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Clay and Randoiph.-We give below the words which produced the challenge between John Randolph and Henry Clay, in 1925 They were uttered in session, and do not know how they got into tIe newspapers. Frba ,oieat was however a favor ite expression with the Virginia Senator. We doubt whether, in the whole range of letters, excepting even tue whitening sarcasms of Junius, there can be found such bitterness of invecliee and reproach(u speech of the orator of Roanoke, in the Senate of the U. States.

 "'lhs man-( (mankind, crave your partlon)-his worm-Qittle animals, forgive the insult) )-was spit out of the womb of meanness-was raised to higher life than he was born to, for he was raised for the society of backguar'ls. Some fortuue-kind to him cruel to ushas tossed him into the Secretaryship of State.

 Contempt has the property of descending, but she stops far short ot him. She would die before she would reach hun; he dwells below her fall. l would hate him il did not despise him, It is not what he IS, but mhere he Is, that puts my thoughts in action That ALPHABET which writes the name 1herntes, of biackenard, of sqaaidty, refuses her letters for him.

 "That mind which thnks on what it cannot ex. press, can scarcely think on him. An hyperbole for meonness would be an eclipse for CLAY"

 A much sharper attack than this was made on John Randolph by Tristram Burgess ofRhode Island. and what is more, it literally tne, Henry Clay have doubt, is bad enough both as a politician and man, (see Brent's last letterl but Randolph had no medium-those who were not his friends were both his enemies and monsters.