November.

An important violation of the stipulations of our last treaty with Great
Britain occurred in the harbor of San Juan on the ---- of November. The
steamship Prometheus, an American merchant vessel, plying between New
York and San Juan de Nicaragua in the California trade, was levied on by
the municipal authorities of San Juan or Greytown, for certain port
charges established by direction of British agents, as under the
government of the Indian or negro king of Mosquito. These charges the
Captain of the Prometheus refused to pay. A British vessel of war,
however fired on her twice, and after, under the peremptory orders of
the Captain of the brig, the Prometheus had returned to her anchorage,
he compelled her, under threats, to extinguish her fires, and place
herself at his mercy. The pretended dues were at length paid under
protest, and the facts in the case were communicated to Congress in a
Message from the President on the 17th. Commodore Parker has been
ordered to repair at once to the harbor of San Juan, with directions to
protect all merchant vessels from such surveilance in future, of which
he is to notify the British officers on his arrival.

The trial of the persons arrested for taking part in the outrages at
Christiana, in Pennsylvania, was commenced in Philadelphia on the 24th
of November, before Judges Grier and Kane, in the United States Circuit
Court, and on the 12th of December it was brought to a close by the
acquittal of the prisoners.

Information has been received at the State Department of the loss of the
whale ships Arabella and America, of New Bedford; the Henry Thompson and
Armada, of New London; the Mary Mitchell, of San Francisco, and the Sol
Sollares, of Fall River.

From California we have news of continued prosperity in mining, and in
agriculture and general interests. The project for dividing the State
into North and South California appears to have been urged with
determination and hopes of success in the recent convention held to
consider the subject. It is stated also that a large company of
emigrants recently left San Francisco for the Sandwich Islands, to
establish a Republican State there. To this end a Constitution had been
formed in San Francisco prior to their departure. There are many
circumstances which render this statement probable.

A Governor, Lieut. Governor, Attorney General, and members of the
Legislature were elected in Virginia on the 8th of December, unde