New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-16
TnF STATE OF EUROPE.
ThE REACTION IN SPAIN.

regiments has enco ursged the Government TO
greater counter-revoln tiOnary activity. The re-
yival Of the restrictive pfess-law of 1857, adorned
with all the rigors of the supplementary law Of
1912, has killed all the "incendary" portion Of
the press which Yves unable to offer the required
cautionnement. On the oath the last number
was given out of the CiamOr de las Barrieades
with the title of Uh;mas Barieddes, the two
editors having been arrested. Its place was
taken on the same day by new reactiOnary
paper called Las Cortes His EIeellency, the
&" Captain General, Don San Miguel" says the
programme of the aforementioned paper, who
honOrs US with his friendship, has offered to this
q" journal the favor of his collaboration. His
articles will be signed with bis initials. The
" meg at the head of this enterprise will defend
with energy that revolution which vanqulshed
." the abuses and excuses of corrupt power
{" but il is in the eneeiHte OF the Constitu'
ent Assembly that they will plant their BAN
ner. 1t is there that the great battle must be
q" fought" The great battle is for Isabella H.
and Espartero. You will remember that this
fame San Miguel at the banquet of the press
declared that the press had no other corrective but
itself common sense and public education, that 1t
was an institution which neither sword nor trans.
portation nor exile, nor any power in the world
could crush On the very day on which he offers
himself as contributor TO the press he has not
a word against the decree cOnfscating his beloved
liberty of the press
The suppression of the liberty OF the press has
been closely followed by the suppression Of the
right of meeting also by royal decree. The clubs
have been dissolved at Madrid, and in the Prov.
inces the Juntas and Committees of Public Safety
with the exception of those acknowledged by the
Ministry as Populations. The Club Of the
Union was shut up in consequence of decree Of
the whole Ministry, notwithstanding that Espsr'
tero had only few days previously accepted its
honorary presidency, a fact which The London
Times vainly labors to deny. This club had sent
deputation to the Minister of the Interior, in
sistiDg on the dismissal Of Senior Lagasti, the
Gefe PoliticO of Madrid, charging him with hav-
ing violated the liberty of the press and the right
of meeting Senior Santa Cruz anwered that he
could not blame public functionary for taking
measures approved by the Council of Ministers.
The consequence was that serious trouble
arose; but the Pia-G de Ia Constitution was Occu-
pied by the National Guard, and nothing further
occurred. The petty journals had scarcely been
suppressed when the greater ones that had hith-
erto granted their protection to Lagasti, found oc
cason to quarrel with him. In order to silence
the Ciamor PuJiicO, its chief editor Senior Cor
rad was appointed minister. Bat this step will
not be sufficient, as all editors cannot be attached
to the Ministry.
The boldest stroke of the counter-reyOlution,
however, was the permission for Queen Christi
mas departure for Lisbon, after the Council Of
Ministers had engaged to keep her at the disposal
of the Constituent Cortes-a breach OF faith
which they have tried to cover by an anticipated
confscatiOn of Christmas estates in Spain, notO-
riously the least considerable portion of her
wealth. Thus Christina had cheap escape aud
LOW we hear that San Luis too, has safely arrived
at Bsyonne. The most curious part OF the transac-
ton is the manner in which the decree alluded to
was obtained. On the Goth some patriots and
national guards assembled to consider the safety
of the public cause blaming the Government on
account of It's vacillation and half and half meas
ures, and agreeing to send deputatOn to the
Ministry calling upon them TO remove Christina
from the Palace where she was plotting liberti-
eide projects. There was a very suspicious cir
cumstance in the adhesion of two edecamps Of
Esparterc with Lagasti himself to this proposition.
The result was that the Ministry met in Council
and the upshot of their meeting was the elOpe-
ment of Christina.
On the 25th the Queen appeared for the first
time in public, on the promenade of the Prado,
attended by what is called her husband, and by
the Prince of Asturias. But her reception ap-
pears to have been extremely cold.
The committee appointed to report on the state
of the finances at the epoch of the fall of the
Sartorius Ministry has published its report in
the Gaettd, where it is preceded by an expose By
Senior ColladO the Minister OF Finance Ac-
cording TO this the floating debt of Spain nov
amounts to $33, 00O,O0O, and the total deficit to
100000 900. 1t appears that even the e1traor.
binary resources of the Government were antici-
pated for years and squandered The revenues
of Havana and the Philippines were anticipated
for two years and half The yield Of the forced
loan bad disappeared without leaving trace.
The Almeda quicksilver mines were engaged for
years. The balance in hand due to the GAIA Of
deposits did not exist. Nor did the fund for mil
itary substitution. 7,4s5,692 reals were due tor
the purchase Of tobacco obtained, but not paid
for. Ditto 55O5, 600 reals for bills on account OF
public works According TO the statement OF
Senior Colado the amount Of obligations OF the
most pressing nature is 252 970, 253 reals The
measures proposed by him for the covering OF