error.
Having performed an act of justice, by recording the protest of the
Reporter against the impeachment of his accuracy, which we noticed last
week, we have done with the subject.

A learned Assistant Judge, while trying a boy for stealing a pudding,
summed up thus:--"Here's the pudding; up pops the boy, off goes the
pudding, and after him goes the policeman. You've got the boy, the
pudding, and the policeman before you, and now, Gentlemen of the Jury,
consider your verdict." In like manner, we say to the public, "You have
got the report, the Reporter, and the Magistrate before you; therefore,
Gentlemen of England, consider your verdict."

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BAD BEER WITH A GOOD NAME.

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.

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"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.

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SHEAR IMPUDENCE.--Following from street to street a poor foreigner with
a long beard, and persecuting him to buy a pair of razors.

[Illustration: 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."]

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THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE IN WANT OF A CAB.

SCENE.--_The Great Western Railway Station on the morning of Wednesday,
July 27th. A Train has just arrived, bringing_, inter alios et alias,
THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE, _with her usual moderate but miscellaneous
accumulation of luggage, consisting of a hair-trunk pro