EXTRACTS FROM LAST MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 285, 2 December 1868, Page 2

EXTRACTS FROM LAST MAIL.

The Times remarks that since the first fall of the French monarchy in 1792. there has been no revolution so indicative as that which has just been accomplished Ih ' '**"■' '-ii'fj*}""*. Spain of a transformation in the popuaafe character of .the nation that has effected^'" Of the completeness of the revolution there can be no longer a doubt. The Queen has actually quitted Spain, and is now an exile on French territory. Spain is at the present moment 'de facto' without a sovereign. The 'divine* right has seldom had a more complete overthrow. It cannot be- the wish of any man of feeling to speak with harshness of this unfortunate lady. Amid the gross political profligacy , that was around her it was difficult to grow up pure, and Isabella has shown herself on many occasions a crafty and unscrupulous sovereign. -Her domestic life has been sullied by misbehaviour. Immorality might have been pardoned j not so indecency ; and the Queen has not had the wisdom to hide her offences behind the. veil of decorum. The scandal she has given has been intolerable even to the easy tempered people ih her dominions, and it will have been noticed that even within the last few days the presence Cf one person at the court has been made a political question. But even here the recollections of readers will suggest extenuating circumstances. The example she found iv her own home was *. none of the best, and at the early age of 16 she was married, if report speak truly, without any regard being paid to her own wishes. * Though it must be allowed that . Isabella is not by character or education fitted to govern a great nation, yet we must think that to be ; placed in such circumstances from earliest infancy was a trial from which few would have emerged blameless. In considering her career we must also bear in mind the extraordinary and almost incredible ignorance in which all the Spanish princes have been allowed to grow up. , One pf the greatest facts in the political economy of the day is the assumption of all the telegraphs in the United Kingdom by the English Government — a, change that will produce a variety of other changes, and at the same time disturb some of the foregone conclusions respecting government. The Ministers now propose to, turn every postoffice and letter-station into a telegraph- office, and to send messages all over, at shilling rates, to correspond with £he existing penny or two-cent rates. A man may send his shilling messages in six words or so, or he may spend 10s or 20s on his correspondence, if it is worth it. The result of all this would be a lessening of the customary letters,: and in' time the. postoffice would be all telegraph nearly, except love-letters and parcels. Population fancL confined >space are turning Britain into a large family*" for whom such. a..sy stem would. -. be. y_fey advantageous; ' ' ■" y^ '•"''■* A beet-sugar manufacturing company on a large scale is being formed in tiondon. Another company has subscribe^ a large capital for the development of the/mineraloil lands in southern Italy, and an association is being formed for the-purpos4of raising oil in the province" of 'Modenarand bringing it in a refined state to the English market. \ . *. : ." . _ The authorities of Jaazeberong, Hun- * gary, attribute the shocks' of earthquake lately felt there. "to the oaths and blasphemies common among the population. Such iniquities are now prohibited bn pain of a fine of 25f1., together -m-SK" ;2fr flows' with '. a stick. No offender is to be exempt from I the infliction of Ihis puDishfti.nt. j in