16.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, Mr. T. W. Coke, M.P., gave notice that at the ensuing October Sessions he would move “that reporters for the newspapers be admitted into the Grand Jury Chamber when the magistrates assemble there at Quarter Sessions for the despatch of the business of the county.” The motion was discussed on October 17th, when, after three hours’ debate, the Court divided, with the following result: For the motion, 46; against, 45.
22.—Died at Stalham, aged 103, Isabella Perowne.
25.—A Jews’ Synagogue was opened in the parish of St. George, Tombland, Norwich.
26.—The announcement was made that the Norwich Cricket Club had “engrafted an archery branch” on their own “excellent establishment.” The members of the Archery Club were permitted the use of the Norwich Cricket Ground on certain days.
AUGUST.
4.—Died at the Deanery, in his 83rd year, the Very Rev. James Turner, D.D., F.S.A., Dean of Norwich, Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and rector of Sudbourne and Orford, Suffolk. He was installed Dean of Norwich on June 24th, 1790. His remains were interred in the Cathedral on August 12th. Dean Turner was succeeded by the Hon. and Rev. George Pellew, Prebendary of Canterbury and of York, and third son of Lord Viscount Exmouth. Dean Pellew was installed on December 13th.
11.—A libel action, Maitland v. Kinnebrook, was tried at the Norwich Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Alexander. The plaintiff was an attorney living at North Walsham, and the defendant one of the proprietors of the “Norwich Mercury.” The libel, which the defendant admitted, was contained in a letter published in the “Mercury.” The plaintiff had provoked and carried on a newspaper correspondence, and because the defendant published the replies of adversaries of the plaintiff’s own creation, the plaintiff sued him for damages, which the jury assessed at one farthing.
—Exchange Street, Norwich, was first opened to the public. There was no communication, however, with St. Andrew’s Street, and it was not until April, 1829, that operations were commenced for the removal of the old buildings at the north end of the new thoroughfare. That portion of the street was opened to the public on May 21st, 1832; and public business was for the first time transacted in the Post Office erected there, on June 25th, 1832.
—The members of the Norfolk and Suffolk Institution, the new title by which the Norwich Society of Artists established in 1805 was known, celebrated the opening of their new gallery in Exchange Street by dining at the Norfolk Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. J. B. Crome, with Mr. Stark in the vice-chair. The first exhibition in the new gallery was opened on the 13th, and was visited in state by the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Aldermen.
26.—Mr. George Grout was elected freemen’s Sheriff at Norwich.