New-York tribune., 1869-01-14
thing. BY the way. Mr.. Shirley Brooks wrtesa carol
In u which commences with this elegant verse:

in it which commences with this elegant verse:
Christmas comes but once year.
Lraden skies and pavements mReky,
Hollow smiles ard billions cheer
That 1t comes but once is lucky
The second line is pretty mouthful for young
| lady What would be said if an American poet found
! such dainty rhyme to "luckyp
| The Emperor OF the French has paid the English a
touching compliment: he has sent 1000 francs to-
ward the erection of the worst monument III Lon
| dOn-that OF Golden at Camden town. The Parish
of st. PancTas gave excellent site for the statue
but no funds were forthcoming sufficient for the pur-
pose Instead of banking the subscriptions and wait
ing, the nation waited for LandsecTs lions IN Ira
fagar-squaTe n quarter of century, un.l funds ac-
cumulated sufficient 10 secure really gOOd statue
worthy of Golden and art the Committee has PM
mp beggarly buYleSquc of the great freetrader MT
Harvey Lewis the member for the borough f0und Il
large portion OF such funds as were devoted TO
duction. But how came the Emperor OF the irehcn en-
to know of the poverty of the Committee Did they
20 footing about the Courts of Europe for suDScp-
| tiOns 10 erect a statue to Richard Golden me
proud Free Trader who had scf-respcct ana [Glse
any gift from the Crown, would Vlsit Ill Hissu%st %
every member of this mcndlcant Committee II IL DO
true that spirits revisit the glimpses OF TINS IN
! solvent moon The Committee have been up 10 the
| Prince de Ia Tour dAuvergne, with an address oil
thanks for the French gift of $50. If the Emperor
can't invade England, he can help 20 de1ace lts
squares by penal statues, for | take II Tor gralted
that he had himself informed as to the kind OF ehgy
| he was promoting.
Mr. John Stuart Mill residing now at his usual
Winter seat at Avignon has entered INTO CORE
snondrnce with Mrs hcLaren sister OF Mr. Bright,
The wife of the Member for Edinburgh. concerning
the civil rights cf women and takes occasion 10 re-
gFet that he has found among women less generous
compassion for the poor creatures SO crueI WI1nseu
in Jamaica than he expected. Her Royal HlglhSsS;
the Princess Royal Of Prussia, who was so cordial
and courteous to Mr. Bright at Court is known 10
have expressed, at the time Of the Westminster eGc
ton, her interest III it, and her regret at Mr. MIL
defeat.
Mr.. Reverly Johnson has subsidized fortunately. for
a week. and Christmas Is no more disturbed by
visions of dinners which do not take place. rHhch
only alludes TO him, and represents nm as ioiGlng
sprg of mstletoe over ola John Bull while he kisses
Miss America But when that young lazy p0ntS hGr
pretty lips in John Bulls face il will not be Mr. r. D.
who will be found holding the mlstletOe hlsslhB
comes with prudent lovers. only after good under
standing That has not been settled yet.
But politics and criticism pale before sirioln ana
turkey, and the plum-puddng OF the period was
never designed to ald composition. Inc atmosphere
is festive No holidays in England, 10 Old men or
madens, to boys or girls are Il e Christmas hohdays
Schools break up with gec all business except mat Oh
the Press is suspended, and the vcrest cuTnuugeons
grow cheerful toward the 18th OF December In the
country. carriages and carts are laden with merry
passengers. In the town, tho railway stations are
crowded. and the parcel Offices overflow with geese
and turkeys barrels of oysters, and lndescrlOable
hampers The DrOfusion of presents stops the way.
London is very paradise OF pTovcnder III the latter
DAYS of December. Show beef and mutton OF
BrObdignagian proportions and tempting JuclneSS
project into the streets adorned with holly ana laurel
t the doors OF butchers shops The grOcers windows
cheeSe-mOngeTs, and pork butchers stores, are gay
With foreign fruits and Christmas berries. The gray
tOgS OF London lWnlcn by the way arc aDScnJ lLis
vearl turn brown in the frosty air and become OF
amber tint tnctured with the million rays of gas
lets il is impossible TO walk the streets of London
at the Christmas end of December, without being
betrayed into nervousness. No Engshman heSi-
tates to be hungry the 18th Of December. COyent
Garden and markets Of lesser Tenown all over Lon
dOn sing not gToan, the chronicers are accustom-
ed to say, under tuns OF Christmas berries aud
the poetic shrub of salutatOn. How many
kisses never TO DO forgotten brighter than
the reddest berries OF the season Will shine
under those of the white miSteltoe, sacred TO
purity. festvty, gladsOmeness. and love. All
over the world under the pyramids of Egypt, in the
Deserts of Sahara in the last explored wild Of Aus
trala, in every Presidency of India, at the North
Pole in the heart of AbysSnia, IN every latitude OF
the pathess sea, Christmas is remembered and cele-
brated. For months before the sacred day arrives.
anxious mothers and fond sweethcarts, wives. and
sisters prepare packages OF cake and plum pudding
that will keep for months to transmit TO and TO
lovers, TO husbands and brothers, whom commerce. or
adventure or duty has carried into distant climcs.
The travellers on the march. the soldier in his tent
or trench the sailor at the mast the resident at his
solitary India station, at this season finds receives,
or picks up somehow attains possession of the far
j0uneying and afectiOnae parcel which is TO remind
him that the salvation which, in the pous opinions
OF the sender has come from Heaven and OF the
certain affection which comes to him from the home
of his childhood