The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01 00:00:00

rliE STUURBRIDGE OBSEhVER.

be replied that for that purpose an armiatirie wart neceesary,
which he noted no tgrant at any price.
" At the second interview, on the evening of the loth, at
rerriCres, M. BisrawCk appeared to allow himself to be per.
goaded about an armistice, which I asked should be for
fifteen days; and on the following on;, at 11 cm., he sent
me the following conditions—namely, the occupation of
Straaburg, Told, and Phahiburg, and as I had told him
that the Assembly would meet in Parte lie desired in
that case to have the forte comrodiaug tho capital—Mont
1 a:elan, for instance. I objected to this that it would
have been more simple to have asked for Parts at ones
M. Bismarck replied 'Let us seek some other combination.'
I spoke to him of the Constituent Assembly meeting at Tours,
to which case no guarantee agatior Parts should be re-
joined. M. Buiroarck further demanded that the garrbon
of Strailbstrg shou'd surrender as prisoners of war. having
exprasaed my Indignation at this proposal, Si. 'Willard
went to consult the King, who accepted the second combina-
tion, but insisted that the garrison of Strasburg should give
themselves up as phones, of war My powers were now
exhausted. I rose and took my leave, oxpres.Mg to him .1
conviction that we ahould light as long as we could find in
Parts an element of resistance."
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Fevre in his Report proceeds to explain the bear-
ing of the interview. lie insight for peace and met
with an inflexible determination to have conquest and
war. He, therefore. now states the fact,, and CJlll-
municates them to Barone.
On the 21st inst. M. Fevre forwarded a despatch to
M. Bismarck explaining that the Government of the
National Defence would not subscribe to the condo
lions upon which the Armistice was dependent. M.
Favre states that his mission has not been useless, since
it has removed the ambiguity in which Prussia had en-
veloped herself. Shw had declared that she attacked
Napoleon and his soldiers, but respected the nation.
"To-day we know what she desires."

tegist would calmly plot the annihilation of I—se—heiff-disfd
times the number. Clearly leave is • hero of °sly mo-
derate &mentions, at the best, Nevertheless, we
decide for Isaac as, on the whole, the most satisfactory
sort of hero that poor human kind can at the present
admire. Hid victories have been triumphs of self-
devotion : but they have desolated no hearths, they
have estranged no sweet affections, they have agonised
no holy emotions; it has been their work to raneom the
almost lust from the power of the grave, to rescue the
hoped anxious households, to make the widow's heart
sing for joy. Again, we say, all honour to Isaac Jar-
man; and, if his laurels have been drenched with brine
instead of human gore, no much the better for him.
Some day all the world will arrive at the Canoe convic-
tion ; meanwhile, let the wor.hy coxswain receive
emphatic recognition from those to whom unaseuming
heroism in a good cause can never he otherwise than
dear.

—we-obtained for her whiting NINNY bythi:or own Yriiise
Miallater robe sufficient, and was hailed by world for the
moment a• • grest diplomatic eneerm What followed vas
ot likely to encourage the Q leen'. Government to Interfere
again, if even a state of war dl.l not hresent hourmonntable
difficulties. We may not approve the demands of the Ger-
mans, we may hopo they will be modified, but we cannot any
they constitute such an sense/non that humanity bids us to aid
these who resist them. Yranoe must settle her own accounts
with the enemy She has provoked, and the sooner she feein
this the bettor. At this moment the deputation of the
Gdvernment at TOW% has declared what is called a 'war to
the knife," ani is rousing the puslons of the people by •
violent proclamation, which certainly misrepresents the de-
mands of the German. Is it right that at each a moment
any party in Zeeland, under pretence of political sympathy,
should encourage France in a bloody, a vindictive, sod ap-
parently a toeless war, by holding out haws which can never
be realised?

DEPUTATIuN TO MR. GLADSTONE.

, Oa Tuesday, a deputation, organised by the Labour
' Representation League, waited upon Mr. Gladstone
to urge her Majesty's Ministers to immediately receg-
nise the French Republic, and to use their influence
to induce Germany to refrain from insisting upon any
annexation of territory, in order that the war might be
brought to • speedy conclusion without further humi•
liation to the French nation.
The right hon. gentleman, in reply, repudiated the
charge of lukewarranem on the part of the Govern-
ment, who, before the war commenced, and since, had
lost no opportunity to bring about • peace. When
the twoStiol2l4 were fairly discuseiug the terms upon
which it should be made, her Msjesty's Government
would not be found wanting; with regard to the an.
nexatieu of territory it one of the conditions, that wail
a point upon which hecould at present offer no opinion.
Pot ali practical purposes diplomatic intercourse was
now kept up with the Provisional Govenm,nt of
France; but it could not be expected that our Govern-
ment should go in advance of the French people. It
WAS prepared to acknowledge any Government they
should decide upon, whether Republic, Monarchy,
or Empire, when they hal formally declared their
election.