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.