1832.] Tom Moore's Prophetic Almanack for the Year 1832. 5 



MARCH. 



The cutting winds continue to destroy 

 The last low haunts of boroughmongering joy ; 

 Hating the Whigs, the Earl of Eldon tears 

 His own, and runs about as rnad as hares. 

 Now March sets marches moving, giving wings 

 To oats, and barley, mind, and such like things ; 

 And London Bridge, disjointed arch by arch, 

 Seems onward moving in the general march. 



4th. Inundation of the Thames Tunnel Mr. St. John Long having 

 rubbed against the brick-work. 



Jth. Ash Wednesday. General Fast Day. Mr. Perceval starves to 

 death, to prove his sincerity. Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter sent to 

 Bridewell, being detected with nineteen rolls and a ham-bone in his 

 pocket. The bishops in danger of a similar sentence, for having fortified 

 themselves with two dinners the day before. 



12M. A " Court Guide to St. Giles's" will be published by Mr. Ed- 

 ward Gibbon Wakefield; being a complete Register of Roguery in all 

 its branches, as practised in and out of Parliament at the present day 

 with a list of the professors and amateurs of the art of thieving and 

 transferring property, and secret histories of the courts in which they 

 flourish: the whole intended to shew that there is at present a surplus 

 pickpocket-population, and that Newgate is the real London Univer- 

 sity of Useful Knowledge. 



IJth. St. Patrick's Day. Mr. O'Connell accepts a seat in the Cabinet, 

 and a peerage, by the title of Earl of Shamrock and Viscount Shilalagh. 



APRIL. 



Lo ! April brings, as oft it blows and burns, 



Umbrellas and umbrageousness by turns ; 



Bland as a blue, stern as a judge un-fee'd, 



It shifts as often as a statesman's creed. 



Angry and fierce as Mr. Alum Watts, 



Yet soft as when he sings of babes in cots. 



Like Sibthorpe thus it comes, defying rules, 



And brings the yearly Festival of Fools. 



1st. All Fool's Day. Mr. Watts publishes his Specimens x>f the Pap- 

 spoon School of Poetry. Sir Charles Wetherell explains his explanation 

 of the Bristol affair. Captain Sir Edward Parry sails for the North 

 Pole. The Royal Society elects its officers, and a distinguished list of new 

 Fellows : one of the candidates blackballed, by reason of his having new 

 published a treatise not absolutely stupid the year before. Lord Lon- 

 donderry rises to oppose the Bill after it has passed the second reading, 

 having been asleep during the Duke of Cumberland's speech. The 

 Patent Theatres commence their prosecution against the Minors, for the 

 daring indecency of producing superior entertainments to their own. 

 Mr. Irving appointed Professor of the Unknown Language in the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford ; and Mr. Robert Taylor, Professor of the Vulgar 

 Tongue, in that of Cambridge. 



19th. Maundy Thursday. Mendicity Society presents a petition 

 against the Reform Bill, on the ground that its operations will tend to fill 

 the streets with mendicant marquises, and aristocratic cross-sweepers. 



Same day, a Mendicity Society is formed, of which Mr. Hunt is 

 appointed perpetual president when absent, the association to be 

 governed by his Vice. 



