... Christmas I Lsst Christmas, after a short supple. mental session, the cabinet or Lord Palmerston retired to the country to pass the holidays with every prospect of a brilliant and successful session of parliament before them. The rebellion in India haid ...

... CHRISTMAS JOYS AND CHRISTMAS . WANTS. The brigbtest time of all the year is close upon US. *Itis coming to us so far in a genial calmness of atrnosgphere that will gladden many poor way- fareri tbroughlife,whomight nothave wherewith to comfort themselves ...

... wizard on it ? The Christmas umbrella, the Christmas knife, fork, and spoon; the Christmas smoking-mixture, Christmas mantles and millinery, Christmas coat anud hats ;, Christmas teas, coffees, hams and fitches ...

... contributing to bring Iabout a merry Christmas. To stroll through the streets and look atall this traffic in all the .dainty thinga that mopey can buy would repay anyone who bres to study human nature in its Christmas aspect, and the occupation would be ...

... CHRISTMAS. I CHRISTMAS DAY-AT THE CATHEDRAL. On Christmas Ifay the great festival of the 'birth of Christ was celebrated at the Cathedral, Marlborough street, witlh all the solemnity and splendour of ceremonial befitting the observance 'ef one of the ...

... public as seasonable Christmas presents, you may easily conclude that it is not the young sters alone who divide the spoils, and that there are costlier Christmas ambitions than a humming-top or a dancing nigger. The traffic in Christmas cards, one of the ...

... CHRISTMAS. I ?? The difficulty is to know what to say on this moat exhaustive but most exhausted of topics. The history of a horse-race-permitting an odious comparison-is capable of original treatment when considered side by side with Christmas, Ever ...

... homages to Christmas. Not only the prints shope, tay-shops, jewelleit VISt oo, itid o4 'special vaddtai&e of King Chtiaa were in theit most sumptuous siray, but the least romantic of callings claimed kinahip with tho season. Ther was Christmas ironmongery ...

... are amongst its gieatest glories. There is not onatof them that will not be made all the happier at. Christmas by the bestov.al on them of a Christmas gift. The Orphanage of St. Vincent at Glasnevin-a spleu- - did edifice, and as splendidlyr watched over; ...

... globe, no matter how the cynics may sneer at Christmas Ceds and Christmas gifts. lie Will his heart and his purse eh'-erily to the poor, remembering that God lorti the cheerful giver, for Christmas is not Christmas if it brings no cofort~ to the poor. Who ...

... of bright faces that will sairound the fouitvlliseartho, nt Christmas. And once, perhaps, she was tho pride oif comie happy homzestead, Iie cynosure of selne doting parent, And these Chris'tmas bells vi. bratedl joyfully in her ear. ere the seductive chain ...

... forebodings Caet avail to check. It is hard to think what our lives would be without the'pros- pe't and ?? of the bleased .Christmas time. It comes with its message of-rest, and peace, and friendhbip, and-good will, and makes a joydus breek iotte weary careor ...