1332.] Tom Moon's Prophetic Almanack for the Year 1832. 7 



JULY. 



The Bill has passed ; and now, debating o'er, 



The morning papers may be read once more ; 



Reporters rush to bed sweet sleep they get, 



As if Sir Peel or Praed were speaking yet. 



The " representatives" return in shoals 



To those who sent them ; some are poor lost souls ; 



Others explain their votes, appear -depressed, 



And swear, of course, " they did it for the best." 



4th. The Duke of Wellington expatriates himself, and retires to enjoy 

 the delights of a grandee-ship at the Court of King Ferdinand ; amus- 

 ing himself with a correspondence with the great Souchong Too-strong 

 Teapot, Premier of China in order, if possible, to arrange the terms of 

 a war, between that empire and any state that may feel disposed to sacri- 

 fice itself to the genius of the greatest captain on the globe. 



5th. Northumberland House converted into an hospital, on the plan 

 of St. Luke's, for the accommodation of such of the anti-reformers as 

 happen to have any wits to lose, 



16th. Several members of the Committee of the Temperance Society 

 fined five shillings, for being found., late at night, in a state of " ine- 

 briation." 



27//z. Sir Robert Peel starts for the Swan River, with the intention 

 of committing some rash action therein having made three Waterloo- 

 Bridge experiments without sinking beneath the surface ; probably from 

 forgetting to put one of his last speeches in his pocket, to give weight 

 to the attempt 



AUGUST, 



Now new constituents know not whom to choose ; 

 Some they must have, and some they can't refuse. 

 Lambeth elects Ducrow, its first of stars ; 

 Thompson and Fearon stand for Holborn-bars : 

 The Tower "Hamlets" fix on Mr. Young; 

 And Manchester is charmed by Cobbett's tongue ; 

 While each proclaims his own unrivalled powers, 

 And vows, howe'er he votes, to speak for hours. 



3d. Mr. Hunt enters Preston in triumph and a horsepond imme- 

 diately afterwards. The inhabitants of Old Sarum offer to return him, 

 upon condition that he obtains a repeal of the disfranchising schedule 

 which he readily takes his oath to do. Finally returned by the Tories 

 for one of the Universities. 



Hunt's new Latin Grammar, in imitation of Cobbett's English one, 

 is published about this time by Mr. Murray suited, the author ob- 

 serves, to the measure of his own understanding, or in other words, 

 " adapted to the meanest capacity." 



15th. Admission-fee to the Zoological Society's Gardens advanced 

 from a shilling to eighteen-pence ; partly on the liberal and philosophic 

 ground, that knowledge is cheap at any price, and partly on account of 

 the withdrawal of the aristocracy, who are no longer in a capacity to 

 pay their annual subscriptions. The Society proposes to send a bear and 

 a baboon to Parliament to represent the collection. 



