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fail to win. Race courses are the most productive 

 places for carrying on this game. The thimble rigger 

 always acts in concert with three or more others who 

 are allowed to win pretty largely in order to decoy, 

 more effectively, the unwaiy. 



No. 6. Booksellers. The reader will please to 

 understand that any thing printed means a " book," 

 therefore, accounts of dying speeches, bloody mur- 

 ders, accidents, offences, &c. ; though printed on 

 small pieces of paper are " books,'' the venders of 

 these articles travel through the country visiting, 

 very dihgently, all small towns, villages, and ham- 

 lets, for in these they are most successful. A double 

 crown folio sheet, containing an account of some 

 direful mischance to a young female, garnished with 

 numerous pictures and some religious verses, has a 

 prodigious sale in the country, as it answers a two- 

 fold purpose, giving warning to the thoughtless, and 

 forming an excellent, because showy, ornament to 

 the walls of a cottage. The profit arising from the 

 sale of these things would hardly be credited. 

 These few explanations will account for the flush of 

 circulating medium which provides the jollifications 

 of Friary Court. 



THE APPROACHING COMET. 



In the Foreign Quarterh/ Review, (just published), are noticed 

 three recent German works, furnishing some important particulars 

 respecting the Comet which is to make its appearance towards 

 the end of the present year. The Reviewer, has, with consider- 

 able pains compressed tliese particulars into as small a compass 

 as possible, nearly as follows. After explaining the origin of this 

 being called Halley's Comet, he proceeds : — 



"August, 1835, the comet will advance towards us from about 

 230 to 130 millions of miles, and during the latter half of that 

 month it will rise about midnight in the north-east, and be visible 

 till the dawn of morning in the eastern quarter of the heavens. 



" In September it will proceed with augmented velocity towards 

 the well-known constellation, the Great Bear. Its apparent 

 magnitude will increase considerably, in proportion as it approches 

 nearer to us ; and towards the end of tlie month, it will be but 



