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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

involved in great
was wont to b

amused. -One of th

great pomp, was that of placing a boar's head oil the g
hall table, when a large party of relatives and friends v
assembled at their Christmas dinner. England has

,r its substantial dinners, and of

ever bee

curious ceremonies or pompous exhibitions are connec

with her feasts and entertainment
stantial viands with which the tab

t festive e

hibitions of the fifteepth century were covered may be con
ceived from the following account of the installation-feast
George Nevi the brother of the Earl of Warwick, whe
he was inducted into the Archbishopric of York :—" A hur
dred and four oxen and six wild bulls, a thousand sheep, thr(

lour kids, formed
fowls
there
Thes

and twelve

,he veget

at forme

nay be

c Economy

VA RIETIEFI

void guar
3U have

—titter a la
-e found eve

a salt las'

the rain which fell

had observed also that
is salt.—Mau. of

ication of the Prin

Regent to'parliament for
alked of one evening in a
ideas were all of a homely

company, an old Scotch lady, wh
character, exclaimed, " Debt ! ho
doesna he get his meat at his fayther'

A lady, who was formerl

can be be in debt

governess to some of the royal
Petersburgh, lately died in London, and left
gst other relics, a curiously wrought mattress, com-
posed of genuine Russian leather and buckskin, and stuffed
with hair from.the manes and tails of hoijes that perished at
Moscow, when Buonaparte and his army invaded Russia
CHINESE PLUCK

en we alon a certn
in Nankin, says one of the curious lettersg of that citystreet .(of
which there will be a hundred accounts published within the
next two years,) the whole of the open shops at both sides
were occupied by persons picking out the feathers from edi-
ble birds' nests with pincers. " That," observed J
" was the greatest pluck they displayed on the conquest of
the province."

A witty landlady in Burlington, in directing the income-tax
schedule to Mr. Barker, the collector, wrote on the outside
envelope as follows:

" This is for Mr. Barker, collector of taxes,
And I am forced to pay him whatever he axes;
Yes, I find I must pay, though my purse will be lighter;
For although he's called Barker, he's turned out a Biter!"
MIGNONETTE.—The Mignonette, Reseda odorata, now
naturalized to our climate, is a native of Barbary. 'Many

years since it was introduced to the south of France, where
it was welcomed by the name of mignonette—little darling.
This favourite plant, brought to England in 1742, is noticed
by Cowper in his " Task '

The sashes fronted with a range
Of orange, myrtle, or the fragrant weed,
The Frenchman's darling.
Sir Walter Scott was in error when he introduced it into his
novel, " The Fortunes of Nigel," as decorating the London
windows during the reign of James I.—Gardeners' Chronicle.
A JUDICIOUS LOVER.—The subjoined extract is literal
and verbatim, from a letter bearing the Wigan postmark,
picked up in one of the principal streets of Dewsbury. It
may induce the damsels both of Yorkshire and the neigh-
bouring counties to be chary of boasting to their swains that

!y nave other strings to their bow, or beaux to their
ings :—" Wigan, Sept. 24th, 1842.—Dear Elizabeth, I
Mind But

r that you are so unhesy in

Men and I think you had

'ot that I rind aney fault with you
-

Marrieing yet awhile

ffection

seems to warm up again Not that I ,
of You But I think You had better think no more about me
but tak the other Perhaps they are better than I * *
So fareweel and bless you is the wish of—Yours "
Leeds Times.

ham thinking any warse

EtUSSI A AND SERVIA.—The National publishes an extract
m the Augsburg Gazette, stating that M. Boutenieff, the

a Am-bass

for at Constantinople, had announced to
unless Prince Michael was restored to the
ment of Servia, he, M. de Boutenieff would quit Con-
rople, which fact was published exclusively in The
of Thursday last, and observes, that what is more
) than the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas on the
on, is the position of the French Ambassador at Con-
" It appears to us," says the National, " that
tit to have seized the opportunity afforded by the hos-
' 'on of Russia to recover our diminished influence
When the Divan, however, in its distress
i',uropean power, M. de Bourqueney, taken
rprise, was obliged to reply that he was without in-
ms on the subject, and should apply to his Cabinet.
foreign affairs are conducted with so much impro-
at the eventuality of a rupture between Russia and
is not foreseen. The fact is sufficient to prove with
lligence and what skill M. Guizot directs his dip-
lomacy. The consequence will be, that before instructions
from Paris can reach M. de Bourqueney, the Porte will have
yielded to`Russia, or taken some middle course to appease
her. At all events we shall arrive too late, and the opportu-
nity will have been lost."

d to the I

vidence t
Turkey a
what int

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.-At the meeting of
this society a few evenings since a letter was read from the
British Consul at Panama, containing some highly interest-
ing particulars regarding a communication being opened
across the Isthmus of Panama for an intercourse with
Australia, New Zealand, and China, the latter of which was
likely to be very important. There exists in the Isthmus a
tribe of Indians, who say that they can cross from one sea
to the other in the course of one day, who are described as
an industrious and harmless race, who do not like inter-
course with foreigners, although many of them can speak
the English language. The chairman read a letter from Sir
W. Parish, giving a description of a map of Pekin, given to
him by a relative who accompanied the expedition of Lord
Macartney into China, He had forwarded the map for pre-
sentation to the society, but it had been shown to Lord
Stanley, who had taken it to her Majesty at Windsor.
There are some young Chinese at Rome, who are educating
as missionaries, by whom the map was translated, although
some difficulty was met in the reduction of Chinese to Italian
erence of the city might, however,
Lo miles ; and the map was very full, con-
names of all the streets, public offices, gardens,
- being complete in every respect. It
`hat a similar map at St. Peters-
`‘Tence of the city, which had

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