1. Explain fully the meanings knit 4, make 1, slip 4, knit 1, pass the slip stitch over, slip 1, purl 13, make 3, and reduce them into form. Anatomy. 1. Give an account of the general arrangement, size, structure, and mode of development of the lower bustle, and explain how, in case of accident, you would remove and take up same. Gastronomy. 1. How do you prepare hands of pork? Must you first clean your hands. 2. In dressing calves' feet, should you first wash your feet? Natural Philosophy and Optics. 1. When an object is placed before a mirror, explain the principles why the appearance of the figure is increased. 2. Are all _bodies_ compressible? and, if so, state what force is required to approximate the two sides of the body, so as to describe a perfect figure. Mechanics and Hydraulics. 1. If there be one inclined _plain_ and a positive "object", state at what rate all bodies will fly from them. 2. Explain the action of "pumps", and state how many would be required to cause an overflow at Almack's. State also how many feet ordinary pumps will work. * * * * * THE COMIC ALMANACK FOR 1851. [Illustration] [Illustration] "FEMALE EMIGRATION." Mr. Sidney Herbert has forced upon us a great fact—an uncomfortably great fact—it is thrust into our brain like a fat thirteenth into an omnibus—we are alarmingly overstocked with lovely women; there is a perfect glut of angel purity. Our drawing-rooms, we are told, are choked up with book-muslins; and who would not weep to behold the despairing virgins forced to "polk," "waltz," and "quadrille" together. Glance down the longest of our very long drapers' shops—is it not dreadful to contemplate the two endless rows of bonnets? Even the few hats that you do see in such places belong to swains that have been dragged there with smiles and coaxings—lambs led by garlands to the sacrificial counter. And what is the consequence? Our youths are pursued by clever mammas, and hemmed in by desperate daughters. Embroidered braces, worked cigar-cases, and beaded pen-wipers are showered down upon them. Still all the ladies cannot be married! Bountiful nature has provided two and a half wives for each Briton; but selfish Parliament denies them more than one; and no Englishman—however sanguine—can expect to be a widower more than twice. [Illustration] But great times produce great men, and at this sad crisis Mr. Sidney Herbert steps forward to call the attention of the British public to Australia—to Australia, the land of the wifeless! [_An interval of four months is supposed to elapse._