The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01 00:00:00

PARIS BESIEGED.

The language of some of the Paris Journals aga'nst the
G,,virement ha. been very violent. The Courtier Fro/null
derionn,es M. Jules Fevre tithe rornp.'re of Count Ititmal
and say• that M. K Picard, another minister, is &deg the
work of the Pruesians In his journal. The Cloud., preaches
con c..rd, but says that "distrust is a Republican virtue..
The Hoppel states that that the construction of M. Roche.
fort's barricades heseomniaticed, or rather, It says, thry arc
being, placed in position, for they are described as porta'Ae.
They ire being armed with & newly invented weapon—a
teille more destructive loan Ih3 mitrailleuse. M. Unchefurt
goes shout with a illfal engineer to select the point, where
they are to be sot up.

A service of post balloons has been organised to carry
letters from Faris. Frenchmen picking them up are re-
quested to carry tl c letter picket to tho post onion of the
nearest unoccupied tows.

The foreign volunteers, Arnie Ile to France, turned out
last Friday for riuty, arid accomplished a march towards
Clamart, which seeing to have been a pleasant promenade.
When the inen went out, as they took the cowl to Chat thou
they were said to have made a sortie, and before long there
came a rumour that they had met the enemy, had a terrine
encounter, and been almost destroyed but towards dinner
time they turned up with excellent appetites, end their
smart uniforms none the worse except for a little dust.
Their expedition was then relied a reconnaissance !
Demi-limes have been constructed before the gates of Paris,
their aides covered with boards into which spikes have beau
driven. flows of stakes have been driven to the ground, to
which wires are fasteeed.

An order of Count Kcratry, Minister of Ponce, directs that
any shop of which it i 3 provcd that Intoxicating drink has
been sold there to a WWI already the worse for liquor shall be
cloud, and the shopkeeper be prosecuted.
00 Friday • Prussian spy was arrested at Porto-Maillot,
near the fortifications, of which he was taking correct note
while he pretended to be selling a cheap pooulsr " Life of
the Brave General Thar:ls, the Defender of Strasburg." Ile
was giving change, when by Inadvertence he took out two
gold twenty-franc pt which excited septet-n, and he
was arrested.—The Mobiles also arrested another spy wear-
ing female attire.
The Fijaro has the following Gracious Gel! where
are we now / ills ~nly six weeks—no more—since we were
told the railway trades stopped short at it. Avoid. Next it
was sold they ran no farther than Metz, then Fronard, then
Bar.le.llue, Cnalons, Epernay, Chlteau.Thierry, and No on.
Well, what la the news to-day I The Faris omnibuses are
obliged to cut short their journeys, and those of the Louvre-
Courbevoie line go no further than the Porte-Maillot."

The Bourse has become little more than a club, where its
frequenten leant and discus, the news ~.f the day, just
making a few quotations from sheer force of habit. rho
Bente kept oscillating about the point .-4f. The Bank of
France has a desolate appearance, and is hold by a hundred
National Guards, eho keep guard during the day and are
consigned at eight o'clock at night.
M. Liaison, editor of the PayN, has helm arrested at Paris
and stut to prison Ile 'a. talking to several perams in the
street, when he expensed opinions which were not thse if
the majority of throve moored him. 'lto same paper having
publudied a political :if ticks inimical to the present political
Mate of Ilium signed by all the members of the editorial
staff. the manager of the journal interlined to save the pro-
perty, and a row editor, K. Armand Doherty, late of the
ComtitleConnel, has been appointed editor.
Crewels have gone about on the Boulevards, on log "Cafes
closed at nine o'clock !" " Away with the prostitntes !" " Dis-
ciplined midien ought to be on the fortincationa!" Crowds
also accompany and applaud the detachments of National
Dotards, winch go the remind ef the Boulevards, closing all the
colti precisely at t o'clock

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La Libered congratulate. France no tho publication in
London of a placard in favour of Frall. by Clteyen
Richard Congrere, Chef dos Positivistes Angle's," which is
said to have ha,: an immense effect, " Its juili de la Cite. les
aristocrat. du Wrst hod, at In princes de Windsor" not-
withstanding. rho vice of the generous Congreve Is said
to be a victoriou response to the roar of Prussian gime be-
fore the walls el Pads.