Correspondent of the Manchester (Eng.) Weekly Express and Review.
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Mr. Mason in Parliament.--The person who attracted most attention at the opening of Parliament was the Southern Commissioner, Mr. Mason, who had a seat in one of the side-galleries.
Singularly enough, his next
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neighbor was a negro of the deepest dye, one of the Haytian embassy, I believe; at all events, he must have been of note to get a place in that exclusive locality.
Necessity brings people into strange companionship.
I noticed that he listened very intently to the speech until the end of the paragraph relating to the Trent affair had been read, and then he laid his hands over his knees, leaned back, and yawned vigorously, as though he was terribly bored by the whole business.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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