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CoIusRIA RIvgR.-The Bangor Whig publishes the following extract from letter received by friend dated Uonolulu Sandwich Islands, May 6, l3iI.

 'Our latest dates from the U $. May 12, le4l giving an account of the death of Gen. Harrison We have also received Tyler's address. Our dates from China are up to the Both May Al. The U s. Ship Peacock anl Schr. Flying Fish were here ia June last, on their way ColnIbm River, two months behind their time The Vncennes and Porpoise arrived at the Columbia River in May last. Capt. Wilkes gives a highly Aattering description of the countrywide will make thorough survey of il before he quits it. hope Capt. Wilkes official report will open tine eyes of Uncle Sam to his interest on our North West Coast. Great Britain has heli and still holds, through the agency of the Hulson's Ba, Company exclusive jurisdiction of the beautiful coun- try, their treaty of neutrality with Government to the contrary notwithstanding.

 ''Several Amerisans of enterprise have attempted

 settlement the countr, but they have been check mated by oppressive monopoly, until they were fairly starved out, and obliged to return. The charter of the II. B. Co., las recently been renewed with an ad- tional grant of two millions pounds sterling in.end- ed expressly for the settlement of the disputed terri tory. And they now erecting temporary build ngs every valuable lot land and millste in the country. Captain Wilkes says Ihc harbor at Pagoi sound, is the finest he anchored in, any part of the world. We have an almost ncalculablc amount of commerce in the Pacifc and yet allow John Bull quiet and undsturbed possession of the only harbor that belongs to us this side of Cape Horn. Yuu are awere that they have already taken possession of New Zealand, and broken up and excluded our fisher men from those seaslhey have also taken possession of the Faulkland Islands (which affords excellent harbor) and forbidden vessels cruising for whales within three leagues of the land.

 Th, "stars and stripes" arc set at half mast this day, oyer roof on account of ths intelligence re- ceiscd of tho death of General Harrison.