AMONG the out-door recreations of Christmas, there is not any more exhilirating than skating and curling—the latter being peculiar to our Caledonian neighbours, and .requiring strength of arm and Skill in flinging the Stone. Both of these exercises are highly beneficial in a phy

The Court Album for 1856. The Keepsake for 1856. Bogue. are the sole survivors of a genus of liternry ephemera which was all the rage with sentimental school-girls and ladies'- maids of the last generation, but which is now almost extinct. The flimsy tawdry Annuals, the Literar,

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ACCIDENT TO TIIE EMPRESS OF — The Vienna Presse relates, that on the 13th inst., about noon, as her Majesty the Empress Elizabeth was proceeding to SchiMbrunn in a carriage and four, the horses took fright in the Mariahalfer High Street. The coachman endeavoured to stop them by

from yourselves divide, Sure it would dash your cup of bliss I-- Pause 'mid your joy to think of this.

The stately carriage gaily drives Up to the mansion-door, And duly guest by guest arrives, And dames bejewelled o'er, Nor notes the boy and beggar-troop That round about the entrance group. nERAIJD. "Take physic, Pomp ;" and deign to look On stern and serious fact; See, where th

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