The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-27 00:00:00

A SONG,

IN IiONOUR OF CUMULATION OF THE BOAR'S IfIATIp AT
QUZEN'S COLLEOX, OXFORD.
Tim Marti num Mercurio.
I sing not of Roman or Grecian mad games,
The Pythisu, Olympic, and such like hard names ;
Your patience awhile with submission I beg,
I strive but to honour the feast of Cole Reg.
Derry down, down derry down,
No Thracian brawls at our rites e'er prevail,
We temper our mirth with plain, sober, mild ale ;
The tricks of old Circe deter us from wine,
Though we honour a boar we won't make Otirselved swine.
Deny, &c.
. Great Milo was fainous for slaying his ox,
Yet he proved but an ass in cleaving of blocks ;
put we had a hero, for all things was fit,
Our naotto.diaplays both his valour and wit.
Derry► &e.
Stout Hercules laboured, and looked mighty big,
When he slew the half .starved Erymanthian pig ;
But we can relate such a stratagem taken,
That the stoutest of boars could not save his own bacon.
Derry, &e.
. So dreadful this bristle-back'd foe did appear,
You'd have sworn he had got the wrong pig by the cur ;
But instead of avoiding the mouth of the beast,
Ho rammed in a volume and cried Griecum est.
Derry, &e.
In this gallant.action, such fortitude shown is,
As proves him no coward or tender Adonis;
No armour brut logic, by which you may find,
That logic's the bulwark of body and mind.
Derry, &c.
Ye Kitt:fee that fear neither Lille nor rough•rorks,
And think you're full wise when you outwit a -fox ;
Enrich your poor brains and expose theurno more,
Learn Greek and reek glory from hunting-the boar.
. Deny, &c.

Archdeacon Nares has pointed out a curious narra-
tion of Christmas revels in England, to be found in
" Miscellanea Antigua Anglicans," published from an
original manuscript in St. John's College, Oxford ;
and yet another is given in Gerard Leigh's « Acci-
deuce of Armory," p. 119. The dishes most in vogue
were, formerly, for breakfast and supper, on Christmas
Eve, a boar's head, stuck with rosemary, with an apple
or an orange in the mouth, plum porridge, and minced
pies.
Eating the hitter was a test of orthodoxy, as the
Puritans conceived if to be an abomination ; they were
`originally, made long, in imitation of the cratch, or
manger, in which our Lord was laid,—Times.

SHOCKING MURDER.—TIVO ferilllloS, who lived
in a village near Loglima, in the county of Galway, having a
small fortune, received the addresses of two men, who were consi-
dered by their friends as below them in rank. They made en
appoiotnie4 with their lovers to bring them all the money they.
could collect, on a certain night, and meet them at an appointed
place, for the purpose of eloping. One of the females came,
some time before the other, and also before the melt; she
concealed hermit until the other should arrive. Ina short
time the man came, and then the other female. The pre-
'tended lovers seised her immediately, took from her all the
money she had, and threw her into a burning lime kiln. The
female, who had been a concealed spectator, fled as quickly
and as secretly an she could--overtook a carman, who concealed
her under hay on his car, , until he came to the nearest police
station, where they, informed the police of the transaction.--
They instantly went to the spot, where they found the nowdercro,
and got the money in their possession ; having secured
they examined the limekiln, where they found the wafting of the
unfortunate victim of credulity burned to a cinder, her two Joikeis
alone excepted. These she had held the side of the )04 with'
above the flames; so that they were not consumed. , The ,police
brought with them the murderers, and they are "now, :lodged in
our county gaol.— Galway Independent,-