... not see who can. Parliament, and the House of Commons especially, miserably deficient in great men. upstarts are thick blackberries; but men cairn, capacious intellect, and enlightened understandings, are co.n-piratively few. With all bis faults—his wavering ...

... unsettled aspect. The French authorities have detected a fresh democratic conspiracy, and arrests in Paris are as plentiful as blackberries ; at the same moment, the Emperor of Austria has seen fit to strip off the slight veneer of a Constitution left that region ...

... The national character follows the individual. But this may mend, perhaps; when farming balance-sheets areas “plenty as blackberries,” it is just possible that some green member may startle the house, moving for “• a return of the amount of wheat grown ...