Foreign Items

Of the 1000,000 bales of cotton annually consumed in Great Britain, 1200,000 cotne from the Uniled States. Whcat has been sold at 100 shilling a quarter - the 4 ll. lonf of tlic best bread is sold ai a shilling, or twenty-five cents. The defieency of the cettón crcJp in Am'ericd, has tiirned the atlenlion of government townrds the cultivalion of Ihat arlicle in the Enst Indios There has been achange in the Frencli Ministry. The nunibör of letters Ihat pass annually through the post office of London atic! ts environs, is 75,000,000, covering four !nch( s in length and thrce in breadth. If kiid lengthwise on the gronnd, they would feach 4,734 miles; if laid to forrri square 'eet, they would cover 142 acres of land. Averaging one third of an ounce, they ivould weigh 097 tcins ! The Economist recommends the issuo 3f L1 notes in England. The chairman of the Eást India company states ihat there is not a pound oi tea ihat cotnSs into England from Cüin1 which has not been colored, nnd that wliat is callel green migiit as well have been blue or yellow.