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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 satanic commission, and is very diligent in its execution. M. Nadar's balloon party had arrived in Paris. Some of the voyagers were very much injured in the descent near Hanover. The advices from the United States by the Persia had but little effect on the markets. There was considerable surprise expressed at the removal of Gen. Rosecrans. Cherbourg, Oct. 30.--The rebel pirate steamer Georgia has arrived here to obtain provisions and coal. Furious gales have raged around the English coast. Accounts from Hakodadi, Japan, to the 6th ult., state that the Chief Minister of State, and three other Cabinet officers, had been dismissed because they were in favor of peace with Christian nations. All foreigners were ordered to leave Nagasaki, but refused to do so, whereupon the "Japanese Government resigned." The frigate Prince Consort, which was bound for Liverpool to watch the movements of the rebel rams had arrived at Kingston badly disabled. The rams still remain in possession of an armed force. A new steamship company, with a capital of two million pounds sterling, is about to put a number of first class screw steamers on the route from Liverpool to New York.Commercial news.
Liverpool, October 31.
--Cotton — Sales of the week 64,000 bales, including 32,000 bales to speculators and 10,500 bales for export.
The market has been irregular, with an advance of ¼@ ½d. for some qualities.
The quotations are: Orleans 29½d., Mobile 29¼d., Uplands 29½d. Stock 164,000 bales, including 34,000 bales of American cotton.
The Manchester market is firm.
Breadstuffs steady.
Provisions firmer.
London, November 1.--Consols closed after official hours yesterday at 92⅞@93. 