tf Tom Moore's Prophetic Almanack for the Year 1832. [ JASJ* 



MAY. 



" Next comes fair May," not " fairest maid on ground ;" 



For still May-fair a tempest rises round : 



Instead of flowers, the town is strewn with briars^ 



From Hyde Park corner down to Crutched Friars. 



The people break no legislative bones ; 



They raise their flags, but do not take up stones. 



The House of Lords is now Pandora's box, 



But Brougham is at the bottom, firm as rocks. 



1st. The anti-reformers perform their antics among the chimney- 

 sweepers, cutting up their robes, ribbons, and garters for disguises. 

 Lord Eldon undertakes the office of " Jack in the Green." No reaction 

 takes place, though an action does, between the real Broom-ites and the 

 anti-Brougham -ites. 



An eclipse of the sun, as usual, visible in every part of the metro- 

 polis, till the summer is over. 



24th. Bill passed to legalize the stealing of dead bodies at any hour 

 of the day or night. The editors and reporters of the London press 

 wait on Sir Astley Cooper in a hundred and fifty-seven hackney coaches, 

 to make a formal bequest of their remains, when they shall have no other 

 use for them, for anatomical purposes. Sir Astley of opinion that the 

 law of libel ought to be amended ; as the transportations for life that 

 are likely to take place among the editorial classes, will render the dona- 

 tion valueless. 



29th. The Restoration. Charles the Tenth and the Duke of Welling- 

 ton exchange significant glances, and devoutly wish that Louis Philip 

 and Lord Grey would pay a visit to Oliver Cromwell. 



JUNE. 



Now Sol shines bravely, and King William too ; 



The land looks green, but lords are looking blue ; 



Shrubs, flowers, lift up their heads dukes hang theirs down j 



All nature smiles, but fifty nobles frown. 



The monarch-mariner now crowds all sail, 



And, conquering scruples, flies before the gale ; 



He, proud to call himself " the nation's Will," 



And we, his jury, finding " a true Bill." 



The "glorious first of June." The Reform Question carried in the 

 House of Lords by a majority that makes every hair of the Bishops' 

 wigs stand on end. The society called the No-New-Peer Association 

 dissolved immediately ; the king having threatened, that if the oppo- 

 sition continued obstinate, he would turn the beef-eaters into viscounts, 

 or send to Deptford Dock-yard for some raw material for the peerage. 

 The Duke of Cumberland swoons ; and on opening his eyes, at the end 

 of nine weeks, tears his moustachios in despair : all Kew in convulsions. 



21st. Longest day. Mr. Carus Wilson pays a visit to the Swiss 

 giantess. 



26th. King William's accession. Grand national festival, in celebra- 

 tion of the advent of Alfred the Second, of the dawn of enlightenment, 

 and of the total eclipse of tyranny and exclusiveness. 



30th. Parliament prorogued preparatory to its final dissolution in 

 the approaching dog-days. 



