24.—The annual dinner held at Norwich in celebration of the birthday of Fox was attended by H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Albemarle (who presided), Mr. T. W. Coke, and many other representatives of the Whig nobility and gentry of the county.
28.—Two Corsican stags, presented by Lord Maynard to Mr. Robert Hamond, gave the Westacre Hunt good sport this season. “The first was turned off at Rougham on the 28th, and gave them a severe chase of nearly three hours, from the effects of which two horses died. They are very superior to the red deer of this country from their capability to endure extreme fatigue and to take the most extraordinary leaps.”
31.—Norwich Theatre was opened for the season with the grand spectacle of “The Coronation.”
FEBRUARY.
1.—Lord Henry Cholmondeley was elected Member of Parliament for the borough of Castle Rising, in the room of the Earl of Rocksavage, created a peer by the title of Baron Newburgh.
11.—The Papyruseum, an exhibition of models formed of paper by Mrs. Aberdein, was opened at the White Swan Inn, Norwich.
14.—A smuggling boat landed 80 tubs of gin and brandy on Snettisham beach. The crew of the preventive boat seized the cargo, a portion of which with their boat was rescued by the smugglers, who had the assistance of about 100 persons, some of whom were armed with bludgeons and fowling pieces. Twenty or thirty horses and carts were in waiting to remove the contraband goods. Two of the smugglers were wounded in the affray.
18.—Lynn Theatre was opened under the management of Mr. T. Marsters.
19.—Skipper, the Norwich pedestrian, walked 50 miles in a few minutes under eleven hours at Lynn.
23.*—“We understand that the manufactory of bombazines and crapes in Norwich is likely to be affected from the circumstance of those articles being now made in considerable quantities in various parts of Lancashire at a much lower rate of wages for the weaving than that which is paid here.”