The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

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"Notwithstanding what le Wall viltirßO, an, ouch'ioed,
In certain Kentish journals pretwolina to 'itoe tau oost In-
formation, the Empress Eugenie lot. taken no part in any
one of the combinations referred to, having for their object
either peace or an armistice. The salon at Chisiehurst has
not become, in Any sense, an official salon It is still that of
an exile, and if Ma doers are open to those who knock for ad-
mittance, it is not to afford them • field for discussing peace
or war.
"General Boyer, the envoy of Marshal leonine, may have
approached the Empress with • view to propositions of
peso. or no to be submitted to Prussia, but he was received
with no more favour than were the emissaries of M.
do Bismuck ou a previous occasion. When a former
' envoy of the Chancellor of the North German Con-
federation came to propose peace, declaring that
King William was disposed to content himself with
260,000 French Inhabitants, Strasburg ineluded, the
Empreps replied with great energy that so long as an enemy
was in France, and so long as there was any question of the
smelled cession of territory, she would hold aloof from
every negotiation. The events of the last month have made
no change in her resolution, and so far as the efforts of
General Boyer have been directed to this point they have
completely failed.
" Nor could the mission of General Boyer have had for its
object to consult the Emprese as to the propriety of 'wren.
daring Metz at this moment. that is only one way of con-
cealing the real object of his journey. Marshal Bettina,
confident in the strength of tils position fts a general who hal
suffered no defeat, and at the head of the only French army
which still exists, thinks himself entitled to exercise not •
little influence on the question whether peace shall be made
or hostilities continue, lie would gladly make himself Indis-
pensable; would gladly be the dictator with whom the enemy
should have to treat, taking the lead both of the Govern-
ment which sits at Tours, and of that which is shut up In
Pula Ile would rejoice that France should owe peace or
victory to him, and to him only. That Is a respectable
ambition, image...lodes It may perhaps be, but it must not
be inferred that Marshal Bettina would rather conclude •
peace favourable to the Napoleonic dynasty than in accord-
ance with the true interests of his country.
There Is, then no particle of truth in the Stories told
about the interview at CLisleburst, and It can scarcely be
necessary to add that the approaching journey of the
Empress to King William's headquartere belongs, like
all the rest, to that domain of Invlntion in which the
subtle genius of Prussia, coming to the ald of her present
difficulties, has contrived during the last few weeks to lead

us astray.
Prince Napoleon, who had taken sides with those who
would perhaps have wished to Induce the Empress to commit
an indiscretion, has had his labour for his pains, while his
violent recriminations against the last policy of the Empire
had no other result than to compel him to listen to some
harsh truths from his illustrious cousin, and to cause him to
quit Chislekunt somewhat suddenly ; where indeed his
reception had been of the coldest?