The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

THE OVERTHROW OF THE SECOND

EMPIIcE.

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The Side, in an article hi ailed " Aux Ares,'
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Now that the shame of serfdom is anolfsheil, now that
justice has been done on the deiretlain imposed by the
of Decenile r 2, hy the sinister ineenttelosuk ho
lost toe an ; now Oat France I as raised the 11110.11-
gneribl, 1.4111.er of the ltripublic 1 note that we in die
for a free imtigttyrrlo , 4ag. !. terry man.
the Alps leffrbbinalt,4otfAst—,iges Is Vie Pyrenees,
let there be but one cry—the war cry of the sovereign
reople, upstanding against the stranger. In cipturing
Ins wretched hero of Strasburg tact Boulogne and Second

__ December- aii-Pruirsians believed the war ended-;-the—y
thought the nation Wmtld Imitate the dastardly abjection
of him who in a thoughtless hour it accepted as its chief.
Let us prove to the Pruulans That they are deeeived ; that
so far from being ended, the mat hag commenced; let us
show them Republican Prance up, armed and ready to sacri-
fice the last man, rather than bend to the yoke of the
stranger. To arms, then! a nation of 36,03e,900 of men can-
not be conquered. Spain In 'SOS has given us • memorable
example of what a nation can do even witheee selttere
against the bravest armies in the world. Saragossa, selthest
ramparts, without soldiers,ahnost without guns,but defended
by men who could die, arrested for months the best array of
Napoleon. Let our cities on inspired by this heroic example.
Let the country distne:s rise also, and beet, on the rear aret
Sinks of the enemy a war 10th, death, a pitiless war of par.
%Nees. Tho Prussians cannot prolong the war indetinitely ;
tb ceinnot sustain the efforts required fore protracted In-
vasion. TIMM is to our side; let us fight therefore to gabs
time and to WM up the enemy. What if our young army gill
lose battles Our volimteers of IIT3 learned to conquer In
the school of adversity. We shall do as they did, and like
them, it we have Republican spirit, we shall have the glory
of having delivered our country from a two-fold flame—
despotism and invasion. To arms thaw! To sins! atal
Vies la REdublique!
The same journal thus speaks of :Napoleon's sur-
render ,--
These sereicl;ed heroes of the coup d'etat fall as they Negate
—in blood on lrecemeer end they began the massacre of
the citizens of Paris. um the led September, IbTO, the head
of the Government, skulking in ...ed., deilvered himself up
As a prisoner to the King of Prima, after getting our heroic
army massacred. limiter he had the courage to get himself
killed at the head of a regiment JIM RC, this man preferred to
dellverhitneelf up like a coward. Histney will brand thisignoble
flighted the last of the lionapArtes. It wilt efface their names
from the rile of the army, to enrol then? lathe category of
cowards, it is reported that the Killer! :'rutria. on rcneir-
tog the Emperor's sword, said, " rake bale to Into that
vii gin award; it was trier the sword of a Ft tneh officer."
An hour after, a calil:be, with green and gold live,los, brought
to the German headquarters 3 man deemed as general,
with a kepi on his head, ands cigarette to hls ino."Tb.
was Napoleon 111.
Not • word more of hlm.

" says the Temps, "saw accomplished ytaterday
revolution of marvellous spontaneity and overpowering
rapidity. In the morning it was a queston how mkrk the•
legttimate premure of public opi ont.aldobtooo iron' Uri Elo-
vtrnment and Chamber. At noon one might still dimwit Me
symptbms Of rehistanco. At three o'clock the last vo.stme ot
the Mood° had disappeared, and all Paris proclaimed the
Republic. .

A nue portrait of the Emperor in One of the rooms of the
Hotel de Vide was on the point of being destroyed,
when M. cambetta caused it to be turned agamet the
wall and prosecuted violence, exclaiming, It is useless.-
Pufortunat. lysuch was not the case with the portrait iiiiuted
by Horace Vernet, which surmounted one of the chimneys
in the Salle du Trace. This painting was Oen to pieces ;
and a panel in the ball of the Municipal Csuncil, representiog
the Emperor handing to baron Hausman the decree fOr
annexing the suburbs of Psrls, was also much lacerated..
Such, apart from a few benches and busts broken, was all
the damage done $k the Hotel de Ville. The library f the
Municipal Council, las well as the other siljointlig compart-
ments, were rerpecied, owing to the efforts of 31. Darden.,
the iibrarian, and a few National Guards.

M. Itochef.ort, whose enlargement had been one of the first
acts of the new Government, came to the Hotel, and was re-
ceived by M. Gambetta, who took him by the arm and gave
him a place amongst the members already installed. norm,
animated discuesions took place at different pointe of the
building, in the Salle St. Jean, the Court of Louis XIV., and
the Salle du Trone, about the choice of a flag for the
new ! Republic. Many workmen advocated the red,
cud some standards of that colour had been hoisted on the
Place de de Ville. But MM. Gambetts, Sate:cher,
and some officers of the National Guard, reminded them
that the tricoloured lisg had conducted France to victory,
and might do so Aglaia ; it was that of 5710 anti 1793—the only
real national one. some voices thea shouted, "It is a
bastard hag ! It has the colour of the Bourbons !" "No,"
was the reply; 'white was the colour of old France' "it
Is a terniehed bunting," said others. "Then we will wash
II," was the rejoinder.
The Civil List of the Emperor Napoleon .11111 paid Monthly
and In advance. Lie received in cash £1,000,00J a year, and
In rents £200,000. Prince Napoleon and his eieter recobied
P. 80,000, making a totaled £1260,000. The Senate, which has
just been abolished, cost nearly £200,009.
"The Princess Clotilde, kept her word of sticking to the
Empress 10th. last (says the Doily Argos' Correspondent.)
She remained ill the Pislais Royal up to three o'clock on
Monday, when she net out to join her husband and children
In Italy. I have often thonent how difficolt it was at the
Imperial Court to discern the line which separated the
cocotte from the grand° dame. But in the case of Victor
Emmanuel's eldest daughter confusion was impossible.
Tnough she was thrown • mere child into the most corrupt
society of modern thorn, she always comported nersell with
modest dignity, and practised the virtues which hereto, her
sex and high position, Inn palace whose traditions were the
reverie of dignified or virtuous."
"Then is no certain flown of the time and manner of the'
flight Of the Empress. Sne hod been packing up for the loot
forithlit, and all her household left before her, like rats
leaving a sinking ship—Daily :cite,' Correspondent.
Count de Nieusverkerke is under street until the eafety of
the national pictures, Per which ha is reeponetble, snail be
ascertained. ()mot ht. subordinates, a nephew of the Aragos,
is dismissed as Leine an Imperialist
"Ills Majesty the People was locked ont of the Tulleriesend
the mirdens belonging to the palace all this sth of Septem-
ber. Why, lam unable to discover. Probably this exclu-
sion wee caused by a fear that the sovereign people might
act on Knox's precept, of pulling down the rookeries to pre-
vent (reels rooks from taking up their abode in them. The
gardens looked desolate anti dusty as I passed along them.
A dense crowd extended all along the raffinge. I caught
, the words, 'We have got the menagerie, mrtia les
1 Lees n'y soul pills.' Soldiers, 3lohlos, National Guard.,
and France-theurs were mingled with blouses and
workwomen, some with babies and some with enlisting
taking their Monday cut. Tie military element has become
rx.medingly civil Moro the morning of the memorable 4th.
The uniform alone distinguished the soldiery frorn the
people. The walls o: the Tuileries facing the Rue hivoll
were covered with epigrams of a popnlor kind, writes in
che,k—' ',things to Let,' • rut urtifehed lodgings,' •Meison
dCgarnie S Vanua des embulences '—• suppressed by order of
the Bureau des Motare—Evacue par Cause de lent' Lea
reptiles se eschew par le mativais tamps'—' Ls Namn est en
detail '—'o9 *out les Napoleona—en "—Daily Seim'
Correlipoludent.