a financial charge upon the goodwill of its printers. An 
increase in its size, which for a long while the Editors have 
been desirous of bringing about, is thus impossible, and 
illustrations which they are anxious to more freely introduce 
are financially out of the question. What the New Year may 
have in store for them they cannot say ; like Mr. Micawber 
they anxiously await the good times, which they hope may 
soon fi turn up.” 
