Dancing rooms were much frequented a century or so ago in London, which was then pretty well supplied with this means of recreation. We find that there were rare dancing doings at the original dancing room in the year at the _field_-end of King-Street, Bloomsbury, 1742 Hickford's great room, Panton-Street, Haymarket, 1743 Mitre Tavern, Charing-Cross, 1743 Barber's Hall, 1745 Richmond Assembly, 1745 Lambeth Wells, 1747 Duke's long room, Paternoster Row, 1748 Large Assembly Room at the Two Green Lamps, near Exeter Change, (at the particular desire of Jubilee Dickey!) 1749 The large room next door to the Hand and Slippers, Long-lane, West Smithfield, 1750 Lambeth Wells, where a _Penny Wedding_, in the _Scotch_ manner, was celebrated for the benefit of a young couple, 1752 Old Queen's Head, in Cock-lane, Lambeth, 1755 and at Mr. Bell's, at the sign of the Ship, in the Strand, where, in 1755, a _Scotch_ Wedding was kept. The bride "to be dressed without any linen; all in ribbons, and green flowers, with Scotch masks. There will be three bagpipes; a band of Scotch music, &c. &c. To begin precisely at two o'clock. Admission, two shillings and sixpence." ORIGIN OF THE USE OF TOBACCO.