There will be at least one new cookery-book published during the year.
Good port wine will become scarcer and dearer than ever.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will, in his annual Budget, propose a tax upon one or more of the following articles:—calling cards, dolls, pins, perambulators, umbrellas, and wigs.
The Mines Regulation Bill will be brought before Parliament; also the Collier affair.
There will be a show (the first) of guinea-pigs, white mice, parrots, bullfinches, and squirrels at the Crystal Palace. The Duchess Of Launceston, Lady Ida Down, and the Honourable Mrs. Alfred Warblemore will act as Judges.
Several new animals will be added to the collection in the Zoological Gardens.
The jury in the Tichborne case will retire when the trial is concluded, and, after deliberating for several days, will return into Court late at night, and deliver their Verdict amidst breathless silence. The Lord Chief Baron will have a sleeping apartment fitted up in the Westminster Sessions House, that no time may be lost in calling him up to receive the verdict.
Several Colonial Bishops will return home.
An eye should be kept on the Pope, the Orleans Princes, the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, the Publicans, the Republicans, the Spiritualists, the Ritualists, Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Whalley, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Brock, the pyrotechnist, as they may all be expected to do extraordinary things.
An eminent Archdeacon of the Established Church, well known in the West of England, will conduct the services at Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and Mr. Spurgeon will exchange pulpits with him.