dark mass was distinguishable for a short
time only, being soon dispersed by the fury of the sea; the further end
soon followed, and about nine feet is the only portion left. The floating
timber contributed to the destruction of the wood steps leading down to
the beach, which are all broken off. The boarding of breakwaters recently
erected at great expense has shared a similar fate to the jetty. This has
been the highest tide known for the last nine years, and after destroying
breakwaters and jetty, washed away the protecting wall, with large
portions of the cliff immediately below the houses of Mrs. J. Rust and
Mrs. Hogg, whose houses are partly undermined and the foundations visible
from the shore. Workmen have been engaged in removing the windows,
furniture, &c., as fall they must, even should the next tide spare
them. The cliffs were lined with spectators, some of whom remained until a
late hour. Many of the inhabitants did not retire to rest at all, but were
engaged in saving all they could of the floating wreck of jetty and
breakwaters. The shore next morning exhibited sad tokens of the fury of
the sea; the cast iron supports and brows of the jetty being snapped
similiarly to a tobacco pipe; fragments of the jetty lying in confusion,
with masses of wall, and a very large quantity of stones used in the
building, are very conspicious. The fall of cliff has been great eastward
of Cromer.
