The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-17 00:00:00

ITEMS OF TO. VI fiR.

The octrol tintles are temporally abolished, to 1o111&te
tte Intrulusilou of provlilons Into Paris.
The editnrs iif the Marinilaw have resigned, and the
publication of t hi t Pine Ls .upended.
IL Is annousceil that the Ciown jewels have blen soot out
of Pais to a pLice tit ialety.

We Ire tohl thst for ins after the disArter of Worth the
Emperor sat sthnt immova,lo. Ito Is said to have
fought eu foot from 5 r.m. tilt 3 pm. on the we I,t Sep.
tewhlr.

There we In rah, at lout, 2,030 IL atitsh residents, no
poor enough tc be seat away 11a !impure, but wine yet have
nut siddzieut I anOs to suable them to 11.1 e.

The town slid chattel of Laon wire surrendered on the 10th
by the comutauthute General th Game. About hot an heur
alter II pOiVd,r m.gazine blew up. klitirg the Ptuastau
I Prussian imidlere awl GlMica slet4loe, end wounding
the eamtuandent In the head.

The Civil List of the ihoperor Napoleon WM paid mold hiy
end In ail, Me. He received In cash £ t,e00,0,0 a year, anal
in rents £200,000. Prince Napolean and ids slat. r recelvad
400,0e0, making a total of 5.1,260.0Cia The Sonata. attach
Ins Just bees abelished, cost nearly £009,000.
It has been calculated that to transport the captured French
army of MacMahon, with all its balm slogs, Iwo Germany,
no fewer than IWO troth,, running on rwo railways will be
or cessary ; and 11, at by travelling day and nia lit incessantly,
the time &maimed cantot be loss than feurteeu days.
" M. Emile if, aiirardin, in a letter 11 hich has been pub-
Inland, says that (flap were now to remain in goals Ile would
be only a "useless mouth." Ile leaves it therefore for some
mine elignalesnot sabers be may be aide to establish a lace
paper to lea called La id Plias Nationale, lobe published as
long as the Invasion lasts.

Le Soir says :—M. Arthur no B ilsalen, the father of many
boo 'nob, has made soothe, lately. Napoleon 111.
restrohled Francis I. at Paula, only the former has lust all
that the other saved all Is lost save honor were the
memorable words of Vraucts I. to Ha =other).

Le (iaulois says that the Prince of Saxe, on the evening of the
battle of Sedan, hearing at Chapelle, on the Belidan frontier,
the last cannonade of the French said —" Von hear, Mes-
sieurs, those last cannon shot, they are the expiring shrha of
that proud France, that nation 90 great and so brave."
The printers of Paris are forming themselves into a corps,
to be called the Legion de Guttenberg. "We are the sol.
ii, re of the intellect," they say; let us show the foreigner
who has dared to invade our soil that, with arms In our
hands, we can form a heroic phalanx, &ha drive him back
to the cry, athuuuae,l times repeated of .• Vice Is F, ince.'
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The Noun, 'lisle of Rouen mentions the arrlval by train of
17 French soldiers, nearly all volunteers. who were appre-
hended M the act of ptllaning the rallway-atatlons of ith, IM3
and Eperney, shortly before the entry of the Erassians tete
those towns. Tney were taken to pr:son and await their
trial.

The Charicari, In • very simple caricature, publishes a
compendious history of the reign of the last of the bum-
p...rtes. France bound hand and foot is represented between
the mouths nt two ca,noini, one beating the dale I 851;
the other that of Sedan, 1a;0. This is the Alpha wad Omega
of Nspoleon ft.

A few thousands of French soldiers anti non.corninisi toned
niggers are lodged sit., compel Bever/ no, ether, the Turco,
are salts to believe as badly an they do in Germany. Revolver,
and knivea have already been found hidden In their barracks,
which aro gntrded by sentries and it is said that these
African heroes will soon be soot to one of the forts in
Antwerp:

"Nearly every afternoon the Emperor Napoleon may be
seen walking and driving about lath, grounds of Wilhelm.-
Ilene Persons who hove seen him say that he look. 111, hut
cairn and realigned. The Prince. Ney and Murat, as also
Generals Cattelnau, Pajol, Vaubert, and Kettle, have arrived
to attend upon their unfortunate Sovereign. Princess Murat
has also come to Cant and taken apartment. in an hoteL
Al yet the Princess is the only buly at the Court, the truly
Royal proportions of which may be gathered from the cir-
cumstance that the servarts have In the lest few day.
swelled to the number of ISO—Time. Cerrehpendeut.
The Spenereche Zeitung relates that two brothers, natives
of America, but the sonsof German p rents, have arrived in
Berlin from California, which they left, without letting their
parents knew anything of their Intentions, to join the
true-
sian army as voltinteera They are powerful young fellow.,
with plenty of money. Finch instances, however, aro conunon.
Unwired' of young men have arrived from America lor the
purpose of joining the erodes of the Catorlaud.

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A letter from Baden In the Carleriihe Gazelle states that
the leadersof the war on the German side are firmly resolved
to reunite Altana and Lorraine to the future Gorman Empire,
not aa additions to one or more Youth German /Mate., te.r as
Pruszian territories, but as provinces directly dependant on
the head of the Empire. The Berlin A ligentelim Zetiany of
Saturday, in a rend-official article, states that Metz and
Strasburg most be taken by Germany, and that France most
Ms so weakened by the loss of territory that it will) be
difficult for it to future to threaten the peace of Europe. The
Berlin correepondeut of the Cologne Unreel', states that it is
suggested In Influential circles that the acquired territory,
In view of the French feeling of the Inhabitant., zhould be
Meld as an outlying province of Germany, without being rub-
JeCt to service in the hI my and without repreicntatlon in the
aeleherath.

Regarding the investment of Paris a correspon.'ont writes
From Sedan it is announced that the intentiod of the German
, comnlondeenla to place he different cerpsof the German army
all around Paris at ten leagues dletai,ce from the town. The
r average diameter of Pan, is four leagues. Ey a Ming to this
the twice ten leagues left between Paris and the investing
armies an average diameter of twenty-tour leagues, and a
circumference of seventy-two leagues are obtained. Six
corps d'ermee being placed on this circumference occupying
oath an average extent of two leagues, would be at a distance
id about ten leagues from each other. This would act pre
vent good mar&hog troops from befog is amodiag
cation, nor would It pre v.nt thelight cavalry of eachearps from
skirmishing every day through the hail-distances of five
leagues. The six corps meld cut cif all communications by the
six principal railway lines, the Seine, the Oise, the Marne,
and the canals, so that no large transports of any kind could
arrive at Paris. According to what may now bo called the
hi oltke system, every sortie would lit encountered by two
C 011.1., the one against which it Is directed and the other
nearest to title' c Liver to the right or the left. The German
cort • would exhaud, the resource, of the circle between them
and Parts, and draw their provisions from the country out.
elite their own line. The large number of towus and villages
aurroundlog Paris would afforded solaclent shelter tor the
bob/ft inch..