ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON IN 1853.
June 6.—Total Eclipse of the Sun, invisible.
June 20.—Partial Eclipse of the Moon, invisible.
November 30.—Total Eclipse of the Sun, invisible.
The Ceremony of Her Majesty going in State to Open Parliament will take place as usual—these expensive Pageants being calculated to give Employment to a large class of the Industrial Population.
FEBRUARY.
An influential inhabitant of a provincial borough will take a party of friends with him to the House of Commons, to show them how intimate he is with the new member, whose return to Parliament he was mainly instrumental in effecting, and who has professed the greatest attachment to him and his family. He will lie in wait (bidding his friends to look on) in the strangers' lobby for the new member. He will see the new member entering the building with conscious dignity. He will rush at him with extended hand, addressing him by name. The new member will suddenly see somebody he wants to speak to, and rush madly away in an opposite direction. The influential inhabitant will return to his provincial borough with altered politics.
On the 14th, exactly 1,098,276 valentines will be delivered in the United Kingdom.[[10]] Out of these, 9,765,007 will commence with "The rose is red, the violet's blue;" 6,000,821 will be written on sugar-paper and sealed with thimbles; 1,098,275 will contain faults of orthography and syntax; 890,782 will be illegibly directed; and 3 prepaid.