Two events of some interest are announced from Spain. Prim
has been pardoned; Zurbano has been captured and shot.
The pardon of Prim, who is restored to his liberty-and rank as a kind of prisoner at large ob1ied to live in Madri4, is about the best thing this Minisrtzelniiive done. Treachery, if not perjury,
had procured his co ation .; and the ease again' st him was most doubtful. His youth and gallant mien, although • not merits, added by contrast a darker shade to the cruelty of his fate. Ministers have done well to wash their hands of it.
The fate of Zurbano is not an unfit ending to his fierce melo- dramatic career : a smuggler and _guerilla chief, he perishes a prisoner of war. He died without trial, as some of his own victims have done : he was betrayed, as he had betrayed others. The manner of his death disgraces the Government under whom It is perpetrated, but still more the country in which all parties retaliate such barbarities.
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