... deputation waited upon the learned Lord at Manchester lately, when the pledge was given. Lecturing M.P.'s are as plentiful blackberries ; but a lecturing Peer and Ex-Chancellor is a novelty. Seduction. —At the Galway Assizes an action was brought by John ...

... bob-tail of London and its suburbs are equally devoid of reason. At any rate, although reasons may be as plentiful as blackberries, not one will they render you at all like a reason, why they observe the day. Singular nine out of ten of the children ...

... Its head was bleeding. The child was unable to speak. Witness asked Cain how he had come that way and he said he had been blackberry picking. George Parker Bezley, of Woodbury, stated that his son was lying at home dangerously ill. He had a hole in the ...

... Accident.—On Saturday afternoon, as two little boys, sons of Mr. G. Burridge, of Bartholomew-street, shoemaker, were gathering blackberries in a field at the end of Okehamptonstreet, they fell into the water. The eldest was immediately rescued and the other was ...

... On Monday last, John Handford, of St. Thomas, cabinet-maker, was on his way from Christow to Canonteign, while gathering blackberries from a hedge be was bitten in the finger by viper The hand and arm soon became much swollen, but surgical skill iv the ...

... —The Tyne Mercury has the following the list of marriages : — At Sudberry, Mass ,by the Rev. Mr. Cranberry, Mr. Neheniiah Blackberry, to Miss Catherine Elderberry, of D&nbury. One Mr. Ash, who was himself famous punster Ireland, coming into an inn, desired ...

... might prove an ornament to the city, and fill up one those unsightly gaps which in Queen-street are almost as plentiful as blackberries. With the assurance that in making this suggestion 1 have no personal interest to serve, holding no stake to the value ...

... back and demanded what they meant by that. denied having used the expression. the following day was in a field picking blackberries alone, when Mr. Cottrell up to him with another gentleman, and said —What do by that bird Witness replied—l have said nothing ...

... parted at the door of the gaol, be was poor he had nothing to make use of for the past three days, but a few apples and blackberries. The prisoner made no defence.— Guilty, 'l he Judge said the otlence of which he had been convicted on the clearest evidence ...

... with the greatest, difficulty, that had walked from Rridport that morning, and had had nothing t eat on his way but a few blackberries which he plucked on the road that, was a Greenwich pensioner, and had obtained leave of absence for three months, and was ...

... Hicks was in a wood belonging Mr. Radciiffe, adjoining the garden of the cottage where her father lived. She was gathering blackberries, when she heard the keeper say, Hallo you. Shortly afterwards she heard the report of a gun fired. She ran away when ...