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of the Line near San Juan de las Abade-
sas. The motive for shooting these prison
ers appears to have been the difficulty
of sparing soldiers necessary to guard
them. If this statement is correct, it
should be circulated by the Madrid Co.
vernment throughout the Army, as the
best possible preventive of capitulations.
It will be observed that these men were
not shot for anything they had done,
but merely because by existing they gave
their captors too much trouble.
The Tilton-B eecher affair still absorbs
public attention in the United States, and
seems likely to do so for a long time to
come. The full text of Mr.. Beecher's de-
fensive statement adds nothing to the
strength OF his denial of the leading
charges against him, but it brings very
forcibly into the light the extraordinary
''black-mailing'' phase of the story. Mr..
Beecher not only afirms that he paid
large sums in order to hush up a scandal
that in his opinion would do serious public
mischief, but admits that he raised one
particular sum of 5000 dollars by q mort
gage on his house for this purpose. This
IL q very startling fact. 1t is conceivable
that q man in Mr.. Beecher's position
should, when such o demand was made on
him, put his hand in his pocket and pay
the money, but it is hardly credible that
strong as he was, both in his consciousness
of innocence and in the reverence with
which he was regarded throughout the
States, he should have taken deliberate legal
steps to procure the means of compromis-
ing with the extortioners. MIR. MOulton's
reply to the matchmaking charge by the
publication of letters from Mr.. Beecher
distinctly confessing his guilt, may be
taken on the one hand as conclusive, or on
the other as q mere move in connection
with the action for Grim. con. that Mr.. Til
ton has at last commenced. If the case
had been tried in this form long ago, the
truth, or something approaching it, would
have been reached, without the contami'
nation and cruelty of the actual quarrel.
cat one of the late meetings of the Brit
ish Medical Association at Norwich, a DR..
Magnan, of Paris, performed the following
experiments. Two live dogs were intro
duced, and firmly strapped down, in spread
eagle fashion, by means of iigatures attach
ed to their legs, their muzzles at the same
time being bound up in such q manner
as to prevent their bowling. One OF the
veins of the thigh was then opened, and
into this opening was injected, in the
ease. Of one dog, alcohol. OF diluted
alcohol ; and in the other, essence OF
absinthej the veins being then tied
up, The dog into whose veins alco-
hof was injected shortly became insensi-
BILE and died, owing, it is supposed, either
20 an overdose, or to the admission into
the vein Of atmospheric air. The other
dog. less fortunatte,n underwent a severe
,epIlileptic it, which lasted for about an
hour, when the dog recovered" Two OF
the doctors present objected, but were
thteatensfd With e~jectment. and the opera
/, toqrto was finally requested by a regular vote
20 proceed. The Norwich Society for the
d Prevention of Cruelty to Animals declare
= that account to be. true, but we donlnot
updsrstand that they have prosecuted the
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