The latest intelligence from Madrid (January 2) looks as if
S. Castear, in despair, were contemplating a coup d'etat. Having tried to conciliate the Church, he has mortally offended S. Sal- meron, and will, it 1/S Mated, be defeated to-day by Pi y Margall and a majority of ten. In this case, he must either resign and let Spain be governed by a party which will amnesty Carthagena, or strike a coup d'e'tat, and the symptoms are suggestive of the latter. It is said that 14,000 troops, mainly Civil Guards, are collected in Madrid, and that General Moriones, commanding 12,000 men, and master of the North-Western railway terminus, has telegraphed that he will obey no other Cabinet. It is a pity to see Castelar in the sterile groove of coups d'itat, but Spain wants a Dictatorship for twelve months, if ever a country
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