JANUARY, 1832. 



CONTENTS. 



I. Tom Moore's Prophetic Almanack for the Year 1832 3 



II. The New "Bill" 10 



III. Brevities , 15 



IV. Lines accompanying a Portrait of the late William. Roscoe, Esq. 16 

 V. Dr. Francia, the Dictator of Paraguay 17 



VI. Oyster-Day in London, by a Native 27 



VII. An Attack upon the Clubs ! . 33 



VIII. New Year's Hints for the Management of the Magazine, in a 



Private Letter to the Editor 39 



IX. War-Song, for the Army to be sent against the Emperor of 



China 43 



X. Wysocki's Narrative of the Polish Insurrection 44 



XI. The Cambridge "Freshman" 52 



XII. Ode to Colonel Jones, with a Graphic Sketch of " Radical" 54 



XIII. Goethe's Visit to Beireis 57 



XIV. "Fantasia" a-/a-Hood 67 



XV. Tithes versus Rent 67 



XVI. The Old Year, by an Ultra-Tory 78 



XVII. TheNewYear, by a Liberal Whig 79 



XVIII. Ugo Foscolo, and the Italian Poets 80 



XIX. The Procrastinator 89 



XX. NOTES OF THE MONTH ON AFFAIRS IN GENERAL : Cobbett 

 and the Scotch the Horror Hunters Fasting in High Life 

 Burking at Boston Paganini and the Surgeons Crime encou- 

 raged by Law The Cholera Holy well Street and the "Times" 

 Actors and Audiences Privileges of the Peerage Waverley and 



Werter united, &c. &c 99 



XXI. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS 110 



XXII. NEW Music 121 



XXIII. WORKS IN THE PRESS, AND NEW PUBLICATIONS 125 



XXIV. AGRICULTURAL REPORT, &c 127 



