The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-23 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND BELGIUM.

The course which moult be tAten fly tbje country In rectrd
to pr. itectitg the neterality or itelgitun now, as might be ex-
pected, twee under the serious comrderation 44 the Govern-
ment. The gue•tion has been saiss d in the Cabinet whether
it weald hot be desirable to delicate lain °I troops at mice
to Ante-ere, and that orders have at ieast beau given to hold
a sufficient detachment In readiness Inc that pttrpow.

.11:S1KIAN 31PATIIIE,.

In the Vienna letter of \Yearn sday's Erretere Budget.
Count Feasts Entillth tbrgao, we read:—" le regard to what
has been said of pos,lde eympathles in Austria with Ger-
many, than is no trace of them—not even in the German
pr.,,Lces where tee recollection of the events of land Is still
fresh. As to the Poles in Anstrln they would hAve 1,0 dif-
II ;idly in cho.ing between Praista and and even
the Czechs, as spears from the famous memorandum of
their hider, Dr. liege', are quite determined not to lend
themseireS to any Prins 'rite:shin deslgLs against the
Frtnch nation."

.1. D BELGIUM.

It has Feen timmested tsar lttdaium and Holland should
form a r 011.41 echos:re allianae, but hy the Treaty of April
19. 1839, otigium ts expresely Prohibited frtm foramm any
alliance, latt I baund to tn... rre an absolute ueur,tlity In
regard to mil caller States. Leae,boury, It is said, is only
PorttallY digollintled. In the sit tit'r Of the First Chamber of
the States 11,neral on afol.day. the G.tverument slated that
Fr are and Pt ortila have or.eart:d respect patch neutra-

lit 7, nnd ,L*t Prt.i kt ed %ho aid 01 troop..

AM! NINC tP.I. ICLE.

The bridge oti.id to I rger diem th - *miming spectacle
It formerly prem. ed. The ,ntincle WI 00 tinted guard at
eschend ci ci art 3 , longer In their p.a. s. It wit* curious
to watch them i IL It and duwn lb. own *hare ot the
bridge. A lute IT. :en ac, is thawed the ecise up t which
Drifter might pan . aid so the two marched along—ti e cue
with the VISIWity 0. re muchman, the other with the
placidity and phlegs. which ladottgs to the German. The
sent bleb often met In the niaitle td the bridge : the French-
niati looked at the Pet lotel the T..usetat, looked at the

Frenchman, and each, iv saying a Ward retraced his
steps. Indeed, there ''t 'Vitt 01 these ettivUlt.o
line having ever offered r a pii,h of Snuff. Oi.e
evening he sear, says It t Fro.; in sentinel
•as suddenly heard callte.:, sta.!" Tip. 1, ~,litened by-
standers ran up and 101110 t that tho French s-ntinel had
acalentally inaced his foot beyoad {hellos or den arcation,
sad thus iinaded Pnuisian turitory.

THE ALLEGED bCENE Ai

The following appears in ti -

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We are assured on toe ant,ori• .er It ?me
from a person on whose Informa:, sien/!• rely,
that tile secne between the King • -n. -oid, o Moe
the pnbli have generally believe, tot:. of iees
110.:spay.:er correspondents, did not

--Th7;—Feenen Ambassador never , e Kllg, an,
ht s Majesty never Yegursted fife at -r .rl,O to tcll
Free rh atuhnssador that he would ho. . tether do,tuuni-
eat km wan him. .

The statement of long William refer, t • the oi avi only
Iriteview chicO ever took Veen on the LID%
it Wt. 0111 the 13111 the Knot in the Kury - • . te to
NI. Benedetti, and 'rowed the Cologne G :•.• nit
the nova of the step tsken by Prince Arno,.
Subsequently, at a later date, the No ~ch Airdnottader
pressed loran außence, upon winch the K te:P: Prili
It.tdzivil to dean° it. When M. Benedetti ' the
seoetentall meeting him on his road to the .
bin enr:eonsly, and the i ereonal relatior n the
hi on arch and the French representative were ,er other-
wise than excellent.
The story of the outrage offered to the King, ttn.l the snob
to the Ambaseador, may therefore be relegated to Oho Iht of
the ingenious complier of "the hiatory of facto that never
took place."