WITLERS’ WIT.
The Witlers, it appears, are rather savage with Lord Palmerston for having backed up Mr. Gladstone in his onslaught on their beer-barrels; for they consider (though we don’t) the introduction-of French wines will lessen the consumption of English malt and hops. They seem to fancy that by giving this new drink to the public his Lordship’s government must do a damage to the publics, since no one in his senses will put up with doctored beer when he can slake his thirst with what is pure and wholesome drink. In this view of the case we thoroughly agree: but when the Witlers call his lordship an “injudicious bottle-holder,” the stress they lay on the first syllable makes us feel inclined to slightly vary the orthography, and say his Lordship has in this matter been quite an Inn-judicious one.
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