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_The Year 1854._--This year commenced and will terminate on a Sunday. In
looking through the Almanac, it will be seen that there are _five Sundays
in five months_ of the year, viz. in January, April, July, October, and
December; five _Mondays_ in January, May, July, and October; five
_Tuesdays_ in January, May, August, and October; five _Wednesdays_ in
March, May, August, and November; five _Thursdays_, in March, June, August,
and November; five _Fridays_ in March, June, September, and December; five
_Saturdays_ in April, July, September, and December; and, lastly,
fifty-three _Sundays_ in the year.
The age of her Majesty the Queen is thirty-five, or seven times five; and
the age of Prince Albert the same.
Last Christmas having fallen on the Sunday, I am reminded of the following
lines:
"Lordings all of you I warn,
If the day that Christ was born
Fall upon a Sunday,
The winter shall be good I say,
But great winds aloft shall be;
The summer shall be fine and dry.
_By kind skill, and without loss,_
_Through all lands there shall be peace._
Good time for all things to be done;
But he that stealeth shall be found soon.
What child that day born may be,
A great lord he shall live to be."