New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-14

months later by the same voices which had
hailed them successfully "a the last hope OF
imneriled freedom. The Liberal opposition
could not be crystallzed around any one of
those so as to make head against Serrano.
And in fact there seemed little dis
nosition to make deliberate opposition.
There was sort of truce Of faction declared
from the moment when the army of Moriones
fell back in defeat from the nights of Somor-
rostro. So general was the impression that
tbc hest interests of the Republic were in
volyed in Serrano's success, that Immediately
after the retreat of the Carlists, it was re-
norted that Zabala and CASTELAR, would be in
yited to form q "Ministry of concijauon,"
which should unite the original Republicans
and those Conservatives who had accepted the
Republic in good faith and without any
lingering monarchical plots and intrigues. A
letter of Senior CASTELAR, congratulatng the
Marshal upon the victory of the national arms
was considered proof of some such cordial
understanding
Scrrano returned to Madrid and received
DELEGATION of Democrats, who through their
mouthpicce, Senior Becerra, gave their fehci-
tations, and possibly alluded to the advisable
ity of 80 organizing his Cabinet as to satisfy
the patriotic oiiice-seekers of their faith. The
MARSHAL President answered in a manner which
showed how fully he felt himself master Of
thc situation, saying that he would take his
time about solving the crisis. On Tuesday the
JTnionist Iberia announced that u cOalitonist
Cabinet was ont Of the question, and yester-
day Marshal SerranO published his new Minis
trv. which shows that he has distinctly made
M his mind to have peace in his official family
if he cannot have it anywhere else. 1t is q
Cabinet which reflects him purely and simply !;
not so much reactiOnary as stationary. 1t Is
composed Of malleable men, who might be
induced to break the Constitution and the
laws in their own interests, to bring in
king, for instance, or to secure
he help of the Church in an election, but who
would never be goaded by their conSciences
to make trouble in Che cOuncil-chanber. We
might except from this category Sen0r UllOa,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is a
JJnionista and Royalist by conviction, thor
ough believer in the principle of authority,
and heartily opposed to those liberal tenden-
cies which some of his colleagues avow when
ont of Office and forsWcar when they get in.
Tho Ministry of the Interior is restored to
Senior Sagasta. who managed it with such I'M
scrupulous yigor and energy in tho time of
the Regency. He is one of the ablest and
most unpopular men in Spain, feared and dis
trusted by all parties, with little pretensiOn
to convictions, and no regard for legal
. or moral obstacles. He rarely speaks in
the Cores without raising a tempest, and
vet he is so valuable a politician that 1t Is
equally impossible for a practical Cabinet to
get on with him or without him. Romero
Ortiz takes the portfolio of Ultramar. and his
appointment merely carries out the new colo
NAL policy set on foot when Gen. Jovellar
was removed from Cuba and the aged Con-
cha. Marquis Of Havana, was sent back like a
ghost OF the old race of tyrants and spectators
of the Antilles. There will scarcely be under
this Ministry any afectation OF desire for
reforms in the West Indies or anywhere else.
The rest of the Cabinet are thoroughgoinG
Serrano men. Their names throw no light
upon his purposes. but only prove that
he proposes for the present to gov
| crn Spain in his own way and as
he took his time about composing his Cabi-
net so ne will doubtless be in no hurry to
decide what he will do with it. His prospect
is better than ever for Il reasonable lease OF
power. The Cantonals arc more quiet than
usual. The Republicans seem to have re-
sumed their attitude Of benevolent expecta-
ton. Don Carlos is powerless for the mo-
ment. His defeat will embarrass him both as
to men and money already he feels the want
of the former, and has, it is said, sent for the
Cure Santa Cruz to come back and go to kill
ing again. If Marshal Serrano had the mate
rial of a dictator in him, this would be an ex-
cellent opportunity for him to try the expert
ment. But nothing in his past indicates that
he could or would follow in the footsteps
either of Cromwell or Napoleon.