... CHRISTMAS. Manchester, NdntttU'h, Norlhwith, Newport, Newcastle, Oswestry, Presfm, Prescot, Rnthin, Stockport, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Whitchurch, WrexhamWarrington, ...

... 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. THIS season commemorates an event of all others the most interesting to the Christian world —the Birth of Jesus Christ. It is the anniversary of that period in which the Son of God took upon him the condition and all the ills of human nature ...

... 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-KEEPING. (From the New Monthly Magazine.) Now Hospitality, to cheer the gloom Of winter. Invitation sends abroad: The rural bouse lays the annual block Of Christmas on the hearth; and bids blaze v of tenfold brightness glad lt ...

... boast of busoms half so light ! England was merry England when Old Christmas brought his sports again. Christmas broached the mightiest ale ; Christmas told the merriest tale 5 A Christmas oft could chee The poor man’s heart through half the year. The feast ...

... On Christmas-day in the morning. And all the angels in heaven shall sing, On Christmas-day, on Christmas-day, all the angels in heaven shall sing, ristmas-day in the morning, And all the souls on earth shall sing, And ail the souls on On Christmas-day ...

... THE CHRISTMAS S Iw every way, and by many a tribatary stream, ere the boly ‘whieh belong to this period in: ereased and refreshed. to fade within the heart of wan, amid the oat beneath the sweet religious of the season; and the pure and }» to place me ...

... CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Tkis day arc pul Ushed, for the ensuing year, with splendid Rngravings, ACKERMANN’S FORGET ME NOT. The LITERARY SOUVENIR, edited Alaric A. Watts. The KEEPSAKE, a new Literary Annual. The FRIENDSHIP’S OFFERING. ...

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... = 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 ...