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."
11.*--"Died, lately, at Swainsthorpe, aged 75, Robert Utting, commonly
called 'Blind Bob.' He could find any place to which he was sent in
Norwich, and was for more than 50 years postman from that city to
Swainsthorpe."
27.--The Pilot coach was on its journey from Norwich to Lowestoft, with
eight outside and two inside passengers, when the leader of the unicorn
team became restive, on Bracondale Hill, and turning sharply into
Martineau's Lane, overturned the vehicle. Mr. Benson Rathbone, of
Geldeston, one of the passengers, sustained a fracture of the skull, from
which he died an hour afterwards, at the Pine Apple public-house, at
Trowse. Several other passengers were injured.