22 DECEMBER 1849, page 11

Topes Of The Day.

CHRISTMAS. " A MERRY Christmas" be it, for all the hard winter; merry f o? all the suffering, past and future. The season, this year, has peculiar traits ; the merry moral is......

Commercialism Erring From Itself.

PROTESTS against the charges of retail tradesmen have daily ap- peared in the Times, the attack being led by that powerful journal in a special onslaught on the butchers and......