Somebody or other in Spain aeems to think it worth
while to kill Marshal Prim. He was in his carriage with one of his adju- tants driving to the Ministry of War, when some persons fired a volley into the vehicle. The Marshal received no leas than eight balls in the left shoulder, of which seven have been extracted, and two fingers were so severely wounded that one has been amputated and another will be. The Marshal, however, is doing well, and the only result of the crime is that the Government is much stronger, that Admiral Topete, hitherto discontented, has accepted the Ministry at War, and that measures of repression will be 'jus- tified by popular feeling. The crime is, as a matter of course, attributed to the Republicans ; but the method adopted, the firing of a volley into the carriage, seems to suggest that the actors were soldiers. No clue to their identity has yet been discovered.
