The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-20 00:00:00

THE MARINES GOING TO THE FRONT.

"When the Marines—whose loyalty to the Empire is rap-
ed to have been kept fresh in a saline atmosphere—were
marched down the ft alevards on their way to the It'll,
they were fonowet by the acclanatloia if thousands. Bou-
quets were fixed to muskets and carried in triumph. One
old genCemin with a red ribbon in ha button-hole, diatri-
bated largeste, standing up in his carnage and constantly
bringing silver from vii apparently ineskanstible canvas hag.
But the cries were, Vier lea Marines !" Vise lea Parisiensr
and occasionally Vies Is (heerrer As for the Emperer,
mine was so poor as to do him reverence, no man cried Got
bless him. In one of the recent telegraplic despatches from
the seat of war it was mid that ram was faith., heavily at
Me's, and the Marines were asked jestitgly if they c,uld
teach the geher als to fight without umbrellas. A good many
of tie gallant fellows were drunk, and tie large haves of
coarse bread were stuck on their niles as if the latter were
toasting-forks, and se waved in triumph at the bystanders.
All these uncovered to the Marines, and the latter brandished
their arms, stopmel to shake hands with and in some in-
stances kiss, perfect strangers In a free-and-easy fashion,
such as would turn an English disciplinarian's brain."—Deify
News' Correspondent.

RAW. MATERIAL

....
A day or two ago a National Guardsman, on guard at
Faris, tried to present arms to Manhal Paraguay all liners,
hut did not know how to do it. • Ah," said the Marshal,
approaching him, and speaking In the moot amiable tone of
voice, "You have not done much drill yet." At the same
time he taught the sentry the Balite, and when the latter
was In position, prosentlng arms, Baraguay d'llilliers drew
back a step and acknowledged it ly taking If his hat Then
drawing nearer he asked toe Natii.nal Guardsman how long
he had hems at drill. i'Mnfoi! Marshal," he replied, "this
Is the first Irnison I am receiving." The marshal went away
smiling, while every one else congratulated the National
Guardsman, who had just had a marshal of France for his
first Instructor.

A PAINFUL ANLETY.

Officers, ffilog on parole, are spared the indignity of berg
paraded through the town (writes a correspondent from
Coblen's . I met on the bridge of beats a fine-loch
lag felow, a credit to cry army, accompanied by a Prus-
sian ofli er. ills head was erect, but the swollen veins of
his forehead told of suppreqsed emotion ; who until attempt
to fathom his thought.? Far away from the scene of carnage
nothing brings borne tuna so viol fly the horrors of war as
the st,ainers which coustsntly glide by crowded with the
sick and w..unded. So still is all on board, they seem the
in ry glio.ts of ships. From bow to st.-rn awnings are
arranged FO as to form lorg touts through the openings of
which bandaged heads ,measionally protrude—the nay
symptom if life, and that but half-life. In the absence of
official intelligence- -and to-tiny we have had none--the news-
monger on his own account plies his mischievous trade, and
manly are the sinister rumours abroad I need not say into
what painful anxiety all those are plunged who have friends
and relatives irs the regiments which marched I r.m this
garrison; I may especially refer to the Queen Augusta regi-
ment of Guards, long quartered here, • large presort'on 01
the officers of which are married men. The telegrams speak
of the losses being especially heavy in officers. Frankfort
papers speak of the appalling losses of the Stud :tegiment,
every officer in which, with the exception of fear, being
either kilted or wounded!