New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-11
SPAIN.

SPAIN.
Another change has taken place in the Spanish Ad-
ninstration The Cabinet formed BY Gen Lerslndi
some two months since and not yet completed, several
gentlemen to whom places offered having declined
TO take them, has been modified The modii;a ion
consist. in the resignation OF Don Bsrmudez de Castro,
Minister Of Finance who succeeded by Senior Pastor,
snd in the appointment Of Don Calderon de IA Barca TO
the portfolio Of Forean Affairs, while Senior Moysno il
ysned Minister Of Agriculture and Commerce.
TIE retirement Of the lafe Minister Of Finance is
misfortune re- only for the Cabinet but for the Country
Of all The Ministers he vas the one in whom the public
had the most confidence, and whose Official acts bad
been most truly conforned to the spirit Of the COnst
tuition. He had strenuousy opposed The corrupt Bali
road grants Of the preceding Cabinet he had insisted
on the coDvenng Of the COrtes he bad urged the reVo
cation Of he DEGREES sganst Gen Naryaez and had
resisted The project OF aottng he heirs N the noto
rious GodOy large indemnify for property OF which
that parsonage bad been publicly deprived. On these
points be sto1d alone his colleagues we're deternnd
10 pursue different course, aud accordingly be WITH
drew from the Government. No other Of It's members
could have carried away With bin much of the ele
meLts of what trust the people have hitherto reposed
in This Cabinet.
Tie antecedeDts Of Mcssrs Pastor and Moyana are
rather favorable than otherwise The latter was prom
nent in the Cortes years since, whore he vehement
y opposed the administration Of Bravo Murlo and be-
loDeed TO the Anti-Refom Committee whose object vas
to prevent an Absoutst reform that would have de-
stToyed the Constitution altogether Pastor was also
opposed t. Bravo Mgrlo but We believe has not before
taken a leading part in public affairs az least Of late
years we have not heard of him But must be sald
that in entering the Government when Bermudez de
Castro goes for such We have given above
tey must have agreed 20 with their colleagues to be-
come parties TO the political errors which DE Castro has
so hOnoiably rejected.
The ne y named Minister of Foreign Affairs is well
known in this country having resided here years
in the capacity Of Minister Plenipotentiary Whether
be vii accept office in SPAN at present is doubtful In
deed, his friends at Madrid Immediately after his ap
pointment, loudly declared that be would not Such,
We should imagine would DE the decision OF any sels-
Die man well established in foreign country ADD
particularly DESTROYS Of enjoying the perils of cigil
war az home without the power Of saving HE country
from its disasters The situation in Spain is critical
There is very potent influence in favor Of a5rog4t-
ing the Constitution. ard in the service Of this
some fatality to enlist Bravo Muro was on the verge
of putting il in execution ROnca could not travel in
any other path than one leading straight 10 the same r.
suit ard the Lersund Administration is apparently
subject a similar malign destiny Now at the end Of
this undertaking civil is inevitable On the one
band, the foreign support which secured the crown
Queen Isabella will cease entirely the day the Con.
tuition is snnued and then the partsons of legitimacy
and Don Carlos may hopefully begin again On the
Other, the body Of the people who seriously at
tached to constitutional liberties will also rise in their
defense, ard between these two revolutionary elements
the present reigning family will be efectualy driven
from the throne a. it So richly deserves.
INTO a complication so gloomy, and where there is
so little prospect OF doing any good the warnest pa
trot may be pardoned for not plugging. aud pre-
sumo, win the friends Of Den Caderon dc Ia Birca
Madrid that be will prefer stay where he is Should
he however decide Otherwise the relations Of Spain
to the United States will not be likely u become less
friendly Ia bis hands Long residence in America, and
persona acquaintance with the institutions aud leading
men Of this Republic would enable hun. better than
perhaps any other Spanard, az once to sustain the
dignity Of bis country aud to preserve for her friend
y position toward the United states even under the
dhcult circumstances that may possibly be produced
With regard so the stoppage of the Slave Trade in
Cuba and the work OF emancipation in that island the
influence Of Don Calderon ia the Ministry could hardly
be other than auspicous. If we mistake not he hell
the post Of nder Secretary in the department of 70
reign Affairs at Madrid at the time tue slave rae trea
Ties were reeoJatei aud himself concerned in draw
INC up the Convention with Lord Clarendon establish
ug the Court oi Mixed Commission al Havana and pro
ylire for the apprenticeship and subsequent liberation
fls4g ffr.r. ..
TO hope that when charged with a ministerial portfolio
lie should exercise powerful influence for the exact
ulalment Of the treaties in question In 50 doing he
would act most efficiently the honor of bis
Try and 10 prevent Cuba from becoming Slave Safe IN
The American uOn, Cousummaton which every In
teient friend of liberty IN this country in any
q! must earnestly deprecate.