... exercise as careful and paternal a jurisdiction as the well-paid commissioners. Whig commissioners are as plentiful as blackberries, and as hungry as wolves; acd John Bull might possibly be driven mad if their number and powers be considerably increased ...

... husband returned home from his daily labour, and while getting into bed, their son, aged le years, who Lad bean oat all day blackberrying, came in bearing on his shoulder a gun, which he said he bad found and which deceased wanted to see, but she insisted that ...

... Cardinalis Sancta Itcclesce Romance ? The priest laconically replied Scio, and retired. Here, where cardinals are plenty as blackberries, and the Pope himself can scarcely get folks to kneel to him, the Primate must content him with somewhat less adora- tion ...

... Four Studies of Village Children (385), by Birket Foster. These represent a girl picking wild roses, another gather. ing blackberries, a thin' feeding rabbits, and the fourth nursing a child in her lap. Mr. Foster seems to have shaken off the tendency to ...

... of little importance. SUFPQSED MURDER AT SHEFFIELD.—On Friday . evening about half-past two children, who were gathering blackberries in a hedge-bettom at Eastbank, about a mile and a half to the south-east of Sheffield, discovered the dead body of a man ...

... Studies of Village Children (385), (?) Containing Pour Four These represent a girl picking wild roses, another er gathering blackberries, a third feeding rabbits, and the fourth nursing a child in her lap. Mr. Foster seems to have shaken off the tendency to ...

... Petty Sessions, James Smith, a bricklayer ' was sentenced to 12s. fine or 14 days' imprisonment for trespassing and taking blackberries. --In the case of George Haynes, the reformed ticket-ofleave man, the Rev. Mr. Dickins writes from Emscote, Warwick, suggesting ...

... The office was worth, in ordinary times, about £4,000 a-year, and in extraordinary, when Crown prosecutions cropped like blackberries, in the days of -Whiteboyism and Rockism, double or treble that amount. ,If divided per counties the office will vary in ...

... remarked that insolvents found friends. His Honour said friends were easily to be found with 4001.—they were as plentiful as blackberries (a laugh). ...

... rental was 2882/. It fetched 73,4851., equal to 29,years' purchase. Two years ago, when estates were knocked down like blackberries, this property would not have brought anything like one half what it produced yesterday. ROYAL SEA-BATHING INFIRVARY, MARGATE ...

... anyone may refuse Church-rates that likes, and notices such as Mr. Cross provides ready to their hand, will be as thick as blackberries in nine out of ten of our country parishes. I could not have supposed it possible that a bill which offers such a bonus ...

... the most ultra-Radical principles. SLIGO (BOROUGH). Candidates for this celebrated borough are becoming as plentiful as blackberries. The. last in the field is Mr. James O'Dowd, jun., a member of the Middle Temple. TIPPERARY (CouNTT).—Mr. Waldron has declared ...