LATEST NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 569, 15 January 1851, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

[From the Alta California, Nov. 16.] I The U.S. Mail Steamer California, Capt. ?Budd, arrived this morning with the mails I from the Atlantic States and from Europe, iShe left Panama on the evening of the Ist [instant, having on board upwards of 200 passengers. The dates brought by the California are, sfrom New York to the 12th October, — gfrom London to 27tb, and Liverpool 28th ii-September. a Congress adjourned on the 30th Sept., afvter having passed all the bills except the Mint -and its amendment. If The Isthmus is now free from disease, land the roads in a comparatively good Scondition. g 8 | Among the passengers by the packet ship Columbus, from Liverpool, arrived at New sYork on the 20th October, we notice Joseph gAlmany, Catholic Bishop of California; SoEjdoc Velarassa, Priest, and Frances Vinderoghei, Mary Giomace, Rose Courlistier, and Code, sisters of the Order of St. JJominic, all for California. H The Bill to do away with flogging in the ■Navy, has passed both Houses of Congress || an d had become a law. fa Amin Bey, the Turkish Envoy, is on a ,-Visit to Daniel Webster at Marshfield. Jil city of Philadelphia is again stained bloodshed. A serious and disgraceful ■ ,lot took place there on the sth instant, bethe Moyamensing rowdies and the j||wegroes. Several persons were wounded ’. l, y gun-shots, and the greatest excitement Wtevaiied. » The Fugitive Slave Law is meeting with fe^ reat opposition in the Eastern States, and eve " thtou £ h Canada. ® There were about 200 steamer passengers g® ike Isthmus, all wall.

About 300 men, with houses and stores, were at Lima Bay, to commence with the dry season on the railroad. About 1500 tons of freight was at Panama, and also an equal quantity on the other side of the Isthmus. Coal was cheap, there being about 500 tons on hand. Hov/ard & Son. of New York, have failed; their steamers were purchased by the Pacific Mail Company. The health of General Cavaignac gives great uneasiness to his friends. For some time past he has been subject to periodical attacks, which produce great suffering, and which are followed by lassitude and weakness.

The French Government, it is said, has addressed, by Gen. Lahitte, official remonstrances to Lord Palmerston on the subject of the French refugees in London. A funeral service was celebrated at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 12th ult., for the repose cf the soul of King Louis Philippe. The service had been ordered by a Polish family out of gratitude to the deceased monarch. Amongst the persons present was the Duke of Albufera. The potatoe crops of France are suffering severely from the prevalent rot. The Diornale di Roma states that the Papal army will consist of 19,024 men. A screw steamer is about to proceed to California from the Clyde. The Lords of the Admiralty have given instructions for a complete survey of the western coast of Cork, to ascertain its capabilities for being converted into a transatlantic packet station and harbour of refuge. Three government commissioners are to visit the spot. The Augsberg Gazette states that there is at present a species of political Congress at Warsaw, at which the Austrian and Russian diplomatists are engaged. The Emperor himself is expected to attend it. The Congress is occupied in the affairs of Germany and Poland. On the Ist January, 1851 — that is on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of the Emperor—Poland will be transformed into a certain number of Russian governments.

The Paris Evenement publishes a letter from its Neapolitan correspondent, which announces the outbreak of formidable insurrection in the two Calabrias. The Neapolitan government is greatly alarmed, and has ordered a frigate to proceed to Cotrona, a port of Ultra-Calabria, and bombard the city. The three pro inces of Calabria appear to be acting in concert in this insurrection. The Austrian Council sitting at Frankfort have declared that the refusal of the Hessian Diet to grant to'the supplies is illegal. In the meantime, the armies oi Bavaria, Hanover, and Prussia, approach the Hessian frontier. Hesse Cassel, however, remains perfectly quiet. Letters from Hanover, of the 20th inst., announce the death, on that day, of the Councillor of State, Count Falacke.

The intelligence from Hungary is not satisfactory ; the general feeling was, however, more favourable to the military, than to the former civil government organs. The Danes are concentrating around Frederickstadt, either for the purpose of repelling, or for making an attack. The loss of the Schleswig Holsteiners on the 12th, was 9 officers and 257 subalterns and privates, in killed, wounded, and prisoners.

M e are in possession of dates from Liverpool four days later than those received via United States by the last steamer. We have a copy of Wilmer & Smith’s European Times of October 2. It was published for despatch by the Royal West India Mail Steamship Great Western, which sailed from Southampton on the day of publication. That vessel arrived at Chagres in time to connect with tbe California, and this paper was procured by Mr. Comstock, Vice-President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and kindly furnished to us. It contains no items of interest to the general reader later than those contained in our abstract of foreign news received from the United States. It is gratifying, however, to know that our means of communicating with the old world, independent of the United States, are daily increasing. We hail this first successful experiment with pleasure. We find a single paragraph in the Times, which may prove interesting. In its monetary article it says.— . The intelligence of the continued productiveness of the gold mines of California had some effect in giving increased confidence in the condition of monetary affairs, but beyond this nothing whatever has occurred to interfere with the ordinary course of business. H.M.S. Herald returned to the port of Honolulu on the 16th October last, from the Arctic Ocean, having been unsuccessful in her search for Sir John Franklin. It is stated, on the authority of a correspondent of the London Herald, under date, Paris, Thursday evening, that arrangements are on foot between Spain on the one side, and England, France, and Holland on the

other, by which Spain, on condition of having Cuba protected by the joint action of those powers, engages to pay the debt due by her to her English, French, and Dutch creditors. At several public meetings in different places, it has been proposed to bestow a suitable testimonial of public approbation upon the brewers and draymen of Barclay and Perkins’ establishment, for their treatment of General Haynau. As an offsett, the Times states that preparations are making at Vienna to greet the General on his return with what that journal styles a “splendid demonstration of loyal devotion.” The garrison is to serenade him by torchlight, and the Emperor is to raise him to the rank of a Mareshal of the Empire. It is also stated, on the authority of an Austrian journal, that the Austrian Minister at London has been instructed to demand the punishment of the men who assaulted tbe butcher in London.

A frightful railway accident occurred on the Eastern line on the 17th. Nine lives were lost.

A destructive fire occurred at London on . Thursday, in the vicinity of the Corn Ex- < change. That building was materially in- ( jured, and a large amount of property de- 1 stroyed. : The Atlantic has booked one hundred and fifty passengers, and was to have sailed on 1 the 25th. The weather has been uninterruptedly fine throughout all parts of the Kingdom, for securing the latest remnants ol the harvest. | Makin & Sons, in their circular of Thursday, I report a fair, steady business during the week ! in flour and wheat on the spot, and to arrive, and that each fully maintained previous prices, ' the market closing with an upward tendency, j It is proper to observe that other authorities ' do not give quite so encouraging a view of i the market, The London Press of Friday publishes • later news from India, received by telegraph via Trieste. The cholera had broken out in China, and the Governor of Macao had died of it. Commercial affairs at Bombay were | improving. The same remarks apply 10 i ' Madras, but at Calcutta trade was less active. I The prospects of the Indigo crop are said to be very encouraging. In France the only important political incident of the week has been the discovery of ; an Urleanist plot ; the documents connect- i j ed with which, whilst they do not appear to I implicate any person, afforded tbe London ; I and Paris press food for very long editorials. j I — ! [From the Sydney Morning Herald. Dec. 24. j I The Queen and Royal Family were in Scotland, all well. A slight interruption had taken place in the Dover and Calais submarine telegraph through the breaking of one of the wires, but a remedy would soon be applied. , Ihe Duke of Wellington has been appointi ed Chief Ranger and Keeper of Hyde Park ! and St James’s Park, vice the Duke of Cam- ■ ■ bridge, deceased. , I The captain and second mate of the Orion * | have been found guilty of neglect of duty. i The former has been sentenced to eighteen ■ ! month’s imprisonment ; the latter to seven ■ years’ transportation. f C. W. AV. Wynn, Esq., the Father of the 5 House of Commons, died on tbe 2nd Septemi ber. Sir Edward A. Campbell, C. 8., Sir W. L. G. Thomas, Bart., and Sir Peter Pole, Bart., were dead, M. de Balzac, the famous . French novelist, was also dead, i The Baroness Rothschild, died on the 6th 3 September. $ Louis Napoleon was unwell. 1 We are happy to learn that the operation p Lord Lyndhurst found it necessary to under- . go for the recovery of his sight has proved 1 most successful, and, should his bodily health 1 permit, he will early in the next session be 1 found at his post in the House of Lords hear- . ing appeals.— Times.

There are now three seats in tbe House of Commons vacant by deaths since the close of the parliamentary session. They are—the University of Cambridge, the borough of Poole, and the county of Hereford. The Venerable Dean of Dromore is at present in a dangerous state of health, with but faint hopes of his recovery, to the deep regret of all who know him.

Lord Chief Justice Doherty (Common Pleas, Ireland) died at Beaumaris, on Sunday, the Bth September. Cherbourg had been the scene of a most imposing display in consequence of a naval review by the President of the Republic. Eight line-of-battle-ships, including two of enormous size and power, with a proportionate fleet of steamers and frigates for discharging the light duties of the squadron, were manceuvering with admirable skill and effect almost within sight of the harbours, and within gun-shot of the Channel possessions of Great Britain. A crowd of titled and professional excursionists left England to criticise; among whom were the Earls cf Wilton and Cardigan, Sir C. Napier, Captain Chads, &c.

The Gloucester Musical Festival commenced under the most favourable auspices on the 9th September.

The Times of the 10th September records two instances of liberality which would do credit to the most munificent period of the local history of even Bristol’s merchant princes. A gentleman named Eaton has contributed £5OOO for the purpose of enlarging the Gui-nea-street Hospital in that city. Mr. G. Thomas had also given £lOOO for the same purpose.

One of the bankers of Vienna, M. Goldstein, has just died, leaving to his only daughter a fortune of ten million of francs.

The Lords of the Treasury have accepted the offer of Mr. Laming to convey the mails to the Cape of Good Hope for £30,000 per annum in screw propelled vessels. No fewer than five fires occurred in London on the Bth September. With reference to the United States, the two events of general interest are the execution of Professor Webster, and the arrival of Jenny Lind. The miserable professor expiated his offences at Boston, on the morning of Friday, September 6th. His wife and family were spared the anguish of a partingscene, for on taking leave of the criminal on. Thursday evening, they were totally unconscious that that interview had been their last. Webster bore his awful fate with fortitude; immense multitudes (many of them females) were present at his ignominious exit. Mr. I R. A. Holmes, the turnkey, and Mr. Henry ! Rugg, tbe deputy sheriff, adjusted the fatal I. noose. The countenance of the culprit, which : until then nad been deathly pale, suddenly s became flushed, and tears were seen to fall j from his eyes. A black cambric cap was 1 then drawn over his head and face, and at i precisely 25 minutes before 10 o’clock, High 1 Sheriff Everleth stepped upon a spring, the . drop fell, and the spirit of John Webster was ushered into the presence of its Judge.