Sagasta Is Premier

Señor Sagasta, the Spámsh liberal leader, has been intrusted bythequeen at with the task of a neiv i cabinet The financial question is demanding ! the ','reatest attention, and the liberthe ouis't of the session of parliament. will expose frankly the position of the Spanish treasury. Sunor San-asta in an interview said that '"the liberáis would not assent to mediatton by tlie United States with a viuw to hastening the pacification of Cuba and inducing the rebels in arms and exile to accept autonomy. No SpanisVi pavty, certainly not the liberáis, could assent to foreign interference in our doiuestic affairs or with our colonies. No government could hope to iaduce the nation to accept such interference. We shall reverse eompletely the policy of the last two yeará in Cuba, beginning-, naturally, with the recali of Weyler, and are prepared to gran L to Cuba all possible seli-government, a broad tarift' and every concession compatible with inflexible defense of öpanish rule and sovereignty in the West Indies. We believe this will satisfy the majority of the Cubans, and we will act tlms spontaneously. " Fcellng of Kelief at Washington. Washington: The news f rom Madrid to the eitcct thatthe queen regent liad invited abasta to form a cabinet was hailed with a feeling oí relief in official circles here. In the view oí the administration, the United States and Cuba have all to gain and nothing to lose in the liberal accession to power, Jiven if the party is not wüling to go as far as the extreme Cuban syiapathizers in the United States wish, it is feit that there will eertaiuly be a most liberal offerIng of concessions to cecnre peace in Cuba. Another result that is expected is the withdrawal, either by resignation or recall, oí Gen. Weyler. Cubana Wllk Not Accept Autonomy. Gen. Julio Sangmüy, who was arrested in Cuba, tried, convicted. pardoned and released at the request of the United States, says: "I do not believe the formation by Sagasta oí a liberal cabinet will have any effect on the Cuban insurjrents. The Cubans have ffone too far to accept autonomy. They are in a better condition dow to fight to the end for absolute freedom than ever before. Why accept autonomy when freedom is at hand? The people of Spain have lost all patience with the government's con duet of affaire in Cuba and I am given to believe that they will not be sorry at all if the war should end, even should Cuba secure her independence," Interviews with other prominent Cubans in New York, including T. Estrada Palma, representativo of the Cuban provisional government, and all declare that the patriots will not accept autonomy, that it is out of the question, but most of themare in favor of üaying Spain a reasonable indemnity pr'oviding she evacuates the island at once.