... petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and: white ribbons. Hér majesty wore round hey head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. A large number of presentations took:place, among which we remarked the follow- ing:—Lord Alvanley, on succeeding ...

... and taxes upon them. Again, in parts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Scotland, steam-engines are almost as plentiful as blackberries, whilst in most other counties, they have few or none, In my own, with a mil- ion Of acres, we have less than hal!-a-dozen ...

... the supposed Murderers.—On Friday evening, the ‘ instant, about half-past seven o’clock, two children, who were gathering blackberries in a hedge-bottom at East- bank, about a mile and a half to the southeast of Sheffield, discovered the dead body of a man ...

... the wild rose, the brilliant scarlet aud green berries of the night-shade, and the dark purple bunches of the luxuriant blackberry. These are now most abundant, and we often meet lots of lads and lassies busy in reducing their numbers. Then we have the ...

... a Fall.—On the 24th of Sept. the day after the Regatta, a little girl,eleven yeaisold, named Ellen Butler, was picking blackberries from the bushes glowing the edge of the rocks in Queen's Park, when sha fell a distance about fifteen yards. She was i ...

... recompense the outlay. The “ Billy- Gamon’s Rough,” as the side of the hill fronting the river was called, fruitful in blackberries, and thick with coppice and tim- ber, under which the unassnming but lovely wild-flowers exhaled their fragrance on the ...

... accomplish. bourhood thrashing machines worked by horses were going out of date, and steam engines were as plentiful as blackberries He believed that his expenditure was remunerative, and that if they were to see his crops this year they would say that ...

... one of the tallest of the Berkshire range of mountains, The bill was said to be covered with countless bushels of ripe blackberries, and all of the high bush variety, which are the largest and the sweetest. They left the station in high spirits, and in ...

... southern Africa—away in the distant native regions of the Caffre and the Hottentot,—bottles of Bass, are as plentiful as blackberries, and settlers at the Cape toast the old country in beverage from the same brewing as their cousins are imbibing at home ...

... priest, the other day, for passing him at the Quirinal with a mere doff of the hat. Here, where cardinals are “ plenty as blackberries,” and the Pope himself can scarcely get folks to kneel to him, the primate must content himself with somewhat less adora- ...

... blatant friends, egged on by English huzzas ; but, hitherto, all has been “Vox et preeterea nihil.” Promises, plentiful as blackberries which have never ripened into fruit — declarations of assistance, which have hitherto always belied themselves, have followed ...

... supposes them to be actuated. He asks.for reasons to prove Establishments to be essentially wrong. Such reasons are plenty blackberries ; but, having regard to your space, I venture to suggest but three, and those of an exclusively religions character. I ...