... we may and shall have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We have heard many wish each other the fruition of this blessing, but we tell themt they must wouie as well as wish. The only avenue to a merry Christmas and a happy new year is the Charter-it ...

... and at once issues orders for the invitation of all his sub- jects and their relations, thus suggesting a Christmas family party-which, like Christmas family parties generally, is sure to end in a squabble. The second scene affords us a peep, and something ...

... CHRISTMAS EVE.-CHIRISTNIAS DAY. Christmas comes but once a-year, So let it come cheerily; Every face in smiles appear Not an hour pass wearily. THE high-festival of Christmas is returned to us again; and this is Christmas Eve,-the day on which our fore- ...

... hailed thy coming on. Brave Christmas l merry Christmas I Then roared the cotters chimney loud, Then roared the hearth in palace proud, And rich and poor were gay. Oh I sons of English soil, once more Welcome brave Christmas, as of yore; The open hand ...

... l CHRISTMAS. It is, no doubt, true that compared with the olden festival, our modern Christmas is but a dull celebra- tion. 'Twas merrier in the hall when beards wagged all at royal revel or barronial banquet and mask and mummer followed between the boar's ...

... large number! Mi of natrons throuigbout the Christmas holidays. WI Daring Cltrismas D~ay the places of amem, tb were, aos Usual, (30lied, hut several sacre~d concerts 'i~l were held]. Bit The cristomnarv Christmas Day performance of by ICThe ?? was eiv~n ...

... and knitted, And Gottlieb sat and dreamed, When a happy fancy all at once lpou his visiou beamed. 'Twas only a week till Christmas, And Gottlieb knew that then The Christ-child, who was born that day, Sent down good gifts to men. But he said, R He will ...

... chrixtnaat. A SONG FOR GOOD FELLOWS, YOUNG AND OLD. lBi LEIGH HUNT. Christmas comes 1 He comes, he comes, Usber'd with a rain of plums - Hollies in the windows greet Aim; Schools come driving post to meet him Gifts precede him, bells proclaim him, Every ...

... C: I ChrI AL SONG FOR GOOD FELLOWS, YOUNG AND OU1 ' BY LEXIGH HUNT. Christmas comes! He comes, he comes, Usher'd with a rain of plums' Hollies in the wvindows greet him; Schools came driving post to meet him Gifts precede him, bells proclaim him, Every ...

... dappled sides ? High grows the Christmas tree, The sweet, love-planted Christmas tree- Where'er extends the hand of friends; Wherever heart caressiugs be. W~hat bears the Christmas tree- The bright, rich-fruited Christmas tree?7 What gather they, expoetant-gay ...

... CHRISTMAS. Haill hoary bearded Christmas, hail! Bring us goodwill, good cheer, wassail! Thy ruddy face And homely grace Our senses charm, our souls regale, The plains are clad in virgin white, *The trees bend low with jewels bright, A diadem With many ...

... CHRISTMAS. There is a Word, that, like a spell, Can call the past to Fancy's view, Of by-gone scenes and pleasures tell, And Childhood's dimple joys renew. There is a Word, whose pow'r can flingt A hallow'd sadness o'er the breast, And to the eye of Memory ...