AMERICA. [From the Melbourne Argus.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 818, 4 June 1853, Page 4

AMERICA. [From the Melbourne Argus.]

The Times contains the following news from New York, to the 14tb January. " The caloric ship Ericson had had another trial trip, with a large party of scientific gentlemen on board. The trip was in every way satisfactory; 13 She went a distance of 18 miles, with and against the tide, in two hours and a half, the engines only working at half speed." New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and a large section of the United States, had been visited by very severe snowstorms, and, in some places, snow had fallen to the depth of several feet. The detention of the mails and steamers was very general, many of which were considerably overdue at the different ports. The United States Seuate had been occupied with the discussion of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty. The President was requested to transmit all correspondence between Mr. Lawrence, late Minister at the Court of St. James's, and the British Government in regard to Central America, and particularly any correspondence relating to the claims of Great Britain to the Mosquito Coast, or any portion of the torritory of Honduras or Yucatan. A telegraphic despatch from Baltimore states that New Orleans papers were received there on the 13tb, containing the details of the news received from Tarapifco to the 27ih ult : — " Among the leading officers of the regular Mexican army who had pronounced in favor of the revolutionists, were - Colonels Casanova, Cruz, and Tenorio. " The papers are filled with accounts of pronunciamentos, and El Tamaulipeco confidently pronounces the Government of Arista doomed. " Juan Jose de la Garza, Provisional Governor of Tamaulipas, publishes an address in which he justifies the revolution. " Colonels Mejia and Vega had joined the revolutionists, and within a few days a force of 1500 men would be organised under the command of these chiefs, which would march to occupy San Louis and other States of the interior." The New York Herald contains the following, in relationTo TfieTisland of Cuba and the flourishing condiiicn of tbe slave trade there :—: — "In the district of Cieufuegos, in the island of Cuba, the sugar crop of 1846 was 12,673 tons, with 1,667,000 gallons of molasaes. The crop of 1852 has been 27i243 tons, with 2,300,000 gallons of Molasses. Will it be said that there was no increase to the slave population cf the district during the intervening seven years 1 If there was, whence was it derived as we are well assured it was not from natural increase. The actual net-realised profits of one estate in Cienfuegos, owned by an American (abseutee) gentleman, last year (crop of 1852), was upwards of 116,000 dollars, about £24,000 sterling, drawn from the labour of 420 people, young and old. Will any man show us how to make free labour as productive V The Hon. Mr. K>ncr, the Vice-president elect has been pronounced -beyond hope of recovery, his disease being consumption.