1.--Lord Frederick Beauclerk and the Hon. Edward Harbord ran a hundred
yards race on Lord's Cricket Ground, London. Mr. Harbord was beaten by
two yards. He afterwards ran the same distance against Mr. Lambert, and
won easily.
4.--The King's birthday was celebrated in Norwich by the garrison and
Volunteers, who paraded to the number of 1,800 and fired a _feu de joie_
on the Castle Meadow. The weather was very cold, and at nine o'clock at
night the thermometer registered 36 degrees, only four degrees above
freezing point.
8.--William Carter, a private in the City of Norwich Battalion of
Infantry Volunteers, convicted, before a regimental court martial, of
absenting himself from parade on four successive days, was publicly
disgraced and dismissed the battalion.
22.*--"Gabriel Swallow, aged 13, son of a gamekeeper to the Hon. Col.
Harbord at Hunworth, shot 21 bullets at a target 80 yards distant for a
bet of two guineas. With the exception of three shots, they were all
placed within 5.5 inches of the centre; three bullets were one inch from
the centre; five ditto, two inches; six ditto, three inches; one ditto,
four inches; two ditto, five inches; one ditto, 5.5 inches."
24.--Holkham Sheep Shearing commenced. Mr. Ball's threshing machine was
shown at work. An ingenious model of a dibbling machine, made by a young
man in the neighbourhood; a mowing machine, invented by Mr. Burrell, of
Thetford; a scuffler, by Mr. Clarke; the model of a threshing machine, by
Mr. Cook, of Aylsham; and an improved drill, by Messrs. Wilson and
Standish, of Lynn, were also exhibited. The sweepstake, to estimate the
weight of Mr. Coke's three-shear Leicester wether, was won by Lord
Winchilsea, who guessed within half a pound of the actual weight.