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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

VALUABLE FREEHOLD BUILDING SITE
AND PROPERTIES,

at UPPER SWINFORD. Naar Stourbridye.

TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr.
TAYLOR, at the Otos' INN, UPPER SWINEURD.
OP SIOND.,Y, the 19th day of SEPTEMBER NEXT, at Six
o'clock in the Evening, subject to Conditions to be then
aaJ there produced, the following desirable FREEHOLD
PROPERTIES :
Lot I.—All that Valuable PLOT of LAND situate at
Upper Swinford, near Stoarbridge, having • frontage of
35 yards to the turnpike road leading to Hagley, late in
the occupation of Wiiliam Pearson, Lsq., and containing
3,51E1 square yards.
This Lot, which is surrounded by the Properties of
Mr. Pearce, Messrs. Westwood end Wright, and Messrs.
Cardoe and Chamberlain, is walled in on both sides, and
is well adapted for • Villa Residence, being close to the
town of Stourbridge, fronting an excellent turnpike road,
and immediately opposite the,Oldewinford Hospital and
Mr. Godfrey's Nursery Grounds.
,Lot 2.— AU that valuable Property, situate at Upper
Swinford aforesaid, comprising a well-built RESI-
DENCE, containing Hall, two Parlours, Kitchen, Store
Room, Pantry. Brewhouse, with Room over, Landing,
four Chambers and Closet, two Cellars. Hard and Soft
Water Pumps, two-stall Stable, with Loft over, Gig House,
Wagon Horse Stable and Loft over Shedding, large Tim-
ber or Builder's Yard, and productive Garden, the whole
of which was formerly in the occupation of Mr. Joseph
Chapman, Builder.
Also all that UWELLINO-HOUSE, with the Stable
and Outbuildings thereto belonging, now in the oecupp•
non of Widow Haden.
This Property will be offered in one Lot, and from its
close proximity to the town of Stourbridge, is wel.
adapted for • Timber Merchant, or one engaged in the
Building or other Trade requiring a large scope of pre-
It has a frontage of 50 yards to the said turnpike
road, and contains in the whole Kil9 squire yards.
hr farther particulars, apply to Messrs. Harward,
Shepherd, and Harward, Solicitors, Stourbridge ; Me.
Sampson, Presiwood ; and the Auctioneer, Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

THE lUTTLE.FIELD POKT OFFICE.

In order to give additional facilities to the rentslan ioiihr
to write to his friends the authorities have issued cards to
each regiment, On one side of which Is printed
Feld Fest Correipondenz K site.
To
- - -

Address,"
and on the other side the letter ie written in pencil or ink.
If in the former, it is ren.!ered perfectly secure against being
rubbed out by the application of • wet cloth across it, which
thanks to some preparation on the surface of the cant, secures
Its legibility to the end of its j.nrney. The number of letters
sent off after a battle are almost incalculable. It is, indeeii,
ca'eulsted that every sixth person left conscious writes. In
order that every chance id writing should be given, pos-
tillions ride over the held with Cards Wild a pencil the day
after the battle, and any wounded man who in still there can
either write or dictate his message hone. I have seen them
myself holding up their arms to attract the pontillion's
attention even before they wave for the ambulance waggon.
—Tuna Correspondent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

Per Sib. to stole the offal.
s. d o. d.
infer. coarse beasts 3 6 4 0

Snond quvitty.... 4 44 8
Nme le4re oxen.. 4 10 5 4
_ _ . _

I. d s. d.
Prime Southaovro 5 6 5 1
Large comma calves 3 4 4
Prime sn.all
',age hogs
Neat small porkers 5 4 5
Suckltrg calves 2o 025
Qr. old store pigs 20 0 25

Pqme Sent, cite. .. 5 45 8

......-._ .
Infer. coarse sheep 3 6 3 10
Second quality.— 3 10 4 0
Pr. coarse wooded 4 8 5 4

3IETROPOFITAN MEAT MARKET—.Monses.

The supplies ot both town and couotry.killed meat on sale
here to-day were very mMerate, but the trade railed quiet at
the annexed quotatim :
O'er 81b by the carom°.
a. d.e. d
Inferior beef ........ 3 4 3 8
Middling ditto ...... 3 8 4 0
Pr.nie large ditto.... 4 4410

d. s. d.
Inferior mutton .. 3 8 4 0
,liddllog ditto .. 4 () 4 4
Prim, ditto.. .... 5 0 5 2
Large pork 0 8 4 4
Small pork.- 4 0 5 u

...... 4 10 5 4 I
1101..

Picking became very senoral last week, and the remit has
proved moat natinfaciory. this rare growth is one of the
moat favourable with.n ohe last ten ears. both or regards
quality mid alanttty. The colour and vrelght in invariside
good. Artiest, of rJW h is have c,me freely to market. and
"er. told at from Tla. for Sassex to 100$. per cwt. for Kent.
Tow tr.eis however, tn." not been coverer re. 'Satinets
ii ol I h 024 one be.ll ~I.pehaeti. Oar tootatlona are
ritomiti of:--1.110 and Eat Kama, £7 to ; Wtald of
to Xi; 5114.31, los. to £6105. ; Yearlings, £l. Ss. to Li
31. per cwt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

AS APOLOaY FROM NANCY.

In the Corps LCigialatit, last Friday, two protests were pre-
sented front the inhabitants of Nancy against the charges
of cowardly submission which had been raised against them
is a previous sitting. M. Baguet read a letter froin the
municipal councillors, in which they &seined the totally
unarmed condition of Nancy, with only 05 converted dint
muskets, in the handset the Pomplers, and declared that the
conduct of the Moire upon the arrival of the German troops
had been &ginned and prudent. M. Picard presented a
petition from the inhaThanti, in which they complained of
the unfair imputations of cowarritn that hail been brought
against them. They stated that after the disastrous battles
of Wissembourg aunt Fregschwiller the corps of Generals
diaellahon and Lie lailly retreated to precipitately that the
ime of the Vosges, so capable of defence, had Irene bit
wholly unguarded, and that when the German troops arrived
at :Coney there were no French troops to meet thew. There
were no arms for the population, and the military authorities
before quitting the town had throriut owe thousands of
pounds of gunpowder into the river Meurthe. The flies of
Nancy had, however, not been wanting in devotion to their
country, for. althou,li they could not defend their native
town, they had thrown themselves into the fort of Toni,
where so gallant a resistance was now being maintained.
M. Georg also read a letter frem tho Mahe of Nancy, in
which he vindicates himself upon the charge of tecommends
leg to his fellow townsmen a cowardly submission to the
Prussian troops, and stated that in the lace of 5,000 troops
an unarmed population could do nothing but deplore the
remissness which left them in so helpless a position.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

THE IRON TRADE.

The attendance of ironmasters at the Bir-
mingham Exchange, on Thursday, was very
limited, and the business transacted, mostly in
the smaller sizes of merchant iron, was alto-
gether insignificant in amount. In the present
unsettled state of the Continent, both buyers
and sellers are averse to entering into large
contracts, and transactions are generally restric-
ted to urgent requirements. Owing to this cir-
cumstance, prices for all kinds of iron, raw as
well as manufactured, are rather drooping. The
depression in pig-iron is most manifest in the
northern varieties, such as Glasgow and Cleve-
land, which are chiefly in request for Continen-
tal purposes, rail making. ; but the pig-iron
of South Staffordshire necessarily participates
to some extent in the destine, and Its makers'
stocks are accumulating, it is to be feared prices
will be yet lower, unless the speedy termination
of the war, or some other favourable turn of af-
fairs, should give a new stimulus to production.
At present the chief dependence of the iron
trade of this district is the home demand, which
happily continues good, though, of course, insuf-
ficient to furnish anything like full employment
to the mills and forges. Orders, however, would
seem to be very unequally distributed, and while
some makers are well furnisned in this respect, :
others are all but idle. In the actual state of
trade there is not much likelihood of the demand
of the ironworkers for an increase of wages
being complied with.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

SPY•IIIINTING IN PARIS.

In Part., on Thursday night, In last week, about ten
o'clock, according to the Libertt, a young man, weanng the
uniform of an officer of Chassenrs, was arre.ted on the
Boulevard Montmartre, his kreien accent having betrayed
him. Ile was taken to the police-station, and was with
difficulty preserved from the anger of a crowd composed of
ninny hundreds of persons, who sought to execute speedy
justice upon him. At the policmoffice it was alleged to have
been proved that he was a spy —1 iii the previous evening a
young man of distinguished app, seance. mounted on a tine
horse, was riding in the Champ de Alas. Suddenly the
horse, startled by a roil of the drums, made a bolt, and the
rider, being nearly unseated, dropped a letter from his
pocket • A soldier picked it up, and fount that it was written
In Germ en. A cry of Prussian spy !" was raised, and the
equeatrim was arrested. Upon tieing conveyed to the
police-station, and Interrogated it is said to bare become
evident that the public suspicion was well founded. On
Friday evening anther Prussian spy, disguised as a woman,
was arrested at the Buttes Montmartre.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

AFTER DEATH!

they

A cerbdis and to reo unaccountable phenomenon was the
bin. keens of mist of the laces of tee ties. it-compost:WO
had not set in, for they were killed only the tiny before. Ano-
ther circumstance which struck me was the expression of
agony on many face.. Death by the bayonet. agonizing, and
thorn 111,110 tile by steel, open.eyed and op-it-mouthed, have
an expression of pain on the f eatures, with protrutilogtongue.
A musket...bet, which is at once vital, does not seem to cause
touch pain, and the feature. are competent and quiet, tome-
times with a sweet smile on the Ups. But the pre-
vailing expression on this Held of the faces which
were not mutilated was ono of terror and of agony
unutterable. There mest have been a hell of torture
raging within nett semicircle li. whilt the curt is was
torn asunder from all sides with a real tempett of iron
hissing, and screeching and bursting into the heavy mages at
the hands of an unseen enemy. I cannot imagine ato.thing
se trying to the bravest man as to meet death almost in-
gloriously in such alcott. as that—nothing so maddening to
wit/lora alto be annihilated without a chance of vengeance
—nothing no awful to the fugitive as to see his comrades
blown to fragments all around him. It is well that wives ontrl
mothers and fond sisters were spared the night of their be-
loved ones, and It is well that in France only mothers and
sisters who will have to deplore the sinin. Wh-ther the
Prussians burled their dead early—the night of the /tattle
itself—or not I cannot toll. but their toasts were almost
nothing if they wt- re to be estimated by the nunther of bootee
on the Held, S tillers well know how deceptive lathe appear-
ance of groune viewed Irons an elevated podia, and linrilm the
battle which raged for la miles before and armind us there
were outbursts of Ming from valleys and knells which seem-d
peroosele.s. but which were at once explained *hen the
positions were gained.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

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NOTICE.

MR. J. E.

WHITMORE,

HAVING made arrangements with th,
Great Western Railway Company for a CAI
STAND at CRADLEY STATION, begs to inform th,
Tablie generally, and Commercial Gentlemen in partici •
far. that he will meet all Trains at the above Station.
Chargex atrictly moderate.
NB.—Homes Let on Hire.

J. E. WHITMORE, PROPRIETOR,
GOLDEN CROSS, OLD HILL, NEAR
D ITLEY
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

. LE GERMAN TERMS OF PEACE.

I Times says that what the Germans appear to be pro-
p.; to ac-ept us a receipt in full for nil their wrongs and
_ II .0005 is the cession of Alsace and Lorraine, with au in-
-..y for tha exeunt s of tile war, amounting say to forty
.' ton s sterling. Should prance think these conditions hard
- I thee sugeests that there are many in Germany who of I
Is 'beet evreniely modtrate, and who are ready to cry
• bine their hereditnry enemy la likely to be let olf a,
. The most palerahle C. 1111.1 May they most ha".
if for too ter rn 000, tIVC.IIIIM the Pr. Sol, war 11311
II how haundahle a tatters it can he lit the hands of
:ay. They ninst have the Vosaes, because this range
t. I,'s I at,ral t nun.' asy of Mince, and Alvaro and, above all
tnna.. Struburg, the Germans are resolved to have, but
Cl is e ell known that the surely military irrategists
oh s round the King of Prussia are far more en.
U, tneir demands . They feel sure that their
:111. 0 1

im..cmses will only embitter France still innre
Gernite.y. They ask, " Why leave an enemy any
r :o do von harm when you have him once for all upon
•',til" Wart inch views it is not surprising to bear of
r. generals, Will perhaps even German siatestien, who
: issuing the future frontier between France and
/ on the line id the Meuse, and making the defiles of
on.> the boundary betwetu the two emut,les. There
. Ines S. a, a pit ce of very oil but Try good counsel

.• advises us' to-nkree witit bur ativer;siies totokly,
r advice to Frat.ce bit this ovcatiou is LO COIIIO to
t' as speedily as she con with G,tuatty, even though
t, trate Incinde the less of Alsace, Mute, and a strip of
'r. ae. They are the best she is likely to hear, and she
am much by arriving at otce at a knowledge of her
witi-n and accepting the terms which the conqueror
ng to oiler.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

EXERCISES.

MADEMOISELLE SI I. E STRE,
(yawl LONDON I ,

AS the honour to inform her Pupils, the
Gentry, School., and Inhabitants of Stuurbridge
and Hagley, that her Clame• for the above Recompile!,
menta will re-ameroble at the UNION HALL, on Naive-
DAY, OCTOBZIt nth, at Three 0-clock.
TO ADULTS.

MDLLE. SILVESTRE'S EVIs:NING SUBSCRIP-
THIN CLASS for Ladies and Gentlemen. on SATURDAY
EVEN/NOS at Seven o'clock, for the practice of all th.•
FASHIONABLE DANCES.
MDLLE. SILVLSTRE attends Schools and Fomli,s
for Le-sons in her Superior and Graceful Calistheni.:
Exercises.
Phi ate Lessons pieta by appointment.
Address,—
ISLINGTON Row,

ELIZABETH HOPICISS, DECEASED.
PURSU ANT to the Statute 22nd and 23rd
Vic., c. 35, entitled " An Act to further Amend
the Law of Property, and to Relieve Trustees," Notice 1,
Hereby Given that Creditors and all other persons haying
any CLAIMS or DEMANDS upon, or affecting the
ESTATE of ELIZABETH HOPKINS, late of The
Firs, in the Parish of Oldswinford, in the County of
Worcester, Spinster, deceased, who died on or about the
30th day of April, 1868. and whose Will was proved in
the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate,
on or about the 29th day of Jnly, 1870, by John Cooke,
one of the Executors named in the said Will, are hereby
required to send to M urn Bernard and King, of
Stourbridge, in the said County of Worcester, Solicitors
for the Executor of the said Will, particulars of their
Claim, or Demand., on or before the srd day of October
next, after which time the said Executor will proceed to
distribute the assets of the said Testatrix among the
parties entitled thereto. having regard only to the belits
or Claims of which he shall then bare received notice.
Dated this Mitli ilsy of July, 1870.
BERNARD S. KING,

Solicitors, Stosrbridgc.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

A VISIT TO SAARBRUCK.

"A convalescent officer of the 4th very kindly took me
over the battle-field, and explained the movements of that
dreadful Saturday. Potatoes and inangnld wurtrel have in
many parts of the plain recovered from the trampling they
received, and 89 every now and then we eallle upon men and
we men hoeing and digging, my friend seemed quite at a loss
to point out where this or that regiment received orders to
advance. Where the artillery passed them are a, good roads
m,ele ye? the pit of tint vast theatre—,there crops were
plentiful on the ni it.r of the 6th—as If :1,000 navvies hail
been at work ein thane The ground is lost anti it 'hail been
planned and laid out for battle. It is an rnornione
amphitheatre et closed by denselyswiseded hills, avid, hew
ever the French cenld have sPopi it theme Iv, to
01 /ye'. fr. ni the up; aTe:it.y improchaiiie p Silloti thy
occupie i up in the befahts, which are so steep that
in climbing them I had to catch at the friendly
branches of trees all shot-torn, will remain a marvel
, foe many a day to come, 'Here we had an obstinate

,„gle.' said my compardou, as we came to a bend in a
...ad which did not exist before the battle. We had to
cut through both trees and men here, and the poles fell like
corn in a hailstorm. Here, you see, are their graves, pointing
to a number of mounds, each surmounted with a rude cross
with a helmet on the top. Dead men's shoes. kepis, and bro-
ken knapsacks still strewed the whole deld and the work of
deepening the graves g inc briskly on, but with the exception
of one body, that of a %attar°, which we came upon while
searching for a chassepot In the a °ode. which presented a
ghastly appearance I shall never forget. The poor remains
of humanity seem to have been all decorously hidden from
view. I brought away the linen sunshade of the poor fellow
who had er awled so lee away into the trees to die ft Is num-
bered 111 L. 27671 What had the miserable 2767 done, I
wonder, that he should I,ve byen tonnn ii, perhaps for
da,s, as be had b..en I A private letter in np pocket mks
iii do not pity 'the poor Emperor s.d the Eim.ress of the
French.' Ido n-0. I sdty ta or tia 7 and h:s frientla"--Cor-
respondent of Manchester Examiner.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

rl,a.

Berrien. p!cklet, 201. to 251. ; ditto, red. 123. to 141. per
barra ; bloaters, 2s to 41. : klopars, 3s. to It, per box • tur-
bots, I.s to 12, ;ori,l. 3s. to 4s eetCh ; sales, la. to it 31.
tt, pee; Is. to at per lrc.lc,t ; salmon lei to
11.1. : 101. to 11.1. ; tel+, Wt. to 1% it. or ;
kteel, tai to tmokool Iszsotto. to. Alt to tltter
lot,st,•rs bs. to 143. ; bs. to li. dosen ; native
°yawn, £lO ; common ditto, ids. to 310. per bushel.

POTATOES.
Both eamitivise and by rail the suppllee of potatoes have
boon good, bat there have been no arrivals of ioreum during
the week. The demand for all kinds has ruled quiet, at
nattily he quotations Annexed i—Reeetts, 701. to Idos.
Telt to ; kidneys, 10e. to 12011. per too

1
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

PERHAPS THIS WILL BE AVOIDED,

The Journal 0 fficiel has published the following note:—
. The Minister es Public Instruction has appointed a com-
mittee of norante, who are to concert with the military
authorities means for applying to the defence of Paris all the
latest resultsof physical and cnymical science. 31. Berthelok
Professor of Organic Chynalstry at the College de France, is
President of the Committee. Two Deputies. MM. Dorian
and Genelot, represent the Corps Li.,sislstiL The first meet-
ing of the committee is fixed for Saturday, September 3, at
the Ministry for Public ipstructlon. Persona who may have
communications to make or pl-ens to suggest are requested
to apply to M. lierthelot. anotber committee, specially
charged with the medical questions relating to the defence
of Paris, la being organized under the pre,binoy of NI.
Professor of the Faculty of Medicine." The Opf nione Ita-
tionale thus comnieuted upon the foregoing notice We
entirely approve the arrangement thus pre fused. Since
scientific barbarism Is being hurled against us, it is the task
of civilised science to defend us."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

LONDON CORN MARKET (CLOSE).

FRIDAY.

q iiet, owing to heavy arrivals of fo-
ai..te English v heat st.CMIS, exeept for ilauq.
. -. Foreign rathir cheaper. Town flour no
(111;11;3' ti:ll,.

tu rival's. Mama au4l ptlittl

FOREIGN NEWS.
NEW YORK.

Thursday.
Gold closed, 114?,. Exchange 109. Bonds
U.S. 112„.

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, Friday.

The Convention between England and Hol-
land, relating to the engagement of free work•
men in British India for the colony of Surinan,
has been signed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

WHAT NEXT?

'What Is to come nest ? We may venture probably to
put aside the Regency of the Empress in the name of her
boy as an imposinbility. Rash as It may be to predict any-
thing of such a crisis, this much, penises, one may safely
presume to forecast. A struggle of Ftictorian Generals
might be possible if there were now any military commander.
In France who had claims to the confidence of the army or
the nation. But most of the French Generals of to-day seem
to have the rashness or some of the other errors as
Anthony, with his bravery, and without his genius. In con-
sidering the possibilities of an Orleanist Lieutenancy or a
Republic, it has to be remembered that neither coustliutional
Royalists nor Republicao. could be very anxious to assume
the awful responsibilities of a crisis which they did not create,
the tremendous task of repairing, at their own peril, the
disasters and sins of an Empire which was their eneiny. We
have yet to see whether the nation, as a whole, will accept
the war into which it was beguiled. Now at last, now for
the first time, it must be allowed to learn the truth, and
Invited to declare It own decision. To unit seems thorn
would be no lack of moral and national dignity, but on the
contrary, a dignity truly noble and majestic, in the attitude
of France, were she frankly to recognize the fact that she
has been deluded and betrayed from first to last In thi
Unhappy struggle, and to declare that ft peace can lie mad
with honour she is ready to treat for peace."—Daily News ,

IMPROVING THE OCCASION!

The exertions which German ladles have trade to mitigate
the sufferings of the wounded have received emu!. and well.
merited acknowledgment (write. the Daily Neter) They
have been praised, and with perfect Justice, for the Impar-
tiality with which they have extehded their succour alike to
friend and foe. Moire of them, however, have recently acted
in a manlier which has excited feelings of an ooposite
character. They are accused of showis g too exclusive re-
gard for the wounded French. Examples of this constantly
appear in the papers, suml the caricaturists have begun to im-
prove the o icasion. In the last somber of Kladdcrada,ch,
the Prussian Pooch, lea drawing represen'ing some young
latlits exerting themselves to give refreshments tea carriage-
full a French prisoners, while the German soldiers are die.
regarded altogether. One of thme soldiers is made to ex-
claim, " If this is the treatment we are to recalve we shall
take care in future not to capture any more of these animals."
A story of &different kind is told of another soldier in charge
of a number of prisoners. On arriving at a station scup of
coffee was handed to him alone. Seeing that the prisoners
were purposely overlooked, he returned the cup, saying, " If
my contradea are not to get any coffee, I shall refuse to take
It myself." Thereupon coffee was served to the whole party.
The use story is a set.off to the other.
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THE WOUNDED.

an Henry Brackenbury, of the Royal Artillery,
w . serving under the red crow' writes to Colonel
' iindiay under date of Briny, August 31 :

• have travelled through France over a distance of
' ,rty lies without teeing a French sentinel, and under
I our nag we have been unmolested beyond some
• ,e I iterrogation as to our destination. We have visited
.. • illeges—in one of vhkh St. Priva, there were many
wounded, under the care of twenty-five French sue-
. o Among the wounded there Were forty-five CMOS In
, mputation hail been performed, aim not one of
maciC had a bed to Ito upon. All of them lay
it raw. Many of them hail not a shirt, but lay
; • ith a ithect or a blanket thrown around them.
I r they were doing well. I may mention here
t.nt ,; the town of ihkey there are from thirty to
Proasians without a bed, all lying on straw.
dill distributing our stores, both in liriey and hi the
si r dire villages As soon as the wounded are well
ei to be moved they are sent to Ponta.Mousaon and
rossia. I believe: at any rate, they are sent away from
S,. 0811 remain here as lot g as we nod that our time is
. . . .

•.. .1 to advautsge-with the.s7ek and wounded, TIM then
opp.. o we shall go forward. Possibly Sletz will have
'. that time, mid I should think that town will then
• • t large &Id for medic .1 and surgical practice. At
dcourse, no one can get into Metz. Our duties in
. .

. rent houses over which the rid cross hangs occupy
five hours a day. It will scarcely be Interesting
~. •i for me to torch upon the varieties of cases, but
may .ay that the most troublesome c ems swathes° which are
, %ved by ,secot.dary hemorrhage from the laceration of
vessels by bad is their passage through the deep
...urn. One case has occupied us this evening on and
hi four holes. The ball had pissed through the lower
ud, traversing the neck, had maile Its exit in the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

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THE LAST SITTING OF THE FRENCH
SENATE.

The Senate met on Sunday at half-past twelve,
when there was a very full attendance. M. Iluuher
presided.
IL de Chabrier said—Some members of the Corp‘
forgetting their oath of obedience to the Constitution
and of fidelity to the Emperor, have declared the abditation
of !us Majesty and the destruction of his Government,
(Uproar aud agitation, with cries of II No, no, it is not
adopted.",'
Count Plemmons t It is unconstitntiontl.
de Chabrier A voice we raised in the Midst of the
Chamber to tell them they had not the right to alt there;
they replied that they could prove they had the right. The
ipiestirn, however, at this moment is not who is right or
who is wrong. We will settle our aceonuts when the
foreigner no longer treads the soil of France. iApplause.)
As for what touches the Emperor personally, I ahould hove
cheered hini if he bad returned victorious, and I should not
have been Moue. Because he is a prisoner and small uooly
conquered I will not rob him of a last homage and a last
'fish. Long live the Emperor.
Prince Poulatowski t Long live the Emperor!
Clout Segur d'Agnesseau Lot g live the Emperor I Long
live the Empress!
Count Flamarens: Long live the Prince Imperial ! Long
live the dynasty !
F. de Chewier That Is understood without Baying it.

Numerous voices: LOLIg live the Xmperer
M. Nisard : VaucyJahed aud captive, he is sucrul ;Marks
of siseut.)
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INCIDENTS

BATTLE OF SEDAN.

The followinz Intere2tin4 extracts are from the let-
terA if 7he nrnes' Correspondent at the Lead,luarters
of the Clown Prince of Prussia :

uLoar API) VICTORY.

The greatest event of cur time bat oCelllTe4 under the
eyes of those who saw the battle of Sella I think the
British pu,lic most have had enough of lit tie dlii horrors
and hospital 'moue& 'there will be plenty of letters describ-
ing brook. trkrers, }lurid parties, wounded men, heaps of
deal, t! v hint-nun reverie ,1 the medal, on the either side
of which are the bright emblaz draw ts of Glory and Victory.
I will not dwell on me topic, tut sok your readers to he con-
tent with the assuraLce [lust no human eye over rested on
soca revolting objects es were presented by the battle Velds
around hedan. Let them fancy masses of coloured rags
glued together with blood and brain', and pinned into
strange shapes hy fragments of brine,. Let them conceive
nien't bodies eithout beads, legs without bodies, heaps of
human entrails attached to red and blue cloth, and dilate.
Imenleil corpses in miff orris, bodies lyir g Inmanr all attitudes,
with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones,
ildsh. and can chitaing all punieled together as if brayed in
• mortar, eXteuhibg for miles not very thick In soy one place
but recurring perpetually for weary bourn, and then they
cannot, with tire most vivid blinagtnntloh, come up to the
sickening reality of that butchery. No nightmare could be
so frightful. Several times I came on spots where there were
two horses lying dead together in harm es kill-41 by the same
fragment. Several timer I sow four, five, and six Men, four
five. and. six honors, all killed by the exploaion of one pro-
jectile, and in one place there lay no less than eight French
soldhrs wino must have been struck down by the Imitating of
• shell over is company, fi:r they lay all r,mial in a circle with
their feet inwards, eaW. shattered in tho Lead or Gloat by a
piece of shell end soother dead being within a hundred yards
of then,.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

FRANCE.

PARIS, Thursday.
A placard has been posted up to-day. signed
by N. 'Bangui, Lacambre, Pridon, Bros. Vtii
leneuve, Reynard, Levraud, and Pukes, cliin,
upon the people to sink ad differences in th.
presence of the enemy. They offer energetic
support to the Provisional Government, hut el•
eept maintenance of the Republic.

THE PRUSSIANS SUMMONED TO
EVACUATE FRANCE.
The Tones Berlin correspondent states that
the Paris Committee of Defence has summoned
the King of Prussia to evacuate French territory
without loss of time.

DEPARTURE OF THE ENGLISH EM-
BASSY FROM PARIS.
VIGOROUS PREPARATIONS FOR THE
DEFENCE.
Paris letters state that the English Embassy
and diplomatic bodies are preparing to depart.
Part of the Goveninent leaves for Tours.
Artillery is being placed on all high militias,
and mines are being laid.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.

FRIDAY.

The wheat trade continues dull. New from
ls to 2s, ant old la per quarter cheaper than
last Friday. Flour met a fair sale at last week's
prices. Other articles unaltered.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

DEATH OF t:ENEEAI. lE FAILLT.

General de Panty, whose death took place In the lasi
battle near Sedan which ended in the rout and capitulation
of Mao-Mahon, was In command of the tth Corps of that
Maeshare army, acting as the Reserve Force. It cannot he
said, if the accounts of the campaign which have reached us
thus far are correct, that he was a good General, thou:h
personally elites,. officer. Ile was horn about tha year 1802,
and was therefore GS yeses old at his death. Ile was educt-
ted at St. Cyr, and served as a General of Brigade in the
Russian war, and especially distinguished himself at the
battle of Alma and at the Slamelon. For these services he
was made general of division and an aide•de-camp to the
Emperor of the Preach. In the Italian campaign he com-
manded a division of Geneve' Nlri'sccrps, and distinguished
himself at Magenta and Solferino. It will be rememnered
that It was De Pithily who was sent to Rime in 1067 to defeuel
the Pope among I:aribedl and the Italian volunteers, an.l
it was in his report that the sentence occurred the Ci epi it
has ttot-e wonders," lie had Iwo C four eh, de
bat.il;o3 killed under iii. eyes at gferii.o. Ile hire the
reputetton et a le,hl. hard-t.itting aohltar, whose darieg was
equal to any achievement, but, comparatively speaking, he
as Lot distinguished by theoretical attainments in his own
professional Ike.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

KEEPING THEM IN THE DARK.

Notwithstanding that the farts of the Emperor's sur-
render and the capitulation of Ilea:Melton's army most have
been perfectly well-kilo len to the authorities In Pule on
Saturday, the papers published on that evenlng contained
no hint of such serious events. tie Paine referred to the
previous despatches of the King of Prussia to the Queen
announqiut the French repulses durirg the past week, and
simply says it does not believe them, awl inlets that ou
Magnets') and September 1 the French arms were victoriotia.
The ultimate result of the contest, It inserts, carom be
doubtful, as France has men and money, while Planate has
expended ber stock of tooth—the Liberie acknowledged the
receint through Belgium and England of unfavourable news,
but did not percela e any canoe for despondency, ant urges
unity of sew iment and action to repel the German ine.aders
—The Sear of Saturday evening publishes the latent official in-
formation, whiCh is dated September 2, and simply an-
nounce. that no offi•lal despatch had been received that day
by the Minister of War. The unofficial telegrams which had
been published were so contradictory that they could not be
relied upon.—The Temps crPicized the telegrams from the
German armies in a sober spilt. lamenting that the French
Goverument should he so totally tininfornatd of events of
such vital Interest to the country. From a clove examination
of the Prussian Telegrams, the Tempt infers that Maellahon
and linzsine had linen checked in the attempt to little, and
as the German forces would probably be at ill further in-
creased, It aurans the public to be prepared for serious In-
telligence, which, however, it believes will only stimulate the
imam to greater effera for the salvation of the country. The
Option Nationale said :—" Affairs are Improving. The news
from the armies is really good, and throughout the country
all minds have regained calmness and voriposure —Toe
Figrtro stated that it learnt from an excellent Bourn) that en
the in if September Mcsbal alacalahon, baying been re-
inforced by General Vanoy, had attacked and completely
defeated the Prussian army, taking 40 guns and many
prisoners. Marshal Bee tine also had made a sortie, and bad
marched towardi—. In fact," cot:eludes the F'opro. "if
our information be correct, the term 'massacre ' wenn' pot be I
too exagaeratt al a term to apply In connexlon with the fate
of the German army." In a note oseinuniested to the
Lisert4 on Saturday afternoon tram the Ministry of Foreign i
Affairs it was asserted that on the 3lat of August MacMabou
had g tined a brilliant victory, and had only fallen back
upon Sedan, but the enemy, furious at their defeat, were
hkely to bring up all their terms to surround him.

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LATEST TELEGRAMS.

FRENCH SOLDIERS PILLAGING
BELOIAN VILLAGES.

BRUSSELS, Thursday Evening.

Bands of marauders coming from France have
pillaged eeveral farms in the neighbourhood of
Monecron. The troops have been instructed to
put a stop to their depredatiens.
BRUSSELS, Frfday.

The .Iloniteur Belye denies the truth of state-
ments that exiled and wounded Germans have
been badly received in Belgium, and says inquiry
has been ordered.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

IF THEY WOULD ONLY MAKE PEACE!

No eould the people of Alsace have stilt-rid considerahly
and they do not uniteretand the so-caihd pater equiv..l.l..a
ill.). receive 111 excharn,_e for their Ow tele writes a corre-
spondent) Tony cthuot b. made to believe that drafts such
as they have never seen before will ever be hououred. Toe
wr rat feature of their fortunes is that their horses have been
taken from them: and even supposing these to be paid for,
farming operations are necessarily suspended. The same
holds good of their cows. Their reproductive capital is gone.
And even If they attempted to till their soil by hand.labour,
how do they know but that to-morrow it will be found to he
an excellent spot for a gun-park or a regiment of lieht
dragoons? "If they would only make peace," said the
landlord of the L'on (Air." Would you accept it," I asked,
on the condition of becoming a Prussian ? '—for thcb,
of course, would, and pro'rably will, be the man's fate. They
one and all answered, "Yes," without a second's hesitation;
adding, " What is it to us what they Cull provided they
let as live?" Such and so extraordinary is this hie, which
men find so miseralle and cherish so dear'y. As we imitred
thel ittle inn, an old woman took me furtively round the
corner and pushed a o-uple of peaches into my hand, sayit.g
under 'err breath, " 'These are for you only " 1 rectlheteo
that I had had a talk with her some little time before reach.
Mg Verily, and MO hoisted on Igor accepting stow groschen
In return for hal, a di Zen maples she had picked up for air,
though they were too unripe to eat. This was her return.
I suppose ate had more peaches elsewhere, and did not
wish the soldiers to know. Poor old soul! she too had
her tale .1 woe, and ended It by declaring "they have left
its nothind crept our e) ei to weep with." Sorrow makes
even lowly folks wondrously poetical, and stirs the very
depths of language. One of the women at the inn—a younger
one—l had remarked as being peculiarly not. As she stood
at the door, whilst my friends were getting into their car-
riage, I asked her—lust not to let the conversation flag—if
the landlord was her husband. "No," was the reply. "My
husband is gone to the war: he le a solder." Aril then the
underlip fell, anti rho fella-weeping, and went in awl closed
the too. You may gneiss ill rude away sadly.—N et...paper
Correspondent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

THE WAR.

NAPOLEON's NEW ItEsIDENCE.

The l'alace of Wilhelmshi.he, which has been assigned as a
residence by the King of Prussia to the ex- Eniperor of the
French, was the slimmer residence of the Elector of Cassel,
in the vicinity of which town, the capital of the Electorate
of Hease-Cassel, it is situated. The sabarhs of Cassel are ex-
tremely beautiful, and abound In delightful promenades.
That of Wilheimshnhe is especially rich in this re,peet, con-
taining the Augarten theadow.garde, ). and the garden..
which surr..und the Electoral Pabsce, which are famous for a
fount a!ii that sebds up a Ct,i11:110 of a nt.r 12
diameter to a height of 200 feet. His ex-Imperial NI ije.iy's
new ;dace if allele will be instant about 4bo mi!es in a
st.aight 11, e from Nris, 100 from Cologne (the nearest point
of 'be Rhine, and 300 from Lanterbrunn the neareat point
of French soil).
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

LOUIS BLANC'S OPINIONS.

The Liberte pnblishes some extracts from a letter of al
Louis Blanc, in which he says Underline), circumstances,
you wish to know what I propose to do. I ardently &Sire
to leave here and to be in Pert.. But I think that f•r those
whose presence there might assume a revolutionary aspect
the moment is not yet come, because everything which
causes divisien, or even appears to do no, would multiply the
das gees which threaten our beloved country. And then I
ask myself, with an anguish more intense then lean describe,
whether it would be for the interest of the Republicto accept
before peace has become necessary or possible the fearful
hsritnes which the Empire has bequeathed. Reverses as
swill as unexpected have shown that the warlike Impetuosity
of the Imperial Governmeht, excessive as it was. was on
ceeded by its want of foresight. Whatever predictes of
valour may be expected from our volunteers, will they be
able to do more than boo been done against overwhelming
impeder forces by our admirable noldiers—those heroes for
whom battles have been mere butcheries? And it numbers
are eventually to prevail over a sublime devotion, would it
he derirable that the Mal result, instead of crushing the
Empire, w !itch hsa done all to being about a catastrophe.
should weigh down the Republic, whose partisans and
whose organ, have done everything to prevent it In this
crisis I know of hut one course,—that of France becoming
again her own mistress, and saaing to Gel many, whoa tne
proper time for doing so shall have arrived, • Toe preseut war
is a war between two men, not two nations. France, as
represented by her freemen, did not wait for her declaration
to denounce it. It is repudiated by France, now again mis-
tress of her own fate, and determined to subject a question of
national amour proper to her great principle, which is the
fraternity of stations—that is to sty, peace upon the condi-
tion that it be honourable for all and I espected by .112 The
world will nuderetniel this laeguage. Germany will under-
stand It. And if Prussia, deceived or misled by its Govern-
ment, should refuse to understand it, the active sympathies
of Europa would then be with France, lighting no longer in
the interests of amen or a family, but in the interests or right,
of Justice, and of humanity..
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10

SPAIN.

MADRID, Thursday.

Tbe Republican Directory Las issued a mani-
festo declaring that the people will not agne
to any diminution of the territory of France.

RECOGNITION OF THE FRENCH RE.
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NEW YORK, Thursday.
Telegrams from Paris, announcing the recog-
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The miniature steamer, City if liayasie, has
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