... believe. Peter had , been pantaloon at our house for years, And he continued to be engaged for Christmas long after he was past his a work. But a Christmas came when even long and faith- , ful services would no longer balance Peter's infirmity, which ...

... CHRISTMAS WORK & CHRISTMNIAS 2 - WATS. { sca BREAKFASTS FOR THE POOR. A Mhe For several years past a number of influentialI ofgentlemen have formed a committee for the purpose IL List of giving a6 substantial Christmnas breakfast to thie!L ter poorer ...

... 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 ...

... 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; ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRE'STON, SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1851. . .. - . . . . .. - -- ?? -- -- -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - CHRISTMAS. I | There was a genial heartedness among the mnil of 11 the dark ages, who first instituted the great festival of Christras ...

... rf L -1 . aIR IN WL& ITH IE CHOCLE. PRESTON, SATURZDAY, DECE11BEP. 20, j CHRISTMAS. Father Christmas ! That is the name of the grand old personage whom Time once more announces the advent of. In a few days he will be here, and let the welcome given ...

... and, in course of time, this practice became transferred to the Christmas festivities, now only recognised in the custom of drinking healths or ?? Eco.onemist. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.-Christmas festivities are essentially of a social character; but that they ...

... CHRISTMAS. ' - I _I . g For some time we had been anticipating this year an oldfashioned Christmas, $th the appropriate sur roundings of snow ;ind ice. Something like a fortnight ago a sharp frost set in, and it continued so steadily that the higher reacoes ...

... more interesting; and the as Christmas musie sweeter and more, thrilling. th Ring. out, oh bells, from all your steeplest!¢ shout with happy voices through the length and breadth of the land the glorious advent of an Christmas through peopled city and quiet ...

... said to flower [ once in a century. Of all pretty Christmas legends that of the Glastonbury thorn planted there, Heaven knows why or when, by Joseph of Arimathea, and which blossoms only on Christmas eve, is one of the most mtiggestive. It points to the ...

... Sovereign herself. :Howv, under such circumstances, can we wish each other A merry Christmas. It is a sad Christmas, a thoughtful Christmas, but it must not be a despairing Christmas. True, we have had domestic calamity, and we have the prospect of foreign war ...

... CHRISTMAS . A Oldi Father Christmas has once more made his triumphal I appoerance, and the good old customs with whichhe has P been, wonted to be greeted; throughout the whole of his existence have still innumerable adherents of every: sex in I every ...