We  are  content,  also,  now  and  then  to  let  our  friends  grow
old,  although  we  may  repress  the  tendency  to  age  as  much


space  for  of  the  speech  of  Alderman  Lawrence,  as  reported  in
the  Times  last  Saturday.  It  will  be  seen  that  the  tone  of  his
eloquence  and  that  of  ours  differ  but  little  ;  and  that  the  present
writer  resembles  the  learned  Alderman  (who  has  succeeded
however,  on  a  far  larger  scale)  in  his  attempt  iniscere  stultitiajn
consiliis  brevein.  The  noble  city  lord  remarked  :  "  The  fact
was,  that  the  sanitary  schemes  were  got  up  ;  talk  Avas  made
about  cholera,  and  people  became  alarmed.  Now,  it  was  said
that  burial-grounds  were  highly  injurious  to  health,  and  a  great
cry  had  been  raised  against  them.  He  did  not  know  such  to  be
the  fact,  that  they  were  injurious  to  health.  He  did  not  believe
one  word  about  it.  There  were  many  persons  who  lived  by
raising  up  bugbears  of  this  description  in  the  present  day,  and
those  persons  were  always  raising  up  some  new  crotchet  or
another."  After  giving  his  view  of  the  new  Interments  Bill,  he
asked,  "  Was  it  likely  that  the  public  would  put  up  with  the
idea  even  of  thus  having  the  remains  of  their  friends  carried
about  the  country  ?  Was  it  likely  that  the  Government  would
be  permitted  thus  to  spread  perhaps  pestilence  and  fever?"
There  !  If  you  want  satire,  could  you  have  a  finer  touch  than
that  last  sentence  ?  There  is  a  bone  to  pick,  and  marrow  in  it
too.
/O  How  to  make  Ho7)ie  Unhealthy.
