... and queens must be happy. Happy as a king is a very common phrase ; but since uncrowned kings have become common as blackberries, and attempts at assassination have ceased to be a nine days' wonder, the truth of the phrase has been very much questioned ...

... ! This is a harsh term, but it is one which is justified by facts. Hustings Hampdens are plentiful in this country as blackberries, but where is Hampden's successor in the Senate ? Mr. Biffins, before he is returned, speaks of popular rights With a vehemence ...

... Woodcock Inn, Farn- h ley, on the body of Mary Snowdon, aged eleven years. On Wed- T nesday afternoon, deceased was gathering blackberries in the fields h of her uncle, who is a farmer, when she fell down the shaft of an a old coal pit. She was not missed for ...