The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

THE USE OF THE PRESS.

The Retell (Paris paper), speak.ng il m Indvier'smeasures
for ioleucing the l•ren.M press as earns indite y treittnis,
reminds the public that not tmly was truth often concealed
under the First Empire as in the care of the detest at Teal' il•
gar, which mat described to he the dispersion of the French
fleet by agate, hut ea late as the Crimean war the teiatima
of ti.e soldiers wale left In cruel uncertainty wits record to
their fate Alter having made light of, and almost dent, it
the disease and mortality with exishal in the army of the
Its.t, the Me/wet, at length decided several months at r
the end of the war to t iPitish official statistical of the m.r-
hilur to the army during the clap tigii The rep .en Malbl
the total of the dead 6.1,000 in r ii bombers. This paper
had no sooner appeared than an English military phtdidati
who publi.hed a sole, flOe wnrk en the Ciimean war debit,
statelmnt in the MetlieLa Tittles. ad averred th .5 the
nundmr of the dead amount, d to half as notch seaL, as the
Lure 81.01111 Ced lii the Nonifeur. el-, Medial Times •• As
right, the actual monolith was more than 95 000! St 0 Airier
has to far departed from the Irbl ilattiu that he will allow all
that conterns accompthhed facts to be puidished, and all the
Atrial despatches which arrive from the seat of war will be
put at the disposal of tile journalists.

A PEACEFUL CELEBRATION.

Ta the midst of nil the great w..r preparations In Prussia,
there was a ceremony at' he Palace of Potbdam on Sunday,
July ?4th, which had an interest all it. own. The youngest-
loon daughter of the Cho wo Prince and of the Princess Royal
of Etigiand was christened in the presence of the King, of
the Royal family, of many (7-and Doke., &rene Highnesses,
and Preeri, of tile Foreign Mil ish en, cadet the great per-
sonbges of State and the Ge into. A special train t a-k
tinwn the Invited mats a-In el re o'clock to the R.y.l plat
for whf re carii ofes were in al tine Every tale was in hill
Lam. ad the fine saloons of the new P dace were ahlaz
with Ice and feathers and bright colours. The venerable
Von Wrangel was there in white tunic and Jack-boots—
nisjor of heavy heat at trip lc, and alive to see am-then
Napoleon in the Reid Aftliillitt Ma master: Count Ili•marck
towered alio, a th, tallest man in his uniform—a rible
o,ejwoi dragoons, more potent than "the cornet" who
once dl.turbed the peace of • British Minister, and there
acre the men whom history has made famous In the last
few 3 ears—the Crown Prince, Prin. Friederich Karl, 3.4
the addlers of KiMiggratz. The christening was performed
in a room from whien the day as, excluded, lighted a Ith
wax tapers with an altar draped beneath a canopy. 'I he
IS dating clergymen delivered a discourse which was listened
li, in ..umb silence by all hut the infant princess, and when
the servce ver the King and the Queen, surrounded h:
the menihera of the Aro& family. the Home and Foreign
ninia,ers. Lord A Loftus, and the guests, sat down t'b a
banquet in the Marble Saloon at three o'clock There were
en toasts given, and only mice the company rose, and that
was for the health of the King." It must have bcen a
tiling day for the Queen. She had parted from the Crown
Prince, and hta fri attune we, bat the preparation for h.r
separation 'coin the King, who has mere than one sue,
erdeal of fire and ho d as KAdegili's Maa to pass throggli
before he can hope to return to her side.