Any one who takes a cab from the West End to go over the water, whether by Westminster or Waterloo, may think himself fortunate if he is not involved in a sort of "Six-Mile-Bridge affair," by the demand of the cabman for three shillings, as the fare for passing one of the bridges. We can scarcely wonder at the easy familiarity of a cab-driver; for there is no one who seems so utterly incapable of keeping his distance. We trust, however, that the new Act will enable us to have justice brought to our own door, by handing a cabman at once over to the police, when a driver gives us a good setting down in a double sense, by insulting us after taking us to our destination. We may, in fact, now hope that a cabman's abuse—as well as his distance—will have to be measured.
A Determined Duellist.
It is said that a celebrated, otherwise a notorious peer, disappointed of satisfaction at the hands of a certain illustrious Earl, has, in his despair, resolved to call out the Man in the Moon. He will quite as soon take the shine out of him as out of the distinguished Earl in question. But then it must not be forgotten that the challenger is a "Long" shot.
AN UNDERTAKER'S LIVE JOB.
A Cabman, who does not approve of sixpenny fares, wishes to know if the Law will bury him now that it has screwed him down?
Query.—Whether Mr. George Butt, M.P., who opposed Mr. Phillimore's motion for amending the laws against simony, may be looked upon as one of the buttresses of the Established Church?