CALIFORNIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 582, 1 March 1851, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

[From the Maitland Mercury. - ] We have received a copy of the Weekly Alta California of December 7th, from which we make the following extracts : Cholera.—We cannot say that there is any decrease in the mortality from this disease. A number of deaths from cholera were reported yesterday, among others Mr. John S. Cardwell, formerly of New Orleans, and late of the Union Hotel in this city. Mexican News.—Below we publish avery interesting letter from our correspondent in the city of Mexico. It will be perceived that General Arista, so badly whipped by “ Brave Old Zach,” on the Bth and 9th of May, at Palo Alto and Resaca, will succeed Herrera as President of Mexico. With our correspondent we regret that Almonte is not the—shall we say happy or tin-happy man. He has lived long in the United States, knows our people in a much better light than does Arista, and would have entered upon the duties of the office, perhaps, with a mind freer from any very strong bias against us, and might have been better able to copy our institutions so far as applicable to his own country. The movement towards a reorganization of the finances we sincerely hope may result in good to our sister republic, for whose interest and welfare we feel great interest and sympathy. From Honolulu. the Honolulu Times of a late date we extract the following: —■' Prosperity to Honolulu. —It is gratifying to witness the many improvements that have been going forward for the last two years, but more particularly the last. In every part of the city, evidence of its rapid progress is to be seen in the number of buildings that are springing up, which are mostly of an improved style of construction. In the business streets, fine buildings aresupplanting the dingy adobe and the ill-looking thatched houses. In other parts of the city, away from the business, many neat, but cheap cottages, the property, and intended to be the home of, our frugal and respectable residents and labourers may be seen starting into existence. Everywhere around us prosperity goes hand in hand with an increase of population.” [From the S. M. Herald.] We have San Francisco papers to the 9lh December. The winter had set in, but there had not been much rain, and owing to the fine bracing weather the cholera was decreasing. Crowds of people were daily leaving for the United States and other countries. It was calculated that from deaths and emigration the population of the state would be at least thirtv thousand less on the Ist January than it was •on the Ist July last. Long lists of deaths appear in the papers, but thousands die in the interior of whom nothing is known, and of whose death no record is kept. The papers before us do not contain an extractable paragraph. The Right Reverend Dr. Southgate, formerly a missionary bishop at Constantinople, has been elected bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church,