... CHRISTMAS SETHEATRICALS AT CAME--- HOUSE, DORSET.—The Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, M. p„ and Mrs. Darner, threw open their splendid mansion O n Tuesday l as t to th e nobility and gentry o f D orset and the surrounding counties. The entertainment s ...

... CHRISTMAS. (From the Mirror.) The following account of a custom on Christmas eve, at Ratzenburg, in Germany, is given by Mr. Coleridge : For three or four months before Christmas the girls are all busy, and the boys save up their pocket-money to buy ...

... CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. and W. SMITH beg to inform the Gentry, d P bl' they have • I an üblic, an extensive assortment of all the ANNUAL PUBLICATIONS, including the very best impressions of Acker•tnann's Forget Me Not, Literary Souvenir, Amulet, Friend. ship's ...

... CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.-AT THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION an increase of POWERFUL and BRILLIANT EFFECTS in ELECTRICITY are exhibited by ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE. A new field is opened for investigating, on a magnified scale, a variety of objects ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. As customary at this season of the year, the baronial residences of the nobility take the lead in displaying that liberal hospitality for which we as a people are proverbial, more especially at Christmas. There is also one pleasing ...

... be comprised under the heads —Christmas Carols ; Celebration of Christmas Eve ; Decking of Houses, &c. with Evergreens ; Christmas Sports ; the Yule Dough ; Plum Puddings, and other cheer, and Christmas Boxes. CHRISTMAS CAROLS.—Bishop Taylor ...

... CHRISTMAS AT VIENNA. Among the inumerable preparations for Christmas throughout Austria, the following- is the most general. At the corner of every street are to be seen customers even of the lower orders, bargaining for trees, adorned with knots of ...

... CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.-AT THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION an increase of POWERFUL and BRILLIANT EFFECTS in ELECTRICITY are exhibited by STRONG'S HYDRO.ELECTRIC MACHINE. A ■ew field is opened for investigating, on a magnified scale, a variety of objects ...

... CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. The following Works, published in the aeries of the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, are complete; and, being handsomely hound in clot' , (lettered,) are well adapted for School Pr zee and Pre-eras:— British Museum ; Elgin Alarbles ...

... s Emlyn, Viscount and Viscountess Brackley, &c., are passing the Christmas with the Earl and Countess Cawdor, at Stacpoole Court, Wales. Lord and Lady Leigh intend to keep up Christmas in the good old English s t y l e, at S tone l e i g h Abbey, ...

... CHRISTMAS AT ROUEN. At Rouen after the Te Deum in the nocturnal office or vigil of Christina., the ecclesiastics celebrate the office of the shepherds in the following manner :• The image of the Virgin Mary is placed in a stable prepared behind the ...

... CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. The First of a Series of Illustrated Lectures, by Dr. Backhoffner, en the Philosophy of Sciestifle Recreation, daily at Two o'clock, and in the Evenings, at Eight. -An entirely new ...