29 DECEMBER 1849, page 1

England And The United States Of America Are At Issue

about the island of Tigre; and if the dispute is to go forward according to rule, those great countries must come to war. What is the island of Tigre to them ?—Properly nothing.......

News Of The Week.

CLOSING in peace, as it opened in war, the year 1849 has wit- nessed events second in importance only to those of 1848; though it has not brought us to that European settlement......