... COUNTY. The candidates for the seat vacated by Mr. Burke ltorhe's elevation to the Irish peerage are now almost as thick as blackberries in mid-autuma. Three are now actually in harness for the race, and the number 'spoken or is well-nigh indefinite. The ...

... amenable for actual distress and its abolition or suspense was not the remedy. Reasons, his lordship said, were as thick as blackberries for free trade, so that to put up with the present, and place hope only in the future, was his lordship's advice. In ...

... a complete failure.—Australian Belfast Gazette. BALLARAT, February 23, 1854.—Large nuggets are now getting as common as blackberries. One 33 lb. odd was taken from the Eureka a day or two since; another of the same weight nearly from the Red Hill; and ...

... report thereon: the government ' to be regulated by these reports. Now, fair, candid, sod intelligent men are as common as blackberries ill ordinary life, but whet, most wanted they are nowhere to be found; and if Mr Hope's account of our religions divisions ...

... might aeetn instrument conrmleiit enough when inserted into saucer, syrup, or applied to the broken surface an overripe blackberry, but often see our tipper of tweet* quite busy solid lump of sugar, which shall find, on close inspection, growing •• small ...

... boas; all your standard works are familiar to us, and o►tained at exceedingly cheap rates; and newspapers are as plenty as blackberries. A town of 4000 or 5000 inhabitants will have its daily paper, while you have only one daily in all Scotland.' In cutting ...

... lightning—threw myself on my side, for there was keeping my feet, and down the brae hurled I, over heather and fern, and blackberries, like a barrel down Chalmers’s Close, in Auld Reekie. G—, sir, I never could help laughing when I think how the scoundrel ...

... winding up of a concern so majestic, disputes, evasions, quirks, counter-claims, anil repetitions would arise as thick as blackberries; the law'. delay would conipticate the matter finely, and at the close of some years the trustee of the Weetern Bank ...

... winding up of a concern so majestic, disputes, evasions ' quirks, counter-claims, and repetitions would arise as thick as blackberries; the law's delay would complicate the matter finely, and at the of some years the trustee of the Western Bank would ...

... playmate, Master the cir- came to ito it turned out the two lads were ing with a together, to shoot rab- the and trigger were a blackberry bush, and the contents were suddenly the body of Ove have been we read in a provincial that two of one “ went off” in company ...

... priest-ridden Irish. While almost all sinecure situations bare been abolished in Scotland, in England they are plenty as blackberries. daresay few people are aware of the existence of such functionaries as the followin;;—Keeper of the Swans, with £4OO a-year; ...

... Liverpool, and commenced to cal some plants. Shortly afterwards they were all taken ill, and vomited what appeared to unripe blackberries One of the children has died, and the others are in precarious condition, having, it seems, eaten tbe root of a poisonous ...