The Liberal party in Spain has received a heavy blow
from the hands of the Absolute Minister, ZEA BERMUDEZ. Scarcely had Don CARLOS and the Princess of BEIRA left Madrid, when the Ministers of Finance, of Justice, and of Marine, all of them friends of the Queen, and men of Liberal politics, were dismissed from their respective tifices, and their place filled tip by partisans of BERMUDEZ. This re- volution in the Spanish Cabinet was quite unexpected. The reaction, lowever, against the Movement party, is decisive and fatal. Orders have been sent to all the Captains-General of the provinces, to repress their "seditious intrigues." FERDINAND appears at last to have found a Minister to suit him—one who will endeavour to preserve the throne for his daughter against the Carlists, and who will also assist him in repressing every attempt to liberalize the Government. As ZEA BERMUDEZ is acknowledged to be a man of great talent and firmness, the hopes of the Constitutional party are annihilated for the present.
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