EXTRACTS.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 393, 19 January 1850, Page 3

EXTRACTS.

California.— Extracts from a letter, written by a native of the colony to his friends in Sydney ;; — *' Oc* tober 4th. While lam writing this letter to you lam lying very ill in bed with the dysentery, with nobody to attend to me but the black boy you may recollect wa« on board the ship in Sydney. * * * Oranges aro a dollar each. * * * 11 1 get over this I shall Start back for Sydney at once, and I think you will have a great number of the Sydney people back again soon, for many hare come to the oaptaiu, who cannot take them, a3 he is bound for the eastern isle 1 ?. We are going to take about twenty people to the Sandwich Islands : they have all been to the mines and had the fever and ague. They lost six of their number, besides having two or three more behind, that could not get up. They carried one poor fellow on board ; he was very bad ; he brought i? 300 to the country with him and got a few pounds of gold at the mines, and it took all of it to pay the doctor, so that he is now a great deal pooter than when he came to the country, * * * 1 can do nothing with the goods, the duty

being so high and the Americans paying no duty. T— cannot sell hit boots and shoes, be will soon be back in Sydney: he has been laid up with tho fever. A great many people die even in ihe town, and many more at the minei. If you know any body that wants to come to California tell them to stop where they can live happily and comfortably, for they cannot do so here. Some of the Louisa's passergers are going back by the way of Tahiti. J{ lam able 1 shall go round in the ship and hope to be in Sydney in about six months.

Life in California.—Successful ns are our busi* ness men, and rich as is the pecuniary harvest we are reaping; our privations are light, and our hearts buoyant with hope, that allures only to brighter days ; no lowering pro.pects —no disappointed ambition—no terrors of hunger, or want, disturb our slumbers ; our friends surround us; affluence crowns our labours ; we rejoice in the fullness of our store, and dream not of misery or distress about us, or that aching hearts, and palsied'limbs, and throbbing biows, and parched lijis, disease, the dead and dying, are on etery ude. Are we not too deeply absorbed in self to hear the groans or liiten to the complaints of our suffering biethren?— < Every day witnesses scenes here that will rend the hearts of many a parental roof, when the tidings shall reach it oi the father or biother that has Buffered and died neglected. Among the thousands that visit out | shores in | ursuit of our golden treasu es, hundreds are proitrated by disease, and their slender means exhausted long befoie returning health enables them to | provide for themselves; and there are hundreds mnre who lie upon ihe cold ground and yield up there lives to ihe disease and destitution that has overtaken them. Life it) them is a mockery, and human sympathy a shadow. "Be ye warmed and be y« clothed," may be heard fiom many a lip, but cold indeed is the charity bestowed to mitigate their Bufferings. In our piospcrity we forget them, and we realize not their presence amongst us. But it \% even co; they are with us, they aie of us, and they claim in humanity's name our sympathy and our assistance. With no public institution ot charity in our borders the coming winter there will be scenes o( Buffering that forebodes evil to our city. Despair will nerve many aheait to deeds of violence that under other circumstances would shudder at the bare thought of it. Cannot something be done, some provision made for the needy and destitute sick in the midst of the co ning winter I—Pacific News, October 4.

California,—-We do not see it in the papers, (probably they are not awa'e of the fact,} but learn, verbally, that many persons in S. n Francisco and vicinity bate committed suicide ; mid that one man had been actually starved to death in a place called the " Happy Valley !" lie was found dead, after having eaten the flesh from bis own arms, in the desperate stiife with the King of Terrors. A greit responsibility will devolve upon the authorities there during the approaching winter, when so many will be thrown, in destitute circumstances, upon them for aid, With such enormous pi ices, and dcs itute of money and employment, it is almost impossible to imagine the amount of suffenug that will fall to the lot of multitudes who will congregate at San Francisco during the autumn and winter,—Polynesian, November 6,

Count Samuel Wass, who took an acti/e part in the? Hungarian revolutionary war, and who was also a leading member of the National Diet, had visited the United States as the agent of the Hungarian nation. — He had previously been deputed by Kossuth to Constantinople, Puns, and London, in a diplomatic capacity. The mere idea that some of the Missionnrles at tha Sandwich Islands had found their Church incomes self supporting, and that they had resolved to relinquish those from the Amsrican Board, and trust to their own churches for support, is> a highly gratifying fact to all friends of Missions in America. Ihedeciease of population in your island, is probably owing to the transition state from barbarism to civilization, and the remaiks of a correipondent " Gimel," in the Polynesian of May 26, states exactly the cus'oms of onr semi-civilized Indians. Like the Hawaiians, they are rabid for the same kind of luxuries. In Kentucky the interest in their late election for Delegates far surpassed that for Congress and the Le« gisltture. The question of emancipation aroie and superseded all other questions before the people of Kentucky. Everything supposed to be popular uas adopted by the candidates against emancipation, and by the few candidates in favour. The pro-slavery men of both parties united* and the result is that the emancipation movement is completely negatived. Not a delegate pledged to the movement has been chosen.

The Queer's Visit.—'Her Majesty has remitted the sum of .£lOO9 to be distributed among the charities, of the localities which she visited duiing her visit to Ireland.

Earl of Dubus.—Whi'ehall, September 10,—« The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to ba passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of an Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto his Royal Highness Albeat Edward Prince of Wales, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and bis Heirs, Kings of the said United Ktngdome of Great Britain and Ireland for ever, by the name, s'yle, and title of Earl of Dablia. —London Gazelle, September 11.

Otficial Announcements,—We have groat satisfaction at being made the medium of announcing 1 that, in the event of our foreign relations presenting a sufficiently peaceable aspect to admit of the act of Royal condescension, Her Majesty, accompanied by his Hoyal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the leading members of the Couit, intend taking a trip up the Meditenanean next year, and honouring with a vitit, during her marine excursion, some of thd southern isles. An intima'ion of the Sovereign's do« termination has been thus early communicated to the authorities, both in England and abroad, whose services are indispensable to a Royal tour. The prepaiation for the grand exhibition or'specimens of the arts and manufactuies of all nations, which we luve reason to know is the project of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, are in a state of active progress. Already interest has been awakened on tha subject in Frauce and America, and it is cci din that the exhibition will be on a scale of magnificence hitheito unexampled. Some of the prizes will be distributed by the highest pcrsonaga in the realm. Prince Albert, just before his departure from Ireland, had several consultations with some distinguished m< mbers of the world of art re&pecting]jihi* great undertaking j aud his Royal Highness has authorised three gentlemen to proceed to the manufacturing districts to secure the full co-operation of the English minufd.cturer.«. It is underwood that the ex* hibition will be in a temporary building of an enormous extent, to b« erected in Hyde Paik; and that, for some titns at least, a limited change will be made for admission. It is stated in military circles that a brevet promotion to commemorate Her Majesty's last visit to Ireland, will be gazetted about ths middle of the preeit month ; and rumor attributes to the Soveieign an intention of conferring a distinguished honour upon Rear-Admiaal Manly Docoh, commander of Her Maj< esiy'an'ival forces on the coast of Ireland,—lFt'cA/j/ Chronicle,