8. A Cask of Tar—good for Abolitionists. 9. The Feathers out of Four Feather-Beds—ditto, ditto. 10. Curious Recipes for Brandy Cocktail, Whisky Stingers, and Gin Trumps. 11. A Pair of Bloomer's Pantilettes. 12. A Bad Dollar, and 13. A Worn-out Pen. Sale to commence at noon, and no revolvers allowed till a quarter past. TABLE OF THE PROBABLE DURATION OF LIFE. (_The number 20 being taken as representing the chance of living longest_). Vegetarian 5 Fox-hunter 15 Soldier in the Line 9 Guardsman 19¾ Railway Traveller 12 Ditto, on the Midland Counties' Railway 1¼ _Habitué_ of the Legitimate Drama ¼ Husband of a "Bloomer" (_unless he runs away from her_) 1 Member of Parliament 15 Reader of Parliamentary Debates 5 Reader of the _Comic Almanack_[9] 20 Footnote 9: NOTE.—If a purchaser also, the chance is enormously increased, and, for all practical purposes, may be regarded as a certainty.—PUBLISHER. THE RIDDLER. The following queries are proposed for solution by some of our ingenious readers. Answers must be enclosed to the publisher on or before the first of April next. Fifty copies of the _Comic Almanack_ (equivalent to a permanent provision for the receiver for life, with handsome reversions to his posterity), will be presented to any one who shall answer the whole correctly. We might have hesitated in making so stupendous an offer, but felt that the world required for the year 1852 some universal excitement, rather superior to that occasioned by the Exhibition of 1851. CHARADE. My first young ladies do at balls, My second will destroy St. Paul's, My whole on Temple-Bar was seen, The day Prince Albert wed the Queen. LAURA. ANOTHER. The earth did my first, and the sky did my second, When the Census throughout the three kingdoms was reckoned, When the sky does my first, and the earth does my whole, My second will join the Equator and Pole. SEMAJ. A THIRD. Miss Rose gave my first to my second (her lover), My third made Miss Rose what you'll please to discover. WOPS BORSHON. REBUS.