Volume 25 — BAD BEER WITH A GOOD NAME.
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From the report of a recent case in the Rolls Court, it appears that some rogues have been putting damaged Prestonpans Ale into bottles labelled with the names of Messrs. Bass and Messrs. Allsopp, and selling the stuff under these false titles "at fairs and races." We suspect that this trick is too common. You meet, occasionally, with beer thus labelled, by which, no doubt, those firms are libelled; for it is a libel on respectable brewers to impute bad beer to them: and the sort of bitter beer we allude to is bitter bad. We call it beer, indeed; but we no more believe that it is made of malt and hops than that it is brewed by Allsopp or by Bass, whose names appear on the bottles it is sold in, but, to give a correct idea of their contents, ought to be altered to Base and Allslop.
"Time was made for Slaves."
The present policy of Nicholas is an illustration of the truth of this. For all he wants for Russians is time; a commodity that our Cabinet seems disposed to allow any quantity of.
Shear Impudence.—Following from street to street a poor foreigner with a long beard, and persecuting him to buy a pair of razors.
THE DISTANCE TO DOWNING STREET.
D—s—li. "HOW FAR TO DOWNING STREET?"
R—ss—ll. "WELL, SIR, YOU'LL FIND IT A LONG WAY ROUND."