... AS. w Christmas has come round once more, and a season of at Social festivity reigns paramount. It is a time a when we may well afford to be merry, and forget for A the nonce the busy cares and turmoils o'r business andat every.day life. Christmas has becomeasa ...

... of .tlsirestabliahments, w~e crowdedl wth good things. Ne'er was such pro. fusion seen sice last Christmas. If cur townspeople do Mit have a merry Christmas' itwill not be the fapslt of those to whom Wie look for the supply of our bodily wants. All kinds ...

... CHRISTMAS SHOW OF MEAT, ..I d The annual show of Christmas meat by the butchers 1g of Hull was held on Tuesday last. In many respects Ds the quality of the ineat shewn was superior to that of d previous years. In the Shambles and Market-place considerable ...

... fallenl As to new clubs, I have not -very much to say. The Turf Club, at the corner of Clarges-street, with its new and ornamental read elevated trout, promises, when quite finished, to be a great improvement to Piccadilly. A scheme for a new club in Victoria- ...

... OFFICE NOTICE.-The Christmas numbers of the e Illustrated London News, ?? Graphic, Gardener's 11 Magazine, I llustrated Sporting and Drainatic News, it Pictorial W~orld, 'Whitehall Review, World, :e Penny ...

... Andrews, F= R.HS., entitled, Christmas-de Customs and Carols. In Albioni-street Congregational Church, on Sunday afternoon, there was a Christmas service while the pastor (the Rev W. Scott) preached at nignt a special ear sermon to young men and women ...

... the general committee to be 'held as early in the new year as may be convenient. - ,This concluded the business, and the committee 9. :1>separated , t . sret earte has written a capital :Christmas story,. 5 entitled Snowbound4at Eagle's. The scenes ...

... has the least to pay. * ~~~CR0OWLE. CHRIsTMAS IN Caowr.-Christmas has been tho. T Ioughly enjoyed here.. On Christmas-day the waits Q paraded the town singing various popular hymns. En PaINTIVE MmRaoDIsTS.-On Christmas-day sermons ig were preached in the ...

... by a bazaar and Christmas tree, for the sale of articles in aid of the organ fund of the Free Methodist Chapel, and a good share of patronage has been accorded by the public. On each evening a cantata illustrating Christmas and the New Year was performed ...

... RAISING A SUNKEN SHIP AT NEW YORK. I e rpk- : 9 L AX - T ! _ __1 . s The raising of the Liverpool ship Lornty, which is r said to be one of the largest undertakings of the kind, ie has been proceeding in New York Harbour for the n past few months, and ...

... extra day deslpatch of letters f ,to London and the South of England. The new bag c ,will leave Gainsborough by the 11.16 a.m. train. (M. S. and L-U station), and it is thought' that letters will be delivered in London in sufficient time to allow replies ...

... December. The prisoner. who said he was in Leicester on private legal business, slept at the Albion Rooms on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas Day morning he vs eat into the smoke-room and committed the assault com. plained of. Subsequently in the yard ...