... We understand this youthful and promising society intends visiting Woolwich—where soldiers and riflemen, are as thick as blackberries, on Thursday next. As-the-object of this society is, peace and good-will to men, we trust we shall not be considered romantic ...

... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told its that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...

... said, about the late royal visit, the Exposition, and la mode. Paris is very full just bow, and the English are plenty as blackberries. ...

... political circles ; and, as the time of the opening of Parliament approaches, rumours, we shall find, will be as plentiful as blackberries. Certain, however, it is that a new-born interest is now being taken in political prospects. The Premier knows as well ...

... privileges of promotion, the young men who now walk over the heads of grey-headed 111 , 1 1 q— veterans are as plentiful as blackberries. In military circles, or at least amongst the vast majority—i.e., the men who are without the means to climb the ladder ...

... need not say churchmen and dissenters meet around the festive Board. Toasts and sentimelts, of course, are as plentiful as blackberries. Our parish officials, instead of proposing toasts agreeable to a general company, and consonant with good manners, rise ...

... brought down a hind. A Novel Swimming Match. Men who can swim their half-dozen miles in the Thames are as plentiful as blackberries. Not long since Walker, a north country swimmer, swam from London-bridge to Greenwich, a distance of 5 miles 300 yards ...

... which appears to have existed. The Prince of Wales may possibly visit Canada in the course of next summer. The crop of blackberries this year is one of the greatest ever remembered. A firm in this town (says the Bristol Times) closed their works on Fast ...

... Sweden in favour of the allies—of the raising of the siege of Kars, &c. &c. At home rumours are positively. plenty as blackberries, and they, moreover, appertain to most important interests. In the daily papers of Monday appeared the following :— His ...

... deposited with us a number of documents bearing on Col. Sleigh's election—and which he informs us were gathered thick as blackberries' in the neighbourhood of the Fete—a selection from which will appear in our next. They certainly ,are of a startling nature ...

... ground till the principal races were over. Divisional generals, brigadiers, colonels, and staffofficers were plenty as blackberries, and, though the only representative of the fair sex was MrsMeacole, who presided over a sorely invested tent full of ...

... learned the superiority of cross over direct fire; eight o'clock came. The big wigs assembled, and soldiers were as thick as blackberries everywhere near the place •of rendezvous. The Rajah rode up with his gallant band of excessively irregular-looking troops ...