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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 136, 21 August 1863, Page 3

Spanish Freedom oe the Press. —The Spanish journals have a singular manner of announcing.the police warnings which they receive.; .They print them in large type at the head of the column. The Contempt)raneo had replaced its first article by the following lines-:—First, at nine o'clock this 'Tnorniilg a Government agent came and suppressed three paragraphs of our leading article. Secondly, at halfpast nine another agent came and prohibited six other paragraphs. Thirdly, at a quarter to ten a third agent called and suppressed the remainder of the article." This incident is entirely ‘new in the annals of the 'press. Yet it is said that Spain possesses a ■ Constitutional Government! ' Womanly. —At a woman’s convention, a gentleman remarked that a' woman was the .most wicked thing in creation. “Sir,” was ■The indignant reply of one of the ladies, “ woman was made from man, and if one rib is so wicked, what must.the whole body be?”