... CHRISTMAS AS IT IS, AND CHRISTMAS AS USED TO BE. It needs not the holly-decked windows and the mislcloe-guarded roof to tell us that ruerry Christmas has cotre to see again. has dotted his snow, cloak, with hoar-frost embroidery and the icicle star that ...

... CHRISTMAS. Am, ah! merry Christmas is coming apace, With his holly-crowned head and his joyous face : A mantle of snow mayhap he'll wear, And icicles pend from his flowing hair— But his bonny bright smile will the cold dispel From every heart where he’s ...

... Catholic church. In the primitive church, Christmas-day was always preceded by an or vigil. When the devotion of the eve was complete eur forefathers used to light up can- dies of an uncema size, which were called Christmas candles, and ak log of wood upon the ...

... = CHRISTMAS BENEVOLEN'! CE. on Pp LSU *olence at this season, ordered beef (7 fat oxen) to be distributed on St. Thomas’s day among the poor fami- lies all around their mansion, to enable them to keep up the good old custom of havin a piece of “ the Roast ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. Oa Monday last, Earl Grosvenor gave i's annual Ball and Supper to his tenantry, at Lis maguiticent seat at Eaton. About three hundred attended. Every at tention was paid by the Noble Host to his guests, and a most plentiful table ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. [Continued from our Paper of last week.) Viscount CrunleyTom Thamb, and The ‘Torn- pike Gaie. The Dake of Manchester—The West Indian ; The Way to Get Rich; Waterman, The Marchioness Wags of Wind- sor, and No Song No Supper, Col ...

... CHRISTMAS CHARITIES. ae Phillip Egerton, one of our members for South Cheshire, in addition to his usual Christmas donations, has given blankets to 80 poor families, resi- ding near Oulton, andat Egerton, Broxton and Bicker- ton, in this county, where ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. ail The Hon, Mr. Pierrepoiut.—The Fugitive and Just in ‘Time. ~The Provoked Husband, and Lord The Vair Peniteut. Mr. Robert Hea theote.—The Travellers, Every Man in his Humour, aad The Fair Circassian, ‘The Kart of Glaudore.—Vhe ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. As customary at this season of the year, the baronial resi- dences of the nobility take the lead in displaying that liberal pecially at hospitality for which we as a proverbial, more es- The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are surrounded ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIF. PRIVATE theatricals, we nnderstand, by fashion- able report, will be the leading feature of the ap- proaching — festivities. We have been favoured with a list of some of the pieces in preparation at the houses of the following Nobility ...

... in this inclement season. Weareglad to state, that many of the neighhouring gentry has generously given to the poor, as Christmas charities, money, and meat. On Tuesday last, Colonel and Mr, Parry Yale, of Plas yn Yale, Denbi; ire, evinced their usual ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES, [Contioued from our Paper of last week.]} Viscount Opinions ; Measure for Measure ; and As You Like It. Lord Rendiesham—Fortune’s Frolic, and Bon Ton, and Too Civil by Half. Sir Culbert Hunter of the Alps, Mv. Coke—'The Sheep Shearing ...