INTERESTING CEREMONY IN FRANCE
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INTERESTING CEREMONY IN FRANCE.

 An interesting ceremony took place, in Paris, on a late anniversary of the birthday of the Emperor Napoleon. It commenced al the Hotel des invalides, where the sury- wing veterans of the old Imperial Guard, wearing the ancient uniform, amounting in number to about 160, of whom 120 wore the Cross of the Legion of Honor, which many of these had received from the hand of the Emperor himself, marched at eight in the morning to the chapel, where a mass ap- propriate to the day was performed. Then they went to the apartments of the Governor, where they were received by General Petit, their old companion ill arms, who displayed to them the standard which led the small troop that followed the Emperor to the Island of Elba The veteran band then divided into companies of 25 each, and proceeded to the Place Vendome, where they all marched twice round the column in mournful silence This done, they separated in two bodies, one going to Neuilly, and the other to Veudanges de Bourgogne, at each of which places a banquet was prepared for them These pro- sessions were all followed by crowds oi people, but not the slightest disturbance or misadventure occurred.