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ry diseases, should he even be blessed with as many years as MethuseIah.
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 STARVATION IN SPAIN.-lt appears that the miserable condition to which Ireland was reduced a few years ago, is paraIleIed by what is now taking place in Spain. A writer in a French paper says:
 .sIn vain the venerable Bishop oi St. Jacques, in presence of more than six hunded unfortunates resembling moving corpses, who daily besleSe his gate, has sold his mules and his carriage. In vain has reduced him. self and servants to the mereSt necessaries in order that he might give the rest to those who perish of hunger. All that he or the other bishops and clergy, all that the gov ernment can do according to the Esperanza, is but a drop of water to extinguish the confagration. When we speak of the government, how ever, we must remember that a last contribution made by it of 5000, ,OO0 of reals had not been distributed. In the mountains, the starving die by dozens, and in many places levers of the most dangerous character are joined to famine. Hundreds of sick expire from want of nourishment and medicine. The streets of our cities are ncumbered with old men, wo- men, and children, with the vestages of corpseS, covered with miserable rags, and even worse, troubling themselves no longer except 10 die in quiet, and imploring with loud cries the succors of the public charity. At the gates of the ArchiepiscopaI Palace more than a thousand peo- pie wait for daily bread; and l hear that one day lately 45OO poor assembled 10 recieve the aims distri- buted in the city by one gentle man.
 A JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD. The English papers tell us that a Swedish frigate arrived al Plymouth. England, a few weeks since, from a voyage round the world. She sailed from Sweden in October, 1851, and having touched at Rio Janeiro and La Plata, passed through the Straits of Magellan in February, 1852, Sail ing circutousIy through the Pacific, she visited Gallipagos, Panama, the Sandwich Islands, Otaheite, San Francisco, the Friendly Islands, and Sydney. She was then steered to- wards the Indian Ocean. Leaving Australia, she directed her course to the Carolinas, the Ladrones, Can ton, Manila, Singapore, Batavia and the Maurtius. On the Doth of April, 1853, she reached the Cape of Good Hope. Having sailed thence. she stretched away 10 St. Helena. On the 4th of May she took her departure from that island, and reached Plymouth on the Sth June.
 
 Es5 The citizens of Randolph coun- ' ty, Arkansas, and of Ripley and But Ter counties, Missouri, lately held a convention near the State line, to a0- vance the construction of the Railroad from Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio, by way of Little Rock to Fulton, Ark. They recommend that the road should cross the St. Francis river near Indian Ford, in Missouri, thence by Poplar Bluffs, in Butler county, Mo, to the State line near Putnam, and thence direct to Little Rock-and they com mend the route to the favorable con- sideration of both States. This is the route for which Johnson, of Arkansas, obtained a large land grant, and has given our Memphis friends much un- easiness.- Vicksburg Whig.