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War ; Sagasta, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Euy 

 Gomez, Minister of Finance ; Rios, Minister of 

 Justice ; Becanger, Minister of the Navy ; 

 Madraz, Minister of Public Works ; and Mal- 

 campo, Minister of the Colonies. Subsequently 

 De Bias was appointed Minister of War. The 

 Prime Minister declared that all the members 

 of his Cabinet were members of the Progres- 

 sist party, and would follow the policy inaugu- 

 rated in the September revolution. Zorrilla 

 had once before been President of the Council 

 and twice Minister of Justice, occupying the 

 latter position under Serrano's regency and in 

 the Cabinet just dissolved. General Cordova, 

 the Minister of War and provisionally of For- 

 eign Affairs, was born in 1792, and entered the 

 military service in 1810. He served in the 

 army for many years. In 1850 he was ap- 

 pointed Captain-General of New Castile, and 

 in the following year he was named to the 

 same office in Cuba, but held the position for 

 only a short time, being succeeded by Concha. 

 He was made director-general of the cavalry 

 in 1853. The next year after the revolution 

 of Madrid he declined to form a new ministry 

 at the command of the Queen, and was com- 

 pelled to quit the capital and retire to France. 

 He was afterward permitted to return, but 

 took no very active part in the affairs of his 

 country for a number of years, though he was 

 lately a lieutenant-general of infantry. Of the 

 other ministers, Sefior Becanger was a member 

 of the preceding ministry during Serrano's 

 regency. Montero Kios, the new Minister of 

 Justice, was secretary to the Ministry of Jus- 

 tice in the former Cabinet ; and Kuy Gomez, 

 the Minister of Finance, was a Deputy in the 

 Cortes, who made himself prominent by his 

 opposition to Sefior Moret's financial measures. 

 The first measures of the new ministry made 

 a favorable impression. When subscriptions 

 were opened to a new loan of 600,000,000 

 reals, seven times the total amount of the loan 

 was offered, an occurrence without parallel in 

 the financial history of Spain. 



A tour which the King made through a 

 number of provinces called forth many en- 

 thusiastic demonstrations, and appeared to in- 

 crease his own popularity and the stability of 

 the ministry. Espartero, whom the King vis- 

 ited in October at Logrofio, assured him that 

 he was ready to defend the will of the people 

 and the dynasty of Savoy. As the Cortes, 

 however, at the beginning of the new session 

 in October, elected Sagasta, the opponent of 

 Zorrilla, President, the Cabinet tendered its res- 

 ignation. The King telegraphed an offer of the 

 premiership to Espartero, who, however, de- 

 clined on the ground of his age and infirmities. 

 Sagasta, to whom the premiership was then 

 offered, urged the calling on Zorrilla to continue 

 with the same Cabinet, in the assurance that to 

 carry out his policy he could count on all, or 

 the greater portion of that part of the Progre- 

 sistas which had voted in his (Sagasta's) favor. 

 Zorrilla, however, declined, as did also Gen- 

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eral Cordova, the Minister of War. At length, 

 Vice-Admiral Malcampo, who was recom- 

 mended by Sagasta, accepted the task. The 

 other members of the new Cabinet, whose 

 appointment dates from October Gth, were : J. 

 Bassols, Minister of War; Candau, Minister of 

 the Interior; A. Colmenares, Minister of Jus- 

 tice ; Balaguer y Angulo, Minister of Finance ; 

 and Montejo y Robledo, Minister of Agricul- 

 ture. The appointment of the new Cabinet did 

 not allay the political agitation, which, on the 

 contrary, continued with increased animosity 

 on the part of the different leaders. On October 

 16th a great republican meeting was held, at 

 which Sefior Orense presided. Resolutions 

 were adopted declaring that the party would 

 offer undying opposition to every form of gov- 

 ernment for Spain which was not purely re- 

 publican. Nevertheless, in waging such war 

 upon non-republican principles, they would 

 not violate the laws of the land. Several 

 speakers addressed the meeting, and some of 

 them were very pronounced in their expres- 

 sions against the present Government. The 

 most violent proclaimed their perfect sym- 

 pathy with republicans everywhere, and with 

 the International Society, and declared that 

 the faith of the republicans of Spain was iden- 

 tified with the doctrines of liberty and equal 

 rights now rapidly spreading through all the 

 countries of Europe. The political party 

 headed by Sefior Sagasta at the same time 

 issued a manifesto. The document acknowl- 

 edges the sovereignty of the national Govern- 

 ment as now constituted, and insists on the 

 maintenance of the integrity of the national 

 dominions, with special and expressed reference 

 to the suppression of the insurrection in Cuba. 

 The manifesto attacks the International Society 

 as a dangerous and unpatriotic organization. 

 This manifesto called forth a counter-declara- 

 tion by the adherents of Senor Zorrilla, in 

 which they advocate the maintenance of order 

 and strict enforcement of the laws, the consol- 

 idation of the power of the nation, and the 

 support of the Savoy dynasty. This manifesto 

 was signed by 141 Progressists. The Duke de 

 Montpensier, who, at the supplementary elec- 

 tions held on October 1st, had been elected a 

 member of the Spanish Cortes, in a letter to 

 the president of that body informed him that 

 he would take his seat as soon as the con- 

 dition of his daughter's health would permit.. 

 On October 27th the Government announced 

 that, in future, the colonial budget would be 

 submitted to the Cortes. It was also stated 

 that the cost of the war in Cuba during 

 the past year had been $62,000,000, and 

 that the colonial deficit for the year would 

 amount to $11,000,000. On November 10th 

 the Cortes passed a vote of confidence in the 

 existing Government. The vote stood 191 

 yeas to 38 nays. The radical members ab- 

 stained from voting. A few days later, how- 

 ever (November 17th), the Government was 

 beaten in a test vote. During the discussion 



