... to our humble history ef the Merry Christmas Holy.tide Of ail the old festivals that of Christmas excites the strongest, warmest, and dearest associations. The first foot- steps we find of.the observation of Christmas Day are in the second century, about ...

... Rome, would stand but a poor chance in comn- parison with the attractions of Christmas cheer. Even a cabinet crisis is shorn of half its interest by occurring at Christmas. Let, then, the joyous season, with all its mingled asso- ciations, have its course ...

... the Liberal principle so decidedly triumph over the Conservative as at Christmas ! Without more to do, then, we conclude by wishing our many friends and readers a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. PnItOm FRIDAY's LONDON GAZETTE. BANrsaurrTs.-Humphrey ...

... :je friotol 4Lrcurav SATURDAY, DECErnER 26, 1846. CHRISTMAS. Ti rolling months have brought us Christmas once again; and, in accordance with annual custom,we give our editorial pen a holiday. Newspapers will this week he t- read by h and 'starts; 'and ...

... assuring us that Christmas comes but once a-year! which,- it is to be presumed, is good and sufficient rea- son for the logical and comfortable conclusion of the poet- Therefore we will be merry ! Once more, then, is Old Christmas at our doors, and ...

... spirit has paid a more 'williig homage than to that of the celebration of Christmas with all due honour and fitting joviality. Born animid its festivities, it is very Father Christmas to me, and, from the time of my childhood, when it wsas a holiday of three ...

... constant mutations and revolutions. It is not that ,Christmas is changed, but that we are changed, and that the voisole world is changed around us. This in-coninig Christmas is no more like any past Christmas ot' our lives, than frost is liko smoke, or smoke ...

... attendant on Christmas, and other festive t the outbreaks, were felt as pleasant and almost necessary l tr. iefs to the rigid uniformity with which distinctions be- I - tween the ranksa were at other times preserved. ?? happens that this year Christmas so falls ...

... spoken out moat lustily in praise of the good old custom of oh- servirrg Christmas, but wvhy should wve do so ? -People are every- w^here too merry to mnind us. Had wve said that Christmas came from Clrristi saissa, meaning the mass of Christ, arid that every ...

... hail to blythe ChrIstmas I tho wanderer' sstar, f That guldes horne the lone ones divided afar I d There is love 1ic his heart, and jor comes in his hand, d And happlness dies ua isle train ee the land.I A welcome! a wvelcome I old Christmas Is come- Tios ...

... :[FOR THE BRISTOL MIERCUILY.] CHRISTMAS FIRESIDES. It was Christmas eve; but, independent of the holly wherewithh my little room had been tricked out, under the auspices of my old housekeeper iMargery, there wvere many indications of the thie of o year ...

... THE CHRISTMAS LOG. Christrmas comes but once a year, So let it come cheerily; Every tace in smiles appear, Nut An hour pass wearily. There is something in the institution, the time, the attributes, saed the accompaniments of Christmas, which renders ...