... petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and: white ribbons. Hér majesty wore round hey head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. A large number of presentations took:place, among which we remarked the follow- ing:—Lord Alvanley, on succeeding ...

... and taxes upon them. Again, in parts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Scotland, steam-engines are almost as plentiful as blackberries, whilst in most other counties, they have few or none, In my own, with a mil- ion Of acres, we have less than hal!-a-dozen ...

... the supposed Murderers.—On Friday evening, the ‘ instant, about half-past seven o’clock, two children, who were gathering blackberries in a hedge-bottom at East- bank, about a mile and a half to the southeast of Sheffield, discovered the dead body of a man ...

... the wild rose, the brilliant scarlet aud green berries of the night-shade, and the dark purple bunches of the luxuriant blackberry. These are now most abundant, and we often meet lots of lads and lassies busy in reducing their numbers. Then we have the ...

... a Fall.—On the 24th of Sept. the day after the Regatta, a little girl,eleven yeaisold, named Ellen Butler, was picking blackberries from the bushes glowing the edge of the rocks in Queen's Park, when sha fell a distance about fifteen yards. She was i ...