... 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, rpHE Yule-Log will soon burn ruddily on the hearth; X the tables will be spread with luxurious cheer; merry guests will have assembled; the toast will round; the song will enchant all hearers; tbe cheek of beauty will glow; tbe heart of youth ...

... le to tile season, ninece-pies, and vishes for 1 a merry Christmas and a happy New-year. It is only in the more primitive parts of the country that the oldien customs romain. 'The Christmas carols whichl were sulig about from door to door, for a week ...

... CHRISTMAS. it is the season for gathering together of fatnily connexions, and drawing closer again those bands of kindred hearts which the cares, pleasures, and sorrows of the wild are continually operating to cast loose,—of calling back the children ...

... lealures tlui among thy berries red. Ah ! thee wrong moat grievous. Christmas ! if we make ihee sad ; Twas Christmas, when (rod's Angels* Hade the whole wide world be glad Crabbed nge I Christmas chide not Happy children’s wild— Though thou hast forgot thy ...

... the year keeps many a clerk closer to his desk during the Christmas holvdays than at any other season. But the great majority of his 'Majesty's - liege subjects still enjoy Christmas as Christmas, See how every house is decorated with green boughs. The ...

... set forth something more than. thary on the Christmas-day table, and welcome withl a 'ia-Oextra guest. An English gentloman ' of the olden 'was surrounded by Ihis tenants and neighbours Sy day- on Christmas morning. The strong beer wasibroachbd, ae blac; ...

... CHRISTMAS When ihe Uin ««» nf, Anrt ’n*«th it« wood* non, With of life, and joy, and lo»e, Spnnatn* from d-11, and glad**, and grotie, Tho earth wakea from it* supine. To h*»nour sweet Saint Valentine And .Nature, like a bride, rejoiees To greet her lower ...

... CHRISTMAS. THE 3.IARK ETS : PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CHRISTMAS is always a happy time, and, being so, we would it came oftener than once a year. For the occasion old age seems to forget its years, the sick their ailments, and even the gloom occasioned by months ...

... CHRISTMAS. BY ROBERT ROBB, TUB BARD OF COLOUR, AND LAUREATE OP THE WESTERN ISLES. OLD Christmas once more visits us with frozen mien of grace, His steps o'er country and through town how cheerily we trace; What feelings now of festive glee are bounding ...

... CHRISTMAS. merry Christmas. * is common salutation, and surely ever, since the expulsion of Adam from Paradise, there was an occasion for “great joy” among “all people,” it was at the birth of Him who came to convert the curse upon our first parents, ...