4.--The first general meeting was held of the Harleston Agricultural
Society, established by the owners and occupiers of land, for the
encouragement of skill and for promoting and rewarding industry and good
conduct among cottagers, servants, and labourers.
5.--The head-mastership of Norwich Free Grammar School was rendered
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Kidd.
13.--Died at Hethersett, aged 36, Mr. Elias Norgate, first secretary of
the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society, the plan of which was
suggested by his father, Mr. Thomas Starling Norgate.
16.--An inquiry was opened by the magistrates at Docking, under authority
of the Secretary of State, "to ascertain for his own and the public
satisfaction whether there had been any loss of life by culpable
negligence or loss of property by dishonesty," on the occasion of the
wreck of the Earl of Wemyss smack on Brancaster beach, on August 30th.
As a result of the inquiry, Mr. William Newman Reeve was committed for
trial on the charge of removing from the wreck certain property which he
alleged he was protecting on behalf of his father-in-law, who was lord of
the manor. At the Norfolk Lent Assizes, held at Norwich before Mr. Baron
Vaughan on March 26th, 1834, the defendant was placed upon his trial, and
was defended by Sir James Scarlett, M.P. His lordship, in directing an
acquittal, said the evidence had utterly failed; it was unnecessary for
Mr. Reeve to say anything in support of his character, for nothing had
been made out against him. Amid applause in court the Judge added there
was not the slightest stain upon the accused. Another case arising out
of the same wreck was tried at the Norfolk Summer Assizes, on July 30th,
1834, before Mr. Justice Bosanquet. The accused, Robert Allen, Charles
Oakes, and James Ward were charged with feloniously taking certain
articles from the wreck. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
21.--The West Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry commenced a week's training at
King's Lynn.
30.--Du Crow's Circus Company commenced a season's performances in a
wooden building on the Castle Meadow, Norwich. It was known as "The
National Arena and Equestrian Studio," and was the first of the temporary
buildings periodically erected in this locality for entertainments of the
kind.