... Scotland. Destratts Bencna.—Liberal candidates for our burghs are as plentiful as blackberries: We ought rather to say r.•puted candidates. We stated a fortnight ago that Sir Alexander Johnstone of Carnsalloch was fairly in the field ; and that Mr. Ewart ...

... prevails. PIACI/CITY IN TWA PCLPIT.—At one time the stage was inundwed with boy actors; infant Roscimes were plentiful as blackberries ; little girls in trousers strutted ns tragedy queens; and little boys, scarcely emancipated from petticoats. raved as ...

... do jestiee. Like Falstaff they would not render justice on rompulsion—no. though the reasons for it were as plentiful as blackberries. They never (we must do them this justice) had the audacity to proclaim in so many words lust the General Assembly might ...

... also shown for the first time in Brachia : They are s very beautiful and fine flavoured fruit, in taste not unlike the blackberrie. Mr Aikenhead, who introduced it, deserves due praise. The heaths exhibited were beautiful, and the display of greenhouse ...

... of General Tom Thumb's recent visit to our Mores, one may reasonably conclude that dwarfs are ant quite so plentiful as blackberries; end yet, at Kisborn of Applecrosa in the county of Roo, there is • family of that gen., each of them be.% of less dimensions ...

... which rapport each its plateau of •Ine.produclaz land. Villages dot either banks; towers sod charches are u plenty as blackberries. A few roller; on and we pass the ruins of tho Iltroazhold of the Bishops of Mayo nee, kept in countenance on the opposite ...

... wanting. bigotry, illiberality, and fanaticism yet in the country to make anti-Jewish emancipation petitions as plentiful as black-berries. With a little activity and organisation, it may be that, like hobnails, we may be enabled to count them by the hundred; ...

... the committee was required to make a return of the fighting men' in his district. Bullets were as plenty among them as blackberries, and committee-men showed one another their pocketsfull of ball-cartridges. Ginger-beer bottles, blacking-bottles, and ...

... KIRRIEMUIR.—On Sabbath last, a child of George Henderson, weaver, Roods, went, in company with a young girl, to gather blackberries in a plantation to the north of the town. During the day the girl lost sight of the child, and was unable to discover where ...

... petticoat was of •hite ailk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribbons. Her Malesty wore round her head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. The diplomatic and general circles were fully represented. The following, amongst other noblemen gentlemen ...

... in the old comedies, straight picked up one Morgan, just as if ' good and safe men' were as plentiful in Shrewsbury as blackberries in the hedgerows, or as rogues in most places. The good and safe man' was, however, cut short in his career of bribery ...

... moved, or has no/ mew. d for leave to bring in certain bills. Notices of motions for leave are this year se plentiful as blackberries, but as treacheton• as the apples of the Dead Sea. They tickle the curiosity only to disappoint it. Week after week the ...