We have received the following gossip about some of the
leading personages in Spain ; which is not uninteresting at thepresent time.
Don CARLOS, the chief of the Apostolic party, is a man of talent and great subtilty. He is without education, but has lately read a great deal. For a long . time past, he has been in direct correspondence with the Sovereigns of the North. He is of middle stature ; has no resemblance to the Bourbons • and always appears to be ill. He resembles the portrait of CHARLES the Fifth ; a circumstance frequently alluded to by the common people, as a prognostic of great prosperity to him as possessor of the Crown. His wife is tall, and has an African-like appearauce. SlIti entertains a deadly hatred for the Queen. Don CARLOS has no money IA/m(4; but he can command the funds of the Clergy. The- OT:311. urgent' is without education, and exceedingly coarse in her man- ners. She is also said to be very loose in her private conduct. Her mind is weak, and under the influence of her waiting-women; except when her clever sister, the wife of FRANCISCO DE PAULO, ariserts her ascendancy: FRANCISCO DE PAULO is a timid creature, without talent, entirely under the control of his wife.
OFALIA IlatI2S M. ZEA ; and is therefore a favourite with the Queen Re- gent, for M. ZEA had exposed her intrigues to FERDINAND. The Queen has not a farthing in her coffers; and the bankers do not come forward freely to take the loan of sixty millions, which was lately set on foot. She must therefore either throw herself into the hands of the Liberals, or call for the aid of the French Government.
M. ZEA and M. OFALIA desire to introduce a Juste Milieu system into a country in which only extremes are known. All intelligent Spaniards ridicule the idea.
One of the greatest obstacles with which the Queen has to contend, is the in- fluence of the Russian, Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors. N.D'Ounaic, the Russian Ambassador, is a clever man, deeply attached to the interests of CARLOS ; and he has an unbounded command of money. M. LIEBERMANN, the Prussian Ambassador, is a cunning Jew. The talents and intrigues of Count BRUNETTI, the Austrian Ambassador, are proverbial.
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