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PREPARATIONS FOR WAR

... will command a paddle-steam frigate sqoaugron in lien of the screw two-decker Nile; but such rumours are plenti- ful as blackberries. Portsmouth and the suburbs are filling fast with fashionable visitors, the relatives and friends of the officers of the ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1854
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3824 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH HUME

... and then was the untaxed Corn Champion, Richard Cobden, some eight or nine years old, haply in- tent on birds'-nests and blackberries. At the request of Mrs. and Mr. Hume, the portrait is to be enshrined in the London Uni- versity; a most fitting place ...

Published: Sunday 13 August 1854
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 655 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

EMIGRATION INTELLIGENCE

... that the one thing needfrl to lice omfortably and happily was to have a wife, and sarriages rere soon almost as plenty as blackberries; indeed, some of hem were contracted with extraordinary facility, and no amily was sure of keeping a decent female servsnt ...

Published: Sunday 03 September 1854
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1602 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE POPE AND THE WAR

... Sanctee Ecclesicr Bomane ? 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 himself with some- what less adoration ...

Published: Monday 27 November 1854
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1133 | Page: 2 | Tags: News