Foreign

The British government has information ,hat Lord Chelmsford haa defeated the Zulus, nflicting immense loss. The battle was fought aly 4. The Zulus, variously estimated at rom 10,000 to 20,000, surrounded the British ,roops, who tomed a hollow square. The Zulus harged the square on all sides. After the Znus were broken bv the British fire, they were uraued by cavalry and utterly routed. Lord Ohelmsford burned and destroyed all the military kraal and returned to his camp the same evening. The sword of the prince imperial has been elivered to a British commander by a messenger from Cetewayo. A Paris correspondent says that the Figaro publishes a letter from M. Prax, Paris, a leadng Bonapartist, which has every appearance of a manifestó inBpired by Prince Jerome Naroleon. The letter declared that the prince ,ccepts the rights and duties of his position. Disastrous floods are reported throughout 3elgium, and floods in the valley of the Rhine lave caused great loss of property. Heavy rains and indications are reported from various parts of France. The Scheld, íuse and other rivera in Flanders are ovcrflowed. A Madrid dispatch aays that no complete extinction of slavery in Cuba is expected until the coolie immigration under the receñí treaty between Bpain and China is sumciently numerous to provide laborers for plantationB In re-naming the streets of Paris, one is to be named in memory of President Lincoln. There are 57,000 persons in the Durham collier.es, the great part of whom will be directly aff ected by Lord Derby's award as um pire, reducing wages one and a quarter percent, in addition to the former reduction The French chamber of deputies, by a vote 249 166, adopted the proposal of M. Proust for the demolition of the ruina of the Tuiler ies. The site will be transf ormed into a gar den. The Colorado beetle has made its appear anee in the county of Cork, lraland,