The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-02
AFFAIRS IN SPAIN.
ne New Ministry Composition of the Cabinet
-Ihe Future Republican Movements Proc
sress Of Professionalism.

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sress of Professionalism.
correspondence Of the W y. Times.
MADRID, July 14.-After most prodigious
nd wearying efforts, General Prim succeeded
#ast night only in definitely forming his new
lnistry Tremendous exertions were made
&oth 10y him and by the Regent toinduce Senor
iartos to join it, exertions which were not
eandoned till o'clock last evening. Martos
as deaf to all cntreaty. The new ministry
as follows:-Presidency and War, General
nm; Marine Admiral Topete; State (Foreign
#Afairs), Senor Silvela; Governacion (Home),
penor Sagasta; Grace and Justice Senior Zor-
Il fllla; Fomento public Works and Instruc-
&lon), Senor Echegaray; Hacienda (Finance),
eenor Ardanaz; Ultramar (Colonies), Senor
@Becerra
Il The new blood introduced is Senior Arda-
fnaz, who takes charge of finance, in place of
d eenor Figuerola, of capitation tax memory:
s penor Echegaray, who sees to the public
s Rorks and instruction, and Senior Becerra,
Fho looks after the Colonial Department,
which since the resignation of Seuor Lopez
Pc Ayala has been attended to Professionally
~ Admiral Topete Echegaray is a Union
xlsta, and his eloquent speech against religious
zlntolerance, in which he avalled himself of
Ethe discoveries of the recent calcined human
<femains at the Quemadura de la Cruz or burn
Iing place of the Inquisiton, to illustrate his
4marked him in popular estimation for a dis
career. What kind of Minister
ne will make remains to be proved. As a
Unionista he comes from a bad school, but if
Ihe has sense and discernment to look beyond
&his party, and to turn a deaf car
8to the promptings of its leader, Senor
4 Rios Rosas, he may do great service
20 his country and to liberty. Senor
Becerra is an old Liberal of the Democratic
IIa foly q ,a1,t 10
Thought of suppressing for economy's sake
/ <kColonies), but which at present is second to
Inone in importance. 1t has the wide ques-
tions of Cuba, Porto Rico, and Manila to deal
with Perhaps the most important change
1 effected is the shifting of Senor Ruiz Zorrila
from Public Works and Instruction to Grace
land Justice, in the place of the ultra Unionista
Il Martin de Herrera, whose recent circular
caused the whole upsetting. AS Minister Of
FOmento, Ruiz Zorrilla has been in the
Government from the first days of the revo-
4 luton, and has signalized himself by many
acts of noble initiation. His decree ordering
E the inventories of the cathedrals, etc,
which led to the assassination of
s the Governor of Burgos, has been the
means of recovering not buried treasures OF
silver and gold only, though of these it has a
goodly number to boast of, but piles of rich
and rare manuscripts, books and literary and
ages and the ignorance and carelessness of
their ecclesiastical custodian had long hidden
4 from recollection and from view. In the
Cathedral vaults and cloisters of the grand
old city of Toledo alone there were brought
I to light valuables of this kind in such profu-
sion that they are now forming museum of
| them in the place, and they are of such a
character as to be worth crossing to Europe
especially to see Besides this, Senor Zor-
Al e ~1ot, ,lY1ifT
4 in the educational Institutes of Spain, which
/ is already beginning to work wonders, and
L, ,also of the decree for national pantheon, i'll
A which house sepulture is to be given
to the illustrious dead. He is a ready and
4 eloquent speaker, somewhat dictatorial and
vehement, yet one of those in whom these
Objectionable characteristics are easily los
4, sight of in his earnestness. The clerica
4 party hate him for his iberality, and the onl,
possible thing which may now mar his admin
i istration of the department on which the,
completely depend (Grace and Justice), i
the fear he may be a little too severe witt
them. Much, however, depends upon them
selves. If they continue in a line of conduc
openly antagonistic to the new order o
! things the revolution has brought alb out i
the destruction of their ancient and exclusiv
privileges and the establishment of religion
equality they willin him somewhat hard t
deal with. If they, in short, adopt the re
( spectable and creditable line of conduct fo
lowed universally by the Roman Catholi
clergy of England and the United States, the
will not be much the worse for his admins
tration of their temporal interests; but if the
cling to the traditions of the past, and tina
Catholic exclusiveness so arrogantly lai
down in the ridiculous manifestos of Do
Carlos 1 sent to you a week ago, they will fin
he can make Jordan hard road for them
travel. The day has quite gone by for Spai
to yield herself up to Catholic intolerance, c
the intolerance of any one sect of religion
partisans. The Department of Grace an
Justice has in addition to the clergy the regl
4 lating all the judicial and magisterial al
pointments, and its Importance is thereto
readily recognized. The retirement of Sem
Figuerola from the Finance Department, al
that too before his budget of estimated e
- penditure for the present financial year
voted, is a marked event. He has clung
u Office with remarkable tenacity, having bee
- Sin" since the first. His financial policy h
been much condemned. But what could al
Finance Minister do with such crippled I
a sources as Spain has The legacy left by t
late Queens government was fearful state
n chaos, debt and ruin. Senor Figuerola b
N done his best to work out of it. but every st
he has taken seems only to have plunged
deeper in the mire. He has lacked the mo-
courage to set his back against extravaganC
r and, therefore, an unbridled expenditure
marked his administration, to the intn
~ delight of the legions of bloodsuckers pc
& Spain continues to nourish in her bosom, b
at the cost of adding fearfully to her burd
of debt. He has tided over extremities
loans, but he has done little to set the reven
in way of righting itself. 1t remains to
- seen whether his successor Senor Ardani
will be more fortunate He is a Unionis