... if wve mavi believe the last accounts, wvas already the heroine of the dav. Sonnets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries, WEST INDIES. Our news from Jamaica is to the 11th of January. The cholera sems to be on the decrease at Kingston, although ...

... fiuitagc of such comnmon growth that they did not seem to him worth legislative notice. le would as soon think of protecting blackberries. Now, the mechanicatl im- provement made by A. to-day, and patented, could very possibly occur to B. to-morrowv. But may ...

... his claim as being the rightful owner. This rather made the matter more compli- cated, as Smith is a name as plentiful as blackberries, and let one choose his parish, there would be plenty of pretenders to eke prize. After all the idle speculation, the winner ...

... black lace, grey ribbons, aod white bugles. The petti- coat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white rib- of blackberries and diamonds. bons. Her Majesty wore round ber head a wreath composed The diplomatic and general circles were very fally ...

... the Whigs are notoriously lucky; and when they are in office, pieces of preferment are sure to fall in as plentifully as blackberries. ‘There is not a single ex-Attorney or ex-Solicitor-General of theirs unprovided for; but poor Sir Frederick Thesiger and ...

... ground till the principal races were over. Divisional Gencrals, Brigadiers, Colonels, and stall officers, were plenty its blackberries, and, though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs Seacole, who presided over a sorely invested tent fall of ...

... costume has strikingly supported this view.- Critic. MMlUnORIES oF Bo11iiooc-Tho crowning joys were b huttercupping and blackberrying. As soon as the spring warmth brought forth the golden dandolions, and gave a now greenness to the grass in Stcpney churchyard ...

... discussion on the rela- tive merits of Horsecy, Finchley, Wanstead, Epping, and Woodford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gather. ing. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with us in our bags, though many ...

... yearly emerge on the crowded arena of therapeutics, where it has of late become a proverb that 31.ID.'s are as plenty as blackberries; more so, it might almost be said, since numbers of the former arc to be found, where the latter only sparsely glow-viz ...

... 12th instant, tells the following thrilling tale :- Last fall a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking, blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe ...

... quotation from Cowley, which is to our contemporary what a staff is to a cripple. Such quotations, howeve-, are as plentiful as blackberries in summer. Let our readers open that best of literary hand-books- Cmlibers' (.yclop&,dia, and they will find them thrust ...

... their aspersions on Scotch morality. Let them look at home for crime of every sort, and offences will appear as thick as blackberries in the month of September. *We extract a few cases, in proof, from one of the penny papers. We do not go to the Mam- moth ...