UNITED STATES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 473, 13 February 1850, Page 4

UNITED STATES.

By the arrival of the Canada, Royal Mail steam ship, on Monday, we have. intelligence from New York to the sth Sieptember, by which the anxiety created by the non- arrival of the Hibernia (the steamer previously due)

has been removed. The cause of her detention was the following accident: — On the 31st ult. the Hibernia was proceeding at low speed, the weather being foggy. She had a sea pilot on board, in whose charge the ship was then placed, and she continued to proceed at the same reduced speed, until 6. 30. a.m., when she struck on Chebuctohead rocks, near Halifax, and sprung a leak forward. The engines were immediately reversed, and she got off safely, and proceeded up the harbour to her station. After undergoing repairs she resumed her voyage, with her passengers and mails. On the 4tb instant the experienced unfavourable weather, which caused her to labour heavily, and the leak increased to such an extent, that on an attempt t<? place a thrumbed foresail over the leak having failed, a consultation was held between the Admiralty agent, the commander, and the chief engineer ; and those officers, after maturely considering the imminent risk of continuing her on her course, agreed upon the urgent necessity of bearing up for Halifax, where she arrived at 5.20 a.m. on the 7th. Her mails were taken by the Canada on the Bth, and conveyed to England. The Hibernia has gone to New York for repairs. It is satisfactory to know that blame is in no way attachable to the captain or any of his crew. The former (Captain Stone) in his letters to the agents, says :—": — " So far as lam able to form an opinion, I think the injury the ship has sustained is entirely confined to her lore-foot, or, in other words, she only touched the rock forward." The chief feature of the domestic news from the Union is the progress (notwit standing the denunciation of the President of the Republic) of the bucaneering expedition against the Spanish island of Cuba. Since our last advices, a Colonel White, with 400 or 500 followers, had proceeded from New Oi lcans to Round Island, which lies off the mouth of Pascagoula river, not far from Mobile, to wait for the time of sailing; but the party had been ordered off by the naval officer commanding in that vicinity. Whilst at New York the sailing of the corps had been delayed nearly a week by unexpected hindrances, and a ship laden with military stores and arms, which had cleared for Cura^oa, had been detained by the authorities. The expedition is to consist of 1500 men, who are to land upon a part of Cuba where there are no troops to oppose th&m. This will not be difficult, as the whole Spanish force is less than 10,000 men, who cannot be spared far from Havannah and the other cities. Once landed, they will proclaim a Provisional Government ; those among the people and the troops who are favourable to their cause will join them; with the increase of their numbers they will move forward ; and, lastly, if all goes according to their anticipations, drive the Spanish Government from the island, proclaim it a frets and independent state, and take the measures necessary to establish a Republican Constitution and Government. — Illustrated London News, September 22.