... to the comifort of the inmates, and Miss Gray, of maui Sowerhy, sent each of the inmates a Christmas card and be an eppropriate Christmas letter. On Christmas Eve Mr. be Robert Holyday sent his usual supply of ginger- Sn bedand cheese for the use of the ...

... blaze of the Christmas hearth. The sour F `MrED become sweet, the dull become bright, all things wear g d. healthier and happier hue, England may well be it 9. proud of its Christmas cheer, its Christmas gatherings, tl 6d. its Christmas presents, its ...

... year.'' 'The CaroIs, furmerly-sung nt'tbis-ssasoridf the ,year,'- ?? 4nhasbns for enl Veitxg te'.mer-. t inacrta of thte Christmas -celrbrity; ?? rehigious sonigs as 8re current thisdayi witb te- comsanja pd'oplst, umler the same-tis1'e~ra'sit whiche were ...

... CHRISTMAS. IN times past this seasoln of the year wasi charac- inu terised by joy and gladness throughout the length thi and breadth of the land. The winter's gloom was enlivened by good substantial fare and heart-elating , merriment. The peasant as well ...

... hals taken the place of gladne.ss. t NNor is this the onl]y contrast between the I Christmas we are so mnmy of ns familiar w itl, and f the thoughts wlhichl this Christmas musst crowd in upon our minds. Are there not miany in the land to whom the words ...

... journalist Y Christmas Eve is the saddest day in the year. 89 After 'writing Christmas articles for a quarter eof a century he may well be excused if pain es and anguish wring the brow when he is )d excogitating a twenty-sixth Christmas article. But ...

... ABROAD. FRIDAY. Dxo. 25. I CHRISTMAS. I IN those good old times ?? When ChristmoB gambols oft would cheer, The poor man's heart for half the year, we suppose it was not less true than it is in these prosaic days that Christmas was not, and cannot be, a ...

... drug in the market. The CHRiSTMAS of 1856 may well, therefore, be observed as a Season of solemn thanksgiving and of national hope; and while we may, for the reasons we have hinted at, omit our annual greeting of a erry CHRISTMAS, there is nothing in ...

... traders shall not be preseioed or met on our artificial Christmas day, yet, a u trust, theirs will be the only exception to thec general rule ; and we are not without hope tbat, in 180, ;when Christmas-day will once more fall upon a Sunday, a short act of ...

... 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 ...

... DEuaMBER 23. CHRISTMA S . . AN old English proverb tells us that Ia green Christmas makes a fat churchyard, but we rather believe that the mortality returns t, throw discredit on the ancient authority. However, we are to have no green Christmas d this year ...

... jolly and hearty chorus !- England was merry England when Old Christmas brought his sports again 'Twas Christwas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer A poor man's heart, for half-a-year. ...