AMERICA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 686, 28 February 1852, Page 3

AMERICA.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald} By the arrival of the Nightingale we are in possession of files of the 27th October : — We have been informed that in seven days after the news of the discovery if cur gold fields was received at Boston, this ship and cargo were ready to proceed to Sydney. The news is but of one day’s later date than our last advices via California. A fearful gale off Prince Edward's Island had caused considerable destruction of both life and property. It commenced on the 3rd October, and continued 48 hours. The most disastrous accounts continued to reach Boston. The number of vessels lying within Canso, when the gale arose had been ascertained to be 107, of these only 26 had been reported safe. Reports as to the loss of others of the fleet, with the greater portion of their crews, were pouring in. The flags, both of America and England were hoisted half-mast high at Boston, in consequence of this melancholy disaster. “Never,” says the Boston Courier, “ has so deep a cloud settled over the town as now.” The most extravagant preparations were making to receive Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot. The Daily Evening Traveller, Oct. 17, has a long report of the meeting of the “ Women’s Rights Convention,” at Worcester, where the political relations and rights of the sex were eloquently urged by Mrs. W. E. Channing, supported by several ladies, whose addresses are reported at great length. Eleven hundred

ladies, many of whom wore the Bloomer costume, and about sixty gentlemen were present. The result of the different elections which had reached Boston at the latest dates, including that at South Carolina, was declared to be in favour of the democratic party ; and also in favour of the Union, so far as the question of separate secession was concerned. A committee, consisting of the leading literary men of the Union, beaded by Washington Irving, had been appointed to carry out measures for rendering honour to the memory of the late James Fennimore Cooper, the distinguished novelist. General Whiting, one of the oldest officers of the United Stales army, died suddenly at St. Louis, on the 16th October. In addition to his services in his military capacity, he bad for many years been a large and valuable contributor to American literature. He was one of the chief writers in the North American Review.