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The steamer Asia has arrived at St. John's, with Liverpool dates of the 1st inst. Among her passengers was that noisy Connecticut Yankee, Henry Ward Beecher:
A Paris paper publishes a statement to the effect that at a banquet given to the cavalry officers in Versailles, where Marshal Magnan was present, one of the Colonels delivered a speech, in which, referring to Poland, he expressed a belief that, at no distant day, the Emperor would summon them to measure swords with the oppressors of a people sympathetic with France.
The accession of Gen. Burgevine, with his American legion, to the cause of the Chinese rebel leader, is treated by the London Times as an event fraught with serious consequences to the cause of the Emperor and the future government of the empire.
Mr. Beecher delivered a speech to a numerous party of friends in Manchester, England — the very capital of "King Cotton." The London Post asserts in an editorial that Mr. Beecher has a
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Foreign Miscellany. (search)
Foreign Miscellany.
The Masonic body of Paris was informed at its last meeting that the Emperor restored to it the traditional right of electing its Grand Master.
This announcement was received with enthusiastic applause, and Marshal Magnan, who held his nomination by imperial decree, was unanimously re-elected by the delegates of all the lodges present.
The consumption of ardent spirits in France is on the increase — a sign that the manufacturing classes are suffering.
The best brandy, known in the trade under the name of Cognac, comes from the Chareates; the next in repute is Armagnac, from the Department of the Gers; next come Marmaude and Montpelier.
Spirits distilled from wine come chiefly from Languedoc, in the Herault.
Among the recent aspirants for honors in chemistry has been a well-known Paris butcher, who last week won the prize, and was to be crowned with a laurel wreath in presence of the admiring multitude.--When his turn came there was a noise heard in