6 JANUARY 1849, page 5

Numbers Would Be Disappointed In The Search For Gold ;

but how many could return ? Few. California therefore will be colonized impromptu—settled by a community of gold-finders: a happy family ! There has been some talk of......

News Of The Week.

ALTHOUGH far too little for judgment, the demeanour of Presi- dent Louis Napoleon is quite enough as ground for apprehension, quite enough to disturb the hope that anything like......

Doubt Hangs Over The State Of Other Countries. Although The

position of contending parties in Hungary is in the main under- stood, the actual situation of military affairs is not so well authen- ticated. Windischgriitz is converging upon......