Foreign News

■■ ■ . ' .-'..:'." T ' ■ . i ■ ■ ■ i '''T.1. : - : " t i g Soü'iii AmKRiöAi- Vespasin EUis,Esq., formerly United States Charge at Caracas, has obtained from the government of Venezuela the exclusive right of navigatingthe mighty Oronoco with steam vessels, for twenty-two years, on tenna highly advantageous. What a theatre is hëre opened for enterprlse and devclopment ! and what agent so powerful as steam, foi' increasing population and spreading intèlligence? Darby says thë Orotioke is about 15,00 miles in length, ánd the area of the basin draincd by it 400,000 square miles, or 256,000,000 of acres. Above its mouth it reccivesthe Paraguay or Oarom, the only large tributary which augments its volume from the South. "Forboats,"' says the same respected author, "few riversof the world aflbrd a more extended and less interrupted navigation." England. - Ibrahim Pacha of Egypf, Vho had been for some time in England, liad made visits to many of the manufacturing establishrnents at Birmingham andin other places He examined with great attention and interest, the various processes of manufacture. His conduct on these' occasions Was distinguished by great liberality. He purchased of the various manufucturers to a great amount, and his pecuniary acknowledgments to attendants, it is stated, far exceeded those of any previous royal visitor. The ñames íixed on by the Queen for the young English Princess are Helena Augusta Victoria. Iröland. - The Dublin correspondent af the Morning Chroniclo says : "The use of Indian meal has now become quite general tltfoughout the country, and the people préfer it to the potato, the enor mous price of whidh, for some months last, liad placed it beyond the reach of aboring classes. One good eflect of this change in the food of the humblcr ;lass6r, is a reduction of the price of poatoes, both for seed and for immediotö :onsumption."