Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Alchemy, Commerce, Political Economy

    Announces that a person in California has discovered how to transmute baser metals into gold, and to produce it 'by the ship-load'. Thinks this means that the United States of America will not take the '(comparatively) few sovereigns Mr. Lowe [the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe] was going to send over [...] between now and next "Fall"'.