New-York tribune., 1872-06-15
Grant would be an irreparable misfortune.
There is one certain way of preventing it-and
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ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SPAIN

dNOIHEh CHANCB run ~ 49,
The list of the new Spanish Ministry forms
q striking commentary upon the letter OF our
Madrid correspondent, Senior Castelar, Whlcn
we publisb this morning The eminent Re-
publjcan gives clear and graphic statement
of the errors of the Sagasta Government, ana
of the unprecedented blunders which led to Its
downfall and then, while predicting the ap-
pointmcnt of a Conservative Cabinet, shows
that such a. Cabinet could have no hope OF
permanence. 1t is at once striking PROOF OF
his foresight and of the mutability of Spanish
Governments, that since his letter was written,
a strictly Conservative Cabinet, under the
leadership of the Duke de la Tore, has been
formed and has fallen; and we see in the new
Ministry the most hopeful promise for good
government in Spain which has been presented
since the death of Marshal Prim. The hlng
appears at last to have learned the lesson OF
his repeated parliamentary defeats far enough
TO break loose from those Palace influences
which have so long kept him in the hands
of the Liberal Union, and has gone to
the majority for his Ministry. In this
way he not only shows proper regard 1or
the Constitution of Spain, but he calls to his
councils the men who represent the best
thought and the most reasonable aspirations
of the country in the direction of liberty and
progress.
The Cabinet is composed exclusively of Radl-
calls. that is to say, of those Deputies who, up
holding the Monarchy, wish to reconcile 1t with
liberal and democratic principles 1t contains no
Republcans. of course, because the Republicans
will accent no Government offices; but 1t Is
hat fha RppuDll-
cans will probably make no violent or tac-
tious opposition to it, They Will probably
regard it, as CASTELAR, himself proposed last
wear, Gin an attitude of benevolent expec'a-
tion.r The President of the Council is Ruiz
Zorrilla, who has justly been regarded as the
leader of the Progresistas since the death OF
Prim. Gen. Fernandez de Cordoya, one OF the
oldest and most distinguished officers OF the
army. is to be Minister of War. Admiral
Beranger is to resume his Old position
of Minister of Marine. Gomez goes back
TO the Department of Finance. Senor Eche-
garay is once more Minister of Public Works
the place he filed under Prim. Gasset ls MIN
lister of the Colonies he is Democrat and
journalist and MartOs, the best head and
purest character in the Democratic party, is
TO be again Minister of Foreign Affairs, and,
for the time being, also Minister of the In
terror
There ia no better Cabinet in Europe than
this. If there were as much patriotism in the
COrtes as there is party spirit, there would be
no reason why it should not last. But it will
be bitterly opposed from the outset by all the
reactionists, by the personal following of the
fallen and disgraced Ministry of Sagasta, by
the office-hoders and lifelong oflice-seekers
of the Liberal Union and with such opposl-
ton, untiring and unscrupulOus as it will be,
there can be no certainty of its duration. But
it is easily the best Cabinet which Spain hos
seen since the landing of Amadeus OF Savov