'_Cadgers' Sitting Pad._--Whenever cadgers _stand_ or _sit_, either in towns or by the road side, to beg, they call it _sitting_ or _standing pad_; and this often proves a very profitable method. Some of them affect blindness; whilst others represent themselves as unable to follow any employment, in consequence of being subject to fits. Some cadgers save very considerable sums of money; but these are very few, compared with the great number who live by this trade of beggary. '_Match-sellers_' never entirely depend upon selling matches, for they cadge as well; in fact, they only carry matches as a cloak for begging, and never offer them at any house where they expect to get more without them.... Match-sellers, as well as all other cadgers, often get what they call '_a back-door cant_;' that is, anything they can carry off where they beg, or offer their matches for sale.' 'CROSS COVES,' though they beg their bread, can tell a long story about being out of employ through the badness of trade, &c., yet get what they call _on the cross_, (by theft.).... One of their chief modes of getting things _on the cross_ is by shoplifting, (called grabbing,).... Another method is to _star the glaze_, (i. e. break or cut the window.) '_Prigs_ (or pickpockets) are another class of vagrants, and they frequent races, fairs, and prize-fights.... Like cross coves, they are generally young men who have been trained to vagrancy, and have been taught the arts of their profession in their childhood.' '_Palmers_ are another description of beggars, who visit shops under pretence of collecting _harp_ half-pence; and to induce shopkeepers to search for them, they offer thirteen-pence for a shilling's worth, when many persons are silly enough to empty a large quantity of copper on their counters to search for the half-pence wanted. The _palmer_ is sure to have his hand amongst it; and while he pretends to search for the harps, he contrives to conceal as many as possible in the palm of his hand, and whenever he removes his hand from the coppers on the counter, always holds his fingers out straight, so that the shopkeeper has not the least suspicion that he is being robbed. Sums varying from five to fifteen shillings per diem are frequently got in this way, by characters of that description.' Extract from Edinburgh Review, Jan. No. 1844: IRISH PEASANTRY.