INJURED INNOCENCE.--A Bristol paper lately suggested that possibly some local butcher might have bought some of the thousands of sheep brought from Montreal in the _Memphis_ steamship. The very idea of such a thing has scandalised the local trade, and a butcher wrote to repel the vile aspersion. The paper says:-- It is refreshing to hear from this subscriber in the trade that, after trying it once some years ago, he has never had a bit of foreign meat in his shop since. We are afraid we must not give his name, though he is one of the best known butchers in Bristol. This is excellent. Why should not local bodies everywhere give prizes to butchers who sell no foreign meat? It would be protection, somebody objects? Yes, it would be rank protection to the meat-consumer, and as such it is never likely to be adopted. * * * * * MANSION HOUSE MEM.--If the late Lord Mayor's example of entertaining as shown in the BARNATO Banquet is to be followed, the guests on such occasions will be known as "The latest copy of 'RENALS' Miscellany.'" * * * * * Transcriber's Note ^ represents a superscript. = = represents bold script End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, 16th November, 1895, by Various