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Mr. JARvEs--By giving the following en-
tract an insertion in your valuable paper,
you will oblge subscriber. Would that
the fashion of 'healhs' and 'toasts' rinous
salutations were as dead (and deader still if
possible) in Honolulu as they are said to
to be about the table of the King of the
French Gov. Cass is not the only man
who has an 'intuitivc horror of such Ger
cmonies.


A TEToTLER


ToAsTs OUT OF FAsHIoN.-Gov. Cass,
Minister at Paris, in speaking of a dinner
with the King of the French remarks:


''The dinner passed as dinners usually
pass, in some conversation, but still more
in the laudabc operations of eating and
drinking. Thank Heaven, the days of
'hcalths' and 'toasts' have gone by! The
fashion is dead, never to be resusctated.
Even in the palmy days of its existence,
had an intuitive horror of these rinous
salutations, when a man could not touch
his glass without popping his head in
his neighbor's face, and often at the risk
of having his nose broken by some atten-
tive friend, whose thirsty propensities
were manifested by the same striking ce-
remony. have often thonght that the
excessive absurdity of the custom might
be ludicrousIy exhibited, by converting
the salutation from the glass to the plate,
and, instead of drinking health or a
sentiment as it was called, gravely eat
ing our good wishes, whenever we began
new dish.