LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. {From the Times.)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 247, 11 October 1848, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. {From the Times.)

We have received the papen from Berlin of the 20th, from Cologne of ihe 21st, from Heidelberg of the 20 h, from Augsburg of the 18th, and from Vienna of the 17th May, from which we eilract the following intelligence :—

on the 10th; Don J. M. Osario was appointed Governor of the Plata State. There are 2000 Moxicau troops at Queretaro, and yet on the 12th a diligence tfas attacked within half a mile or the city by eight men, who fired upon the passengers ; the latter, however, showed fight, and killed one of the robbers. The following was received by telegraph just as the America was leaving :— 11 Detroit (Michigan), May 9, 2 p.m. «' A terrible fire is now raging in this city, the population of which ii 20,00 '. The yellow storehouies are destroyed, and all the Eibira stores. Forty buildings have alieady been comumed ; the Steamboat Hotel and the American Hotel are both in flamei, and onetbird of the city is threatened with deitruction. The Advertiser newspaper office has also fallen a prey to the devouring element."

State of Spaih. (From the Times Correspondent.) Madrid, May 7. Another languinary story, and still more terrible fhan the insurrection of the 26th of March, it is my lot to recount in this day's letter. Madrid has again been the theatre of civil strife, and iti streeti are again covered with blood. On the last occasion it was the people — 1 make vie of the term in contiadistinction to the military— wbo were the principal actors ; this day the loldiers were tho*e who were chiefly engaged. This morning, about four o'clock, some 600 men of the Infantry Regiment Espana, left their barracks on the Hospices, under the leadership of their sergeants, and with the regimental colours flying, marched along the Calle Fuencarrel, descended to the Culle Montera, \ and advanced to the Plaza Mayor, where they entered and took possession of the line of houses forming the south ude of the square. They posted themselves in the balconies, and prepared to defend their position Hgaiost all comers. While piling by the Paeita del Sol, on their way to take up the position I mention, they were fired upon, but without much effect, by the main guard occupying that edifice. In the Plaza Mayor they were j ined by some civilians, but not (owing to circumstances which shall be soon mentioned) in very considerable number*. The discharge from the Post-office balconies gave, of course, the alarm to the garrison. General Narvaez, General Figueras (Mims er of War), General Fulgouo (Captain- General of Madrid), General Cordova (Inspector of Infantry), General Concha (ihe P/litical Chief), and other military authorities, were in a few nitnutes on the spot; and troops of infantry, artillery, cavalry, and the civic guard began to arrive. General Narvaez gave directions to General Lissundi (lately Brigadier Colonel of the Ametican Regiment), to lead a part of that corps the San Manuel Regiment, and Borne companies of the Engineers into the squue. This was speedily done ; and the houses opposite to those occupied by the insurgent troops were takeu posiessioa of, and the balconies maimed. The filing then commenced across the square, and continued for about half an hour. Notwithstanding the comparatively sheltered position of the hostile parties, the loss is said to have lieen considerable. Precautions had been t^ken to prevent assistance arriving from the barrios bajos, and strong detachments w. ye placed in the entrances of the narrow itn-ets leading to the square. Particular care was also tiken respecting the Calle Toledo, which is always distinguished in buch confl ctt. Seeing tha' musketry produce 1 l.ttle or no effect, orders were given for artillery ti be hi ought to the square, and four guns were pointed against the insurgent?. Previously to this, however, the commandant of th« insurgent bntlaiiou presented himself, with some of his fcfficers, in the square. Hd was addressed by General Cordova, and asked wheie his regiment was, and ordered to go and fetch the colours th it had been unfurled in the cause of insurrection. The unhappy man, stung by the reproach addressed to him, advanced towards his meu, and was about to harangue them, when he fell dead, pierced by a dozen bulle s from his owu soldiers. Some of the officers who accompanied him were dangerou ly wouud-d. A discharge from the artillery was then oidcre.l. The cannon balls pierced the walk, and killed a number of ii.surgents, who, finding they were scill uuaitled, called out that they would surrend r. About two- birds of the number Lsued from the houses, and, crying out that they had been deceived, offered to give np their muskets. Tney were instantly disarmed, and a -nt in the custody of a large force towards the Prado. The remaining third of the corps managed to escape by the Calle Toledo. They were pursued by three or lour companies, who fired on them ai they ran ; but who, in turn, had to endure a sharp fire from some of the houses alon? the street. They succeeded for the moment in baffling their pursuers, but, I am informed, more than 100 of them were subsequently apprehended. While all this was going on in the central part of the town, hostilities commenced between detached parties of the Civic Guard and armed police on one side, and a few civilians who nude an effort to join in the insurrection on the other. Several persons also fell victims who were passing, perhaps escaping from the danger, as a body of troops polled in the house ot tbe Count of Oaate, opposite the Post Office, naturally took every one in plain clothes for a foe, and from it« balconies fired, for some time, indiscriminately on all within reach. Tbe fighting was thus kept up for some titie after surrender of the insurgent soldiers in the Plaz* Mayor; atid it was past six o'clock before it entirely ceased, J should have said that a company of the disaffected regiment doing duty in the P aza de la Cebada, Calle Toledo, hastened to join their comrades the moment the first shot was beard. At six o'clock there were not more than 36 armed civilians with the miitary insurgents. This battalion wai also under the impression, whether well founded or otherwise, that it was to liave been joined hy the main guaid at the Post-office. Such, however, wai not the case.

The Captain-General Fulsotio, brother-in-law to Maria Chriitma, was wounded in two places (in the head and iv the groin), as he was riding in the direc lion of the Plaza Mayor, at 5 o'clock. The shots were fi<-ed from a deadly weapon— the trabuse, a large blunderbuss, «o much used in Spanish partisan warfare. He fell to (he «round bathed in blood. He was taken to the Poit- office, as nearest at hand, where the last jtnerament was speedily administered to him. I have been informed, since I commenced this letter, that he it dead. He i* succeeded in the Captain-Generalcy t y Pezucla (brother of the Maiquis de Viluma), who has commenced his functions by publishing a bando, ieplacing, of course, Madrid in a state of siege, din-ctmg that all arms be at once sent in by theii owners to the commissaries of police of their respective barriers, or the military commandants, that all persons not having a fixed residence in the capital shall, to morrow, \ resent themselves with their passports cr letters of residence to the same commissaries ; that no cries or shouts of a subversive character be uttered ; und tha 1 all who contravene these orden shall suffer mili ary execution, after being tried and found guilty by courtmartial. At this moment it is rather difficult to ascertain,