We can form no decided opinion as to the Carlist
atrocities. 'Spanish civil wars are always stained by crimes, but Spanish accounts of anything are always deformed by exaggerations, and the correspondents at Madrid must rely on Spanish accounts. Dorregaray may be capable of anything, but a Spanish Cabinet is also capable of attributing anything to him, in order to make recruits eager. It seems, however, certain that one man has been executed, under circumstances which may make his death an event. Captain Schmidt, formerly a Prussian officer, and correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, has been shot by the carlists, on the charge of being a spy—though he was regularly accredited by the paper—and the German Government announces in the North-German Gazette that it will take or snake means to punish the outrage. That is a kind of threat Prince Bismarck will fulfil, and it is not unlikely that the Carlists may find them-
e elves suddenly debarred from France, and their chief placed under the ban by the Government of Vienna, which can stop, if it likes, one main source of his supplies.
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