The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-11 00:00:00

EIXTY PEESONS KILLED AND ONE HUNDRED WOUNDED.

Tut'LoN, Feb. 5.

A frightful accident occurred on the railway between
Sandoz and St. Nasalre through the explosion of a waggon-
load of powder. Several travellers and carVges wore
smashed to pieces. About 60 venous were Idll , and 10,1
were weauded.
A Ilorlin llAirespondent says that the term ef peace
receut4 tolegraphed to London from the Pruas an capital
have I mil received In that city with general surrtmelei.
They are sinteir ants that may he read, but must Item:MlA
be lorgolen. To.o cectalety that the reestablishment of
peace la close at hand has already led to deliberations up di
the use that should be made of it for the purpose of preve nt-
tug such wars as the present. A meeting of the U ernian
free-traders bad been held, with a view to the asieuMly of a
Congress to promote the commercial union of the latiropean
nations.

A note h ppeare I I n the Official Journal of Parts which
nava that Iti the negMtatlon between M. Fevre and Count-
Mascara the conditions of peaca have not been db cussed.

Five equeerles of the Emperor Napoleon have been arrested
at Lille.

The Gastiois says General Changaruler declines to come
forward u a candidate In the north of Branco
Five newspapers have been salzed at Bordeaux by the Go
'tient for publishing M. Jules Simone address.
The Journal des Deka, &elates the Republic has lost Ms
vitality, and the only hope of France lies in the restoration
of the Orleans family. . - -

The Germans at Dieppe are salt' to be very well behave!,
the only c omplaint lagtinst the mea personally being that
they are always smoking, and that their cigar ashes spoil the
carpets. .

On Saturday, the 4.h, In the early mernlon, some pro-
1131011S Cartle Into Parts, and so great was the crowd of
purcharers 4 the markets that the authorities, becoming
sallow, called out the National Guards by beat of drum to
preserve order.

General GariMhil, replying to the invitation of the Pres!.
dent of the Municipal Commission of Nice, has cinsented to
become a candidate to represent that town In the National
Assembly. He nays—" I acoept the smamous of my coun-
try, proud of the choice with which It honours me."
It is stated as an illustration of the order and perfect °rya.
!Motion that prevail iv the German armies, that eight
Prussian post-waggons entered Paris half an hour after the
capitulation was signed, and a Prussian poet-office wan esta-
blished the same evening.
General Le bid issued a proc'amation to the solditrs of
Faris on the 30th ult. "Ac long "he said, "as tht re was •
mouthful of bread in Paris you defended the city. Now you
have fresh duties ; set an example of discipline, good
conduct:and obedience."
"A. I entered Fort trim Count Moltke was just leaving,.
and you would have thought from that painful gravity of his
face which seems never to desert it, that he was a French
general broken down by She misfortunes of his country
rather than the conquering brain and itit•g of men in this
astonntlbg triumphant German war."—Correspoudeut of
London Standaid.

In the Scal, de la Lingo Blanclo. Paris, on the 3rd inst.,
an orator declared that, to save France, a Robespierre was
required, and the gnillotine alone could secure the salvation
of the coantry. Thil sentiment was received with en-
Mutinsm. Rild the meeting shou'ed in chorus, 'The mein.
bore of the Government are cowards."

Intelligence has been received by way of the Isthmus of
Darien and Elaviumah of a naval conflict December 20th, In
Itie Pacific Ocean, between the Prussian frigate Medusa and
two small French gunboats, the Cre rie ux and &Trial, resulting
In the sinking of both the French vessels. The Prussian
frigate was armed with 12 guns of heavy calibre, while the
trench vessels carried six twelve-pounders only,
We (London Standard) are informed on good authority
that General Deauregard has requested a large number of ex-
Confederate oflizers to hold themselves In readiness to come
to France for the purpose of serving under him should
hostilities recommence. Many of them are now in London,
awaiting the order of departure.
One of the last illustrations in the Charicari, signed
"Chain." represents a crowd of Prussians carrying away In
their hands, on their backs, and In baskets all the clocks in
Prance, and Chain remarks:—" They may carry otf all the
clocks, but they will not prevent the hour of vengeance from
stwiklng."

General Daerot has declined to become a candidate for
the National Aasemblv ths "rn. My boss*
5. soo tun ot rage and despair to fulfil the rat...too .4 deputy
with the wisdom, moderation, and it must be said the re-
signation that the present circumstances demand—in one
word, I am All too much a soldier to tecome suddenly a
politician.

A Brussels Correapondent, wetting on Monday evening,
Large quantities of food are daily sent from
Brumels to Paris, and the consequence is already a con-
siderable rise of prioes here. This mwning M. Ampach. the
Burgomaster of Brussels, left for Paris with a train of pro-
visions destined for the distressed Belgians in the French
capital."

A letter in the Prussian lima Zeitung. dated WeKen-
buttel, January 23, says :—" The Court of Ju,tice here has
lately sentenced Dr. Dedeklnd to sir months' Imprisonment
In a fortrees for Insulting the King of Pratfalls, head of the
North German Confederacy. The twill consist° lon the
part of the ' sentenced one' In his sending a congrat Ilatory
telegram to the Princess Marie of ii snorer ou the occasion
of her birthday."

The Goulois says the Society of Acclimatization In
Paris has struck off the Princes engaged in the war with
France from the list of members of the society. The
number of persons who have asked for permission to leave
Paris amounts already to 70,000. The reports of damage
being done to the Museum. of Versailles and St. Germain are
denied.

The Independance Beige publishee a letter from Lyons,
dated the let Inst., which says that one of the causes of
Bourbaki's failure was the non.fultilmentof contracts entered
Into by an army contractor, who absconded with a large sum
Of Money. The I ntVpendance Beige also discredits the re-
port of General WourbakUs death, and believes that his
mother-in-law, who restdes in limmels, received a despatch
the other day announcing that the General was better.
It is announced from Lyons that the Municipal Council
baa caused to be patted up a programme, of which the three
principal heads are: War 401.1 ranee ; aConventional Govern-
ment, to be established at Lyons; and the nomination of a
Convention composed of delegates from the Departments,
named by the towns only. Lyons has sent to Bordeaux three
delegates to support this programme, who have experienced
a favourable reception from Gambetta.
"The more I have seen of the forts of St. Denis," wrftes a
Correspondent of the Daily Need from Paris 'the more am
I convinced that the Germans might have taken thorn easily
by assault, without the troublesome preliminary of a bom-
bardment. The peel% profess thcir blank wonderment that
we did not storm. For days at. time the forts were entirely
denuded of troops, save a few arttllery. I here could then
have been no infantry fightingomd the range of the guns
once pawed, the defences of the entrances to the forte were
utterly contemptible."
A Lille paper of the 27th ult., says —"We; have lust had
In our hands several specimens of shoes served out to cur
soldiers by the intendanee. The sole; ore of pasteboard. It
I. surely impossible the superior authorities can longer
tolerate this scandalous work. We now understand why so
many If our Mobiles and Mobikais found themselves bare-
foot in the mud and snow after a twenty-font hours' march "
—Surely Mere Is no gallows too high for the heartless paw-
ing scoundrels who have porn& tated these inhuman frauds
The Daily New,' Correspondent States that to his heroics
M. Thiele, expressed himself disgusted Me other day with
General Troche, and declared that M. Jules Fame by his
capitulation had covered himself with everlasting disgrace,
after his retinal to give up an inch of territory or a stone of
a fortress. Upon being renstnded that in 18:9 he had said,
"The Republic is the Government which divides us the
least," and asked whether he still held that opinion, M.
Thiers at once replied that he lid; and that he was not now
an Grleauist ; and that he was frankly in favour of the It..
public.

The Polish refugee Oieneral, Count P,ossak Henke, who
served under Garibaldi, and was killed on the 21st Inst. near
Dijon, figured In the last Insurrection in Poland. He Is said
to have been brother of the Grand Duchess of Hesse-
Dammam* consequently pretty closely connected both with
the Russian Imperial family and the Knead' Royal family.
It appears that he was formerly • colonel In the Russian
army and aide-do-camp of the Czar, but resigned Ms &tinnie-
st& mid took the field in Poland in 1.5e3 He commanded a
brigade of the Army of the Vosges, and mul at, Val Suzon, in
the defence of a post which he had some days before declared
It of the greatest importance to hold against the Prussian
He was 3i years old, and leaves a Widow and four children.
The indOpendance Beige quotes a document found among
the private papers of the on Emperor Napoleon to prove that
the proposition of plaeing Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern
upon the Spanish throne was not a surprise to the French
Government when publicly ennounced tiering Lust summer.
The document in question is signed by Si. Dronyn de Linos,
and is dated the Mb of November, lte.i. it coos thus
Birg—l have the bream tn bring undo, your majesty's
notice a cuslidential letter and two &cements which refer to
the various candidates f g the Spanish Throne. The writer
requires a Prince of any family of full age and rapacity,
but, In fact, ft appears that Prince Leopold of Holm r. darn
Is the candidate whom he selects In preference. The Emperor
may, perhaps, find it .ef al to take note of these documents."
It Ic stated thee, should the French determine at the eg-
plration of the Armistice to continue the war, the German
arrangements for °remaining France from end to end will
be found terriely effective. According to one report, Count
Bismarck will ask for the cession of Alsace and Lorraine,
except the strip welt of Nancy; five milliards for war ex-
pen-re; two of the hest French trotglads , and the destruc-
tion of the Pads forts. 1 been terms would he raised shonld
the o,..nch prolong their resistance. Meanwhile, although
they Ted 'tamed sure the war Is over, the German. are pro-
Permit for a fresh campaign, aid are making arrangements
to nisch on Lynn. and B irdeaux. If warlike counsels pre-
vail among the 0 ranch, the complete conquest of Franca will
at once be taken In hand.
The latest official an-omits fm Swlizer'and mc ak of
00,000 French hoz& g Isi I ikon their arms, 4,1 SIV,, !Mug
In the Vol de Travers, with inualtiods and naltraillcurs,
salable:T.o 1:!:" brought oth today, as there me not home'

enough These poor animals are In as miserable a condition
as the men, perhaps wbrue tiny fall at every step, and the
road between Neuchatel and rontarlier is strewed with
them. Ihe Terms have light MO) horses, which seem to
bear fatigue better than the rest. There may fetch 4..) 'rarer
apleee. the rest rarely more than IC franca • head. lhe
'lumina seem determlmol not to violate the girlie frontier
thomrelves, though they have driven all this Immense force
acro.is • aml hire tioy c.et be kept till tho end of the war,
as only the tlok Mid wrotnoid ore oil A-04 to be sent bock
it (MIMI

Tar :Socialists as Pada have started a Journal called Le
Yrangeur.
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General Trochu hu publicly declared that he ls prepared Co
proceed Co Bordeaux for the purpose of justification.

In the heat Informed circles the reported fualon between
the Legnicalate and Orleantate ta
M, Rochefort no. cannwaccd the publication of a new
Journal raided Le Mot 0 (Mire, and explatua in hie opening
Wren. that the Mold Ordre I. regictde.

M. (hunhetta's last proctamatiou wound up with the cry
"Aux Artues !" Al. Plat says M. FA. o'4 watchword is "Aux
Lames !"

At Dijon four names have been selected for the iuthenNy
at a preparatory p).. Clog—They are—theoeral Ucrib•lll,
Magulh, Dabole, and Jules Clari e. The programme agreed
to was, "The Republic, one antl tiedivlalbie, aud, not an Inch
of our territory."
A telegram from limuels states thet a prolongation of
the Armistice Is expected. According to advice. from
Verseilles, the Englthh Cabinet has Instructed Mr, 010
Russell to support any steps that may he taken by M. Jules
Fevre for such au object.

It is now rumoured at Bordeaux that Bourbaki did not at.
tempt to commit suicide, but we. shot at by a soldier who
saw him in close conference with Gam!lotto is Ixe-
paring revelations about this unfortunate general Which will
shortly be published.
'no thoussnes of French pr'soners now passing through
Beelln are very insufflichttly clad. At least .23 per it.
hove svoodeo shoes, and more than 10 per cent. SIo without
stockings. Vay many have no uniform, but only the b:ue
linen Mime of the French peasant: y. To prevent them
front (to v.'ng to death, a Catastrophe winch happened to
nine unfortunates In the transport six we% hi ago, the rt
way carriages are well strewn with straw.
L fdy rigot, of Branches Park, Newmarket, now directress
of an Angio.Belge ambulance in France, has written home
to her friends. According to the letter, the sufferings at
Le Mans are moot terrtole ; small-pox of S viru!ent nature
Is rsging, and proves fatal a tow hours otter se runs. The
dead era not taken into chinch, butt burled straightway.
tier ladyship hears that all rou, at Orleans, I feauguney, &o,
the bodtes of men and horses have, through the IlitnnalCe
of tire I rest, risen several inches in; of tie gr end, and at
Baum and round by ILjon orders have gone forth to bury
them eg dn. How horrible ! Lady Vigra h.nl ass interview
for a quarter of an hour with General Valdherbe respecting
her mission, which he expreuel himself as desirous of
servals.

lat. UNRRA ON THE RESULT 6 OF A FRENCH ALLIANCE.

At Pestin on the 33th, In the debate on ihe extraordinary
credi for the defences of the E npire, Dr Gekra replied to
a speaker who had advocated A French alliance suit created
some sensation by stating that French diplomatic intervene.
Mon, so far from bentifittlag Austria Lu WA, acts/ally injured
It. Ile was then burgomaster of Bailin, and was invited by
Cnunt Bismarck, after the Battle of Sanowa to an interview.
The Count proposed that he should go to Vienna to pave the
way for peace, stating that Pravda was ready to make peace
on the following conditions i—Venetia rumpled, the Vat',
quo ante tallum to he maintained. No war costs to he paid
on either side. The Maine to be the Prussian frontier.
South Germany to be Independent, and in such cm-
millon with Austria as it might choose. This
was all on condition that French mediation in the
peace negotiations should be excluded. Dr. Giskra
sent a confidential person (Baron Herring) to Vienna, where
he was received in a friendly manner, except by one person
(Monts Esterhasy,) by whom his reception was cool. Cp in
the return of Herring to Bruin, be hurried on at once to
Nickolsburg, where, however, the French Atubasiador, Count
Benedetti, had just artived with mediation proposals, which
had hi en already am epted. Baron Herring was consequently
met with the answer—" los have come an hour too late."
French mediation than cost Austria 30,000,0, Pit , being the in.
deumity which she was obliged to pay, by way of war costa.
Instead of France sending NU army, Benedetti merely travelled
backwards and forward. between Nikolsburg and Vienna. Dr.
Gisler& added :—"We owe no thanks to Prussia, nor to
Franca, which caused us to pay 30 millions. Ido not sym-
pathize with the black and white flaz,. My sympathy with
the German victories lies in the consciousness of race,
and this also turns against the hereditary enemy of
1 Austria If Prussia Intends conquests, history is an.
werable for it. If I thank Count Boost for anything It
Is because he has succeeded in remaining neutral at a
time when we stood already on the brink. This is the best
thing he has done since he has been in Austria, and the
people will thank him for it, because they desire poem
and because we deal, no debts, no taxes, and not to be
bankrupt. The blew r'its of peace am more valuable than
military fame and the glory of arms." The speech 1,3
loudly cheered.