The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

NO THOUGHT OF REGRET

"Berlin is still fall of troops, as fresh regiments are raised
as fast as others leave. Crowds of fresh arrivals flock into
the city. Countrymen In their rough clothes aid sunburnt
faces, clerks and employe., in houses of business abroad, and
probably ere long we may have the first instalment of a per-
fect army of formal. co•iiing from America to defend
their beloved Vaterland. There Is a great difference in one
respect between this war an I the last. Then the men
in mail cases went unwillingly. There was, at any rate
at t:r3t. a strung party against the war. The women
were aim it unanlniii‘wly
,against it, viewed

the departure of then.: la-bands, brother., and
lovers with regret and angry grief. All this Is changed.
There is no thought r f regret. Men may, holecd, and mart
look with sadness at the rupture of family ties. They cast
an anal.s look at the ripening fields, and give a bitter sigh
over the destruction of the hopes of months, but no thought
enters their mind that It is aught bat right that they should
go Their wives may weep, but they do not complain ; they
utter chin rirg word; tcllll prayers for safety and for
victory, but they would not if they could, retain those
who so for, h to struggle for liermany against French In-
invasion. I have witnessed hundreds of such partings al-
ready, and in almost all were the same noble characteristics.
The a omen Mar up for the school the men. Their eyes are
swollen, (nit few ...tars f ill as they say adieu. A kiss, a 'clearing,
a wave of tie hand, and the train moves If, and then there is
time tor ter; when they will 110 longer unman the absent.
There in a vast grandeur in this di ep sense of patriotism—in
this readiness to give up all for country."—Letter from
Berlin.

NOT RESPONDING TO THE INVIPATION.

" Duke Carl of Schleswigliolstein.Sounderburg-011icks-
burg el ,er brother of the King of Denmark, and chief of
the Ducal family from which Ilk Majesty derives his descent,
h..s determined to join the Prussian army, and will do active
in.rvice in the field. The same is related of the Duke of
Nassau, who, having been invited by the Emperor Napoleon
to nine RIIII join Ma forces, that he might recover his priii•
inmemt of reply, is said to have asked for a com-
mission in the Prussian army. Both sons of Count &ROUT k
will take part 111 the campaign, having just re-entered the
151 Regiment of Dragoon Guards."— Times Correspondent.

ALL PITCHED IN ONE KEY.

"The G.rreans never having in historical times been
ex,fred by so unanimous a feeling as at present, it is only
nat..ral that their Press should utter the same sentiments.
No—th and South, Radical or Conservative, Prussian or
Sr ibit, whatever paper y. U nisy take up, you MA the like
• is prevailing In its articles. Intense hatred of Napoleon
a It upporterg, mingled censure and compassion for the
Perch, and the determination to put an end to a state of
things which exposes to the periodical recurrence of mas-
sacres a pacific, industtions, and highly cultivated race—
such are the contents of the thonsands of leaders that have
been composed on the distressing topic Id the day. To my
thinking these articles are a sign of the times, and should be
noticed by politicians. All belug pitched In the same Im-
placable key, they may be said to re-echo the outcry of an
entire peopte."—Timee Berlin Correspondent.