22.--Mr. Prendergast, of the Norfolk Circuit, qualified as Recorder of
Norwich, in the room of Mr. Isaac Jenny, deceased.
26.--Pablo Fanque's Circus opened for the Christmas holidays at the
Victoria Gardens, Norwich. (On September 15th, 1849, this circus
proprietor was referred to as "our fellow-citizen, Mr. Darby, _alias_
Pablo Fanque.")
--Norwich Theatre was opened for the season, under the management of Mr.
Charles Dillon. The pieces produced were "Virginius," and the pantomime
"The Naughty Boys, Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robinson, or Harlequin and
the Great Sea Serpent."
30.--St. Mary's church, Norwich, was described as being in a most
disgraceful and dilapidated condition. "It was re-pewed in 1827 by the
Rev. Mr. Wodehouse, and was then one of the neatest parish churches in
Norwich."
1849.