Parliament will meet at the usual time, when the Refuge for the
Destitute in Playhouse Yard will be turned into an asylum for the
houseless peers; the unroofed rooms and heavy rains and floods turning
the intended House of Lords into a Peerless Pool. The enclosure of the
Commons will be at the same time a great question of doubt.
The following events will be found this month, without fail, in the
papers:—A dreadful fire in America, and another at Smyrna; a steam-boat
explosion on the Mississippi; an abortive poor-law inquiry in a Midland
county; a terrible inundation somewhere abroad; and the discovery of a
railway swindle in London; which will give rise to a grand _battue_ of
"stags," directed by the _Siva_, or destroying engine of the "Times."
A new line of railway, direct to Windsor, will be sanctioned the
earliest in the Session; in consequence, those who make a pilgrim's
progress to the old station will find it literally the Slough of
Despond.
A bold member, moving that the statues for the new Senate of the
sovereigns of England shall go up by order of merit rather than
succession, will secure a tolerably good perch for Oliver Cromwell; and
it is not unlikely that Byron's statue will take its place in Poet's
Corner at the same time.
Two new steamers, the _Emmet_ and the _Earwig_, will run between London
Bridge and Chelsea six times for a penny. They will be greatly crowded
in consequence.
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A train will get off the line and run down an
embankment into a farm-yard.