The news from Spain is interesting. ZUNIALICARREGIN died on the
25th instant, at the village of Durango ; to which place he had been removed in order to have a ball extracted from his knee. After the operation had been completed, he was seized with lock- jaw ; which was the immediate cause of his death. There is but one opinion as to his extraordinary activity, bravery, and talent for conducting a guerilla war. His loss to the insurgent army is irreparable.
The Courier of Thursday supplied from peculiar sources an ac- count of the Oliir in which ZITNIALACARREGUY was wounded. It appears that Bilboa was almost entirely unprovided with means of defilace, and preparing to surrender to the Carlists, when Cap- tain HuNev, who commanded the Queen's armed steam-ship La Reyna Gobernadora, and was cruising off the coast, was made acquainted with the desperate condition of the Royalists, and determined on an effort to relieve them. Accordingly, he landed twenty -five men, under command of Captains EBSWORTH and FITS- PATRICK, within two miles of Bilbao; which was as far up the river as the draught of water would allow his vessel to go : the party was furnished with two long eighteen-pounders, and some Congreve rockets and ammunition. They made their way up to the town, and took their station on one of the most important points of defence. The steamer proceeded to St. Sebastian, took 1000 of En PASTOR'S men on board, with more ammunition, and then returned to Bilboa ; which they reached under a heavy lire from the Carlists. In the mean time, the gallant band of twenty- five did prodigious execution on the enemy. One of the Congreve rockets killed 25 men; and a shot from one of the Marines Vouaded ZUMALACARREGITV, who was carried off the field. Captain FITZPATRICK was killed, with two others of the British force ; and four were badly wounded. The date of this dashing affair is not exactly given, but it appears to have been on the 20th or 21st of June. The last accounts state, that the siege of Bilboa Lad not been raised, but that VALDEZ was in the neighbourhood, and it was hoped that he would relieve it. The spirits of the inhabitants bad been much invigorated by the gallant example of the handful of Englishmen. We may expect to hear of similar exploits when Colonel EVANS and his troops arrive at the seat of war.
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