6.--The Eastern Counties Association for obtaining Agricultural Relief
held its first public meeting at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. Its
principal objects were to obtain the repeal of the Malt-tax, a
re-adjustment of the tithe system, security for tenants in making
improvements, a reform in the management of county expenditure, and the
abolition of the Game Laws.
11.--A coarse urn was turned up by a plough at Easton. The vessel
contained about 4,000 small brass coins of the Lower Empire. The
earliest amongst them were of the period of Gallienus, and there were
about 2,500 of the Constantines; nearly 600 had the wolf and twins, and
about 800 bore the victory with spear and shield. Mr. Goddard Johnson
made a descriptive list of the coins.
26.--Died, in his 38th year, at Malvern, Worcestershire, Mr. J. B.
Wigham, son of Mr. Robert Wigham, of Norwich. "He was a Fellow of the
Royal Geological Society, and was well known as having personally
collected one of the best cabinets of tertiary fossils in the kingdom."
--Macarte's Circus Company performed in a temporary building erected on
the Castle Meadow, Norwich.
1852.