consisted of china cups (curiously overlaid with a kind of grass), gold and silver coins (square, oval and annular shaped), silk handkerchiefs, silver opium pipe for ladies, silver and ivory chop sticks, tobacco pouches, grotesque images, papier mache, match boxes a mirror or "mira" of solid steel, raw silk, a mariners compass, and other articles. Two of these curiosities were specially worthy of notice, the one a set of drawers of papier-mache, with the exterior entirely inlaid with squares of silver, and the other an elegant cabinet, with solid silver hinges, cramps corner pieces and ornaments; portions of the exterior and interior being also exquisitely inlaid with coloured fibre peculiar to the country. Some of the goods appeared to have been purchased of a tradesman in Yokohama, whose cognomen is so unlike the names of the St. Leonards trading community, that for the life of us, we cannot recognize it. Should any of our readers think of spending their Christmas holidays in Japan the name and address of the said purveyor are Moo-sa-shi-ya Sadagiro, Hou0cho micheni Street, Yokohama.
Christmas Fare
The edibles, wearables, toyables and other displayables (for surely we may use a few expressibles, when everybody was making something for Christmas) appeared to be quite equal to the productions of previous years. Among the most substantial articles were those usually denomenated Butchers Meat, and considering the high range of the markets, after a droughty summer and a stormy autumn, the wonder was that the butchers were able to make such an admirable display.
Christmas Amusements.
To see the "Old Folks at Home" to sit once more under the parental roof and to rest awhile from the fatigues of business or travel may be enough for the Christmas Day; but on the morrow the uppermost question is where shall we go and what shall we see? The question receives a practical solution in a variety of ways. While some of our pleasure seekers, fresh from the "salt-sea waves" avail themselves of certain railway facilities to visit the Crystal Palace or the huge metropolis, others from the Cockey town or the green lanes of the country seek amusement in this ancient Cinque Port of ours. Money at this time is hardly worth a thought, we part with it as freely as water if it only brings some novelty in return. We want nothing and ask for nothing during Christmastide but the opportunity of throwing care to the winds. We sip of enjoyment wherever
it is to be found, and determine in so far as in us lies to have a Merry Christmas.
First at the Music Hall, where Professor Pepper (or his representative) stalks forth his scientific Ghost, and where Mr. and Mrs. Matthews give their seance of prestigiation and artificial clairvoyance, secondly, to the Market Hall, where in pantominic carnival, we behold clowns, pantaloons, sprites, fairies and gnomes in all the grotesque postures and galvanised action; thirdly to the Christmas festival at the Temperance Hall and lastly to the Terpsichorean display at the -
