_NOTICE._ The FIRST SERIES of "_THE COMIC ALMANACK_," from 1835 to 1843, a nine years' gathering of the BEST HUMOUR, the WITTIEST SAYINGS, the Drollest Quips, and the Best Things of THACKERAY, HOOD, MAYHEW, ALBERT SMITH, A'BECKETT, ROBERT BROUGH, with nearly one thousand Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by the inimitable CRUIKSHANK, HINE, LANDELLS— May now be had of the Publishers, crown 8vo, 600 pp., price 7_s._ 6_d._ ☞_The First Series and the present (or Second Series) comprise_ THE COMPLETE WORK, _extending from 1835 to 1853_. THE COMIC ALMANACK, 2ND SERIES, 1844-1853. [Illustration: PROBABLE EFFECTS of OVER FEMALE-EMIGRATION, or _Importing_ the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of _Exporting_ all our own to Australia!!!!! ] THE COMIC ALMANACK AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST AND EARNEST, CONTAINING MERRY TALES, HUMOROUS POETRY. QUIPS, AND ODDITIES. BY THACKERAY, ALBERT SMITH, GILBERT A BECKETT, THE BROTHERS MAYHEW. [Illustration: "THE APPROACH OF BLUCHER.—INTREPID ADVANCE OF THE 1ST FOOT." ] =With many Hundred Illustrations= BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK AND OTHER ARTISTS. _SECOND SERIES_, 1844-1853. =London:= CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY. CONTENTS THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1844. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1845. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1846. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1847. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1848. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1849. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1850. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1851. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1852. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1853. THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1844. SIMPLE RULES FOR INTERPRETING ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. Always avoid reading the preamble, which is likely to confuse rather than to enlighten. It sets forth not what the act is to do, but what it undoes: and confuses you with what the law was, instead of telling you what it is to be.