... vales end woods of Somersetshire; where Falstaff doubtless originated his happy thought of reasons being as plenty as blackberries ;-for never did I behold such lavish profusion of fruit, -as that of our hedgerows and copse woods this summer. The, present ...

... from the Morning Chronicle. Of a verity, we must hot look for figs from brambles. The specimens before us are of the true blackberry order, N 0 T A B I L I A. We have been vastly edified by a Bow street Report, setting forth the method of instructing persons ...

... liar, scoundrel, and other epithets of this de- scription, are as familiar amongst them in application to each other as blackberries in Autumn. The other night they had a meeting to try Mit- chell, the proposer of Mr. Hunt, and in order to sober the minds ...

... the wit of man could conceive. How is this? Is it an age of such universal genius, and of candour; is merit as common as blackberries, and has it, for the first time, its just appreciation, and have envy and detraction fled the world ? No; the world is ...

... may not say that the staple of Blackburn is cotton without instant contradiction. Had oe said the staple of Blackburn was blackberries, Lord Grey should have had too much respect for the Peerage to gainsay it. What is ^he boasted independence of the House ...

... factories-that black-strap is at frequent work in them all-that cuffs from open and blows from clenched hands are plentiful as blackberries- that samples are shown of every species of shaking-and that there is no dearth of that perhaps most brutal of all beastly ...

... save with ears that could catch the concert of the morning stars, or the spheres' music. Albeit Ribbonmen are plenty as blackberries, you might offer a thousand pounds for the sight of one, and miss the show. We have not heard what pecuniary aid Mr Ruthven ...

... excellent practice, whose names are Slaughter, Blood, and Death.-Morning Post. - New operas in Italy appear to be as plenty as blackberries. Every city of note in that land of song may just now boast of having pro. duced a new one. In Ferrara there is L'Aeor ...

... Depuotations are now all the go everywhere. No- thing can be done without a deputation, and luckily deputies are plenty as blackberries. Our cotem. of the New York Herald has been visited by 'a deputation, from Poughkeepsie, which he thus describes:- A ...

... Mathew's labours have done more to depress the sloe than the foreign import. Excel- lent claret is to be made from the Irish blackberry, and none but traitors will drink Lafitte. But it were endless to enumerate the commodities with the importation of which ...

... pensation for the nothing to do taken from them. As for our Pottingers, by Sir Robert Peel's ac- count, they are plentiful as blackberries (though Chinese empires to open to us are not); and not a week passes without the denial of just claims to reward for lasting ...

... yachts with dishes of mulberries. No private noble- man is told that an old inhabitant is alongside with a fine dish of blackberries as a present. Augustus having remarked that a humble attendant at his I court never made him any offering, the man answered ...