The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-22 00:00:00

ITEMS OF THE WAIL

The Gallery of Battles and the apartments of Louis (Mar.
tome, in the Palace of Versailles, have been transformed into
hospitals In anticipation of coming event,.
It Is stated that ii,eam mitrailleuses manufactured at Lyons
have a range of 1,05 yards.
St. cloud is a total rule, the pictures sad tapestry all
burst; the bust of >apvlcou and some books a ere saved.
Ihe cettie plague has extended to the interior of Paris,
where bores are butt hered.

In the eight of the 11th the Ihreo first shots were tired by
the Prussian redoubt at Bellevue a,ainst Pent. They hit
Furl Vaulres.

The fate ct Kehl Is describtd as far w rse than that of
Strasburg. Not above five houses In the town remain
ntact.

The belief la more than ever prevalent that unofficial pour.
parlors are going on, but the population of Paris are en, r-
getically .pposed to ally peace based upon a cession of terri-
tory, or upon terms humiliating for the nation.
The Berlin semi cUbist and independent evening papers
detinutce the bonibarament of the Palace of :it. Cloud as
vandalism, committed by the very parties that protest
agdnst the bombardment of the fortress of Pallet.
Up to Tuesday 1,133,341 muskets have been distrildited to
the National and Mobile Guards, Including 2841,73 s to the
. ..L . . .

National Guard of Pula 'lke Committal of Annameat con
Climes to make large dharibution of arms.

The Berlin manufacturers are busily employed in provid
ing winter garments for the troops. [Argo numbers of
wodlen shirt, are continually Wog made, as well as caps,
furs, and clothes of all kinds.
Six hundred pounds of entrance fees have been received in
the last few days from sightseers at the gate of Strasburg
Citadel. The charge for entrance was three shillings. The
money goes to the poor sufferers.
The Libr,t., of Rouen notices the arrival in that town of
fity.two carts taken from the PIIISPiBI3III at lisle Adam
(Wee) [he women of the district, it says, atirred up the
non to make an attack on the enemy, and themselves cut
the tracts of the vehLles.

At St. Maio, on Monday morning, • tumultuous crowd
andevc tired to prevent the embarkation La cargo of copper
on board an English ship. Carts containing the cargo were
upset, the troops and gendarmerie on the otuay were assailed
with stones. and.stveral of them.were hurt. Ihe ringleaders

were arrested, with some women and children, and the era.
barkation was proceeded with under the protection of the
troops and the authorities.
An Oboist despatch, dated Nemours, the 16th inst., states
that the Bavarians were at Jouy le.Chatel on the oth lust ,
and had searched the cemetery for arms on the report of a
French Informer. They opened graves, dragged out coffin.,
and found four muskets. Afterwards they imposed a con-
tribution of 5,0.1. on the place, as well sea heavy requisd
Eton in kind.

General Trochu in a recent letter says The sad events
which have I efallen the Army of the Inane show that no
Infantry, however firm, can with safety engage the Prussian
army tu..ess it is accompanied by an artillery proportioned to
that of the enemy; and it,. to the formation of this artlller)
that I am devoting all my care."

111 e Echo du Nerd publishes • protest of Belgians eats.
Withal in France against their forcible enrolment in the
French military bodies. They con plain that they should he
forced into the military service while so many French
citizens are escaping from it by taking refuge In tureen
countries.

Solemn. was entered on Sunday by the Grand Duke of
Slecklenturvichwerin. In addition to 4.000 prisone., 132
cannms were captured. By the fall of SUifik.oll the Germans
have a second line of railway from Chalons to Paris, and a
Berlin telegram sa)a that the line will at once be made or
of for

The Daily Telegraph has received a note of three lines
fr 4 as Is correspondent withis the walls of Paris, bearing
dote thc2zsd October. Ile write., ".\o sickness, no want of
proviaions, plenty of courage. lamon my word and honour
not to send military news, but I can assure you that the
Prussians will never get in."

A writer In the Weiner Pence says :—" I can assure you
that the sanitary condition of the German army is very bn 1,
and is becornhig daily more and more deplortiele, and I have
had ample rroots of thin at the different places a hero I was
obliged to halt on account of the passage of the military
c• nvoys. Therein a tremendous amount of dysentery slot
typhus amongst the men, and an enormous number of them
have succumbed to fatlgUe, and are suffering moat acutely
from rheumatism."

An American ex•diplomatist In Paris, in good relations
with the Government there, submits sea solution the xro.
pris.tion that Lorraine and Alsace, with Luxemburg, ahould
be given to Belgium; their neutrality guar mteed by the
European Powers, and he holds out hopea of the consent of
France to the scheme.

The Precuraur d' Anvers as;,:—" Nearly all Normandy Is
without cuts. In order to restore business, a large number
of towns and communes have created paper money, gearan.
teed by the municipal chest. At Rouen a decree of its. Pro.
feet has ordered the creatien of bonds of 25, 20, 10, and
franca. At Eyr,ux communal bonds exist of 1,2, 5, 10, and
20 i ranee. At Rouen also a joint-stock bank lsaues bonds of
1,2, 5, and 10 franca."

The Tim., observes that there seems to be a strange—
perhaps involunt try—collusion between the French capital
and the provinces France expects Paris to save the country,
while Paris expects the country to c,ine to Its relief. Evvry
district seems to know best what happens in the districts
farthest away from it. Where the population to most
quiescent and dispirited flaming accounts of the heroic deeds
of other people obtain the greatest credit and the reatilest
circulation.

The Germans expelled from France have resolved an inti-
mation from the Government that their claims to compen•
aation must be confined to actual lone., and must not
extend to compensation for libtreatment. Some of the
Prussian diatricta have furnished the return, requested by
Count Bismarck as to the ',juries Inflicted on them by
France iu 1806-ti by requisitions, fines, burning and other
devastations. The total amount. to 245 million &balers.
A diary of the siege, extracted from a Paris Journal, has
been sent from the German head-quarters to &OM. It
states that the city was provisioned for only two months,
and that therehre the Germane are right in reckoning upon
starving out the inhabitants. The poly hope for the beiriesied,
it was considered, was to act on the defensive. :N. u
a-sistance was expected from Metz er the Loire.

The Daily Noma Correspondent at Tours says Vint private
letters from I clean, confirm the report that a large propor-
tion of the French troops rugagod there conducted them-
selves In the most dastardly manner in the face of the enemy,
11th cavalry and Infantry fairly ran away, and many sol-
diers threw down their arms in order to ran the faster. The
road from Chevllly to Orleans was said to be strewn with
Chassepots.

The steamahlp Et, genie arrived at Grimsby on Monday
morning. She left tire Elbe on Saturday with a full general
cargo, betides 130 fat pigs. When a Mort dietance E S.E. of
Heligoland, she was hailed and boarded by a French nian-
of-war, the captain of whi Ii asked particularly for war
new, and for newspapers. The Eugenie afterward. passed
nine or tam war ships, chiefly ironclads, cruising about at in-
tervals over twenty miles from Heligoland.

There is a fresh aml most distinct denial in tho German
official telegrams of the statement of General Ducrot It
appears that the General was not put under any escort at
all. He simply promised to deliver himself up at Pont-a.
Stomach ; went there, and then escaped, rather from his
own vigilance apparently than from that of any guard. In
plain truth he made a certain promise and kept It to the
ear, but broke it in its accepted sense.
A recent number of the Proj) es makes known that the
municipal authorities of Lyons have, in their last sitting,
hilted two very important resolutions. The fret prescribes
the complete return to the law of the year IX , which pro-
hibits every manifestation of worship outside the regularly
appointed laces, in all those towns in which several
&nominations are allowed free exercise of their religion.
Still more important is the second rs solution, which forbids
the different religious congregations to occupy themselves
with the education of children. It remain, to be seen
whether the Lyons magistrates will be enabled to enforce
these regulations.

M. 6 lbot, an attaché of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
in Paris, who arrived at Valtriciennei on Monday by the
balloon "Jule. Fevre," ham bad an interview with the Ad-
ministrative Committee there. After the usual declarations
about the " patriotic .d unshakable determination" of
Paris, M. Mot says that the Germans have been compelled
to entrench themselves behind their lines of artillery, and
that the plain. are absointely swept by the formidable
cannon of the forte The wartee gunners hit the mark at
6,000 meta.. At the present time a bombardment is Im-
possible, as the forte preeent an Impassable harrier to the
besieger.. All kinds of arms are being manufactured at
Pori. without difficulty ; provisions are abundant, and the
city t. victualled for a length et time.

The Liberb, says that, by way of reprisal on account of
the publication of the secret papers of the Emperor found
at Paris, the Etc, pullets threaten on their side to puhit' ii
documents which will compromise members of the old Op.
pniittim pestle, The Lihcrt.; hopes the threat will be cc-
nod into execution. it is necessary that light should he
thrown upon the whole sui..ket, anti that the counti y should
be able to Widmann h between those who serve and those
who betray it, those worthy of esteem and those who only
deserve contempt.
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The general feeling of the People in Paris la rtported to be
good. The Jou two/ Officiel of the 9th lust. contained an ac-
count of meetings held to demand the nominations of a Corn.
mime of ['aria, and also of those held against such manifeeta-
tionr. At the latter the people warmly applauded General
Irochu, M. Tamlsler, and M. fiance, and shouted "tong
lire the Republic," " Long live the Government," '' No Com.
mule. " M. Faire nutile • speech to the National Guard, de-
claring that the present moments are coneecratad to the
union of all parties to expel the foreigner; after that the
elections will be held. it. Jules Fevre hes SW written a
fetter thanlittle the liaitonal Vaud toe OW palliolluall

The Emerges Dowager of Bra:Al has contributed I,oooft-for
the German wounded.
A decree of the Ouvernment orders the silver plate belong-
ing to the Civil List to be melted down and converted into
coin

Like the Federal war loan, the Bavarian military loon ii
exhausted. The Bavarian expenditure Isprovlsionally covered
out of the late military loan.
The Moniteur comments severely upon the undisturbed
Iranian railway communicahlso between Parts and Savants,.
and recommends the formation of bodies of men specially
charged to destroy the Getman communicattons.
Advice. from the German headquarters to the 131 h an-
nounce that alms the 30th of September no aortie In force
has been made from Paris. This is considered as an Indica-
tion of the inability of the besieged to undertake offensive
operations. . •

General Sher..lan has left the German head-quarters. and
cone to lir.sele, ehich is considered a sure sign that the
reduction of Paris is not imminent. The Daily Newt corre-
spondent in Berlin affirms on good authority that the city
will not be shelled.

The De bah states th tt national canteens have been opened
at Paris for the supply 01 rations et beet gratuitously to the
poor, and to the public at a lived price. Ibis is a voluntary
movement, supported by subscriptions. Gratuitows reel•
'dents must he provided with eiders obtained from sub-
scribers.

A correspondent at Tours writes that Garibaldk's com-
mand is not I iutte so extensive as was at first reported. The
General is not at the head of all the irregular forces of
Prance, but merely of those of the Vosges and a brigade of
Mobiles.

It is announced from Berlin that General Boyer, the aide.
decamp of Marshal BatsMe, has arrived at Versants, and
had an Interview with Count Bismarck. According to the
Journal Or Si. Petersboury, General linenalde, on visiting
Paris, communicated the Garman conditions to M. Jules
Fevre, who thought them acceptable. For some reason
Which is not known they were, however, rejected.
There, much talk of a young artilleryman, an Alsatian,
named Chrlismann, aged twenty-two, who la such a good shot
that he ha. dismounted 47 Pruselen guns from the fort ot
St. Deals, where he is stationed. The balloon accounts my
that toe Prussians cannot establish a battery anywhere within
range cf him, and that he alone Is worth an army.
The Journal d'A ieio of the 16th Instant publishes a letter
from the brother of Marshal liataine stigmatising as milum.
Mee the allegations that the latter had refused to recognise
the Provisional Government, and thought to surrender Mea
for the restoration of the Imperial dynasty, the letter says
Marshal Berlins does not consider Mantel( a Marshal of the
Empire, but a Marshal of France.
A balloon which left Peels at 7 am. on Sunday, with four
traveller, and two sacks of malls, de mended near Marten.
hours, the same day, at one o'clock. M. Godard, jour., was
the aeronaut. Ile state. that Paris still presented • bold
front, and asserts that the previous day • battle took place
under the walls of the city, when 3,000 Prussians are said Co
have been killed.

The Daily News correspondent at fientonfoy, near Metz,
writing on the 9th Instant, says The terribly wet wea-
ther which we have had for the last thirty-ate h. or. has
already begun to tell a tale on the health of the Prussian
troops. Waggon-load after waegon-loa of sick men goes
down to Courcelles. Idarrinua and bronchitis are the chief
complaints.
The annexation of Luxemburg Is now the eubject of dis-
cussion in the German papers. The Cologne Gazelle of Mon-
day remarks that " England, Russia, and Austria, who have
guaranteed Its as utrallty, can have no Interest in preventing
this on the contrary they would gladly get rid of the obit-
Ration. France has no longer, anon Germany has won the
Vosges frontier, ally pretext for considering Luxemburg a
menace, and it will gladly acquiesce In its annexation to
Germany hi consideration of some relaxation of the terms
of peace. Well fortified, Luxemburg will bras the best
security against France."
A copy of the GallWa of Ilia sth lust. has reached the
Mead-quarters from Paris. It contains an article, written
by an °Meer, which estimates the strength of the garrison at
350,000 and that of the besiegers at 400,000 men. Ile at
tributes the inaction of the latter to a desire to await the
arrival of the siege artillery, and to reduce the city by
famine; describes the blockade as complete, and remarks
that the enemy must know, as well as the "'whims them-
selves. that the city is only provisioned for two months The
hope that the winter will be an ally he pronounces as chl•
uterine!, as the Germans will be sheltered in the towns and
villages surrounding Paris.