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Latest from Europe. 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
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
3 o'clock in the morning. "Among the celebrities present at this magnificent fete were the Prince and Princess Metternich, Duke and Duchess de Morny, Duke and Duchess de Persigny, Count and Countess Walewski, Baron Hausmann and wife, all the dames de honeur, chamberlains, lawyers and members of the household of the Tuileries and Palais Royal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Madame Drouyn de l'huys, all the foreign ambassadors, including our Charge; Mr. Bigelow and Mrs. Bigelow; Marshal Magnan and daughters, Duchess Coloma, Monsieur and Madame Emile de Girandin, Alexandre Dumas (father and son), Victorian Sardon, the successful dramatic author; Emile Angier, the dramatist; Mermet, composer of the new opera, Roland a Roncesvaux; Gustave Dare, Adolphe Gueroult, editor of the Opinione Nationale, and many other men, distinguished in the world of literature, and art. "In the musical world there was also a good deal of excitement last week.--The veteran maestro Rossini, beside
on the address was commenced. The Marquis de Boissy expressed a wish that the Ministers should be responsible for the policy of the Government. He pointed out the deplorable conduct pursued by England, which was still the asylum of assassins, ready to attempt the life of the Emperor, and continued: 'I do not believe the Convention of September will ever be carried out. It is necessary that the Pope should remain in Rome, for, if France is Bonapartist, much more is she Catholic.' "Marshal Magnan animadverted in energetic language on the assertion of Marquis de Boissy, that on the day of the Emperor's death, France would fall into a state of anarchy. When this event occurred, the Senate, the Corps Legislatif, the army, and the country, would proclaim the Prince Imperial, and France would be saved. "The Marquis de Boissy then continued. He condemned the French intervention in Mexico, but strongly expressed a wish that the war between the Federals and Confederates might be c