EUROPEAN NEWS. [From the Times, March 11.]

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 224, 22 July 1848, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS. [From the Times, March 11.]

The foreign newa received by this express is cx(romply interesting. The almost joy prevailed m Switzci land, because of the advent of the Republic in France. All the letters received from Vienna described thn deep impression produced in Austria by the account of the Fiench Revolution. 1 l»e Court was in a frtate of consternation. All eyes were fixed on the Prime Minister of Austria, and cabinPt councils succeeded cuoh other without interrupt ion. Fears were enteitaiiicd for Lombnrdy. where n'-Mtation continued to incrcas 13 . Oiders had been issued for the reinforcement of the army m Italy by 3", 000 turn. Some cliuDgen had taken plnce in the Ministerial deputments. Count Figuelnoont h<u! been appointed I'resulent of the Au io Council of War (Minister of War). The command of ihe second corps of the army in Italy had bein. given to Count Wratislaw, nnd the scat of the government of the Lombardo Venetian Government was trnnsfeired from Milui to Verona, one of the strongest plares in the kingdorr. The Debal\ comments lather severely on an nrt'ele in the Ausfvmn Observer of the 4 li instant, vhich. speaks of tlie la c Hcv>lution as " j,,niMrnary," art,t\ as hnvirß " rr-cst .Wished the lcitin of terrm by revolt and violence!" The Drbats obnerves that the n.iuu .\l onsrquences of such lingua^e would be to nunilo.dl jwiticb more firmly thun ever in support of tho llepub ic. We have received letters f out our confidential ngcnl nf Milan. No event of impoitance b.\d mken plwe. The tranquility of the city >v.n undittmbed, but mfii's minds weie much ugitatod by hopeless longings for n ch)inr;e. Our ag<*nt says tliat the zircomits which h.ive nppcared in the Foreign journals of the state of JMilnn, li.ive been much csaggerau'd, and though the Anstri.uis exercise an nnicising vigiliincc, and m.ike no scruple of sending 6uspected ((crsons acrovs the frontier no actboi violence li'ive bern lately committed. Tlie people reluctantly nrquicsce, and all eyts aie bent on Sardinia and the Roman states. The S.irtlini'in Constitution piomiscd by King Charles Albert, on the Bth of Fobruury ]uu o t, was pub~ lished at Turin on the sth iubt.

Iltfc'LAND. CtoNMtu, — 'ihe state ot unparalleled destitution of actual si.'irvaliou, to which the poor ol (his loca'ity are lediced, ib beyond the possibility of dcscuption — it is reully feaiful. The workhouses, three in number, are filled to repletion. ATiiumr.. — An inquest was hplii within ten miles of Athlone, on the bodies of (wo bojb, brothers, aged eleven and thirteen, who hail bucn turned out of the workhouse at Athlone, and had endeivoured t> reach their home, but were both found dead from cold and sta rvation.