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NOVEMBER. 



Stern winter now the widowed year espouses, 

 And yellow fogs his icy chariot rouses. 

 All classes now their joys with death are crowning ; 

 Those who can swim prefer attempts at drowning ; 

 While some, completely penniless, grow placid, 

 By having asked the price of prussic acid. 

 The Guildhall guests as usual cram and clack, 

 And mourning coaches wait to take them back. 



5th. The National Guy Fawkes Committee make their report, that 

 the Guys of Great Britain are not now properly represented in Parlia- 

 ment Sir Charles Wetherell having vacated his seat for Borough- 

 bridge, or in other words, his seat having become too rotten to hold him. 

 The committee, after considerable difficulty in selecting, where so many 

 unobjectionable claims were preferred, come to a decision in favour of 

 Sir Robert Inglis and Mr. Horace Twiss ; at the same time requesting 

 Lord Ellenborough to protect and preside over their interests in the 

 Upper House. 



9th. The Lord Mayor's " Annual," published at Guildhall, with numer- 

 ous plates and cuts ; the mottoes are, first, " one swallow makes not a 

 summer though it does a citizen ;" and, secondly, a reversed reading 

 of Wordsworth's line, " there were forty feeding like one," thus ren- 

 dering it, " there was one feeding like forty." A copious Obituary con- 

 cludes the work. 



DECEMBER. 



The many-coloured year has reached its close, 



And England hopes that with it ends her woes ; 



She proves to Scotia, Erin, Wales, a mother 



And King and people understand each other. 



The bishops' " sees" are dwindled into rivers ; 



And lords, though wanting hearts, prove better livers. 



While all the peasantry, from York to Cork, 



Now eat their bacon with a silver fork. 



Among other things there will be a new moon this month, high-water 

 at London-bridge every day in the week, and a holiday on Christmas- 

 day at all the public offices. 



tith. Ladies are once more observed in the boxes of the Adelphi ; Mr. 

 John Reeve having transferred his indecencies to another establish- 

 ment. 



\0th. The Garrick Club gains two more members, making a grand total 

 of seventeen. A committee of six appointed to persuade the rest to pay 

 their subscriptions. 



16th. Parry's Narrative of the Discovery of the long-sought passage to 



the North Pole, published ; the Thames Tunnel completed the same day. 



20lA. The Quarterly Review publishes a second edition of a curious 



paper, which proves, in the clearest manner, that "Junius" was not 



Judge Jefferies, 



27^. A communication established between the earth and the moon, 

 through the medium of a steam-rail-road-balloon, invented by the Royal 

 Society. Mr. Irving consents to act as interpreter between the two 

 planets. 



31s/. 12 p. m. The year 1832 dies ; leaving all mankind happier and 

 wiser than it found them. This, our last prediction whether verified or 

 not is at least offered in cheerful faith, and true sincerity. 



