The telegraphic information respecting the Spanish " coup d'etat," as
it is now called, contains some curious intimations.
"Paris, Friday, July 18„11.30p. m.-General Natvaez left Paris this evening for Bayonne. Advises from Madrid state that 91 members of the Constituent Cortes (50 forming a quorum ) met on the 14th to pass a vote of want of confidence in the O'Donnell Ministry. There was only one dis- sentient voice-that of M. Jabuerniga, They were dispersed.
"A telegraphic despatch from Perpignan says that Barcelona has not risen. Saragossa has declared that it only recognizes the Ministerial Presi- dency of General Espartero. M. Olozaga, the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, left this evening, accompanied by his family, for the Pyrenees."
According be the Daily News, " adviees from Madrid, of the 15th in- stant, show that the state of siege was decreed on the 14th, that is to say, before the insurrection. The names of Luzuriaga and. Bayarri do not appear at foot of the decree."
A telegraphic message from Constantinople, dated the 16th instant, says that "the Scheriff Abd-ul-Moutalib, who endeavoured to oppose the assumption of office by the person appointed by the Sublime Porte to succeed him in the governorship of Mecca, has been taken prisoner by the Imperial troops. The whole province of Hedjaz enjoys the most perfect tranquillity."
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