9.--A squadron of the 3rd Hussars arrived at Norwich Cavalry Barracks,
from Colchester.
14.--The comic opera, "Les Cloches de Corneville," was performed at
Norwich Theatre for the first time by a company under the management of
Mr. Charles Bernard. A company of children presented the same opera at
the Theatre on March 28th.
28.--In accordance with a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Norfolk
Chamber of Agriculture on the 26th, a deputation waited upon Earl
Spencer, President of the Privy Council, when Mr. C. S. Read, as
president of the Chamber and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
County, expressed, on behalf of Norfolk agriculturists, the desire that,
in view of the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease, greater restrictions
should be observed in regard to store cattle, and that a certain
relaxation should be made in the case of fat cattle, which, it was
proposed, should be sent direct from licensed sales and markets to
slaughter-houses, to be killed within four days. It was also suggested
that the Privy Council should prohibit the importation of live animals
from countries where they knew disease existed. A further deputation,
headed by the Mayor of Norwich (Mr. S. Grimmer), interviewed Earl Spencer
on March 25th, with the view of obtaining such relaxation of the Orders
in Council as to permit the sale of store stock at Tombland Fair. A
fresh outbreak of the disease occurred in the autumn, and on October 28th
the county authority passed a resolution affirming that, notwithstanding
its recurrence, the time had not arrived for the closing of the markets;
that should the Privy Council consider it necessary to stop the spread of
the disease by closing the store stock markets, such order should not
take effect before the first week in December; that the existing
regulations for preventing the importation of diseased cattle from
foreign countries were entirely insufficient, and that until more
stringent regulations were in force the system of closing markets was
vexatious. (_See_ January 7th, 1882.)