The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

THOSE BOLD BRITONS.

The Paris C:rrespondent of the Doily Nava writes :
" Just now I saw drawn up in the courtyaid of the Grand
Hotel a travel:het curium with hamben of previsuns, log.
gage, and an Eoglish ti flying into it stepped four Britons.
Iboir paasports were vi I, they cold, by their embassy, and
they were starting for E, gland vii Home. Neither Fre,ch
nor Prussians would, they were convinced, stop them. I did
not even cOhlide a letter to their hands, as they me mash),
even if they get through the french outposts, to be arrested
by the Prussians and turned back. . . . The bold II:Ito:is
who tried to run the blockade have returned. They manned
to get over the bridge of Neudiy, but were serrated a few
yards beyond it and rought hack to Gonerel Duero:. 0 u
of them was taken in with the passports of the in,. .1
cannot undentand you Neenah,' the General add : 'if yen
leant to get shot we will shoot yen oared, es to save you
trouble. After some parte y General Docrot gave them a
pass to go through the French lines, but tt en he withdrew
it, and said be roust consult General frochn. When the
spokerman einotgrai he found his friends being led off by a
fresh batch et p..triots fur hsving no paseports, hut they at
length got safely hack to the Grand Hotel. Toe he'd Britons
started again In their Derby turreout esterday. Nothing
lion been beard of them since. We d not know uheVir
they have begs Imprisoned or what hss become of them"

AFTER THE FIGHTING AT SEDAN.

The following terrible scents on Lie b...t'le-field of
Sedan are deAcqbed by a correspondent of the Allgt-
mrinc l'citung

" The operati .11 of the German bombs wan frightful. In
the first row of tents we iounti five, In the second, sin Vt.:neh-
men struA (low, I y one soot. Theta! e• group was just hasp
with the sup; the shell heel expl.ded in theft dy I! e.il et tho
soldier in thu centre of the party. Ile Was eguipleti ly car-
bodged from the wal,titau,t to the knee, flesh and dinform
burnt to tinder. A second had the face and fore part of the
skull torn ale:, y—the enjoy Isp in the other half as In a ho of
a third had tile head und neck clean shaven from the body ;
and the fourth had been to the act of lifting it tin
cup to his motel+, of which the lower Jawbone alone
remained. A few steps from them Frenchmen miasma across
a dead Press.. ; he nail a shot in the left side, and accord-
ing to our doctors niut have survived in a conscious State
for about ten minutes; he had pushed his Inmpsack nadir
his head, and leant upon he right arm; the look of hil milli
open ey s wits tired upon tin ptiotograp's Ola g4l in his still
left hand ; he I. il drawn the pi !tare out of the letier-casc
which lay near him, and had awaited death ; his gime riveted
on the beloved featurm. We stood still for • while in
deep emotion ; we then refound the letter from his hand,
mace out Ids usme red addreu, as well an those of the
young woman from the ',diet., feuud by lus rid, aid one of
us crook to for I the picture and s, w:th an
•0. 1 u, e or gis to Lae heloi,i."

FOR THE BEHOOF OF Tilt PIITSSIANS I
At Peer, se balloon correspondente report, a chemist has
turned op who bouts knowledge of more effectual and
terrible methrxte of warfare than have yr t been dreamed of.
lle declares that with recently discovered prepare' .i.—
fulmlnate of iderate of w hi. h in ten times worse thin
picr.ite 1 pots.s in its biniple orm—he can lit .w the P 111511411
army rit the face of the I, Arth • Pesides this, ha hue meldo r
preliardion %OM. et ...re aenhi sides soy livbee or te e
upon a hlch It is pr. j.cted This P.PI4IE,MmIi In sell to in. in
the employ of the tioveniment, and has already prepared a
Most dauuulio.l reeeptlun F r It, Privet:lns, who have already
experleheed the awful ed, ete of his skid in the esplost di of
t WO torpedoes, a Inch are raid 1.. hsve killed Tull men, and the
equised points of the defence are thickly sown wl.h like
emellos of destruction.. Pretensions of this character are
made In every emergeney. If (tonere' Troche believed thst
this che.mid ,1•01 Jested.' as he hoses of, he woott
• probsely take me....0r.s for remora,: both hum end It from
the cepited with the It ast poss. tie eirley there at. old 111:41
consul someone fur not hugl 'Mouse in war the most t dent
explosive Comport iii t le. lie deelie,l. The Paris Contr.
penitent of the haul, 21% .• Jading the shove foot, e
A gentle:mut salt. io.s I. oy been under a cloud, ns he was
the inventor of the 11, ii has szyend thumend e'en
at work on !Medal machines. This seagician assures me

that w Ulan a week I, will destroy the tierinsti szintee as
coniplete7y es who besieged Jerusalem
whit r Ile 13 all eittlra last, bat nil ezzellent
chentiel, slid I ird'y live that he will before long
astonish iott frion,a outshie. lio µloathes m's that I Coal
witness his estwriniont s i V 1,1111311 rorpore vai ; 311.1 though
I have In intrit.itlon about tii iuu hoht.il with oilife
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