10.*—(Advt.) “Mr. Edward Painter informs his friends and the public that his horse, the celebrated Tam o’ Shanter, will be shown upon Norwich Hill this day, and every Saturday during the season, at 12 o’clock. His trotting and other paces the proprietor leaves for the public at large to be their own judges, as puffing is quite out of the question. N.B.—Tam o’ Shanter will be found at the White Hart, St. Peter’s, Norwich.”
—*“Miss Bathurst, daughter of the late Mr. Benjamin Bathurst, and granddaughter of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, was riding in Rome on horseback, accompanied by Lord and Lady Aylmer and the Duc de Montmorency, when her horse slipped down the steep bank into the Tiber, and with its rider was washed away, and never seen again.” The body of Miss Bathurst was recovered on September 26th.
—The proprietors of the Expedition coach started new coaches, called the Magnet, which ran from the Swan Inn and Rampant Horse Inn, Norwich, each afternoon at four o’clock and arrived in London at seven in the morning. The return coach left the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, at six p.m., called at the White Horse, Fetter Lane, at 6.20, the Cross Keys, Wood Street, at 6.30, “cleared” from the Flower Pot and Bull Inns at seven o’clock, and arrived at Norwich at nine the next morning.
—The following malefactors were executed at Thetford: James Reeve for rape; Miles Wiseman for shooting at and wounding William Everett, gamekeeper, at Rackheath; and Robert Gibson for sheep stealing. “The body of Wiseman was buried at Hardingham churchyard, whence it was stolen by resurrection men, who had been observed lurking about the chief part of the previous day.”
15.—Wombwell’s National Menagerie was exhibited at Tombland Fair, Norwich. It was described as “the greatest variety of living animals ever collected together since the days of Noah.”
16.—Died at Caister, near Norwich, Francis Neale, in the 100th year of his age.
21.—Died at Harley Street, Cavendish Square, aged 71, Mr. John Dixon, of Rainham Hall, Norwich, and of Gledhow, Yorkshire, Colonel of the West York Militia.
25.—The organ at North Walsham church was opened with a recital given by Mr. E. Pettet, of Norwich.
29.—The members of the three Church of England Societies, namely
for the Education of the Poor, for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, had their “first united anniversary” dinner at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. The Deputy Mayor, Mr. Robert Hawkes, presided.