FEBRUARY.
6.—Mr. Thomas Jefferson Hogg and Mr. John Buckle, Municipal Commissioners, opened an inquiry at the Tolhouse Hall into the corporate affairs of Yarmouth. After sitting for 20 days the Commissioners adjourned sine die.
14.—A fête was given at Yarmouth Barracks by Captain Manby, “to mark the close of the labours that had so long engaged his attention for saving life.” This was the twenty-seventh anniversary of “the saving of the first crew by the projection of a rope from the shore by the force of gunpowder, and thus effecting communication with a vessel on a lee shore. By this expedient upwards of 600 British sailors have been saved.”
26.—Died at Lynn, Mr. Ezekiel Walker, aged 94. He was for many years a regular contributor to Nicholson and Tillock’s “Philosophical Magazine,” and published a collection of his essays, chiefly on electrochemical subjects.
27.—The ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Yarn Factory at Norwich was performed by the Mayor (Mr. Bignold). A procession, in which were characters representing Bishop Blaize, shepherds and shepherdesses, together with 80 wool combers, and many women and children, marched from Lakenham to the site of the new building in St. Edmund’s. The directors and shareholders afterwards dined at the Norfolk Hotel.
MARCH.
11.—The lake at Scottow was drawn by Sir Henry Durrant, when five pike of large size were captured. The finest measured 4 ft. in length, 2 ft 3 in. in girth, and weighed 37 lbs.; the smallest was 3 ft 4 in. long, 20½ inches in girth, and weighed 18½ lbs. They were all taken at one haul.
—Resolutions in favour of the repeal of the Malt Tax were passed at a large meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in the Hundred of South Erpingham, held at the Black Boys Inn, Aylsham, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Marsham. Similar meetings were held throughout the county, and petitions were numerously signed in every Hundred.
22.—Miss Kelly appeared at Norwich Theatre in her entertainments, “Dramatic Recollections,” “A Study of Character,” and “Mrs. Parthian at Home.”