THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Tuesday, December 31, 1850.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume V, Issue 366, 31 December 1850, Page 3

THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Tuesday, December 31, 1850.

LTJCEO NON T7RO. "HI hare been extinguished, yet there rise A thousand beacons from the spark I bore."

0> Saturday last our citizens were startled *jth an extraordinary " Novelty" — the of that name having arrived in port i *°n» San Francisco in the short space of and twenty days, and bringing Lond °ttnews to the 2nd, and New York Jourj™ to the 14th, of October. Here is ano- ! ™ fl t» and a remarkable testimony to the j cnange in our geographical position which *™ Panama route * is certain eventually to j y*fy«kce, with all the circuits and delays ot 4aieri can and Californian transmissions, j6j 6 j* v 6 been put in possession of European T^igence in the hitherto unprecedented W of eighty-seven days ! I „*roin the Galifornian papers we can JNscover little of immediate urgency to pfcfer. Cholera, we lament to say, had lOn nd its way thither, and was marking Jit its victims, amongst whom were several ot our former felloVcolonists. Potatoes F e reported, in consequence of cholera, to 06 somewhat dull of sale, and some that rttved in an unsound state are said to een c o n denined and destroyed. we have extracted as largely from the European tidings 7«ich the Californian and American prints jjj* our possession have enabled us to do. ** will be seen that the execrable butcher !* the Hungarian patriots — the dastardly of women, Field-Marshal HayT a » tad dared to' exhibit himself jin LLorn r |? On - In the papers ibefore us allusion 1 is "^de to it, and' to his fitting reception-, as * transaction of a previous date. From tot we can gather, it would appear that toebutcher'^ went "tains-peep Baxclay

and Perkins Brewery, and, his identity becoming known to the draymen, he was at once mobbed and hooted from the establishment, and thence cheveyed up Bankside by the voices of thousands of indignant Englishmen, who, but that the tiger was rescued by the police, might have executed summary vengeance for this bare-faced pollution of their soil. It is really grateful to one's feelings to hear of such monsters being hounded back to their congenial lair with the foreign man-slayers and tyrants by whom alone their merits are appreciable. All honor to the draymen of Southwark for their magnanimous demonstration in behalf of outraged humanity ! According to the New Orleans Pacific Crescent of the 1 4th October — It is stated in lome of the German journals, that ( Haynau's viiit to London was for the express purpose of testing the sttte of public feeling towards j him. The result must have been satisfactory. Extremely so, we should imagine. From another place in the same journal we copy the following on — Haynatj's Flogging.— The London " Times" defends the conduct of the brewers and porters of London in mobbing this monster. In this country, there has been but one opinion of this act of popular justice. It was an insult to the English people for this wretch to pollute their soil by his step. A more ignominious punishment conld not have been inflicted upon him, than the chastisement he received. He will, for the rest of his days, confine his travels within the limits of despotism. The American Journals teem with notices of steam-ships laid down, building, and launching for California. We shall endeavour to collate their names and capacities for our next. They are mostly large and powerful ones.

The Daniel Webster arrived from Sydney, after a protracted passage of 20 days, on Saturday. We have a few Victoria Journals and two copies of the * Herald' by her. The threatening position assumed by the freed of Van Diemen's Land towards the free of that hapless colony, had attracted the attention of our Sydney contemporary, as it has already done that of this Journal. We shall try and make room for his leading article of the 7th instant, at an early date, since the state of Tasmania is such as should excite the deepest sympathy of i all her neighbours.

By advices received per "Novelty," many parties here have learnt the mournful intelligence of the decease of relatives, friends, or acquaintances in California. The following we have heard mentioned amongst others of our fellow-townsfolk who have met their death in the strange land, and, having made every inquiry circumstances would permit to ascertain the authenticity of each reported death, present the following obituary, believing it to be but too truthful a record : — Captain Henry Parker, an early and much respected settler at Hokianga, and late master of the barque "Noble," of this port. He died in the month of October, after a few hours' illness. Mr. Hugh McLeaver, late of the Bay of Islands (where he was resident for many years), and of Hobson-street, in this town. — Two brothers-in-law (the names we have been unable to learn) of Mr. McLeaver also died, within 14 days of each other. Mrs. Hughes, wife of Mr. Win. Hughes, of this place, and her eldest son. Mrs. Fulton, wife of Mr. C. Fulton, late proprietor of the Auckland Hotel, and one child. Mrs. White, wife of Mr. X,. White, late of Chancery-street, Auckland. Mr. James Oliver, late gingerbeer brewer of this town, died Nov. 15th.