Efforts for the separation of California into new states are vigorously prosecuted. The latest intelligence from the mines is favorable. Oregon will probably come into the Union as two states.
There have been a great number of fatal accidents in the last few weeks, of which we can give but the results in loss of lives:
| Lives. | |
|---|---|
| Propeller Henry Clay, lost on Lake Erie, October 23, | 30 |
| Steamer Buckeye run into a sloop, Lake Erie, same day, | 3 |
| Steamer William Penn, off Cape Cod, struck sloop, same day, | 4 |
| Ship Oregon, sunk at sea lat. 36½, long. 69½, October 27, | 3 |
| Schooner Christiana, capsized, Lake Ontario, about the same time, | 9 |
| Schooner William Penn, lost about the same time, | Entire crew. |
| Embankment fell in at Spencerport, N. Y., November 11, | 3 |
| Accident at the Pyrotechnic establishment, Flatbush, November 3, | 2 |
| Cotton Factory, Philadelphia, burned November 12, | 6 |
| Small boat run down by a schooner, Boston Harbor, November 5, | 3 |
| Railroad engine-boiler, burst at Aiken, S.C., November 14, | 3 |
| Collision on the New-York and New Haven Railroad, October 25, | 2 |
| Alarm of fire, in Public School, No. 26, in New-York, causing a rush of children toward the great stairway, of which the railing gave way, November 20, | 46 |
On the 21st October, a serious difficulty broke out at Chagres, between the American and native boatmen, and a battle ensued, which resulted in the death of two Americans, and as many natives. After two days' disturbance, the affair was adjusted, and order restored.
In Mexico, for the present, the insurrection of Caravajal has failed, and the siege of Matamoras has been abandoned. In New Grenada the Jesuit revolt under Borrero has been put down and Borrero captured. From Buenos Ayres we learn that General Oribe has been overthrown, and that Rosas is in the utmost danger, but the results of recent important events there are not yet well understood.
Little has occurred in Great Britain, of much importance, except the demonstrations occasioned by the arrival of Kossuth, at Southampton, on the 23d of October. The Hungarian chief has been received with unparalleled enthusiasm in Southampton, London, Manchester, and elsewhere, and in many long and powerful speeches has vindicated his great reputation for wisdom and for honest devotion to the liberties of his country. He was to leave England in the steamer Washington, for New-York, on the 14th November, and will probably have arrived here before this paragraph is published. In the United States a triumph even more enthusiastic than that in England awaits him. The Caffre war in South Africa is still extending, and the British forces have obtained, in no case, decided or important advantages.
The attention of Europe is more than ever concentrated on France. Louis Napoleon, who had deprived the nation of the right of suffrage, in despair of reëlection by any other means finally determined on the abrogation of the restricting law of the 31st of May; his ministers resigned; after a considerable period a new ministry, with little weight of personal character, was formed; and on the 4th of November the new session of the French Legislative Assembly was opened in Paris, to receive the President's Message, and at once to vote down its cardinal recommendations. The world watching with deep interest that conflict of the factions in France which must be brought to a close with the present term of her unscrupulous ruler.