26.—Mr. John Marshall was elected freemen’s Sheriff at Norwich by 817 votes, as against 585 recorded for Mr. John Culley.
31.—A terrible panic took place at St. Margaret’s church, Lynn, owing to the failure of the gas. A rush was made for the doors, and a lad who fell from the organ loft received dreadful injuries.
SEPTEMBER.
6.—Died, aged 85, Mrs. Bray, wife of Mr. Thomas Bray, “proprietor of the Diss and Norwich waggons to Ipswich, which have regularly travelled from the Star in the Market Place, Diss, to the Star in the Market Place, Norwich, under the name of Bray, for more than a century and a half.”
10.—Died, aged 77, Mr. Edmund Reeve, of St. Augustine’s, Norwich. He served the office of Sheriff in 1796.
15.—On the Abbey Farm, Thetford, Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., in the presence of a large gathering of sportsmen, killed in seven hours 222 head of partridges, in 246 shots.
OCTOBER.
6.—At the Guildhall, Norwich, John Cozens, merchant, and Joseph Colman, solicitor, were summoned by George Arthur Dye for endeavouring, by threatening to prosecute an action in the Court of King’s Bench, for supposed acts of bribery alleged to have been committed by the complainant, to extort from him a large sum of money, viz., the sum which he (Cozens) had expended in petitioning the House of Commons against the return of Lord Viscount Stormont and Sir James Scarlett, as members of Parliament for Norwich. The defendants were committed for trial, and at the adjourned Quarter Sessions for the city, on October 28th, a true bill was found against them. They entered into recognisances to appear at the Lent Assizes, which were held in
March, 1835, before Mr. Baron Vaughan, when the case was settled without proceeding to trial.
9.—The Hall Concert Room, St. George’s Bridge Street, Norwich, was sold by auction. It was afterwards converted into a carpenter’s workshop. “The Hall Concert Society, after existing for upwards of half a century, has been dissolved. Without the assistance of this amateur musical society, the Norwich Musical Festival, and its most prominent feature, the chorus, would never have been called into existence.”