7 OCTOBER 1837, Page 20

The newspaper reporter who has published his " Random Re-

collections" of the Lords and Commons, and an account of the " Great Metro:r lls," has commenced a monthly series of Sketches in London. The first number is devoted to " Begging Impos- tors;" and contains specimens of the art of begging-letter- writing, and extracts from the diaries of one or two of these swindlers by fiction. It is a readable compilation enough ; and if its facts be true, will be useful to persons not conversant with the ways of London. There are two plates, but of an inferior order of caricature.