POSTSCRIPT.
SA_TITEDAY.
The festival of Christmas-1856 has not been marked by any owns- rence out of the.common. The Weather has been uncertain, -hovering between rain and frost, and'fog • and snow. , On the Whole, although, a little milder than traditional Christmas weather, it has been "season- able" Christmas:Day was kept after the 'old fashion—public worship in the morning, festivities in the afternoon and evening. YelierchiY, "boxing-day," was .duly observed by the idlers, the sightseers, those who levy the black Mail called. Christmas-boxes, and by those who tradi- tionally keep boxing-night at the theatre or the ball. The places of amusement *ow crowded laet night ; and pantoitime arid spectacle, the lecture, the panorania, the wax-work exhibition, furniehed means of gra- tifying the tastes of all, and offered a feast to those whose few days of leisure compel them to crowd into one the holiday workof a weeks
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