Welsh Journals

494 &td Prices Remains. Dec. 22—Fine, after a rough night. „ 23, 24—Fine, hit dull. ,, 25—A very tender Goose; Credite, posteri! "Severe Tea" at the King's Kitchen, to 122 lads. „ 26—Scaup's and Golden-eyes. Pochards {two shillings and sixpence each) abundant. A hen Capercailzie, seven shillings and sixpence. Californian Quails, one shilling and threepence. Snipes snared on Sefton Meadows; alive last night: small Cocoanuts 2d. Very damp. H 28—Gathered Buttercups at Backford, in frost. ,, 29—Roots of Aucuba yaponica, extremely blunt and succulent. „ 3°—Shrub like Ilex, with elegant pensile flowers, at the College and Curzon Park. ,, 31—Fine and frosty. Jan. 2—1864. A Gold-field fifteen miles from Victoria (Vancouver's). Frost very severe, the Canal freezing at night. ,, 4—Agaricus pcrsonatus in perfection at Curzon Park! Ice one and a half inch thick. Thermometer at 22. Redwings very tame. N.B.— They died first, in the hard winter of i860. i, 6—Seed such a Oss !—(from Mollington.) ,, 7—A splendid rime on the trees. Our own photographer (at Chester, Mr. Charles) taking views of them : il avait raison. >» 8—Such an arrival! We might say, A rival arrival to the arrival, March loth, 1863! But how to describe it, after the Court Bulletin has been called to order for talking of a ' fine boy ?' The honoured locality Frog-more, suggests the addition of a Royal Tadpole to the Model Family ; and, we were ourselves Tadpoles in the year eighteen hun¬ dred and mum ! See Frontispiece; and Page 70. We hope " Bless his little heart'''' will not be deemed out of order, by the warm-blooded (pro tern.) Balrachians. m 9—Sea Pies ninepence each in Birkenhead Market. >> II—Thaw: roads very dirty : ground still hard. >> 14—Sharp frost again, with thaw before noon: but as the trees dripped heavily, the water froze below! By night, universal thaw again. Seed such a Dog .'—from Watergate Street: liked him, and vice versa. Transported to and with California, by Mr. Marsh's thirty superb photographic landscapes of Yo-semite Valley. Not a living creature, except a man, in any one of them ! >> 15—Seed a Bull! in Boughton ; did not like him ; and no love lost, I suspect. A displosiou of eleven tons of " that villanous saltpetre" in the middle of the Mersey; whereby the panes were blowd out of the windows on both sides ; the time was blowd out of the church clocks ; a young man was blowd out of a cookshop, the money blowd out of his pockets, and the gravy blowd out of the pies ! (sic, in the Train.) Through signal mercy, no loss of life reported!