The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-27 00:00:00

HINTS FOR CHRISTMAS.

I. Keep up all those old seasonable observances
which time has hallowed, which create good feeling
and fellowship, and which consist of those innocent
recreations in which the young join as actors, and
the old enjoy as spectators.
II Be sure and decorate your house with holly.
Evergreens are Nature's promise of returning summer
and a fruitful season. The scarlet berries are pretty
and cheerful, and the prickly leaves are excellent
weapons to drive away the blue devils, which, with
proper management, will become extinct at Christ-
mas time.

111. Make up your mind to do some little good
every day. Farthings make pence, pence shillings,
shillings pounds, awl pounds a rich man. Small
charities, in like manner, soon mount up. and with
care a good capital of happiness may be realized.
IV. Pay off every debt of kindness that :you are
'able, and call in, by gentle remembrances, all that are
owing to you.
V. Be not content with giving your blankets and
coals to the poor. Warm their hearts with kind lan-
guage, as their bodies with good clothing.
VI. Establish a-court of equity in your heart,
wherein to pronounce sentence on any of those domes-
tic errors and crimes of which the law can take no
cognisance. Make your good sense the judge, and
the wholesome commandments of Scripture your jury.
Examine and cross• examine the witnesses—listen to
the counsel for the plaintiff (Mr. Feeling), and the
counsel for the defendant (Mr. Passion). You already
know the evidence, and if the jury return a verdict of
guilty, lay a heavy fine on the delinquent, and bind
him in heavy sureties to keep in future the moral
peace which he has violated.—Allas.

THE WATERLOO MODEL.—Captain Siborne, the
author of the "History of the Battle of Waterloo," has
just opened for public inspection at the Egyptian Hall
a model of a portion of the Battle of Waterloo. Some
years ago the first 'Waterloo model was exhibited at the
!same place ; that model comprised the whole field of
!battle, and a great part of the adjacent country. It re-
' ?presented the battle at the period when the French Im-
perial Guard was attacked and defeated on their advance
to the British position, and to those who have not seen
the memorable field of Waterloo, afforded the best and
most comprehensive representation of the scene of strife
that can well be imagined. In :the present exhibition
the model displays only that part of the field on which
the splendid charge took place by the British heavy,
cavalry, led on by the Marquis of Anglesey, and the in-
fantry by Sir Thomas Pieton. For the details of this
part of the battle we must refer our readers to the little
bock which is to be had at the exhibition. The modeller,
has certainly beea most successful in placing before the
public one of the most complete representations of a
battle that such materials can afford. The roads, hedges,'
trees, and houses, are formed with great correctness.'
she crops, at that time growing in the field, are accu-
rately marked by a minute representation of their
quality, &c. Those figures of horses and soldiers repre-
sented in the act of moving appear to be more than
usually spirited and natural.