Bones were not boiled--dogsmeat was not made--catgut was
not manufactured--with lavender-water. But what was called a perfume was
often more unhealthy than the reverse. Flowers, for instance, were
considered by the faculty bad for a sick room; and on the other hand,
what could be more wholesome than physic, and what more nasty? The
salubrity of the atmosphere they were then inhaling, was proved by the
fact that himself and his family had been breathing it for the last
thirty years; and that led him to the toast he was about to propose. The
establishment which they were met to celebrate the prosperity of, had
now completed the thirtieth year of its existence. It had, in fact,
attained its majority, and was now no longer under that control that an
infant business of the same nature is subject to. The monster nuisance,
as it had been invidiously called, was no longer amenable to the
Nuisances Removal Act. The young Giant was out of his nonage; and those
who wished to grapple with him must do it in the Court of Quarter
Sessions--where he defied them. He would now then give them the young
Giant's good health; they would drink, if they pleased, Perpetuity to
the Premises, and Success to Sulphuretted Hydrogen and Ammonia.

The toast was drunk with all the odours.

The other member of the firm briefly expressed his thanks for the kind
and enthusiastic manner in which the company had responded to his worthy
partner; which, he declared, quite delighted his old bones.

After a series of other anti-sanitary toasts and sentiments, the company
separated at a late hour in an excited state, having, as a facetious
gentleman remarked with a strong emphasis on the first syllable of the
epithet, partaken of an entertainment that was truly _sump_-tuous.

* * * * *

THE ETRUSCAN PATTERN.

We are informed that a communication of an interesting nature has been
made to the Tuscan Government in reference to the imprisonment of MISS
CUNNINGHAME for giving away a Bible and a _Pilgrim's Progress_. Through
the HON. MR. SCARLETT, acting as Charge d'Affaires in the temporary
absence of SIR HENRY BULWER, LORD ABERDEEN is said to have requested the
opinion of the GRAND DUKE LEOPOLD and his Cabinet respecting a measure
of great importance in regard to the principle of toleration,
contemplated very seriously by HER MAJESTY'S Ministers. The projected
enactment which has thus been submitted to the consideration of the
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