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

THE LATE M. PREVOST-PARADOL.

The motive which led M. Prevost-Paradol to accept
the American mission, as we'l as his forebodings in
regard to the Emperor's policy, are expressed in a
letter which he wrote to an English friend on the eve
of his departure for the United States. The following
is a translation of that letter, and will be read with
painful interest :

Clarke, but after a few momenta they both sank. A
Paris, June 17, 1870. boat was launched by some henchmen in order to go to
My Dear Friend,—l have received your letter, and under- the assistance of the two gentlemen, but the first
stand—do not doubt It—the very natural feeling which in- attempt to launch the boat was fruitless, and it was
spires you. To think of the regreta which my resolution may
have caueed is more painful to me than I can say, and you uput, valuable time being thus lost. Eventually the
know It as well as myself; but you also know how strong r, tee o aClarke an r. bi l' fln th Mr. d M Bradshaw were Ye.
the reasons am which dictated it. Disgust of the preen has c,vered. Mr. Worthington and Mr. Clubbe, surgeons,
seized me after fifteen years of that hard career; I experience were promptly in attendance, but the efforts made to
actual sickness whenever I tube up my pen. restore animation were unavailing.
As to entering into public affdre through the Chamber,
that wan evidently my proper path; but what could be CONVICTION FOR FoIiTUNE-TELLINO.—At the
hoped after no many futile efforts which had iu this respect Middlesex Sessions, on Saturday, sentence Was passed
proved my poweriess le i such wns, nees ? To be a demagogue and anti pro.
hon Susan Lets, twenty•five years of age, a member iaf
i Waite in the to to ne a proprietor Of 1 a acan te
c'oricidry WS to be able tooevote forty or fifty thousand francs a band of thieves and fortune-tellers who have prac-
to an election—these are the conditions of success. I can tised to a great length and with considerable impunity
fulfil neither the one nor the other ; and most have con- on the credulity of maidservants in the metropolis.
tinned to apply myself with disgust to the press while vainly The prisoner, by pretending to read the planet of a
circling round the l'bomber. Moreover, if by any possibility young woman named Pollard, had obtained from her
I had entered the Chambeascertai r, in the
t present dof theearthEmperor, of capable a niunber of articles a wearing apparel, value about
men and with the ned endencies I ~,
could not have escaped the Military any more than St, s'4, as well as some goods belonging to the girl's mils.
Buffet, and the separation which is made to-tiny would have tress, value about Cl 10s., when her doings was di..
been postponed for may a little while. What then was Ito covered by the mistress, and she was given into
do? Live in the country mad renounce politics? Certainly custody. The jery found her guilty, and previous
that is what my heart would have chosen, but that, too, was convictions having been proved against her, she was
out oe f my power, youhave knowtaken .
seeing In it something of sentenced to seven yearn' penal servitude.
Th part whic h I ,
the order of destiny , (or I, too, have my superstitions), gives THE BISHOP OF ELY ON THE EDUCATION BILL.
me a year or two of repose while preparing for affairs, _
and keeps me away long enough tor the coume rse of everts to The Bishop of Ely spoke on Tnesdor, at a luncheon,
'be settled and determined Thus far, to thou who know after the opening of a church at Conington Cross. His
mere than I do, I say only one thing : it Is that whatever it Lordship expressed an opinion that the Education Bill
costs me, I could not and ought not to do otherwise.—To which has passed the Commons, though imperfect, is
you from my heart, PREVoST.TARLDOL. las favourable as could have been expected. He be-
lieved it would pass the Lorda with little material al-
The nines' Paris correspondent writes :—"On the day
that Yr6v oat. Paradol landed in America war was declveryared be- teration. 'they ought to have had a year of grace, but
tween France and Prussia. To judge of the elf, et that this that being denied, he strongly urged upon all, both
news would produce on him one need only turn to the last clergy and laity, the necessity of bestirring themselves
chapter of kin most recent work, La France Nouv,ile It during the next six months to supply the deficiencies
contains many js'gments which, in nay opinion, are false, in existing schools, no as to prevent their being given 1
but there are passages which are very striking in the present over to the "secular arm." He might be deemed to '
day, and it is well worth eading now. The writer con.
sidered a struggl r
e for pre-eminence with Prussia not only belong to the Dark Ages, but his feeling WM that a '
u inevitable, but as desirable. It was for France, he great amount of ignorance would be far better than a
thought, a question "to be, or not to he." Sit at eel Cl non great amount of learning without religion (applause).
erit, was tile motto of his book If France old not be- Steps were being taken in his own diocese to obtain
come Littoral, and regain her place as the first military Power
in Europe, she was doomed to decay. France. in July, 1870,
scarcely
to which he attached the greatest
onal statistics,
was ,arcely more Liberal than in 1868. when La France Not, .-1
.in-'rt knee.
wile was written, and the struggle with Prussia was at hand. Ann CAL ATROCITY.—The Massacre of the Inno-
Pri,ost- Paradol shared most of Isl. niers' views, and it is ' mute is approaching. 'Poor little things ! Could they
probable that, like that veteran statesin in, he thought that not be put out of existence by some means less &boo-
th° pretext and the time were ill-chosen, and that the enter-
pr ire WaS one. e to the hands of Indepen-
beloved Pttri'cle was being vsittrzwof Al, wf
ohritluentehseoffararo I? hut , lcuotne,,lNti,,dt,hl,:rtssant herr l
yadmotass:tere ? Suppose they were
was far away, holding a post of empty honour, without real . dent Members, and so disposed of by a system of Par-
poser, t, ngue-tied and pen-bound, the official servant and re- , liamentary Baby-farming ?—Puitch.
presentative of Nate:Aeon 111 In an evil hour he had cart in , .
Ms lot with the man who was about, perhaps, to bring defeat ! A WOMAN SHOT IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.-00
on France, or, if victory was ours, with the restorer of Saturday evening a woman named Esther Davis, of
triumphant C:esarism. Ile would either be buried under the Newton Bridge, was seriously wounded by a rifle
ruins of that Empire which he had so long sad so gloriously built in the evening, while proceeding by the 6.15
opposed, or he would go down to posterity as the =corn- ,
. train from Liverpool to Manchester. The injured
lib tTh thought m ifave bee intol bl
Mice of thou who had IMO war as a means for defeatmg .
woman was a third-class pmsenger, and from [state-
ery. e uen erae."
meats meat, by the guard and several other persons, it
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.
We are glad to report that the health of Mr. Bright !
continues steadily to improve, and that there is reason : moss station some Manchester volunteers, who bad
ti
to think that he will be able to resume his place 'tevery
he House been practising there, ran hastily towards the station.
of Commons next session, 'whether it will be printout that ' and as they went discharged their loaded pieces—some
he should add official to parliame,tary lebonrs must remain firing downwards and some into the air. Directly
for some time undecided. The cause of Mr. Bright's illness afterwards something was heard to strike one of the
—a tendency to capillary congestion of the hrain—suggeste carriages, and Mrs. Davis cried out, "Oh dear, I'M
Cahalan. Mr. Bright has refrained from givingeffeot Mtherto ~,,,r .. o
che tram wa-, in5i,..,4 on to M . c .. t-r .1.
to his wish mores'. the Prethlehey Of the li ,Ini of Eno's), . •
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