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... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1851
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 1980 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE PATENT-LAWS

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1851
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 2857 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LEITH TOWN-COUNCIL AND THE DOCK COMMISSION

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 29 December 1851
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 3312 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... state his expenses L.40,000 for one election—(hear, hear. hear). Kleefioiis costing from to L-10,00t> wer-» M plenty as blackberries—(hmj laughter). Now he (Mr Bell) had had the excitement of election, the luxury of a petition, and all the expenses of ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8828 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

England

... white i'he was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and while Her Majesty wore round bcr head a wreath composed •f blackberries aod diamonds. The diplomatic and general circles were fallr lepre•toted. The following, amongst other and p-ntlcm?r, had ...

Published: Monday 26 April 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4135 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... before those of Sir Charles Napier. Ample reasons can be given for these preferences, but though tliesw reasons were thick blackberries, tliey mill not satisfy the nation who pay tho navy and army, and expect to get the best service for their ' money. Deeply ...

Published: Monday 31 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6925 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LEGAL PREFERMENT THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR

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

Published: Thursday 10 February 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1365 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5125 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ORIGIN OF THE PLOT OF GUY MANNERING

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3603 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 29 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 3 | Tags: News