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THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'; HEALTH.—Experience, says
the Madrid correspondent of the Morning Post, has
demonstrated that the clique, into whose hands the un-
fortunate Queen of Spain has fallen, is as remorseless as
it is unscrupulous in the pursuit of its darling object—the

accession of the Duke and DUchess of Monfp. en;ier to the
Spanish throne. Isabel IL's health has lately declined,
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feeding, and an immoderate addiction to sweetmeats, and

by not a few to all the above-mentioned causes, except
the first. I thought the same, but within the last twenty-
four hours I had reason to change my opinion, although
there is little doubt but that the Queen's present mode of
living is calculated to shorten the existence of a person of
a scorbutic habit of body. It is not certain that she is

enceinte ; her symptoms, instead of being such as are
peculiar to that state. may prove indications of a general
break up of her constitution. I have a suspicion respect-
ing the real state of Isabel Il.'s health, as well as of the
eventual results of the medical treatment she is undergo-
ing. Time will clear up the mystery, and let us hope that
the denouement will not be a terrible and a startling one.
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—ProbabIy one of the most
remarkable feats of a newspaper enterprise, is the result of
that which appears in this morning's Herald—the reso-
lutions of Mr. Clay, delivered at Lexington the day before
yesterday. The distance is nearly one thousand miles.
Knowing the importance of Mr. Clay's opinions and
movements in the popular contest now about to take
place in this country, we made extraordinary arrangements
last week to run an express exclusively for the Herald.
We have, however, taken into the enterprise, since our
arrangements were made, two of our contemporaries, who
will also publish the same this morning. About 11 or 12
o'clock, the day before yesterday, the meeting was held
at Lexington. Our reporters were there, and when the re-
solutions were read, and Mr. Clay had delivered his speech,
our express started on horseback, running 84 miles, to
Cincinnati. At Cincinnati the notes of our reporters
were written out, and the whole was sent on through the
electric telegraph, to this city, a distance of nearly 1,000
miles. The, speech and resolutions were received early
yesterday morning, and, but for the intervention of Sun-
day, we should have been able to have published the
whole Lexington proceedings in less than ten hours from
their delivery in Kentucky.—New York Herald.

WEST INDIES. The steam ship Forth arrived at
Southampton on Tuesday with the West Indian and Mex-
ican mails. She has brought upwards of 300,000 dollars.
In lat. 43 18 N. lon. 35 40 W., on the 30th Nov., she
fell in with the wreck of the Amity of Liverpool, timber
laden, but no papers on board. In Jamaica things were
still very flat, and no improvement whatever had taken
place. The markets continued in the same sluggish state
as per last advices. In Trinadad they were beginning to
recover from the effects of the late hurricane. At St.
Christophers on the sth ult. the Weather changed, and
that showers had been general, throughout the island.
Although the rain was late for the season, it was never-
theless expected that the supply would benefit not only
the old, but also the young canes. The weather at An-
tigua, previous to the 20th ult., was also exceedingly
favourable for agricultural operations, and the next year's
crop would, it was thought, prove productive. Barba-
does on the 6th still suffered from the want of water.
" This," it is remarked, " is the hottest November we
have ever experienced. For the last ten days, not a
shower has fallen in the city to refresh the earth, or im-
part the slightest coolness to the air. There is a great
dearth of American arrivals, and we fear this scorching
weather will materially affect the present supply, so that
probably this description of provisions will again rise high
in price.
SANGOINARY AFFRAY ON BOARD A SLAVER.—On the
22nd July, H.M.S. Waterwitch, in company with an-
other, captured a Brazilian brigantine, which was subse-
quently given in charge in Lieut., W. Cr. Mansfield, R.N.,
and four seamen, to be conveyed to St. Helena for adju-
dication. Cluing to adverse winds, he bore up for Sierra
Leone. On the 11th of August, about midday. while the
crew were all engaged, the lieutenant, being at the mo-
ment pulling a rope which had been recently spliced, was
murderously assailed from behind by one of the prisoners
(who were four in number, and during the day time al-
lowed the liberty of the vessel) with an axe used for chop-
ping firewood. At the same moment the other prisoners
furiously attacked the sailors in the hunks, who, from
the unexpected nature of the assault, were driven from
their post wounded and unarmed. Lieut. Mansfield,
laying hold of a piece of firewood, gallantly, but unequally,
contended with a Brazilian armed with a cutlass.. In the
course of a desperate struggle, the officer received no
fewer than nine ounds. With the assistance of two
men, who had been up in the shrouds, the crew rallied,
and three of them rushed aft upon their antagonists,
whom they speedily overpowered, one of the prisoners
leaping overboard and perishing iu the waves. The lieut.
himself was dangerously wounded, and one of the crew
had been previously killed. Lieut. Mansfield fortunately
reached Sierra Leone, and the prisoners were brought to
trial, but acquitted, as the Court found that the alleged
crime had been committed in an attempt to recapture
their own vessel, then under the Brazilian flag, and not
amenable to British jurisdiction, the sentence of the
Court of Admiralty not having been then pronounced. I

In was

proceeding at the rate of forty miles an hour. Within
four miles of Rugby, the Countess of Zetland and her
maid, who were in the carriage, got out on the truck,
when the maid threw herself on the railway. On the ar-
rival of the train at Rugby, an engine was sent back,
when the young woman was found severely injured. Lady
Zetland remained at Rugby, where she was joined by his
lordship and the family physician last night.

rHE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH versus TIM E.-TIMEDEAD
-In a letter received by a gentleman of this town,
riend in Indiana, United States, is the following
relative to the electric telegraph in that state:—
wonderful invention, the magnetic telegraph,
_ s through our country from the eastern cities, com-
municating intelligence almost instantaneously : news
has been transmitted from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, a
distance of 750 miles, on one unbroken chain of wires.
Of course, as Cincinnati is ten degrees west of Phila-
delphia, or 40 minutes of time later, the news is that much

a-head 'of time ! "

OUR MILITARY DEFENCES.—A few days since, there
appeared in the Times newspaper an article, in which the
writer earnestly pressed on the government and the public
the great importance of forming an immediate junction
between the London and North-Western and London and
South-Western Railways, with the view, in the event of
any military exigency occurring, of enabling us to tran-
sport troops from the midland and northern counties to
the south-western coast, without the delay which would be
at present caused by the break between the Euston-square
station and the station at Vauxhall. It is a curious coin-
cidence, that the views of the writer had not only been
anticipated by a gentleman of high distinction in the
railway world, but that a company was then actually in
the course of formation for carrying those views into
effect. It is proposed that the new scheme shall unite
the two great lines we have named, by the construction of
a line running out of the London and North-Western,
and joining the 'Brantford branch of the London and
South-Western. This junction will be seven miles in
length, and of easy construction. It has already met
with the special sanction of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the
engineer ; and in addition to its great advantages in the
manner already mentioned, there is an excellent prospect
of a most ample revenue from the traffic, both in goods
and passengers.—Railway Record.

ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS.

(From the Cork Constitution.)

Our, remarks on Tuesday on the speech of Priest Hughes
we concluded with these questions :—" Is it any marvel
that murder is the pastime of the peasant ? And will any
sane man tell us that the Priests are blameless ?" After
what has recently occurred, few, we apprehend, will be
disposed to deem these questions so uncharitable as once
they might have thought them- but should there be one
still sceptical, let him read the 'following, which we take
from the Dublin Evening Herald:—
"We happen to know a very recent case of altar denun-
ciation, the particulars of which are now before the govern-
men, and will soon be, we trust, before the pubic. In this
instancethe 'Clerical instigator' is stated to have distinctly
indicated two 'individuals for assassination. This was
done without any kind of reserve or mystification. He
simply stated what his line of conduct would have been
bad he been placed in the shoes of the evicted tenant. His
language was exquisitely simple, and perfectly adapted to
the comprehension of his audience. He would have
taken,' he said, a loaded gun and done for the villain
that turned him out of his land.' To this was, a few days
subsequently, superadded language directly, addressed to
the denounced individuals, and so frightfully menacing
that they are, we believe, immediately about to leave the
country—in the belief that by doing so they are consulting
their only chance of safety. It is, indeed, high time that
this priestly prerogative should be a little clipped."
Until the'exercise of it be prohibited, and the Pope's sub
jests be stripped of the power of obeying it, by being de-
prived of the "gun" which they are ready to " load" for
any person " indicated" et the altar, the legislation which
consumes so much time and temper will be of little
use. But it would be unconstitutional ! Unconstitutional
to wrest from a Priest the "prerogative" of preaching
murder and from his disciple the means of committing it !
Be it so; but the sooner both are put beyond the pale of
the Constitution—in short, hanged by the same halter,
the better for the country. Is there any rational Roman-
ist who will say us nay ?

In Tipperary, Father Laffart's county, they have got a
safe mode of carrying out the councils of priests of this
stamp. • A man who has a grudge against another encloses
a sum of money to a club, whose members meet at " a
shibeen -house, ') by the way these "shibeen houses"
ought to be looked after, for many a murder is hatched in
them), and there sit in diabolical deliberation on the mea-
sures necessary for compassing the death of individuals
doomed by their atrocious law. There is a regular scale,
we are informed, -and this scale is said to be well known
among the population. A Pound is stated to be the price
of a caution or a threat, and on its receipt a " Notice" is
despatched that -curdles the blood of the denounced.
Three Founds are the " consideration" for a beating,
and for Five, the assassin is sent on his bloody mission,
and the `victim is dogged until, unsuspecting and unpee-
pared, he drops dead under, perhaps, the aim of an eye
that ought to have looked on him with gratitude and
affection. This, we are told, is,the system in Tipperary.