1.--At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions it was reported that the Secretary of
State for the Home Department had ordered the formation of a corps of
Artillery Militia for the county.
9.--A thunderstorm of great severity occurred at Norwich. The main sewer
in London Street burst from the enormous pressure upon it, and its
contents inundated the adjacent business premises. Every house at the
bottom of Exchange Street was flooded, and fire-engines were afterwards
employed to pump the water from the cellars. The weather continued to be
very stormy during the succeeding week. The newly-completed tower and
spire of Mundham church were wrecked and became a heap of ruins.
23.--Three troops of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), under the
command of Capt. Sawyer, marched into Norwich from Chobham Camp. The
headquarters were stationed at Ipswich.
25.--Miss Fanny Vining appeared at Norwich Theatre as Margaret Elmore in
"Love's Sacrifice."
30.--The NORFOLK CHRONICLE announced the repeal of the advertisement duty
and of the duty upon newspaper supplements.
31.*--Died at Shoreditch Workhouse, London, Benjamin Reeder, of
Helhoughton, who was in many respects a very remarkable character. He
had served sixteen years as a private in the 2nd Dragoon Guards. "Altho'
of an obtuse and somewhat forbidding appearance, he possessed an uncommon
faculty for mathematical attainments. He had Euclid at his finger ends,
while his knowledge of algebra and logarithms enabled him to solve in a
few minutes the most difficult questions. He once had the management of
a school, but his irregularities reduced him to the level of a common
labourer, and eventually he ended his days in the union house."