... women. At the Central Refuge, Strangeways, Christmas Day ro was celebrated in accordance with the esual practice. tO0 Early in the morning, the 123 lads who li ve in the hehefuge received gifts of Christmas cards and' New ee Year's mottoes, and also Dairs ...

... CHRISTMAS. ins The festival of Christmas is again near. Its ap- I rme proach has been heralded this year with rain and te edstorm, depressing the mind, and producing the E Lng feeling that the elements of nature are darklyw ,ht shadowing forth the events ...

... 01RISTDMAS FESTIVITIES. - ADIGWICg GaIMEN INDUSTRIIA SO1Oor.. - The annual Christmas dinner and entertainmont took place at the MaUnhester Certified Industrial School, Ardwick Green, on Tuesday. Mr. S. L. Holm, chairman of the House Committeo, attended ...

... NTHE BEGGARS' CHRISTMAS. This Christmais, says a writer in the Obwvers-, the beggars have neither heart nor funds to make merry L as of yore. They have seen the handwriting on the wall, end their hearts have become as water. On Christmas Eve, Westminster ...

... inmates, the proceedings inolud. ing two dramatio performanoes. CHRISTMAS AT THE MANCHESTERP AND LIVERPOOL POST OFFICES. The officials at the Manchester Post Office esti- mate that the Christmas postings this year, in excess of the ordinary oorrespondence ...

... THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Christmas in Manchester was aompanied this year, as lst, with ery mild weather, more nearly approach. jugthbat of spring than of December. Christmas Eve could not -well have been milder or pleasanter, and the same might be daid ...

... so much pains, or. elves aif expended so great an outlaty, year by year, upon the production arti-:iee, of the good old Christmas pantomime, as the proprietor of our t'arning Theatre Royal. We rejoice that h lie hs 'done so;!for though. exercise we are ...

... classes in a position to purchase themn, W and thus to be included amongst'' the more favoured fr in the -nj6yment of a merry 'Christmas. The shops v, i of the grocers, oonfectloners, .butchers, oheesemongers, and y9 'fruit dealers in this city are abundantly ...

... THE CHRISTMAS 'HOLIDAYS.- The past few days have given promise that the Chrisfulals holidays will be spent in seasonable oentliar. The sharp frosts at night have hardened tbhe round anod covered it with a thin white sheet, erhieli l}S been the terror ...

... THfE CHRISTMAS SEASON. es; 1B55AS~ is MING.-On all bands the cry is that rk- Christmas is coming The butoher gays so, while he heaves be huge masses of iregd-and-white beef'on his fresh-scraped Of boards, hangs up his sheep by the legs, on bright groasy ...

... sorts and conditions of people. Mr. Randolph Calde- cott contributes a series of humorous illustrations of Mr. Carlyon's Christmas; how the festive season is spent in the colonies and at home is pictorially told by W. Ralston, J. C. Dollman, E. K. Johnson ...

... with it: No, against this powerful objection there are several things to be said, the first of- whicel. iq itat Christmas is always Christmas Whether Ite ,maccompantied by frost or snow, or dull, cold, raw, ,muggy -weather, he' is still the same genial) ...