... instead of poverty would now have been the state of that Company; but instead of this, branches as numerous almost as blackberries on a bush, were pushed out into barren districts (as if to embrace all the land in the district, not caring what the population ...

... British Preference. The Samuel Douglass Testimonial. Testimonials are in these days of railway commotion as numerous as blackberries on a bush. It is quite right to testify to a man's merits. We say nothing against the prin.. ciple of the thing properly ...

... less than one-half the amount paid for it. Anecdotes, not perhaps exactly of this stamp, but of a kindred, are as thick as blackberries in autumn. Mr. Stephenson proposes a substitute for par;iamentary legislation, of which we may say more hereafter. A worse ...

... No doubt Mr. Brunel could give his reasons for this, because at all times that gentleman's reasons were as plentiful as blackberries( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Considerable discussion took place upon the charge for working the line. The CHAIRMAN said ...

... enable the public to form their opinion. These voluminous documents, containing yard long arguments and facts as numerous as blackberries on a bush, are little better than waste paper. They bewilder the clearest intellects, and mistify the plainest facts, for ...

... and partly to replenish their coffers for the next five years. Really the number of borrowers are becoming as numerous as blackberries in autumn but much less pleasant. The imports of t union, &c., since this day week in excess of the shipments amount to ...

... knows how many of these nuisances we have on the south side of the Thames, but on some of the roads they are as thiek an blackberries. To mention only one ease. A few years ago there were three gates, and two or three toll-bars from New Cross to London ...

... estimates will, we think, show us a figure handsome to look at. The additional country lines, too, are almost as numerous as blackberries on a bush. Where these are useful and economical extensions, they ought to be encouraged, granted and constructed without ...

... never can do. They take people up and set them down just where they want to go while railways, if they were as thick as blackberries in autumn, could have their stations at places only a long way apart, and perhaps utterly inconvenient to the passengers ...

... next week. Some are useful; others competing and fighting. Money at 8 per cent., and these last named projects, thick as blackberries, projected! Prices Yesterday. Caledonian l3l, Great Eastern Great Northern A 157 i Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire ...

... indeed highly lucrative investments' and it was assumed that all railways would pay. Prospectuses appeared as thick as blackberries on a bush, and the shares of new railway Conipanies were eagerly sought for, while those of the old flourishing Companies ...

... Erie. From the first moment that the present managers took the reconstruction of the Brie in hand barns as numerous as blackberries seem to have been invented and put into oiroulation for the special annoyance of those who conduot the affairs of that ...