LA GTJAYRA, the principal sea-port of Venezuela, in South America, stands on a nar row strip of land between the mountains and the sea, and is about 5 in. from Caraceas, of which it is the port. The town, which is strongly defended, has a pop. of about 7.000. The harbor is an open roadstead of the Caribbean sea, and the anchorage is unsafe; but the trade of the port, which is entered annually by about 200 vessels, is extensive. The imports in 1874 were valued at about £780,000. The chief exports of La Guayra are coffee, cotton, cocoa, and hides. The principal imports are woolens, cali coes, guns, cutlery, and china-ware from Great Britain; wines from France and Ger many; flour, wheat, petroleum, machinery, and cotton goods from the U: S. of America.
LA GUiRONNIERE, Lours ETIENNE ARTHUR, Vicomte de, a conspicuous French politician of the present century, was b. in 1816, of a noble family of Poictiers. He first attracted notice by the articles which he contributed to National of Limoges, about 1835. Subsequently, he made the acquaintance of LaMartine, whom for many
years he regarded both as his political and literary master. Ultimately he came to a rupture with Lamartine, and became an ardent Bonapartist, and after the coup d'etat (Dec. 2, 1851), the apologist of that audacious deed. In 1853 he entered the council of state. La Gueronniere stood so well in the good graces of the late French emperor that his articles and pamphlets were considered to possess a semi-official value. In 1868 he went as ambassador to Brussels, and afterwards to Constantinople. On the downfall of the empire he was imprisoned for a time. He died Dec. 23, 1875. Among his most noted publications are—L'Empereur Napoleon la et l' Angleterre (1858); L'Empereur Napoleon III. et Vitally (1859); Le Pape et le Congri..8 (1859); and La France, Rome, et l' (1864.