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... the old towns and cities. In this place the proofs of direct bribery and treating at the last election are plentiful as blackberries. Stringent as the new law is, the direct corruption was wide-spread. It was de- termined to buy the contest at all hazards ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1852
Newspaper: Shrewsbury Chronicle
County: Shropshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1487 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

course to send a fleet of war steamers among a crovtd Of fishing vessels, and to capture them on the

... badly have they gone on that even this topic has been abandoned in despair, not hut that bribes have not been plentiful blackberries, and intimidation and oppression as thickly scattered abroad as dust, but the public have been so heartily tired of the ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1852
Newspaper: Nottingham Review
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1548 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

lIOHAfE SOMERVILLE

... lane, which kcemcd if the imps of darkness might dance there, end o» one roovr break their revelry. The long, straggling blackberry shoot* struck across the way. as if they had vested right to keep intruders from the rood, and, like serpent, colled around ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1852
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 5449 | Page: 4 | Tags: none