Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1 A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century (part 4 of 4)

Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1 A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century (part 4 of 4)

28.—Died at Hampstead, Sir William Beechey, R.A., aged 86. He was a native of Burford, Oxfordshire, and in early life settled and married in Norwich. Elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1793, he painted in the same year a full-length portrait of Queen Charlotte, who honoured him with the appointment of Queen’s portrait painter. In 1798 he painted an equestrian portrait of George III., with the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, reviewing the 3rd and 10th Dragoons, attended by Lieut.-General Dundas, General Sir William Fawcett, and Major George Goldsworthy. In the same year he received the honour of knighthood, the first instance of its being conferred on an artist since the time of Sir Joshua Reynolds. At St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, there are four portraits by Sir William, namely, those of Admiral Lord Nelson, Mr. John Patteson, Mr. Elisha de Hague, and Mr. J. S. Patteson. His son, Capt. Beechey, R.N., was one of Capt. Sir Edward Parry’s lieutenants in his second expedition towards the North Pole.

FEBRUARY.

3.—This day (Sunday) a prize-fight took place on Costessey Common, between Rix and Clarke, of Norwich, seconded by Cricknell and Blanchflower, “of the new scientific school.” Sixty-three rounds were fought, in 1 hr. 20 mins. Rix was the victor. “Never were two men more severely punished by each other.”

6.—The Rev. W. J. Bakewell, upwards of eleven years minister of the Unitarian chapel, Norwich, “who is about to embark for America,” was presented by his congregation with a purse of 105 sovs.

10.*—“The week before last, in a little more than three days, Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., and a small party of friends shot 1,313 pheasants and an immense quantity of hares, rabbits, partridges, and woodcock, on his estate at Lynford and Tofts.” (This was described as “killing, not sporting.”)

—Mr. William Dalrymple resigned office as one of the surgeons of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and Mr. J. Godwin Johnson was elected in his place.

11.—A trotting match took place at Attleborough, between a horse named Scroggins, belonging to Mr. Ling, of Besthorpe, and a cob the property of Mr. Robert Large, of Ellingham. The match was run in two mile heats, and was won by the former, in the presence of upwards of 3,000 spectators.

19.—Mr. Hotson, solicitor, of Long Stratton, while driving to Norwich, was robbed of a purse of money and a case of bank notes, near Harford Bridges. One of his assailants pulled him back in the gig and covered his mouth with his hand while three others rifled his pockets. At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, in April, a man named Daniel Archer was charged with the offence, and acquitted.

21.—The litigation respecting the Norwich charities entered upon its final stage in the House of Lords, when the appeal, Bignold and others v. Springfield came on for hearing. Lord Wynford said the question he had to propose was that the judges should state their opinion whether, having reference to the 74th section of the Municipal Corporation Act, the administration of the charities continued in the old Corporation after August 1st, 1836. Mr. Justice Littledale asked for time to consider the question. On June 24th the House decided in favour of the then trustees. Lord Chief Justice Tindal said: “Upon the whole we think the administration of the charity estates did not continue in the persons described in the 71st section of the 5th and 6th William IV. after August 1st.” The order was confirmed, with costs against the appellants.

—The Marquis of Douro presented to the House of Commons a petition signed by 1,600 of the inhabitants of Norwich for leave to bring in the Norwich Improvement Bill. The Bill was read a first time. It passed its second reading on March 21st, and was read a third time on June 19th. The object of the Bill was to repeal the then existing Acts and to substitute a more effectual provision for the better paving, lighting, and improvement of the city. At a special meeting of the Town Council on July 16th it was agreed to petition the House of Lords in opposition to the Bill “in the way it should come from the Commons.” When the Bill was before the Committee of the House of Lords on July 23rd objection was taken that the notices on the part of the promoters were insufficient, and the Bill was consequently lost. At a meeting of the Paving Commissioners on December 17th it was reported that costs amounting to £1,500 had been incurred in opposing the Bill.

MARCH.

2.—Smallpox was reported to be very prevalent in Norwich. Within the preceding month one hundred persons died of the disease.

5.—An alarming report was circulated about the arming of the Chartists in Norwich, where, it was stated, a club had been formed for the more extensive distribution of pikes and other weapons. “Some are formed like a common halbert, others have a crescent at the bottom and the blade pointed forward, with a sharp edge, supposed to be designed for cutting the girths or reins of horses. It is said that about 60 will leave Norwich armed with these weapons, and some of them with pistols, for the north of England.” At a meeting of the Town Council on March 11th the Mayor said, in reply to questions by Mr. Bignold, that the report had been greatly exaggerated. Pikes had been manufactured, but there was not a great number of them. Meanwhile the Chartists held meetings in Norwich Market Place, on Mousehold Heath, and elsewhere. In August pikes and guns were taken by the police from various persons, and on the 10th of that month John Dover, the keeper of a beer shop in St. Paul’s, was apprehended on the charge of giving an order to James Tillett, a smith, to make pikes for unlawful purposes, and was bound over to appear at the Assizes. On the 14th the Chartists made a demonstration on Mousehold Heath; the police force was strengthened in consequence, special constables sworn in, and the staff of the West Norfolk Militia held in readiness for immediate action. On Sunday, the 18th, the Chartists attended the Cathedral service in a body, and were appealed to by the Bishop to take to heart the words of advice he addressed to them. On the evening of the same day they attended St. Stephen’s church and interrupted the preacher, the Rev. P. Booth, with hisses and noise. The church of SS. Simon and Jude was visited on Sunday, the 25th, and hundreds were unable to gain admission in consequence of the crowd. “A text had been sent to the Rev. John Owen by some of the Chartists, with a respectful request that he would preach from it, and the greatest order prevailed.”

8.—A heavy fall of snow took place. The Birmingham mail coach arrived in Norwich ten hours late, and on the 9th several carriers were unable to reach the city.

11.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council a petition “from certain persons, denominating themselves anglers,” was read, requesting that means should be taken to prevent the dragging of the river for fish. It was stated that fishing for smelts was at one time a source of income to many persons, several boats having earned as much as £23 a year. The petition was referred to the magistrates, who were asked to prohibit illegal fishing.

16.*—“A fine white-tailed eagle was last week shot on Beachamwell Warren. It measured between the tips of the wings 7 ft. 5 ins., and weighed 10¾ lbs. It has been preserved by the Rev. H. Dugmore, of Swaffham.”

20.—Fakenham Steeplechases took place. Among the other meetings this season were Eccles Hunt Steeplechases, March 26th; North Walsham, April 12th; and Barnham Broom, April 18th.

21.—Died at his apartments in London, Mr. Edmund Henry Barker, of Thetford. “He had rendered valuable services to literature; in early life he was an intimate and respected friend of Dr. Parr; and his labours on the Thesaurus of Stephens will remain a noble monument of his indefatigable zeal in the cause of Greek literature.” He was buried at St. Andrew’s, Holborn.

24.—Died, aged 85, Mary, wife of Captain Richard Browne, of the Cathedral precincts, Norwich, and eldest daughter of Dr. John Murray.

26.—The troop of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, stationed at Norwich, marched thence for Clifton. They were replaced in April by two troops of the 9th Lancers, commanded by Capt. Fullarton.

APRIL.

1.—Mr. G. V. Brooke appeared at Norwich Theatre as Sir Edward Mortimer (“The Iron Chest”). During the short season he performed a round of his favourite characters.

6.*—“We regret to find our anticipations that the Eastern Counties’ Railway is to terminate at Colchester have been realised, as it seems the directors have come to the conclusion not to carry it further, in accordance with the wishes of the Lancashire proprietors, who hare so great a stake in the undertaking.” On May 6th a rule nisi was granted in the Bail Court to compel the Company to proceed with the works in accordance with their original contract with the public. (The Act of Parliament was obtained upon the representation that the line should be carried from London to Yarmouth.) In the Court of Queen’s Bench on June 22nd Lord Chief Justice Denman, in delivering judgment on the points raised, said: “Upon the whole, without coming to any final decision, we think the case is involved in such doubt as to require the return of the mandamus, and that a writ should go for that purpose.”

9.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Vaughan, John Hall and Wm. Palmer were indicted upon the unusual charge of stealing a bell from a parish church. The bell was lying in the west end of North Walsham church, and the prisoners, with the assistance of a man named John Daniels (who turned Queen’s evidence), took it away in a cart, broke it up, and endeavoured to dispose of the metal in Norwich. The prisoners were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, with hard labour. (For an account of a similar theft see December 28th, 1839.)

10.—At the same Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, an action was brought against an overseer named Burrell, of Lynn, for the recovery of a penalty of £50 for failing to deliver a signed list of persons claiming to be registered as voters under the Municipal Reform Act. A verdict was given for the plaintiff, a Mr. King, for the amount claimed.

11.—Charles Daines was indicted at the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Vaughan, for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Daines, his infant daughter, by poisoning her at Hempnall on March 11th. The prisoner was acquitted. He was then charged with attempting to murder his wife by poisoning her with arsenic, found guilty, and sentenced to death. The execution took place on the Castle Hill, Norwich, on April 27th. “He appeared to die an exceedingly hard death. He clasped his hands, and raised his arms several times towards his breast, as if in the act of prayer, unquestionably showing that consciousness had not left him. His remains were buried in St. Michael-at-Thorn churchyard.”

13.*—“We understand it is in contemplation to revive in Norwich under different regulations and on a more extensive scale those annual art exhibitions, which for the last six years have ceased to take place. It is proposed to form a society, through the medium of which artists and amateurs in Norwich and its neighbourhood may have the opportunity of offering to public inspection and patronage productions in any department of art. The large room in the building, lately occupied as a bazaar in St. Andrew’s, is to form the gallery.” (The exhibition was opened on August 16th.)

—*“An enormous eel was lately brought to Norwich Fish-market. It weighed 25 lbs., and was sold to be placed in the collection of a London naturalist.”

13.—Died at Doughty’s Hospital, Norwich, Elizabeth Bentley, “the Norwich poetess,” in the 72nd year of her age. She was born in the parish of All Saints, and was the only child of Daniel Bentley, a journeyman shoemaker, who died in 1783. Two years after her father’s death she developed a taste for versification, and in 1791 appeared the first volume of her poems, dedicated to Mr. Wm. Drake, jun., M.P. The profits of the publication (from the contributions of nearly 2,000 subscribers) enabled her for many years, with the income arising from a small school, to support the declining age of her mother. Another volume of her poems was published in 1821.

MAY.

6.—At the sale of effects at Gunton Hall, very high prices were realised for the wine, liquors, and ale. Griffith’s port (1830) sold at 81s. per dozen; Fontignac, at £8 per dozen; curaçoa, £13 per dozen; brandy, £9 per dozen; ale, £4 per barrel. At Tattersall’s, 49 horses and colts belonging to Lord Suffield produced £4,400, and the pack of 47 couples and 13 bitches with their whelps £280.

9.—The Yarmouth Town Council accepted the tender of the Rev. Mark Waters for the presentation to St. George’s chapel. The minimum price fixed was £620; the highest tender £661.

14.—The Purple and Orange Club, at a meeting presided over by Mr. W. J. Utten Browne, and held at the Maid’s Head Inn, adopted an address to the Queen, expressing regret at the threatening aspect of affairs in our Colonial possessions, and of sedition manifest in England, and imploring her Majesty to summon to her counsels “all those upright and enlightened statesmen whose consistent advocacy of Conservative principles has obtained for them the respect and confidence of the nation.” On the 23rd the Norwich Town Council adopted a counter address, “thanking her Majesty for her choice of ministers who deserve the regard of the nation by righteous taxation, by extending commerce, by improving criminal and civil laws, by commuting tithes, by amending the Poor-laws, by granting self-government to the people by municipal corporations, and by making provision for national education.”

15.—By the fall of a floor at Taverham paper-mills, a man and a woman were killed.

25.*—“A tomb of novel construction has lately been erected in Diss churchyard. It is constructed entirely of cast-iron, and for neatness, security, and durability excels anything of the kind we have ever noticed.”

27.—The Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution closed its rooms at the Assembly House, Norwich. The library was opened at the new rooms adjoining the Museum in St. Andrew’s Street, on July 8th.

—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry mustered on Thornage Green and marched to Holt for six days’ permanent duty, under the command of Major Loftus.

JUNE.

1.*—“A respectable young man a few days since, at Norwich, undertook for a wager that he would take the sum of five shillings in one hour by travelling the city with a basket containing threads, tapes, cottons, &c., which he accomplished, and proceeded on the second hour, when he took 4s. 6d. more.”

5.—The Norwich Tonnage Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons. This measure was intended to provide a new mode of application of the tolls and dues, first to defray the expenses of obtaining the Act; secondly, to pay interest on all sums borrowed under the powers of the Act, and to promote an accumulative fund for the purpose of paying off all the principal monies; and thirdly to keep in repair bridges, &c., to free Carrow Bridge, Duke’s Palace Bridge, and Foundry Bridge, to keep in repair St. Andrew’s Hall and the Guildhall, and to pay for any permanent improvement, such as widening streets, &c.

7.—Died at Shadwell Lodge, in his 86th year, Sir Robert John Buxton, Bart. He had successively represented in Parliament for several years the borough of Thetford, and the borough of Bedwin, Wilts.

11.—A prize-fight for £25 a side was fought at Pulham, between Brassey and Bailey, of Norwich. In 1 hour 8 minutes 72 rounds were contested, “during which time Bailey never had a chance.” Brassey was seconded by John Stanfield and Charles Utting, and Bailey by Jem Perowne and Bounce Brown. “On Sunday, the 9th inst., no less than five of these disgraceful scenes took place in the parish of Earlham.”

15.*—“A full length portrait of the rector, the Rev. William Manning, by Mr. Thomas Ronds, of London, formerly of Diss, has been placed in the committee room of the Diss Hospital, the result of a subscription set on foot by the inhabitants.”

22.*—“‘The Tour,’ a poem written anonymously, published by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and printed by Gowing, of Swaffham, is, independent of its literary merits, highly creditable to the West Norfolk press. The frontispiece, Lake Lucerne, is drawn by Wright, of Swaffham.”

26.—A fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Bush, cabinet maker, Roach’s Court, Fisher’s Lane, Norwich, and was one of the most destructive that had taken place in the city for many years. The factory was destroyed, and with it the adjoining house, occupied by a silk weaver, who lost his stock of silk and machinery. “The fire engines were not in a state for such an emergency, and many of the leather pipes had to be tied up with handkerchiefs.”

JULY.

6.*—“Mr. Smith, who has managed the Norwich Theatre for the last 25 years, has retired altogether from the concern, which is now in the hands of his son, Mr. George Smith.”

13.—A person of eccentric character, named John Coe, of Chapel Street, Crook’s Place, Norwich, died on this date. “For 34 years he was a trunk maker in St. Lawrence’. Deceased had made his own coffin five years ago, of old soap chests and tea chests, and had polished it up so that it looked like mahogany. It was composed of 165 pieces, and on the lid was a black plate, bearing a quotation from the Burial Service. The deceased had also made a coffin for his wife, who survives him, but this had to be disposed of to inter the remains of a poor woman whose friends could not find the money to purchase one.”

15.—A prize-fight took place on Mousehold Heath, Norwich, between Brundell and Thetford, who were seconded respectively by Perowne and Cricknell. Fifty-two rounds were fought, in 1 hour 15 minutes. Both men were severely punished. Brundell was the winner.

—Died at his house, Chester Square, London, Mr. Praed, M.P. for Aylesbury. The deceased, who was in his 37th year, was Deputy High Steward of Cambridge University, and formerly Conservative member for Great Yarmouth.

16.—The “London Gazette” of this date contained the announcement: “The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Henry le Strange Styleman, of Hunstanton Hall, Esquire, her Royal licence and authority that he and his issue may, out of respect for the memory of his great grandmother, Armine Styleman, eldest of the two daughters of Sir Nicholas le Strange, take and use the name of le Strange in addition to and after that of Styleman.”

17.—Two musical artistes who afterwards achieved much local celebrity, Madame de Belleville Oury (pianist to H.R.H. Princess Frederick of Prussia) and Mr. Oury (principal violinist at the Italian Opera in Paris), made their first appearance in Norwich at a matinée musicale, given at the house of Madame Oury Crook, Chapel Field, Norwich.

20.*—“A fine specimen of that rare and exquisitely beautiful fish, the Opah, or Zeus Imperialis was taken alive at Hunstanton. It measured 3 ft. 3 ins. in length, 1 ft. 10 ins. across, and 7 ins. thick. It was purchased for Wisbech Museum.”

25.—Died, aged 66, Mr. William Snow, many years master of the Black Bull Coffee House, in Norwich Market Place. “He was a man of superior ability in his profession as a cook and purveyor for festive parties.”

29.—Mr. George Smith commenced the first season of his management at Norwich Theatre by engaging Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews. The pieces produced during the visit of these eminent performers were “The Welsh Girl,” “Patter versus Clatter,” and “Loan of a Lover.”

AUGUST.

6.—A correspondent, in a letter of this date, called attention in the NORFOLK CHRONICLE to the use of dogs as animals of draught. “I saw,” he wrote, “in a big, overloaded baker’s cart this week a disproportioned dog, willing but quite unable to pull his cruel load up Market Place Hill. Let the inhabitants of Norwich withdraw their custom from any baker who is guilty of this barbarism.”

14.—The Fakenham coach, on its journey to Norwich, was descending Guist Hill, when one of the leaders fell, the pole broke, and the coach was overturned. The only person seriously injured was a Mrs. Flowers, of London, who sustained a broken thigh and received a severe wound in the neck.

28.—The Cley estate, the property of Mr. John William Tomlinson, was sold by auction in London by Mr. W. W. Simpson, for £32,000.

SEPTEMBER.

2.—Died at Annesley Place, Cambridge, aged 61, Mr. W. Wilkins, M.A., R.A. He was the architect of Downing College and of the new buildings at King’s, Trinity, and Corpus Christi Colleges; the University College, London, and the National Gallery were erected from his designs, as were also the Shirehall and the Theatre Royal at Norwich. Mr. Wilkins graduated as a member of Caius College, of which he was afterwards Fellow. He was the author of “Magna Græcia” and other works on architecture. With his father, Mr. William Wilkins, F.S.A., he resided some years in Norwich.

15.—A cuckoo, in fine plumage, was shot in the garden of Messrs. Howes, Red Lion Street, Norwich.

17.—At the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival, which began on this date, the programme included “Israel in Egypt,” the new oratorio “Calvary,” produced on the 19th and conducted in person by the composer, Spohr; selections from the “Redemption,” and the “Messiah.” A miscellaneous concert took place each evening, and the Festival concluded with a fancy dress ball. The principal artistes were Signora Persiani, Signora Placci, Miss Birch, Miss Hawes, Madame Stockhausen, Mr. Hobbs, Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. Balfe, Mr. Young, Mr. Francis, Signor Tamburini; Mr. F. Cramer was leader of the band, and Professor Taylor conducted. The gross receipts were £5,639 0s. 5d., and the gross expenses £4,343 4s. 2d.

—A two days’ race meeting commenced on Mousehold Heath, Norwich, and was attended by 30,000 persons.

23.—The foundation-stone of Yarmouth Hospital was laid by Mr. Simon Cobb, Mayor of the borough.

25.—Mr. Hampton made a balloon ascent from the Gas Works, Bishop Bridge, Norwich, at 4.30 p.m., and descended prematurely in a field at Rackheath. A parachute containing a monkey was detached from the car as the balloon passed over Mousehold Heath.

OCTOBER.

2.—A great demonstration took place at Norwich, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the “Teetotalist” Society. A procession, headed by a band of music, started from Castle Meadow, paraded the principal streets of the city, and arrived at St. Andrew’s Hall at five o’clock. After tea the Bishop addressed the meeting, and “declared in the most positive manner his deep conviction of the value of the society.” Mr. Samuel Wiseman and Mr. James Jarrold were presented with silver medals by the temperance workers in the city.

8.—The Norwich Paving Commissioners adopted ground plans and elevations for the widening and improvement of Briggs Street, and it was agreed that the cost be met proportionately by the trustees of D’Oyley’s fund, the Paving Commissioners, and the Tonnage Commissioners. At a meeting of the Paving Commissioners, on December 10th, it was decided to carry out the contemplated improvements on the east side of the street, and that conjointly with the Tonnage Commissioners, they should spend a sum not exceeding £2,000.

9.—Mr. Hampton made a second balloon ascent at Norwich. The balloon was filled at the Gas Works, and floated thence by means of guide ropes to the yard of the Cavalry Barracks. Among the persons who availed themselves of the opportunity of ascending in the balloon while in its captive state was Col. Harvey, who, on September 7th, 1825, made an ascent from Richmond Hill Gardens with Mrs. Graham (q.v.). Mr. Hampton was accompanied by Mr. William Shalders, jun., and the balloon descended on the estate of the Rev. T. Mack, of Tunstead, ten miles distant from Norwich. On October 16th Mr. Green, the celebrated aeronaut, then on a visit to Mr. R. Crawshay, of Honingham, ascended in his “Coronation” balloon, from Norwich Gas Works. “A parachute with a cat in the basket was thrown out, and descended at Catton.” The balloon descended at Trunch, after a journey of twenty-five minutes’ duration.

16.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, William Wales was indicted for maliciously shooting cattle, the property of Mr. Robert Mack, jun., at Hainford, on August 18th. It was proved that the prisoner had shot several valuable beasts. He had already served seven years’ transportation, and, on being found guilty, was sentenced to transportation for the term of his natural life.

—Died in London, Mr. Charles M. Curtis, aged 44, an artist of considerable merit. He was a native of Norwich, a brother of the accomplished author of “British Entomology,” and for several years devoted his talents to drawing objects of natural history and to the illustration of scientific works.

25.—The centenary of Wesleyanism was commemorated at Norwich. On the 28th 1,000 members of the body had tea at St. Andrew’s Hall, which was also attended by 1,200 children from the Wesleyan Sunday schools in the city.

30.—St. Mary’s Baptist chapel, Norwich, which had been closed for four months, for the purpose of enlargement, was re-opened for public worship. The preachers were the Rev. Dr. Andrew Reed, of London, and the Rev. Eustace Giles, of Leeds. “The chapel, which is now one of the most elegant in this part of the kingdom, and is capable of seating more than one thousand persons, was densely crowded by a congregation amounting to nearly 1,600 persons.”

NOVEMBER.

5.—At Yarmouth Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder, Mr. N. Palmer, Fortunatus Robert Townshend Crisp was indicted for publishing, in a paper called the “Paul Pry,” a slanderous and malicious libel upon Henry Holmes Baker. Many persons in Yarmouth had, it was stated, been grossly libelled in this notorious publication. Defendant was found guilty, and ordered to pay damages amounting to £5.

9.—Capt. Philip John Money was elected Mayor, and Mr. John Barwell appointed Sheriff, of Norwich.

11.—Mr. Arrow, auctioneer, of Lynn, was served with an Exchequer writ under peculiar circumstances. Proceedings had been taken against several individuals in St. Margaret’s parish for non-payment of Church rates, and their goods were distrained and put up for auction in the Saturday Market Place. Among other articles offered was a silver-cased watch. Mr. Arrow not having a licence to sell plate, offered the works only, and proposed to make a present of the case to the person who purchased the works, and in this manner the watch was disposed of. On receiving the writ, Mr. Arrow wrote to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, giving a full explanation of the circumstances, whereupon further proceedings were stayed.

16.*—“A new Paving Bill is being prepared by Mr. C. S. Gilman, and its entire management is to be entrusted to a committee of inhabitants and owners of property in Norwich and the hamlets.” Among its objects were the prevention of the erection or maintenance of any toll-gate in any part of the hamlets, the acquisition of powers to widen Briggs Street, Theatre Street, and London Street; to open a carriage way through the Back of the Inns from London Street to White Lion Street; to afford public carriage communication from the Back of the Inns through Angel Street to the Castle Ditches, and to effect other improvements conducive to the health, cleanliness, and security of the inhabitants. (See January 31st, 1840.)

22.—At a meeting of the county magistrates, held at the Shirehall, Norwich, the Hon. and Rev. R. Wilson moved, Lord Wodehouse seconded, and it was resolved by a large majority to adopt the new Constabulary Act throughout the county. The force, known as the “Rural Police,” was constituted as follows:—One chief constable, at the salary of £500 per annum; 12 superintendents, at £100 each; and 120 petty constables, at £1 each per week. Each superintendent was allotted a district of twelve square miles. On January 3rd, 1840, Lieut.-Col. Richard Montague Oakes was appointed Chief Constable.

23.—Ducrow’s Circus was opened at the Ranelagh Gardens, Norwich.

26.—A meeting of the insurers in the Norwich Union Life Office was held at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, “to take into consideration the examiners’ report, agreeable to the resolutions of the meeting held on the 6th inst.” These proceedings arose mainly because of long-continued personal attacks made upon Mr. Bignold by Mr. Bacon, editor of the “Norwich Mercury.” “The character of Mr. Bignold was placed on the highest pinnacle of unimpeachable honour and good fame; and the present state of the society’s affairs is founded on that firm and equitable basis of adjustment which fully warrants its members in looking forward to years of increasing prosperity and success for the establishment.”

DECEMBER.

21.—Wombwell’s Menagerie was exhibited at Norwich. The collection had largely increased in extent since its previous visit, and included three elephants. “In consequence of the rapid growth of the enormous elephant, G. W. has been obliged to erect the largest machine in the form of a waggon that was ever built, so ponderous as to require six roller wheels to support it, and from 12 to 18 horses to draw it.”

21.—Died in St. Stephen’s, Norwich, aged 65, Mr. William Moore. He served the office of Sheriff in 1824, and of Mayor in 1835. Mr. Moore was the last Mayor elected by the old Corporation before the Municipal Corporations Act came into force.

24.—The weather on this day was only ten degrees colder than on June 24th. “The thermometer out of doors remained at 50.”

28.*—“One night last week some persons stole from the church at Swardeston one of the bells. The rogues broke the bell to pieces on the spot, and although the blows must have made a great noise, the villagers were not alarmed, and the sacrilegious depredators were enabled to carry off their booty unmolested.”

1840.

JANUARY.

1.—At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder, Mr. Jermy, James Ollett Marshall and James Darkin were indicted for publishing in a paper called “The Searcher” a libellous article on Mr. Sparkall, of Norwich. Marshall was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, and Darkin fined £5.

4.—Died at Hempnall, in his 101st year, William Reed, cordwainer.

7.—A prize-fight took place on Pulham North Green, between Cricknell and Cain. After six rounds had been fought, Cricknell was taken into custody by the “Rural Police,” conveyed to Harleston, and bound over to keep the peace for twelve months. “The concourse of persons was not so numerous as has been noticed on similar occasions. Whether this arose from the necessary secrecy of the scene of action, on account of the declared intentions of the magistrates to put a stop to these demoralising sights, or the early hour (ten o’clock) the combatants set-to, cannot be fully determined. But that these brutal attacks are fast declining in the estimation of the middle classes may be fairly presumed by the paucity in number and the circuitous route taken by many of them to the battlefield.”

10.—The Penny Postage “came into operation this day, according to the official regulations. Our advertising friends and correspondents will also be pleased to observe that unless the penny postage be prepaid the expense of them will be DOUBLE on their orders or communications. Since the ‘schoolmaster has been abroad’ the plural of penny is twopence. A letter not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight may be sent from any part of the United Kingdom to any other part for one penny, if paid when posted, or for twopence if paid when delivered.” On January 18th it was announced “the penny postage reduction has about trebled the number of letters in Norwich and in other towns, but printed circulars have formed a great proportion of this temporary increase. A tradesman in this city, we are informed, has sent out several thousands of such penny postpaid circulars.”

15.—Died, Mr. J. Purdy Beacham, aged 70, for 54 years a highly-respected member of the Norwich Theatrical Company.

19.—A severe thunderstorm occurred. A stack of barley at Overstrand was struck by lightning and entirely consumed; and on the 20th, during a heavy gale at Carlton Forehoe, a barn was blown down. On the 21st the thunderstorm raged with increased fury at Carlton Rode, where the lightning struck the premises of Mr. James Ringer, a miller, and set the thatch roof on fire. “His married daughter (Mrs. Matthews) was struck, and her clothes set on fire in twenty different places. Her sister was also enveloped in flames. The lightning inflamed her neck and shoulders, ran down her back, her side and breast, ran down her legs, and burned her heels, even the bottoms thereof, but neither her stockings nor boots were the least injured. Of her upper apparel, every article was burnt through and through.”

23.—A fine schooner, named the Lady Sondes, was launched from the shipyard of Mr. Lubbock, at Wells-next-the-Sea. The vessel was built for Messrs. R. and R. Brereton, of Blakeney, and was intended for the foreign trade. This was a very busy year for Norfolk shipbuilders. From Mr. J. Parker’s yard at the same town was launched, on May 20th, the Saucy Lass schooner; from Mr. Joseph Hastings’ yard at Yarmouth, on June 16th, a vessel of 200 tons burden; from Mr. F. Preston’s yard at Yarmouth, on July 16th, a fine vessel named the Maid of Athens; from Mr. Fellowes’ yard at Yarmouth on September 15th, the Earl of Leicester brig; and from the yard of Mr. Ambrose Palmer, Yarmouth, on October 28th, a vessel of 400 tons, called the Hamlet.

28.—Steeplechases took place at Long Stratton. Among the other meetings this season were the military steeplechases by the officers of the 9th Royal Lancers at Shimpling Hall on March 3rd; the Fakenham Steeplechases on March 13th, over a four-mile course, with the winning-post on Hempton Green, where, in the heavy weight race, the silver cup, value £100, with 50 sovs. added, was won by Mr. Skelton’s ch.h. Colonel, ridden by Wright (sixty-five years of age), and Mr. J. Elmere’s br.h. Lottery (winner of the Liverpool stakes) was unplaced; the Norfolk and Suffolk Steeplechases, at Diss, on March 17th; the Loddon Steeplechases, on March 27th; and the Yarmouth Steeplechases, on March 31st.

31.—The petition for the new Norwich Improvement Bill was presented in the House of Commons by the Marquis of Douro, who, on February 26th, introduced the Bill. On the previous day (February 25th) a common hall was held at the Guildhall, at which it was resolved that there was no necessity for the Bill, and a petition was drawn up in opposition to it.

FEBRUARY.

1.—Norwich Theatre opened for the season with the production of “The Lady of Lyons,” in which the part of Claude Melnotte was played by Mr. G. V. Brooke. “When we see the huge amphitheatre which is now in rapid progress towards completion on the Castle Meadow, under the sanction of the constituted authorities, for the reception of another batch of horse riders so soon after the visit of Ducrow’s troupe, and just at the very moment the players are come, we are constrained to observe that the jewel of fair play does not appear likely to be awarded as it ought to be to a class of her Majesty’s servants.” On February 4th Mr. J. Russell, of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, appeared in the parts of Dominique (“The Deserter”) and Pat Murphy (“The Happy Man”). Before the end of the season it was announced that Mr. G. V. Brooke had been added to the permanent strength of the Norwich Company.

2.—A remarkable case of somnolence was reported at Norwich. John Browne, master of the Yarmouth Bridge public-house, Red Lion Street, who died on this day, aged 39, and was reputed to be the heaviest man in the city, had been constantly afflicted with sleepiness. “He weighed at the time of his death nearly 27 st., and had generally slept away his time. He kept awake only a few minutes at a time, and even in conversation fell asleep. Browne was several years turnkey at the City Gaol, and was then by no means a man of over size, but he had been increasing in bulk for several years, notwithstanding the rigid temperance which he observed, living entirely upon dry toast and tea. His coffin was 3 ft. across, 6 ft. long, and 1 ft. 9 in. in height.”

10.—The marriage of her Majesty the Queen was celebrated in Norwich. The Mayor and members of the Corporation, wearing white favours, attended service at the Cathedral, where the sermon was preached by the Rev. Prebendary Wodehouse. After service the quarterly meeting of the Town Council was held at the Guildhall, when congratulatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert were adopted. At one o’clock the 9th Lancers, under the command of Capt. Arthur Williams, entered the Market Place and fired a feu de joie with their pistols; “the trumpeters played ‘God save the Queen,’ and the soldiers gave three hearty cheers, flourishing their sabres in the air.” Luncheon was afterwards served in the Council Chamber, “the principal object on the table being a large wedding-cake, lavishly decorated.” At five o’clock one hundred gentlemen dined at the Swan Inn, under the presidency of the Mayor. At night there was a firework display in the Market Place. On the staging at the north-east angle of the Market Place the fireworks were prematurely exploded; a rocket was driven through the shutters of a shop on the Walk, and another entered the second storey window of a house in London Street. A man was severely wounded in the face, and others were also injured. A ball took place at the Assembly Room, “and in conformity with the wishes of the committee of the Council, the pit and gallery of the Theatre were thrown open gratis.” The pieces performed were “The Wedding Day” and “The Illustrious Stranger,” followed by the pantomime, “The House that Jack Built.” There were many parochial celebrations. At Yarmouth the vessels in the harbour were decorated with flags, the Revenue cutter in the Roads fired a royal salute, and a public dinner was held at the Town Hall. At a county meeting held at the Shirehall, Norwich, on March 21st, at which Mr. Henry Villebois, High Sheriff, presided, congratulatory addresses were ordered to be sent to her Majesty and Prince Albert.

12.—At the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, Mr. William Stark delivered a lecture on “The functions of the brain phrenologically considered.” It was really a defence of the theory of phrenology, and gave rise to much adverse comment.

15.—Died, aged 31, Mr. George Stannard, younger brother of Mr. A Stannard, the Norwich artist. The deceased was described as “an artist of superior talents.”

19.—Died, in his 108th year, Richard Pattle, of Rudham. “He was a poor but honest man, and had through life earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, and was so respected by his neighbours that they some time ago employed an artist to take his likeness, from which a print was published, and is now in possession of most of the neighbouring gentry and farmers.”

27.—A fire occurred on the newly-erected premises of Mr. Thorrold, engineer and ironfounder, near Foundry Bridge, Norwich, “and totally consumed all but the bare walls.”

MARCH.

2.—Batty’s Royal Circus commenced a season in “the most elegant, spacious, and substantial building ever erected in Norwich.” Its site was on the Castle Meadow. One of the principal productions of the season was the spectacle, “The Council of Clermont,” in which trained lions and leopards were introduced.

7.—At a meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in the Hundred of Henstead, held at the Bell Inn, Orford Hill, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Fellowes, it was determined to present a petition to Parliament against any alteration in the Corn Laws. The question was discussed at a meeting of the Norwich Town Council on March 24th, on a motion by Mr. Marshall that a petition be presented to Parliament “to repeal the present laws affecting the importation of foreign corn, and to substitute such a duty as shall secure to the agriculturists of the country present protection, with the prospect of a progressive diminution of that duty as well as of others which form our commercial code.” The motion was negatived. Mr. Bell, of the “Farmers’ Journal,” delivered a lecture in Norwich Corn Hall at the close of the market on March 28th, and argued that the theory of Free Trade was false in the principle on which it professed to be founded. On the 11th a public discussion took place at St. Andrew’s Hall between Mr. Bell and Mr. Ackland, one of the lecturers of the Manchester Anti-Corn Law League. Many meetings were held, for and against repeal, in different parts of the county.

—*“Died, lately, Mr. Robin Wade, of Ditchingham, aged 102.”

—*“Mr. William Bagge, M.P. for West Norfolk, has lately purchased Col. Say’s estate at Crimplesham, for £35,000, including the timber.”

14.—At the Norfolk Sheriff’s Court at Norwich, a jury was empanelled to assess damages in a case of crim. con., in which the plaintiff was Mr. Edward William Trafford, and the defendant Mr. Ellis, a lieutenant in the 9th Royal Lancers stationed at Norwich in 1839. The Attorney-General (Sir John Campbell) was one of the counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Thesiger was leading counsel for defendant, and Mrs. Opie was a witness in the case. Mr. N. Palmer, barrister, was deputed by the High Sheriff to preside. The damages were laid at £5,000, and the special jury, composed of county gentlemen, assessed them at £500. On August 4th the Royal assent was given to Mr. and Mrs. Trafford’s Divorce Bill.

20.—At a meeting of the county magistrates, held at the Shirehall, Norwich, Mr. Henry Champion Partridge and Mr. Isaac Jermy, Recorder of Norwich, were elected Chairmen of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions.

29.—Died in St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, aged 47, Mr. Christopher Edwards, formerly a solicitor. “The deceased was better known by the appellation Cutty Edwards, and was possessed of considerable talent and natural wit. No man experienced more the vicissitudes of fortune. He once had a comfortable property, but latterly felt the bitter pangs of want.”

30.—Norman’s School, erected in the parish of St. Paul, Norwich, by the trustees of Alderman Norman, who died May 10th, 1724, “he bequeathing his property upon trust for ever for the purpose of boarding, clothing, and educating the sons of his own and his first wife’s relations,” was opened. The “claimants,” with their children, marched in procession from Chapel Field to the bowling-green of the New Inn, St. Augustine’s Gates, where the boys were regaled with buns. A party numbering 500 was entertained to tea in the school-room, when Mr. Samuel Daynes proposed “The Memory of Alderman Norman.” On July 28th the “claimants” presented a silver cup to Mr. Daynes, “as a memorial of their esteem for his indefatigable exertions in obtaining and establishing the claims of those who could prove descent from their munificent benefactor.”

31.—The Judges of Assize, Sir James Parke and the Hon. Sir Edward Hall Alderson, arrived at Norwich. Their lodgings on this occasion were at St. Catherine’s Hill.

APRIL.

1.—A match against time took place on Swaffham Racecourse. “Mr. B. Land’s celebrated chestnut mare Lady Jane was backed to do 20 miles in an hour for 100 guineas.” Odds of 5 to 4 were laid against the mare, “but she accomplished the task with the greatest ease, having one minute and a half to spare, and trotted in the last few yards.”

6.—A meeting of the freemen of Norwich was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament “to repeal so much of the Municipal Reform Act as debars freemen of the right to be enrolled as burgesses under the same, and to confer on the freemen and burgesses of all cities, boroughs, and towns corporate within the operation of the Act the right to vote at all municipal elections.” Mr. John Culley presided, in the absence of the Mayor, and the petition was adopted. On May 4th the freemen went in procession with a band of music and numerous flags and banners, from the Pope’s Head to the Greyhound Inn, Surrey Street, where, through Col. Harvey, they presented the petition to the Marquis of Douro, M.P., who promised to support it in the House of Commons. The petition to the House of Lords was presented by Lord Mansfield, formerly Lord Stormont, one of the members for Norwich.

17.—Died in St. George Colegate, Norwich, aged 41, Emily, eldest daughter of John Crome, founder of the Norwich Society of Artists. “In her pictures of fish, fruit, and flowers it may be justly said that no one has represented these objects with greater fidelity to nature, combined with a tasteful and picturesque manner of grouping them.”

18.*—“Children who are sickly are taken to a woman living in St. Lawrence, Norwich, for the purpose of being cut for a supposed disease called the spinnage. The infants are on a Monday morning taken to this woman’s, who, for threepence, with a pair of scissors cuts through the lobe of the right ear, then makes a cross with the blood upon the forehead and breast of the child. On the following Monday the same barbarous and superstitious ceremony is performed upon the left ear, and on the succeeding Monday the right ear is again condemned to undergo the same ceremony, and in some cases it is deemed necessary to perform the ridiculous operation nine times.”

MAY.

2.*—“Married lately at St. Peter’s, in London, by the Rev. Thomas Grose, George Henry Borrow, Esq., for many years a resident in Spain, and a native of Norwich, and only surviving son of the late Captain Borrow, to Mrs. Mary Clarke, of Oulton Cottage, in Suffolk.”

3.—Died at Bath, Mr. Thomas Manning, of Orange Grove, Dartford, and formerly of Diss. “An eminent linguist, he accompanied Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, and was considered the best Siamese scholar in Europe, Dr. Morrison and Mr. St. Julien being his only rivals. He was able to speak fluently fifteen languages, and maintained a correspondence with the literati of the world. For months he resided at H’lassa, in the kingdom of Thibet, and was the only Englishman who had ever penetrated to the metropolis of the Lama. There he spoke during his sojourn only Latin, and on his departure received the benediction of the Lama.”

6.—Died, aged 76, Mr. James Sillett, of King Street, Norwich. “As an artist he stood unrivalled in his minute and accurate delineations of fish, fruit, and flowers. From 1781 to 1790 he studied from the figure at the Royal Academy, under Professors Reynolds, Barry, and others, whose lectures he also attended. He began to exhibit at Somerset House in 1796, which he continued at intervals for upwards of 30 years, part of which time he practised as a miniature painter with great success. He afterwards settled in his native city, and gained pre-eminence in his skilful and faithful delineations in oil and water colours. In later days he undertook architectural subjects. In 1815 he was President of the Norwich Artists’ Society, of which he was one of the original members, but, in consequence of disputes arising, he and two other of the original members quitted it. He continued annually to exhibit, although he never afterwards joined the society, which, from want of encouragement, gradually dissolved in a few years.”

7.—A public meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, “to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament to afford to every part of the United Kingdom the advantage now enjoyed by the Metropolis of not having any post delivery on the Sabbath day.”

9.*—“Married lately at Catfield, by the Rev. J. Prowett, Mr. John Curtiss, aged 85, to Miss Rogers, an agreeable young lady. The morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells and firing of guns. A large barge was prepared for the accommodation of the company to row on the lake in front of his mansion. In the evening an excellent band of music tended to the great amusement of hundreds who assembled on the cheerful occasion, when all the younger ones joined in the rustic dance, which was kept up till a late hour, after which there was a grand display of fireworks.”

13.—Matthew Rackham, over seventy years of age, started from Norwich at four o’clock in the morning and walked to Yarmouth, where he arrived at nine o’clock, and returned to Norwich by six o’clock in the evening, “without experiencing any fatigue, although he had to contend with an adverse wind accompanied with rain during the whole of his journey out.”

18.—Mr. G. V. Brooke took his benefit at Norwich Theatre as Hotspur in “King Henry the Fourth” (Part 1). “The degree of estimation in which this young actor is held was displayed in a general call for him at the end of the piece, a proceeding which is frequently resorted to in London, but which we are not aware of having seen occur here before.”

22.—The remaining troop of the 9th Royal Lancers marched from Norwich Barracks, under the command of Capt. Whalley. Two troops and the headquarters of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars, commanded by Col. the Hon. G. B. Molyneaux, took over the Barracks on June 5th.

25.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Major Loftus, commenced permanent duty at Cromer. The regiment consisted of three troops, namely, the Rainham Troop (Capt. H. B. Caldwell); the Hingham Troop (Capt. Ferdinand Ives); and the Holt Troop (Capt. John Mott). “The uniform and appointments assimilate closely in cut and other details with those of her Majesty’s regiments of Dragoon Guards.”

JUNE.

1.—Died at Thetford, aged 63, Mr. Thomas Withers Gill, an alderman of the borough, who had twice served the office of Mayor.

—The publication commenced in bi-monthly shilling parts of “The Eastern Arboretum: a new Botanical Work on the Trees of Norfolk,” by James Grigor; illustrated by T. Ninham. London: Longman and Co.; Norwich: John Stacy, Old Haymarket.

4.—A public meeting, presided over by the Dean, was held in Norwich, “to receive a report on the city National Schools, established in the year 1708, and to consider the best means of advancing the benevolent objects of these most ancient charitable institutions.” Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to support the schools, “which were the first and for a long time the sole means of educating the children of the poor, and also the cause of similar institutions in later years.”

5.—The tender of the Rev. Mr. Kent, of East Winch, for the purchase of the patronage of St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmund’s, at 3,000 guineas, was opened and accepted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

9.—Mr. W. M. Warcup, surgeon, of East Dereham, was presented with a piece of plate by the inhabitants of Swanton Morley, “in testimony of their respect for his skilful and successful treatment of the poor of that parish during fourteen months when typhus fever of a very malignant character extended itself into the family of almost every poor person in the village.”

—The question of the practicability of paving Guildhall Hill, Norwich, with wood, “in order to prevent the noise and interruption from carriages passing up and down the hill during the holding of Quarter Sessions, Assizes, and magistrates’ sittings,” was introduced by the Mayor (Capt. Money) and referred to a Committee of the Paving Commissioners, who, on October 13th, reported that “a wood pavement was not suitable for declivities.” A macadamised road was thereupon ordered to be made.

13.*—“We regret to find some of the finest parts of the antient church of Yarmouth are doomed to destruction. Handbills inviting tenders for the work have for some time been in circulation. The principal object of demolition is the splendid east window of the south isle, one of the most elaborate examples of a highly-enriched style of architecture in the county. This capacious building has long been suffering from the effects of mutilations which every admirer of our antient ecclesiastical architecture must lament. The modern and ghastly eastern windows of the north isle and chancel are deformities which would disgrace a dilapidated church of the meanest village.”

15.—Mr. Farren, of Covent Garden, and Mr. J. Vining, of the same theatre, formerly a favourite actor in the Norwich Company, commenced a short engagement at Norwich Theatre. The plays in which they appeared included “The Clandestine Marriage,” “The Day after the Wedding,” “The School for Scandal,” &c.

—A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, “for the purpose of congratulating her Most Gracious Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert on their late most happy escape from the atrocious attempt at assassination.” The address was moved by Col. Harvey, and seconded by Dr. Wright. The notorious Chartist, Dover, moved a direct negative, which the Mayor refused to accept. The address was then adopted. An address was also agreed to by the Town Council on the 15th, and on the 21st the Mayor and Corporation attended the thanksgiving service at the Cathedral. Addresses were adopted by the Corporations of Yarmouth and Lynn, by the clergy of the diocese, and by various public bodies in the city and county, and a special form of prayer was used at all the churches. A county meeting took place at the Shirehall, Norwich, on June 27th, at which congratulatory addresses to the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Duchess of Kent were adopted. Dover and a party of Norwich Chartists occupied the gallery and created much disturbance.

16.—John Mountjoy, the pedestrian, commenced a series of remarkable feats at Norwich. At Ranelagh Gardens he performed the task of taking up with his mouth, without touching the ground with his knees, 100 eggs placed a yard apart and dropping them into a bucket of water without breaking them, and leaping over 50 hurdles 4 ft. high placed ten yards apart, making a distance of 6½ miles. He undertook to do this in one hour, and accomplished it in 58 minutes 56 seconds. On June 22nd he began his walk from the Shirehall Tavern, Castle Ditches, to Symonds’ Gardens, Yarmouth, and back twice a day for six successive days, a distance of 76 miles. He finished the undertaking on Saturday, June 27th. After he had crossed Foundry Bridge on his last return journey he was followed by a tremendous crowd, who bore the toll collectors before them and made a free passage. The only remuneration Mountjoy received for his self-imposed task were the contributions prompted by the generosity of the public. On July 13th, at Ranelagh Gardens, he ran a mile, walked backwards a mile, ran a wheelbarrow half a mile, trundled a hoop a mile, hopped 200 yards, picked up with his mouth 40 hazel nuts placed a yard apart without putting his knees to the ground, and jumped over 30 hurdles ten yards apart within five minutes of the time stipulated, one hour. On August 31st he started to walk to London and back, by way of Cambridge, in 48 hours. Leaving Ranelagh Gardens at four o’clock in the morning, he reached Wymondham at 5.5 and Thetford at 9.20, Barton Mills before 11, and Newmarket at 12.45. After leaving Newmarket, he incautiously drank some cold water, which had such an effect upon him that he lay for an hour and a quarter outside the Swan Inn at Bottisham. Having somewhat recovered, he resumed his walk and reached Cambridge a little before five o’clock, and Melbourne at nine, where he was again taken ill and obliged to lie down for an hour. He then struggled on to Royston, where “he was obliged to lie down under a hedge, with none but strangers around him.” On reaching Buntingford he was advised to give in, but he pursued his course to within a mile of Ware, when he was obliged to relinquish the undertaking. Mountjoy, on September 10th, jumped 144 hurdles and ran twelve times round the racecourse on Mousehold Heath in 1 min. 4 sees, under the hour (distance not stated); and on September 13th walked 20 miles backwards and 20 forwards on the Catton Road, starting at 9 a.m. and finishing at 7.4 p.m.

18.—Died at Coltishall, aged 62, Mr. Thomas Stallard Webb, historical engraver to the Queen. “For the long term of 38 years this eminent artist most assiduously devoted his great talents, in conjunction with the late Thomas Holloway and Richard Slann, who survives, exclusively to the engraving of the celebrated cartoons of Raphael from the original paintings in the possession of her Majesty, the last plate of which series was completed only a few weeks before his death. This splendid work will carry down his name to posterity amongst the first artists of the age.”

23.—The foundation-stone of Christ church, New Catton, was laid by the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean Pellew, after a special service at the mother church of St. Clement, at which the sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, rector of Bergh Apton. The architect was Mr. Brown, the contractors Messrs. Wright and Cattermoul and Messrs. Watson and Neale, the site was given by Mr. S. D. Page, and the entire cost of the work was £2,400. “More than 300 years have elapsed since a parish church has been raised in this city. Of the 36 churches, St. Andrew’s is the last that was erected, or rather rebuilt, about the year 1500, on the site of an ancient church.”

JULY.

1.—On the opening of the Eastern Counties Railway from Shoreditch to Brentwood, the London coaches from Norwich, Yarmouth, and other places in Norfolk and Suffolk there transferred their passengers and mails to the trains in communication with the Metropolis.

4.*—“The very antient lectorium or reading-desk which has for many years lain neglected in Norwich Cathedral has, by order of the Hon. the Very Rev. the Dean, recently been restored, and is now placed in the choir. It was originally adorned with figures, which, in the time of the usurpation, were destroyed or mutilated. These figures have been replaced by others cast in brass and elaborately chased by Mr. John Herbert, from models furnished by Mr. Ollett.”

9.—Died in St. Stephen’s, Norwich, aged 81, Mr. John Stafford, “a man well known in the sporting world, having been many years a noted cock-feeder.”

18.*—[Advt.] “The public are respectfully informed that the Angel Inn, Market Place, Norwich, having been recently disposed of, is now refurnishing and fitting up with every convenience for the reception of families and commercial gentlemen, and will in future be known as the Royal Hotel.”

23.—In recording the anniversary of an Oddfellows’ Lodge at Lynn on this date, the NORFOLK CHRONICLE stated: “The name ‘Oddfellows,’ by which the Order is distinguished, scarcely does justice to the institution, as corresponding with its importance and its noble and generous principles. To those who are unacquainted with the real merits of the society, there is a sort of peculiarity in the title of ‘Oddfellows’ which may seem to imply something of buffoonery united with thoughtless revelling.”

30.—Died, aged 50, Mr. B. Harrison, many years a popular actor on the Norwich stage.

31.—Married, Mr. Charles Fisher, of the Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians, to Miss Richardson, only daughter of Richard Richardson, gent., of Swafield, North Walsham.

—The non-commissioned officers and men of the East Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry presented to Major Charles Loftus a silver candelabrum, in “testimony of the sincere regard and admiration which they bear towards him both as their commanding officer and as a private gentleman.” The presentation was made by Lord James Townshend, at a dinner given at the King’s Arms Inn, East Dereham, under the presidency of Quarter-Master Wood.

AUGUST.

1.—Sir John Patteson and Sir Edward Hall Alderson, the Judges of Assize, arrived at Norwich.

3.—Mr. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, and Mr. Paul Bedford commenced a six nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre for the Assize week, in the new drama, “Jack Shephard.” Mrs. Keeley appeared in the title rôle, Mr. Yates as Abram Monday, and Mr. Bedford as Joe Blueskin. Mrs. Keeley (née Goward) was formerly a member of the Norwich Company. On the 10th Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. George Bennett, of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, appeared in Sheridan Knowles’ play, “Love.” Mr. Bennett was the son of an old actor on the Norwich stage, and of Miss Tree it was said: “She is indeed one of Nature’s noblesse, an histrionic genius of the first order, an ornament to her arduous, anxious, and ill-requited profession.”

—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Patteson, John Randalsome, aged 40, was indicted for the murder of his wife, at Thwaite, on June 19th. A singular feature of the case was that none of the murdered woman’s relatives were aware that she was married to the prisoner. Randalsome had formed an illicit acquaintance with a girl named Punchard, and desired to be rid of his wife. Having enticed her from the house of her father, with whom she resided, he wounded her severely about the head and face with a hedge stake, and threw her into a pond. The medical evidence proved that death resulted from drowning. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was executed on the Castle Hill, Norwich, on August 22nd.

—The new Amphitheatre and Royal Albert Saloon, Ranelagh Gardens, St. Stephen’s Gates, Norwich, was opened. “The building is after a new design, constructed with great solidarity, and on a considerably increased scale of dimensions. The circle is about 150 feet in circumference, lighted up with a splendid chandelier of 20 gas burners, suspended from the centre of the cone, which is glazed from the top downwards about 15 ft. Round the spacious arena rise lower and upper tiers of boxes splendidly fitted up. The entrance to the circle and boxes is through a lofty and well-proportioned saloon, about 70 ft. long and 30 ft. wide. The façade of the building presents above the principal entrance an open portico of three arches looking into the gardens; and there is an exactly similar arcade opening internally towards the theatre.” A portion of the building here described is now the Victoria Station of the Great Eastern Railway.

SEPTEMBER.

2.—At the King’s Head Inn, Diss, the brewery, public-houses, mansion, farm, and other property of Mr. Robert Sheriffe, of Diss, were sold by auction by Mr. W. W. Simpson, of London. The brewery and public-houses were purchased by Mr. Samuel Farrow, and the amount realised by the three days’ sale was £50,000. “The great increase in the value of country public-houses apparent from the enormous prices which have lately been realised for this description of property leads us to believe that the shook which the trade suffered on the passing of the Beer Bill some years since has been entirely recovered, and that country public-houses are now even of greater value than they were antecedent to the passing of that measure.”

9.—The two days’ annual race meeting commenced on the Mousehold course, Norwich.

10.—A “great ringing festival” took place at Heydon, to celebrate the opening of the new peal of bells put up by Thomas and Joshua Hurry, of Norwich. Prizes were competed for by the ringers, and a “farmers’ ball” concluded the festivities.

12.—On this date was reported the discovery of the remains of Sir Thomas Browne, in the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich. “The bones of the skeleton were found to be in good preservation, particularly those of the skull. The brain was considerable in quantity, but changed to a state of adipocere resembling ointment of a dark brown hue. The hair and the beard remained profuse and perfect, though the flesh of the face as well as of every other part was totally gone. With respect to the formation of the head, we are informed that the forehead was remarkably low, but the back of the cranium exhibited an unusual degree of depth and capaciousness. Sir Thomas Browne died on October 12th, 1682.”

14.—Died at Honing, Thomas Holt, aged 105.

21.—M. Liszt, the celebrated pianist, performed at two grand concerts at Norwich, in the morning at the Assembly Rooms, and in the evening at the Theatre. The other artistes were Mr. Mori, Mdlle. de Varny, Miss Louisa Bassano, and Mr. J. Parry.

22.—Under the management of Messrs. Hewlett and Trory, a morning concert was given at the Assembly Rooms, and an evening concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, at which the performers were Madame Persiani, Signor Negri, Signor Rubini, and Signor Puzzi. “In two consecutive days we have had four concerts and heard four of the greatest performers of the present day—Persiani, Puzzi, Rubini, and Liszt.”

24.—From a meadow near Bishop Bridge, Norwich, Mr. Charles Green ascended in the Nassau balloon, accompanied by Mr. R. Crawshay and his sons, Messrs. F. and E. Crawshay, Mr. Nicholas Bacon, Mr. Shalders, and Mr. Andrews. The balloon rose at four o’clock, and descended at five o’clock, at Metton, near Felbrigg.

OCTOBER.

1.—Died at his residence in the Lower Close, Norwich, aged 90, Sylas Neville, M.D. “Of this venerable gentleman, for a great many years an inhabitant of this city, living as he did in a state of perfect seclusion, there is little to record beyond the fact of his having been born in London and having taken his doctor’s degree at Edinburgh, in 1775. His inaugural essay, ‘De Prognosi in Febribus,’ delivered on the occasion, is in print, and bears testimony to his acquirements both as a classic and as a pathologist. During many years and to the last moments of his existence, Dr. Neville was chiefly indebted to the kindness of friends around him for the means of subsistence.”

5.—George Edward Seales, known as a common informer, procured the conviction of a coach proprietor, at the Norwich Police Court, for carrying more than the regulation number of passengers. Seales, on leaving the Guildhall, was violently assaulted by the mob, and was escorted to his home by twenty police-officers.

6.—Col. Petre, of Westwick, presided at a meeting at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, at which was formed, for the prevention of cruelty to animals, a society known as “The Animals’ Friend Society.”

—The Countess of Leicester sustained a compound fracture of the leg by a fall from her horse whilst riding in Holkham Park.

16.—A brace of trout was taken in an eel net at the New Mills, Norwich. The female weighed 6 lbs. 8 oz., and was 23½ inches in length; the male was 4 lbs. 12 oz. in weight, and 23 inches in length.

NOVEMBER.

2.—On Mr. T. R. Buckworth’s estate at Cockley Cley, near Swaffham, “a party of several gentlemen killed the extraordinary number of 630 head of game, consisting of 331 pheasants, 15 partridges, 176 hares, and 108 rabbits.”

5.—Gaslight was used for the first time at Harleston; to celebrate the event a public dinner was held at the Magpie Inn.

6.—A public meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, presided over by Mr. John Joseph Gurney, at which an auxiliary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, for the purpose of abolishing slavery throughout the world, was formed. Mr. Henry B. Stanton, secretary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, was the principal speaker.

9.—Mr. Edward Willett was elected Mayor, and Mr. Richard Coaks appointed Sheriff, of Norwich.

—Died at his residence, St. Margaret’s Place, Lynn, aged 63, Mr. John Prescott Blencowe, who had several times served the office of Mayor of that borough.

10.—The Norwich Polytechnic Exhibition was opened in the premises known as the Royal Bazaar, St. Andrew’s. The exhibition consisted of scientific objects, paintings, drawings, machinery, &c. Professor Partington delivered a course of lectures on arts and manufactures.

18.—A county meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, in furtherance of the movement for suppressing the slave trade in Africa. The High Sheriff (Mr. H. Villebois) presided. The Chartists attended in force, and “gave groans for the Whigs of Norwich, for Mr. J. J. Gurney, the Bishop of Norwich, and Sir T. Fowell Buxton.” The ringleader, Dover, moved a resolution affirming that the meeting “views with deep regret the many proofs of despotic slavery now increasing at home, and it therefore pledges itself to use all its exertions to put a final stop to slavery wherever it is found to exist.” This was negatived, amid great uproar, and the resolutions drafted by the promoters of the meeting adopted.

22.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the birth of a Princess (Princess Royal). The bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, and next day (Monday) there were further demonstrations of joy. On December 2nd a special meeting of the Norwich Court of Guardians was held, “to drink the health of the Queen and the Princess Royal”; and on the same day the Bishop, in celebration of the birth, entertained the inmates of the Workhouse. The Town Council, on the 10th, adopted a loyal and dutiful address of congratulation.

22.—A severe gale occurred on the Norfolk coast, and resulted in the loss of several lives. Ships were driven ashore at Cromer.

DECEMBER.

14.—A young man named William Bunting appeared before the Norwich magistrates, charged with using threatening language to Mr. R. N. Bacon, of the “Norwich Mercury.” The defendant, a groom in the service of Capt. Ives, rode a horse named Newman Nogs at Long Stratton steeplechases on December 9th. The animal was injured, and had to be destroyed. The complainant, in his report in the “Mercury,” insinuated that the rider “had too much nog in his head”; and Bunting, taking offence, called at the office, and threatened to horsewhip Mr. Bacon. It was alleged that, during the interview, Capt. Ives rode backwards and forwards in front of the office. Defendant was ordered to find sureties, and keep the peace.

26.—Navigation between Norwich and Yarmouth was obstructed by the frozen state of the river.

28.—A cricket match was played on the ice on Scoulton Mere, between two selected elevens from the parish of Hingham. “Mr. W. Waller’s side went in first, and after some fine play, and still finer falls, were out for 66 runs. Mr. W. Roberts’ side then took the bat, and scored 170 runs in the most slashing style, hitting the ball quite off the ice in all directions. Some of the players wore skaits, and others their stump shoes, &c., to prevent falling.”

30.—At a meeting held at the East India and Colonial Rooms, Pall Mall, under the presidency of Mr. W. L. W. Chute, M.P., the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge Railway Company was formed, for the purpose of constructing a line to proceed from Yarmouth to Bishop’s Stortford, by way of Norwich, Wymondham, Attleborough, Thetford, Newmarket and Cambridge. The principal promoter was Mr. J. W. Rastrick, and the adoption of the scheme was agreed to on the motion of the Marquis of Douro, seconded by Mr. Samuel Bignold. The estimated cost of the line was two millions, and of locomotives and carriages, £200,000.

31.—The weather “was warmer and more brilliant than the last days of May are sometimes found to be.” In the previous week the thermometer stood at eleven degrees below freezing point.

1841.

JANUARY.

3.—A severe gale, with thunder, lightning, and hailstorms, occurred.

4.—A correspondent writing to the NORFOLK CHRONICLE on this date announced the discovery, in the old Library Room at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, of an antique chest containing the remains of a valuable collection of Roman and English coins. John Kirkpatrick, in his will, dated July, 1727, made the following bequest: “I give to the Mayor, Sheriffs, citizens and commonalty of Norwich all my ancient MSS. and all my medals and antient coins of silver and brass, to be deposited in the library of the new Hall” (the Guildhall). The coins found at St. Andrew’s Hall formed the remnant of that collection.

7.—The thermometer fell to zero at Norwich. The cold was so intense that fowls under cover were frozen to death. Great distress prevailed, and meetings were held at Norwich, Yarmouth, and Lynn, to adopt measures for the relief of the poor.

9.—Died in the Cathedral Precincts, Norwich, in his 77th year, the Rev. Peter Hansell, one of the Minor Canons of the Cathedral, an office which he had held for upwards of fifty-four years. For more than half a century he was minister of St. John de Sepulchre. His remains were interred, on the 15th, in the south transept of the Cathedral.

—Died, aged 52, Samuel Thurston, for more than 30 years a ringer at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich. “As a practical ringer and theorist combined, the art has lost one of its brightest ornaments. The date tablets erected in different parishes throughout the city and county record his fame as a ringer.”

16.—All the marshes and low-lying lands in the vicinity of Norwich were flooded upon the breaking up of the frost. Owing to the heavy state of the roads, the mail and stage coaches were delayed several hours beyond their usual time. The weather was remarkably warm and brilliant in the last week of the month.

FEBRUARY.

3.—Wintry weather set in with increased severity, the rivers were icebound, and navigation was completely stopped at Lynn.

—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Ed. Willett) entertained a large party at the Royal Hotel, in celebration of the christening of the Princess Royal. “Four swans formed a conspicuous figure in the second course, and the ancient and costly Corporation plate was brought into requisition on this occasion. Previous to the removal of the cloth the beautiful antique massive gilt dishes were passed round with rose water in them.” In the evening a ball was held at the Assembly Rooms.

8.—Miss Ellen Tree commenced a six nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre. Her impersonations included Julia (“The Hunchback”), Letitia Hardy, Mrs. Haller, Constance (“The Love Chase”), Juliana (“The Honeymoon”), and Pauline.

12.—Died, at East Dereham, in her 101st year, Mrs. Carter, widow of the Rev. John Carter, formerly minister of the Independent chapel, Mattishall.

—Died, Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart., aged 78 years.

27.—Died at Scarning, aged 67, the Rev. L. Walton, perpetual curate of Wendling and Longham, and many years master of the Free Grammar School, Scarning.

MARCH.

5.—The Norwich Philharmonic Society, established on the dissolution of the Hall Concert, gave its first concert.

22.—The Mayor of Yarmouth (Mr. S. Palmer), “assisted by the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons,” laid the first stone of the Victoria Hotel at Yarmouth. “Corn, wine, and oil, emblems of plenty, were offered and poured upon the stone.” The hotel, and adjoining houses known as Kimberley Terrace, were erected by the Victoria Building Company, “for the reception of families of the highest distinction.”

APRIL.

5.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Charlotte Yaxley, alias Middleton, aged 22, was indicted for the murder of Lavinia Kerrison, the thirteen months old illegitimate child of her husband, by drowning it in a duck-pond at Yarmouth, on March 23rd. She was found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life.

10.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the massacre, by Malay pirates, in the Straits of Timor, of the crew of the Pilot Southseaman in June, 1840. The captain, first officer (Mr. Gidney, brother of Mr. J. W. Gidney, of East Dereham), and twenty-five seamen fell victims whilst gallantly defending the ship.

13.—Died, aged 85, John Rayson, of Pulham. “For nearly half a century he had been deprived of the use of his legs, but this did not prevent his travelling daily between Pulham and Harleston as postman or letter carrier, for 47 years.”

17.—A new “local drama,” entitled, “Rose Maynard, the Factory Girl of Norwich,” was produced for the first time at Norwich Theatre. “The piece is of home manufacture, but we cannot compliment the weaver of this dramatic warp and woof of his judgment in laying such a fabric before an audience in Norwich.” The scenery, by Thorne, included views of St. Saviour’s church, the Palace Gate, St. Martin-at-Palace Plain, and Whitefriars’ Bridge.

27.—Died at South Walsham, aged 75, Mr. Henry Codling. “Unassisted by the aid of any tutor, he acquired no mean degree of mathematical knowledge. He understood the doctrine of fluxions, and delighted in his favourite author, Maclaurin. He was a constant annual correspondent with the ‘Ladies’ Diary,’ to within a few years of the close of his life, and received prizes for the solution of the most knotty questions contained therein.”

28.—The headquarters of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars marched from Norwich for Manchester, and on the same day two troops of the 7th Dragoon Guards marched in, under the command of Major Bolton.

—Died at Chigwell Row, Mr. Luke Greaves Hansard, aged 61. “He was printer to the House of Commons, and eldest son of Luke Hansard, a native of Norfolk.”

MAY.

5.—The Bishop of Norwich confirmed 500 persons at Diss. His lordship, in the course of this visitation, confirmed 10,464 young persons.

11.—Mr. Carter, “the celebrated African Lion King,” appeared at Norwich Theatre “with his troupe of acting animals, consisting of lions, tigers, leopards, and panthers, in a new drama, entitled, ‘The Lion of the Desert.’” Mr. Carter took the part of “Abdallah, a dumb Arab.” “It requires no little nerve on the part of the actors and actresses to play to such rough customers, and much credit is due to the members of the Norwich Company who took a share in the performance.”

17.—At Norwich, R. Coates, “the great London pedestrian,” walked 50 miles in twelve hours; on the 18th ran 50 miles, on the 19th ran 40 miles backwards, on the 20th ran a pair of wheels 22 miles, rowed a boat 10 miles, jumped 300 flights of hurdles placed ten yards apart, and threw 100 somersaults. “All these events on the several days were performed in the space of twelve hours.” At the Green Hill Gardens, Norwich, Coates undertook to walk, on June 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, fifty miles in twelve hours each day, “half backwards and half forwards, and accomplished this extraordinary feat the last day with ten minutes to spare.” At the same gardens, on June 30th, he commenced walking 1,000 half miles in 1,000 successive hours. “He has to walk a half mile every succeeding half hour day and night, but he has the privilege of walking two half miles together, the last and first part of the hour.” Coates was credited with the due accomplishment of the feat. On August 10th a man named Charles Thurlow began a walk of 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours at Richmond Hill Gardens, Norwich, and completed what was said to have been a genuine performance on September 21st. Another pedestrian named Henry Raven, started to walk the same distance in the same time on the Lord Nelson ground, Lakenham, on September 29th, and completed his undertaking on November 10th.

—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Major Loftus, marched into Norwich, headed by their brass band, and on the following day proceeded to Yarmouth for a week’s permanent duty.

18.—Sir Jacob Astley, of Melton Constable, Norfolk, and of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, took his seat in the House of Peers as Baron Hastings. The termination of the long-pending abeyance of the Barony of Hastings in favour of Sir Jacob was celebrated with great festivities at Foulsham and Holt. “According to the date of his barony, the 18th of Edward I., 1290, next below Lord de Roos, Baron Hastings is the most ancient baron of the United Kingdom.”

20.—Mr. G. V. Brooke commenced a six nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre.

JUNE.

2.—At a meeting held at the Assembly Rooms, East Dereham, under the presidency of Lord Sondes, it was agreed “that in consequence of the unprincipled attacks made upon the owners and cultivators of the soil by the employment of hired agitators to inflame the minds of the lower orders of society against them, it is expedient that some steps be adopted for the protection and defence of those interests.” It was also decided to form an association which was known as the Central Norfolk Society for the Protection of Agriculture, and was affiliated to the British Agricultural Protection Association, an organization which worked in opposition to the Anti-Corn Law League.

2.—A meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in pursuance of a requisition addressed to the Mayor, stating that “her Majesty’s Ministers had been guilty of an act of gross and wanton injustice and spoliation in depriving the freemen of this and other cities and boroughs of their vested municipal rights; that by their unremitting endeavours to uphold and perpetuate in all their unmitigated harshness and severity the heartless and oppressive provisions of the new Poor Law they had evinced an utter disregard to the wants, feelings, and rights of the poor, and that their recent attempts to deprive the colonial and agricultural interests of the empire of a just protection under the specious and delusive pretext of supplying a deficiency in the revenue which their own mismanagement had occasioned, had rendered them wholly unworthy of the confidence of the country.” Between two thousand and three thousand persons were present, and the greatest confusion prevailed, owing to the action of a large body of Chartists, led by the notorious John Dover. It was proposed that Col. Harvey should take the chair, but the Chartists elected one Matthew Smith, a working man. On the latter assuming the presidency of the meeting, Col. Harvey, Mr. Bignold, and other gentlemen left the hall. A number of resolutions of a revolutionary character were adopted, and Dover, at the conclusion of the meeting, congratulated his followers on the success of the gathering, remarking that “it had cost the Tories £20 for bills, and the Whigs £20 for bullies.” The proceedings, which were of a very orderly character, concluded with three cheers for Fergus O’Connor. Meanwhile the gentlemen who had convened the original meeting adjourned to the Norfolk Hotel, where they passed a series of resolutions emphasising the statements contained in the requisition. During the whole of the proceedings the hotel was besieged by a riotous mob, several serious assaults were committed, and on the 3rd some of the rioters were charged before the magistrates.

9.—Litcham Races took place on this date. Among the other local meetings was that at East Dereham, on June 23rd, where the commencement of the sport was announced by the ringing of the church bells, and the cup was won by Mr. Column’s c.g. Day Star. The trophy “weighed 41 oz., and contained by admeasurement eight pints of Howard’s sparkling champaign, which the fortunate winner twice filled, and the company partook of it with true English feeling.” The Yarmouth meeting took place on July 20th and 21st, the Norfolk and Norwich Races were held on Mousehold Heath, Norwich, on September 8th and 9th, and Swaffham Races on September 15th.

19.*—“For nearly the middle of June, so cold a season has never perhaps been experienced as during all last week. Fires and great coats were in general requisition, and coachmen and guards were to be seen muffled up as if we had been in the depth of winter.”

28.—The Marquis of Douro and Mr. Benjamin Smith, the retiring members, were nominated for the representation of Norwich in Parliament. Dover, the Chartist, nominated a third candidate, Mr. William Eagle, of Lakenheath, Suffolk. “Conservatives and Whigs, in the show of hands, voted against Eagle, and the Sheriff declared the Marquis of Douro and Mr. Smith duly elected.” Dover thereupon demanded a poll for Eagle, but was unable to deposit one-third of the expense (about £200). The proceedings were temporarily adjourned. “Dover then went out of the room, and, after the lapse of half an hour, something took place which our readers will guess by the result. When Dover came back there was no further demand for a poll—we believe Dover received £50 to withdraw the nomination.” The rumour quickly spread among the Chartists that Dover had “sold” them. The mob waylaid him in Dove Lane, and he retreated to the Guildhall for protection. The windows of the room in which he was supposed to have taken refuge were demolished by the stones thrown by the mob, and the police who went out to quell the disturbance were assailed by volleys of brickbats and other missiles. The 7th Dragoon Guards were called out, the Mayor read the Riot Act, and in the excitement and confusion Dover left the Guildhall unnoticed. On the 29th the Chartists assembled in force and went to the King’s Head, St. George’s Colegate, where Dover lived with a woman named Charlotte Humphrey. They burst into the house and found him armed with his Chartist weapons, which were wrested from him; he was knocked down, brutally belaboured, and hurried to the river, and would have been thrown from the bridge had it not been for the piteous intercession of one of his children. The mob were moving towards the Market Place with their prisoner when he was rescued by the police. At the same time a detachment of dragoons, commanded by Cornet Crofts, with the Mayor at their head, rode up, a coach was procured, and Dover, having been placed inside, was conveyed, under military escort, to the City Gaol, where his serious injuries were attended to by the surgeon of the prison. On the 30th several persons appeared before the magistrates and were punished for taking part in the disturbances. Public tranquillity was somewhat restored the same day by a procession in which “Philip Augustus, the musical pieman,” and “Jerry, the lucifer match seller, in a military costume, with an immense plume of feathers in his cap,” were “chaired.”

28.—Lord George Bentinck and Sir Stratford Canning were returned unopposed for the borough of King’s Lynn.

—Mr. W. Wilshere, Mr. C. E. Rumbold, Mr. Thomas Baring, and Mr. Joseph Soames were nominated candidates for the representation of Yarmouth. The proceedings were marked by great disorder. The polling, on the 29th, resulted as follows:—Wilshere, 945; Rumbold, 943; Baring, 501; Soames, 494. The two first named were declared elected.

30.—Thetford election took place. The Hon. W. Bingham Baring (Conservative), 86; Lord Euston (Whig), 71; Sir James Flower (Conservative), 71. Before a Committee of the House of Commons, on May 4th, 1842, a petition was presented on behalf of Sir James Flower, on the ground that several votes polled for Lord Euston were bad, as the voters had lost their qualifications. His lordship declined to take any part in these proceedings. The objection against one voter having been sustained, Sir James Flower was placed in a majority, and the Committee then passed the following resolution:—“That the Right Hen. Henry FitzRoy, commonly called the Earl of Euston, was not duly elected member for the borough of Thetford; that Sir James Flower, Bart., was duly elected, and ought to have been returned; and that the Committee have altered the poll by striking off the vote of William Burlingham from the poll of the Earl of Euston.”

JULY.

5.—Mr. William Bagge and Mr. W. Lyde Wiggett Chute, the former members, were nominated and returned unopposed as members for West Norfolk. “The town of Swaffham was one blaze of pink and purple.” The candidates were escorted to the Shirehall by an imposing procession, and after the nomination the election dinner was held at the Assembly Rooms, under the presidency of the Hon. Francis Baring.

10.—Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes, the former Conservative members for East Norfolk, entered Norwich at the head of a great cavalcade of freeholders, and were nominated at the Shirehall. Mr. Palmer, Recorder of Yarmouth, and Mr. William Wilde, Coroner for Norwich, nominated and seconded Sir William J. H. B. ffolkes as the Whig candidate. The polling, on the 13th, was declared as follows:—Wodehouse, 3,498; Burroughes, 3,437; ffolkes, 1,379.

12.—Died at Denton, near Harleston, Sarah Witton, aged 100 years, “leaving twenty-nine great-grandchildren still living, they being the origin of one daughter.” The deceased was “the daughter of John and Eleanor Middleton, who lived to attain to the great age of 105 years.”

15.—Died in the Chantry, Norwich, Monsieur De Rouillon, “an eminent professor and teacher of French, and extensively known as the author of several grammatical and other useful literary works.”

26.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Williams, a special jury tried the important action, Palmer and another v. Irving, chairman of the Alliance Insurance Company. The action was brought by the executors of a person of the name of Howes to recover from the company the sum of £1,503, the amount of a policy on the life of Howes. The defendant disputed the liability to pay, on the ground that Howes had suffered from consumption, was addicted to habits prejudicial to life, and that the policy had been obtained by fraud. After a long trial, an arrangement was arrived at, and a verdict given for the defendant, both sides to pay their own costs, and the policy to become void. Policies with other offices were similarly affected by the result of the trial.

28.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Williams, John Self, aged 20, was charged with the murder of Jemima Stimpson, aged 15, at Wymondham, on July 17th. The prisoner killed the girl by striking her on the head with a spade, and afterwards threw the body into a pond. He was found guilty, sentenced to death, and on August 14th executed on the Castle Hill, Norwich.

AUGUST.

16.—The two troops of the 7th Dragoon Guards marched from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, en route for Ireland. On the 25th a portion of the 13th Light Dragoons, recently returned from active service in India, marched in. The headquarters of the regiment were stationed at Ipswich. The commanding officer was Lieut.-Col. Richard Brunton, youngest son of Mr. John Brunton, formerly manager of Norwich Theatre, and brother of the Dowager Countess Craven.

17.—Experiments were made on Yarmouth beach, in the presence of coastguard officers, with the view of testing the capabilities of Manby’s mortar and Dennett’s rocket in carrying out a line for effecting communication with stranded vessels. “The result of the experiments appears to be that each apparatus is possessed of qualities peculiar to itself. The rocket unquestionably carries the furthest, and flies with great precision. It is also more portable, but the unanimous opinion was that the rocket and mortar should go together, and so far from being considered rivals, they should be regarded as coadjutors in promoting the beneficent object which each must have in view.”

26.—A four-oared match between London and Norwich crews, for £50 a side, took place from Coldham Hall to Thorpe Gardens, distance seven miles. The crews were composed as follow: London—Lett (stroke), Moulton, Maynard, Perry, G. Maynard (cox.). Norwich—William Gurling (stroke), Henry Gurling, Clarke, Tom Lefevre, W. Buttle (cox.). The boats started at 4.30 p.m.; the Londoners rowed the distance in 53 minutes, and the Norwich men in 56 minutes. The London boat, the most perfect specimen of a four-oar ever seen in Norwich, weighed 124 lbs. In a second match, on August 28th, in Norwich-built boats, from Bramerton to Thorpe, the London crew won by 25 seconds. On the same day a match between London and Norwich amateurs (London: Messrs. Chinery and Thompson; Norwich: Messrs. Clabburn and Russell), was rowed from Postwick to Thorpe (two miles), stakes £10. “The striking of the flags was nearly simultaneous, but the Londoners were declared the winners.”

—A balloon ascent was made from Lynn Gasworks by Mr. Gypson, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Oxley and Mr. D. Nelson. A second ascent took place on September 9th. On September 18th Mr. Gypson ascended from Swaffham Gasworks.

SEPTEMBER.

6.—Mr. and Mrs. Wood commenced an operatic engagement at Norwich Theatre. The productions included “La Somnambula,” “Fra Diavolo,” “Love in a Village,” and “The Waterman.”

14.—The Coltishall Brewery estate, consisting of a residence and cottages, 53 inns and public-houses, and about 260 acres of land, formerly the property of Mr. Robert Howes, deceased, was offered for sale by auction, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by Mr. W. W. Simpson, of London, and realised about £50,000.

OCTOBER.

13.—Van Amburgh, with his collection of trained animals, performed at Lynn. “The elephant arrived covered with a sort of coat _à la __Mackintosh_, and, to prevent injury to his feet, he had something on in the shape of boots.” The show also visited Norwich, and was located in the Ranelagh Gardens. “As a menagerie it is inferior to Wombwell’s; as a spectacle it is scarcely to be compared with Carter’s.”

19.—At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, before Mr. Isaac Jermy, Recorder, Jacob Macro, woollen draper, refused to take the oath as a member of the grand jury, “because Scripture said ‘Swear not at all.’ The Recorder: Then, sir, I think it right to fine you the sum of £50, to be paid to the use of her Majesty.” The fine was subsequently reduced to £20.

NOVEMBER.

8.—An exceedingly rare fish, the maigre (sciæna aquila), was captured off Sheringham. It measured 5 ft. 2 in. in length, weighed 68½ lbs., and was preserved by Mr. George Johnson, chemist, of Norwich.

9.—At a meeting of the Norwich Paving Commissioners, it was decided to try the experiment of paving Briggs’ Street with wood. It was suggested that “pieces of fir 14 in. or 15 in. long, having been peeled, be put down as they grow, with gravel between each.”

—Mr. John Marshall was elected Mayor of Norwich, and Mr. William Storey appointed Sheriff.

10.—On the arrival at Norwich of the intelligence of the birth of the Prince of Wales, the Union flag was hoisted on the towers of St. Peter Mancroft, St. Stephen, St. Giles, and of other parish churches, and the bells of St. Peter rang rejoicing peals. On Sunday, the 14th, a special form of thanksgiving was used at the church services; on November 16th and December 4th the Norwich Town Council and the county magistrates voted addresses of congratulation to the Queen and Prince Albert; and on December 7th the Bishop of Norwich gave a dinner to the inmates of the Workhouse. “The Queen graciously received the congratulations of the boys of Paston Grammar School, North Walsham, and requested that an additional week of holidays be granted to them at the ensuing Christmas vacation, in commemoration of the happy event.”

13.—On this date was published the judgment given in the Consistory Court of Norwich, by Mr. Evans, in the suit, Loftus husband v. Loftus wife. The suit was brought by the Rev. Arthur Loftus, of Fincham, against Mary Anna Ray Loftus, for restitution of the conjugal rights of marriage. The Court ruled that Mr. Loftus was fully entitled to judgment, and admonished Mrs. Loftus to return to her husband.

14.—Died at Blickling Hall, the seat of the Dowager Lady Suffield, John William Robert Kerr, Marquis and Earl of Lothian, aged 48. The funeral of the deceased nobleman took place at Blickling church, on November 24th.

16.—Christ church, New Catton, was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich, and the sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, rector of Berghapton. “The Chartists marched in procession to the church and were refused admission, and then commenced every possible description of insult and injury. The Bishop and other gentlemen, on leaving the church, were scandalously assailed by the mob; near St. Clement’s church some stones were thrown, and it was with difficulty that the crowd was kept off. The Right Rev. prelate was escorted to the Palace, and at the gate three cheers were given for his lordship.” Eleven arrests were made, and several convictions were recorded during the two days’ hearing at the Police Court. The ringleader, a man named Hewett, was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions, and on January 4th, 1842, the Recorder (Mr. Isaac Jermy) sentenced him to two calendar months’ imprisonment, ordered him to find two sureties and keep the peace for twelve months, and to remain in custody until such sureties were forthcoming.

17.—At the dinner of the Marham Hunt, held at the Crown Inn, Swaffham, Mr. Henry Villebois was presented with a silver candelabrum, weighing 200 oz., in recognition of “the liberal and sporting manner in which he had contributed to the general amusement” of the members of the Hunt.

19.—A meeting of landowners and others was held at Yarmouth, for the purpose of considering a scheme proposed by Mr. Robert Stephenson, for constructing a railway from Yarmouth to Norwich. Two other proposed railways were before the public, and in both cases it was proposed to construct bridges over the river. Mr. Stephenson’s railway, first known as the Valley Line, pursued a route which obviated the necessity of crossing the river, but the scheme included a plan for diverting the course of the stream at Thorpe for a distance of about 50 chains. The scheme, which was estimated to cost £150,000, was adopted, and the line, the first to be opened in Norfolk, was called afterwards the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway.

24.—The celebrated Distin family gave the first of three concerts at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.

27.*—“The memorial statue of the late venerable Bishop Bathurst, by the far-famed hand of Chantrey, has been erected this week in Norwich Cathedral.” This was the last work of Chantrey, who died in London shortly after his departure from Norwich. “The estimate for the monument of Bishop Bathurst was £2,500; Chantrey took it for £1,500; the block of Carrara marble alone must have cost him nearly £1,000.”

—The Census returns were published on this date. The statistics affecting Norwich were as follow:—Houses, inhabited, 13,889; uninhabited, 805; building, 53; persons—males, 28,014; females, 33,832; total, 61,846. The population of Norfolk, exclusive of Norwich, was 350,775.

DECEMBER.

7.—A flood occurred at Norwich, after twenty-four hours’ rain. It was the sixth that had taken place since October 5th. “The waters were as high if not higher than on any former inundation of our marshes.”

23.—The Phenomena coach, with its Christmas load, started from Norwich, drawn by a team of six greys, “which were all managed by Mr. Thomas Wiggins, in a style which would have done credit to a first-rate whip, and which was never before attempted by any coachman on the road.”

24.*—“We have lately had exhibited in Norwich a new system of skaiting on the saloon in the Ranelagh Gardens and at the Corn Exchange. It is called Tachypos, and is a kind of skait each running on two iron wheels about six inches in diameter, and fastens on to the foot in a similar way to the common skait, with protection to the legs up to the knees. With these persons may travel at the rate of nine miles an hour upon the common road. The Tachypos is invented by Mr. J. Ayton, of this city, and differs considerably from the Tachypos lately exhibited at the principal theatres in London. There are at this moment boys exhibiting upon them, and are cutting round the corners and corn-stands with all imaginable ease and rapidity.”

—Wombwell’s Menagerie arrived at Norwich, and was exhibited on the Castle Hill. The collection included a pair of giraffes, one of which was killed by an accidental fall. “The elephant is a magnificent animal, but we think the walking exercise which Van Amburgh’s elephant is obliged to take, instead of being drawn from place to place by some twelve horses, conduces to a clearer complexion and a better state of health.” For the first time, Wombwell advertised that he had a keeper “who goes into the den of the trained lions and tigers.”

1842.

JANUARY.

7.—At a meeting of the county magistrates, held at Norwich, the Earl of Orford presented a petition signed by a very large number of occupiers of land, “praying for a considerable change, if not a total abrogation, of the police force, as the introduction of the force had not decreased either the number of robberies or cases of vagrancy, while the expenses of the county were much increased by the costs arising from the prosecution of persons apprehended by the police for offences of a very trivial nature.” The Rev. J. C. Collyer presented a counter petition from the clergy, landowners, and inhabitants of Reepham, “praying that no alteration take place in the county police, which had been found a most useful body in that part of the county.” A resolution was unanimously adopted affirming that great benefits had been derived from the introduction of the police, and thanking Col. Oakes, the Chief Constable, for his exertions in the formation of the force.

8.—Deputations from the various agricultural societies in East Norfolk attended a meeting at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, at which the East Norfolk Agricultural Association was formed, for the exhibition of stock and agricultural implements in Norwich or its vicinity. Lord Wodehouse was elected president, and Mr. E. C. Bailey secretary. The first show was held on Norwich Cricket Ground, on September 13th. There were twenty-four classes of live stock, and four entries of implements; 800 persons were present, and the sum of £40 was taken at the gates. Lord Wodehouse presided at the dinner, held at the Assembly Rooms.

14.—The Lynn mail coach, on its journey to London, overturned between Melbourne and Royston, and Simpson, the coachman, was killed.

15.—“Died last week, in the 85th year of his age, Mr. Thos. Leech, hosier, one of the oldest inhabitants of Diss. He was the representative of the venerable Bishop Blaize in the last procession of the wool-combers held at Diss at about the same time the like pageant was exhibited at Norwich, Diss having been esteemed a great manufactory of hosiery, and one of the chief in Norfolk and Suffolk.”

19.—At a meeting held at the Guildhall, Norwich, it was decided to celebrate the christening of the Prince of Wales by the erection of an almshouse, and to raise £1,000 for carrying out the scheme. At an adjourned meeting, on January 25th, the resolution was rescinded, because “the opening of an alms-house was only the opening of a pauper warren.” On the same day a dinner was given at the Royal Hotel, a ball took place at the Assembly Rooms, and the inmates of the Workhouse were entertained.

FEBRUARY.

5.—Richard Cricknell, the Norwich pugilist, died on this date. “He had never been well since he fought with Cain (on January 7th, 1840, q.v.); the injury which he received to his head deprived him of his reason, and he had since been in the Bethel.”

6.—Died at Budleigh-Salterton, near Exeter, aged 70, the Rev. William Gilpin, who had been twice stationed in Norwich as Wesleyan Superintendent, namely, in 1809 and 1824, during which periods “the great chapels” in Calvert Street and St. Peter Mancroft were erected.

9.—Died at his seat at Thorpe Lodge, aged 87, Lieut.-Col. Harvey, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of the county, and a justice of the peace for Norwich. He was also “Father of the City.” Born in 1755, he was elected Sheriff of Norwich in 1784, Alderman for the Middle Wymer Ward in 1787, and Mayor in 1792. During the war which was terminated by the Treaty of Amiens he raised and commanded a troop of Volunteer Cavalry, called the Norwich Light Horse, which, on the renewal of hostilities with France, was augmented to a squadron, of which he was appointed Major. In 1824 he became by seniority Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the 3rd Regiment of Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry and continued at the head of the corps until the three county regiments were disembodied. In 1825–26 he served the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk. The Thorpe Lodge estate was sold at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by Mr. Culley on June 9th and 10th. The amount realised by the auction was £35,000 and sales by private contract brought the amount to £50,000.

10.—Lord Jocelyn was elected unopposed Member of Parliament for Lynn, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Sir Stratford Canning as Ambassador at Constantinople.

26.—A prospectus was issued inviting the public to subscribe £800 in 40 shares of £20 each, for the purchase of a steam carriage (patented by Mr. W. Parr) to run for hire between Norwich and Yarmouth. (There is no further record of the proposed undertaking.)

MARCH.

7.—The Norwich weavers commenced a strike to enforce a return to the scheduled prices paid in 1836. The women and girls employed at Mr. Wright’s factory struck on July 19th, and paraded the streets with alms-boxes; and on August 22nd the jacquard weavers adopted a similar course. In the latter case Mr. Hinde and Mr. Steward agreed to their demands, and Messrs. Willett and Francis urged the making of mutual concessions.

—Died, aged 86, Elizabeth Hawes, widow, of Coltishall. “She was born and reared in humble life, and was the only sister of that eminent scholar, Richard Porson, and though under widely different circumstances, her mind showed traces of the relationship in perception, memory, and the power of application.”

23.—Disturbances took place at Lynn in consequence of a reduction in the wages of coal porters and sailors. The rural police were summoned, special constables sworn in, and a troop of the 13th Light Dragoons were ordered from Norwich. Several of the ringleaders were sent to jail.

26.—The publication of Part I. of Mr. David Hodgson’s “Antiquarian Remains, Principally Confined to Norwich and Norfolk,” was announced on this date.

—*“A plan has been set on foot for the establishment of an Art Union for East Anglia, with the view of giving encouragement to the fine arts in this county and its vicinity. The exhibition is intended to be opened at Norwich at or prior to the Festival week.” The society was known as the East of England Art Union, and the first exhibition was opened “at their well-lighted gallery in Exchange Street,” on July 27th. The exhibitors included J. Stark, J. B. Crome, S. B. Colkett, M. E. Cotman, A. Stannard, R. Ladbrooke, J. B. Ladbrooke, T. Lound, R. Leman, &c.

APRIL.

4.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Serjeant Atcherley, George Barber, aged ten years, was indicted, upon the Coroner’s inquisition, for murdering John Smith, aged eight, by throwing him over Shotford Bridge into the river Waveney, on November 6th, 1841. The only direct evidence to criminate the prisoner was his own confession, which was extracted from him by a witness who had chained him up and frightened him by threats. The Commissioner directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, who was afterwards received into the establishment of the Philanthropic Society, St. George’s Fields, London.

5.—A singular case was tried at the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal. The defendants, John Utting and Anna Bunn, were indicted for conspiring against one Daniel Durrant, of Winterton, a criminal then under sentence of transportation for life. Durrant, at the Summer Assizes in 1841, was charged with committing a rape upon Bunn, on whose evidence and that of John Utting, a constable at Filby, he was convicted and sentenced. Soon afterwards Durrant’s wife died of grief, and Bunn, labouring under the pangs of remorse, confessed to the Rev. Mr. Sidney, of Acle, that the statements which procured the conviction of Durrant were false. It was further shown that Utting had planned with Bunn to ruin Durrant. The jury now found that Durrant was not guilty of the charge on which he was convicted, and returned a verdict of guilty against Utting, while Bunn, who had not been called upon to plead, was discharged. Utting was taken before the Court of Queen’s Bench, on May 9th, and was there sentenced by Mr. Justice Patteson to twelve calendar months’ imprisonment in Norwich Castle. “The issue of the prosecution was that Durrant was restored to liberty and returned home. Only three years ago he would have been executed for this crime. He was formerly an innkeeper, with a good business. Through this unfounded charge he has lost his wife, who died of a broken heart, and he and his three young children are now destitute.” Public subscriptions were made on behalf of this unfortunate man.

16.*—“During the Assizes the Norwich Scholars ascended the tower of St. Peter Mancroft and made a grand attempt to ring 6,729 changes of Stedman’s Cinques. They attained about 6,000, in four hours and a half, after which the gudgeon of the tenor broke, which, with the stock and implements, weighs 5,000 lbs. and upwards. It fell on the beams beneath with a tremendous crash, but sustained no injury. The ringers were more frightened than hurt.”

—*“Messrs. Whaites, of Ingham, have, in two days during the last fortnight, killed 116 couples of snipes; on the first day 54 couples, on the second day 62 couples.” Other remarkable feats of snipe shooting were recorded during the year. On October 15th Mr. Robert Fellowes, jun., killed, on Sir William Beauchamp Proctor’s marshes at Langley, 60 couple; and on November 17th, at Rockland, Mr. Richard Crawshay killed, at one shot, four snipe on the wing.

—The publication, by subscription, was announced of a new tragedy, entitled, “De Valencourt, or the Fate of Extremes,” by Mr. William Henry Hoskins, principal tragedian and deputy stage manager at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, and Mr. H. H. Hoskins, author of “The Spaniards’ Ransom,” &c. The publishers were C. Mitchell, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London; Matchett and Co. and Bacon and Co., Norwich. The play was produced at Norwich Theatre for the first time on May 14th. “In the piece there is an imitation of Shakesperian language and dialogue; there are many striking, and some touching passages, but allied with much that is very strained and exaggerated.”

23.—Mr. Abington, “a graduated member of Trinity College, Cambridge, and also of the English Bar,” who had adopted the stage as a profession, made his first appearance at Norwich Theatre, as Hamlet.

MAY.

1.—A serious fire occurred at Hillington Hall, the seat of Sir William ffolkes, Bart. The fire was confined to the servants’ apartments, which were totally destroyed, and the main building was saved by the unroofing of the intervening structure.

6.—Samuel Wilkinson, of Mill Street, Peafield, appeared before the Norwich magistrates and stated that he wished to sell his wife. The magistrates referred him to the Ecclesiastical Court, but he said he would effect the sale and take the risk. On the 7th, at or near the Prussia Gardens, he sold his wife for a guinea, and received a sovereign on account. On the 10th Wilkinson was bound over to keep the peace for assaulting his wife. In the course of the hearing the following written agreement was produced:—

“This is to satfy that I Samyoul Wilkerson sold my wife to Mr. Gorge Springle for the sum of one pound one before witness.

Samyoul X Wilkerson Maryann Wilkerson X her mark Gorge Springle X his mark Frederick Cornish, witness.”

7.—Died, Mr. George Cooke Tucker, landlord of the New Inn, Cromer. “The present flourishing establishment was built and raised by him. Possessed of a peculiar courteousness of manner, and endowed with great kindness of disposition, he was alike esteemed by the resident gentry and the general inhabitants of the place and neighbourhood. He had reached the patriarchal age of ninety years.”

11.—Died, aged 62, Mr. William Norman, Windsor Place, New Lakenham, “many years hair dresser to his late Majesty George III.”

18.—At Norwich Theatre was produced, for the first time, a new melodrama, in three acts, entitled, “The Student of Jena,” by Mr. Wm. Cooper, B.A., barrister, of Norwich. “The play is founded on the romance of the ‘Diamond Watch,’ a piece of diablerie, emanating from the German school.”

26.—Thurlow, the pedestrian, commenced a walk of 2,000 miles in one thousand hours, at Richmond Hill Gardens, Norwich. (No further record.) Robert Skipper, “the celebrated pedestrian, of Norfolk and Norwich, having been absent on the Continent and in different counties, where he has won several matches, and is now in his 55th year,” began a walk on June 21st, of 50 miles per day for twenty successive days, at the Green Hill Gardens, St. Augustine’s Gates, Norwich. He completed the task on Sunday, July 10th, “and did not appear to be in the least distressed.”

28.—Mr. and Mrs. Wood commenced, at Norwich Theatre, a five nights’ engagement, prior to their final retirement from the stage. The operas produced included “Fra Diavolo,” “Midas,” “La Somnambula,” and “Norma.”

—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry assembled at Swaffham for eight days’ permanent duty, under the command of Major Loftus.

30.—Cricket was revived in Norwich by a match played on this date, between the Norwich Club and the officers and privates of the 13th Light Dragoons. “Considerable fluctuation has for the last few years in Norwich marked the practice of this celebrated manly game, and about two years since nothing appeared more probable than its extinction.”

JUNE.

1.—Another instance of the holding in church of a public meeting for secular purposes occurred on this date. The inhabitants of Stoke Holy Cross assembled at the parish church to discuss the propriety of establishing a benefit society. Mr. T. Brightwell presided over the meeting.

14.—Died, aged 65, at Long Island, United States, Mr. John Hunt, engraver, formerly of Norwich. He was the author of a work on British ornithology.

19.—A severe thunderstorm occurred at Norwich. “The wind blew a perfect hurricane. Rushing in a straight line for Catton, it caught the high wall in St. Clement’s Square, and blew down about 30 yards of solid brickwork.” The sails of Catton mill were blown off, trees were torn up by the roots, and the river suddenly rose above the banks in places. At Harleston a marsh mill was overturned and houses were unroofed.

21.—Died at the Euston Hotel, London, Mr. Fred. Yates, aged 45, manager of the Adelphi Theatre. He married, in 1823, Miss F. Brunton, granddaughter of Mr. John Brunton, of Norwich.

30.—Died at Longford Hall, Derbyshire, aged 88, Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester. His lordship was born on May 6th, 1753, and was returned for Norfolk in 1776. With one brief intermission, he continued to represent the county until 1832. He was created Earl of Leicester in 1837. He married, in his twenty-third year, his cousin Jane, youngest daughter of Mr. James Dutton, who died June 2nd, 1800, leaving no male issue. After remaining twenty-two years a widower, he married, February 26th, 1822, Lady Anne Amelia Keppel, third daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, her ladyship being then 19 and Mr. Coke 70 years of age. The issue of the marriage were Thomas William, born in 1822; Edward Keppel, 1824; Henry Coke, 1827; Wenman Clarence Walpole, 1828; and Margaret Sophia, who, at the Earl’s death was only ten years of age. The remains of the deceased nobleman arrived at Swaffham on July 10th, and were placed in the large room at the Crown Inn. From four o’clock in the afternoon until nine in the evening the body lay in state, and immense numbers of persons passed through the apartment. At nine o’clock on the morning of the 11th, muffled peals were rung, and at eleven o’clock the funeral procession started for Tittleshall. It passed through Castle-acre, the Lexhams, and Litcham. “At every spot where the main road crossed the cross roads were carriages in waiting to fall into the procession, which, marching in close order, was two miles in length.” At Tittleshall church, where the interment took place, there was a great gathering of the personal friends and tenantry of the deceased earl.

JULY.

2.—Died at Hexham, Northumberland, aged 86, Mr. William Cooke, formerly of North Creake. “About 60 years ago, under the auspices of Mr. T. W. Coke, and upon the estate of Earl Spencer, he introduced into Norfolk the drill system for corn. He subsequently introduced into the same county the Northumberland turnip husbandry, and, in conjunction with Sir Mordaunt Martin and Dr. Letsome, established the cultivation of mangold wurzle in England. During his latter years he devoted much time and his high mathematical attainments to perfecting the plough.”

4.—The first meeting for enforcing the Income-Tax was held at the Shirehall, Norwich, when Commissioners were appointed for the several Hundreds named in the Act of Parliament. Similar meetings took place at Yarmouth and Lynn.

6.—Races were held at East Dereham. The other meetings this season were at Norwich on July 12th and 13th, Downham July 22nd, and Yarmouth September 6th and 7th.

9.—The funeral of Lord Townshend, who died at Hutton Lodge, Yorkshire, on June 28th, aged 56 years, took place at Bintry church.

14.—Major Boxall, of Swaffham, was killed at the brewery of Mr. Morse, in that town, by the fall of a portion of the roof.

16.—At a meeting of the yeomanry and tenantry of both political parties, held at the Swan Inn, Norwich, it was decided to erect, by public subscription, a monument to the memory of the late Earl of Leicester. (See January 7th, 1843.)

23.—A correspondent, writing under this date to the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, complained of the danger and annoyance caused on the public roads by vehicles drawn by dogs. “If,” he wrote, “Parliament deemed it necessary two years ago to pass an Act prohibiting, under a severe penalty, the use of dogs as beasts of draught or burden in London and its neighbourhood for twenty miles around, surely the same necessity, as well on the score of humanity as of personal security to the public, does exist in reference to every other portion of the kingdom.”

24.—Died, aged 60, at Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, John Sell Cotman.

AUGUST.

1.—An acrobat, named Alleni, was descending a rope “in his chariot of fire,” at the Greyhound Gardens, Ber Street, Norwich, when his apparatus failed, the rope broke, and the unfortunate performer, falling a distance of thirty feet, was seriously injured.

6.—A correspondent complained that the “unrivalled tower” of Norwich Cathedral, then undergoing restoration, was “under the care of a plasterer, to be patched and pieced in his best manner with a compound of villainous ingredients scarcely tolerable on a shop front.” Mr. John Brown, the Cathedral architect, replied, on August 10th, to the effect that the substance used was not plaster, but “hydraulic cement, calcined limestone and sand, which is more durable than stone.” Much newspaper controversy ensued.

20.*—“Last week a block of granite of nearly two tons weight was fixed on the south battlement of Norwich Castle, containing the following inscription:—“This Royal Castle, built by William Rufus, as Knychton testifies in his Chronicle, on the site of one much more ancient, has been used as a county gaol since the year 1345, and was finally vested in the magistrates of Norfolk for that purpose by Royal grant confirmed by Parliament in 1806. The ornamental work and facing of the exterior having fallen into a state of extreme decay, the same was ordered to be restored at the expense of the county by the Court of Quarter Sessions, in April, 1834. Its restoration was carried into effect with the most careful adherence to the details of the antient work in Bath stone, as most resembling that of Normandy, which had been originally used, under the superintendence of the visiting justices, and completed in 1839. The battlements and corbel table were designed from the best discoverable authorities, as no portion remained of the original termination of the building. Anthony Salvin, Esq., of London, architect; Mr. James Watson, of Norwich, stonemason.” [The NORFOLK CHRONICLE expressed regret “at the necessity, if any such existed, for the adoption of a process which has for ever hidden from human eyes the whole exterior of this celebrated Anglo-Norman keep.”]

27.—A finner whale, discovered stranded upon a shoal in Lynn Roads, was secured by a boat’s crew who fastened a rope to its tail. When the tide rose the whale dragged the boat with great velocity towards the town. After a struggle of seven hours, it was landed. It measured 50 ft. in length.

—*“Her Majesty has been pleased to grant unto William Hardy Cozens, Esq., of Letheringsett, her Royal licence to take and use the surname and arms of Hardy, in addition to his present name, in compliance with a condition contained in the will of his late uncle, William Hardy, Esq., of Letheringsett Hall.”

30.—A great rowing match took place on the Yare, at Norwich, in the presence of thousands of spectators. The match, which was open to all England, was for a subscription cup or purse of £50, and was to be rowed in four-oared 36ft. boats, by amateurs. Competing crews were entered by the Leander Club, London; King’s College Club, London; the Cambridge Amateur Club, and the Norwich Amateur Club. The odds throughout were greatly in favour of the Londoners, and many heavy bets were made on Cambridge. The course, about three miles, was from stakes on Bramerton Common to a spot nearly opposite Thorpe Gardens. “The boats started two and two; the first two boats were started 100 yards apart at the same time; the winning boat of each pair had therefore to row another heat. By the casting of lots, the Leander was pitted against King’s College, and Norwich against Cambridge. The Leander had the lead of King’s College, and Cambridge the lead of Norwich.” King’s College and Norwich won the first heat—the former in 22 minutes 30 seconds, and the latter in 21 minutes 30 seconds. In the final heat Norwich beat King’s College easily. The winning crew were composed as follow:—J. Kidd, 9 st. 10 lb.; J. Wigham, 10 st. 9 lb.; W. Clabburn, 11 st. 7 lb.; T. Clabburn (stroke), 9 st. 2 lb.; F. Bolingbroke (cox.), 8 st. 11 lb. Trained by Noulton.

—The Royal squadron accompanying the Queen on her voyage to Scotland passed Yarmouth at five am. On the return of her Majesty, on the evening of September 16th, several yawls put out to sea, and the occupants were gratified with a sight of the Queen and Prince Albert on the main deck of the Trident steamer. Loud cheers were given for the Sovereign and her Consort.

SEPTEMBER.

10.—The publication of Part I. of Mr. Henry Ninham’s “Picturesque Antiquities of Norwich” was announced.

13.—The Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival commenced. Miscellaneous concerts were given at St. Andrew’s Hall on the evenings of the 13th, 14th, and 15th. The morning performances included, on the 14th, Parts II. and III. of the “Creation”; on the 15th, Parts II. and III. of “The Fall of Babylon” (composed expressly for the Festival by Spohr); and on the 16th, “Samson.” A fancy dress ball was given on the night of the 16th. The artistes engaged at the Festival were: Madame Caradori Allan, Miss Rainforth, Miss Maria B. Hawes, Miss Bassano, and Signora Pacini; Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Balfe, Mr. Bradbury, Mr. Young, Mr. Walton, and Signor Rubini. Professor Taylor conducted. The surplus amounted to £716 15s. 2d.

—A circus company, under the management of Madame Ducrow, commenced a series of performances at Norwich Theatre. “The whole of the stage, 43 ft. square, was formed into a circus ring, decorated round with appropriate devices. The circle was rendered moveable, so that dramatic representations similar to the late Astley’s Amphitheatre were introduced.” These included “The Spanish Bullfight, or the Muleteer,” “Mazeppa,” “The Secret Mine, or the Hindoos of the Ruby Cliffs,” &c. To enable the audience to obtain a full view of the ring performances, the floor of the pit was raised.

14.—Died at Yarmouth, in his 49th year, Mr. J. B. Crome. “Besides inheriting the talents of that well-known ‘Father’ of the Norwich school of painting, he possessed literary attainments and theoretical knowledge which conferred both honour and advantage on his practical pursuits of Art.”

24.*—“The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. James Tooke Hales, of Glazenwood, in Essex, and of Thompson, in Norfolk, her Royal license and authority to assume the surname of Tooke in addition to and after that of Hales, and to bear the arms of Tooke.”

—*“Mr. C. F. Hall, of Norwich, has been appointed second leader of the orchestra of Drury Lane Theatre, after a contest of skill. He is the composer of two ballads, ‘I have dream’d of hopes defeated’ and ‘The Inconstant.’”

OCTOBER.

8.*—“At a late sitting of the magistrates at Litcham to hear appeals against assessed taxes, Mr. Lynes, one of the appellants, accused the Surveyor of Taxes of partial conduct. He alleged that Mr. F. Beck, of Mileham, owned greyhounds for which he was not charged duty. Mr. Beck jumped up and got hold of Mr. Lynes’ nose, which he held for some time. Mr. Lynes retaliated by striking Mr. Beck several blows on the head and face, and a battle ensued. The police interfered, and Capt. Fitzroy ordered the parties into custody. It was stated that there had previously been a quarrel between Mr. King, the magistrates’ clerk, Mr. Beck, and Mr. Lynes, and Mr. King had challenged the latter to fight a duel. Mr. King acknowledged that he had sent a challenge. For the fight in the magistrates’ room Mr. Beck and Mr. Lynes were bound over to keep the peace for twelve months. Mr. King was also bound over in sureties to keep the peace towards Mr. Lynes for twelve months.” At the Norfolk Assizes, on April 3rd, 1843, the action Lynes v. Beck, for assault, was tried before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, and judgment was given for the plaintiff, damages one shilling. The Judge remarked that the assault was of a very degrading and contumacious character.

11.—Died at his house on Scoles’ Green, Norwich, Mr. Robert Ladbrooke, artist, in his 73rd year.

13.—Died at Tunbridge Wells, aged 55, Sir John Jacob Buxton, Bart., of Shadwell Park, Norfolk, and of Tockenham House, Wilts. He served the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1841–2.

19.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, Johnson Hemnell was sentenced to fifteen years’ transportation for stealing promissory notes, gold, and silver, to the amount of £150, the property of Mr. Harrison Wells, of Dilham. On the night after his conviction the convict accompanied two of the prison warders to Seething, where he showed them a garden bank in which £108 of the stolen money was found concealed.

NOVEMBER.

7.—An inquest was held at the Hare Arms, Stow Bardolph, on the body of John Vare, who died under singular circumstances. On October 24th, at the Swan Inn, Downham, “he recited with considerable spirit to a party of tradesmen a piece out of ‘Othello,’ and at the finish, where Othello dies, deceased, as in the character, fell with considerable violence on the hearthrug at full length with his face down wards. He complained of considerable pain, went home, and died.”

9.—Mr. Alderman Mitchell was elected Mayor, and Mr. William Freeman appointed Sheriff of Norwich.

18.—Died at Rawal Pindi, Lieut. Richard Edward Frere, 13th Light Infantry, aged 25. He had been in every action throughout the war in Afghanistan, was repeatedly wounded, and was mentioned with distinction in dispatches.

19.*—“Messrs. Wells and Gardner, of Birmingham, have entered into an arrangement with T. T. Berney, Esq., of Morton Hall, Norfolk, for the manufacture of his patent cartridges so much approved by gentlemen and sportsmen generally, and have appointed local agents.”

26.*—“Sir Robert Peel has recommended her Majesty to grant an annual pension of £100 to Mr. John Curtis, the eminent naturalist and author of the great work, ‘British Entomology.’” Curtis was a native of Norwich.

DECEMBER.

24.—A singular story of a supposed murder was published. A human skeleton was recovered from the bed of the river at Costessey Mills by a “didling” boat owned by Messrs. Culley. The circumstance was recalled that a Jew pedlar, known as “Old Abraham,” had mysteriously disappeared eight years previously. It was also remembered that one Robert Page, sentenced to transportation for life for sheep stealing at Drayton, on March 27th, 1834, had told the prison warders that if he were taken to Costessey he could show them, beneath a willow tree, “something that would make their hair stand on end.” By a curious coincidence, the skeleton was found beneath a willow which overhung the river. It was stated that the body had been staked down in the bed of the stream.

31.*—“During last week the coaches and vans were laden with turkeys and game for London. From the Magnet Office alone upwards of 1,600 packages were consigned, containing at least 2,400 turkeys, besides geese and game. The other coaches have had their share. One manufacturing firm in the city sent 1,000 lbs. weight.”

1843.

JANUARY.

2.—Norwich Theatre opened for the season at reduced prices of admission, namely, boxes, single ticket, 4s., half price 2s., family tickets to admit six £1; upper boxes 2s., half price 1s.; pit 1s. (no half price); gallery 6d. The entire house had been redecorated by Mr. Thorne. Mr. Frederick Vining, of the Haymarket Theatre, London, and his daughter, Miss Vining, appeared on the 16th in the parts of Benedict and Beatrice, and fulfilled an engagement of seven weeks. The season, one of the most successful that Mr. Smith had experienced, was chiefly remarkable for the large number of “bespeaks” given, amongst others, by the officers of the 13th Light Dragoons, the Royal and Norfolk Hotel Wine Clubs, the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Court of Guardians, &c.

5.—A heavy fall of snow on this day was accompanied by lightning and thunder.

6.—The first annual meeting of the Norfolk Flax Society, the object of which was “to promote the cultivation of a plant for the produce of which vast sums of money are annually sent abroad,” was held at Norwich. It was stated that the soil and climate of the county were “equal and perhaps superior to any in the world for the growth and perfection of the plant, and its cultivation would be more profitable than that of any other crop.” The method of “forming linseed into compound to fatten cattle” was demonstrated in a booth on the Castle Meadow, and an exhibition of articles manufactured from flax was held at St. Andrew’s Hall. The Hon. W. R Rous was President of the Society, to which about eighty prominent agriculturists belonged. M. Demann, a Belgian agriculturist, was engaged as the Society’s agent, and many meetings were held in the county in furtherance of the movement.

7.—The promoters of the scheme for the erection of the Leicester monument appointed a “committee of taste,” who recommended the building of a column, of artistic design. At a meeting held at the Norfolk Hotel, on January 21st, the much vexed question of the site was discussed and a decision was given in favour of Holkham Park, mainly by the votes of a number of subscribers of ten shillings each in the neighbourhood of Wells. Efforts were made to secure the erection of the monument at Norwich, and the supporters of either place were invited to vote upon the subject. After the poll a scrutiny was held, and on August 5th it was announced that 322 votes had been given in favour of Holkham, and 281 in favour of Norwich.

9.—Died, aged 60, at Birmingham, Mr. Vaughan, “the highly respectable musician and once excellent tenor singer.” He was a native of Norwich, and when quite young was a member of the choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. He was afterwards engaged at Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Chapel Royal. On the death of Mr. Harrison, in 1812, Mr. Vaughan was appointed principal tenor at the King’s Concerts of Ancient Music, he sang at most of the provincial musical festivals, and was a member of several musical clubs in the Metropolis.

FEBRUARY.

14.—The first touring circus in Norfolk at which performances were given under canvas was that belonging to Batty, “sole proprietor of Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre,” who on this date erected at Lynn Mart a tent 65 ft. in height and 300 ft. in circumference. It was the same tent placed on the site of the Royal Exchange when Prince Albert laid the first stone of the new building, and on that occasion it afforded accommodation for 1,400 persons. In the autumn of the same year Richard Sands’ American circus toured the county, giving one performance only in a “spacious pavilion” at each town visited. A procession of “twenty-five caparisoned horses” was a feature of the show. After this date the circus touring system became general during the summer and autumn months.

22.—Died at Caen, Normandy, aged 76, the Rev. T. D’Eterville, “a well-known and respected inhabitant of Norwich for upwards of forty years, who retired a few months ago to end his days in his native country.” [Borrow’s “preceptor in the French and Italian tongues.”]

23.—The coach from London to Norwich, driven by Thomas Wiggins, ran into a brewer’s dray at Tasburgh, during a thick fog and was overturned. Mr. Scott, of Newton Maid’s Head, one of the outside passengers, was jammed between the coach and a tree, which had to be cut down to extricate him, Wiggins was thrown head first off the box seat and severely injured, and the guard, Thomas, was dashed against a tree stump and killed outright, “his head being completely split open.” It was not until January 22nd, 1844, that Wiggins was able to resume his duties. It was then stated: “So highly is this excellent whip esteemed along the line of road, that at the several inns where the coach stopped to change horses it appeared as if the landlords had determined to celebrate the circumstance by making it a general gala day.”

26.—Died at Cheltenham, aged 60, Major-General Sir John Thomas Jones, Bart., K.C.B., of Cranmer Hall. He served in the Royal Engineers during the campaign in Calabria, and was present at the Battle of Maida and the attack on Scylla Castle; in the Peninsular campaign he was in the retreat to Corunna; he accompanied the expedition to Walcheren and was present at the reduction of Flushing, served in the campaigns of 1810, 1811, and 1812 in the Peninsula, received the medal for Badajos, and was shot through the ankle joint at the siege of Burgos, in October, 1812. He entered the service as second-lieutenant on August 30th, 1798, and retired with the rank of major-general on January 10th, 1837.

27.—Yarmouth Orange Fair was held. “Like the generality of fairs, it has fallen sadly out of repute, and but for the immense quantity of fruit from which it takes its name anyone might have passed the Market Place without noticing it.”

MARCH.

17.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, on the motion of Mr. A. Dalrymple, a petition to Parliament was adopted in opposition to the Income Tax, on the ground that it was “unjust, unwise, repugnant, and unproductive.”

18.—The Watton coach, on its way from Norwich, with six female outside passengers, stopped at Barford Cock. During the temporary absence of Allen, the coachman, the horses started off at full gallop, and were not stopped till they arrived at Hingham. With the exception of a wheel being taken off a passing vehicle, no damage was done.

APRIL.

4.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, was tried the case, the Queen against Edward Painter. The prosecution, for assault, was instituted by Mr. Jeremiah Cross, corn merchant, of Norwich. An indictment had been preferred at the Norwich Quarter Sessions and a true bill returned, which the defendant removed by writ of certiorari, and the case now came on for trial on the civil side of the Court. The plaintiff, in June, 1842, was invited to the Rising Sun Inn, kept by Mr. John Abel, and he was there met by Painter, who for several minutes thrashed him with an ash stick so severely that for a considerable time afterwards plaintiff was under medical treatment. For the defence it was alleged that Cross had grossly insulted the defendant’s daughter, hence the thrashing. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and on May 10th, when defendant appeared before the Court of Queen’s Bench to receive judgment, he was fined one shilling and discharged. On June 24th the following advertisement was published: “Ned Painter having been subjected to the expense of wanton and persecuting litigation, his friends intend giving him a benefit at the Pantheon, Royal Victoria Gardens, on which occasion the Stars of the Fancy have resolved to rally round and support an old and tried veteran of the Prize Ring. Among the prominent professors of the Pugilistic Art who will appear are Tom Spring, Champion of England, and Ben Caunt, the modern champion.”

7.—Great excitement was created in Norwich by the conviction at the Assizes before Mr. Justice Coleridge, of John Harper, a well-known auctioneer, on the charge of stealing cloth entrusted to him for sale at North Walsham by a Leeds manufacturer named Jonas Driver. Mr. S. Bignold, Mr. Beckwith, solicitor; Mr. T. M. Keith, solicitor; the Rev. S. Stone, the Rev. W. Hull, and other prominent citizens testified to the general honesty and integrity of the prisoner, who, amid a strong manifestation of feeling in Court, was sentenced to seven years’ transportation.

7.—Mr. Cobden, M.P., Col. Thompson, and Mr. Moore, representatives of the Anti-Corn Law League, addressed a large meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, under the presidency of Mr. J. H. Tillett. A body of Chartists created some disorder. On the 8th a meeting of farmers “of the most complete party complexion” took place at the Hall, when Mr. A. Morse, of Swaffham, “author of one of the prize essays of the League,” presided, and addresses were delivered by Mr. Cobden and his friends. The League at this date was actively promulgating its principles in all parts of the county.

15.—The ship Phya sailed from Lynn for Quebec, with emigrants. “Whilst the population keeps increasing, and machinery keeps lessening the demand for manual labour, many thousands must seek to provide for themselves and families in distant regions.”

20.—The construction of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway commenced on this date on the Postwick Hall Farm (in the occupation of Mr. Gillett), near Thorpe Asylum. The excavation of the New Cut from Trowse Hythe to Whitlingham Reach was begun on May 6th. In October an engine with ballast waggons was running between Reedham and Yarmouth; and in November another engine appeared on the Postwick end of the line. “Its marvellous facility in whirling along any number of loaded waggons elicited exclamations of astonishment from the many hundreds of Norwich people who went out to see it.” (See April 12th, 1844.)

—In the waistband of the trousers of a notorious housebreaker, named James Fisk, who was apprehended at Surlingham on this date, “was found sewed up the Lord’s Prayer, written backwards, which he carried about with him as a fancied protection against the power of human law.”

—The marriage of the Earl of Leicester and Miss Whitbread, daughter of Mr. S. C. Whitbread, at Cardington church, Bedfordshire, was celebrated with great rejoicings at Wells-next-the-Sea, where 800 school children were entertained, and 1,400 of the poor inhabitants had dinner on the Buttlands.

21.—At Norwich Theatre was performed a new drama, entitled, “Mokanna, or the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” written by Mr. William Cooper, barrister, and originally produced at Lynn Theatre. An anonymous handbill, printed by J. Fletcher, Upper Haymarket, Norwich, was afterwards circulated, describing the play as a “barefaced exhibition of profligacy,” and calling upon the citizens to denounce it. The strictures were grossly unfair.

25.—The foundation-stone of St. Mark’s church, Lakenham, was laid by the Very Rev. Dean Pellew. The architect was Mr. John Brown, and the builder Mr. James Worman. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich on September 24th, 1844.

28.—The two troops of the 13th Light Dragoons marched from Norwich Barracks for Hounslow. They were replaced on May 22nd by the Scots Greys, commanded by Col. Clarke. Mainly through the influence of the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of Douro, the headquarters of the regiment were stationed at Norwich.

MAY.

4.—Business was entirely suspended in Norwich on the occasion of the funeral of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. The Corporation attended service at the Cathedral, and afterwards assembled at the Guildhall and adopted addresses of sympathy.

6.—At the Norwich Police Court, a woman named Kedge complained to the magistrates that another woman, of the name of Clarke, had bewitched her “by sending her and her children a vast number of vermin.” Clarke replied that Mrs. Kedge had harboured her (Mrs. Clarke’s) husband, and had given her a small piece of paper, whereon was very small writing. It was found to be the Lord’s Prayer. Mrs. Kedge acknowledged having given this to Mrs. Clarke, and said it would “prevent her from doing her further injury, for when she had herself put it in defendant’s hands, all danger from witchery was over.”

13.*—“One day last week a steam coach, constructed on a new principle, was tried at Witton, on the Yarmouth road, before a large concourse of spectators, but although the steam was put on, the coach would not move an inch. When pushed it proceeded a short distance and stopped. The experimenters at last lifted the coach from the road, when the wheels went round with alarming velocity.” On May 27th the carriage was advertised for sale by private contract, by Mr. Joseph Emmerson Bane, at the King’s Head Inn, Blofield.

—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Major Loftus, commenced their annual eight days’ training at Fakenham.

17.—The inhabitants residing in the vicinity of Duke’s Palace Bridge memorialised the Norwich Town Council to take the necessary steps to free the bridge from toll.

18.—Died at his residence in Union Street, South Lynn, Mr. Peter Lewis Dacheux, an immigrant from France, aged 83. “He had resided at Lynn for many years, and had long officiated as Roman Catholic priest in that town. He was a schoolfellow of Bonaparte, and in his boyish days had many a scuffle with that celebrated personage.”

23.—Mr. Braham, assisted by his son and pupil, Mr. Charles Braham, gave a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich.

JUNE.

13.—The Norwich Town Council decided, on the motion of Mr. Barwell, to memorialise the House of Commons in favour of Mr. Rowland Hill’s scheme of penny postage.

14.—Norwich Theatre was re-opened for a limited number of nights at the close of the regular season, when “The Tempest” was produced from the original text, with Miss Grant as Ariel, and Miss Vining as Miranda. On the occasion of her benefit, on June 27th, Miss Grant took the part of Tom Tug, in “The Waterman.”

15.—On opening the East of England Bank at Lynn, it was discovered that during the preceding night upwards of £4,000 had been stolen. A clerk, named William Henry Sangar, aged nineteen, had committed the theft, in the absence of Mr. Spiller, the manager, and had absconded. He was apprehended on July 3rd, at Pooley Bridge, Ullswater, with £4,300 in his possession. At Lynn Quarter Sessions, on July 17th, he was charged before the Recorder, Mr. Martin J. West, with stealing £4,362 1s. 6d., and, on pleading guilty, was sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. The Recorder expressed the hope that he would not have to appear at the Assizes to answer the still more serious charge of forgery. He was, however, indicted at the Norfolk Assizes on August 3rd, on two counts, for forgery, and on pleading guilty was sentenced by Baron Alderson to transportation for life.

16.—For nearly three hours “the sun was surrounded by a bright and beautiful halo, whilst several others appeared in its vicinity, intersecting the main one in several directions.” A similar appearance was observed in the summer of 1826.

JULY.

1.—The fares by the Royal Norwich mail from the Star, Haymarket, to the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, were reduced from this date to 16s. inside and 8s. outside.

4.—Mr. Charles Gill and Miss Vining, two popular performers with the Norwich Company, eloped from the city. “The attachment between the parties has been of long standing, but it was opposed by the young lady’s friends, on account of the disparity of years.” Mr. and Mrs. Gill appeared at Yarmouth Theatre on September 8th.

—Died at North Walsham, Captain Thomas Withers, R.N., aged 73. He entered the service in 1793, joined Nelson in the Agamemnon, which formed part of Lord Hood’s fleet at the occupation of Toulon, and took part in the reduction of Bastia and Calvi, and in the several actions in which the ship was engaged. In 1796 he joined the Captain, and in the following year, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, had the distinguished honour of commanding the division which boarded the San Nicolas, and from that ship the San Josef. He was made lieutenant next day, and soon after appointed to the Terrible, under the command of Sir Richard Bickerton, and served during the expedition against the French in Egypt. In April, 1803, he was appointed to the command of the Expedition (44 guns), and was chiefly engaged in the Mediterranean until 1804. In 1805 he accepted employment under the Transport Board, and in 1809 received post rank.

8.—A whirlwind occurred at Blakeney. In its course it carried away several yards of a wall two feet thick, took from some smacks the hatchings, which were blown upon the marshes, and blew a man off the seat of a threshing machine. The stable at the White Horse was unroofed, and a quantity of Mr. Temple’s hay was blown to the distance of a mile.

15.—Arising out of an assault case, a curious story about witchcraft was told to the Norwich magistrates. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis alleged that a Mrs. Bell had bewitched them three days after Tombland Fair, and they had been bewitched ever since. “Mrs. Curtis saw Mrs. Bell light a candle and fill it with pins. She then put some red dragon’s blood, with some water, into an oyster-shell, and having repeated a form of words over it, her (Mr. Curtis’) husband’s arms and legs were set fast, and when he lay down he could not get up again without somebody helping him.” The man made a similar statement, and said that to the dragon’s blood and water Mrs. Bell added some parings of her own nails, put the mixture over the fire, and muttered an incantation.

19.—A young man named Robert Smithson “wagered that he would run over the nine bridges in Norwich in twenty-five minutes.” He performed the distance, nearly four miles, in twenty-two minutes.

24.—Died at Shotley Parsonage, Ipswich, aged 91, the Rev. Samuel Forster, D.D., formerly head-master of Norwich Free Grammar School. On resigning, in 1811, Dr. Forster became private tutor to the son of the Marquis of Bristol. Sir Edward Berry, Nelson’s flag captain at the Battle of the Nile, married the doctor’s eldest daughter.

29.*—“In the melancholy list of passengers on board the Pegasus, lost off the Fern Islands on July 19th, we are sorry to observe the name of Mr. Elton, for many years a favourite tragedian in the Norwich Company, and latterly holding a most respectable station on the London boards.”

—The Assize week performances at Norwich Theatre opened with the appearance of Miss Montague, of Drury Lane, as Juliet. On July 31st Miss Clara Novello, Miss Sybella Novello, Mr. Manvers, and Mr. Stretton, of Drury Lane, performed in Belleni’s opera, “Norma,” and in “Acis and Galatea”; and on August 7th Madame Céleste and Mr. Webster commenced a four nights’ engagement in “St. Mary’s Eve,” “The Woman Hater,” and “The French Spy.”

AUGUST.

6.—Died at Gaywood, aged 70, Mr. Thomas Marsters, for many years the representative at Lynn of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE. “He was extensively read in the poets and classics, and his taste for the drama induced him, when he resided at Gaywood Hall, to become lessee of Lynn Theatre, on the boards of which he occasionally performed as an amateur.”

9.—Norwich and many parts of the county were visited by one of the severest thunderstorms that had occurred for many years. It was accompanied by a hailstorm which did immense damage—in the city windows and conservatories were smashed, in the county garden and field crops were destroyed. The first floors and cellars in Surrey Street, St. Stephen’s Street, Rampant Horse Street, the Market Place, and London Street were flooded, and in places morsels of ice lay from four to five inches deep. The storm lasted half an hour. The performance at the Theatre was stopped, and the terrified audience in the gallery rushed down the stairs and found the passage filled with water, which prevented their escape. The river at Bishop Bridge rose one foot in five minutes. At two o’clock on the morning of the 10th, the rain and hail again descended with great violence, and “a surface of flame spread across the heavens, followed by a clap of thunder which seemed to rend the welkin.” Another storm occurred on the 15th, and on the 18th waterspouts were observed at Rushall and Dickleburgh. At a meeting at the Bishop’s Palace on the 19th, steps were taken for the relief of the sufferers, a public subscription organized, and surveyors appointed to assess the damage. In September the Committee reported that the total losses amounted to £30,770 2s. 3d. In some parishes a voluntary rate of threepence in the pound was paid to assist the relief fund. The contributions from the parishes amounted to £5,622, and individual subscriptions to £4,391.

16.—The left wing of the Cavalry Barracks at Norwich was destroyed by a fire which originated in the forage barn. The men of the Scots Greys succeeded in saving the remainder of the buildings.

31.—Died at Stisted Hall, Essex, aged 87, Mr. Charles Savill Onley, bencher of the Middle Temple. He was third son of Mr. Robert Harvey, merchant and banker, of Norwich, by Judith, daughter of Capt. Onley, R.N. Mr. Onley (then Mr. Charles Harvey) was called to the Bar on November 24th, 1790. In 1783 he was elected Steward, and in 1801 Recorder, of Norwich. In 1804 his portrait was painted by Lawrence, at the expense of the Corporation, and hung in St. Andrew’s Hall. In 1812 he was returned to Parliament, and at the dissolution in 1818 retired from the representation of the city, but sat for Carlow from 1820 to 1826. It was in December, 1822, that he took the name of Savill Onley, on the death of his maternal uncle, the Rev. Charles Onley, through whom he came to the possession of a fine estate in Essex, besides a large personal property. He resigned his Recordership in 1826. He was lieutenant-colonel of Col. Patteson’s battalion of Norwich Volunteers, enrolled in 1808 as a regiment of Local Militia. He married, first, Sarah, daughter of Mr. J. Haynes, by whom he had issue one son, Onley Savill Onley, who married his cousin Caroline, daughter of Mr. John Harvey, of Thorpe; and two daughters, Sarah, married to Mr. William Harvey, and Judith, to Mr. Charles Turner. Mrs. Harvey died in 1800, and he married, secondly, Charlotte, sister of his former wife.

SEPTEMBER.

7.—Father Mathew attended a temperance festival at Norwich. He addressed a meeting on St. Martin-at-Palace Plain in the morning, and a public gathering at St. Andrew’s Hall in the evening, at which the Lord Bishop and Mr. J. J. Gurney were present. On the 8th Father Mathew, from twelve to six o’clock, “administered the pledge to all who cared to receive it.” The NORFOLK CHRONICLE observed: “We cannot but feel that the members of the Church of England are pledged to temperance already, and have therefore no necessity to repeat the pledge before a Romish priest.”

11.—The Earl of Leicester laid the foundation-stone of the new quay at Wells-next-the-Sea.

16.—A platform was erected on the summit of the spire of Norwich Cathedral by a party of Sappers and Miners, to support an observatory for the purpose of the trigonometrical survey then being made throughout the kingdom, by order of the Board of Ordnance.

23.*—“Died, lately, aged 101, Mr. Robert Holmes, of St. Augustine’s, Norwich.”

27.—Died at Ramsgate, Lieut.-General Beevor. He was the last surviving son of Mr. James Beevor, of Norwich. He served in Flanders in the campaigns of 1793–4–5; in 1801–2 he was actively employed in Egypt, and he took part in the protracted operations in the Peninsula and Portugal.

OCTOBER.

2.—Mrs. Fitzwilliam, of Covent Garden Theatre, commenced a six nights’ engagement at the Theatre Royal, Norwich. She was described as the first comic actress of the day and a most accomplished vocalist. On the 7th Mrs. Fitzwilliam was joined by Mr. Buckstone, of the Haymarket Theatre, with whom she appeared in “My Tender Charge” and “Foreign Airs and Native Graces.”

14.—In a case before the county justices at the Shirehall, Norwich, in which the keeper of Hellesdon toll-bar was summoned for unlawfully taking toll in respect of a vehicle called a “wheel machine,” interesting particulars were given of the contrivance, which belonged to a Norwich mechanic named Matthew Fish. It was described as “only a barrow worked by the feet, and not propelled by machinery.” The carriage was shown outside the Court, and “appeared to be a very ingenious machine, which could be worked at the rate of ten miles an hour on a level road.” It had three wheels and two levers. Mr. Repton, the clerk to the turnpike trustees, urged that the narrow wheels cut up the road more than those of heavy carriages, and that such contrivances for evading toll and the keeping of horses were increasing. These carriages were considered a nuisance on the roads, no horses liked to pass them, and the Act laid a heavy toll upon them to prevent them running on any turnpike at all. The matter was ultimately settled without a conviction.

16.—Carter, the “Lion King,” appeared at Norwich Theatre with his trained lions, &c., in a drama founded on the adventures of Mungo Park. “The submissive bearing with which they crouched to the lash and the utter want of animation and spirit which they exhibited, divested the exhibition of all sense of danger.”

17.—A severe gale occurred on the Norfolk coast, several vessels were driven ashore, and five lives were lost off Bacton.

23.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry paraded at East Dereham and received from the Lord Lieutenant of the county a standard, in commemoration of the honour conferred upon it by Prince Albert, in allowing the corps to be called after his name. “The helmets, which formerly were fronted with the Maltese Cross, now exhibit the Royal Arms.”

NOVEMBER.

9.—Mr. Freeman was elected Mayor, and Mr. George Lovick Coleman appointed Sheriff of Norwich.

25.—Mr. Murray announced the publication of “The Correspondence of William Taylor of Norwich (author of ‘English Synonyms’) with Robert Southey, Esq., from 1791 to 1830, with a memoir of his life and works,” by J. W. Robberds.

DECEMBER.

2.—A meeting of landowners, agriculturists, and merchants of the county, presided over by the High Sheriff (Mr. Tyssen), approved the scheme of the Norwich and Brandon Railway, expounded by Mr. G. P. Bidder. The estimated cost was £380,000, to be raised in 19,000 shares of £20 each. (See July 29th, 1845.)

9.—The first person in Norwich to advertise “patent photographic portraits” was Mr. Beard, of the Royal Bazaar. These likenesses were stated to be “surprisingly correct,” and severe chemical tests proved that they would “last to infinity.” The prices ranged from one to two guineas.

—Mr. George Pinson, Governor of Gressenhall Workhouse, was selected by the visiting justices Governor of the County Gaol at Norwich Castle, in succession to Mr. Johnson, resigned.

15.—Died in St. Peter Southgate, Norwich, John Smith, gardener, aged 102.

16.—The improvement of Briggs’ Street, Norwich, was completed, and the Paving Commissioners were paid £700 by the trustees of the D’Oyley fund.

19.—Died, Mrs. Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer Lytton, widow of General Bulwer, of Heydon Hall, and daughter and sole heiress of Richard Warburton Lytton, of Knebworth Park, Herts. “She was mother of the Ambassador at Madrid, of Sir Edward, who succeeds to the estates, and of Mr. W. L. Bulwer, of Heydon Hall. The literary tastes and accomplishments of Mrs. Bulwer Lytton may have had an influence in early life upon her son’s mind. Many poems of hers circulated amongst her immediate friends are full of feeling and grace.”

26.—The report on the Christmas trade at Norwich stated that the stage coaches conveyed 3,036 hampers of game and poultry to London. Sykes’ waggons in five days conveyed to the Metropolitan market 68 tons of meat, game, and poultry, from Norfolk and Suffolk.

—For the first time for many years, Norwich Theatre opened on Boxing Day. The programme included “The Stranger,” “Cherry Bounce,” and the pantomime “Harlequin Baron Munchausen.” The other Christmas attractions were Batty’s Equestrian Company at the Pantheon, Victoria Gardens, and Wombwell’s Menagerie on the Castle Meadow.

1844.

JANUARY.

9.—A meeting was held at Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. T. Brightwell, at which it was resolved to raise a subscription to pay the legal expenses of Mr. John Francis and of four other recusants, proceeded against in the Court of Arches for failing to make a rate for repairing the parish church of St. George Colegate. When the case was heard in the Arches Court, counsel for Mr. Francis protested that upon the face of the citation it did not appear that he had been guilty of any ecclesiastical offence cognisable by the Court, neither did it appear that the parish church was in need of repair. These arguments were overruled by the Court, whereupon Mr. Francis took the case to the Court of Queen’s Bench, and on May 9th Mr. Justice Denman delivered judgment in favour of the appellant, on the ground that the citation was bad, because of there being no adequate allegation of any spiritual offence.

13.—Mr. H. J. Wallack, of Drury Lane Theatre, formerly a member of the Norwich circuit, and Mrs. Wallack, commenced an operatic engagement at Norwich Theatre, in the “Barber of Seville.”

FEBRUARY.

3.—In the Court of Exchequer, before Lord Abinger and a special jury, an information was heard against three persons named Phillips, of Swanton Abbot, for the recovery of penalties for a violation of the Excise laws by means of illicit distillation. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. It was stated that defendants had rendered themselves liable to penalties amounting to £12,000, but the Crown would be satisfied with a verdict for one penalty of £200, which, trebled, amounted to £600. Judgment was then entered for the last-named sum.

—Permission was given by the authorities of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for the formation of a hospital museum, on the understanding that there should be no alienation of the funds of the institution. On October 19th it was reported to the Governors that the museum had been completed, and an inscription on vellum was voted to Mr. William Dalrymple, in grateful acknowledgment of his donation of his entire collection in anatomy and pathology, and to Mr. J. G. Crosse for his valuable contributions. (See September 10th, 1845.)

7.—John Franklin, “known by the name of Bill Downey, the celebrated Southtown pedestrian,” for a wager of £10 walked from the Duke’s Head Inn, the Quay, Yarmouth, to the Shirehall, Norwich, and back, in eleven and a half hours.

8.—A meeting was held at North Walsham, for the purpose of forming a Protection Association against the attacks of the Anti-Corn Law League. Similar associations were formed in other parts of the county, and about fifty petitions were sent to Parliament, praying that no alteration be made in the state of the law.

10.*—“A society for insurance against damages by hail has been established in Norwich, an influential body of gentlemen having accepted the office of directors, and numerous parties have intimated their intention to take advantage of this institution.”

13.—A new historical play, entitled, “Zopyrus, the Hero of Persia,” by Mr. William Cooper, barrister, of Norwich, was produced for the first time at Norwich, Theatre.

15.—A singular person, named Jemima Cock, died at Long Stratton. “She was 78 years of age, and was known for many years as a letter-carrier of the Post Office, and although no scholar, was never known to make a mistake in that department. She once travelled the country as a seller of rakes and other implements. She wore top boots, kindly given to her by gentlemen of the village, and dressed her head with a hat like Mrs. Twankey’s in the play of the ‘Ladies’ Club,’ and long before, and at the time of her demise was, by order of the parish, made governess of the clink. She leaves no relative or friend to mourn her loss, save one, and those placed under her kind attention in prison-like confinement, and the poor weary barefooted traveller who wandered thither for shelter (and repose) from the fury of the pelting storm.”

20.—It was announced in the “London Gazette” that Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart., in compliance with a direction contained in the will of his late mother, Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer Lytton, of Knebworth, would thereafter use the surname of Lytton in addition to and after that of Bulwer, and also bear the arms of Lytton quarterly in the first quarter with his own family arms.

26.—An information was laid before the Docking magistrates by Robert Bullock, a common informer, against Mr. William Shearman, of Burnham, under 52 Geo. III., cap. 93, for having, on November 17th, 1843, “assisted Mr. Charles Edward Overman and 20 other persons in the taking of a hare by means of two greyhounds, the said act of assisting not being done in the company or presence and for the use of any person who had then duly obtained a certificate in his own right and who then and there used his own dogs for the taking of the said hare,” whereby he rendered himself liable to a penalty of £20. Evidence was adduced showing that the dogs which ran at the West Burnham Coursing Meeting, where the alleged offence took place, belonged to qualified persons. The Bench recorded a conviction, against which the defendant appealed, at the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, held at Norwich on March 13th. The Court quashed the conviction. Twenty other cases depended upon the result of this appeal.

—Died in London, aged 73, Mr. John Wright. He was a native of Norwich, and going early in life to the Metropolis, where he had the superintendence of Hookham’s Reading Rooms, in Old Bond Street, he became acquainted with many of the leading political and literary characters of the day, by whose support he entered into business as a publisher, in Piccadilly. He was the particular friend of Gifford, the poet, and the rencontre between that individual and Peter Pindar took place at Wright’s house. He was afterwards connected with Cobbett in the publication of the “Weekly Register,” but this terminated in a lawsuit, in which the latter gained little credit. Literary pursuits of various kinds occupied Mr. Wright’s attention for the remainder of his life, and his assistance was much sought after by publishers and others, in affording which and in attendance at the House of Commons he generally spent his time. He was supposed to have had the superintendence and correction of “Hansard’s Debates.”

28.—Died at Ingolville, near Havre, Mr. John Morse, formerly of Sprowston. He was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of the county, and served the office of High Sheriff in 1807. His remains were interred at Sprowston, on March 12th.

MARCH.

5.—The Norwich Court of Guardians passed a series of resolutions on the new Poor Law Amendment Bill, expressing regret that the measure contained a clause extending the powers of the Poor Law Commissioners to places hitherto governed by local Acts of Parliament, and thereby to a considerable extent repealed those Acts.

9.*—“A very fine specimen of the osprey or sea eagle, in full plumage, measuring 7 ft. 5 in. from tip to tip of the wings, was lately shot at Westwick by one of the gamekeepers of Mr. J. Petre.”

16.*—“Ministers connected with the party which seceded last May from the Scotch Church have visited Norwich this week, for the purpose of detailing their version of the differences between them and the Presbyterian Establishment and of raising ‘siller’ to enable them to carry on their system.”

25.—Lord Chief Baron Abinger and Mr. Justice Patteson, Judges of Assize, arrived at Norwich. Lord Abinger, on the 30th, received a deputation of the principal merchants of the city, who represented to him the unfairness and expense attending the mode of conducting bankruptcy proceedings. On April 1st his lordship was taken suddenly ill at Bury St. Edmund’s, the next town on the Assize circuit, and on April 7th he died. His lordship’s political connection with Norwich commenced in 1832. As Sir James Scarlett he was returned with Lord Stormont in 1833 a member for the city, and on December 15th received the honorary freedom. When Sir Robert Peel was unexpectedly called upon to form a Conservative ministry, the office of Chief Baron was conferred upon Sir James Scarlett, who was called to the House of Lords by the title of Baron Abinger, of Abinger, in the county of Surrey, and of the city of Norwich.

30.—Died, aged 81, at Wymondham, Mr. John Cullyer. “He was an excellent arithmetician, and the author of a scientific work entitled, ‘The Gentleman’s and Farmer’s Assistant,’ containing tables for the measurement of land, &c.”

APRIL.

4.—Hales, the Norfolk giant, was exhibited at Tombland Fair. He was 8 ft. in height, and weighed 33 stones.

8.—Mrs. Yates and Mr. O. Smith appeared at Norwich Theatre in the “Christmas Carol,” produced under the superintendence of its adaptor, Mr. Edward Stirling, stage manager of the Adelphi Theatre. Mrs. Yates was a granddaughter of Mr. Brunton, many years manager of the Norwich circuit.

11.—The Norwich Town Council completed the arrangements respecting the purchase by the Corporation of the Foundry Bridge tolls, and empowered the City Committee to negotiate for the borrowing of £8,000 for the purpose. The new iron bridge which replaced the old wooden structure was opened for traffic on June 29th. It was erected by Messrs. Bradley and Co., of Wakefield, from designs by Mr. C. D. Atkinson, of the same town, at the cost of £800.

12.—Major-General Pasley, Government Inspector, accompanied by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, and several of the directors, proceeded in “a train of carriages” from the Norwich terminus to Yarmouth by the new Yarmouth and Norwich Railway. This was the first train that ran out of the city, and its departure was witnessed by thousands of the inhabitants. (See April 30.)

20.—The Scots Greys, during the week ending this date, marched from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, en route to Edinburgh.

20.*—“The parish clerk of St. Peter’s, Terrington, has caused his coffin and gravestone to be prepared, although in excellent health. The former he keeps in his sleeping room, and uses as a wardrobe, and the latter stands in the church, ready to be put down when required. The stone contains the following:—

“This aged clerk, long ere he died, His coffin had and placed by his bedside; His neighbours all well know the truth is spoke— ’Twas made of Mr. John Perry’s best oak; His old friend Death just touch’d him with his spear And in pure kindness laid him quietly here.

“The upper part of the stone contains the name, with blanks for cutting age, &c., when the time of his dissolution shall take place.”

24.—Died at Boyland Hall, aged 66, the Hon. Frederick Paul Irby, C.B., Rear-Admiral of the White. He was born April 18th, 1779, and was second son of the second Baron Boston. He entered the Navy in 1791, was present in Lord Howe’s action on June 1st, 1793, at Camperdown under Lord Duncan, and afterwards saw much active service. He was severely wounded in an action fought with a French frigate off the Isle of Los, on the coast of Guinea.

—Died in Julian Place, Norwich, aged 38, Mr. Thomas Wiggins. “He had been proprietor of and a celebrated whip on the Phenomena coach from Norwich to London for several years, and was much respected by all for his skill as a coachman.”

30.—The Yarmouth and Norwich Railway was formally opened on this date. The county was indebted to Mr. R. Stephenson, the celebrated engineer and “father of railways,” for the introduction of the line. He and his friends, supported to a limited extent only by residents in Norwich and Yarmouth, contemplated it as the commencement of a grand line from the east to the west of England, in connection with other systems extending north and south. The prospectus was issued on January 15th, 1842; the Act of Parliament obtained June 18th, 1842; and the first meeting of proprietors held at the Victoria Hotel, Yarmouth, on August 5th, 1842. The total cost of the undertaking was estimated at £200,000. The first half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, on February 26th, 1843. Messrs. Grissell and Peto constructed the line, at the cost of £10,000 per mile. The rolling stock of the company consisted of five locomotives and a number of passenger carriages, supplied by Mr. Wright, of London. “The third class are six-wheeled carriages, open, and at present without seats. We trust they will not long continue so; the inconvenience of standing, especially to females, during a journey in cold weather, will be very great.” Thousands of persons assembled at Thorpe Station to witness the departure of the first train at 10.30, hundreds thronged the line at various points, and a great crowd gathered at Yarmouth to see the arrival. Howlett’s brass band occupied a third-class carriage next the engine, and the other carriages were reserved for 200 guests, specially invited by the directors. The train started amid loud cheers, and accomplished the journey in 50½ minutes; the return trip was done in 44 minutes. At four o’clock a dinner was held at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. S. M. Peto, supported right and left by the Mayors of Norwich and Yarmouth. The railway was opened for public traffic on May 1st, when 1,015 passengers were booked.

MAY.

4.*—“Last week 100 stand of arms were received at our barracks for the Norwich Enrolled Pensioners. The dress consists of a peaked, glazed cap, with scarlet band and star in front, a blue frock coat, similar to those worn by the French infantry, with scarlet epaulettes edged with brass, and dark mixture trousers with broad red stripes. Sergeants will be each armed with a light carbine and cutlass. The whole will be called out occasionally for exercise and drill.”

6.—A troop of the 4th Light Dragoons arrived at Norwich.

—The Bishop of Norwich confirmed 1,277 persons at the Cathedral.

18.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry commenced eight days’ permanent duty at Holt.

20.—Mr. Govett, formerly assistant minister at St. Stephen’s church, Norwich, “whose eccentricities were often the cause of great pain to many members of the congregation,” was baptised at Mr. Brock’s chapel, “with six young ladies whom he had persuaded unhappily to follow his errors.”

JUNE.

1.—The season terminated at Norwich Theatre. The manager (Mr. G. Smith) said, in the course of his customary address: “Having been for nearly 30 years a member of the company, I am most reluctantly compelled to chronicle the one now closing as the very worst season within my recollection.”

19.—Died at Knapton, aged 59, Mr. Jeffreson Mills, Commander R.N. He served from 1799 until the Peace in 1815. “During his career he assisted at the capture of 26 line of battleships, 18 frigates, and 21 sloops of war and privateers. He was the author of a masterly vindication of Lord Nelson’s proceedings in the Bay of Naples.”

22.*—“The fatal ball by which Nelson received his death wound, and which was in the possession of the late Sir W. Beatty, M.D., R.N., at his death came into possession of Col. Beatty, R.M., and his brother, Mr. Vincent Beatty, ci-devant captain of the late 24th Light Dragoons, by whom it has been presented to her Majesty, and most graciously received. The ball, with the particles of the coat and epaulette which were forced into the body, is neatly and elegantly set within a crystal case, which is appropriately mounted with a double cable coiled around its circumference. It opens like a watch.”

24.—Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews commenced a short engagement at Norwich Theatre, in “Patter versus Clatter,” “Loan of a Lover,” “Grist to the Mill,” and “Follies of a Night.”

JULY.

13.—At Marsham, near Aylsham, were rung 10,080 changes of Oxford treble bob major, “the longest peal on eight bells ever completed in this county.” It was composed by Eversfield, of London, and rung in 5 hours 44 minutes.

22.—Died at Longford Hall, Derbyshire, whither she had retired for her accouchement, Anne Amelia Dowager Countess of Leicester, wife of the Right Hon. Ed. Ellice, M.P. for Coventry. The third daughter of the Earl and Countess of Albemarle, and born on June 16th, 1803, she married, on February 26th, 1822, Mr. Thomas William Coke, of Holkham, who was created Earl of Leicester in 1837, and died in 1842. Her ladyship married Mr. Ellice on October 25th, 1843.

25.—A cricket match, Marylebone Club and Ground against Norfolk with Fuller Pilch, commenced at Lord’s. Norfolk, 60-111; Marylebone, 79-71. The return match commenced at Swaffham on Sept. 5th. Marylebone, 19-32; Norfolk, 45-6.

29.—The celebrated dwarf, Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), made his first appearance in Norwich at the Theatre Royal, where he was introduced by Mr. Barnum, the equally famous showman.

30.—Mr. Justice Williams, in charging the Grand Jury at the Norfolk Assizes, dwelt upon the alarming increase of incendiarism.

AUGUST.

1.—Madame Céleste and Mr. Webster commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. One of the features of the entertainment was the dancing of “le Polka.” This dance, which was introduced for the first time in Norwich, was described as “a mixture of the waltz and the cracovienne, and extremely pretty when danced well.” All the local dancing masters advertised it, and it gave fresh life and animation to the ball rooms. “Nothing was more wearisome,” it was said, “than the eternal first set of quadrilles, and comparatively few joined in the waltz; in the polka we have a dance full of life, elegant in its figures, and with the additional charm of being accompanied by music of the most attractive character.” At the Norwich Sessions Ball, on Sept. 16th, it was a great attraction; Mr. Frank Noverre gave a “polka ball” at the Assembly Rooms on December 2nd; and at Miss Bidwell’s ball, at the same place, on December 5th, “these ladies danced the polka in character, giving a good delineation of Madame Céleste and Mr. Webster.”

—A sculling match took place between Messrs. Corby and Wigham, from the New Cut, Whitlingham, to Mutford Lock and back, a distance of 60 miles, for £25 a side. Corby, the winner, rowed the distance in 10 hrs. 21 mins., the whole of the return journey being against a strong wind and tide. Wigham gave up at Buckenham.

2.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Williams, William Frost, aged 35, was indicted for having, on April 8th, at Whitwell, murdered his four children, whose ages ranged from five years to ten weeks, by striking them on the head with a hammer. Mr. W. P. Nichols, Mr. G. W. W. Firth, and Mr. Crosse testified to the insanity of the prisoner, against whom a verdict of not guilty was returned, and he was ordered to be confined in the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, St. George’s Fields, London.

3.*—“About 60 cwt. of tea and coffee have been brought to Norwich by the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Company, for Messrs. Wolton and Co., of London Street. We should not be surprised if that practice become more general in busy weeks, particularly when the wind is contrary for the favourable transit of the wherries.”

—At the Norfolk and Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Alderson, the action, Cory v. the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Company, was heard. It was an action sent down from the Vice-Chancellor’s Court, in which the plaintiff sought to restrain the defendants from carrying passengers from their railway terminus across the Bure or Yare to Great Yarmouth, on the ground that the right of the plaintiff as proprietor of the ancient ferry and of the suspension bridge which supplied its place, was thereby infringed. At the suggestion of the Judge, an agreement was arrived at between the parties. (See May 2nd, 1845.)

7.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the birth of a Prince (Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh). The bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, and the Town Council in due course sent to the Queen a congratulatory address.

9.—Great festivities took place at Ellingham, near Bungay, in celebration of the return of Col. Smith from active service in India.

12.—The opera of “The Bohemian Girl” was performed at Norwich Theatre for the first time. The principals included Miss Rainforth, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Stretton, of Drury Lane Theatre; Mr. Gilbeigh, Mr. Duval, &c. The numerical strength of the orchestra was more than trebled by the services rendered by professional and amateur instrumentalists of the city. The conductor was Mr. C. F. Hall, one of the leaders of the Drury Lane orchestra “Norma” was also produced. The week’s performances received very inadequate support.

19.—Killed at Sekerran, Borneo, aged 39, George Steward, youngest son of Mr. Timothy Steward, of Great Yarmouth. He was in the East India Company’s service, and volunteered to accompany Capt. Keppel, R.N., in his expedition against the pirates of Borneo. While ascending a river in a native boat he was surrounded by the enemy and slain.

—Died at Bracondale, Norwich, aged 78, Mr. Roger Kitson, a schoolmaster, who sixty years previously succeeded Mr. Massingham at the then well-known academy in St. Andrew’s Broad Street. He had a talent for poetical composition, and belonged to the Confraternity of United Friars and other literary societies.

21.—The Norwich Mechanics’ Institute was dissolved. On October 27th its surplus funds, amounting to £120, were handed over to a new society, known as the Athenæum, in which the Rev. A. Bath Power, Mr. J. J. Gurney, and other gentlemen were interested. The society met at rooms in the Market Place.

24.*—“The operation of Lord Brougham’s Act, for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, has had the effect of clearing the Norwich Gaol of all the debtors except one. Its operation will be very disadvantageous to the prisoners sentenced by the Court of Conscience or Requests, as they had laid a part of their time, and a very few days more would have exempted them from future liability, whereas now they go out subject to other proceedings and executions against their goods.”

28.—A shocking accident occurred at Dereham Theatre, to Mr. Dillon, one of the performers. He had just dressed for his part, and approaching too near to a lighted candle, the inflammable material which he wore immediately caught fire, and he was enveloped in flames. He ran about the stage in terror, and some of the audience, rushing forward, endeavoured to extinguish the fire, but they did not succeed until he had been seriously injured.

31.—Among Norwich improvements completed during the preceding twelve months were mentioned at this date the building of Victoria Street, the erection of new houses in place of old and unsightly ones near St. Giles’ Gates, and the widening of the street in that locality; the reconstruction of the Wensum Street and Tombland Corner; and the construction of the embankment between Foundry Bridge and Carrow Bridge.

SEPTEMBER.

9.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean appeared in “Hamlet” at Norwich Theatre, and on succeeding evenings played in “The Gamester,” “Macbeth,” “The Lady of Lyons,” “Richard the Third,” and “The Stranger.”

—The Royal squadron escorting the Queen on her voyage to Scotland was off the Norfolk coast from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. The coastguard fired rockets at various points, which were answered from the Royal yacht.

11.—Died at Cheltenham, the Ven. Henry Bathurst, Archdeacon of Norwich and rector of North Creake.

12.—The organ at St. Nicholas’ church, Great Yarmouth, was reopened after renovation. The instrument was built in the 18th century, by Abraham Jordan, and repaired in 1812 by G. P. England. It was finally repaired by Messrs. Grey and Davison, of Gray’s Inn Road, London.

19.—At a meeting of the members of the medical profession in Norwich, held at the Guildhall, under the presidency of Mr. J. G. Crosse, approval was expressed of the registration clauses in Sir James Graham’s Bill for the better regulation of medical practice in the United Kingdom.

26.—The new chapel, dedicated to St. Edmund, at Walpole St. Peter, was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich.

—A meeting was held at the King’s Arms Hotel, East Dereham, in furtherance of a scheme for constructing a railway from Wymondham to that town, with extensions to Lynn and Downham. Lord Sondes, on October 7th, presided over a meeting at the Guildhall, Norwich, at which the undertaking was approved. It was estimated to cost £10,000 per mile. (See December 7th, 1846.)

OCTOBER.

10.—Died at Norwich, Mr. Thomas Turner, “a well-known amateur on the river.” “Agreeable to the wishes expressed by the deceased, he was conveyed from Carrow to Thorpe on board a sailing-boat, from which he was carried on the shoulders of six boating men in blue jackets and white trousers to his last resting-place in Thorpe churchyard.”

16.—Van Amburgh’s Circus and Menagerie were exhibited in a large marquee erected in Chapel Field, Norwich.

17.—Dereham and Swaffham Theatres were advertised to be sold by auction, “under the will of the late Mr. David Fisher.” After this date there are no further records of the Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians, so long under the management of the Fisher family.

—Mr. Rush, “a respectable farmer,” of Hevingham, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun “left in the kitchen of his house by his son, James Blomfield Rush, auctioneer and farmer, of Wymondham.”

18.—M. Jullien gave the first of three concerts at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich.

26.—In the Arches Court, the Rev. William Henry Henslowe, perpetual curate of Wormegay, was suspended from the ministry for three months, for refusing on two occasions to bury the corpse of Sarah Bowden, a parishioner who had been baptised by a minister of the Primitive Methodist persuasion. The case was brought before the Court by letters of request from the Bishop of Norwich.

NOVEMBER.

9.—Sir William Foster, Bart., was elected Mayor, and Mr. John Betts appointed Sheriff of Norwich.

24.—Died at his residence, St. Catherine’s Cottage, St. John de Sepulchre, Norwich, aged 73, Mr. Jonathan Matchett, senior proprietor of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE. He had been connected with the journal for 51 years, and became its head on the decease of his father-in-law, Mr. Stevenson, in 1821.

27.—Died at his house at Costessey, aged 69, Mr. Richard Mackenzie Bacon, principal proprietor and editor of the “Norwich Mercury.” Mr. Bacon was the editor also of “The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review.”

28.—Mr. Tom Cross, the celebrated “gentleman whip,” driver of the Lynn and London coach, delivered at the Assembly Rooms, Lynn, a lecture on Shakespeare.

DECEMBER.

3.—Died at Swaffham Vicarage, aged 92, the Rev. William Yonge, vicar of the parish and Chancellor of the Diocese.

5.—Mr. Edward Stracey, of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, the respondent in a suit respecting the tenancy of a pew in the parish church, was taken into custody and lodged in the City Gaol by a process of the Norwich Ecclesiastical Court, because of his refusal to pay the costs imposed by the Court.

14.*—“The winter has set in most severely, with an intense ground frost and the wind in the east. The navigation of the river between Norwich and Yarmouth and from that port to Beccles, Bungay, and Aylsham, has been stopped by ice, but not a particle of snow has fallen.”

1845.

JANUARY.

5.—The Rev. Charles Chapman, who was elected vicar of the parish on November 5th, 1832, preached his farewell sermon at St. Peter Mancroft church, Norwich. The Rev. Thomas Wilson, M.A., was elected to the vacant living.

7.—At Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder (Mr. Isaac Jermy), John Dover, the notorious Chartist leader, was found guilty of receiving stolen silk, &c., the property of William Martin and others, and sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation.

13.—Cooke’s Royal Circus was opened at the Amphitheatre, Victoria Gardens, Norwich. During the season various “horse spectacles,” pantomimes, farces, and burlettas were produced.

18.—Died at his house near St. Giles’ Gates, Norwich, Mr. James Bennett, a man of great scientific attainments. By trade a watchmaker, “he invented an instrument for performing the operation of the trepan, which was mentioned with much praise by Sir Astley Cooper in his lectures, and ever afterwards used by that distinguished surgeon. He was the first man who made an electrical machine in Norwich. To different societies he sent original contributions, and presented articles of value, particularly the splendid anatomical preparations of the late Mr. Stevenson, veterinary surgeon, Castle Meadow, which were given to a museum in London. He took great interest in witnessing surgical operations, and could dissect an eye very beautifully. He was an adept at music and drawing, and was one of the original members of the Hall Concert.” Mr. Bennett served the office of Sheriff in 1826, and by virtue of seniority was “Father of the Common Council.” He was the oldest surviving “brother” of the intellectual and benevolent confraternity, the College of United Friars, and was for many years a member of the Castle Corporation.

25.—The NORFOLK CHRONICLE published the results of an inquiry into the state of the manufactures of Norwich, and in its comments stated: “Norwich has lost its former prominence as a manufacturing city, partly in consequence of the high price of coals compared with the North and West, and partly from improvements in machinery being tardily introduced. We regret that while 8,000 persons are employed in or connected with our factories and mills, a large number are constantly without work, and this is likely to be the state of things for some time to come.”

26.—On this date occurred the highest tide ever recorded at Yarmouth. The depth of water on the bar was 19 ft. 6 in. A severe gale prevailed, and several vessels were in distress. The Phœnix yawl, which went out to the assistance of a brig stranded on the north end of the Scroby Sand, was lost, and seven of her crew drowned.

FEBRUARY.

19.—Died at his residence, Northrepps Hall, Cromer, Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart. He was in his 59th year.

23.—Died at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, Mr. Thomas Stannard, engraver, aged 55.

24.—The Hon. W. B. Baring, M.P., who had accepted the office of Paymaster to the Forces, was re-elected without opposition member for the borough of Thetford.

28.—Mr. Samuel Lover, author of “Rory O’More” and other Irish tales, gave, at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, his “Irish Evening, illustrative of the national characteristics, legends, superstitions, mirth, and melody of his country, entitled, ‘Paddy by Land and Sea.’” The entertainment was repeated on the 29th.

—At an inquest held at Costessey, by Mr. Pilgrim, one of the County Coroners, upon the exhumed body of a woman named Jane Mary Lovett, who was alleged to have died in childbirth, in consequence of improper treatment by a medical man named Gaches, a verdict of manslaughter was returned. Mr. Gaches contrived to escape from the custody of Inspector Barrett, concealed himself in the park, and ultimately absconded from the neighbourhood. He was re-arrested on March 29th, in a railway carriage at Shoreditch, and at his trial at the Norfolk Assizes on April 8th the jury, by direction of Mr. Justice Patteson, returned a verdict of not guilty.

MARCH.

5.—Died at his residence in the Upper Close, Norwich, Dr. Warner Wright, aged 70. He was founder of the Norwich Dispensary, and in 1804 was chosen a physician of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, a position which he resigned in 1840. For many years he was visiting physician to the Norfolk County Lunatic Asylum, and to the Norwich Bethel, and was placed upon the commission of the peace for the city in 1836.

12.—John Tawell, indicted at Aylesbury Assizes for the murder of Sarah Hart, at Salt Hill, by poisoning her, came of a respectable Norfolk family. “Augustus Metcalfe, who served the office of Mayor of Norwich in 1716, was the maternal grandfather of Tawell’s father. Thomas Tawell, uncle of John Tawell’s father, served the office of Sheriff of Norwich in 1723, and died during his shrievalty. Tawell’s father was a shopkeeper, and had resided in several places in the neighbourhood of Norwich.” The convict, who was a Quaker, was executed on March 28th.

15.*—“The frost has now continued, with few intermissions, for eighteen weeks, a longer period than has been remembered for the last thirty years.”

19.—A meeting of the principal inhabitants was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Mayor (Sir William Foster), “to determine on the steps to be taken for arresting the progress of the epidemic diseases so extensively prevailing, and for mitigating the sufferings of the afflicted poor.” It was stated that between 1,500 and 1,600 persons had been attacked by small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, and typhus. The attention of the authorities was directed to the insanitary condition of the city, and a fund was started for cleansing and disinfecting the houses of the poor.

26.—Sir James Graham’s Bill for the amendment of the Law of Settlement was considered at a public meeting held at the Guildhall, Norwich. Disapproval of the measure was expressed. The Court of Guardians and other public bodies passed resolutions in opposition to the Bill, which was received unfavourably in other parts of the county.

29.*—“A salmon trout, measuring 23 inches in length and weighing 5 lbs., has been taken while fishing for pike in the river Wensum, near Hellesdon.”

APRIL.

1.—Died at Winfarthing, aged 80, Mr. Philip G. Browne. “He was author of ‘The History of Norwich,’ &c., &c., and was parish clerk of Winfarthing for upwards of fifty years.”

7.—At Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Baron Parke, George William Wilson, formerly cashier of the Norwich Court of Guardians, was charged with embezzling various sums, amounting to £1,245, the property of that body. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. A further charge of stealing a book belonging to the Guardians was deferred to the Summer Assizes, on which occasion no evidence was offered, and the prisoner was discharged.

—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Patteson, Robert Richard Royal, James Barnard Hall, and James Mapes were indicted for the murder of Harriet Candler, at Yarmouth, on November 18th, 1844. The principal witness was a man named Samuel Yarham, who had turned Queen’s evidence. The jury acquitted the prisoners. (See March 27th, 1846.)

8.—Bawdeswell church was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich. The church became dilapidated in 1740, but a portion of the ruined building was fitted with pews and used until 1843, when it was found necessary to rebuild the church, at the cost of £1,400. Mr. J. Brown, of Norwich, was the architect, Mr. William Gillham, of Rainham, contractor, and Mr. Francis Cushing, of North Walsham, sub-contractor.

14.—The east wall of the chancel of St. Julian’s church, Norwich, fell with a tremendous crash, which greatly alarmed the neighbourhood. The church was re-opened on January 18th, 1846.

19.—The foundation-stone of the new church of St. John, King’s Lynn, was laid by the Bishop of Norwich. The building was consecrated by his lordship on September 24th, 1846.

21.—Died at his official residence, Woolwich, Colonel Sir George C. Hoste, C.B. He was the third son of the Rev. Dixon Hoste, rector of Tittleshall, and was gazetted lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on December 20th, 1802. He was attached to the expedition to the Mediterranean commanded by General Sir J. Craig, and was present at the battle of Maida, and distinguished himself on other occasions in Sicily, Egypt, and Calabria. He was employed in the two attacks on Antwerp in 1813, and gained the rank of brevet-major for the skill and gallantry which he displayed in leading the Guards at the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom. At the battle of Waterloo he was attached to the corps led by the Prince of Orange, and was subsequently upon the personal staff of the Duke of Wellington. For his services during this campaign he received the distinction of C.B.

26.—At a meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, held at the Shirehall, Norwich, Mr. J. J. Gurney called attention to a new form of life-preserver made and presented to the society by a reporter of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE. “It consists of a linen jacket covered with oblong pieces of cork. The head is put through a circle, and the jacket falls down at the back and the front of the person wearing it, leaving the arms perfectly free, being suspended from the shoulders and strapped round the body. There is a semi-circular thick cork collar in front and coming under the chin, so that the jacket is not only calculated to keep any person afloat in the water, but also to keep his head at a sufficient elevation. It was agreed that the jacket should become the property of the society.”

MAY.

2.—An appalling loss of life was occasioned at Yarmouth by the fall of the Suspension Bridge, which had been the subject of so much litigation between Mr. Cory and the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Company. A clown named Nelson, belonging to Cooke’s Equestrian Circus, had announced that he would perform the feat of sailing in a tub drawn by four geese from the old Draw Bridge to the Suspension Bridge. Thousands of persons assembled to witness the spectacle, and upon the bridge itself there were between 400 and 500. The bridge, which was the chief means of transit from the railway terminus to the town, and had been widened to admit of increased traffic by a footpath constructed on either side, was suspended from two piers. Just as the clown was entering the Bure, at ten minutes to six o’clock, there was a rush to the south side of the bridge, the suspension rods snapped, the chains gave way, and “the bridge fell on that side like the leaf of a table let down,” pouring the crowd upon it into the water. A terrible scene ensued. As many as possible were rescued and conveyed to the Vauxhall Gardens, but notwithstanding the efforts made by watermen in boats and upon the river banks, there was fearful loss of life. An inquest was opened at the Church Hall on the 3rd, when Mr. Cooke, the proprietor of the circus, intimated that he would at once withdraw his company from the town. The inquiry was adjourned from time to time, and at the last sitting Mr. James Walker, C.E., who had been sent down to examine into the cause of the disaster, reported: (1) the immediate cause of the accident was a defect in the welding of the bar which first gave way; (2) that the quality of the iron and the workmanship were defective, and the accident would not have happened had the work been properly examined at the time of construction; (3) the widening of the bridge appeared to have been made without sufficient reference to its original strength and the weight which it had to support; and (4) that in the original construction of the bridge the casualty of a great load all on one side did not appear to have been contemplated. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with Mr. Walker’s conclusions. The number of dead bodies recovered was 77; some, however, were supposed to have been carried away by the current. Nearly all the sufferers were children or very young persons, but it was related as “a very extraordinary circumstance” that “Mr. Thomas Bowles, aged 84, who was on board the Royal George when she sank, and who is probably the only living survivor, should have been on the Suspension Bridge during the late accident. He was precipitated into the water, but was once more miraculously saved.”

3.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry assembled at East Dereham in stronger force than on any previous occasion, for eight days’ permanent duty.

—The last troop of the 4th Dragoons marched from Norwich Barracks, and were, on the same day, replaced by the 7th Hussars.

5.—Died at West Somerton, aged 74, “Mr. William Hales, father of nine children, whose united heights amount to 57 ft. 6 in., including the Norfolk giant and giantess.”

7.—The experiment was made at Norwich Theatre of still further reducing the prices of admission to 2s. 6d. for dress boxes, and to 1s. 6d. for the upper circle.

8.—Mr. Walter Morgan, aged 23, of the firm of Messrs. Morgan, of the King Street Brewery, Norwich, met with his death by falling into a vat of beer.

10.*—“A handbill has been published in Norwich showing that out of 1,664 persons who have had small-pox, 1,536 had not been vaccinated, and only 128 were vaccinated. Out of 506 who had escaped the disease altogether, only 84 had not been vaccinated, and 422 vaccinated. Of 141 who had died from small-pox, only four had been vaccinated, one a man 93 years old; the other three were suffering from teething or were otherwise ill when vaccinated.”

24.*—“The Hanworth Hall estate, comprising a mansion, cottages, and 1,465 acres of land, has been disposed of by private contract to Mr. William Howe Windham, of Felbrigg Park, for £65,000.”

26.—A series of lectures on phonography was commenced at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, by Mr. Joseph Pitman and Mr. Reid. “Mr. Reid appears to have mastered the system so far as to be able to follow a speaker, but no reporter has yet adopted it.”

JUNE.

2.—Mr. Macready, accompanied by Mr. Ryder, “a highly respectable actor,” commenced a three nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre. He appeared in the characters of Hamlet, Richelieu, and Macbeth.

JULY.

21.—Miss Fitzwilliam appeared at Norwich Theatre in the Assize week performances. She took the leading parts in “The Belle of the Hotel,” “My Little Adopted,” “Foreign Airs and Native Graces,” &c. At the conclusion of the season, on the 26th, Mr. George Smith announced to the audience that he had resigned the management of the circuit. “He had been,” he said, “thirty-one years a member of the Norwich Company. He had witnessed the drama in its high and palmy state; he had seen its gradual decline. Many had been the causes assigned for this decay—the increase of Dissent and fanaticism on the one hand, errors of management on the other, and the reduction of prices.”

29.—A prize-fight took place on Mousehold Heath, Norwich, between Jim Woods and Ben Clarke, “the Norfolk Slasher,” for £5 a side. Woods was the favourite, at 5 to 2, and obtained “first blood,” but in the second round Clarke struck him a severe blow on the temple and felled him. In the third round Clarke put in another blow, and as his opponent was falling, struck him behind the ear and laid him senseless. Clarke was declared the winner, after a contest which lasted only five minutes.

—The Norfolk Railway was opened. The directors ran a special train from Trowse to Cambridge, by which about 200 guests, including the Dean and Mayor of Norwich, were conveyed. A special train from London brought a like contingent to Cambridge, where luncheon was served, under the presidency of the chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway, Mr. Henry Bosanquet. One of the first projects for a long line was the proposal to construct a railway between London and Norwich, via Thetford, with a continuation to Yarmouth. A prospectus was printed and partially circulated in 1825, but the scheme was abandoned. In 1835 the prospectus of the Eastern Counties (or Grand Eastern Counties) Railway appeared. The requisite notices were published in November of that year, application was made in the ensuing session of Parliament for a Bill, and the first Act for the construction of the works received the Royal assent on July 4th, 1836. Up to 1840 this line was opened only as far as Warley Lane, between Brentwood and Warley Common. In 1843 it was completed as far as Colchester, but as the original capital was more than expended in carrying the line that distance, all hope of proceeding to Norwich was abandoned. In 1839 two Acts connected with the Northern and Western Company were passed, and received the Royal assent on July 19th. The first was for the purpose of extending the time for the purchase of land as far as Bishop’s Stortford, and the second was chiefly to confirm an agreement with the Eastern Counties Company as to the terms, &c., for passing over their line. In 1840 another Act was passed, receiving the Royal assent on June 4th, for reducing the joint stock capital to £700,000, giving the company power to raise £240,000 on debentures so soon as one moiety of the capital should be paid off, and abandoning that portion of the line between Bishop’s Stortford and Cambridge. In 1840 the idea of railway communication between Norwich and the Metropolis was revived, and it was resolved to form a company, to be styled the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge Railway Company. It was afterwards known as the East Anglian Railway Company. It received the support of the landowners’ committee in Norfolk, and the expense was estimated as follows: From Bishop’s Stortford to Cambridge, 22 miles, £572,000; from Cambridge to Norwich, 63 miles, £1,126,695; from Norwich to Yarmouth, 18 miles, £291,512. After the opening of the Yarmouth and Norwich line according to the plan of Mr. Stephenson, the project for the East Anglian Railway was dropped for a time, and was revived by the promoters of the Norwich and Brandon Railway, the prospectus of which was published in 1843. The capital to be raised was stated to be £380,000, in 19,000 shares of £20 each. In the Session of 1844 an Act was applied for and received the Royal assent in the month of June. The line in connection with that from Yarmouth and with that from Ely to Brandon resulted, and it was known as the Norfolk Railway. Messrs. Grissell and Peto were the contractors, and Messrs. Stephenson and Bidder the engineers in chief. The works were commenced at Wymondham on May 17th, 1844, and finished on July 1st, 1845. The first through train to London started from Trowse on the morning of July 30th. At that date the swing bridge at Trowse had not been completed. Of the travelling it was said it “cannot be rendered more comfortable than it is upon the Norfolk Railway.”

AUGUST.

12.—The foundation-stone of the Leicester monument was laid in Holkham Park by Lord Coborne, in the presence of a large gathering of the nobility and gentry and of the tenant-farmers of Norfolk.

15.—Died at his residence in Golden Ball Street, Norwich, aged 78, Mr. John Angell, who served the office of Sheriff in 1825 and of Mayor in 1830.

16.*—“Within the last few days no less than 500 coach horses have been sent for sale at Aldridge’s Repository, owing to the further opening of the Northern and Eastern Railway from Bishop’s Stortford by way of Ely and Thetford to Norwich, and the consequent discontinuation of coaches.”

SEPTEMBER.

6.—The Brundall estate, consisting of a mansion and 143 acres of land, the property of the Rev. L. B. Foster, was sold by Mr. Spelman, of Norwich, for £12,500, to Mr. T. G. Tuck.

—The Newmarket mail coach was overturned at Cringleford Gate, and of the six outside passengers, all of whom were more or less cut and bruised, a lady had her arm broken and a gentleman sustained a fractured collar-bone and dislocated arm.

10.—The museum at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital was opened, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop of Norwich.

11.—A cricket match commenced at Swaffham, between the Marylebone Club and the Norfolk Club, and concluded on the 12th. “Fuller Pilch, the hope of Norfolk, was beautifully caught for seven runs. A great damper was thrown on their spirits by this untoward event, and the rest of the side did little to retrieve the misfortune.” Marylebone, 162; Norfolk, 42-83.

16.—Died at Yarmouth, aged 69, Mr. Richard Sutton. “He was very eccentric, and had such a love for mathematics that though extremely poor he had often been known to sell his dinner in order to procure some old book on mathematics.”

16.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced. The principal vocalists were Madame Grisi, Madame Caradori Allan, Miss Dolby, Miss Poole, Sig. Mario, Sig. F. Lablache, Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Machin, Mr. Bradbury, and Herr Standigl. Mr. T. Cooke was leader of the band, Mr. Benedict conductor, and Mr. Turle organist. The programme included selections from the “Stabat Mater,” “The Seasons,” “Il Don Giovanni,” Purcell’s “Jubilate,” Mozart’s “Requiem,” “Calvary,” “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “The Messiah.” On the 19th a ball took place at St. Andrew’s Hall. The gross receipts amounted to £5,432 9s. 6d., and expenses to £4,180 10s. 9d. The Sheriffs of London (Mr. Hunter and Mr. Sidney) attended the Festival, and were, on the 19th, entertained at dinner at the Royal Hotel.

27.*—“The Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Company has reduced the charge for the use of the telegraph and dispatching a messenger to any part of Norwich from 4s. 6d. to 2s. 6d.”

OCTOBER.

7.—A meeting of the Wesleyan Methodists of the Norwich circuit was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, for the purpose of raising a consolidated fund to redeem the chapel debts, amounting to £6,900. It was proposed to create a capital to be raised in 6,900 shares of £1 each, the payments to be made at intervals of three months during the ensuing five years.

13.—Died “that excellent and philanthropic lady,” Mrs. Fry, who for many years “devoted her time and her purse to ameliorate the miseries of the inmates of our various prisons.”

14.—Lord Suffield was installed Grand-Master of Freemasons in the province of Norfolk.

NOVEMBER.

1.*—“Mr. Charles Fisher, who for the last two or three seasons has been a general favourite on the Norwich circuit, has accepted an engagement at the Prince’s Theatre, London.”

—*“The North Walsham Theatre, which eighteen years ago cost Mr. D. Fisher £1,800, has lately been sold for about £400, and is to be converted into a school, to be conducted on the National system.” The school was opened on May 25th, 1846.

4.—A prize-fight took place near Harford Bridges, between Ben Clarke and Smith. After a contest lasting twenty minutes, the former was declared the winner.

6.—Large numbers of birds were attracted by Happisburgh light during stormy weather on this date. Forty-five dozen larks, eight and a half dozen starlings, and many other birds, were taken.

7.—Trowse Swing Bridge, erected from a design by Mr. Bidder, was swung across the river for the first time. It underwent Government inspection on December 9th, and the first trains ran over it on December 15th.

7.—Sir Lawrence Jones, Bart., of Cranmer Hall, was murdered by robbers at Macri, in Turkey. He was in his 29th year. On July 8th, 1846, his remains were interred in the family vault at Sculthorpe.

10.—Mr. John Betts was elected Mayor of Norwich, and Mr. Jeremiah Colman appointed Sheriff.

16.—Died, aged 72, Gregory Robinson, of the Bull’s Head Inn, Ber Street, Norwich. “The deceased in early life entered the Navy, and was with Lord Howe on June 1st, 1794, and in several other engagements. He was one of the crew of the St. George when that vessel was wrecked on the coast of Jutland, on December 24th, 1811.”

DECEMBER.

3.—A public meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, to consider the propriety of memorialising the Government to open the ports of Great Britain and Ireland for the admission of foreign grain free of duty, in consequence of the apprehended scarcity of food. The Mayor presided, and Mr. Tillett moved that a petition be presented to Parliament for the immediate repeal of the Corn Laws. A similar petition was adopted by the Norwich Town Council on the 9th.

12.—In the Arches Court, Sir H. Jenner Fust gave judgment in the suit Kitson v. the Rev. Arthur Loftus, vicar of Fincham St. Martin and rector of Fincham St. Michael. The case came before the Court by letters of request from the Bishop of Norwich, and the articles, in substance, charged Mr. Loftus with gross immorality. Sentence of deprivation was passed.

—A “remarkable and unprecedented” occurrence took place at the meet, on Mulbarton Common, of the Norfolk Subscription Pack of Staghounds. A bailiff, on behalf of the Rev. J. H. Steward, of Carlton House, served notices upon all who were suspected of being about to commit a trespass. “The eccentricity of such a proceeding created much amusement, and the consequence was a change of position was ordered.”

22.—The van of a menagerie travelling through Potter Heigham overturned into a ditch, and the bars of the tiger’s cage giving way, “the animal escaped, after biting off the head of an eagle.” The neighbouring farmers, armed with guns, and the labourers with pitchforks, went in pursuit of the beast. An unsuccessful endeavour was made to entangle him in a sheep-net. “A large hamper containing a piece of flesh was then placed in his way. Upon his jumping in to seize the food the lid was drawn down and soon secured, the animal uttering the most hideous yells.”

24.—A serious accident occurred on the Norfolk Railway near Thetford. The up-train from Norwich was proceeding at a rapid rate when the engine left the line and fell down the embankment. The engine-driver, named Pickering, was killed instantly, and the stoker, Richard Eager, had both legs broken, and died shortly after his removal from the scene of the accident. None of the passengers were seriously hurt. The accident was supposed to be due to the excessive speed at which the train was travelling—fifty-five miles an hour.

26.—Norwich Theatre was opened, under the management of Mr. Abington, M.A., lessee of Southampton Theatre. The circuit also included the Cambridge, Bury St. Edmund’s, Ipswich, Colchester, and Yarmouth Theatres. The old company had been dispersed, and regret was expressed that the new company was not likely to maintain the reputation of the Norwich stage.

31.—The customary peals were rung at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich. “In the centre of the circle stood the celebrated pitcher, capable of holding seventeen quarts, which was moulded by John Dearsley in the year 1749. This the churchwardens (Mr. W. Butcher and Mr. Robert Fitch) liberally filled with punch.”

1846.

JANUARY.

6.—The West Norfolk Agricultural Protective Association held a meeting at the Town Hall, King’s Lynn, under the presidency of Lord Hastings, “to preserve the Corn Laws from further violation.” A similar meeting was held at North Walsham on the 8th. On January 20th a great meeting took place at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, at which addresses were delivered by Mr. Cobden and Col. Thompson in favour of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and a resolution, moved by Mr. Geary, and seconded by Col. Angerstein, “that the Corn Laws and all other laws designed to restrict trade under pretence of protecting particular classes are unjust in principle and injurious in operation, and ought to be forthwith abolished,” was carried by a large majority, in face of an amendment proposed by Mr. Wodehouse, M.P., and supported by Lord Hastings, Mr. Hamond of Westacre, and other prominent Protectionists. “Reporters from all the London daily papers attended the meeting, and the proprietors engaged special trains to carry back the report of the proceedings. The first special left Norwich Station at 8.45 p.m., and reached Shoreditch at 12.40 a.m.; the second left at 10.29 p.m. and reached London at 2.38 a.m. At half-past two p.m. on Wednesday (the 21st) we received the ‘Times’ containing the speeches to the extent of rather more than four columns.”

7.—Died at Malta, aged 77, the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere, of Roydon Hall, eldest son of Mr. John Frere, formerly member for Norwich. Mr. Hookham Frere was educated at Eton, where he had Canning as a school companion. When very young he evinced a love for verse, and made, when only an Eton school boy, his clever translation of the Anglo-Saxon War Song on the victory of Athelstan, written when the Rowley controversy was at its height. George Ellis gave it a place in his historical essay before his “Specimens of the Poets,” and Scott invariably spoke of it as something more than a mere curiosity. Another of Mr. Frere’s works was a “prospectus and specimen” of his “Intended National Work by William and Robert Whistlecraft of Stowmarket in Suffolk, Hemp and Collar Makers, intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table”—the precursor and original of Byron’s “Beppo” and “Don Juan.” “I have written,” says Byron, “a poem of 84 octave stanzas, in or after the excellent manner of Mr. Whistlecraft, whom I take to be Mr. Frere.”

17.*—“All the coaches between Norwich and London have ceased to run, the last being the mail through Bury St. Edmund’s, which was discontinued on the 6th inst. Six or seven coaches direct to London from Norfolk have been discontinued, and about 700 horses thrown off the road. There are, however, about 30 coaches constantly running from various towns to the principal stations between Yarmouth and London. There are many omnibuses, cabs, and flys. The railway has very much increased the number of horse conveyances to and from all the towns along the line. In fact, horses are dearer than ever they were and more in demand, and the consumption of oats is not likely to be diminished, but rather increased.” The adverse effects of the railway were shown in the following paragraph, published on April 25th: “During the droving season last year 9,300 beasts were housed at the Bird-in-Hand public-house, Tasburgh, and the landlord purchased for their consumption, and for horses, &c., 50 tons of hay; but so great is the diminution of the traffic occasioned by the Norfolk Railway, that during the present season only twelve beasts have been taken in, and the landlord has had occasion for only eight and a half hundredweight of hay.”

21.—The Norwich School of Design was opened by Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart.

31.*—“By order of the Mayor and magistrates of Norwich, the shop-keepers have had notice that no goods are to be exposed or sold after ten o’clock on Sunday morning, and bakers are not to sell or bake goods after half-past one o’clock in the afternoon.” Several tradesmen were afterwards charged before the magistrates for contravention of the order.

FEBRUARY.

2.—A large sea-borne vessel, heavily laden with coal, and between 60 and 70 tons burden, was brought up to the head of the navigation at Norwich, the first vessel of the kind that had ever got beyond Foundry Bridge. It was a Dutch-built craft, drawing only two feet of water, and was the property of Messrs. Bullard and Watts, St. Michael-at-Coslany Bridge.

6.—Mr. D. N. Fisher gave the first of three subscription concerts at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich. The artistes included Mdlle. Schloss, Madame and Signor F. Lablache, Mr. W. L. Phillips (principal violoncello), Mr. D. N. Fisher (leader), Mr. William Sterndale Bennett (director), and Mr. James Harcourt (director of rehearsals). “The musical world of Norwich owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Fisher for introducing to them Mr. William Sterndale Bennett. As a pianist, Mr. Bennett, without the extravagance and with less fire and brilliance than Liszt, has all the expression and musical enthusiasm of that performer.”

MARCH.

27.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Maule, Samuel Yarham was indicted for the murder of Harriet Candler, at Yarmouth, on November 18th, 1844. The prisoner, who at the Spring Assizes in 1845 turned Queen’s evidence against three other men (Hall, Mapes, and Royal) charged with the murder, had made certain admissions which led to his apprehension at Gloucester, where he had gone to work. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to death. The execution took place on the Castle Hill, Norwich, on April 11th (Tombland Fair-day), in the presence of 30,000 spectators. “Eight hundred persons came from Wymondham in one train; it was found necessary to use bullock-trucks to convey the people, there not being a sufficient number of regular carriages.” The fancy fair (the Sick Poor Repository) and all business in the city was suspended during the morning. “After the execution, gongs, drums, and other instruments commenced their uproar, mountebanks and clowns their antics, the vendors of wares and exhibitors of prodigies their cries, while the whirligigs and ups-and-downs were soon in full swing. The public-houses round the Hill were crowded, and hundreds finished the day in riot and intoxication. Royal and Hall were on the Hill during the execution, and got jostled by the crowd. They were turned out of the Golden Ball public-house and other houses where they presented themselves.” Owing to the scandalous character of the proceedings, a public meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall on April 17th, under the presidency of the Mayor, when it was decided to petition Parliament for the abolition of capital punishment.

APRIL.

1.—The first general meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society was held at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop of Norwich.

8.—Died at his residence at Lakenham, aged 81, Mr. Thomas Thurtell, formerly an Alderman of Norwich, who served the office of Sheriff in 1815, and of Mayor in 1828. “He was universally esteemed as an honest and upright man.” (See April 30th.)

11.—George Clarke, a Norwich pedestrian, commenced a walk of 1,500 miles in 1,000 successive hours, “a mile and a half at the beginning of each hour,” at the West End Retreat Gardens, Norwich. (The result was not recorded.)

16.—The Rev. R. F. Elwin, of Norwich, was presented with a silver coffee service, in recognition of “his promotion of the objects of the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival from its institution, in 1824.”

18.—The 7th Hussars left Norwich for Ipswich, where they joined headquarters and marched for Hounslow. They were succeeded by the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), with headquarters and staff. “This regiment received its nom de guerre from being the first corps which carried the modern carbine.”

20.—The Norwich Board of Health was established as a permanent institution at a meeting held at the Guildhall. Among its objects was the encouragement of vaccination amongst the poor. The Bishop of Norwich was elected president, and the Mayor vice-president.

21.—Many hundreds of persons attended a steeplechase meeting at East Dereham. “The course from the Common was marked out by flags describing a circle round the country, over Mr. Greenacre’s piece, across Mr. Neale’s land, and round to the Common again, making a distance of three and a half miles in two rounds.”

—The first stone of the Cromer sea-wall was laid by the vicar, the Rev. W. Sharp, in the presence of the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and Lord Porchester. The contractors were Messrs. Wright and Cattermole, of Norwich, and the engineer Mr. J. Wright, of Westminster. On the same day the first pile of the new jetty was driven. The works were opened amid much festivity on August 7th.

23.—The North Cove Hall estates were sold at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by Mr. Simpson, for £36,960.

29.—At a meeting of “The Friends of Permanent and Universal Peace,” held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. J. J. Gurney, it was resolved: “That in consideration of the points now at issue between this country and the United States of America, involving, as they do, the question of war or peace, an address be presented to the magistrates and to the ministers of the several denominations of the city of Norwich in Connecticut, and generally to the people of the United States, asking them to use their endeavours to avert war.”

30.—At the Norwich Police Court, Mr. George Thurtell, horticulturist, was charged with assaulting a Mr. Riches, of St. George Colegate. Mr. Riches was the Norwich correspondent of the “Daily News,” and he had sent to that journal a notice of Mr. Thomas Thurtell’s death “and a private communication respecting one of Mr. Thurtell’s sons.” Mr. George Thurtell was greatly incensed on seeing the paragraph, more particularly as his father was not dead at the time, although he had been ill for some weeks, and meeting the complainant in the Market Place, he severely chastised him with a whip. The Bench, who considered the paragraph highly improper, imposed upon the defendant the nominal fine of one shilling. (See January 5th, 1848.)

MAY.

8.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry commenced eight days’ permanent duty at Cromer.

9.*—“During the last week as many as 18 seaborne vessels, via Lowestoft, many of them of considerable burden, have been lying at Foundry Bridge, Norwich, laden with coke, coals, and other materials, for delivery at the railway station. This proves how excellent and how practical was the plan of our late fellow-citizen, Mr. Crisp Brown, and must cause universal regret that it then failed.”

18.—An inquest was opened at Happisburgh by Mr. Pilgrim, one of the County Coroners, upon the bodies of Jonathan Balls, his wife, and four grandchildren, who were believed to have been poisoned. The bodies had been exhumed, and were placed in a tent erected in the churchyard; peace officers were sworn to prevent the incensed villagers from rushing into the tent. Several other bodies were disinterred, and in nearly every instance traces of arsenic were found. At the adjourned inquiry some curious facts were elicited. Suspicion pointed to Balls as having destroyed his wife and grandchildren, and then poisoned himself. His conduct years previously had been suspicious, children having died suddenly while at his house. What number of persons had been thus destroyed it was impossible to ascertain. The jury found that, in the majority of the cases, death resulted from the effects of poison, but how it was administered there was no evidence to show.

26.—The bells of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, were rung on the reception of the news of the birth, on the previous day, of a Princess (Princess Helena Augusta Victoria).

31.—Died at Kimberley Hall, in his 76th year, the Right Hon. John Baron Wodehouse. He was born January 11th, 1771, and married November 18th, 1796, Charlotte Laura, only child and heiress of Mr. John Norris, of Witton Park. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father in 1834. He was made Lord Lieutenant of the county and Vice-Admiral of the coast in the room of Lord Suffield in 1821, and he had also served as Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia, and was Steward of Norwich Cathedral. His lordship was succeeded in his title and estates by his grandson, John Gurdon Wodehouse, son of Henry Wodehouse and of Anne, only daughter of Mr. T. T. Gurdon. The deceased nobleman was a staunch Conservative. “He was of commanding appearance, both in personal figure and dignity of deportment. During the contest for the representation of Norfolk in 1806 it was remarked with perfect truth that three finer men or more perfect gentlemen than Mr. Windham, Mr. Coke, and Col. Wodehouse never presented themselves together as candidates for the electoral suffrages of a great county.”

JUNE.

5.—A fire occurred at St. James’s Factory, Norwich. Upwards of one thousand persons were, in consequence, thrown out of employment.

25.—The first meeting of a new archery society, known as the West Norfolk Bowmen, of which Sir William B. ffolkes was “Prime Warden,” and Lady ffolkes “Lady Patroness,” was held at Reffley Wood, near King’s Lynn.

27.—The first excursion train from London arrived at Norwich. It conveyed 800 passengers, who left Shoreditch at one p.m., and reached Norwich at eight p.m. The first excursion train from Yarmouth to London was run on June 29th. “There were 1,500 persons when it left Trowse Station at a quarter to nine, in 37 carriages. The passengers had increased to 2,000, and the carriages to 52, before it reached London, at 5.15 p.m.” The return fare was 7s. 6d. On June 30th 6,000 passengers were conveyed by two special cheap trains to Yarmouth and back. Hundreds of Nonconformist Sunday School children were taken at threepence a head, and the return fare for ordinary passengers was one shilling. Ten thousand persons assembled at Thorpe Station to witness the return of the excursionists.

JULY.

3.—A cricket match was played on the Norwich Ground, between eleven resident members of the Norwich Club and the Messrs. Colman (eleven brothers). In the first innings the club headed their opponents by five runs only, and in the second innings had 50 runs to get. At eight o’clock, when the wickets were drawn, they had obtained 22 runs for four wickets. Scores: The Messrs. Colman, 87-54; the Club, 92-22. Game unfinished. The following were the Colmans:—Samuel, Joseph, William, Barnard, Thomas, Jeremiah, Henry, Edward, James, Robert, and John.

4.—The great heat on this day so affected the iron Swing Bridge at Trowse as to prevent its being opened for the accommodation of the river traffic. At the magisterial proceedings which followed, it was urged in defence that the heat caused the ironwork to expand.

9.—The first direct communication from Norwich to London was made through the medium of the electric telegraph.

—An experimental trip from London to Rotterdam was made by the railway company, via Norwich and Yarmouth. The railway journey was performed in 3 hrs. 35 mins. 15 secs., and was more successful than the trip by the steamer known as the Norfolk. On the return voyage the crew were under the influence of drink, bad weather was experienced, and the vessel got out of her course. The boiler of the engine of the return train to London burst when a mile and a half from Ely, and the excursionists alighted from the carriages and walked to that city. The Norfolk afterwards plied regularly between Yarmouth and Rotterdam.

12.—Died, Charlotte Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Lewis Tonna and only daughter of the Rev. Michael Browne, Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral. She edited “The Christian Ladies’ Magazine,” and was the author of “Letters from Ireland,” and of many religious works.

20.—Norwich Theatre was opened, under the management of Mr. Davenport, who had become lessee of the circuit, in place of Mr. Abington. He announced that “he would be able to avail himself of the occasional services of his daughter, the eminent actress.” The company included Mr. L. Melville, Mr. Henry Loraine, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Cranfield, and Mr. J. Clarence. It was said to be better than Mr. Abington’s company, but inferior to that of Mr. George Smith.

27.—A match between the Norfolk Cricket Club and Marylebone commenced at Lord’s, and finished on the 28th. Marylebone, 117-122; Norfolk, 119-32. The return match was played at Swaffham on August 10th, 11th, and 12th. Marylebone, 52-149; Norfolk, 86-82.

28.—Died, aged 49, Mr. John Hill, nearly 20 years chorus-master of the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival.

—Died at Bath, aged 58, Lieut.-Col. Richard Brunton, youngest son of Mr. John Brunton, manager of Norwich Theatre, and brother of the Dowager Countess Craven. He entered the Army young, and went through the Peninsula War. He was several times wounded, and had his lip shot away. “He was in the same battle in which several Norwich men were wounded in the leg, one of whom was Mr. R. Blake. He was also wounded at Waterloo, in defending the baggage from an attack by the enemy. He joined his regiment (the 13th Light Dragoons) in India in 1819, and brought it home, having the command of it, about five or six years since. Whilst lying in Norwich with the regiment, in 1841 and 1842, he was universally beloved by both officers and men.” Col. Brunton married the widow of Col. Wallace, but left no family.

AUGUST.

1.—The first consignment of foreign beasts were sold on Norwich Hill by Mr. Stephen Fromow. Dutch bullocks made £13 10s. each, and Dutch lambs from 9s. to 20s. each. “No doubt a regular trade will be ultimately established here in foreign stock, but whether to the advantage of any party except the foreign importer time must show.”

4.—Lord George Bentinck, M.P., was entertained at dinner at Lynn by “the friends of agricultural protection, as a testimony of their esteem for the public integrity and perseverance displayed by him in the House of Commons during the recent discussion on the Corn Law Importation Bill.” The Earl of Orford, High Steward of Lynn, presided, and one of the principal speakers was Mr. Disraeli, M.P., who had a most enthusiastic reception.

19.—The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held its anniversary meeting at Norwich. Mr. J. G. Crosse was President for the year.

—Died at Ormesby, Capt. Richard Glasspoole. He was President of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum in 1844–45, and a large contributor to the zoological department of that institution.

26.—Died at Norwich Castle, in his 90th year, Mr. William Cole, formerly an attorney at Loddon. “He was committed to prison for debt in January, 1830, and remained there till the time of his death, never having been out of the walls of the prison 16 years and 8 months.”

SEPTEMBER.

2.—Burgh Castle, the ancient Garianonum, was offered for sale by auction at the Bear Hotel, Yarmouth, by Mr. Pettingill, and was purchased for £1,500 by Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., President of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society.

OCTOBER.

17.—A meeting of tenant-farmers was held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, presided over by Mr. Leamon, of Whitwell. After addresses by a deputation from the “Total Repeal Malt Tax Association,” a committee was appointed to form a district branch of the society in Norfolk.

26.—The railways from Lynn to Downham and from Lynn to Narborough were opened on this date.

NOVEMBER.

9.—Mr. Jeremiah Colman was elected Mayor, and Mr. Charles Winter appointed Sheriff of Norwich.

13.—The London markets were, for the first time, “expressed by electric telegraph” in the NORFOLK CHRONICLE. Discussing the possibilities of “this wonderful medium of communication,” that journal observed: “A division in the House of Commons after any important debate may be communicated at all stations from London to Yarmouth in a few minutes.”

16.—The first recorded canary show in Norwich was held on this date, at the Greyhound Inn, Ber Street, when 300 specimens belonging to a canary club were exhibited.

24.—A trout, weighing 9½ lbs., was captured in a net near the New Mills, Norwich.

27.—The Norwich Corporation delegated their powers to the Watch Committee “to appoint a fire brigade of six men, whose business it will be to attend all fires in Norwich with the Corporation engine, which is to be managed by the brigade exclusively. The men in the daytime are to act as common policemen, and to sleep near the station house, where the engine is kept, each night, that they may be ready in case of alarm.”

DECEMBER.

5.*—“The directors of the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Railway, with the view of giving the poorer classes greater facilities, have started a fourth class. The return fare to London is 7s. 6d.”

7.—The Wymondham and Dereham Railway was opened for goods traffic. The Bill for the construction of this railway, which was applied for by the Norfolk Company, was strenuously opposed by Norwich traders, who considered that a direct line to Dereham would be to their greater advantage. The Act authorised the Company to make an extension of 22½ miles from Dereham to Wells, with a branch line of 6½ miles to Blakeney, making the total from Wymondham 40½ miles. Messrs. Grissel and Peto were the general contractors, and the electric telegraph was established under the superintendence of the Rev. A. Bath Power. (See February 15th, 1847.)

18.—Winter set in with great severity. The Dereham, Swaffham, and Lynn coach was unable to leave Norwich, owing to the great depth of the snow.

20.—A fine specimen of the black grouse was shot at Swanton.

—A riot occurred at Pulham St. Mary Workhouse. The paupers made a preconcerted attack upon the bread store, and were with difficulty driven back by the officials. Thirteen of the ringleaders were committed to Norwich Castle for terms ranging from seven days to two months’ imprisonment. (See January 5th, 1847.)

26.—Norwich Theatre opened for the Christmas season with the play of “George Barnwell” and the pantomime “Fortunio.” Mr. Davenport, “in compliance with public feeling,” reduced the prices of admission, which had been raised on his taking over the management.

—Many of the roads in the country were stated to be “half a yard deep in mud,” and almost impassable. “Heavy goods in large quantities have lately been sent from Norwich to London and from thence to Ipswich by rail, 196 miles, instead of the direct route of 40 miles by road, the rail conveyance being cheaper and quicker. It would be a great advantage in this and other counties if a general Act were passed for widening and levelling the turnpike roads and for laying down tramways on which carriages could be drawn by horses or by engines of small power to the principal railway. Unless some measure of this sort be carried out, the common roads will soon be of little use, and not worth keeping in repair.”

1847.

JANUARY.

1.—A new form of entertainment was introduced at this date—“Ethiopian minstrelsy,” the precursor of the Christy minstrels. The troupe appeared at Norwich Theatre. “The band consists of five harmonists, with black faces and white eyes, black coats and white cuffs, black trousers and white waistcoats, black stocks and white collars. The instruments are a violin, two ‘banjoes’ (instruments that look like guitars run to seed), a tambourine, and ‘bones’ (a species of castanet).”

4.—Died at Earlham, in his 59th year, Mr. Joseph John Gurney. He was a son of John Gurney, of Earlham, and a grandson of John Gurney who died in 1770, and had been “the connecting link by which the hand-spun yarn of the South of Ireland was brought to add its stores to the wants of our artizans.” Mr. J. J. Gurney received his early education under the Rev. M. Browne, of Hingham; he then went to the Academical Institution at Oxford. He was a great traveller. Several times he visited the West Indies, travelled twice on the Continent, made a tour in Scotland, in company with Mr. Hoare, for the purpose of inspecting the prisons, and, accompanied by Mrs. Fry, he visited Ireland in the spring of 1827, in order to personally investigate the condition of the prisons and the charitable institutions of that country. On July 8th, 1837, he embarked at Liverpool for Philadelphia on a Gospel mission to parts of North America and the West Indies. Of this tour he gave an interesting account in “Familiar Letters to Amelia Opie”; his “Winter in the West Indies” is described in “Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky.” He was three times married; his first wife was a daughter of Mr. J. Birkbeck, of Lynn, his second a Wiltshire lady, and his third an American lady. Mr. Gurney was the author of several works in addition to those above-mentioned, and was one of the greatest philanthropists of his day. Memorial services were held at many places of worship in Norwich on the Sunday following his death, and on the day of the funeral (January 12th) business in the city was suspended. The interment took place at the Gildencroft, when the rites peculiar to the Society of Friends were performed.

5.—Serious acts of insubordination were committed by the inmates of Swainsthorpe Workhouse, “on the ground that they wanted more victuals.” Damage was done to the windows to the amount of £30.

14.—The use of anæsthetics—“ethereal fumes “—was introduced at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital by Dr. Hull, in the extraction of teeth. (See December 30th, 1847.)

23.—At a meeting held at the Swan Inn, Norwich, the East Norfolk and West Norfolk Agricultural Societies were amalgamated under the title of the Norfolk Agricultural Society. The first general meeting of the newly-formed society was held on the same day, when Lord Hastings was elected President. The first show took place on the Cricket Ground, Norwich, on June 18th, and for several years the exhibitions were held alternately in the city and at Swaffham.

27.—Died, aged 67, Mr. George Fisher, formerly of the Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians.

31.—Died, in his 93rd year, the Rev. John Oldershaw, Archdeacon of Norfolk. He was born at Leicester, where his father practised as a surgeon, and was educated at Oakham Grammar School and at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1776, and obtained the distinguished honour of senior wrangler of his year. About this time he became private tutor to Charles Manners Sutton, who was afterwards Bishop of Norwich and Archbishop of Canterbury. He was elected a Fellow and public tutor of his College; when Sutton became Bishop of Norwich he appointed him his examining chaplain. Mr. Oldershaw married Anne, daughter of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart., of Maddingley, Cambridgeshire, and took up his residence at Harpley, as curate. He was presented in 1797 to the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and was soon after nominated to the rectory of Redenhall-with-Harleston. Archdeacon Oldershaw was for many years one of the most active magistrates in the county.

FEBRUARY.

5.—At a meeting held at the Guildhall, Norwich, presided over by the Mayor, it was decided to open a public subscription for the relief of the distress among the Irish peasantry, consequent upon the failure of the potato crop. For the same object collections were made in the places of worship in city and county.

6.—The warehouse in Rose Lane, Norwich, belonging to Mr. Kitten was burnt down, and its contents, consisting of barrels of grease, resin, and other inflammable materials, destroyed. Another serious fire occurred on the same premises on May 20th.

15.—The opening of the Wymondham and Dereham Railway for passenger traffic was celebrated with great festivities. Mr. Gidney, of Dereham, one of the principal promoters of the line, entertained a large company at luncheon at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, and in the evening a dinner took place at the King’s Arms Hotel, Dereham, in which town the day was observed as a general holiday. “Along the road from the station,” it was stated, “many new and handsome-looking houses have been built, far superior to any modern houses in Norwich.”

17.—Died at his residence in the Cathedral Precincts, Norwich, the Rev. Canon Edward South Thurlow, rector of Houghton le Spring, Durham. He was appointed Prebendary of Norwich in 1788.

25.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Jeremiah Colman) turned the first sod on the Norwich extension of the Ipswich and Bury Railway. The ceremony took place on Mr. Cyrus Gillett’s farm in the parish of Markshall. Several gentlemen filled barrows with earth, which other gentlemen, including the Sheriff (Mr. Charles Winter) wheeled away—a proceeding which elicited from Mr. Willett the remark that “if they went on at that rate they would leave little work for the navvies to do.” The company then assembled for luncheon, under the presidency of Mr. A. Ogilvie, and many congratulatory speeches were made. (See November 7th, 1849.)

28.—The shop of Mr. Cooper, silversmith and jeweller, London Street, Norwich, was broken into and goods of the total value of £2,000 stolen.

MARCH.

4.—Died at his residence, in St. Giles’, Norwich, Dr. Edward Lubbock, aged 43. He was the younger son of Dr. Richard Lubbock, and was educated at the Free Grammar School, under Valpy. He commenced his medical studies under Dr. Skrimshire at Peterborough, became a student at Guy’s Hospital, and afterwards proceeded to Edinburgh University, where he took his degree as M.D. His devotion to the study of anatomy and physiology led him, conjointly with Mr. Nichols, to establish in Norwich, about 1830, a school for dissection. He was one of the physicians of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and of the Bethel.

10.—A public meeting, presided over by the Mayor, was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, “to oppose the oppressive operation of the present Law of Settlement upon the industrious poor.” Petitions were presented to Parliament praying for the abolition of the system, and demanding that the poor should be relieved out of a national fund.

15.—Died, in his 92nd year, the Rev. Stephen Allen, for 56 years minister of St Margaret’s, Lynn. “In early life Mr. Allen was a pupil of Archdeacon Paley, and by his mother’s marriage with the celebrated Dr. Burney he enjoyed frequent opportunities of mixing in that brilliant circle of which Madame D’Arblay was at once the life and the ornament.”

24.—A public fast and humiliation were observed in Norwich.

30.—An inquest was held at Tibenham, by Mr. Pilgrim, one of the County Coroners, on the bodies of Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Everett, the wives of farmers living in that parish. Several deaths had occurred under mysterious circumstances, and in these two cases post-mortem examinations revealed the fact that death was due to arsenical poisoning. The inquiry was several times adjourned, and on May 13th the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the women died from poison wilfully administered by some person or persons unknown.

APRIL.

3.—The new road from the bottom of Long John’s Hill to Lakenham Mills, with the bridges and viaduct beyond the mills, was completed by the contractors, Messrs. Watson, Wright, and Cattermoul, from plans prepared by Mr. J. Brown.

17.—A brig of 150 tons, named the Countess of Leicester, and intended for the southern trade, was launched from Mr. Tyrell’s shipyard, at Wells-next-the-Sea. She was classed A 1 for twelve years, and was the finest ship ever launched at Wells.

22.—The new County Court, for the recovery of small debts, was held for the first time, at the Guildhall, Norwich, before Mr. T. J. Birch, the Judge. In consequence of the jurisdiction of this Court, the old Court of Conscience was abolished.

30.—St. Mark’s Schools, Lakenham, erected from designs by Mr. J. Brown, were opened.

MAY.

1.—The remains of the Hon. Isabella Stafford Jerningham, who died at Genoa on January 1st, were interred in the family vault beneath the altar in the chapel at Costessey Hall. At the same time was interred the body of the Hon. Frances Stafford Jerningham, who died at Paris in May, 1838. It was placed by the side of the remains of her twin sister, the Hon. Georgiana Stafford Jerningham, who died at Leamington in 1841.

3.—Mr. Davenport, lessee of the Norwich Theatre, was fined by the magistrates in a nominal sum for assaulting a man who was selling tickets outside the Theatre under the regular prices of admission. The sale took place upon what was known as a “ticket night.” Mr. Davenport alleged that by this system, which was allowed in no other town, the former manager, Mr. Smith, had lost in twenty years £6,000 from the treasury of the circuit.

15.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry commenced its annual training at Wells-next-the-Sea. The drills took place in Holkham Park, where the regiment was hospitably entertained by the Earl of Leicester.

JUNE.

11.—The Norwich Small Tenements Bill was referred to a Committee of the House of Commons. On the 12th the Committee settled the clauses determining that the owners of cottages of the annual value of £6 and under should be rated at one-third of the yearly value or rent.

28.—Mr. Henry Russell, “from America,” gave his entertainment at the Concert Room, Swan Inn, Norwich. The programme included most of the favourite songs of the popular composer. The performance was repeated on the 29th. Mr. Russell made a return visit to Norwich, and appeared at the Theatre on September 6th and 8th.

JULY.

1.—The railway from Reedham to Lowestoft was opened.

3.—The Norwich Chamber of Commerce was announced to be “in full activity.” It was formed for the purpose of associating bankers, merchants, and other persons interested in the trade and commerce of the city, “so as to enable them to promote such objects as may be best calculated to benefit and protect commercial interests, and to further the carrying out or attainment of such measures as the exertions of individuals may be less adequate to accomplish.”

5.—Feargus O’Connor, the leader of the Chartists, addressed a large meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich.

19.—Mr. and Mrs. Keeley commenced a week’s engagement at Norwich Theatre.

26.—Madame Céleste appeared at Norwich Theatre as Madeline (“St. Mary’s Eve”) and Julien (“The Cabin Boy”).

28.—The Marquis of Douro, Mr. Samuel Morton Peto, and Mr. John Humphries Parry were nominated candidates for the representation of Norwich. A poll was demanded, and the election took place on the 29th. The poll was declared on the 30th, as follows:—Peto, 2,448; Douro, 1,727; Parry, 1,572. The chairing of the successful candidates took place on August 2nd.

—Thetford Election: The Right Hon. W. B. Baring and the Earl of Euston were returned unopposed.

29.—Yarmouth Election: Lord Arthur Lennox, 834; Mr. Octavius Edward Coope, 813; Mr. Charles Edmund Rumbold, 729; Mr. Francis Henry Goldsmid, 698. The two first-named were returned. (See February 7th, 1848.)

—The Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland commenced its annual meeting at Norwich. The proceedings concluded on August 5th.

30.—Lynn Election: Lord George Bentinck and Lord Jocelyn were returned unopposed.

AUGUST.

3.—East Norfolk Election: Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes were returned unopposed.

6.—Mary Ann Havers, of Norwich, a girl in humble life, who possessed remarkable musical ability, died on this date. She was educated at a school supported by private subscription, where singing according to the Norwich Sol-fa system was taught, and she became one of the best organizers of village choirs ever sent out of the city. Before she was fifteen years old she went to Southampton to give instruction; thence she was invited to Salisbury, and met with successive engagements in Dorsetshire, the Isle of Wight, Staffordshire, Kent, and Warwickshire.

9.—The “London Gazette” announced that the Queen had granted to Robert Blake, of Swafield, her Royal license and authority, in compliance with a wish expressed in the will of the Rev. John Humfrey, of Wroxham, to take the surname of Humfrey immediately after that of Blake, and to quarter the arms of Humfrey with those of Blake.

10.—The railway extension from Narborough to Swaffham was opened.

10.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of West Norfolk took place at Swaffham. The Conservative procession started from Friars’ Thorns, headed by the candidates, Mr. William Bagge and Mr. H. L. S. le Strange. It extended two miles in length, and included 1,000 yeomen on horseback. The Whig procession, with the candidates, Mr. A. Hamond and the Hon. Ed. Keppel Coke at its head, started from Swaffham Splashes, and was in all respects as imposing as the other. At the nomination the show of hands was in favour of the Conservatives, and Sir William ffolkes demanded a poll for Messrs. Hamond and Coke. The polling took place on the 13th and 14th. The contest, one of the severest that had ever taken place in the county, resulted as follows:—Bagge, 3,113; Coke, 3,052; Hamond, 2,935; le Strange, 2,676.

17.—Mr. J. B. Wigham and Mr. J. L. Barber, members of the Norwich Amateur Rowing Club, launched their pair-oared boat at Villequier, on the Seine, at 2.30 p.m., and rowed to Paris, where they arrived at 9 a.m. on August 24th. The distance was upwards of 300 miles, and the actual time occupied in rowing was 57 hours 25 minutes. For more than 200 miles the men rowed against a current which flowed at four miles an hour. “Galignani’s Messenger” described it as an “unparalleled feat.”

28.—The New Adelphi Theatre, Victoria Gardens, Norwich, was opened, after extensive alterations and improvements, under the management of Mr. R. Gordon. “As You Like It” was produced, with Mr. Fred. Phillips in the part of Jacques. Mr. Phillips, who came from the Royal Pavilion Theatre, London, was subsequently editor of the “Norwich Argus.”

30.—Mr. Farren and his son, Mr. H. Farren, appeared, the former as Sir Anthony Absolute, and the latter as Captain Absolute, at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.

SEPTEMBER.

11*.—“At Deopham, near Hingham, a skeleton has been found, underneath the floor of an old barn, which was being pulled down, and it is supposed to be the remains of Thomas Jolly, aged 20, the heir of the estate, who was missing 52 years since, and is supposed to have been murdered. A piece of his dress and a small portion of his handkerchief were also found.”

22.—Mdlle. Jenny Lind, engaged by Mr. George Smith, late manager of the Theatre, and Mr. C. F. Hall, made her first appearance at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. Mr. Gedge was responsible for the payment of her fee of £1,000, of which amount she gave £200 to the charities of the city. Mdlle. Lind was accompanied by Madame F. Lablache, Signor Gardoni, and Signor F. Lablache, and Mr. W. Balfe was director of the concert. She appeared again on the 23rd and 25th. Mdlle. Lind stayed at the Palace as the guest of the Bishop of Norwich.

30.—Died at Bath, aged 65, Mr. Benjamin Plim Bellamy, for many years lessee of the Assembly Rooms there. Mr. Bellamy, some 30 years previous to his death, was a favourite actor on the Norwich circuit. On vacating the stage in 1819 he took the editorship of the “Bury Herald,” but in 1823 went to Bath and resumed his original profession. He became manager of the Theatre there in 1827, which he soon after resigned on becoming lessee of the Assembly Rooms, and Master of the Ceremonies.

OCTOBER.

12.—Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham, lectured at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, on “The Characteristics of the Age.”

16.—The Catfield estates, formerly the property of Col. Cubitt, deceased, were sold by auction at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by Messrs. Spelman and Sons, for £27,930.

—A report was presented to the Governors of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, upon the result of inquiries made into certain serious allegations by the Messrs. Dalrymple, who had asserted that, compared with other hospitals of the same size, the utility of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital was in an inverse ratio to its cost of maintenance. The meeting was adjourned for a week, but discussion upon the statement and report was avoided, on the understanding “that such regulations would be framed from the two documents as would improve the management of that noble institution.”

20.—Elihu Burritt, “the learned blacksmith,” of Massachusetts, U.S., delivered a lecture at St. Mary’s chapel, Norwich, on “The Organic Sinfulness of all War.”

23.—A high tide overflowed the salt marshes at Wells-next-the-Sea and drowned 240 ewes, the property of Mr. Hudson, of Warham.

25.—The East Anglian Railway, from Lynn to Ely, was opened.

NOVEMBER.

9.—Mr. G. L. Coleman was elected Mayor, and Mr. James Watson appointed Sheriff of Norwich.

23.—The Queen’s Speech was, for the first time, transmitted to Norwich by electric telegraph. “Through the politeness of the Rev. A. B. Power, the superintendent of the electric telegraph along the Norfolk line, the Queen’s Speech was transmitted to us before 4 h. p.m. The transmission commenced at 2 h. 15 m. p.m., and our reporter took it down till the transmission was finished at 3 h. 45 m.”

DECEMBER.

3.—Rajah Brooke of Sarawak was entertained by his old schoolfellows of the Free Grammar School, at a dinner held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich. During his stay in Norfolk he visited the Earl of Leicester at Holkham, the Earl of Albemarle at Quidenham, and Mr. H. S. Partridge at Hockham.

7.—Died in London, aged 76, Mr. William Dalrymple, “one of the most eminent of general practitioners in chirurgery and medicine in Norwich.”

24.—Died at Yarmouth, in his 81st year, Sir George Parker, K.C.B., Admiral of the Red. He entered the Navy at a very early age, and served under his uncle, Sir Peter Parker. He took part in the capture of the Cannanon on the Malabar coast, and was senior lieutenant of the Phœnix at the capture of La Resolve, French frigate, and of the Crescent in her gallant action and capture of the Rennon in 1793, previous to which he brought to England the despatches of Admiral Cornwallis. In 1805, when commanding the Stately, he, in company with the Nassau, destroyed, after a running fight of two hours, a line of battle ship of 74 guns. He was appointed, in 1808, to the command of the squadron in the Baltic, and on his return to England he was appointed to the Aboukir (74), which he commanded in the Walcheren Expedition. In 1841 he attained the rank of Admiral of the Red.

29.—Died at the residence of his son (the Rev. W. R. Crotch), at Taunton, “that eminent musician,” Dr. Crotch. He was born in Norwich in 1772, and in his twenty-second year was appointed professor of music in the University of Oxford. In 1822 he became principal of the Royal Academy of Music.

30.—Chloroform was, for the first time, used in a surgical operation at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. “A young woman had her leg amputated after having inhaled the fumes from a convenient apparatus. She became perfectly insensible to pain, and continued so throughout the operation. Her sensations were apparently of a very happy description, as she partly amused herself by singing psalms in a very clear and distinct voice, and partly by holding lively conversations with imaginary persons during the performance of this painful operation. The state of unconsciousness appeared to be more rapidly induced by the use of chloroform than is usually effected by spirits of ether. Its exhalation also was more easy and agreeable, and the duration of its influence longer.”

1848.

JANUARY.

1.—Methwold church was re-opened after restoration. “The centre of the nave has been given to the poor, and the outside aisles appropriated to the rich.”

3.—Mr. Aldridge, “the African Roscius,” appeared at Norwich Theatre in the character of Othello, and afterwards as Zanga (“The Revenge”), Fabian (“The Black Doctor”), and Bertram. He was a native of Africa, and was described as a very intelligent actor.

5.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, at Norwich, George Thurtell (47), horticulturist, “who appeared like a dying man,” pleaded guilty to stealing various articles from the house of Mr. Farrer, of Sporle, where he had been entertained as a guest while engaged as a landscape gardener in laying out the grounds. The prisoner, who was a son of Mr. Alderman Thurtell, of Norwich, and brother of the notorious John Thurtell, the murderer of Mr. Wear, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. He died before the completion of his sentence (July 26th).

13.—The elephant belonging to Wombwell’s Menagerie died whilst being exhibited at Norwich. The animal was said to be 85 years old.

19.—Mrs. Butler, “once so celebrated as Fanny Kemble,” commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, in the character of Mrs. Beverley. She appeared also as Julia (“The Hunchback”) and Pauline.

28.—The Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners determined to oppose at every stage the Norwich and Yarmouth Navigation Bill, by which it was sought to obtain powers for improving the navigation of the river Yare by straightening, widening, and deepening the channel, so as to admit of the passage of seaborne ships from Yarmouth to Norwich. Application was made in the Court of Chancery for an injunction to restrain the Corporation of Norwich from raising funds by means of the borough rate to forward the Bill, which went before a Committee of the House of Commons on May 2nd. Counsel for the promoters intimated on May 5th that they did not intend to offer further evidence in its support, whereupon the Bill was withdrawn.

FEBRUARY.

4.—The driver of the Brandon, Fakenham, and Wells coach, benumbed with cold, fell from the box seat unknown to the passengers, and was severely injured. The accident occurred at Toftrees. “The horses proceeded at their usual pace, turning all corners, crossing Hempton Common, up the narrow street into Fakenham, and passing several carts and other vehicles on the way. They pulled up at the Crown Inn, as usual, and waited for the porters and ostlers. The coach stops on alternate nights at the Crown and Lion Inns, and this was the proper night for it to stop at the Crown.”

7.—The Yarmouth election petition against the return of Lord Arthur Lennox and Mr. Octavius E. Coope, on the ground of corrupt practices, came before the Committee of the House of Commons. On the 14th the Committee found that “gross, systematic, and extensive bribery prevailed amongst the freemen at the last and previous elections, and considered it their duty to express to the House their unanimous opinion that the freemen should be disfranchised, and that no writ should be issued for the borough until legislative measures had been taken for the purpose of such disfranchisement.” The members were unseated. The Disfranchisement Bill received the Royal assent on June 30th, and the names of 1,106 voters were struck off the list, leaving the constituency at 876. On the same day the writ was issued for the election. Mr. C. E. Rumbold, Mr. Joseph Sandars, and Mr. Bagshaw were nominated candidates on July 7th; a poll was demanded, and the result was declared on the 8th, as follows:—Sandars, 416; Rumbold, 386; Bagshaw, 300.

27.—Died at Hill’s Farm, Attleborough, Mr. Theophilus Smith, aged 68. “He was a man of considerable talent and mechanical skill. In 1841 he had, through the kindness of the Earl of Albemarle, an introduction to Prince Albert at Windsor Castle, when a variety of ingenious models invented by Mr. Smith for improving the construction of the plough were submitted to and obtained the approbation of his Royal Highness, and a patent was subsequently taken out for what has become well known to agriculturists as ‘Smith’s Patent Albert Plough.’ Mr. Smith presented two poems to Prince Albert, addressed, ‘To the Queen’ and ‘To the Prince of Wales,’ and shortly after a beautiful family Bible, elegantly bound and emblazoned with the Royal Arms, was transmitted from Windsor Castle to Mr. Smith, with an inscription intimating that it was presented ‘by command of her Majesty.’ The Royal autograph and that of Prince Albert were, at Mr. Smith’s request, inserted.”

MARCH.

4.*—“Freehold building land is now freely selling on what is called Diss Common, for building purposes, at the rate of £700 per acre, which before the railway was barely worth the tillage.”

13.—The 16th Lancers arrived at Norwich, from Brighton. Men and horses came by special trains, and were under the command of Lieut.-Col. Smyth, C.B. The regiment had just returned from India, “where it had shared in the glorious battles of Aliwal and Sobraon.”

18.—Intelligence was received at Norwich that the Queen had given birth to a Princess (Princess Louise Caroline Alberta). The Corporation sent a congratulatory address.

22.—Died at Thetford, aged 107, Mrs. Catherine Brand. “She was a pious Roman Catholic, and her first marriage was on the day of the Coronation of George III., to Mr. Main, by whose name, in her second widowhood, she preferred to be called.”

23.—Died at his residence in Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. Edward Temple Booth, aged 84. In 1820 he was appointed Sheriff, in 1821 Alderman, and in 1826 Mayor. He was president of the Norwich Union Fire and Life Insurance Societies.

30.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Baron Pollock and a special jury was tried the action Jermy v. Rush. The plaintiff, who was Recorder of Norwich, sought to recover damages from the defendant for a breach of covenants in respect of the lease of a farm at Ketteringham. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff on all issues—damages £420.

APRIL.

11.—Madame Anna Thillon made her appearance at Norwich Theatre as La Catarina in Auber’s opera, “Crown Diamonds.” She also took the part of Roxalana (“The Sultana”).

13.—Died at Cromer Hall, aged 73, Mr. Henry Baring.

14.—Mr. Sims Reeves made his first appearance in Norwich at a concert given by Jullien at St. Andrew’s Hall, under the management of Mr. William Howlett.

MAY.

10.—Mr. G. V. Brooke, after an absence of several years, appeared at Norwich Theatre for one night, in the character of Othello.

15.—Mr. Webster, of the Haymarket Theatre, commenced a three nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre as Stanislaus (“The Roused Lion”) and Michael Bradshaw (“Old Honesty”).

22.—Mr. Henry Russell, the favourite vocalist, gave his entertainment at Norwich Theatre.

23.—The enforcement of the regulation of the Poor Law Commissioners for the separation of married men from their wives in workhouses, gave rise to a serious disturbance among the inmates of Norwich Workhouse. The rioting was resumed on June 16th. A policeman named William Callow, while engaged in removing the refractory paupers from the Workhouse to the Police-station, was struck by a stone and received fatal injuries. A verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown was returned by the Coroner’s jury.

27.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry assembled at Fakenham for their annual training—the last in the history of the regiment. (See May 19th, 1849.)

28.—Died at Castleacre, Ann Stanford, widow, in her 104th year.

30.—A military race-meeting was held by the 16th Lancers, on land near the Heart’s Ease Inn, Plumstead Road, Norwich. The “Citizens’ Races” took place over the same course on the 31st.

JUNE.

26.—A masquerade and fancy dress ball took place at Norwich Theatre. The pit was converted into a ball-room. “The attendance was moderate and not very select.”

—The foundation-stone of the Jewish synagogue in St. Faith’s Lane, Norwich, was laid by Mr. Joel Fox. The building was consecrated by the Rev. Dr. N. M. Adler, Chief Rabbi, on Sept. 6th, 1849.

JULY.

13.—The Rev. C. Turner was elected perpetual curate of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich.

28.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Baron Parke, a libel action, Quarles v. Bacon and another, was tried. The plaintiff, a solicitor at Fakenham, claimed damages against the defendants, proprietors of the “Norwich Mercury,” for stating in that journal he was guilty of such conduct as to warrant his being struck off the rolls. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 40s.

AUGUST.

4.—A sculling match for £50 a side took place between Mr. J. L. Barber, of Norwich, and Mr. Knight, of Wymondham. The distance was fifty-five miles, namely, from Thorpe Gardens to Reedham, thence through the New Cut and Lake Lothing to Mutford Bridge, and back to the starting-point. Mr. Knight started at 6.56 a.m., and Mr. Barber at 7.1 a.m. On the return journey Mr. Barber’s boat was upset during a severe thunderstorm and squall. Resuming, he rowed to Cantley, where he was taken from his boat almost insensible and conveyed to the inn. Mr. Knight reached Thorpe Gardens at 3.39 p.m., having rowed the distance in 8 hrs. 43 mins.—1 hr. 34 mins. less than it had ever been covered before.

9.—Died at his house at Langham, Capt. Marryat, C.B. He was well-known as the author of several works of fiction, founded principally on the naval service. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of the county of Norfolk, and was in his 56th year.

11.—A singular accident occurred at Mattishall. A boy named Thomas Ireson, ten years of age, tied himself to the tail of a cow, and the infuriated animal kicked him to death.

24.—St. Nicholas’ church, Great Yarmouth, was re-opened after restoration. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Oxford. Luncheon was served at the Town Hall, and was attended by the Bishops of Norwich and Oxford, Mr. Baron Alderson, M. Guizot, a former Prime Minister of France, and by many other distinguished guests.

SEPTEMBER.

6.—The Royal Victoria and Albert steam yacht, with the Queen and Prince Consort on board, passed off Cromer at 6.30 a.m., on her voyage to Aberdeen. The coastguard discharged rockets and fired from the mortars a salute of seven rounds.

—Died, aged 73, Mr. John Palmer, of St. Mary’s, Thetford. “He had been twenty years afflicted with rheumatic gout, and for the past sixteen years had never left his bed but once, on which occasion he was carried to the poll at the borough election in the summer of 1842, in the contest between the Earl of Euston and Sir James Flower, when his vote on the Conservative side carried the election.”

7.—A two-days’ cricket match, between the Marylebone Club and Ground and the County of Norfolk (with Wisden) commenced at Swaffham. The principal scores for the former were made by the Hon. E. Grimstone and the Hon. F. Ponsonby, and for the latter by Mr. Charles Wright, the Rev. F. French, and Wisden. Marylebone, 84-76; Norfolk, 106-56.

11.—The East Anglian Railway from Lynn and Swaffham was opened for passenger traffic to Dereham.

—Miss Helen Faucit commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. She was supported by Mr. W. Shelley, from the Park Theatre, New York, and by Mr. H. Farren.

—H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, who visited Norwich for the purpose of attending the Triennial Musical Festival, arrived at Trowse Station, where he was received by the Mayor (Mr. G. L. Coleman) and the Sheriff (Mr. J. Watson), who were attended by the principal officers of the Corporation, mounted. “The four whifflers, in proper dress, created much merriment by brandishing their weapons to keep a passage, but they had not the agile grace of the old retainers of our ancient Corporation, and the procession, though the best we have seen in Norwich since the Municipal Reform Act passed, fell short of that imposing dignity which graced our ancient displays of civic pomp.” His Royal Highness, who was the guest of the Bishop of Norwich, left the city on the 15th.

12.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. Andrew’s Hall, with a grand evening concert, at which selections from “Il Matrimonio Segreto” and from “Le Nozzi di Figaro” were given. The following were the principal items in the week’s programme:—Sept. 13th, “The Christian’s Prayer” and selections from “The Creation”; evening, “The First Walpurgis Night” and selections from “La Clemenza di Tito”; Sept. 14th, “Elijah”; evening, selection from “Fidelio,” &c.; Sept. 15th, “Davidde Penitente” and “Israel in Egypt.” In the evening a dress ball was given, at which Jullien’s band performed. The principal vocalists at the Festival were Madame Viardot Garcia, Madame Castellan, Mdlle. Alboni, Miss Anne Williams, Miss Martha Williams, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Lockey, Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. H. Whitmore, and Signor Lablache. Mr. H. Blagrove was leader of the band, Mr. Benedict conductor, and Mr. Harcourt organist. The gross receipts were £5,266 4s. 2d.; the gross expenses £4,598 10s. 7d., and the net surplus £667 13s. 9d.

21.—Lord George Bentinck, M.P., was discovered dead on a footpath at Thoresby, about six miles from his seat at Welbeck. The Coroner’s jury found that death was due to heart disease. The deceased nobleman was first elected for King’s Lynn in 1828, in succession to his uncle, Lord William Bentinck. He had previously acted as private secretary to Mr. Canning, a near relative by marriage. His lordship was the recognised leader of the Protectionist party, and as a firm supporter of the Turf did much to reform the abuses which existed upon it in his time. The vacancy created by his death in the representation of Lynn was filled by the election of the Hon. E. H. Stanley, who was returned without opposition on December 22nd.

23.—Under the provisions of the new Tavern Act, the public-houses in Norwich were closed at 12 p.m. “The streets in the lower parts of the city and all round the Market Place were crowded with persons returning home with pots of malt liquor.” On the 25th informations were preferred against many publicans for failing to close their houses at the prescribed time.

28.—Died at Pulham, aged 43, Mr. R. B. Harvey, a well-known flock-master, who did much to improve the breed of sheep in Norfolk. He was a frequent exhibitor at the shows of the Royal Agricultural Society and of the local agricultural associations.

OCTOBER.

17.—The first conviction under the new Act for preventing the extension of diseases in sheep was recorded at Norwich, when Mr. Betts, cattle dealer, of Old Buckenham, was fined for exposing on the Castle Meadow sheep that were suffering from sheep-pox or variola ovina.

23.—The Adelphi Theatre, Norwich, was opened under the management of Mr. George Smith, formerly lessee of the Theatre Royal. The company included Mr. and Mrs. Sidney (Miss J. Trafford).

31.—St. Matthew’s church, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, at which building operations commenced in the second week in August, was “founded” by the chairman and members of the committee.

NOVEMBER.

9.—Mr. Samuel Bignold was elected Mayor, and Mr. Robert Chamberlin appointed Sheriff of Norwich.

13.—A salmon weighing 9 lbs. was captured in the river near Trowse Bridge, Norwich.

21.—Died at Richmond, Mr. William James Achilles Abington, M.A., barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple, aged 41, the only surviving son of Mr. William Abington, of the East India House. The deceased gentleman was in 1845 lessee of Norwich Theatre.

28.—Madame Dulcken, pianist to the Queen, gave a grand concert at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich.

—Mr. Isaac Jermy, Recorder of Norwich, and Mr. Jermy Jermy, his son, were murdered at Stanfield Hall, Wymondham, by James Blomfield Rush. Mrs. Jermy Jermy and her maid, Elizabeth Chastney, alarmed by the report of the firearm, proceeded to the assistance of the victims, and were severely wounded, the former in the arm and the latter in the hip, by another shot fired by the murderer. Rush was apprehended the same night at his house, Potash Farm, by Police-constable Mortar, of the Norwich city police, and conveyed to Wymondham Bridewell. The first examination of the prisoner took place on the 29th, before the Hon. and Rev. R. Wilson, Mr. Cann, and Mr. Parker. He was afterwards taken to Stanfield Hall, where Mrs. Jermy Jermy identified him as her assailant. Rush was further examined at Wymondham Bridewell on the 30th. At the adjourned hearing on December 2nd, Emily Sandford, his housekeeper, gave evidence, and the prisoner was committed to Norwich Castle, where the third hearing was conducted in private on December 5th. The final examinations took place at the Castle on the 13th and 14th; on the latter date the depositions were publicly read, and the prisoner was formally committed to take his trial on the charge of wilful murder. On the 19th he was taken, under writ of habeas corpus, to Stanfield Hall, where Chastney gave evidence in his presence. The inquest on Mr. Jermy and Mr. Jermy Jermy was opened by Mr. Press at the King’s Head Inn, Wymondham, on November 30th, and adjourned sittings were held on December 1st, 2nd, and 5th. On the last-named day the Coroner issued a warrant for the detention of Emily Sandford in Wymondham Bridewell. The final sitting of the Coroner’s Court was held on December 19th, when the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Rush. The funeral of Mr. Jermy and his son took place at Wymondham church, on December 5th. (See March 29th, 1849.)

DECEMBER.

22.—Mr. Prendergast, of the Norfolk Circuit, qualified as Recorder of Norwich, in the room of Mr. Isaac Jenny, deceased.

26.—Pablo Fanque’s Circus opened for the Christmas holidays at the Victoria Gardens, Norwich. (On September 15th, 1849, this circus proprietor was referred to as “our fellow-citizen, Mr. Darby, alias Pablo Fanque.”)

—Norwich Theatre was opened for the season, under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon. The pieces produced were “Virginius,” and the pantomime “The Naughty Boys, Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robinson, or Harlequin and the Great Sea Serpent.”

30.—St. Mary’s church, Norwich, was described as being in a most disgraceful and dilapidated condition. “It was re-pewed in 1827 by the Rev. Mr. Wodehouse, and was then one of the neatest parish churches in Norwich.”

1849.

JANUARY.

22.—Mdlle. Jenny Lind, assisted by Miss Dolby, Signor Belletti, and Signor Marras, gave an evening concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in aid of the charities of the city. On the 23rd she sang at a morning concert in furtherance of the same object. The total receipts amounted to £1,859 11s., and £1,250 remained after the payment of expenses. The services of the famous singer were rendered quite gratuitously. The Mayor (Mr. Bignold) and members of the Corporation waited upon her at the Palace, where she was staying as the guest of Bishop Stanley, and presented to her an address expressive of the thanks of the citizens.

FEBRUARY.

2.—Mr. Michael Beverley, of Forncett St. Mary, a popular sportsman in South Norfolk, was killed whilst hunting with Mr. Fellowes’ hounds at Moulton. He was in his 60th year.

4.—Many hundred persons assembled at Bacton Wood Mill, North Walsham, to witness the baptism by immersion in the mill stream of several men and women “who had embraced the faith of Mormonites, or Latter-day Saints.”

13.—A public meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Mayor, at which resolutions were adopted in favour of a national rate, and condemnatory of the laws of settlement and removal, “which drove the poor to reside in large towns and unjustly limited their field of labour.” Another resolution condemned the gross inequality in the assessments of the various parishes in England and Wales to the relief of the poor. A petition was ordered to be presented to Parliament in accordance with the terms of the resolutions.

17.—A severe outbreak of cholera was recorded at Rudham, where twenty-four deaths had occurred up to this date. “Extreme poverty and dirt had much to do with this awful visitation.”

27.—The agitation for the repeal of the Malt Tax was re-opened at a meeting of the farmers of West Norfolk, held at the Market Hall, Lynn. It was decided to petition Parliament in favour of the repeal. Many meetings were held with the same object in other parts of the county.

28.—Died at Leyton, aged 54, Mr. Charles Fox, engraver. He was a son of Robert Fox, a steward on the Costessey estate, received lessons in drawing from Charles Hodgson, at Norwich, and was apprenticed to Mr. Edwards, engraver, of Bungay. “His exquisite line engravings are well known by those who value the highest specimens of skill in that department and by the lovers of fine English prints.”

MARCH.

13.—Elihu Burritt addressed a public meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in favour of the settlement of national disputes by arbitration instead of by force of arms.

20.—The railway from Dereham to Fakenham was opened for passenger and goods traffic.

25.—Died at the Grove, Holt, in his 64th year, Major T. A. Girling, formerly of the 5th Fusiliers, with whom he served in the Peninsula War. He was for some years adjutant of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry.

29.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, the trial commenced of James Blomfield Rush for the Stanfield Hall murders. Mr. Serjeant Byles, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr. Evans were counsel for the prosecution, and the prisoner conducted his own defence. The case was opened at nine a.m., and the Court adjourned at seven p.m. On the 30th Emily Sandford gave evidence, and was in the witness-box nine and a half hours. Her examination in chief lasted two hours, and the prisoner subjected her to seven and a half hours’ cross-examination, mostly on irrelevant matters. On the 31st the Court sat from nine a.m. to 7.30 p.m.; and the case for the Crown was completed on Monday, April 2nd. The prisoner commenced his address to the jury shortly after nine o’clock on the morning of the 3rd, and had not concluded when the Court rose at ten minutes to eight o’clock. “It was full of repetitions, and everything material might have been said in a tithe of the time.” The address was resumed at nine a.m. on April 4th, and concluded at twelve o’clock, the prisoner in the two days having spoken nearly fourteen hours. Mr. Serjeant Byles then replied for the Crown. The Judge summed up, the jury, after a few minutes’ consultation, returned a verdict of guilty, and sentence of death was passed. Throughout the trial the Court was densely crowded. The jury were conveyed each night to the Maid’s Head Hotel, where the assembly-room was specially fitted up for their accommodation as a sleeping apartment; and on Sunday, April 1st, they attended morning and afternoon service at the Cathedral, under the escort of the county officials. (See April 21st.)

APRIL.

2.—The garrison steeplechases of the 16th Lancers took place at Stanninghall, near Spixworth.

21.—The execution of James Blomfield Rush, for the Stanfield Hall murders, took place on the Castle Hill, Norwich, in the presence of an enormous gathering of spectators. Thousands of persons entered the city by road—“one woman who had been confined only three weeks travelled from the country on foot fourteen miles during the previous night, in order to be present”—and many thousands more were brought in by the trains. Cheap return tickets were issued from London to Norwich, and the persons who availed themselves of the facilities were principally members of the “swell mob.” At Attleborough station the London detectives who travelled by the train transferred the gang to an up-train; several who evaded the police were apprehended immediately on their arrival at Norwich and conveyed to the Police Station, where they remained in custody until after the execution. The culprit was hanged at noon, by Calcraft. “The greatest silence prevailed, the solemn stillness being only broken by the solitary shriek of a woman who had fainted in the crowd.”

MAY.

19.—Major Loftus, commanding Prince Albert’s Own Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, announced to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, that the Earl of Leicester, as Lord Lieutenant, had advised the authorities that, in consequence of local circumstances, it was expedient to disband the regiment. Major Loftus complained that the Lord Lieutenant would assign “no cause for this unceremonious dismissal.” He added: “My duty is now to give you my last word of command, which is to obey the orders of her Majesty’s Secretary of State and to desire that you deliver up all your arms, clothing, and accoutrements to the respective captains of troops, who are hereby directed to forward the arms and sword belts to Cornet William Freeman, at my store-room at Billingford. And I have to request that your clothing, saddlery, &c., be conveyed to Holkham Hall, when his lordship will have the opportunity of disposing of them as he and Sir George Grey may think proper, for I shall give myself no further trouble in the matter after the ungracious manner in which I have been treated.”

20.—A telegram was received at Norwich, announcing that the Queen had been fired at on the previous (Saturday) evening, by an Irishman named John Hamilton. The National Anthem was played at the Cathedral and at most of the parish churches.

24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated with much rejoicing in Norwich. The Sheriff gave a dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall to the inmates of the Workhouse and Infirmary. The 16th Lancers paraded in the Market Place, and the Corps of Pensioners, under Capt. Cockburn, fired a feu de joie. The Mayor entertained a large party at luncheon at the Guildhall, and in the evening gave a dinner at the Assembly Rooms.

26.—Died at Montreal, Sir Benjamin D’Urban, Commander of her Majesty’s forces in British North America. He saw much active service during the Peninsula War, and in 1829 became Colonel of the 51st Foot. He was a native of Norfolk, and related to the D’Urban Blythes of Massingham.

26.*—“One day last week a fine sturgeon, weighing 3 st. 11 lbs., and measuring 5 ft. 9 in. in length, was caught in the river at Northwold, twenty-eight miles from the sea.”

JUNE.

5.—The Rev. R. S. Bayley, of Sheffield, the originator and promoter, gave the first of a series of addresses on the aims and work of a new institution in Norwich known as the People’s College. Commodious premises were taken in St. George Colegate, where students were instructed under competent masters.

11.—Mountjoy the pedestrian commenced the task of walking from Norwich to Yarmouth and back twice daily for six successive days, and completed it on the 16th.

20.—Mr. G. L. Coleman, of Norwich, was presented with a valuable piece of plate, in recognition of his efficient discharge of the duties of the Mayoralty in 1847–8. The presentation was made at a dinner given at the Norfolk Hotel, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Bignold).

—The demolition of the old Guildhall (or Church Hall) at Yarmouth commenced. The building had been used as a National School.

JULY.

18.—The annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England was opened at Norwich. The show ground, which comprised about fifteen acres, was on the old Heath, near Ipswich Road; the trials of implements took place on Mr. Parker’s land at Bixley. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge attended the show, and during his one night’s stay in the city was the guest of the Mayor. The society’s dinner, attended by 900 noblemen and gentlemen, was held at St Andrew’s Hall on the 19th, under the presidency of the Earl of Chichester. The show, which lasted two days, was visited by 22,000 persons.

20.—“A gentleman well known as Champion of the Yare” undertook to row 100 miles in twenty-four hours. He started at 12.35 a.m., and rowed to Beccles Bridge, a distance of 40 miles, and returned to Carrow Bridge; he then pulled down the river to Rockland Dyke, and back, a distance of 20 miles, finishing at 8.28 p.m., and completing the whole distance in 19 hrs. 53 mins. He rowed the last 20 miles under three hours.

23.—Mr. Martin William ffolkes, eldest son of Sir William ffolkes, Bart., of Hillington Hall, whilst fishing at Castle Rising, was killed by lightning. “His hands were not closed, and part of a cigar he had been smoking was in his mouth.”

24.—A lecture was given at St. Andrew’s Hall, by Professor Isham Baggs, of the Polytechnic Institution, London, on “The Economy and Philosophy of the Electric Light, and its present and prospective bearing on the vested interests of Gas Companies.” The electric light was shown by the aid of a powerful voltaic battery. It was described as “a light of dazzling lustre and surpassing brilliancy, on which no eye can steadily gaze. The figures on the various paintings in the Hall appeared to start from the canvas, and every living face displayed an almost supernatural brilliancy and expression. The gas seemed extinguished amid the new blaze of light.”

27.—Lieut. Gale, R.N., “of Cremorne celebrity,” made a balloon ascent from the Cellar Gardens, Pockthorpe, Norwich, accompanied by Mr. A. W. Pashley, of Harleston, and Mr. Nevey. “There was a second car or fake bottom attached by a rope to the balloon, and when at the altitude of about a mile this was lowered thirty or forty feet. A rope ladder was fixed to it from a trap door in the car, and by that the gallant aeronaut descended into the lower car, from which he discharged shells and other pyrotechnics.” The descent was made in a field near Coldham Hall.

AUGUST.

23.—A grand cricket match, between an eleven of All England and twenty of Norfolk commenced on the Norwich Ground. All England, 63-63; Norfolk, 118-11.

25.*—“Several of those new coins, the florin, have found their way to Norwich. It is a handsome piece of money, but we dislike the un-English name. We also protest against the omission of the words of the old legend intimating that our beloved Queen reigns by ‘the Grace of God,’ and that she is the defender of the faith.”

—Particulars were given on this date of the marriage of the notorious Lola Montez, “the ex-Countess of Lansfeldt,” with Mr. George Trafford Heald, a lieutenant in the Life Guards, and an owner of considerable landed property at Freebridge Marshland and Walpole St. Peter.

28.—The Rev. John Woolley, D.C.L., was elected head master of Norwich Free Grammar School, and on the same day the Rev. Henry Banfather, B.D., the former master, was, on his retirement, presented with a valuable piece of silver plate, subscribed for by the boys and his personal friends.

SEPTEMBER.

4.—A curious incident occurred at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, at a lecture given by a Mrs. Hamilton, on “A phrenological analysis of the heads and speeches of three of the speakers at the soirée given on the 16th ult. to celebrate the opening of the People’s College.” The persons referred to were Mr. J. H. Tillett, Mr. Wheeler, and Mr. J. W. Dowson. The lecturer, amid much disturbance, stated that Mr. Tillett had “a large love of approbation, too little veneration, and a large portion of self-esteem”; Mr. Wheeler had “little veneration or philo-progenitiveness”; and Mr. Dowson’s head “showed beautiful Christian development.” Mr. Tillett rose from his seat and described the lecture as “a mass of rhodomontade, as an imposition, as non-conclusive, and as most of it foreign to the subject. He denounced this lecturing on heads, and asked what would be thought if he brought down a phrenologist to lecture on the heads of his opponents?”

4.—A balloon ascent was made from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, by Mr. Green, accompanied by Mr. Rush, of Elsenham Hall, Essex, “who was desirous of trying some experiments with a new instrument called an aneroid barometer invented by himself, and the first ever made on the new principle.” The balloon descended in a field at West Newton.

6.—The death of the Right Rev. Dr. Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, occurred at Brahan Castle, near Dingwall, Ross-shire. The body was conveyed from Invergordon by sea by the steamer Duke of Sutherland, and landed at Yarmouth on the 19th. It arrived at Norwich on the same day, and was deposited in the Palace Chapel, where it lay in state on the 20th, and was interred in the centre of the Cathedral nave on the 21st. “Anthony Sparrow (50th Bishop), ob. 1685, was the last prelate buried in the Cathedral.” Bishop Stanley was the second son of Sir J. T. Stanley, of Alderley, Cheshire, and was born January 1st, 1779. He was elected to the vacant see of Norwich on the death of Bishop Bathurst in 1837. “His lordship was a Liberal in politics, but more of the Whig than the Radical, and although too conciliatory to Dissenters, he, of late years in particular, showed himself devoutedly attached to the Church.” He was Clerk of the Closet to the Queen, President of the Linnean Society, and one of the Commissioners appointed in 1848 to enquire into the state of the British Museum.

8.—A meeting of medical practitioners was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, to consider the best means of preventing the spread of cholera. Rooms were hired in different parts of the city for dispensing medicines, and special forms of prayer were used in all the churches and chapels. November 15th, the day appointed for thanksgiving “for deliverance from the scourge which has lately visited this land,” was observed in Norwich by the entire suspension of business. All classes of citizens attended the services held at the Cathedral and the parish churches.

OCTOBER.

2.—Victoria Gardens, Norwich, for so many generations the popular resort of the citizens, were dismantled on this date, when Mr. William Wilde, auctioneer, sold “the ranges of drinking boxes, seats and tables, the scenery, fittings, and machinery in the theatre, the fittings, benches, &c., in the circus and saloon, the materials of the firework house, the porter bar, cake-room, &c.” The sale was held by order of the directors of the Eastern Union Railway Company, who had acquired the property as the site for their Norwich terminus.

3.—Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., Sir Joshua Walmisley, M.P., Mr. George Thompson, M.P., Mr. J. H. Parry, Mr. Feargus O’Connor, M.P., and other members of the National Reform Association, addressed a large meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the auspices of the local branch of the association. Mr. J. H. Tillett presided.

22.—Madame Sontag, Signor Calzobari, Signor Bolletti, Signor F. Lablache, and M. Thalberg appeared at a grand concert given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. A second performance took place on the 23rd.

—A public meeting was held at the Independent chapel, Diss, for the purpose of hearing statements from Mr. James Everett respecting the expulsion of himself and Messrs. Dunn and Griffith from the Wesleyan Conference. On the 24th a similar meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, when resolutions were passed condemnatory of the action of the Conference and expressive of sympathy with the expelled ministers. The agitation was continued until June 22nd, 1850, on the 19th of which month another meeting took place at St. Andrew’s Hall, at which the Wesleyan Reformers uttered “violent tirades against the Conference, the Missionary Committee, and other ruling bodies of Wesleyanism.” In December, 1850, a series of disturbances occurred at Lenwade, where the services of the chapel were stopped and the preacher, the Rev. C. Povah, assaulted with stones and burnt in effigy. Magisterial proceedings at Reepham were followed by an application in the Court of Chancery for an injunction to restrain certain persons from interrupting Mr. Povah and other ministers in the performance of religious worship at the Wesleyan chapel, Cawston. The affidavits read disclosed a number of gross outrages upon the ministers, extending over the period of six months. Issue of the injunction was stayed upon the defendants entering into an undertaking not to disturb or molest the plaintiffs in the exercise of their duties.

26.—Immense quantities of fish were caught off Yarmouth. The herring boats had from 100,000 to 200,000 fish on board. Cartloads of fish were taken to Norwich and sold at the following rates:—Fresh herring, 10 for one penny; boaters, 25 for sixpence; cod, one penny per pound; soles, from three halfpence to twopence per pair.

30.—Died at Quidenham Hall, the Earl of Albemarle. Born on May 14th, 1772, he married, on April 9th, 1792, the Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, four years his junior, who became the mother of sixteen children. Mr. T. W. Coke, though old enough to be Lord Albemarle’s father, became his son-in-law in 1822, when he espoused Lady Anne Keppel. His lordship married secondly, on February 11th, 1822, Charlotte Susannah, daughter of Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.

NOVEMBER.

5.—Downham Market was lighted with gas for the first time. The event was celebrated by a dinner at the Queen’s Head and by other rejoicings.

6.—The Oddfellows of the Norwich District, to the number of 700, dined at St. Andrew’s Hall, under the presidency of Mr. W. M. Kitton.

7.—The Norwich extension railway of the Eastern Union line, completing the communication with London via Ipswich, Colchester, and Chelmsford, was opened on this date. It was part of the plan of the Eastern Union Company, whose Act for making the railway from Ipswich to Colchester was obtained in 1844. The line was commenced in 1845, and opened on June 11th, 1846. In 1845 another Act was passed for making a railway from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund’s, and in 1846 an Act was obtained for making the Ipswich and Norwich extension. In the latter year an Act was also passed for the amalgamation of the Eastern Union and the Ipswich and Bury Railway Companies, and by the two united the Norwich line was constructed. Mr. Locke was the engineer-in-chief, Mr. Bruff the resident engineer, and Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey the contractors. The first train, conveying 550 ladies and gentlemen, the guests of the directors, started from the station (“constructed in part out of the old Pantheon”), and proceeded to Stowmarket, where refreshments were served. Trains from Bury, Colchester, and Ipswich brought 600 more passengers, and the three trains uniting ran to Norwich, where they arrived at 4.30, the band of the 16th Lancers playing the travellers into the city. A dinner took place at St. Andrew’s Hall, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Bignold), and the Sheriff (Mr. Chamberlin) gave a ball in the evening, at the Assembly Rooms. The line was opened for the conveyance of cattle and goods on December 3rd, and of passengers on December 12th.

9.—Mr. Henry Woodcock was elected Mayor, and Mr. James Colman appointed Sheriff of Norwich. Mr. Bignold reminded the Council that when he took the office of Mayor a distinct assurance was given that there was to be a retention of the system of alternate Whig and Tory Mayors and Sheriffs. He would not have accepted office but for that assurance.

DECEMBER.

2.—The consecration of the Rev. Dr. S. Hinds, Bishop-elect of Norwich, took place at Lambeth Palace. His lordship was installed at Norwich Cathedral on January 24th, 1850.

—Intelligence was received of the death of the Queen Dowager. The day of the funeral, December 13th, was observed in Norwich by the partial closing of the shops.

20.—Died at Hampstead, the Ven. Philip Jennings, Archdeacon of Norfolk, aged 66. He was presented to his office in 1847 by Bishop Stanley.

27.—A severe gale from the N.N.W., a heavy fall of snow, and a high tide prevented railway communication with Yarmouth. The line was under water for a considerable distance. The trains on the lines to London were delayed by deep snowdrifts. An omnibus was run between Norwich and Yarmouth for the conveyance of passengers. “The people on the road stared with wonderment on seeing the six-in-hand drawing the ponderous vehicle through the snow.”

1850.

JANUARY.

3.—Mr. Sims Reeves took part in a performance of “the Messiah” at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The other vocalists included Miss Poole, Miss Kenneth, Herr Formes, and Master Mann.

10.—A sculling match from Bramerton to Whitlingham, for £10 a side, between R. Buttle, of Norwich, and Aldred, one of the crew of the “Young Company,” Yarmouth, was won easily by the former.

16.—Aylsham was for the first time lighted with gas, an event celebrated by the ringing of the church bells, by the distribution of beer, and by a dinner and ball at the Black Boys Hotel. A display of fireworks ended the festivities.

18.—Acts of disorder were committed by the female factory hands in Norwich, owing to an alteration being made in the working hours. They broke with snowballs the windows in the house of Mr. Douglas, one of the manufacturers, and waylaid him on St. Martin-at-Palace Plain. To save himself from being stripped naked, he took refuge in a neighbouring office.

20.—Died at Ranworth, the Rev. T. B. Greaves, for forty years vicar of South Lynn, and thirty-six years vicar of Wiggenhall St. Giles. He was the author of a volume of poems entitled, “Greaves’ Wilderness.”

28.—A meeting, convened by the High Sheriff (Col. Mason), on the requisition of 3,000 signatories, was held at Swaffham, “for the purpose of adopting means to secure the return of a Protective policy.” The railway companies ran special trains for the convenience of persons desirous of attending the meeting. The High Sheriff was supported by Lord Orford, Lord Sondes, and the members for the division. A resolution was adopted to the effect that the depression under which the agricultural, commercial, and industrial classes laboured was owing principally to legislative enactments, and nothing but a return to a protective policy could restore the permanent prosperity of agriculture, trade, and commerce. It was decided to present to the Queen and to Parliament a petition embodying these views.

FEBRUARY.

11.—A public meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, to give the citizens the opportunity of expressing their opinion upon the new Water Works Bill. A resolution was adopted in its favour. On the 12th the Town Council agreed to petition the House of Commons in opposition to the Bill, on the ground principally that no provision was made for such a supply of water as the inhabitants required, and that the scale of rates was too high. On the 19th the Corporation authorised the expenditure of £250 “to defray the expense of defending the rights of the present Water Works Company and of opposing the new Water Works Bill in Parliament.” On March 27th Mr. David Stevenson, C.E., Edinburgh, held a public inquiry at the Guildhall respecting the application for the new Bill, and subsequently made a tour of inspection. He stated that Norwich was as badly supplied with water as any place he was ever in. The Bill went before the Committee of the House of Commons on May 2nd, and on the 16th was reported to the House of Lords. It passed its third reading in the House of Commons on June 3rd. The Town Council, on June 12th, appointed a committee to confer with the promoters of the Bill as to certain clauses; and on June 15th it was announced that the promoters had adopted a course that was satisfactory to the representatives of the Council. Opposition was then withdrawn. The first general meeting of the shareholders of the Norwich Water Works Company was held on October 15th, under the presidency of Mr. Bignold, chairman of the company.

MARCH.

13.—Festivities commenced at Shadwell Court, and were continued three days, in celebration of the coming of age of Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, who was presented by the tenantry with a massive silver salver. The band of the 2nd Life Guards was in attendance.

24.—Snow fell to the depth of 12 inches. A drift occurred in the chalk cutting between Narborough and Swaffham, and delayed railway traffic.

26.—Died at Lambeth, aged 66, Mr. William Bath, President of the Money Order Office, St. Martin’s le Grand. He was Mayor of Yarmouth in 1824 and 1826, and was the first Mayor of that borough after the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, when he occupied the civic chair during two successive terms.

APRIL.

5.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Blofield John Rix and Henry Senior were charged with stealing, embezzling, and misappropriating various sums of money, to the amount of £10,589 18s., the property of their employers. Both prisoners were employed at the Diss Bank. The proprietor, Mr. Dyson, was taken seriously ill in the month of December, 1848, and an arrangement was made that Mr. Thomas Lombe Taylor, son of Mr. Meadows Taylor, a former partner with Mr. Dyson, should be taken into partnership, and the partnership commenced in 1849. On January 19th Mr. Dyson died, and Mr. Taylor intended to dispose of the business to the firm of Messrs. Harveys and Hudson. It became necessary to go through the accounts, and then the frauds were discovered. The prisoners were tried on a charge of simple larceny, whereupon they pleaded guilty, and were sentenced, Rix to 18 months’ and Senior to 12 months’ imprisonment.

—The action, Berney v. Delane and Co., was tried at the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock. The question at issue was the right to the use of the stream which worked Taverham Mills. The defendants manufactured the paper for “The Times” newspaper, “and their broadsheets were every day scattered round the terrestrial globe, and were to be found in every corner of the earth.” In order to carry on their business, the defendants had the right to raise the stream behind their mills; they had not only raised it to the height they were entitled to enjoy, but very much higher; so high that they had flooded the lands of Mr. Thomas Trench Berney, and had rendered them useless for sheep grazing. The case was ultimately referred to Mr. Russell Gurney, and a verdict for the plaintiff was taken on account of the damage laid in the declaration, subject to such reference.

17.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Woodcock) having offered to provide an illuminated clock and clock turret at the Guildhall, on condition that the Corporation removed the false ceiling in the Council Chamber and laid open the old roof, it was unanimously resolved to accept the clock. It was made by Messrs. Moore, of Clerkenwell, London, and fixed in a turret designed by Mr. Kerr, in the month of October.

30.—The headquarters of the 16th Lancers marched from Norwich for Hounslow.

MAY.

1.—Sultzer’s public baths were opened in St. Augustine’s, Norwich. In the course of six months they were used by 10,943 persons.

4.—Attention was directed to the system then becoming more prevalent than ever, of driving dogs in trucks or small carts along the public roads. “To say nothing of the cruelty to the dogs, few horses will pass them without risk of accident.”

6.—The season terminated at Norwich Theatre. The house was under the management of Mr. Clarence (afterwards known as Mr. Clarence Holt).

14.—The Norwich Town Council adopted an address of congratulation to the Queen and Prince Albert upon the birth, on May 1st, of a Prince (Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught).

16.—Mr. W. Lee, C.E., one of the Inspectors of the Board of Health, opened, at the Guildhall, Norwich, a public inquiry into the sanitary state of the city. It lasted eight days.

—A sturgeon, measuring 6 ft. 2 in. in length and 3 ft. 6 in. in girth, and weighing 15 st. 3 lbs., was shot in the river Wissey, near Hilgay Bridge. “It is surprising how a fish of this size could get up the river so far, as it had to pass through several sluices.”

17.—Died at Mill Hill, Hendon, aged 57, Sir James Flower, Bart. He was a son of the first baronet, by the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Mr. James Squire, of Portsmouth. In 1816 he married the daughter of Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. He succeeded his father in 1834. In 1838 he filled the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk, and in 1843 was appointed a deputy-lieutenant for Herefordshire. A Conservative in politics, he contested the representation of Thetford with the Earl of Euston, when a “double return” resulted. On petition, Sir James was declared the sitting member. The first baronet was an alderman of the City of London, who filled the office of Lord Mayor in the year of the Jubilee.

19.—Lieut. John Allen, commander of the Prince of Wales Revenue cutter, boarded off Happisburgh a vessel named the Sea Flower, of Hull, and found her laden with 122 bales of contraband tobacco of 50 lbs. each, the duty upon which amounted to £900. The vessel and cargo were confiscated.

24.—The headquarters of the 11th Hussars arrived at Norwich, under command of Col. the Earl of Cardigan. “This regiment has a fine appearance. The uniform is blue jacket, braided, scarlet trousers, and bearskin cap.”

—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated at Norwich by the Pockthorpe “Corporation” parading in the Market Place, “the ‘Mayor’ and ‘Aldermen’ wearing their scarlet gowns and bearing themselves with all the conscious dignity of office.” The Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. James Colman) entertained the inmates of the Workhouse, the Infirmary, and the Boys’ Home to dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall, and the Mayor (Mr. Woodcock) gave a dinner at the Assembly Rooms.

29.—A new organ, the gift of Col. Mason, was opened at Necton church.

JUNE.

5.—An extraordinary will was left by Miss Margaret Creake, of St. Andrew’s, Norwich, whose death occurred on this date. She was the last of three sisters, very eccentric in their manners and parsimonious in their way of living. She directed that her relatives who chose to prove their identity should receive one shilling each; a legacy of £20 was left to one neighbour, and of £10 to another. She directed that £50 be given to each homeless person above 68 years of age in London, Ireland, and Scotland, and that all her real estate be employed in founding a hospital for aged persons, the hospital to be built and the inmates habited according to her directions. The property, valued at £20,000, being insufficient, the wishes of the testatrix could not be carried out. Upwards of 1,000 persons visited the late residence of the deceased, “the filthiness of which was beyond description.” Shortly after the death of Miss Creake, a chemist named Woolner, with whom she had been intimate, committed suicide by poisoning himself. It was then rumoured that the woman had met with her death by foul means. The Coroner (Mr. Wilde) ordered the exhumation of the body from St. Clement’s churchyard. An examination of the remains was made by Mr. T. W. Crosse, who attributed death to natural causes.

9.—Died at Norwich, aged 60, Mr. John Green Crosse, senior surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Mr. Crosse was a native of Suffolk, and received his early professional education under Mr. Bailey, at Stowmarket. After a distinguished career as a medical student in London, he became demonstrator of anatomy in Dublin. He visited Paris, where he made himself sufficiently acquainted with the French schools of medicine to enable him on his return to publish “Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris.” He settled in Norwich in 1815, and in the following year married a daughter of his former master and friend. In 1825 he was elected assistant-surgeon of the Hospital, and on the death of Mr. Bond succeeded to the surgeoncy on August 25th, 1826. There he gained for himself a surgical reputation which was described as “not local, not provincial, not British, not European, but universal.” Mr. Crosse was one of the founders of the Pathological Society; he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of England, a Doctor of Medicine in the Universities of Heidelberg and St. Andrew’s, a member of several scientific bodies, and the author of many valuable professional works and papers. His remains were interred on June 14th, in the burial ground of Norwich Cathedral.

JULY.

9.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the death of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. The bells of the city churches were tolled.

29.—Mrs. Charles Gill (Miss Vining) appeared at Norwich Theatre, after an absence of five years, and was enthusiastically received by a crowded house.

AUGUST.

3.—Comment was made upon the altered circumstances of the Norwich Assize week:—“Alterations in our system of jurisprudence have caused some change in the character of our Assizes, and diminished the number attending them; whilst changes of our social system have led the higher classes to join less in the popular amusements of the people.”

10.—Potash Farm, formerly occupied by James Blomfield Rush, was sold by auction by Mr. Butcher, for £3,100. The purchaser was Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart.

17.*—“Messrs. E. and R. W. Blake, of Norwich, have purchased the Yarn Factory, with its machinery, for £14,000, under direction of the Master in Chancery, under the Winding-Up Act. The stock is valued at £7,219, making, with the purchase, the sum total of £21,219.”

—Died, Hannah Sarah Hancock, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Wigg Hancock, of St. Helen’s parsonage, Norwich. She was born on November 8th, 1781. At eight years of age she compiled a dictionary for children, and throughout her life took great interest in music and painting. She received the silver medal of the Society of Arts in 1805, and in 1807 was granted a second silver medal by the same society for an oil painting after the design by Rubens in the altarpiece at Antwerp.

—Considerable inconvenience was caused at Norwich by a strike of the firemen and engine-drivers on the Eastern Counties Railway.

24.—Died at Birkenhead, Lieut.-Col. Edwin Cruttenden. Of an old Norfolk family, he was born in 1784. He received a commission in the Royal Artillery in 1804, was stationed ten years in the Mauritius, and in 1814 was engaged in the capture of Oswego, North America. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel in 1841.

SEPTEMBER.

20.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, an address was ordered to be presented to the Bishop of Norwich on his appointment to the diocese. The presentation took place at the Palace, on October 4th.

28.—Died at his residence, James Street, Buckingham Gate, London, Mr. Thomas Amyot, F.R.S., F.S.A., in his 76th year. He was the eldest son of Mr. Peter Amyot, of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, and was articled to Messrs. Foster and Unthank, solicitors, of that city. On the accession to power, in 1806, of the Fox and Granville parties, the Right Hon. William Windham, Secretary for the Department of War and the Colonies, appointed Mr. Amyot his private secretary. On the dissolution of that short-lived Administration, he received a lucrative Colonial appointment as Registrar of Slaves in the British West India possessions, a position which he continued to hold until his functions gradually ceased on the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act. Mr. Amyot was interested in literary pursuits and archæological research. He married Jane, only daughter of Mr. Edward Colman, surgeon, of Norwich, by whom he had two sons and six daughters.

OCTOBER.

23.—A fine schooner was launched from Mr. T. Tyrrell’s shipyard at Wells-next-the-Sea.

24.—“The Times” was shamefully hoaxed on this date. A letter had been sent to the editor, with the intimation that a Protectionist meeting was to be held at Lynn, to be addressed by the Hon. E. H. Stanley, M.P., Mr. D’Israeli, and other gentlemen. “The Times” sent its representatives, who found that no such meeting had been announced or even contemplated.

27.—Died at Blickling Hall, the Dowager Lady Suffield. “She was born in the year 1767, her early life being passed during one of the most eventful periods, both socially and politically, which have marked our history.” Her father was John Hobart, second Earl of Buckinghamshire, who had been Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and was afterwards Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1792 she married William Assheton, second Lord Suffield, and in 1744 her youngest sister, Amelia Ann, was married to Lord Castlereagh. “In consequence of this union her connection with the political world was maintained even more intimately than before. Throughout her life she continued to take a lively interest in the politics of the county, and the influence of the united houses of Gunton and Blickling in the days of contested elections was not lightly esteemed by conflicting parties.” In 1821 she became a widow, and thenceforth devoted herself to charitable works. The family estates descended to the Marquis of Lothian, her grand-nephew.

NOVEMBER.

2.—The announcement was made of the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. F. Phillips as members of the Norwich Company, under the management of Mr. Joseph Clarence. Mrs. Phillips, who was professionally known as Miss Ellen Daly, had acquired Metropolitan celebrity, and “was equally at home in serious work, in domestic comedy, and in fashionable life.”

8.—The ceremony of turning the first sod of the great undertaking known as the Norfolk Estuary Works was performed at Lynn by Sir William ffolkes. The Earl of Hardwick, the Earl of Leicester, Mr. R. G. Tounley, M.P., and Miss Wodehouse each deposited a spadeful of earth upon a barrow, which was wheeled away by the Mayor. It was estimated that 150,000 acres of land would be reclaimed from the sea by the completion of the work.

9.—Mr. Henry Woodcock was re-elected Mayor of Norwich. Mr. Edward Blakely was appointed Sheriff.

11.—The Norwich Protestant Association held a meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, and adopted an address to the Queen “on the recent invasion of her Majesty’s prerogative by the Pope.” On December 7th the clergy of the diocese presented to the Bishop an address upon the same subject; and on December 14th the High Sheriff (Mr. E. R. Pratt) presided over a county meeting at the Shirehall, when resolutions condemnatory of the action of the Pope were adopted, and an address voted to the Queen. Many meetings were held in all parts of the county, and for some weeks “Papal aggression” was made a popular cry.

DECEMBER.

21.*—“Baron Rolfe has been raised to the peerage, by the dignity of Baron Cranworth, of Cranworth, in the county of Norfolk.”

26.—Mr. J. Clarence produced a pantomime at Norwich Theatre (title not given). Of the scenery and dresses it was said, “We never saw anything, even in the Metropolis, more superb and more beautiful.”

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END OF VOL. I.

INDEX.

A

Abduction of a child, 210.

Abinger, Baron. See Scarlett, Sir James.

Abington, Mr., actor, 417; manager of Norwich Theatre, 452, 457; death, 473.

Accession of George IV., 179; of William IV., 297; of Victoria, 362.

Accidents: At a launch, 22; to Volunteers, 41, 66; at an Oddfellows’ meeting, 94; with guns, 329, 442; at Taverham Mills, 385; at firework display, 395; to the Countess of Leicester, 405; at Swaffham Brewery, 420; to an acrobat, 420; on the stage, 329, 441; Yarmouth bridge, 446; at King Street Brewery, Norwich, 447; railway, 451; singular, at Mattishall, 471; whilst hunting, 474.

Acle and Yarmouth New Road, 305.

Action against a coach proprietor, 100.

. . ., singular, at Norwich, 218.

Action at Assizes: The King v. Beevor, 3; Stracey v. Davey, 7; Astley v. Harwood, 18; Palmer v. Blomfield, 33; the King v. Larke, Mileham, and others, 74; Leathes v. Baker, 74; Leathes v. Maddison, 75; Baker v. Leathes, 75; Leathes v. Long, 75; Royle v. Parsley, 90; Mann v. Carroll, 114; the King v. Garratt, 125; for coach accident, 191; Crawcour v. Smith, 198; Lock, D.D., v. Bishop of Norwich, 206; Howard v. Howes, 237; Reader v. Bloom, 273; Fellowes v. Steward, 247; Woodewis v. Patteson, 247; Maitland v. Kinnebrook, 279; Howes v. Wood, 307; Hunter v. Platten, 312; Rex v. Brightwell, 356; Palmer v. Alliance Insurance Co., 410; Lynes v. Beck, 422; Rex v. Painter, 426; Cory v. Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Co., 440; Jermy v. Rush, 469; Quarles v. Bacon, 470; Berney v. Delane and Co., 483.

Activity in old age, 138, 140.

Actor on a donkey’s back, 296; turned Dissenting minister, 80, 106, 291.

Actors, accidents to, 329, 441.

. . . , amateur, 167, 266.

. . . learn military drill, 22.

Actors of colour, 284, 467.

. . . stranded on Breydon, 139.

“Adam Slow,” 265.

Additional Force Act, 44.

Addresses to the Queen, 363, 385, 393, 412, 440.

Adelphi Theatre, Norwich, 465, 473.

“Admiral Clark,” of Norwich, 266.

“African Roscius,” 284.

Africans baptised, 106.

Agricultural associations, 92, 261, 386, 331, 354, 414, 461.

. . . defence association, 171.

. . . distress, 191, 192, 196, 204, 217, 246, 263, 346.

. . . horse tax, 134.

. . . implements, 6, 15, 31, 41, 57, 65, 72, 73, 84, 96, 127, 138, 160, 183, 469.

. . . sale, 224.

Aickin, Miss (actress), 39, 46, 80.

Aldermen, alleged illegal election of, 363.

. . . elections of, 201, 269, 274, 290, 317, 341.

Alderson, Edward Hall, receives freedom of Norwich, 285; appointed Judge, 299; attends Norwich Assizes, 395, 400, 440.

Alderson, Robert, his duel with Mr. Grigby, 16; elected Governor of Norwich Court of Guardians, 65; resigns Recordership, 301.

Aldridge, Mr., “the African Roscius,” 467.

Alexandria, surrender of, 8.

Algiers, bombardment of, 140.

Aliens, 24.

Allotments, 203, 353.

Altar-piece at Braconash church, 76; at St. Peter’s, Yarmouth, 328.

Amateur Hamlet on Norwich stage, 167.

Amburgh, Van, 411, 442.

Amelia, Princess, funeral of, 87.

Ammunition for Orange patriots, 111.

Anacreontic Society, 2.

Anæsthetics, use of, 461, 467.

Anatomical studies, 283.

Angel Inn, Norwich, re-named the Royal Hotel, 400.

Angerstein, Mr., 94.

Angling, 92, 162, 214.

Animals’ Friend Society, 403.

Anti-Corn Law League, 427, 434.

Apartment at St. Lawrence’s church, Norwich, 144.

Aquatic funeral, 441.

Archæological discoveries at Castle Rising, 226.

. . . Institute, 464.

. . . Society, Norfolk and Norwich, 454.

Archbishop Manners Sutton, 37.

Archery, 278, 456.

Aran for German levies, 104.

Army of Reserve Act, 20, 30; ballot, 23.

Arson, remarkable trial for, 306.

Art exhibitions, 384, 416.

. . . Union, East of England, 416.

Artillery corps at Norwich, 46.

Artists, 86, 92, 97, 119, 131, 139, 150, 168, 175, 194, 214, 230, 253, 276, 282, 300, 377, 394, 396, 416, 420, 422, 423, 486.

. . . , Norfolk and Norwich Society of, 50, 67, 74, 119, 139, 150, 175, 194, 214, 242, 279, 396.

. . . , Norfolk and Suffolk Society of, 285.

Ass following a corpse, 84.

Assault in Fakenham Market Place, 190.

. . . on a Dissenting preacher at Aylsham, 74.

Assessments, 42, 125, 183, 226, 273, 463, 475.

Assize of bread, 82.

Assize week, decline of the, 486.

Assizes, 3, 7, 12, 18, 33, 37, 47, 58, 60, 74, 75, 81, 89, 90, 92, 108, 114, 124, 125, 126, 134, 136, 145, 151, 155, 156, 174, 175, 180, 191, 198, 206, 209, 211, 214, 237, 247, 261, 262, 267, 271, 272, 279, 288, 291, 295, 302, 303, 304, 307, 312, 320, 322, 338, 340, 343, 348, 356, 359, 364, 372, 376, 378, 384, 395, 400, 401, 406, 410, 416, 422, 426, 436, 439, 440, 444, 445, 454, 469, 470, 475, 483.

Association against felonies, Norwich, 96.

Astrology, 61.

Asylum at Thorpe, 89, 116, 444.

Athenæum, Norwich, 440.

Attornies’ privileges, 98.

Auctioneer, conviction of, 426.

Auctioneer’s evasion of plate licence, 390.

B

Baggage waggons, 120.

Bagshaw’s menagerie, 80.

Baldwin, the weather prophet, 19.

Ball, Edward, dramatist, 181, 192, 218.

Balloon ascents, 124, 128, 248, 257, 306, 343, 388, 389, 402, 411, 478, 479.

. . . , General Money’s adventure in a 129.

Ballot-box abolished by Norwich Corporation, 306.

Band of music at a wedding, 156.

Bank, East of England, 345, 362.

. . . notes stolen, 168.

. . . robbery at Lynn, 428.

. . . suspends payment, 252.

Bankes, Prebendary, 187.

Bankruptcy of Kerrison and Son, 66, 73, 79.

Banners presented to members of Parliament, 324.

Bannister, Mr. (actor), 57, 72.

Baptist chapel, St. Mary’s, Norwich, 389.

Baptisms to avoid registration fees, 358.

Barnum at Norwich, 439.

Barony of Berners, 314, 372.

. . . of Stafford, 235.

Barracks sold at Norwich, 145.

Bartley, Mrs. (actress), 134, 135, 145, 192.

Barton, Mr. (actor), 255.

Bathing machine, 147.

Baths, public, 484.

Bathurst, Benjamin, 40.

Bathurst, Bishop, installation of, 38; death of, 359; monument in Norwich Cathedral, 362, 413; bust of, 366.

Bathurst, Miss, tragic death of, 232.

Bats found in vaults, 45, 134.

Bawdeswell church rebuilt, 445.

Bayonne, Battle of: Norfolk officers wounded, 111, 112.

Beacham, Mr. (actor), 341, 392.

Beacons, 23, 34.

Bear-baiting, 13.

Beating the bounds, 20, 91, 105, 116, 195, 267, 286.

Beaton, Mrs., “the Freemason,” 14.

Bedford, Mr. Paul (actor), 401.

Beer Bill, 299, 401.

Bell, fall of, at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, 417.

. . . , killed by a falling, 46.

. . . foundry at Downham, 71, 120, 152, 158, 242, 317.

. . . ringers’ pitcher at St. Peter Mancroft, 452.

Bellamy, Mr. (actor), 129, 226.

Bellman’s gratitude, 61.

Bells and bellringers, 46, 65, 67, 71, 97, 120, 122, 143, 146, 151, 152, 158, 166, 177, 187, 193, 195, 229, 242, 246, 289, 317, 346, 384, 391, 402, 405, 408, 417, 438, 452.

. . . rung for race meetings, 408.

. . . stolen, 384, 391.

Belsoni, Signor, at Norwich, 36, 199.

Benefactions, 18, 37, 93, 102, 103, 166, 370.

Benefit of clergy, 73.

Benefit receipts at Norwich Theatre, 64, 90, 222, 235, 245, 278.

Benevolent Society, Norwich, 48.

. . . stranger, 102.

Bengalese baptised at Burnham Market, 141.

Bennett, Mr. (actor), 225.

Bennett, Mr. George (actor), 401.

Bennett, Mr. James, Norwich scientist, 443.

Bentinck, Lord George, elected for Lynn, 273, 306, 320, 464; entertained at dinner by Protectionists, 458; death, 472.

Bentinck, Lord William, resigns his seat for Lynn, 273.

Benwell, loss of the, 370.

Berners, Barony of, 314, 372.

Berney’s patent cartridges, 423.

Berry, Capt. Sir Ed., R.N., 52; death of, 303.

Betty, Master, “the Young Roscius,” 133, 147.

Bible Societies, 93, 250.

Bidder, George, the boy calculator, 171.

Bidwell, Elizabeth, her escape from the French, 52.

Biffin, Miss, 90, 197.

Bignold, Mr. Samuel, elected Mayor of Norwich, 323, 473; presentation to, 335; summoned before the House of Commons, 340; appeals to the House of Lords, 358; attacked by “Norwich Mercury,” 390; chairman of Waterworks Company, 483.

“Billy Boots,” 123.

Bird fancying, 130.

Birds attracted by Happisburgh light, 450.

Bishop Blaize celebrations, 188, 329, 354, 415.

Bishop of Norwich assailed by mob, 413.

Bishops of Norwich, 37, 38, 359, 362, 413, 479, 481.

Birth, of Princess Royal, 403; Prince of Wales, 412; Prince Alfred, 440; Princess Helena, 456; Princess Louise, 469; Prince Arthur, 484.

Birthday dinners, 19, 28, 30, 47, 56, 83, 147, 158, 159, 166, 172, 178, 182, 205, 245.

Birthdays, celebration of Royal, 6, 30, 41, 57, 83, 105, 127, 148, 157, 159, 172, 181, 295, 298, 331, 362, 476, 485.

Blackman, the privateer, 36.

Blanchard, Mr. (actor), 145, 161, 206.

Blasphemy, charge of, 145.

Blickling Hall, fire at, 65.

Blind persons married, 75.

. . . postman, 336.

. . . School at Norwich, 37, 131, 182, 199.

Blucher’s victory, 114.

Boat-phaeton, 375.

Body of Dean Croft discovered, 89.

Body-snatching, 232, 241, 261, 272, 273, 281, 283, 289, 300, 319.

Body-stealing, remarkable case of, 376.

Bombardment of Flushing, 76.

Bonfires prohibited, 24.

Bonaparte in effigy, 110, 115, 116.

Bonaparte’s military coach in Norwich, 162.

Bone manure, 106.

Booth, Miss (actress), 168, 293.

Booth, Mr. (actor), 183.

Borrow family, 316, 327, 374, 396; Capt. Borrow, 125, 177; George Borrow gives derivation of word “Tory,” 316; imprisoned in Spain, 374; marriage, 396; Lieut. John Thomas Borrow, 327.

Botanical garden proposed, 237.

Boundary of Norwich: Singular case, 166.

Bourbon, Mdlle. de, 41.

Bowles, H. R. (actor), 46, 80, 106, 283, 286, 291.

Bowls, 59.

Boxing exhibitions, 61, 70, 160, 170, 184.

Boy charged with murder, 416.

Braconash church restored, 67.

Braham, Mr., at Norwich, 299, 316, 428.

Bray’s waggons, 334, 371.

Bread, sale of on Sunday, 129, 149.

Bread substitutes, 2.

Breweries, 401, 411.

Bribery, 156, 201, 237, 255, 257, 258, 266, 269, 274, 275, 288, 290, 294, 302, 334, 341, 372, 373, 468.

. . . , alleged extortion arising from, 334.

. . . , indictments for, 302, 342.

Bride, curious reception of a, 281.

Bridewell at Norwich, 88, 259.

. . . , sale of, 286.

Bridges, 28, 67, 68, 72, 159, 161, 176, 196, 212, 276, 285, 386, 428, 440, 446, 449.

Brig launched at Thorpe, 22.

Briggs’ Lane (or Street) improvement, 119, 388, 390, 412, 433.

British Army in Spain, 75.

Brooke, Mr. G. V. (actor), 359, 360, 361, 383, 392, 393, 397, 407, 470.

Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, 466.

Brown, Hannah, murdered by Greenacre, 360.

Browne, Philip G., author of “History of Norwich,” 446.

Browne, Sir Thomas, finding of his remains, 402.

Browne, W. J. Utten, elected Sheriff, 324; declines to attend Municipal Commission, 327; candidate for Ashburton, 363.

Brunswick Constitutional Club, 282.

Brunton family, 17, 61, 90, 158, 168, 180, 193, 216, 218, 227, 247, 256, 268, 411, 419, 436, 457. Miss Louisa Brunton, married to the Earl of Craven, 61. Mr. and Miss Brunton at Norwich Theatre, 158, 180, 193. Début of Miss Fanny Brunton at Lynn Theatre, 168. Lieut. (afterwards Lieut.-Col.) Brunton, 90, 411, 457.

Bull-baiting, 55, 123, 159.

“Bull-fight” at Norwich circus, 327.

Bull in an upstairs room, 262.

Bull Ole B. (violinist), 352.

Bullock’s Museum, 94.

Bulwer, Brigadier-General, 33.

Bulwer, Mr. W. E. L., and the Heydon estate, 181, 183.

Burgh Castle, sale of, 458.

Burglar shot at Lynn, 203.

Burglaries, 14, 92, 104, 198, 203.

Burial in a suit of clothes, 192; in regimentals, 195; at cross-ways, 199; refused by a clergyman, 442.

Burnt alive at Lynn, 194.

Burritt, Elihu, 466, 475.

Bustard (little) killed, 379.

Butler, Mr. (actor), 340.

Butler, Mrs. See Kemble, Miss Fanny.

Byrne, Miss (actress), 159.

C

Cadet corps at Norwich, 27.

Caistor Camp, discovery of skeletons at, 191; of pottery, 208.

Cambridge, Duke of, 14, 20, 471, 486.

Camping (or Camp-ball), 50, 127, 159, 208, 210, 213, 308.

Canal, North Walsham and Dilham, 93, 239, 244, 256, 258.

Canals proposed between Bungay and Diss, 154; Dereham and Norwich, 171.

Canary show, 459.

Canning, Sir Stratford, appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, 415.

Cannon, bursting of, 23.

. . . , mounted on waggons, 38, 62.

Cannonading heard at Horsford, 8.

Capital punishment, efforts to abolish, 168, 296, 454.

Carlile, Richard, at Norwich, 364.

Carriages for conveyance of troops, 23, 42, 44.

Carrow bridge, 67, 68, 155, 386.

Carter, the “Lion King,” 407, 432.

Castle Corporation, 83, 121, 122, 133, 179, 241.

Castle Hill, Norwich, enclosed, 67.

Castlereagh, Lord, 132, 154; assailed by Norwich mob, 178.

Castle Rising, archæological discoveries at, 226.

. . . Corporation, 327.

. . . prison: singular action, 108.

Cathcart, Lord, at Norwich, 60, 97.

Cathedral, 4, 7, 46, 211, 255, 420; restoration of, 46, 309; repair of tower criticised, 420.

. . . doors, ceremony of knocking at, 332, 333.

. . . rushes strewn in, 296, 332.

Cattle-driving on Sunday, 36.

Cattle, foreign, on Norwich Hill, 458.

. . . Market at Norwich, 76, 81.

. . . , shooting of, 389.

Caul advertised, 13.

Cavalry pioneers, 34.

Celebrations, 6, 30, 41, 57, 83, 87, 110, 115, 116, 127, 191, 194, 197, 264.

Céleste, Madame, 323, 430, 439, 464.

Census returns, 5, 7, 91, 195, 306, 413.

Centenarians. See Died.

Ceremonial objected to by a Sheriff, 86.

Chairing of members of Parliament, 256, 319.

Chalmers, Mr. (actor), 85.

Chamber of Commerce, 464.

Chancel screen at Yarmouth, 144.

Chancellors of the Diocese, 72, 220, 296, 442.

Changes of surnames, 44, 91, 115, 119, 147, 187, 189, 190, 200, 233, 364, 387, 421, 422, 435, 464.

Chantrey, the sculptor, 413.

Chapel Field, Norwich, circus and menagerie in, 442.

Chapels, Nonconformist, 91, 98, 101, 169, 200, 225, 228, 256, 345, 389.

Chapman, Rev. C, vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, 443.

Charities litigation, 351, 356, 358, 382.

Charlotte, Princess, marriage of, 137; encourages Norwich manufactures, 140; death, 152, 154.

Chartist movement, 378, 380, 382, 398, 403, 408, 409, 412, 413, 427, 443, 464.

Chatham, Earl of, 132.

Chedworth will case, 35, 141.

Chief Constable of the county, 390.

Chimney sweeps, 140.

Ching Lan Lauro, 275.

Chloroform first used at Norwich, 467.

Cholera, 309, 313, 475, 479.

Cholmondeley, Lord, elected for Castle Rising, 205.

Choral concerts, 329.

Christchurch, Catton, 399, 412.

Christmas custom at Thetford, 100.

Christmas-day church illumination, 203.

. . . observed by Norwich Corporation, 88.

Church briefs, 281.

Church building, 245, 399, 412, 427, 441, 445, 473.

Church, proposed new, at Yarmouth, 245; protest against, 294.

Church Missionary Society, 109.

. . . rates, 294, 390, 433.

. . . restoration, 67, 68, 103, 374, 467, 471.

. . . societies, 232.

Circus building blown down, 354.

. . . performances at Norwich Theatre, 422.

. . . tent first used, 425.

Circuses, 78, 94, 100, 109, 130, 132, 152, 163, 188, 203, 215, 226, 272, 282, 326, 327, 355, 379, 390, 392, 394, 422, 425, 433, 442, 443, 474.

City Chamberlin of Norwich, 263, 336.

. . . Gaol, sale of, 286.

. . . Treasurer, 287.

. . . wall, fall of, 266.

Clarence, Duke of, 60, 249.

Clarence, Mr. (Clarence Holt), manager of Norwich Theatre, 484, 488.

“Cleansing week” at Norwich, 64, 180, 266.

Clergy incomes, 38.

Clergyman charged with assault, 106.

Clifford, Mr. (actor), 361.

Clock at Norwich Guildhall, 484.

Close Jail, Norwich, 133.

Clothing for Portuguese troops, 280.

Coach accidents, 191, 233, 250, 322, 323, 335, 387, 415, 425, 449, 468; competition, 194; conveyance of contraband spirits, 351, of convicts, 290, of corpses, 219; fares, reduction of, 136, 163, 429; informers, 233, 402; lighted inside, 357; of novel construction, 142, 164; running with a, 171; narrow escape of, 233; furious driving of, 217; robberies, 99.

Coaches, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 27, 34, 36, 38, 51, 54, 63, 69, 71, 82, 88, 97, 99, 104, 106, 112, 115, 117, 127, 129, 131, 134, 136, 139, 142, 153, 156, 157, 161, 163, 164, 171, 172, 175, 177, 191, 193, 194, 195, 201, 208, 212, 215, 217, 218, 219, 227, 229, 232, 233, 246, 248, 249, 250, 253, 259, 263, 290, 293, 308, 309, 314, 322, 342, 355, 357, 368, 377, 383, 400, 402, 405, 413, 415, 424, 425, 426, 429, 437, 442, 449, 453, 459, 468.

Coaches and wains: a comparison, 229.

Coachguard’s stage performance, 311.

Coaching system, effect of railways upon, 449, 453.

Coachman fined for possession of game, 259.

Coachman’s funeral: Singular incident at, 112.

. . . lecture on Shakespeare, 442.

Coal duty, 170, 227, 299.

. . . hawking, important decision as to, 54.

Coates, the pedestrian, feats by, 407.

Cobbett, Mr., at Norwich, 217, 254, 292.

Cobden, Mr., at Norwich, 427, 452.

Cockey Lane, Norwich, 77, 283.

“Cockfighter,” a famous hunter, 358.

Cocking, 15, 29, 39, 42, 46, 47, 64, 69, 81, 82, 86, 90, 95, 101, 113, 123, 124, 135, 137, 144, 146, 149, 153, 157, 159, 171, 184, 194, 207, 211, 220, 233, 246, 271, 282, 285, 297, 304, 310, 312.

Coffin, two bodies in one, 134.

Coffins provided before death, 130, 386, 387, 437.

. . . , condemned felons seated on, 211.

Coin, circulation of base, 376.

Coinage, exchange of defective, 137; Irish and French taken at Norwich Theatre, 144; new silver, 143.

Coins, discoveries of ancient, 39, 270, 405.

. . . , copper, carried for a wager, 259.

Coke-Kennedy shooting match, 225; Coke-Ross, 249.

Coke, Mr. T. W., attacked by Norwich mob, 124; insulted at Norwich, 148; his political bias, 213; son and heir, 213, 216; “chaired” at Norwich, 256; retirement from Parliamentary life, 320; complimentary dinner to, 323; portrait, 321; elevation to peerage, 363; death, 419; monument to, 420, 424, 449.

Cold weather in June, 41, 391, 408.

Colman cricket team, 457.

Colours at elections prohibited, 273.

. . . , presentations of, 26, 27, 28.

Coltishall Brewery, sale of, 411.

Comedians, Norfolk and Suffolk Company of, 32, 210, 211, 213, 216, 316, 400, 442, 461.

Comet, 93.

Coming of age celebrations, 181, 217, 257, 483.

Common Council elections, 266, 304.

Concerts, 46, 187, 239, 249, 272, 322, 377, 402, 406, 413, 428, 442, 453, 469, 480.

Condemned felons seated on coffins, 211.

Confidence trick, 128.

Confirmations, 7, 49, 73, 105, 182, 246, 267, 268, 324, 330, 366, 406, 438.

Conjugal rights, actions for restitution of, 113, 412.

Conjurers, 214, 240.

Consecrations, 441, 445.

“Conservative”: when first used in a political sense, 303.

Consistory Court, imprisonment by, 292, 442.

Conspiracy, 131; remarkable case of, 416.

Constabulary Act, adoption of, 390.

Contractors, allegations against, 260.

Convict’s restitution of stolen money, 423.

Convicts, attempted escapes of, 37, 290, 293.

. . . sent from Norwich by water, 330.

Cooke, Mr. T. P. (actor), 312.

Cooke, the Pentonville miser, 93.

Cooper, Mr. W., plays by, 418, 427, 434.

Cooper, Sir Astley, 198.

Cooping of electors, 64, 169, 269, 270, 274.

Copenhagen, Battle of, 4.

Coppin, Mrs., 65.

Corn Exchange, Norwich, 236, 242, 280.

. . . importation, 260, 394, 451, 458.

. . . Laws, 116, 117, 124, 244, 262, 380, 394, 427, 434, 451, 452, 458.

. . . Law riots, 124, 136.

. . . market at Ranelagh Gardens, Norwich, 236.

. . . at Wells, 251.

. . . merchants and corn growers’ dispute, 68, 79.

. . . Regulation Bill, 32.

Cornwallis, Marquis, 132.

Coronation of George IV., 197; of William IV., 308; of Victoria, 374.

Coroner’s election, 274.

Corporation grant for church building, 289.

Corpses sent by coach, 219; by wains, 272, 281.

Corri, Miss Rosalie (actress), 194.

“Cossey gang,” 204, 211.

Costessey Guild, 195.

. . . rejoicings, 235.

Cotman, J. S. (artist), 54.

Counterfeit money, 59.

County business, mode of conducting, 260, 262, 278.

. . . Court, 463.

. . . Gaol at Norwich, 201, 229.

. . . Lunatic Asylum, 89, 116, 444.

. . . Surveyor, election of, 349.

Coursing, 9, 17, 36, 69, 261.

. . . , alleged illegal, 435.

Courts martial, 81, 293, 316.

Cowper monument at Dereham, 24.

Crape ball at Norwich, 252.

Credit for corn, 68, 79.

Cribb and Gully at Norwich, 61.

Cricket, 42, 49, 57, 65, 66, 67, 83, 84, 85, 86, 91, 92, 93, 107, 120, 129, 140, 144, 151, 161, 162, 174, 175, 197, 212, 221, 245, 278, 287, 297, 306, 308, 324, 332, 351, 416, 439, 449, 457, 471, 478.

. . . on Sunday, 152.

Cricket Club, Norfolk, 262, 269, 275, 449; grounds established by, 262, 275; uniform of, 262.

. . . , Norwich, 266, 278.

. . . ground at Norwich, 266, 278, 323, 332.

. . . match by females in trousers, 221.

. . . for cherries and cider, 91.

. . . on the ice, 265, 404.

Crim. Con., actions for: Brograve v. Elwin, 57; Laton v. Beauchamp, 145; Muskett v. Gurney, 156, 291; Astley v. Garth, 265; Trafford v. Ellis, 394.

Crime in Norfolk, 203; in Norwich, 189, 198.

Criminal offenders, prosecution of, 251.

Cromer Hall, fire at, 290.

. . . jetties, 193, 455.

. . . races, 119.

. . . sea wall, 377, 455.

. . . Theatre, 140.

Cross Keys Wash, 252; bridge opened, 309.

Cross roads burial, 104.

Cross, Tom, literary coachman, 442.

Cruelty to a child, 190.

Cuckoo, late arrival of, 372.

. . . shot in September, 388.

Culprit drawn to execution on a hurdle, 58.

Culprit’s body exhibited, 305.

Cumberland, Duke of, 104.

Curtis, John, naturalist, 423.

D

Dance, Miss (actress), 199.

Davenport, Mr., manager of Norwich Theatre, 457; remarkable statement by, 463.

Davison, Mrs. (actress), 133, 192.

Davison, Miss (actress), 145, 155.

Dawson, Mr. George, lecturer, 466.

Deaf and dumb by visitation of God, 33.

Death in the Council Chamber, Norwich, 179; in the hunting field, 266, 348, 474; in the jury box, 210; in the pulpit, 135; whilst singing, 344.

. . . sentence for striking an officer, 81.

De Bardelin, Chevalier, 115, 255.

Defective silver, exchange of, 137.

Defence of the county, 7, 8, 21, 22, 24, 28, 31, 33, 44, 48.

Dennett’s rocket apparatus, 411.

Denny, Mr., of Egmere, 243.

Denver murder, 355, 359.

Deprivation of living, 451.

Dereham Theatre, 137, 161; singular accident at, 441; advertised for sale, 442.

“Desideratum of Norfolk gentlemen,” 294.

Despard’s conspiracy, 18, 19.

Dibden, Mr., at Norwich, 15.

Died (c indicates reputed centenarian): Abinger, Baron, 436; Adkin, Rev. Dr., 55; Albemarle, Countess of, 152; Albemarle, Earl of, 480; Aldborough, Mrs. (c), 209; Alderson, Dr. James, 249; Aldis, John, 170; Alexander, Charles, 277; Allcock, Christopher, 195; Allen Rev. Stephen, 462; Allen Tom, 379; Alpe, Hamond, 225; Amyot, Thomas, 487; Andrews, John (c), 137; Andrews, William, 90; Angell, John, 449; Ansell, John, 259; Anson, Viscount, 161; Archer, Charles, 188; Armstrong, Thomas (c), 100; Astley, Miss, 64; Astley, Sir Edward, 12; Astley, Sir Jacob Henry, 147; Atkinson, Ann (c), 327; Atkinson, J. F. G., 237; Aufrere, Anthony, 120.

. . . Back, Thomas, 179; Bacon, Mrs. (c), 284; Bacon, Richard Mackenzie, 442; Bacon, Sir Edmund, 186; Baldry, Susanna (c), 372; Baldwin, Edward, 19; Banks, John, 243; Barber, Thomas, 81; Barham, Sarah (c), 265; Barker, Edmund Henry, 383; Baring, Henry, 469; Barnard, Rev. V. L., 135; Barrow, Edward, 106; Bath, William, 483; Bathurst, Archdeacon, 441; Bathurst, Bishop, 359; Bathurst, Mrs., 220; Bayning, Lord, 83; Bayning, Lord, 224; Beacham, J. P., 392; Beatniffe, Richard, 160; Beaton, Mrs., 14; Beauchamp, Capt. R., 105; Beaumont, Rev. Ed., 185; Beckwith, Dr., 72; Beckwith, J. C, 177; Beechey, Sir William, 381; Beevor, Dr. John, 125; Beevor, Lieut.-General, 431; Beevor, Rev. Augustus, 157; Beevor, Sir Thomas, 113; Beevor, Sir Thomas, 189; Bell, Lieut. H. F., 257; Bellamy, B. P., 465; Bennett, James, 443; Bennett, John, 133; Bentinck, Lord George, 472; Bentley, Elizabeth, 385; Berners, Lord, 372; Bernes, Henry, 366; Berney, Elizabeth, 380; Berry, Sir Edward, 303; Betts, William, 303; Beverley, Michael, 474; Bidwell, S., 222; Biggs, Martha (c), 109; Billingsley, Edward, 110; Blackwell, Sir Lambert, 5; Blanc, Sir Simon le, 135; Blanchard, William, 339; Bland, Major John, 102; Blencowe, John Prescott, 403; Blofeld, Thomas, 149; Blomfield, Francis, 144; Bolton, 267; Bolton, Capt., 301; Bolton, Susanna, 107; Bonsell, John, 5; Booth, Edward Temple, 469; Borrow, Capt., 230; Borrow, Lieut. John Thomas, 327; Bowles, Henry (the elder), 51; Bowles, Major-General, 98; Bowles, Rev. H. R., 291; Boxall, Major, 420; Boyles, Charles, 64; Boyles, Vice-Admiral, 142; Bradfield, James, 60; Bramwell, 94; Brand, Catherine (c), 469; Brand, Hannah, 192; Bray, Mrs., 334; Bray, Thomas, 371; Brett, William, 350; Brown, Crisp, 298; Brown, John (c), 95; Brown, William, 134; Browne, Capt. J. M., 277; Browne, Dr. Charles, 267; Browne, Mary, 383; Browne, Mrs., 218; Browne, Philip G., 445; Browne, William (c), 134; Bruckner, Rev. J., 30; Brunton, Lieut.-Col. Richard, 457; Brunton, John, 216; Brunton, Mrs., 256; Buckingham, Dowager Countess of, 143; Buckingham, Earl of, 35; Buckingham, Earl of, 133; Buckle, John, 155; Bullard, James, 104; Bulwer, Brigadier-General, 57; Bunn, James, 86; Burks, 252; Burrell, Adam, 265; Burroughes, J. B., 25; Burrows, William, 202; Burt, William, 318; Burton, Thomas, 193; Bury, Viscount, 29; Buxton, Sir John Jacob, 423; Buxton, Sir Robert John, 386; Buxton, Sir T. Fowell, 444.

. . . Caldwell, Ralph, 301; Calthorpe, William, 182; Campling, Elizabeth (c), 244; Carter, Henry, 298; Carter, Mrs. (c), 405; Case, P. M., 332; Castleton, Edward, 87; Catchpole, James (c), 243; Chad, Sir George, 131; Chalmers, 85; Chambers, William, 348; Chapman Ann, 311; Chapman, Rev. C. J., 254; Chedworth, Lord, 35; Chesney, Thomas, 128; Chesnut, Robert, 195; Chesnutt, Mrs., 111; Cholmondeley, Marquis of, 266; Church, James, 121; Clabburn, James, 133; Clark, Daniel, 266; Clark, Zachary, 129; Clayton, Elizabeth, 38; Clifford, 361; Clifford, Lieut., 113; Clifford, Mrs., 248; Cobb, George (c), 170; Cock, Jemima, 434; Cockle, Mrs., 347; Cocksedge, J. P., 349; Codenham, Sarah (c), 124; Codling, Henry, 406; Coe, John, 386; Coke, Edward, 351; Coke, Mrs., 88; Coldwell, Thomas, 221; Cole, J. H., 282; Cole, William, 338; Cole, William, 458; Colman, Edward, 100; Columbine, Rev. P., 202; Columbine, Francis, 63; Cook Mary (c), 244; Cooke, Thomas, 93; Cooke, William, 419; Cooper, Henry, 238; Cooper, Mrs., 57; Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, 405; Coppin, Daniel, 214; Coppin, Mrs., 97; Cotman, John Sell, 420; Coward, William, 210; Craven, Earl of, 247; Crawforth, Ann, (c), 158; Crew, Phœbe, 147; Cricknell Richard, 415; Crisp, John, 84; Crisp, Mrs. (c), 51; Crome, Emily, 396; Crome, J. B., 422; Crome, John, 194; Cross, Mrs. (c), 137; Crosse, John Green, 485; Crotch, Dr., 467; Crowe, James, 54; Cruttenden, Lieut.-Col., 486; Cullyer, John, 436; Curtis, C. M., 389; Cushing, R. H., 114; Cutting, William, 115.

. . . Dacheux, Peter Lewis, 428; Dale, John, 163; Dalrymple, John, 78; Dalrymple, William, 467; Daniel, T., 47; Davey, Jonathan, 121; Davey, Robert, 188; Day, Starling, 180; Day, Thomas, 134; Death, Mrs., 237; De Bardelin, Madame, 255; Deeker, Rev. Thomas, 240; Deeker, Thomas, 95; De Hague, Elisha, 260; Delaval, E. H., 119; De Mirepoix, Madame, 47; Dent, Margaret (c), 117; De Rouillon, 410; D’Eterville, Rev. T., 425; Dewing, Edward, 266; Diboll Hannah, 332; Dickens, Mrs., 236; Dickson, Sir Archibold, 20; Dillon Archbishop, 49; Dixon, Col J., 232; Dixon, Robert, 131; Downes, J. D., 285; D’Oyly, Rev. William, 119; Drummee, Martin, 130; Dunn, John, 99; D’Urban, Sir Benjamin, 477; Dyball, Mrs., 290; Dye Mary (c), 132.

. . . Eastaugh, Nathaniel, 81; Edge, Mary Ann (c), 241; Edwards, C., 395; Ellis, John, 105; Elton, 430; Elwin, Marsham, 306; Everitt, Mrs. (c), 28.

. . . Fair, Jane (c), 97; Fellowes, Robert, 285; Fellowes, W. H., 364; Fenn, Dame Eleanor, 110; Fenn, Nathan (c), 265; Fenn, Robert, 76; ffolkes, Sir M. B., 203; ffolkes, William Martin, 478; Filby, T., 210; Finch, Peter, 58; Fisher, David (the elder), 316; Fisher, George, 461; Fisher, H., 126; Fisher, Miss, 69; Fisher, Mary, 178; Fisher, Mrs., 113; Fisher, Mrs. David, 165; Fisk, H., 286; Fitch, Joseph, 236; FitzRoy, Hon. William, 361; FitzRoy, Lord James Henry, 332; FitzRoy, Lieut., 270; Flower, Sir James, 484; Folker, John, 373; Forby, Rev. R., 252; Forby, Richard, 308; Forster, Rev. Dr., 430; Foster, W., 192; Foster, William, 80; Fountain, Martin, 273; Fox, Charles, 475; Foyson, Thomas, 311; Framingham, Major-General Sir H., 182; Fransham, John, 80; Frere, Barbara, 150; Frere, John, 58; Frere, John Hockham, 452; Frere, Lieut. R.E., 423; Fry, Mrs., 450; Fuller, Ann, 14; Fuller, James, 90.

. . . Galey, Mrs. (c), 53; Gardner, Thos., 318; Garland T., 63; Gibson, Joseph, 296; Gibbs, Mary (c), 110; Gill, Thomas, 99; Gill, T. W., 397; Gilpin, Rev. William, 415; Girling, Major, 475; Glasspoole, Capt. Richard, 458; Goddard, Sophia, 3; Gooch, Dr. R., 293; Goodings, Thomas (c), 168; Goodyer, Ashton (c), 154; Gordon, Sir William, 27; Goulty, Mrs., 193; Grafton, Duke of, 89; Greaves, Rev. T. B., 482; Green, John (c), 242; Greenfield, Thomas (c), 265; Gresham, Sir John, 8; Grimmer, Charles (c), 170; Grounds, Thomas and Jane, 134; Gudgeon, John, 349; Gurney, Bartlett, 17; Gurney, John, 77; Gurney, Joseph, 301; Gurney Joseph John, 460; Gurney, Richard, 92; Gurney, Richard (innkeeper), 288; Guyton, Benjamin, 230.

. . . Hague, Dr. Charles, 196; Hales, William, 447; Hall, William, 241; Hamond, Anthony, 214; Hamond, Sir A. S., 279; Hampp, Christopher, 243; Hancock, Hannah Sarah, 486; Hankin, Col. Sir T. P., 250; Hansard, L. G., 406; Hansard, Luke, 281; Hansell, Rev. Peter, 405; Hardy, James, 152; Harrison, B., 400; Harrison, John, 88; Harwin, William, 90; Harvey, Charles (see Onley, Charles Savill); Harvey, Lieut.-Col., 415; Harvey, Robert, 178; Harvey, Jeremiah Ives, 112; Harvey, R. B., 472; Harvey, Robert, 133; Havers, Mary Ann, 464; Hawes, Elizabeth (née Porson), 416; Hawkes, Robert, 348; Haylett, Nehemiah (c), 134; Hays, Roger, 255; Helsdon, Mary (c), 17; Herring, Alderman, 269; Herring, John, 86; Herring, Robert, 117; Hethersett, Lieut.-General, 96; Hicks, J., 287; Hill, John, 457; Hill, W. M., 101; Hindes, J. C., 231; Holl, Thomas, 172; Holland, Mrs., 131; Holland, Mrs., 183; Holmes, Robert (c), 431; Holt, Thomas (c), 105; Home, Dowager Countess, 113; Hope, F. F., 271; Horne, Mrs., 231; Horth, James, 303; Hoseason, Thomas, 339; Hoste, Capt. Sir William, 282; Hoste, Capt. T. E., 333; Hoste, Rev. Dixon, 252; Hoste, Sir George C., 445; Houghton, Rev. P., 231; Howes, Rev. T., 120; Howlett, Williams, 199; Hoy, John, 143; Hudson, James, 56; Hull, Thomas H., 276; Hunt J., 235; Hunt, John, 192; Hunt, John, 419.

. . . Irby, Hon. F. P., 437; Ives, Jeremiah, 38.

. . . Jackson, Elizabeth, 372; Jarvis, Christopher, 143; Jean, Roger, 282; Jennings, Archdeacon, 481; Jerningham, C. W., 187; Jerningham, Edward, 100; Jerningham, Edward, 208; Jerningham, General, 121; Jerningham, Lady, 243; Jerningham, Sir William, 75; Jessup, Sarah (c), 321; Jodrell, Henry, 113; Jodrell, Richard Paul, 303; Johnson, 96; Johnson, Lewis, 110; Johnson, Rev. Dr., 325; Jones, Mrs., 234; Jones, Sir John Thomas, 425; Jones, Sir Lawrence, 451; Jones, William, 261; Joy, John, 253; Joy, Matthew, 223.

. . . Kemp, Sir W., 34; Kent, Nathaniel, 87; Keppel, Hon. C. J., 150; Keppel, Hon. Mrs., 107; Kerrison, Sir Roger, 65; Kerrison, Thomas A., 163; Keymer, Henry, 55; Keymer, James, 291; Kingaby, Charles, (c), 289; Kinghorn, Rev. Joseph, 317; Kinnebrook, David, 81; Kitson, Charles, 210; Kitson, Roger, 440; Knights, P. J., 323.

. . . Lacon, Sir Edmund, 187; Ladbrooke, Robert, 423; Lambe, James, 379; Lane, Rev. James, 193; Laney, Mrs. (c), 182; Langton, Richard, 346; Lany, Elizabeth, 377; Larner, Ann (c), 380; Larwood, Rev. Joshua, 63; Layton, Mrs. E. (c), 147; Leake, Elizabeth, 316; Leake, Sir J. O., 133; Leeds, Dowager Duchess of, 366; Leech, Thomas, 415; Lee Warner, H., 32; Leicester, Countess of, 11; Leicester, Dowager Countess of, 439; Leicester, Earl of, 419; Leman, Barnabas, 340; Lemon, G. W., 369; Lennard, Rev. D. Barrett, 381; Lens, Serjeant, 248; Ling (c), 103; Lindley, George, 340; Linley, 339; Linley, Mrs., 178; Linley, Rev. O. T., 304; Lloyd, Mrs., 4; Lock, John (c), 223; Loftus, Col. Henry, 223; Loftus, General, 307; Loftus, Lady Elizabeth, 90; Lombe, Sir John, 147; Longe, Sir J. T., 43; Lorkin, Jeremiah, 296; Lorkin, William, 357; Lothian, Marquis of, 412; Love, H. B., 377; Love, William, 63; Lovick, John, 180; Lubbock, Dr., 462; Lubbock, Dr. Richard, 67; Lukin, Rev. Dr., 100; Lytton, Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer, 433.

. . . Mack, Mary, 62; Manby, Rear-Admiral, 331; Mann, Catherine (c), 266; Manning, Dr. J., 47; Manning, Edmund, 370; Manning, Thomas, 396; Manning, William, 246; Marryat, Capt., 471; Marsham, Thomas, 336; Marsters, Thomas, 430; Martin, Sir Mordaunt, 130; Martin, Stephen, 18; Martineau, Dr. T., 234; Martineau, Mrs., 80; Martineau, P. M., 282; Maskeleyne, Rev. Neville, 89; Mason, William, 343; Matchett, Jonathan, 442; Mellish, Very Rev. E., 301; Middleton, Mrs., 86; Middleton, Right Rev. Dr., 210; Mildenhall, Robert, 224; Miller, Ann (c), 57; Miller, Dean Combe, 113; Miller, Thomas, 34; Milles, Richard, 187; Mills, Jeffreson, 438; Mingay, James, 97; Mingay, Richard, 336; Minns, John, 130; Mitchell, John, 79; Mog, Samuel (c), 96; Money, General, 145; Money, Major, 202; Moneyment, Mary (c), 67; Montrath, Earl of, 12; Moore, William, 391; Morell, Rev., S., 239; Morgan, Walter, 447; Morphew, Rev. J. C., 232; Morse, John, 365; Morse, John, 435; Morris, Samuel, 223; Morton, J., 90; Mountain, Mary, 199; Munnings, Rev. T. C., 325; Munsen, William, 123; Murray, Captain James, 161; Murray, Dr. T. A., 12; Murray, James V., 282; Murray, John B., 280; Murray, Lady, 313; Murray, Mary, 168; Murray, Robert, 60; Myhill, John (c), 65.

. . . Nash, John, 178; Neale, Francis (c), 232; Neale, Henry, 107; Nelson, Earl, 63; Nelson, Earl, 344; Nelson, Rev. Earl, 338; Nelson, Viscountess, 306; Neville, Dr., 407; Ninham, John, 150; Noble, William, 103; Norfolk, Duke of, 132; Norgate, Elias, 24; Norgate, Elias, 326; Norman, William, 418; Norris, Lieutenant George, 109; Norton, Eliza (c), 62.

. . . Odell, Rev. Richards, 243; Oldershaw, Archdeacon, 461; Oldershaw, Mrs. (c), 245; Onley, Charles Savill, 431; Opie, John, 56; Orford, Earl of, 71; Orford, Earl of, 209; Osborn, T., 53.

. . . Palgrave, William, 215; Palmer, John, 471; Parfrey, Mrs., 18; Parker, Sir George, 467; Parnell, Robert, 253; Parr, Rev. Dr., 243; Parsons, James, 99; Partridge, Robert, 144; Paston, James, 213; Patteson, Capt., 120; Patteson, J. S., 317; Pattle, Richard (c), 394; Paul, Robert, 266; Pearson, Samuel, 272; Peele, Rev. John, 35; Penrice, Thomas, 141; Perowne, Isabella (c), 278; Perowne, William, 227; Pettet, Alfred, 358; Philo, James, 291; Pickwood, Sarah, 53; Pidgeon, Mrs., 215; Plestow, Sir T. B., 168; Porson, Richard, 68; Potter, Rev. Robert, 33; Poultney, Sir James, 90; Powell, 107; Praed, 387; Pratt, Edward Roger, 370; Preston, Jacob, 268; Priest, Rev. St. John, 163; Priest, Robert, 238.

. . . Quin, Edward, 224.

. . . Rayson, John, 406; Read, William, 351; Reed, William (c), 391; Reeve, Dr. Henry, 120; Reeve, Edmund, 334; Rennie, John, 200; Repton, Humphrey, 156; Revell, Rev. M., 223; Reynolds, John, 259; Reynolds, Thomas, 312; Riches, Thomas, 276; Rigby, Dr., 200; Rising, John, 72; Robberds, J. W., 366; Robinson, Gregory, 451; Robinson, James, 366; Roope, Mrs. (c), 46; Roope, Thomas, 85; Rosebery, Earl of, 114; Row, Thomas, 372; Rumble, Mrs. (c), 239.

. . . Saint, William, 173; Sanctuary, Thomas, 103; Sandby, Rev. Dr., 55; Sayers, Dr. F., 149; Scott, Hannah (c), 171; Scrape, Thomas (c), 275; Sculley, Lieut., 4; Seaman, Mary (c), 254; Service, David, 274; Seymour, E. H., 166; Sharpe, Edward, 103; Shaw, Richard, 366; Sheepshanks, Rev. W., 84; Sillett, James, 396; Simpson, Samuel (c), 370; Simpson, William, 336; Skipper, Henry, 12; Smith, Benjamin, 291; Smith, Henry, 254; Smith, James, 345; Smith, John, 197; Smith, John (c), 433; Smith, Miss, 187; Smith, Richard (c), 324; Smith, Sir J. E., 274; Smith, Theophilus, 468; Smith, Thomas, 178; Smith, William (ex-M.P. for Norwich), 340; Smyth, Ann, 87; Smyth, Capt., 48; Snell J. C., 61; Sneyd, W., 287; Snow, William, 387; Spraggs, Mary (c), 266; Stafford, John, 400; Stanford, Ann (c), 470; Stanley, Bishop, 479; Stannard, G., 394; Stannard, Joseph, 300; Stark, Michael, 304; Starling, Tabitha (c), 141; Stephens, Sir Philip, 78; Stevens, Mrs., 109; Stevenson, William, 173; Stevenson, William, 195; Steward, George, 440; Stockings, Mrs. (c), 131; Stokes, W. H., 164; Stone, Capt. Charles, 304; Stone, Francis, 343; Storey, Hannah (c), 271; Strongitharm, Rev. L., 265; Stubings, J., 51; Suffield, Dowager Lady, 487; Suffield, Lord, 80; Suffield, Lord, 197; Suffield, Lord, 342; Sutton, Col. Manners, 243; Sutton, Richard, 449; Sutton, Thomas, 172; Swan, John, 215; Symonds, John, 195.

. . . Tawell, Thomas, 182; Taylor, Meadows, 371; Taylor, Rev. Philip, 309; Taylor, William, 347; Thompson, Henry, 136; Thompson, John, 35; Thompson, John, 89; Thurlow, Canon, 461; Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, 51; Thurston, Samuel, 405; Thurtell, George, 468; Thurtell, Henry, 274; Thurtell, Thomas, 454; Tinkler, Capt., 185; Titchfield, Marquis of, 230; Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, 457; Townshend, Lord, 420; Townshend, Marquis, 59; Townshend, Marquis, 92; Travers, Major-General Sir R., 336; Troughton, T., 46; Troughton, Thomas, 264; Tucker, G. C., 418; Turner, Mrs., 194; Turner, Thomas, 441; Turner, Very Rev. Dean, 278; Twiddy, James, 308; Twiddy, Mrs. (c), 310; Twiddy, Thomas, 18.

. . . Unthank, Lieut., 96; Uttten, William, 155; Utting, Elizabeth (c), 198; Utting, Robert, 335.

. . . Valpy, Rev. Edward, 313; Vaughan, 425; Vere, Mrs. (c), 270; Vince, Rev. Samuel, 203.

. . . Waddy, John, 115; Wade, John, 171; Wade, Robin (c), 394; Wagstaffe, John, 71; Walden, John (c), 189; Walker, Ezekiel, 329; Walker, Rev. J., 61; Waller, Luke (c), 227; Walpole, Hon. George, 343; Walsingham, Lord, 154; Walton, Rev. L., 405; Want, Hannah (c), 249; Ward, Robert, 351; Ware, William Henry, 281; Warmington, Robert, 98; Warrant, William (c), 159; Warren, Capt. J. E., 76; Waters, Joseph, 352; Watling, Simon, 97; Watson, J., 308; Watson, John, 282; Watson, Thomas, 72; West, Edward, 2; Webb, T. S., 399; Websdale, William (c), 11; Wheeler, James, 91; Whetstone, Edward, 109; White, Mrs., 321; Whiter, Rev. Walter, 316; Widdows, Francis, 349; Wiggins, Thomas, 437; Wignell, 17; Wilkins, W., 388; Wilkins, William, 125; Willement, William, 316; Windham, Joseph, 86; Windham, Mrs., 233; Windham, William, 83; Withers, Captain, 429; Witton Sarah (c), 410; Wodehouse, Baron, 456; Wodehouse, Lady, 244; Wodehouse, Lord, 331; Wodehouse, Rev. Prebendary, 89; Wodehouse, Thos., 37; Woodward, Samuel, 370; Wratham, Mary (c), 333; Wright, John, 435; Wright, Warner, 444.

. . . Yallop, Sir J. H., 341; Yates, F., 419; Yonge, Rev. Chancellor, 442; Youngs, J., 105.

Dilapidation of St. Mary’s church, Norwich, 474.

Dillon, Mr. Charles, manager of Norwich Theatre, 474.

Diseased sheep, conviction for exposing, 472.

Disfranchisement of Yarmouth voters, 468.

Disraeli, Mr., at Lynn, 458.

Disruption in the Scottish Church, 436.

Diss church belle re-cast, 317.

. . . Brewery, sale of, 401.

. . . hosiery, 415.

. . . Hospital, 386.

. . . , public improvements at, 77.

Dissection of criminals, 151, 174, 288.

Dissenters’ Benevolent Society, 48.

Dissolving views, 332.

Distillation from grain, 64, 80.

Distin family, 413.

District Provident Society, Norwich, 360.

. . . Schools, Norwich, 369.

Disturbances at Norwich Theatre, 126.

Diving operations at Yarmouth, 316.

Divorce, 87, 113, 395.

Dixon, the scene painter, 131.

Dogs as animals of draught, 288, 387, 420, 484.

Douro, Marquis of, adopted candidate for Norwich, 357, 408, 464; elected, 363, 409, 464; introduces Norwich Improvement Bill, 382; receives deputation of freemen, 395; secures cavalry headquarters for Norwich, 427.

Dover, the Chartist, 398, 403, 408, 409, 443; “sells” the city, 409; sentenced to transportation, 443.

Downham riots, 136.

. . . Theatre, 283.

Dowton, Mr. (actor), 133, 190, 311.

Drama, decline of, in Norwich, 331, 438, 448.

Dress, paucity of, in ball-room, 130.

Dresser to actresses, 183.

Drill system of husbandry, 173, 419.

Driving up a flight of steps, 221.

. . . a coach and six, 413.

Dropsy, remarkable case at Norwich, 53.

Drought, 161.

Drover, long distance ridden by a, 81.

Drowned, at Wroxham Water Frolic, 66; in a bath, 252; in a beer vat, 447; in a vinegar vat, 311.

Duels, 16, 74, 268, 324, 325.

. . . , inciting to fight, 85, 380, 422.

Duke of York, charges against the, 71.

Duke’s Palace Bridge, 176, 386, 428.

. . . estate, sale of, 50.

Dulcken, Madame, 473.

Du Pain, the “Fire-King,” 123.

Dutch church, 38, 39.

. . . regiment formed at Yarmouth, 114.

Duty on port wine at Lynn, 7.

E

Eagles killed in Norfolk, 11, 18, 43, 123, 263, 296, 299, 345, 358, 383, 436.

Early closing of public-houses, 472.

. . . of shops, 378.

Early rising, 332.

East Norfolk Conservative Association, 339.

Eau Brink Cut opened, 197.

. . . Drainage Bill, 156.

Eccentric personages, 12, 19, 32, 38, 45, 61, 62, 63, 68, 76, 79, 80, 81, 84, 93, 102, 123, 130, 188, 192, 197, 223, 235, 241, 253, 265, 276, 291, 350, 370, 386, 409, 434, 437, 449, 485.

Education, national system of, 373.

Eel, large, 384.

Eldon Club, Norwich, first anniversary of, 318.

Election compromises, 409; of Common Council, Norwich, 266, 274, 294, 304; conducted upon “correct principles,” 304; dinners, 109, 299, 320, 324, 337, 363; dinner bill disputed at Thetford, 114; fracas at Swaffham, 337; by juveniles, 365; nominations at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, 98; petitions, 53, 341, 368, 372, 409, 468; against Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett, 321, 334; against Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Mr. H. N. Burroughes, 372; against Mr. C. E. Rumbold and Mr. W. Wilshere, 372; against the Hon. R. C. Campbell and the Marquis of Douro, 373; against the Earl of Euston, 409; scrutinies, 15, 317.

Elections on Sunday, 116, 306.

. . . (Parliamentary), 15, 52, 56, 99, 147, 159, 160, 165, 180, 209, 230, 256, 297, 298, 300, 305, 306, 319, 320, 333, 336, 337, 363, 364, 408, 409, 410, 415, 444, 464, 465.

Electric light, 478.

Elephant, death of, 468.

Elliston, Mr. (actor), 133.

Elopement of an actor and actress, 429.

Enlistment of a woman, 83.

Ensign of the Généreux, 6.

Embargo on Yarmouth shipping, 19.

Embezzlement, 81, 338, 428, 445, 483.

. . . alleged fictitious charge of, 340, 348.

Emery, Mr. (actor), 155.

Emigrants, 193, 294, 338, 349, 360, 427.

Episcopal chapel, Yarmouth, 298.

Equestrian feat, 6.

. . . performances at Norwich Theatre, 123.

Equipage of High Sheriff, 108, 174.

Escapes from prisons, 69, 157, 182, 192, 293, 361, 371.

Estate owner sentenced to transportation, 135.

Estates, sales of, 54, 73, 76, 78, 79, 80, 199, 203, 271, 283, 351, 352, 388, 394, 401, 411, 415, 447, 449, 455, 466.

Evening services at Norwich churches, 101, 143.

Exchange Street, Norwich, opened, 279.

Excommunication, 292.

Excursion of Yarmouth Headborough Inquest, 98.

Excursions to Rotterdam, 246, 457.

Execution at Lynn, 9; at Yarmouth, 109; disgraceful scene at, 454.

Executions, 4, 8, 9, 13, 16, 19, 39, 56, 58, 61, 64, 104, 135, 137, 140, 151, 170, 174, 175, 206, 207, 211, 220, 232, 285, 288, 295, 305, 330, 338, 343, 348, 359, 384, 401, 410, 454, 476.

. . . , at Thetford, 232.

Exhumations, 172, 485.

Expeditions to the Baltic, 65, 82; to Copenhagen, 58, 60.

Explosion on Wright’s steam packet, 145.

Eye Infirmary, Norwich, 204.

F

Factories, employment of children in, 321.

Falconry. See Hawking.

Fall of city wall, Norwich, 54.

. . . east end of St. Julian’s church, Norwich, 445.

. . . floors, 94, 219, 385; at Taverham Mills, 385.

. . . Yarmouth Suspension Bridge, 446.

. . . , singular death from a, 423.

Farmers’ funerals, 111, 351.

Farms, extent of Norfolk, 78.

Farren, Mr. (actor), 376, 398, 465.

Farren, Mr. H., 465, 471.

Farrier’s funeral, 99.

Fasting man at Buckenham, 45.

Fasts, 2, 24, 30, 38, 80, 89, 95, 103, 311, 462.

Fatal accident during a gale, 70.

Faucit (or Faucett), Mrs. (actress), 109, 169.

Faucit, Miss Helen (actress), 471.

Felo de se, 104.

Female letter-carriers, 316, 321.

. . . pedestrian, 289.

. . . quack doctor, 18.

Fight in a magistrates’ room, 422.

Fillover work, copying of patterns, 377.

“Finest barley and worst ale,” 108.

Fire alarm regarded as an April hoax, 266.

. . . at Cathedral, Norwich, 7; at Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, 431.

. . . brigade organized at Norwich, 459.

. . . engine kept in a church, 53.

. . . engines, 53, 132, 183, 386.

. . . escape, 352.

. . . Insurance Society (Norwich Union), 198.

. . . , killed at a, 218.

Fire-balls, 324.

Fires, 7, 9, 14, 30, 31, 39, 53, 65, 89, 129, 164, 187, 191, 199, 214, 218, 238, 266, 283, 290, 314, 320, 324, 331, 345, 359, 386, 394, 417, 431, 456.

First day of the century, 1.

Fish, immense captures of, 480.

Fisher, Mr. Charles, at the Prince’s Theatre, 450.

Fisher, Mr. David, at Drury Lane Theatre, 155.

Fisher family, 32, 69, 95, 113, 126, 130, 137, 155, 161, 178, 213, 218, 239, 243, 276, 316, 322, 400, 442, 450, 453.

Fisheries preservation, 383.

Fishermen drowned at Sheringham, 61.

Fishing rights at Thetford, 315.

Fitzgerald, Mr. (actor), 116, 169.

Fitzwilliam, Mrs. (actress), 432, 447.

Flaw in an indictment, 268.

Flax, cultivation of, 424.

Fleets at Yarmouth, 2, 48, 58, 60, 65, 82.

Floods, 70, 133, 178, 180, 202, 277, 355, 405, 413.

Florin, introduction of the, 478.

Flower, Sir James, as High Sheriff, 371, 376; elected member for Thetford, 409; death, 484.

“Flying Actæons,” 172.

Foot-steeplechase, 376.

Foote, Miss, 285.

Forehoe tontine, 271.

Foreign barley bought by Norwich maltsters, 170.

Forged bank notes discovered, 134.

Forgery of a will, 114.

Forncett centenarian, 133.

Fortune-telling, 131.

Foundation-stones laid, 98, 106, 149, 169, 176, 200, 234, 269, 276, 296, 298, 388, 399, 406, 427, 431, 445, 470, 473.

Foundry Bridge, 68, 72, 386, 436.

Four at a birth, 149, 168.

Fox, Charles James, 51.

Fox chased by greyhounds, 202.

. . . on cottage roof, 216.

Freedom of Norwich, 31, 38, 63, 120, 168, 189, 192, 224, 257, 285, 302, 304, 310, 324, 339.

Freemasonry, 11, 132, 175, 406, 450.

Friars’ Society, 100.

Friends’ Meeting House, Norwich, 260.

Frightened to death by a fortune-teller, 131.

. . . at a theatre, 352.

Frosts, 11, 112, 178, 262, 301, 355, 369, 404, 405, 443, 444.

Funeral at night, 89.

Fye Bridge, 276.

G

Gales, 45, 55, 60, 63, 70, 87, 148, 155, 180, 202, 203, 214, 226, 263, 277, 290, 347, 354, 357, 378, 380, 404, 432, 443, 481.

Gamecock, child attacked by a, 222.

Gaols (Norwich), 171, 234, 258, 260, 339.

Gas lighting, 122, 163, 167, 168, 231, 237, 243, 295, 301, 332, 341, 347, 368, 379, 403, 480, 482.

. . . , price of, at Norwich, 347.

Gates of Norwich, 69.

George III., Jubilee of, 76, 77; death, 179; funeral, 179; address of condolence by Norwich Corporation, 180; by the county, 181.

George IV., accession of, 179; coronation, 197; receives loyal addresses, 189; death, 296; funeral, 297.

German Legion at Norwich, 46, 129.

Ghost, Orford Hill, 259; at Syderstone Parsonage, 324.

Giants, 262, 436, 447.

Gibbets, 6, 29.

Gibbs, Capt., feat by, 140.

Gill, Mr., his first appearance at Norwich Theatre, 316; elopement with Miss Vining, 429.

Gin shops, 101.

Girl widow, 337.

Gladstone, Mr., on Norwich railway petition, 347.

Glee Club, 369.

Glory, East Indiaman, loss of, 78.

Gloucester, Prince Frederick William of, 9, 122, 132.

. . . Duke of, 173, 189; his toast at Holkham, 142.

Glover, Miss Phillis (actress), 243.

Gored by a bull, 308.

Govett, Rev. Romaine, turns Nonconformist, 438.

Gower, Lord L., at Norwich, 62.

Grossmith, W. R. (juvenile performer), 282.

Grain in distilleries, 64, 60, 88, 94.

Grammar School, Norwich, 289, 290, 326, 430, 478.

Grant, Mr. Robert, M.P., resignation of, 315.

Grave-digger in Hamlet, traditionary waistcoats of, 255.

Greenacre, James, 360.

Greenfield, Miss (actress), 90.

Gretna Green marriage, 105.

Greyhounds belonging to Lord Rivers, 251.

Grouse, black, shot at Swanton, 459.

Guardians, Norwich Court of, Amendment Bills, 264, 305; mode of election, 259; right of Corporation to elect, 296, abolition of the right, 305.

Guild Day at Norwich, 15, 49, 57, 66, 73, 84, 91, 118, 138, 148, 160, 183, 196, 209, 222, 235, 246, 257, 268, 277, 286, 296, 306, 315, 324, 332, 341.

. . . , party favours on, 160.

Guildhall, Norwich, improvements at, 347, 484.

Gully and Cribb at Norwich, 61.

Gun accidents, 213, 318, 442.

. . . , bursting of a, at Yarmouth, 213.

Gurney, Richard Hanbury, defendant in Crim. Con. action, 156, 291; marriage, 291; elected for Norwich, 305; attends Norwich Reform celebration, 314; defeated at Norwich, 319; presentation to, 332; candidate for East Norfolk, 337, 364.

Gustavus Adolphus at Yarmouth, 87.

H

Haddock’s exhibition of automata, 148.

Hailstorm Insurance Society established, 434.

Hailstorms, 148, 173, 365, 376, 430.

Hairdresser to George III., 418.

Hales, the Norfolk giant, 436, 447.

Halos round the sun, 429.

Hall Concert Society, 141, 335, 406.

Hall, Mr. C. F. (composer), 422, 440.

Hamond, Mr. Anthony, 202, 214.

Happisburgh light, birds attracted by, 450.

. . . church tower damaged by lightning, 209.

. . . , horses drowned off, 322.

. . . , poisoning cases at, 455.

Harley, Mr. (actor), 179.

Harvest ruined by heavy rains, 139.

. . . , late, 141.

Harvey, Lieut.-Col. Robert John, at Vittoria, 106; at St. Boes, 114; marriage of, 127; knighted, 144.

Hastings, Barony of, 407.

Hawking, 126, 223, 285, 338, 372.

Hayes, Capt., his long service, 218.

Health, Board of, Norwich, 454.

Heat, excessive, 34, 49, 66, 72, 377.

. . . , affects Trowse Swing Bridge, 457.

Heavy rains, 139, 173, 202, 277.

Heber, Mr., the bibliomaniac, 212.

Heigham Episcopal chapel, 381. See also Rahobeth chapel.

. . . Hall Asylum, 284.

Herring, large captures of, 192, 480.

Herring’s Antidote, 55.

Hickathrift, the Marshland giant, 349.

High Sheriff’s balloon ascent, 248.

. . . claim of exemption, 241.

. . . equipage, 108, 174, 247.

High Sheriffs, 108, 110, 241, 247, 371, 376.

Highway robberies, 65, 382.

. . . surveyors, 260.

Hillington Hall, fire at, 417.

Hinds, Bishop, installation of, 481; presented with address by Norwich Corporation, 487.

Hoaxing the public, 258, 342; the “Times,” 487.

Hobby horses, 170.

Holkham, huntsman at, 261.

. . . , irrigation at, 46.

. . . , race meeting at, 324.

. . . , ram letting at, 17.

. . . Sheep Shearing, 6, 15, 31, 41, 49, 57, 65, 72, 84, 91, 96, 106, 118, 127, 138, 148, 160, 173, 183, 196.

Holly and evergreen in churches, 88.

Hone’s trial, 153.

Hooker, Dr. W. J., 349.

Hops, cultivation of, 353, 367.

Horse packet on the Yare, 146.

. . . patrol, 110.

. . . poisoning, 270.

Horses drowned off Happisburgh, 322.

Horticultural Society, Norfolk and Norwich, 290, 326.

Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich, 15, 43, 51, 59, 67, 191, 202, 223, 241, 282, 298, 299, 314, 381, 434, 444, 449, 461, 462, 466, 467, 485.

. . . , . . . , its utility questioned, 466.

. . . , . . . , museum, 434, 449.

. . . , Diss, 386.

. . . , West Norfolk and Lynn, 339.

. . . , Yarmouth, 388.

Hoste, Captain William, his defeat of French and Italian Squadrons, 91; created baronet, 119; death, 282.

Houghton Hall, opera at, 61.

. . . purchase of, 141.

Hounds, remarkable runs of, 1, 71, 77, 112, 202, 205, 244, 284, 354, 358, 371.

Householders as special constables, 25.

Houses of Correction abolished at Aylsham and Wymondham, 240.

Howes, the bell performer, 67.

Humane jailor, 102.

Hunt dinner at East Harling, 360.

Hunting, 1, 71, 77, 112, 244, 294, 451.

. . . party threatened with legal proceedings, 451.

Hutchinson, Lord, at Norwich, 62.

I

Illegitimate children, 64.

Illuminated clock, 285.

Improvement Bills, 382, 390, 392.

Improvements at Norwich, 229, 240, 388, 390, 441.

Imprisoned by Consistory Court, 292, 442.

Imprisonment for debt, abolition of, 440.

Incendiaries, detection of, 309.

Incendiarism, increase of, 439.

Incledon, Mr. (singer), 43, 49, 74, 134, 146.

Income assessment, 13.

. . . tax, 420, 426.

Indian jugglers, 150.

Infant school system, 348.

Influenza, 357.

Informers, 233, 402, 435.

Inquest in a church porch, 298.

Insolvent Acts, 208.

. . . Debtors Act, 135, 169.

Instinct, remarkable, of coach horses, 468.

Intimidation of a clergyman, 307.

Invincible, loss of H.M.S., 3.

Irby, Captain, R.N., his services, 103; death, 437.

Irish distress, relief of, 208, 306, 461.

. . . tontine, 87.

Iron coffins, 191.

. . . tomb, 385.

J

Jermy. See Preston, Isaac.

“Jerry,” 409.

Jews baptised, 148, 270, 366.

Jews’ Society established, 150.

“Jim Crow,” 372.

Jocelyn, Lord, elected for King’s Lynn, 415.

Joint Stock Banking Company, 265.

Jones, Sir Lawrence, murdered in Turkey, 451.

Joy, Matthew, “the Walking Baker,” 223.

Jubilee of George III., 76, 77.

Judges’ lodgings, 323, 348, 395.

Judges of Assize at Attleborough church, 140.

. . . , meeting the, 247.

Jullien’s concerts, 442, 469.

Jury, long detention of, 312.

. . . of matrons, 322.

. . . of solicitors, 294.

K

Kean, Mr. (actor), 150, 172, 181.

Kean, Mr. (the younger), 277, 298.

Kean, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, 441.

Keeley, Mr. and Mrs., 401, 464.

Kelly, Mr. Fitzroy, appointed Steward of Norwich, 301.

Kelly, the Misses (actresses), 134, 143, 330.

Kemble, Miss Fanny, 468.

Kemble, Mr. and Mrs., 139, 144, 342.

Kent, Duke of, 178, 180.

Kerrison Bankruptcy, 66, 73, 79.

Kerrison, Lieut.-Col., his defeat of French Infantry, 114; recognition of his gallantry, 119; at Waterloo, 128; knighted, 122; created baronet, 198.

Kicked to death by a cow, 471.

Kidd, Rev. T., elected master of Norwich Grammar School, 290; resigns, 326.

Kidnapping, 165.

Killed by lightning, 478.

“Killing not sporting,” 381.

King Charles’s martyrdom, 63.

King and Constitution Club, 174.

Knowles, Mr. Sheridan (actor and dramatist), 346.

L

Labourers, illegal combination of, 89.

Ladybirds, swarm of, 258.

Lady Lane chapel, Norwich, 228.

Lakenham schools, 463.

Lambert, the Fat Man, 70.

Lamplighter’s funeral, 89.

Lancastrian Schools, 63, 81, 90, 95, 129.

Land Tax in Norfolk, 157.

Law Library, 239, 251.

Lay clerks’ salaries, 69.

Layton, the Wrestler, 97, 111, 116.

Leicester, Earl of, marriage, 427; lays foundation-stone of Wells Quay, 431; presents standard to Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, 432.

Leicester monument, 420, 424, 449.

Leipsic, Battle of, 110.

Lent Assizes, removal from Thetford, 254, 304.

. . . first held at Norwich, 304, 322.

Libel, 118, 279, 307, 369, 391, 470.

. . . by a clergyman, 307.

Life-saving, 35, 57, 62, 85, 193, 200, 222, 224, 227, 329, 411, 446.

Light Horse, Norwich, 6, 22, 25, 71, 127, 148, 181, 194, 197, 206, 220, 267, 415.

. . . railways first suggested, 460.

Lighting (oil) at Loddon, 36; at Norwich, 59; at Thetford, 96.

Lind, Jenny, 465, 474.

Lion tamers, 320, 407, 411, 414, 432, 442.

Liszt, M., at Norwich, 402.

Literary Institution, Norfolk and Norwich, 214, 226, 385.

Livings, purchase of, 385, 398.

Lobster in the Waveney, 306.

Longevity at Pulham Market, 87.

Long imprisonment, 151, 200, 458.

Long residence in one house, 215, 371.

Lords Lieutenant, 63, 198.

Lord’s Prayer as a charm, 427, 428.

Lotteries, 6, 35, 54, 84, 132.

Louis XVIII. at Yarmouth, 60.

Low prices, 27.

Love, Midshipman, fires first shot at bombardment of Flushing, 76.

Lover, Mr. Samuel, at Norwich, 444.

Loyal Society, 245.

Lucifer matches, 378.

Lugger race at Yarmouth, 278.

Lynn Corporation custom, 289.

. . . , election riot at, 209.

. . . Market cross, 305.

. . . Market house, 296.

. . . , May-Day at, 330, 349.

. . . Theatre, foundation-stone laid, 106; opened, 123; managed by Mr. Marsters, 205.

. . . yacht at Brussels, 16.

M

Macauley, Miss (actress), 187, 191.

Machine-breaking, 138, 205, 299, 300, 301.

. . . for removing insects, 58.

Macready, Mr. (actor), 274, 339, 447.

Mad dogs, 63, 219.

Madrigal Society, 369.

Magdalen Fair, Norwich, discontinuance of, 257.

Magistrate sentencing his servant, 94.

Mails, 38, 69, 133, 201, 338.

Malibran at Norwich Theatre, 299.

Malt Tax, 192, 217, 292, 299, 330, 458, 475.

Manby’s life-saving apparatus, 57, 62, 85, 87, 222, 224, 329, 411.

Manufactures, Norwich, 65, 66, 70, 95, 106, 107, 133, 140, 152, 177, 190, 205, 209, 213, 218, 230, 249, 252, 263, 304, 311, 375, 377, 443, 460.

Mardyn, Mrs. (actress), 137.

Market Cross sold by auction, 305.

. . . at Yarmouth removed, 350.

. . . House at Lynn, 296.

. . . tolls, 221.

Marriage by a ward in Chancery, 22; by proxy, 150; band of music at a, 156; delayed by a bride, 93; extraordinary, at Yarmouth, 284, at Fakenham, 288; military escort at a, 127; singular incident at a, 317.

Marriages: Boileau—Elliott, 251; Borrow—Clarke, 396; Brundall—Mason, 238; Coke—Keppel, 205; De Crespigny—Bathurst, 185; Craven, Earl of—Brunton, 61; Fisher—Howard, 239; Fisher—Richardson, 400; Fraser—Jerningham, 224; Jarvis—Boyles, 163; Leicester, Earl of—Whitbread, 427; Macdonald—Keppel, 174; Manby—Gooch, 156; Murray—Browne, 240; Murray—Douglas, 350; Preston—Jephson, 313; Rosebery, Earl of—Anson, 175; Thurtell—Morgan, 362; Yates—Brunton, 227.

. . . , singular, 19, 93, 284, 288, 289, 311, 397.

Marryat, Captain, sale of his libraries, &c., 344; death, 471.

Mary, Princess, at Holkham, 173.

Marshland free bridge opened, 196; causeway opened, 212.

Marshland Shales, 265.

Martin, William (artist), 279.

Masonic Hall at Yarmouth, 240.

Massacre of ship’s crew, 406.

Matches against time, 3, 17, 107, 200, 205, 361, 395, 399.

Mathematicians in humble life, 272, 303, 406, 449.

Mathew, Father, at Norwich, 431.

Mathews, Mr. (actor), 143, 148, 167, 190, 271.

Mathews, Mr. C., 387, 438.

May-day at Lynn, 330, 349.

Mayor of Norwich censured, 296.

. . . , expenses of, 31.

. . . , grave of, 304.

. . . knighted, 311.

. . . Yarmouth, mode of election, 130, 186, 212.

Mayor’s elections at Norwich, 5, 96, 104, 116, 147, 158, 181, 194, 207, 221, 245, 267, 276, 295, 306, 313, 323, 330, 339. After the passing of the Municipal Reform Act: 346, 353, 367, 378, 390, 403, 412, 423, 432, 442, 451, 458, 466, 473, 481, 488.

Mechanics’ institutes, 240, 440.

Medical and Surgical Association, 458.

. . . library, 235.

. . . registration, 441.

Menageries, 26, 80, 92, 142, 153, 232, 244, 252, 272, 273, 320, 355, 390, 412, 414, 433, 442, 451, 468.

Mendicity, Society for the Suppression of, 174.

Mengdon, Countess, 43.

Merry, Mrs. (actress), 17.

Methodist Missionary Society, 126.

Michaelmas goose dinner at the Great Hospital, 138.

Mild weather at Christmas, 165, 282, 368, 404.

Military baggage, refusing to convey, 31.

. . . bands in the Upper Close, Norwich, 82.

. . . escort at a wedding, 127.

Military funerals, 25, 41, 84, 226, 250.

. . . offences, 20, 27, 41, 293, 318.

Militia ballot, 55, 60, 305.

. . . camp at Coxheath, 33.

. . . , East Norfolk, 13, 33, 91, 271, 305.

. . . , local, 67, 70, 72, 82, 103, 104, 136.

. . . permanent staff, discharge of, 136.

. . . Regiments: Durham, 1; East Essex, 1; Rutland, 3; Shropshire, 24, 27, 29, 31, 40; Fifeshire, 36; Wiltshire, 82, 83, 84, 86.

. . . , supplementary, 8, 20.

. . . trainings, 18, 72, 82, 183.

. . . , West Norfolk, 2, 13, 20, 27, 33, 75, 87, 103, 118, 125, 129, 134, 136, 177, 183, 196, 206, 209, 230, 238, 303, 327, 383.

Militiamen’s right to vote, 70.

Miller halfpenny, 34.

Mineral spring at Mundesley, 225.

Mingay, Richard (violinist), 170, 336.

Ministers, appointment of, addresses to the King, 46.

Mock corporations, 195, 374, 485.

Montague, Miss (actress), 430.

Montes, Lola, 478.

Mori, Mr. and Mrs., 187.

Mormonites, 474.

Morris, Sam, the “Scarlet Runner,” 223.

Mounted Volunteers at a staghunt, 71.

Mountjoy (pedestrian), remarkable feats by, 399, 477.

Mousehold Heath enclosed, 4.

. . . , right of pasturage on, 7.

Mueller, leader of orchestra at Norwich Theatre, 224, 322.

Mummies discovered at Wymondham, 328.

“Mumpers,” 168.

Municipal boundaries, Norwich, 344.

. . . litigation, 352, 356.

. . . Reform Bill, 327; Commissioners’ inquiries at Norwich and Castle Rising, 327; at Yarmouth, 329; protest by Norwich Corporation, 328, 329; petitions against, 341, 342; evidence against, 342; passing of, 343; first revision of voters’ lists, 345; first elections, 345, 352; first meeting of the new Town Council, 346; corporate address to the King, 346; opposed by freemen, 395, 408.

Murder and mutilation, 271.

. . . at Norwich election, 298.

. . . , extraordinary charge of, 55.

. . . sentence reversed, 348.

. . . trial at Lynn, 113.

Murdered by lunatics, 104, 271, 314, 364, 439.

Murders, 58, 104, 109, 113, 151, 174, 206, 215, 271, 285, 288, 298, 314, 364, 401, 406, 410, 439, 445, 454, 473.

Murray family, 94, 142, 163, 168, 207, 240, 277, 280, 282, 313, 350, 383, 457.

Museum, Norfolk and Norwich, 239, 245, 251, 322, 335, 345, 358, 370, 393, 458.

Musical Festival (Triennial), 238, 241, 248, 269, 296, 325, 329, 352, 388, 422, 450, 472.

. . . , Sheriffs of London attend, 450.

. . . Festivals, 16, 77, 93, 109, 118, 151, 214, 269.

. . . performances in churches, 86, 93, 109, 118, 131, 145, 151, 156, 158, 353.

Mutiny by the 7th Hussars, 318.

. . . on H.M.S. Bounty, 185.

Mutton, low price of, 215.

N

National rate, 474.

. . . Reform Association, 480.

. . . Schools, 397, 450.

Naval abuses, 40.

. . . engagements, 28, 29, 50, 78, 91, 103.

Navigation Bill, Norwich and Yarmouth, 468.

Necton Guild, 195.

Neeche’s Gardens, Norwich, 6, 14.

“Negro Jubilee” at Sheringham, 333.

. . . minstrels, 460.

Neild, Mr., the philanthropist, 43.

Nelson annuities, 53.

. . . , Lord, at Yarmouth, 2, 7; death of, 44, 45.

. . . monument at Norwich proposed: abortive scheme, 47.

. . . at Yarmouth, 119; first stone laid, 149; singular death of the surveyor of the works, 172; work completed, 173.

. . . relic, 438.

Nemesis, H.M.S., on Happisburgh Sand, 79.

Neville, Lord, and Mr. Cobbett, 281.

New Concert Room, Norwich, 141, 335.

News of victories, 97, 98, 100, 106, 108, 110, 111, 114, 115, 127, 140.

Newsreaders, 35, 76, 195, 389, 391.

Nobleman charged with assault, 89.

Nonconformist claims, 335.

Norfolk and Norwich Bazaar, 313.

. . . and Suffolk Institution, 279.

. . . “Chronicle” burnt by Norwich mob, 188.

. . . Declaration, 146.

. . . Duke of, at Norwich, 44.

. . . Estuary works, 488.

. . . loyalty, 5.

. . . men and scientific societies, 184.

. . . Petition, 217.

. . . Rangers, 21, 25, 223.

. . . Society (or Club), 44, 185; revival of, 56.

. . . in London, 221.

Norman’s School, 395.

North Walsham church steeple, 346.

. . . Theatre opened, 276; converted into a school, 450.

“Norwich a Port,” 162, 164, 200, 213, 216, 218, 242, 253, 263, 276, 291, 325, 455.

. . . and Lowestoft Navigation Co., 310, 326, 330.

. . . Assize Bill, 310.

. . . Castle, 49, 67, 180, 259, 283, 328, 420; as a prison, 180; discovery of rooms and passages in the keep, 259; Hill enclosed, 67; restoration of, 283, 328, 420.

. . . (Connecticut), 455.

. . . Equitable Insurance Office, 291.

. . . improvements, 108.

. . . oarsmen on the Seine, 465.

. . . Poor Bill, 305.

. . . Public Library, 339, 346.

. . . recruits in the French War, 5.

. . . Union Independent Society, 257.

. . . Union Life Insurance Society, 367, 390.

Nuns of Montargis, 41, 47.

O

Oakes, Lieut.-Col. R. M., appointed Chief Constable, 390.

Oath, declining the, 412.

Observatory on Norwich Cathedral, 431.

O’Connell at Norwich, 367.

O’Connor, Feargus, at Norwich, 464, 480.

Oddfellows, 400, 480.

Oliver v. Painter, prize-fight, 184.

Ominous titles of plays, 135.

Omnibuses, 357.

O’Neil, Miss (actress), 162.

Opah, or King-fish, 82, 387.

Opera at Houghton Hall, 61.

. . . at Norwich Theatre (Italian), 346, 430, 440, 469.

Opium eating, 350.

Opulent Norfolk farmers, 321, 336.

Orange fair at Yarmouth, 426.

. . . , Prince of, at Yarmouth, 9.

. . . Societies, 236.

Orford Hill ghost, 259.

Orford, Horatio, Earl of, elected High Steward of Yarmouth, 322; dismissed from office, 346; presides at Protectionist dinner, 458.

Organists, 63, 69, 72, 115, 121, 177, 232, 358.

Organs, 13, 16, 69, 109, 110, 115, 156, 198, 232, 258, 271, 312, 329, 441, 485.

Osbaldiston, Mr. (actor), 255, 268.

Oury, Mr. and Mrs., 387.

Outrage at Fakenham, 43; at Norwich Theatre, 195; by female factory hands, 482; on a clergyman, 9.

Oyster bed at Happisburgh, 196; at Cley, 361.

P

Paganini at Norwich, 307.

Pageant at Yarmouth, 115, 153.

Painter Ned, 178, 181, 184, 203, 219, 232, 277, 293, 426; his fight with Oliver, 184; action at Assizes, 426.

Pains and Penalties, Bill of, 185, 188.

Panic at St. Margaret’s church, Lynn, 334.

Panoramas, 54, 81, 199, 215, 216, 219, 337, 362.

Panoramic view of Norwich, 74.

Pantomimes, 37, 81, 291, 433, 459, 474, 488.

Papal aggression, 488.

Paper duty, 284.

. . . mills, 76; accident at Taverham, 385.

Parachute descents, 388, 389.

Parish clerks, 90, 96, 99, 100, 109, 110, 178, 210, 308, 310, 437, 445.

. . . , funerals of, 90, 210.

Parliamentary Reform, 204, 208, 302, 313, 314, 315; re-division of the county, 315.

Parry, Captain (afterwards Sir Edward), presented with freedom of Norwich, 192, of Lynn, 254; appointed Poor-law Commissioner, 340; official visits to Boards of Guardians, 341.

Paton, Miss (Mrs. Wood), 286, 288, 313, 323, 411, 418.

Patteson, Alderman, resignation of, 306; death, 317.

Patteson, John, appointed Judge, 299; on circuit at Norwich, 400, 401, 436, 444.

“Paul Pry,” a slanderous publication, 389.

Pauper, cost of maintaining a, 368.

Pavements defective at Norwich, 131.

Paving and improvement of King’s Lynn, 53.

. . . Bills, 17, 43, 45, 234, 241, 390, 392.

Payne, the pirate, 29.

Peace of Amiens, 12, 13, 14.

. . . preliminaries, 8.

. . . rejoicings, 8, 9, 12, 13, 112, 117, 118, 124.

. . . Society, 455.

. . . with America, 124.

Pedestrianism, 31, 35, 40, 48, 138, 149, 150, 162, 171, 185, 195, 200, 205, 234, 259, 289, 350, 397, 399, 407, 418, 430, 434, 454, 477.

Peel, Major, candidate for Norwich, 255; election of, 256; receives hon. freedom, 257.

Penance in church, 274.

Penny Library, 231.

. . . post to Stalham, 128.

. . . postage, 370, 391, 428.

Pensioners, Corps of, 438, 477.

People’s College, Norwich, 477.

Peregrine falcon killed in Norwich, 378.

Perpetual motion, 223.

Peterloo incident, 176, 177.

Petty sessions, disturbance at, 422.

Pew disputes 237, 292, 442.

Pews, appropriation of, 467.

Phenomenon during thunderstorm, 236.

Philharmonic Society, 406.

“Philip Augustus,” 409.

Philipsthal’s Phantasmagoria, 59.

Phillips, Mr. and Mrs., first appearance at Norwich, 465; engaged at Norwich Theatre, 488.

Phœnix yawl, wreck of, 444.

Phonography, 447.

Phosphorus, winner of the Derby, 372.

Photography, 433.

Phrenology, 394, 478.

Picture of North Walsham steeplechase, 360.

Pigeon shooting, 141.

Pike, large, 47, 295, 330; voracity of, 214.

Pikes for special constables, 28.

Pilch, Fuller, 323, 332, 449; his single wicket match with Marsdon, 324.

Pilgrim case, 340, 348.

Pillory, 21, 98, 121.

Pinson, Mr. G., appointed Governor of County Gaol, 433.

Pirates tried at Yarmouth, 225.

Ploughing matches, 65, 311; aged competitor at, 311.

Ploughs, 419, 469.

Poaching, 37, 58, 261, 348.

Pocket-picking at an execution, 206.

Pockthorpe Guild, 374, 485.

Poisoning at Burnham Westgate, 343, 348; Happisburgh, 455; Hempnall, 384; Tibenham, 462; Wighton, 322; Yarmouth, 245.

Police, 189, 300, 347, 390.

Polito’s menagerie, 26, 92, 101.

Polka, introduction of, 439.

Poll-book, attempted mutilation of a, 320.

Polytechnic exhibition at Norwich, 403.

Poor-law relief, 56, 195, 252, 253, 259, 305, 342, 359, 365, 435, 462.

Porpoise captured at West Somerton, 377.

Porson, Richard, 68, 416.

Portrait of Mr. T. W. Coke, 112.

Portraits at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, 8, 19, 29, 50, 92, 120, 168, 203, 227, 252, 256, 270, 281, 345, 381.

Postal deliveries on Sunday, 397.

Posting charges, 12, 72, 89, 331.

Postman, a crippled, 406.

Postmaster of Norwich, 132.

Postmasters, 221, 222, 331.

Potash Farm, sale of, 486.

Poulteney, Sir James, tragic death of, 90.

Power, Mr. (actor), 295, 310.

Power, Rev. A. Bath, and the electric telegraph, 459, 466.

Prendergast, Mr., qualifies as Recorder of Norwich, 474.

Presentations, 32, 42, 64, 88, 95, 101, 108, 117, 122, 124, 133, 149, 172, 173, 187, 199, 203, 213, 215, 220, 241, 240, 243, 246, 248, 249, 253, 256, 286, 290, 296, 327, 332, 335, 345, 348, 366, 377, 381, 398, 400, 413, 454, 477.

Press gangs, 19, 40, 126.

Preston, Isaac, appointed Steward of Norwich, 262; appointed Recorder, 301; marriage, 313; claimant to the Stanfield property, 378; action against James Blomfield Rush, 469; murdered by Rush, 473.

Preston, Sir Thomas, 122.

Prices of provisions, &c., 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 68, 72, 94, 136.

Priest, Rev. St. John, 135, 163.

Prince of Wales, birth of, 412; christening, 415.

Prince’s Street chapel, Norwich, 169.

Printer’s name omitted from a publication, 113, 118.

Prisoners’ alms boxes, 83.

Prisoners of war, 13, 29, 36, 55, 75, 111, 113, 115, 118.

. . . drowned, 55.

Private stills, 323, 434.

Privateers, 36, 50, 61.

Prize-fights, 31, 66, 79, 84, 92, 123, 127, 129, 137, 142, 153, 158, 170, 174, 176, 180, 181, 184, 186, 187, 203, 210, 214, 222, 225, 233, 234, 239, 244, 259, 268, 277, 284, 292, 366, 370, 379, 381, 386, 387, 391, 448, 450.

. . . , fatal, 214, 225.

. . . on Sunday, 187, 381, 386.

Proclamation of George IV., 179; of William IV., 297; of Victoria, 363.

Property, re-valuation of, 43, 147, 153.

. . . tax, 122, 133.

Protection, 407, 434, 452, 458, 482.

Protestant movement, 289.

Public breakfasting, 59.

. . . discussions, 364.

. . . Dispensary, Norwich, 19.

. . . meetings in parish churches, 377, 418.

Publicans’ licences refused, 59.

Publication of local works, 192, 386, 397, 416, 417, 421, 432.

Pugilists at Norwich, 70, 93, 160, 184, 426.

Pump in St. Lawrence, Norwich, 196.

Pump-room and baths at Thetford, 176.

Pye’s almshouses, 259, 260.

Q

Quakers, 9, 129, 249, 260, 444.

Quarter Sessions, Norfolk, 9, 24, 73, 82, 106, 120, 138, 163, 166, 190, 201, 210, 220, 229, 240, 278, 292, 295, 300, 301, 310, 319, 389, 423, 435, 467.

. . . , Chairmen of, 201, 293, 305, 306, 320, 395.

. . . , Norwich, 54, 66, 73, 85, 101, 118, 126, 128, 135, 190, 216, 219, 226, 259, 260, 302, 391, 412, 413, 443.

Queen Caroline, 185, 188, 198.

. . . Dowager, death of, 481.

. . . , death of, 164, 165.

Victoria, accession, 362; proclamation, 363; addresses from Norwich Corporation, 363, 385, 398, 412; coronation, 374; marriage, 393; attempted assassinations of, 398, 476, and Norfolk farmer, 469; voyages to Scotland, 421, 441, 471; birthday celebrations, 476, 485.

Queen’s Speech first telegraphed to Norwich, 466.

R

Raby Castle s.s., wreck of, 357.

Race meetings, 16, 20, 35, 43, 52, 60, 69, 73, 75, 93, 98, 119, 124, 161, 238, 294, 324, 375, 388, 401, 408, 420, 470.

Rahobeth chapel, Norwich, 225, 381.

Railway first suggested, 154.

Railways: Norfolk and Suffolk Company projected, 240; Eastern Counties line, 334, 360, 384, 400; proposed line via Cambridge, 334, 344, 347, 404; Yarmouth and Norwich line, 344, 347, 413, 427, 436, 437, 440, 450; Norfolk line, 404, 448; Norwich and Brandon line, 432, 449; Wymondham and Dereham line, 441, 459, 461; line from Lynn to Downham, 458; Lynn to Narborough, 458; Narborough to Swaffham, 464; Lynn to Ely, 466; Swaffham to Dereham, 471; Dereham to Fakenham, 475; Reedham to Lowestoft, 463; Norwich extension of the Ipswich and Bury line, 462; opening of, 481; light railway first suggested, 460; third-class carriages, 437; goods conveyed, 440, 459; action against Yarmouth and Norwich Company, 440; steamboat excursion in connection with railway, 457; accident, 451; excursion trains, 456, 476; fourth-class tickets, 459; running of an excursion train to an execution, 476; trains delayed by snow, 481, 483; strike of firemen and engine-drivers, 486.

. . . , effect of: Sale of coach horses, 449; discontinuance of coaches, 453; diminution of road traffic, 453; public-houses, 453; coal trade, 456; neglect of roads, 459; price of land, 469.

Rainham Hall, festivities at, 67.

Rams’ horns at a wedding, 289.

Ranelagh Gardens, Norwich, 59, 78, 199, 215, 236, 241, 354, 355, 368, 379, 390, 401, 412, 414; amphitheatre and saloon at, 401; corn market held at, 236; theatre at, 368, 401. (See also Victoria Gardens.)

Ranger cutter, loss of, 214.

Rates raised in Norfolk, 125.

Rat Society at Swaffham, 233.

Read, Miss, Norwich actress, 350.

Reading-desk at Norwich Cathedral, 400.

Re-burials at Costessey Hall, 463.

Recorders of Norwich, 2, 29, 215, 261, 301, 474.

Recruiting by beat of drum, 125.

Reeves, Mr. Sims, 469, 472, 482.

Reffley fête, 14.

Reform of the House of Commons, 141; demonstration at Norwich, 314.

Regattas, 32, 50, 66, 85, 92, 212, 225.

Regent, Prince, at Norwich, 100; attack on, 143, 146.

Regiments—Cavalry: 1st Dragoon Guards, 28, 254, 255, 319; 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), 236, 245, 331, 339; 3rd Dragoon Guards, 10, 363; 4th Dragoon Guards, 198, 202, 374, 378, 380, 383; 5th Dragoon Guards, 82, 121, 150, 161; 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), 454; 7th Dragoon Guards, 206, 209, 210, 285, 287, 292, 293, 295, 406, 409, 410; 1st Royal Dragoons, 135, 136, 138, 150, 223, 295, 297, 300, 301, 308, 312; 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), 246, 250, 251, 253, 254, 427, 436; 3rd Light Dragoons (3rd Hussars), 322, 330, 331; 4th Light Dragoons (4th Hussars), 438, 447; 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, 274, 280, 339, 342, 349; 7th Light Dragoons (7th Hussars), 49, 311, 318, 319, 322, 447, 454; 8th Royal Irish Hussars, 226, 234, 235, 397, 406; 9th Lancers, 174, 176, 185, 194, 197, 198, 383, 393, 394, 397; 10th Light Dragoons (10th Hussars), 182; 11th Light Dragoons (11th Hussars), 256, 485; 12th Lancers, 265, 267, 274, 280, 283; 13th Light Dragoons (13th Hussars), 1, 4, 6, 410, 416, 418, 427, 458; 14th Light Dragoons (14th Hussars), 176, 181, 182; 15th Light Dragoons (15th Hussars), 161, 163, 174, 223; 16th Lancers, 469, 470, 476, 481, 484; 17th Lancers, 349, 363; 24th Light Dragoons (disbanded), 171; Royal Artillery, 28; Brunswick Hussars, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127; German Legion, 46, 129.

. . . Infantry: 4th Foot, 46; 12th Foot, 319; 23rd Foot, 46; 24th Foot, 29, 83; 28th Foot, 46; 40th Foot, 255, 262; 47th Foot, 22, 28; 54th Foot, 83; Rifle Brigade, 46.

Registration Act, 358, 363.

Rejoicings at Thetford, 116.

Relief of the Poor, subscriptions for, 1, 142, 252, 355; relief works, 144, 252.

. . . of Germans, 113; Irish, 208, 306, 461; Russians, 103; Scilly islanders, 169; Spaniards, 223.

Religious instruction, 331, 373.

. . . mania, 235.

Remarkable woman, 311, 316, 321.

Rents, reduction of, 136.

Reporters at Norwich Corporation meetings, 267.

. . . Norfolk magistrates’ meeting, 278.

Reporter’s life-saving invention, 446.

Restoration of Charles II., 126, 222.

Resurrection men, 232, 241, 261, 272, 273, 283, 289, 300, 319.

. . . , precautions against, 191, 283.

Rigby, Dr., 200.

Rioters dispersed by the Norfolk Hunt, 300.

Riots, 3, 9, 122, 124, 136, 138, 205, 209, 210, 253, 267, 287, 292, 299, 300, 301, 319, 342, 378, 408, 409, 416, 459.

River robberies, 79.

Road improvement at Lakenham, 462.

Roads, neglect of, 459.

Robberies on the Yare, 182.

Robbery at a jeweller’s shop, 462.

Rolfe, Baron, and the Rush trial, 475; elevated to the Peerage as Baron Cranworth, 488.

Roman Catholic claims, 102, 182, 244, 265, 284.

. . . chapel, Norwich, 269, 289.

Romney, loss of H.M.S., 36.

Rook shooting, 233.

“Roope’s Weekly Letters,” 85.

Rosary Burial Ground, Norwich, 231.

Rotterdam, excursions to, 246, 457.

Rough Hussars, 91.

Rough-legged falcons, 141.

Rowing feats, 234, 235, 465, 477.

. . . matches, 19, 48, 56, 68, 105, 106, 108, 140, 159, 161, 411, 421, 439, 470, 482.

Royal Agricultural Society at Norwich, 477.

. . . progresses, 212, 343.

. . . visits to Norfolk, 76, 94, 100, 110, 122, 131, 188, 343.

Runaway coach-horses, 36, 323, 426.

Rural police, 390, 391, 414.

Rush James Blomfield: Tragic death of his father, 442; sued by Mr. Jermy, 469; murders Mr. Jermy and Mr. Jermy Jermy, 473; trial, 475; execution, 476.

Rushes in Norwich Cathedral, 296, 332.

Russell, Henry (entertainer), 463, 470.

Ryder, Mr. (actor), 447.

S

Sailing matches, 163.

St. Andrew’s Day celebration, 251.

. . . Hall, Norwich, 196; used as a corn exchange, 50.

St. Crispin, Festival of, 110.

St. Crowche church, Norwich, 333.

St. Domingo Bay, battle in, 47.

St. Faith’s Fair, regular attendant at, 99.

St. George’s Day celebration, 194.

St. Mark’s church, Lakenham, 427.

St. Michael-at-Coslany Bridge, 28.

St. Stephen’s pit, Norwich, 127.

Salmon taken at Norwich, 168, 473; at Hellesdon, 445.

Sandford, Emily, 473.

Sanitary measures at Norwich, 445, 454, 484.

Savings Bank, Norwich, 135.

Saxon font at Great Hautbois, 43.

. . . remains at Norwich, 35.

Scarcity of provisions, 1.

Scarlett, Hon. Robert Campbell, adopted candidate for Norwich, 336; attacked at Norwich Corn Exchange, 336; returned for Norwich, 337, 363; receives freedom of the city, 338; unseated on petition, 373.

Scarlett, Sir James, returned for Norwich, 319; receives honorary freedom, 324; presented with a banner, 324; appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 336; adopts supporters of the Norwich Arms, 337; on circuit at Norwich, 338, 436; presented with congratulatory address, 338; receives deputation of Norwich merchants, 436; death, 436.

Scarning Free School, 166.

School of Design, 367, 373, 453.

Scilly Islands relief fund, 169.

Sciæna aquila, 412.

“Scissor artist,” 217.

Scragg’s Company of Comedians, 95, 97.

Seaborne vessels at Norwich, 276, 325, 453, 455.

Sea fencibles, 26, 28, 30.

Seaman’s funeral, 374.

Seaman’s museum of natural history, 160.

“Searcher,” a scurrilous publication, 391.

Searchers and sealers of leather, 17.

Sea serpent, 227.

. . . walls, 21.

Sedan chair for conveyance of voter, 105.

Sedgwick, Rev. A., installed prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, 335; lectures at Norfolk and Norwich Museum, 345.

Sedition, 82.

Seed, vitality of, 350.

Sentry sleeping at his post, 293.

Settlement, Law of, 445, 462, 474.

Sexton’s funeral, 90.

Sham fights, 24, 30, 34.

Shark captured off Yarmouth, 51.

Sharpshooters, 34.

Shawls, 57, 65, 106, 323.

Sheep drowned at Wells, 148.

Shelley, Mr. W. (actor), 471.

Sheriff, disturbance at swearing in of, 279.

. . . , litigation arising from election of, 280.

Sheriffs’ elections at Norwich, 120, 131, 150, 186, 199, 237, 248, 258, 269, 279, 288, 298, 308, 317, 324, 325, 334, 343; appointments under the Reform Act, 346, 353, 367, 378, 390, 403, 412, 423, 432, 442, 451, 458, 466, 473, 481, 488.

Shipbuilding in Norfolk, 22, 30, 34, 39, 48, 51, 52, 64, 100, 147, 215, 229, 234, 258, 275, 283, 285, 290, 299, 306, 313, 321, 348, 392, 463, 487.

Shipdham cattle fair, 286.

Ships in Yarmouth Roads, 378.

. . . launched at Norwich, 283, 306, 313.

Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, 446.

Shipwrecks. See Wrecks.

Shirehall, Norwich, 56, 201, 229.

Shocking occurrence at Catton, 365, 372.

Shoemaker’s funeral, 178.

Shoes burnt in Norwich, 17.

Shooting, 10, 34, 60, 69, 109, 164, 225, 233, 249, 250, 334, 381, 403, 417.

. . . , remarkable feats of, 41, 165, 186, 334, 417.

Shore’s menagerie, 153, 244.

Shows and exhibitions, 4, 50, 67, 70, 79, 90, 94, 123, 148, 150, 153, 160, 164, 166, 171, 197, 205, 227, 241, 246, 262.

Shrievalty declined at Norwich, 32.

Sick Poor Repository, 156.

Sidney, Mr., engaged at Adelphi Theatre, Norwich, 473.

Signal flags, 23, 28.

Silk duties, 230, 249.

Silver tickets, 45.

Simony, 206.

Sinclair, Mr. (actor), 154, 373.

Skating, 253, 404.

. . . on wheels, 414.

Skeletons found, 191, 199, 423, 465.

Skipper (Norwich pugilist), 12.

Skipper (pedestrian), 149, 150, 162, 200, 205, 418.

Slavery, 118, 174, 220, 229, 250, 251, 276, 333, 368, 376, 403, 487.

Sledges, 369.

Sloman, Mrs. (actress), 239.

Small holdings, 10.

Small-pox, 41, 97, 102, 167, 172, 173, 194, 382, 445, 447.

. . . , Lord Montrath’s dread of, 12.

Small Tenements Bill (Norwich), 463.

Smith, Colonel, of Ellingham, 440.

Smith, Mr. William, M.P., resignation of, 297.

Smith, Sir James E., 119, 177, 184.

Smith, Sir Sidney, at Yarmouth, 29.

Smithson, Miss, at Norwich Theatre, 305.

Smuggling, 10, 37, 47, 60, 101, 125, 145, 194, 205, 229, 288, 290, 319, 321, 351, 379, 485.

“Snap,” 246, 341.

Snipe, H.M.S., wreck of, 55.

Snow, heavy falls of, 54, 63, 69, 112, 263, 293, 355, 369, 383, 424, 459, 481, 483.

. . . in May, 14.

Snow, Mr., “the Ude of Norwich,” 345, 387.

Socialism, 375.

Society for the Education of the Poor, 97.

Somnolence, remarkable case of, 393.

Soult, defeat of, 111.

Spain and Portugal aided, 66.

Spanish relief, 223.

Speaker of the Common Council, 6, 182, 263, 270, 336.

Speech boys (or orators) on Norwich Guild Day, 91, 106, 209, 222, 332, 341.

. . . day at Norwich Grammar School, 106.

S.P.G., special collections for, 170.

Spinning, 2, 86, 325.

Spire of St. Gregory, Norwich, 45.

Spohr at Norwich, 388.

Springfield, T. O., elected Mayor, 285, 346; sworn in, 286; censured by Corporation, 296; municipal litigation, 353.

Spring guns, 130, 239.

Stack firing, 60, 154.

Stafford, Barony of, 235.

Stage spectacle, “The Coronation,” 205.

Stage waggons, 83, 152, 173, 191, 210, 233, 334, 371.

Stagorians, 99, 103, 146, 232.

. . . attacked by mob, 147.

Stained glass window at Hingham church, 108.

Stallage charges in Norwich Market, 333; letting of, 358.

Stallion, alleged unlawful exhibition of a, 125.

Stanfield Hall murders, 473, 475, 476.

. . . riot, 378.

Stanley, Bishop, 360; enthronement of, 361; supports temperance movement, 366; entertains Jenny Lind, 465, 474; death, 479.

Starlings’ nest in a dead body, 6.

Steamboats, 108, 139, 141, 145, 236, 239, 246.

Steam carriages, 323, 415, 428.

Steam Mill Company, Norwich, 2, 66, 141.

Steeplechases, 294, 312, 359, 383, 392, 404, 455, 476.

Stewards of Norwich, 2, 19, 55, 84, 98, 215, 262, 301, 336.

Stoke Mills mustard manufactory, 116.

Storm, remarkable, at Norwich, 430.

Stormont, Lord, returned for Norwich, 319, 337; receives honorary freedom, 324; presented with a banner, 324; attacked at Norwich Corn Exchange, 336; secures acceleration of the mails, 338; resignation, 357.

Stratford, the poisoner, trial of, 288.

Stream, right to the use of a, 483.

Streets, new, at Norwich, 40.

Strolling players, 275.

Strong men, 283.

Strikes, 42, 122, 253, 375, 416, 486.

Sturgeon, 477, 484.

Subsidence of a cottage, 227.

Sugar bounties and duties, 276.

Suicide after an election, 373.

. . . , remarkable, at Norwich, 92; at Yarmouth, 49.

Sunday, desecration of, 39, 152, 187, 190, 381, 386, 453.

. . . postal delivery, 397.

. . . prize-fights on, 187, 381, 386.

. . . schools, 157.

. . . trading, 453.

Superstitious ceremony at Norwich, 396.

Surgeon, remarkable charge against a, 444.

Surrey Gardens, Norwich, 268.

Surveyor of Bridges, election of, 349.

Suspension Bridge at Yarmouth, 285.

. . . for neglect of ministerial duties, 158.

Sussex, Duke of, 213, 250, 323, 428.

Sutherland, Mrs. Sinclair, her remarkable case, 73.

Sutton, Archbishop Manners, 37.

Swaffham Quarter Sessions, 371.

. . . Races, 289; curious wagers at, 289.

. . . Shirehall, 375.

. . . Theatre, 213; advertised for sale, 442.

Swan for the Royal table, 309.

Swans at civic feast, 405.

Swimming, remarkable feat of, 344.

Syderstone ghost, 324.

Sydney, Lord, High Steward of Yarmouth, 132.

Synagogue, 470.

T

Tavistock Canal tunnel, 140.

Tawell, John, Salt Hill murderer, 444.

Taxation, 346.

Telegraph electric, 450, 457, 459, 466.

Telegraphs, 23, 39, 62.

Temperance movement, 366, 388, 431.

Tenant’s legacy to his landlord’s daughter, 103.

Test Act, 4.

Testerton Park prize-fight, 203.

Thalberg (pianist), 366.

Thanksgiving celebrations, 44, 112, 132.

Theatre, New, at Norwich: circus at, 422; disturbances at, 268; equestrian spectacles, 380; free performances, 393; masquerade and fancy dress ball, 470; Mayor and Sheriff decline their patronage, 349; opening of, 254; performance stopped by thunderstorm, 430; performances with wild beasts, 407, 432; reduction of prices, 424, 447, 459; restoration, 351; Tom Thumb at, 439; underselling of tickets, 463; used as a banquetting-room, 374; versus circus, 392.

. . ., Old: Fall of roof, 296.

Theatres, Norwich, 1, 3, 5, 15, 30, 35, 37, 39, 43, 45, 46, 49, 51, 57, 61, 63, 64, 70, 72, 74, 80, 81, 90, 94, 105, 123, 125, 131, 133, 134, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 150, 154, 158, 159, 161, 162, 167, 168, 169, 170, 179, 180, 181, 183, 187, 190, 192, 193, 195, 199, 205, 210, 211, 214, 216, 219, 222, 224, 226, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 239, 241, 243, 245, 265, 268, 271, 273, 274, 275, 277, 278, 283, 284, 285, 287, 288, 291, 293, 295, 296, 298, 299, 305, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 316, 323, 329, 331, 332, 339, 340, 341, 342, 346, 349, 350, 351, 361, 369, 372, 373, 376, 386, 387, 392, 393, 397, 398, 401, 405, 406, 407, 413, 417, 418, 424, 427, 428, 430, 432, 433, 436, 438, 439, 441, 447, 448, 452, 457, 459, 460, 463, 464, 465, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 474, 484, 486, 488.

. . . managers of, 144, 187, 216, 226, 231, 233, 243, 271, 273, 331, 386, 387, 411, 438, 448, 452, 457, 463, 473, 474, 484.

. . . new plays at, 35, 70, 105, 125, 146, 169, 181, 192, 211, 218, 222, 258, 286, 331, 341, 361, 406, 427, 434.

Theatrical Fund, Norwich, 5, 81, 192.

Thetford Assizes, removal to Norwich, 75, 167, 220, 228, 242, 295, 303, 304, 310, 312.

. . . Corporation dinner, 68.

. . . Court of Pleas, 315.

. . . Sheep Fair, 48.

“The Tour,” a poem, 386.

Thillon, Madame Anna, 469.

Thiodon’s automata, 164.

Thorogood, the coachman, 193; remarkable driving feats by, 212, 246, 250.

Thorpe Asylum, 89, 116, 444.

Threatening a reporter, 404.

Threshing machines, 34, 41.

Thunderstorms, 33, 67, 91, 134, 138, 173, 209, 236, 324, 332, 377, 419, 430.

Thurlow (pedestrian), 418.

Thurtell family, 202, 217, 218, 229, 245, 274, 276, 283, 286, 287, 362, 454, 467, 468.

Thurtell, George, charged with assault, 455; with theft, 467; death in prison, 468.

Thurtell, John, his story of a robbery in Chapel Field, 190; execution of, 229; reference to, 455, 468.

Thurtell, Thomas, sworn in as Sheriff of Norwich, 131; ominous titles of plays at his theatrical bespeak, 135; elected Mayor, 276; allegations on retiring from office, 286; dinner to, 287; death, 454.

Tibenham poisonings, 462.

Tide low at Yarmouth, 369.

Tides high at Yarmouth, 133, 241, 347, 443.

. . . at Wells, 148, 466.

Tiger, escape of a, 451.

Tight rope performer at Norwich Theatre, 30.

Tillett, Jacob Henry, phrenologically described, 479.

“Times” hoaxed, 487.

Tithe cases, 74, 75, 90, 247, 257, 307.

Tithes, commutation of, 137, 359.

Titchfield, Marquis of, elected for Lynn, 204.

Tobacco in bond, 367.

“Tobacco, snuff, and red herrings,” 80.

Toll demanded of soldiers, 163.

Tolls (market), 358.

“Tom and Jerry” (burletta), 227.

Tombland Fair, Norwich, 82, 90, 155, 275, 358.

. . . , removed to Castle Meadow, 155.

Tom Thumb at Norwich, 439.

Tonnage Bill, 386.

“Tory,” derivation of, 316.

Tounshend (pedestrian), 234.

Tower half-pence, 121.

Tower of St. John Madder-market, 199.

. . . St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, 53.

Town Clerks of Norwich, 260, 336.

. . . Council, first meeting of the reformed, 346; proposal to admit the public, 350.

Trade with Yorkshire, 161.

Trafalgar, Battle of, 44.

Tragic death of a clergyman, 261.

Training Act, 55.

Tread-wheel, 219, 220, 226.

. . . , fatal accident on, 226.

Tree, Miss Ellen (actress), 401, 405.

Trees planted at Norwich, 123.

Trial of speed between the Westacre and Melton Constable hounds, 273.

Triplets, 31.

Troops embarked at Yarmouth, 73.

. . . landed at Yarmouth, 46.

Trotting matches, 1, 52, 85, 103, 107, 219, 235, 323, 361, 381, 395.

Trout taken at Norwich, 132, 141, 151, 403, 459.

Trowse Swing Bridge, 449, 450, 457.

Trumpet herald to Norwich comedians, 18.

Turkeys, 79, 89, 153, 309, 368, 380, 424, 433.

Turner, Rev. C., elected perpetual curate of St. Peter Mancroft, 470.

Turnips, preservation of, 115.

Turnpikes, 229.

Turtle at civic dinner, 187.

Tussaud’s exhibition at Norwich, 166, 246.

Twelfth Day in Norwich, 153.

Twenty-fourth Light Dragoons disbanded, 171.

Twin steamer built at Wells, 299.

U

Uniform of Norwich Rifle Corps, 26.

. . . Norfolk Cricket Club, 262.

. . . Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, 309, 397, 432.

. . . Norwich police, 347.

. . . Norwich Enrolled Pensioners, 438.

. . . 11th Hussars, 485.

Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1.

Unitarian Society, 107, 381.

Universal Goodwill, Society of, 25, 36, 53, 61.

Urns found at Caister, 125.

“Utter barrister,” 261.

V

Vaccination, 41, 97, 101, 102, 167, 173, 194, 447, 466.

Valpy, Rev. Edward, elected headmaster of Norwich Grammar School, 87; resigns, 289; death, 313.

Vaults discovered at Norwich, 228.

Venison feast at Fakenham, 8.

Ventriloquists, 212, 224.

Vestris, Madame, 287, 387, 438.

Victoria Gardens, Norwich, 433, 443, 465, 474, 479; Adelphi Theatre at, 465, 473; circus, 474; dismantled, 479.

Victoria Hotel, Yarmouth, 406.

Victoria, Princess, at Holkham Park, 343; celebration of her birthday, 362; accession and proclamation of, 362. (See also Queen Victoria.)

Villecrop hoax at Norwich, 258.

Vinegar and mustard works, 143.

Vining (actors and actresses), 109, 199, 222, 250, 329, 398, 424, 428, 428, 486.

Vittoria, battle of, 106, 107; its effect on Norwich manufactures, 107.

Volunteer corps, 6, 8, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 50, 59, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 74, 103, 104, 108.

. . . disbandment of, 103.

. . . clothing made by Lynn ladies, 28.

Voracious sow, 161.

Voters’ register, failing to deliver, 384; revision of, 318.

W

Wagers, 21, 22, 27, 39, 40, 59, 109, 125, 140, 149, 165, 233, 259, 289, 360, 385, 386, 430.

Walcheren expedition, 78.

Wallack, Mr. (actor), 308, 434.

Walloon congregation, 30.

Waltz, introduction of, 269.

Wandering piper, 319.

Wanstead House, purchase of, 221.

Watchmen, 51, 95, 157, 215, 239.

Waterloo, battle of, 127.

. . . , Norfolk officers at, 128.

. . . , sick and wounded from, 128.

. . . , public subscription in respect of, 128.

. . . , anniversary dinner, 138, 196.

Water frolics. (See Regattas.)

Water surreptitiously obtained, 8.

Water velocipede hoax at Lynn, 208.

Waterworks prosecution, 8.

Waterworks (Norwich), 482; opening of, 483.

Waylett, Mrs. (actress), 323.

Weavers, 76, 95, 209, 213, 224, 252, 253, 263, 267, 287, 292, 375, 377, 416.

Weavers’ riots, 253, 267, 287, 292, 375.

Webster, Mr. (actor), 430, 439, 470.

Wellington, Duke of, at Norwich, 177, 178, 189.

Wells harbour improvement, 34.

Wemyss, Earl of, smack, wreck of, 325; case at Norfolk Assizes, 326.

Wesleyan schism, 480.

Wesleyans, 256, 357, 372, 389, 415, 450, 480.

West, Mrs. W., at Norwich Theatre, 295.

Whale, skeleton of, 354.

Whales captured, 207, 300, 421.

Whaler at Lynn, 162.

Wheel machine driven by manual power, 432.

Whifflers, reappearance of, 472.

Whipping in public, 29, 39, 73, 149, 164, 296.

Whirlwinds, remarkable, 43, 275, 429.

White sparrowhawk, 377.

Wife selling, 38, 199, 221, 417, 418.

Wiggens (coachman), 259, 377, 413, 425, 437.

Wilkins, William (architect), 260.

Will extraordinary, 485.

William IV. proclaimed King, 297; coronation of, 308; receives address from Norwich Corporation, 315; death, 362.

Wilson, the pedestrian, 138.

Windham, William, death of, 83.

Window duty, 97.

Windows in Norwich Cathedral, 255.

Wine, Bishop Bathurst’s, 359.

. . . , duty on at Lynn, 7.

. . . , Lord Suffield’s, 385.

Winthuysen’s sword, 48.

Witchcraft, belief in, 428, 429.

Wodehouse, Rev. C. N., installed prebendary, 148.

Woman with two husbands, 164.

Women at prize-fights, 153, 158.

Wombwell’s menagerie, 142, 165, 193, 206, 232, 252, 390, 414, 433, 468.

Wood pavements, 398, 412.

Wooden leg race, 125.

Woolcombers, 372, 415.

Wool, importation and exportation of, 135, 177, 195, 230.

Woolley, Rev. John, elected headmaster of Norwich Grammar School, 478.

Workhouse, fire at Rollesby, 359.

Workhouses, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22, 31, 43, 359, 459, 460, 470.

. . . , insubordination in, 359, 469, 460, 470.

. . . , separation of married couples in, 359, 470.

Wreckers, lawless conduct of, 345, 357.

Wrecks, 55, 63, 87, 139, 202, 203, 214, 226, 227, 263, 290, 322, 325, 345, 355, 357, 370, 380, 404, 432, 444.

Wrestling, 49, 60, 97, 111, 116, 127, 137, 148, 149.

Wroxham Regatta, 7.

Y

Yacht built at Woodton, 281.

Yarham, the murderer, 445, 454.

Yarmouth Bridge accident, 446.

. . . churches, 307, 328.

. . . Court of Gaol delivery, 225.

. . . Disfranchisement Bill, 468.

. . . Guildhall, 477.

. . . Hospital, 388.

. . . Improvement Act, 88.

. . . parish church, mutilation of, 398.

. . . Port and Haven Bill, 330, 340.

Yarn Company and Factory, 325, 329, 349, 350, 354, 374, 379, 486.

Yates, Mr. and Mrs., 268, 323, 351, 401, 419, 436.

Yaxley Barracks, 13.

Yelloly, Dr., 202.

Yeomanry Cavalry, 8, 10, 13, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34, 42, 69, 80, 84, 136, 145, 148, 161, 181, 206, 223, 225, 234, 256, 266, 271, 308, 386, 371, 378, 385, 397, 400, 407, 415, 418, 428, 432, 438, 447, 455, 463, 470, 476.

. . . , disbandment of, 371, 476.

. . . , escort prisoners, 266.

York, Duke of, 110, 188, 189, 215, 262; receives honorary freedom of Norwich, 189; death, 262.

Young, Mr. (actor), 175, 179.

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