The intelligence from Spain is gloomy and obscure. Certain facts,
indeed, are plain enough : PRIM, the small insurrection- leader in Catalonia, so far from being suppressed, makes progress; several towns have more or less openly joined the insurrection ; and Barcelona, keeping quiet under the guns of ESPARTERO'S Cap- tain-General, appoints a Junta that goes out of town, and con- stitutes a sort of absentee revolutionary Government, ready to act the moment it is safe to do so. Some of ESPARTERO'S soldiers desert. The Government hitherto has been inactive; and though troops have moved hither and thither, there is little apparent de- cision. On the other hand, the insurgents exhibit a curious waver- ing: some of the principal towns, like Malaga and Granada, seem hardly to know their own mind, whether to revolt or not. All this looks as if both parties were hanging back as much as possible, for the country to be acted upon from without ; and it gives colour to the rumours in Madrid, that Esraursao has intimated his desire to have aid from England ; and in Paris, that Queen CHRISTINA is taking steps to send military leaders and money to the insurgents, to turn their movement to her own purposes. Any way, the ap- pearances are bad enough ; but the prospect shifts with every fresh arrival of news.
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