CALIFORNIA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 509, 19 June 1850, Page 4

CALIFORNIA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald. ]

The arrival of the Enchantress, from San Francisco the 17th of March, puts us in possession of California news up to that date. An Act had been passed by the House of Assembly, and approved by the Governor, to supersede certain Courts and regulate appeals therefrom to the Supreme Court. The Courts declared to be superseded are those which are generally known as the Courts of second and third instance. The Courts of first instance continued nnder certain restrictions. Politics are beginning to divide the attention of the press and the public with the gold mania. The Pacific News, a strong democratic paper, in an article in its issue of the 9th March, calls on the democrats to assemble in force at a mass meeting, to be held at the Plaza, to proclaim the ascendency of Democratic principles. The Alta California, a moderate paper — characterises the proceedings as having been conducted with a good deal of spirit, and generally in an orderly manner. The elections for Members of the Assembly were about to commence, and were exciting considerable attention. In the Senate the Act concerning the salaries of officers was exciting most attention. The salary of the Secretary of State was fixed at 8000 dollars ; the proposed salaries of the Treasurer and AttorneyGeneral were not concurred in. An amendment moved by Mr. Green, that the whole public printing should not exceed the sum of 75,000 dollars was negatived. It is perhaps ! worthy of remark that the whole of the reports of the daily proceedings in the Legislative Council commence with the announcement that prayers were read. Our private accounts inform us that vast numbers of people were out of employ, of all classes, and that much privation and suffering prevailed from the effect of disease and, the want of remunerative employment. Still the gold mania continued, and the supplies realized continued to increase, and appear to be inexhaustible. The name of Sydney appears to stink in the nostrils of the Californian people, even .to a most unjust amount of prejudice. On the arrival of the ship Victoria, a paragraph appeared in the Pacific Daily News stating that two hundred abandoned women from New South Wales had arrived. This paragraph was, however, contradicted the following day, but it shows the estimation which the Californians are disposed to place on the living cargoes from Sydney. The health of the city continued very bad, as the wet season was not quite over. Preparations however were being made in every part for extensive operations at 'the diggings,.