1.--Died, in his 83rd year, the Rev. James Brown, B.D., Hon. Canon of
Norwich, and for fifty years vicar of St. Andrew's, Norwich. "For more
than twenty years chaplain of the county prison, he was one of the
earliest advocates of educational efforts being directed towards
prisoners, and in his practical suggestions may be traced the germ of
much that is valuable in our reformatory institutions. He lived long
enough to see similar views generally adopted and made compulsory by the
State. His duties as chaplain were performed during a period when
capital punishments were much more frequent than now, and this gave him
the opportunity of seeing vice in its most degrading forms, and to hear
from the lips of its victims the repentance which the certain approach of
death and judgment generally extracted from them."
6.--The church of the Holy Trinity, Hempton Green, was opened by the
Bishop of Norwich.
--The corner-stone of the new Corn Hall at Aylsham was laid by the
Marquis of Lothian.
7.--Died at Calais, aged 60, Capt. Charles Thurtell, R.N., son of Mr.
Thomas Thurtell, of Lakenham.
16.--The Earl of Albemarle addressed a large meeting of the industrial
class at the Corn Hall, Diss, upon the subject of "Benefit Clubs." In
the course of his remarks, he asserted "the Manchester Unity of
Oddfellows is humbug from beginning to end." The action of his lordship
evoked a large amount of newspaper correspondence, and on November 6th
Mr. Samuel Daynes, a former "Grand Master" of the Unity, introduced at
Diss a Mr. Reeve, who delivered an address to rebut the assertions of
Lord Albemarle.
20.--Mr. Fred Phillips' dramatised version of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's
romance of "Dred" was produced at the Surrey Theatre, and was favourably
noticed by the critics. At the same theatre, on January 19th, 1857, was
produced the comedy, "A Bird in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush," by
the same author.
29.--At a meeting held at Yarmouth, it was resolved to take the necessary
steps towards placing the Nelson column in a proper state of repair.