The Sun. — 1844-11-11 (London, England)

PRIM. Even the Journal des Debats is compelled to join in he cry, and thus denounces the public prosecutor : We are not aware what may have been the sentence if the court-martial, but at all events the documents which we have before us cannot pass without some remark from us. We have not to declare our opinion even, though we should have a well-founded one on the part which General Prim may have taken in the con• .piracy, which has just so fortunately and so miraculously failed ; but we cannot help testifying the surprise ve feel at the strange doctrine laid down on this occasion by the Procurator-Fiscal. We had no idea of a mrisprudence according to which simple presumption would suffice in default of proof for the application of capital punishment. If proofs of culpability arc not required for the pain of death, we should like to know for hat other punishment they could be. The placidity with which the Fiscal of Madrid exposes this theory appears to us, we must confess, extraordinary. W have seen many things in Spain, but we hope we shall not see Justice rendered there according to such singular rules, and that the jadges charged to pronounce on the argu•nents of the Fiscal will not be contented with mere presumptive evidence, and will insist on having proofs." The Constitutionnel, alter expressing great indignation at the charge of the Procurator-Fiscal calling on the court-martial to pronounce punishment of death on simple indications of guilt without proof, adds :  ---" May the Government of Queen Isabella be wise enough to grant a pardon, if, upon the indications alluded to by the Fiscal, the Court should pronounce a condemnation. The Government of Espartero slipped away in the blood of Diego Leon ; the blood of Prim would not perhaps be less fatal to those who should venture to shed it. Since the reign of Ferdinand there has been no Government in Spain capable of granting pardon. Political tribunals have in the same succession as the Governments kept up a ci‘il war, more dreadful than that against which they acted. Merciless political tribunals are fatal to all who have recourse to them. We hope, for the sake of the present Government in Spain, that it will halt in the cruel and perilous course upon which it has entered with the executions at Barcelona. If it cannot be induced to do so by humanity, it should at least listen to the counsels of interest." The National, in strong terms, denounces the manner in which the prosecution is conducted ; but , CIIRISTINA'S journal, the Presse, is entirely silent on the subject. The following tragical event is published in Galignanis Messenger of Friday : " Yesterday evening, about nine o'clock, M. Jacob, the box-maker in the Rue Laffitte, was amusing himself in his shop by threatening his dogs with a whip. As he was at the same time surrounded by his apprentices, a person passing by imagined M. Jacob was ill-treating them, and entering, reproached him with unwarrantable , severity. A quarrel ensued, and they went into the street to fight it out, but were separated by the neighbours. The stranger went away, and M. Jacob entered a wine-shop to talk over the affair with his friends. While there, one of his men came to tell him that his assailant was returned to the shop, vociferating vengeance and brandishing a poignard-knife. M. Jacob immediately went to get rid of his troublesome intruder, but, before be could get hold of anything to drive him out, he was stabbed with a knife in the breast, and dropped down dead. The murderer calmly shut up his weapon, surrendered, without resistance, to the friends of the deceased, and was carried to the guard-house of the Opera-Comique."