Accounts from Madrid to the 28th mention more condemnations of
the insurgents : three officers of the Princess regiment had been sen- tenced to death, and four others to long terms of imprisonment. The demolition of the fortifications at Barcelona continues. The Paris letter of the Morning Post relates some shocking incidents of civil war-
" It having been reported [at Barcelona on the 29th] that the Commis- sioners deputed to the Regent had been murdered on their way, a squadron of cavalry was sent out to inquire into the affair, and chastise the murderers. The troops having returned with intelligence that the Commissioners had not been put to death, but had been taken by an insurgent band, the people tumultu- ously congregated round the prison, forced open the gate, and brought out three citizens lately arrested as belonging to the Moderado party, and inhumanly butchered them in the street. Palma has also been disgraced by an act of the most horrible barbarity. It may be recollected that General Aymeric was lately ordered from Valencia to the Balearic Islands. On the 27th ultimo a mob forced an entrance into his house, and without any provocation on ids part, dragged him into the street, and after having repeatedly stabbed hini, crushed his head with paving-stones."
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