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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

NEW YORK.

Thursday.
Gold closed, 1101. Exchinge 108 i. Bonds
U.S. 107 a.

SHIPPING NEWS.

GIBRALTAR, Thursday.
The Delhi, with heavy Bombay mails, left at
two this morning, for Southampton. All well.

LONDON CORN MARKET (CLOSE).
FRIDAY.

Market firm, but unaltered. English and
foreign wheat firm, at full prices. Town flour
unaltered. (:enntry niarks rather dearer.
American firm. Barley unchanged. Oats rather
in favour of sellers. Maize very firm, owing to
absence of arrivals. Beans and pease firm.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.
FRIDAY.

The wheat trade is very quiat, and factors do
not succeed in establishing any advance on last
Friday's price. Barley in limited demand at
late rates. In Beaus and oats no material
change.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE BEGINNING OF THE SORTIE.

The following brief notes of the berinning of the
sortie from Yarie on the 30' h ult. occur at the close of
Dr. ltumell'a latest letter

Nov. 30, 3.30 tam —Awakece I by the sound of held guns,
which seem quite clue. Ge to it Indow and listen. All silent
We the continuous noise of the artillery, which comes re-
plest,dly from the di:Lefton ci St Germain It may have
bet n gob gon for some time, but no one Is stirring In the
streeta.

S 45.—The sound haa never ceased, and comes by degrees
nearer. There lions mon walking across Place U./Cho. lie
ops and hakes, and walks on—pausing at lotervals—turns
the cdrner, and Is lost to Igor.

4 m.—There I &lull In the storm, and the reports of the
field guns are not so friqueLt, and sound as if they were
receding.

7. m —There has boon a csntinual cannonade, and I have
come in from an abortive attempt to find out purticuisra
Captain R bbins, Qtlein's messenger, is starting with Mr.
thlo ii anode despatches f, Lagny, which a twonis -flee miles
east of Pads, oh-re he will sleep tt -Itlght, end start at Um
am to-morrow morning Sr litustele rid Wiz. This will
give an Idea of the Mute of the roads and of the detours to be
made when it ta.kes atdblunt courier so many hours to travel
tit st distance.

n —The vigour of the firing since midnight could not
be exzeded by a:ry Map! ty I have ever he ed or read of.
There I. now • ll:pi:An, but tons of shell mipt have heels
hurled against the German liner, sod losses mutt he expected.
Mare than 7,600 shells bane boa u thrown along this etc. It
Is supposed the cannonade was a feint to cover an attach
now tallier; effect against the 6.. sons and WilLtemnergers
To tar off to get to or to see.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

TREY IIAS" WELL "LONG FOR PEACE!"

A German letter remarks on the capitulation of la Pere
—" I be little fumes., otherwise insignificant, wan ITT p3rt ant
by reason of its position, and on the advance against Amiens
it would have been extremely Inc .141,31. lent to leave It with
hostile troops in our rear. The French commandant, Captain
Manche, defer ded it with the greatest emerge, and only
capitulated after 30 hours' warm cannonade The sn.a.l tows
has suffered terribly. Scarcely a house is uninjured, and the
aspect of the place Indicates greater devastation than at
Toni, Verdun, Strasburg, awl Ihionvilte. Hardty any walls
now r. Lit the force of the Prussian heavy fortress guns
[Anew) and alontme ly will now be serlon•ly bombarded. It
cannot ha helped, for the French can only by the grertest
exertku.be brought to sue for peace at any price The popu-
lation here are very drjected, and long for pear r."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

A 'RED CROSS SURGEON" SHOT.

A gentleman writ ,o to the Stawlari s-7

I send you an extract from a letter which is addressed to
me from Sedan, end written by one of the beat zed most in-
Iluentiol gentlemen in this devoted town. I feel convelled
to withhold his name, heeause Sedan is WU occupied by our
merciless enemies. But loan myself vouch for his 'emelt),
and also for the accuracy of tile sad et .13 he tells. which his
been confirmed in other letters sod by the Pr-ogre. do
At J. uses, a paper published at Ilez errs. It would es worse
than useless to uld a single word of connutui.
(Transiat,on
" Sedan, 291 h November, 18;0.

'' A murder has been committed here, which caused • mani-
festation ' last Sunday at the funeral, where all the Inhabi-
tants of the town ware present. A young physician of 25
years, belonging to thern Red Cross' ambulance of Rtus-els,
has been shot with a rifle by a German officer, In cold blood
and without any provocation whatever, whilst he crossed
the Prussia-i hues on his way to Mestere*, in the
clime of his duties. He had a pass, w..re the liraseard ch
his arm, and had the Red Cross on his hat; and besides, he
carried hie white hanokerchief on his stick. ills name was
Dobaume ; he was a doctor and had done much good lu the
ambulances lie hod been a political exile at Brussels,
which he left after the fall of the Ealpire to serve in the
voluntary ambulances.
"His funeral wax an occasion Cm universal mourning
Several speeches were made over his grave ; you will read
them in the Progree. ilia colleague had branded the tour.
direr, by declaring openly and boldly, that it was a cowardly
and criminal outrage against Hie sacred neutrality if the
Red Cruse men. flits is a fresh
,proof of the savage manner
which this war la carried ou.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

IRREGULAR WARFARE IN FRANCE.

The Moniteur (under date Tours, Dec. I ) publishes the
following official notice, which It nays has been sent hy the
Prussia!s military authority to the Mayon of the 13;partment
of Eure In order to prevent useless homicides the General
of Division has ordered me to say, and I act you to publish
to all the hinabitants of your country, that no civilian dis-
covered with arms will be treated as a soldier, but as a !mur-
derer, and punished with death. The villages isl,ll 1.3 burnt
I, which the Inhabitants commit bottle deeds —At St
Andre, the 23rd Nov. 180 —DE RoSESBEI(O, Chief of the
Regiment of Lamm'

TIIE SUPREME CONSOLATION—TOBACCO!
An anecdote, which speaks well for the generosity of the
French 51 dtiioll, is reported from Olio MS, In the Bulletin de
Bienrainanee, which Is being regularly published Is the
Courier de eEttrope Nearly all the wounned at Orleans are,
of course, French ; indeed, it may be said that they are ail
French t x.mpt a few I/U.11411. They are suffering, for the
roost part, with fever, rheumatism, and frost bites; and
their stiff ming% have been exiensivaly mitigated by the
supplies sent out from Lludon by the " Souscrlption
Frio c the," by the ht 1p of which they have been enabled to
receive not only medicines but other comforts, Inches books,
newo papers, and cigars, which have been distributed to them
through Miss Pearson awl other ladies workii g In the
ambulances of Bishop Dapauloop. It appears that at first
these comforts, and especially the take, cormolat;tat
supreme," were supplied to the Frensh alone, the olllcte of
the •• douscriptioc Franc the " being limited to the relief of
sufferers of that nation only. The otter day, however, on
seeing the poor havarlons sitting huddled in a corner, and
limittog wistfully at the cigars, the Frenchmen "came for-
ward as one man, and demanded that the dl•trihution should
titan managed as to Inclu Is the poor 0 &simians, isurs Cl
enneniie It is reedleas to add that their demand was
readily Complied with.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

A most deplorable event happened near to the village
of Mitford, Northumberland, and within a mile and a
half of Morpeth, on Saturday. Mr. Thomas Blair,
farmer, Dean. bottle, Mitford, and local steward on
the Mitford estate, while on his way to Morpeth in
the middle of the day, was shot at. It appears that Mr.
Blair had been in the habit of goiug regularlyto Mon.
peth on business matters in the forenoonon Saturdays,
arid on Saturday last he was firol at frona behind the
wall on the south side of the road, about a hundred
yards east of Middle Ford or Abbey Mill Bridge. On
the west side of the bridge he had met and conversed
with Mr. Thomson, traveller for Mr. J. Jobling,
spirit merchant, and Mr. J. Swan, Morpetb. After
he parsed, and hearing the report of a gun, they
turned round to see the object of the shot, and to thelr
surprise they saw Mr. Blair without his hat, his horse
plunging, and finally wheeling round and making for
home. Suspecting something wrong they went toward
Mr. Blair, whom they found bleeding profusely from
the head. Ile told them he had teen shot at from
behind the wall. On going baok for Mr. Blair's hat Mr.
Thompson saw a man with a gun in his hand running
up the field, whom he called upon to stop and charging
him with having shot Mr. Blair. Be paid no atten-
tion, but ran on, and, laying the gun on the bank,
threw himself into the mill dam of the Abbey Mills.
Mr. Thompson assisted Mr. Illairlotue, while Mr.
Swan hastened to Morpeth for Dr. Rae. Mr. Herd.
man, who had also been II spoctator of the scene,
rained an alarm, which drew the attention of two road-
men and the Messrs. Ashton, of the woollen factory.
After a delay of about half an hour, they succeeded in
finding the body of the would-be assassin, but life was
pronounced to be extinct by Dr. Paton, of Morpeth,
happened to be passing at the time. It wall found
to bo that of Samuel Smith, about 70 years of age,
who formerly had boon in Mr. Blair's service, and
through his influence. as steward, had been at one time
a labourer on the Mitford estate, occupying a cottage
int far from Mitford Church. It is said that two years
ago he lost his employment on the estate, hut con-
tinued to reside in the cottage, and that in November
last he reoeived notice to quit it. The body was re.
moved to the Abbey Mali to await an inquesr.
Oa an examination, Dr. Bose found that Mr. B'air
hail been shot on the right side of the face and head,
the breast and right arm, about 13 pellets beirg lodged
in these parts of his body. Mr. Bliair's condition was
not regarded as dangerous, and the medical report of
him on Sunday was that he was going on favourably.
It appears that the deceased man had purchased the
gun that morning, little more than an hour and a half
before the melancholy occurrence, at the shop of Mr.
King, Morpeth, to whom he paid 1:3 10s. for it. and
that begot by requi st a quantity of powder, No. 4
shot and pervussion caps into the bargain.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

"FEIGNED ATTACKS AND FEIGNED RETREATS!"

The Paris Government on the 29th issued the following
notice The Goes rtimPut invite the public to be on their
guard ngslint rumours which may circulate. The military
operatb ns un.lertakeu by the Government of Paris art com-
plex. They involve feigned attacks awl feigned tetrests It
is impmeibie, therefore, to prejudice anything by announcing
the capture or evacuation of such and such a position In-
dications of th it nature might reach the enemy and disclose
our plans to him The preparatory movenntuts have ha..n
ace mnpltshed by our trinps with a courage and fervour which
211 thcir chiefs with hope anti cnothience. in, view of
Imminent event., every citizen should nodeestont that his
duty is So be reserved and calm. After these innixt lc. we
shall be allowed to ctAitine l'lll,tlVo3 to saying that on the
principal points of the advance guard our troops have
ocsulned poslions which have bcea awigned them, and that
they are ready to act.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE
SHOW.

On Monday morning the inauguration of the 72nd
anniversary of the Great Metropolitan Cattle Show,
carried out nyder the awl ices cf the Smithfirli Club,
took place at the Agt 'cultural Hall, Islington, Len-
d, o. The show, upon the whole, will compare
fay. urably with any peat resoon, even with that of
l84."8, which was an exception .11y good year in the
h ~t,•ry of the Club. The entries comprise 237 beasts,
IS2 ena rf sheep, and 51 lots r f pigs, and the merry
raiz -s f r the suceeteful competlturn amount to Imme
teen £2,0, 0.

There is about the average number of Devons and
Herefords. tut there in a very considerable increase in
the shorthorns and cross and mixed breeds. The
name of Her Majesty appears very prominently as a
competitor an.ongst the firstmuritioned whilt4
ti e Prince of Wales figures in the class assigned to
he Nonf. lk and SuffAk polled men, and in that ap-
propriated to the Scotch West Highland breeds,
where he has formidable o mpetitors in the Duke of
Sutherland, the Duke of Roxburgh!, the Earl of
Southcote, Sir W. C Trevolean Bart., Mr. Mteronibie,
M. P., and other celebrated breeders.
The prevalence of foot and mouth disease in some
districts dues not apuear to have materially affected
the complett nese of the show. Every precaution has
bein taken against the possible introduction of disease,
and eadi b net as it arrived at the Hall was examined
render the direction of l'rofessor Simonds, of the Royal
Veterinary College, and this arrangement, blob was
consequent upon an order of the Sanitary and Medical
Department of the Privy Council, has given much
satisfaction.

1 he judges commenced their examination for making
awards of priz- s at nine o'clock on Monday morn-
ing, and having divided themselves int sections,
were enahkd to proceed with the awards in the
eattb, sheop, and pig classis concurrently. Sa
coin as the awards were made, the respective
pi :zee were di-tinguislred by sibbots—red indica-
ting first p:ize, blue eecond, and orange third, with
red and white for the winners of silv. r cup. The
awards were as follows, the announcement of the prizes
being posted in the order in which they were made :
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

WHAT WILL BE THE END OF IT 1

A correspondent, Who describes the Greed Duke of Mock
lenburg's movements as resembling a corkscrew, owing to
the uncertain tactLi of the enemy, says:—' Our soldiers
will give no quarter, and their exasperation knows hardly
any forbearance when they pee the peasants In the battle or
marching in troops In their blue .111110f114, with the lace or
the Mobile Guard on their trousers, they know that they
are the men who daily shoot dawn their comrades from an
ambush, and, therefore, make short work with them. The
blindness which makes the peuantm plum the musket is
Inconceivable. Their resistance in useless, as they already
feel and confess, yet their fanaticism is always extreme. Ti,
realiz, all the misery which this foolish and fruitless national
resistance brings on their families, one must see the incensed
and haughty mien of the prisoners as they are carried away
by hundreds, while the women stand weeping and wringing
their hands at the doors of the villages, or throng the
churches to pray for the rescue if the unfortunates i ut of
the hands of the Prusetans. Vet, whoever has luckily
escaped trim captivity again seizes his can, In order the
more certainly to corns to grief. In various villages I have
already beheld the most pitiable seen.. fhe fathers and
sots had teen carried off by the Bavarians or truinians as
captured Mobiles, the houses were ravaged, the hearth had
Been no fire for eight days, tee cold ashes lay in the stove,
no bread In the whole place. What will become of all these
unfortunate., and how many more of them will be created
by the war If It does not soon end?
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE ENGLISH IN PARIS.

Thb following letter has been received by Mr. Cave,
M.P., from the Rev. Dr. Smythe:—

10, Avenue Slarbeuf, Ohamps ElysSes, Pals, Nov. 20.
"My last letter to you was dated the 7th Inst. We had
hoped that before this some more happy results would have
arisen out of the attempts made by the neutral PO. ere teen
those which unfortunately now mist. Oar political st Ate
is Just the same, perhaps it is 10, ttcr ; we have no de-
monstratiens or night meetings—all is quiet but madness
and bitter determination mark the faces and the concerns.
lion of the masses. The gtnerai tone of all matters is most
pave All our meat supply Ls flutaheti, est.ept the doling
Oat of 00040 nth of a pound of hatd, badly•ouratt be,f log

each person daily7Our supply of coals is done. The gas
will be cut off on the 3011 s lust, there being only sufficient
for the use of ball.ins. Bread is plentlful—but for how
long? Our own stores of rice for the poor will be exhausted
In a week. We are going to apply to the Government to-
day, and we hope they will open their stores to us We
cm hold out for a month larger in extract of meat. The
Increase of applicants on our committee is btcomitig most
serious. Persons In the most respectable positions of lite at.
most daily present themselves, but only when their children
have been days without bread; ladles In the last stage
of consumption. In a word our Englizti community will
before long be In the most painful position. 1 take with
me lump visits Lle`dg's extract of meat, no that 1 may at
once supply the wants of persons whom I find In great
distress, and without the common necessaries of life. lll-
no, of the must serious kind is spreading rapidly. You can
sdarcely find a home without fever or smallp n; deaths from
the latter malady SD last w.ek. I could Lot In my most
depressed moments have imagin,d that our condition could
in so short a time have benome s. anxious and so heraving.
The demande ti?On my private find' are very heavy, I.ut
BM well sure that the cries of the distressed will not be cis-
regarded One of the hankers here put 00 at nip disposal.
B iron Alphonse Rothschild, hearing of my work, scot me
1,00 Wive as a donation. Cali drew all that I require
until I can get a aupply from Eugland. Our committee
expenses are 10,000 francs a month No news slate 17th of
September last. "Yours, &c,
"J. ii. 015770.
"Thomas Cave, Lei , 66, Laneaater-gate."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE SOLAR ECLIPSE EXPEDITION.

It may interest our readers to know V- at the party
of scientifbi men, with their assistants, forming the
English Eilipse Expedition, left Portsmouth, on
Tuesday, in the Urgent, to proceed to Cadiz, Gibraltar,
and. Oran, to obstrve the coming eclipse.

The expedition is divided into three parties, who
will he stationed at Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Oran, on
the northern coast of Algiers.
The series of observations to be taken may be classis
fled, as follows t—fidectroscopic, photographic, obst rs
'rations of polarisation, and the determination of the
shape and extent of the corona, by the unaided vision,
or with the aesistance of • telescope.
The apectroscopeobserrations will be mainly directed
to the corona.

The photographic results will (should the weathi r
be line) probably be of very great value, as every care
has been taken by Lord Lindsay, who goes to Oran,
and Mr. Brothers, of Manchester, who most likely
goes to Gibraltar, that thrir instruments shall be, to-
gether with their chemicals, in the most perfect order.
The polarise, pie observations will he of the greatest
possible interest, for it is the first time that anything
like as organised series of observations in this depart-
ment has been attempted.
The instructions issued to the polerisxopic party are
divided into five heads, and each observer is to take
one ; the first is to notice if there is any polarisation
of the corona ; the second to differentiate, if poseitile,
between the corona and the luminous atmosphere
surrounding the nit—the possibility of this observati
depend. on the light of the corona being strongly
polarised; the third, to use the polariscope on the
streamers. . _

It has been supposed by some that the polarisation
observed in the corona WAX due to the secondary illu-
mination, in other words, to the illumination probuzel
by reflection from clouds, &c., towards the btr;z
Now, the fourth ob-ervation is intended so far as pos-
sible to eliminate this effect so as to be able to examine
the corona, as we might say, au nature!.
The construction of corona will be particulsrly
looked after by those with plain toleneopes. 'thy
Americana have stated that during the eclipse of 1869
the shape of the corona was such as would he produced
".y the apparent overlapping of streams of light in the
shape of Gothic arches. This is a point which will also
receive attention.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

HALESOWEN.

CHAROE OF BIGANI Y.—At the Public Office, on the 2nd
just, before Mr. E. Moore, Mary Ann Warr was charged
with having, on the list day of December, 1866, married
one Thomas Allen, Charles Warr, her former husband,
being then alive. It will be recollected that the prisoner,
in conjunction with her husband, Charles Warr, were on
the 29th nit charged with stealing some furniture, the
property of Thomas Allen, and that charge being dis-
missed, the present one arose.—Acting-sergeant Kennedy
produced a certificate of marriage of the prisoner with
Thomas Allen on the 31st December, 1866, at Dudley,
and proved examining it with the register. He also pro-
duced a certificate of marriage of the prisoner with
Charles Warr, on the 19th April, 1840, at Oldswinford.
He also examined that with the register. The prisoner
married both times in the name of Mary Ann Smith.—
Thomas Warr said: I was present on the 19th of April,
1840, when *ha prisoner was married to Charles Warr.
Charles Warr is now alive, and present in Court.—
Thomas Allen said he married the prisoner on the 31st
December, 1866, at the parish church, Dudley. She told
him she was a single woman—Prisoner was committed
to the assizes, hail being accepted, three sureties in £2O
each.

-
URAND CONOERT.—We beg to call the attention of our
readers to the above concert, which is announced in our
advertising columns to take place on Monday evening
nest. It is but seldom that such an array of talent visits
Halesowen, and taking this into consideration, and the
object of the concert. We have no doubt that the room
will be crowded, and a good etun realised in aid of the
Cricket Fund.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

DRACOSIC SEVERITIES.

The Korth German Gazette, rt feeling to the reconnOltering
expeditions sent out by Prince Frederick Charles, Bays.—
. These were mostly attended with great difficulties. The
cavalry were fire! at from every farm and every distant
point. Solitary agricultural labourers at their approach
threw away the spade, .0..4 a gun lying beside them on
the ground and tired, every home became a petty faders.,
every biome a Franc. recur. Such Person, are dutlY brought
In to the general coin mandos, to whom the decision In much
c wee is Intrmted, and many of them are accumnanied by
priests, partly as Patimttors, and parr iy as actors. Everybody
taken with a gun In Ina hand, in accordance with a notice
placarded at the town or village corner, on entering Any
district, Is condemned to death. Only by Draconic severities
can this treacherous way of cern 1.. g on war be repre med.
The town. of Sem and Nemeses have been severely punished.
In the former postal eat telegraph officials were disarmed
by the inhahltants and led away prisoners ; in the latter 47
l'hians were surprised. the isolated chicer whole sent out
to get information or reconnoitre is exposed to the greatest
danger."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

Per 81b. by the carcase.
d. a. d.
Inferior beef 3 8 4 0

Bltddling ditto '''

N. d.. d.
Inferior mutton .. 3 S 4 0
Middling ditto.— 4 2 4 8
Prime ditto ...... 4 10 6 2
Large pork. 4 0 4 6
Small ditto ...... 4 66

i

P,frnennldfto.. 5 4

Veal,

4 86 4

WOOL.

Since the close of the public sales the demand for colonial
wool has teen only to a moderate extent, buyers having in
most filatures alto dy supplied their wants. Pricey, however,
have sul.d Sm. Eur.lish wool has been yeut, but steady.
Current Prtcor of English wool :—bee 085? S mthdovni
bog es. Is. 0 to Is 1.4. : half-'ved ditto, Is. Si. to I*.
41. ; Kent fleeces. ls. 21. to Is. 3d. Southdown ewes and
wetners, 104,1. to 1144. ; Leicester ditto, Is. Id. to
14d. Sorts Ckthing, Is. to ls. 444.; combing, 11cl, to
ls. 3d. per lb.
FISH.

Tickled herrings, SOL to 320., Teri, 10s. to 15e. per barrel
ditto bloater% 2a. to 41.. ; ditto kipper., 31. to U. dl. per
box; turbots, Ss. 6d. to 135. ; brill, 3.. to Go. each ;
plaice, 12.. to 18a. : trawl haddock., 10a. to 17.. per box;
soles, le. 61. to Se 101. per pair ; cod, 2.3 to £8 per score ; live
ditto, Or. to 12s. each; whiting., 83 to 12.. per basket ; eela,
11. to Is. 20 per lb. ; mackerel, Is. 6d. to 33. 60. per dozen :
emoked haddocks, 203. to 353 per barrel : lobster., 123. to
101. ; crabs. 10.. to 71s. 61, per doz ; native oyster., £lO
commona, 15. r. to Sid, per bushel.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

110P3.

Fah. supplies of hops have been on sale. Choke
qusllties have been In request, and there has also been
• tan demand. Inher deecrlptlons have sold slowly. Mid
and East Kent, rxs. to 1401. Weald of Kent, 60c to us.
Sussex, Sex to 7.e ; Farad= and cout.try, iSs. to lye&
old 2vs. to 605. pee cwt.

POTATOES.
Oily moderate en/30h* have been on este, no trade has
been fairly actlve at our qnotatioLa Ergli.sh tegenta SOL
to b3a ; Scotch Itegente, Sin. t 3 ads. Rock., az to 55e. pet
ton.

TALLOW,
The market has been firm. Y C., fpot, 431. 91. per On
Tows tallow 111. 33. nettcath.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE WAR WITH THE PEOPLE.

The German Army of the Loire, as lette, from special
correspondents and soldiers agreeing in representing, it en-
countering • more general and pertinacious resistance then
has been offered to the invader in any other port of France.
The utmost vigilance and csutlon are, therefore, necessary,
and revere reprisals have frequently to be reviled to. De.
Horn writes to the Vologne Uozette further the
Sec mil Army advance. the Mlle difficulties it meets with.
Hitherto, we had to contend with soldiers, but now best,.
the war with ohe people. Surprises of single orderlies,
small dotachmenta, provision waggons, and hold posts are
the order of the day. Every tree, it may he said, to new in-
habited, not by a charming dryad, but by • blue.hloused
Frone-lireur, who stands behind and fires the treacherous
bullet at every Emission. The Francr.Tireurs have ceased to
he a distinct class ; every peasant, every artisac, is a Franc-
Tireur."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

LOOKING AHEAD!

"The victualling of Paris alter the surrender," says a
Versailles lettur, .• is already engaging the attention of many
speculators. The • eltknown Paris banker, Al. P.rianger,
has heretundertaken to establish at Barre a large store of all
sorts of edibles and colonial produce, In order, after the ex-
pected starving out, to do a good trade. This speculation
050110, 02 coarse, be official y promoted on the German side,
to it Is not cur interest to trauguillise the Parisians as to
their future, and allow them, in the consciousness that the
future is provided for, to hold out tip to the last biscuit, If
the Parithms mean to be famished, and thus resume an
heroic attitude, they must make up their minds to btar the
consequences of this resolution, not only before, but • reason-
able time after the eventual capitulation. They are not
without warnings of this kind."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

LESS SENSITIVE AS THEY GROW
BIGGER!

Prussia effete no exception to the general rule by
which nations, like individuals, become less sensitive
as they become bigger. She has hardly deigned to
notice the accusations of cruelty which have been so
freely levelled against her during the present war by
her opponents. But Frederick the Great was less in-
different to remarks made up in him on this score, and
when in 1759 it WAS asserted that prisoners of war in
the Prussian territories were not well treated, his
Majesty caused the following justification of his conduct
to be seat to his Ministers at foreign Courts:—

It is known to all Earope that I have provided for all
the officers who are my pa oners of war, as well Swedes be
French and Austrians, not lately for the Bunghole, the Ins:
ace .mmodations and every conveniency ; having for that
end permitted them i op os the time of their captivity In nip
capital. Nevertheless, we some of them have greatly simnel
the liberty altowed them by keeping up illicit c
respondence, and by other tr tetntes with which I
could not avoid icing officueled, I have been °bilged to
came all of them to be removed to the town of Sj andan,
o hich most not be confounded pith the f.otress of that
Haw, from w lath It is entirety separrte, No.l where they
will enjoy the same ease as at Berlin, but will be more
narrowly observed. Thin is a reeolution no one can blame,
lam sufficiently authorined 101 l by the law of nation., and
by the powers who are leagued against me—the Court of
Vienna having never 'oilseed any of my officers that have
fallen into their- hands to go to Vienna, arid the Court of
Itu,la having sent flume of them even to CU.. How-
ever, as my enemies let slip no opportunity of blacksuing
my most innocent proceedngs, I have thought proper to
&Natant you with my reasons for making thLs alteration
with regard to the otticon who are my prisoners, 6cc.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

DEAD OR vicromous?

The following is a copy of a document found in the
pocket of one of the French eoldiere taken prisoners at
Brie, after the great sortie from ParM

" Soldiers of the Second Army of Paris,—The moment hat
arrived to break the iron circle which has too long enclosed
you, and threatened to stifle you by a slow and dreadtul agony
Up in you has devolved the honour of attempting this greet
undertaking That you mull prove yourself worthy of ,tl am
convinced. Doubtless, at that our task will be difficult. We
shall have to overcome set is, obstacles. We most face them
with calmness and resolution, without exaggeration's without
weakness. llere lathe truth. At the outset, touching our ad-
vanced posts, we alien flud implacable euemle!, rendered confi-
dent and audacious by too iresiueut wooing. A *mutt effort,
therefore, will be required, but it will not be beyond your
poweis. In order to prepare for your action the foresight of
him who holds the chief command over us haa aczumulated
more than 400 pieces of artillery, of which at least two-
thirds are of the largest calibre. o material obstacle can
resist it, and to enable you to cut a way out you will be
more than 150,0,0 men, well armed anti well equipped,
idemdantly provided with ammunition, and I venture to
hope, all animated by an irresistible ardour. Victorious in
the first t cried or the struggle, your slice AN is assured, for
the enemy h is directed to the banks of tile Loire the greater
number and the nest of his soldiers. The heroic and suc-
ctsidill tft orta of our brothers detain them there. Courage
and eontidence, then. Remember that in this supreme
struggle we tight for our honour, our liberty, the salvation
of our dear and unfortunate country ; and if this thought
be insufficient to stir your hearts, thick then of your wasted
fields, your ruined families, your sisters, wives, mothers
rendered desolate. May these recoils ctlons produce on
you that thirst for vengeance, that Intense passion which
mutilates me, and Inspire you with a contempt for danger.
For myself, I am resolved and pledge my oath before you all
and bet re the entire nation that i will not re-enter Para
meld either dead or victorious. You may see me fall, but
you will never see me draw back In that case do not
hesitate, but avenge me. Forward ! then, and may God
protect us.
The General In Chief of the Second Army td Paris,
" Paris, Nov. tS." "A. Di ,I;f
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE WAR.

FRANCE.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

RESIGNATION OF GENERAL
AURELLES DE PALADIN.

FIGHTING AT BEAUGENCY.

General Aurelles de Paladin has resigned hie
command, and has been appointed the command
of the Camp of Instruction, at Cherbourg.

PAltlB, December 6.
General Dacrot has issued the following order
of the day :

" VINCENNES, Sunday.

" Soldiers,—After two days' glorious battles,
I have made you recross the Marne, but I was
convinced that further efforts would be fruitless
in the direction in which the enemy had time to
concentrate his forces and to prepare means of
action kind we persisted in that way, I should
have uselessly sacrificed thousands of brave
wen. Far from aiding the work of deliverance,
I should have seriously compromised it, and at
the same time led you to an irreparable disaster ;
but the conflict has only ceased for a moment.
Let us resume it with courage. Be ready. Com-
plete with sped your ammunition and your pro-
visions. Above all, raise your hearts to the
height of the sacrifice which is demanded by the
holy cause for which we must not hesitate to lay
down our lives."

A grand movement of troops is going on in
Paris, and fresh offensive operations are expec-
ted. All permissions to leave the city have been
suspended since Sunday morning.
Uenerals Trochu and Ducrot are still outside
Paris. Although the troops have recrossed the
Marne they ale occupied with the construction
of strong batteries.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE TWO DOVES.

0 Dove, that in the young E.rth's day of doom,
When the Henna's fl nsigates stood no longer wide,
Loosed from the Ark, a white glean!, en the glom,
With weary wing sought land above the tide—
Though long anti lone thy Hight, a hauler quest
Was thine, 0 Dove, than that whereon they speed.
The progeny, that o 'Cr Earth's blomdstained tread,
From Paris wing their way, In her last aged.
Thy quest was gained, the foot's-breadth of dry land,
A patch of green above the waters grey,
Wnere ',ranch to test on, twig to pluck, might stand,
Which won, thou couldst wing hack thy happy way.
Bat these—iii vain some point of ruth they seek,
Rising shove 114 Ar's set of blood and fire.
N tit flod one spray, crren still, hold ft nod and wreck,
Of Paace's stave, that crowned thy desire '—Put.dt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

CALLING M. THIERS AS A WITNESS I

A Gorman paper, which recently quoted 11. Thiers in proof
of the right of the conqueror to inners slice of hisopponent's
territory, now calls him as a witnese to the propriety of
refusing victuelllng during an armistice. Dlring the siege
of Mantua its 1706 the French Government wished for an
armistice, to include the victualling of the !serene, but
General Bonsparte elected, and •• bin reasons," &eye 11.
fhiers to his history, •• wereercelient. The other advantages
of the armistice, for the sake of which the capture of Pdantua
would have been delayed, were insignificant, while the
armietice plainly pot this result In jeeparsiy. SI aulue, full
of sick, and placed on half rations, could have held nut a
mouth at longeek The means of subsistence lotreduced
during the armistice would have restored health and strength
to the gaieties. The quantity of them could w t have been
erectly measure' ; the commandant might, by economy,
have drawn from them the means for a perfectly new resist-
ance ; all our former victories would have been fruitless, we
should have had, after the interval, to begin all over again."
Read Tarts, it is remarked, for klantua, and .11oltke for
13otaaparte, and the rdasoniug is equally cogent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

PIG 3.

CLASS 64. Pigs of any white breed, above 9 and not ex.
needing 12 months old. Fast prizd, £10; secord priz r. 05,
Withhold, that class not being of sulticrent merit. Three
entries,

CLA,S of any white breed ahoy. 12 and not ex-
ceeding 18 mon,ha oh! First i.rlzi, £lB, It. E. Dip. kering
bud Son, Northorpe, Kirlon Lindsey, Lincoln, 11 month.;
Second pees, £5. John Lynn, Church Farm, &piston, Gran-
tham, 17 months.

CLASS 86 —Pigs of any bisek breed not exceeding 9 months
oil: lint prise, El% John Roberson, Bayfordbury, bxy ford,
tlerts, 8 months; second psi/A, £5, John Coate, Liammoon,
Blantord.

sa 67 —Pigs of any black breed above 9 and not exceed-
Ina 12 months old : Ant pris £lO, A. 11o:Jan:31d Stalbrldge,
Blan.iford, 10 montha ; second prize, £5, C. 51 :Gran, God-
stone, 11 months.

LASs 69 —Piro of any black breed above 12 months, and
not exceeding 18 months old: second print £5 entaln
It P. Warren, Wortimphonae, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 15
months.

LAsS 69.—Plgs of any other breed not exceeding 9 months
old Ftrst pits% 400 Juba ligg., Cubtington, Leighton
Buts ad, Bed.. 8 months.

CLASS 70—Flga of any other breed. above 9 and not exceed.
lug 12 months old :--First prize, £10; Samuel Drum), Eye.
sham, Oxford, 9 mouth*. Second prize, £5 ; John 11:gga,
Cublington, 11 months.

31Iver Cup, valunktn, to the exhibitor for the bit pen of
pig. in any of the c.attes, to A Bo..Jfletd, t.tibridge, Bland-
ford, No. 46.1 (arta print in Class 67).

On To. slay morning the Prince of Wales viaited
the Smithfield Club Show. His Royal Highneiu, after
etsying upwards of an hour, and expressing his high
gratiticei in at the general superiority of the show,
left amidst considerable cheering.

The annual meeting of the Sruitl field Club Cattle
Show was hi 11 on Tuesday, the Earl of Fowls
in the chair, when Lord Penrhyn was elected president
for the year 1872, and the Vict-Presidents and Mr.
Brandreth Gibbs, hon. sec., were re-elected.
In the course of the proceedings Lord Powis referred
to a correspondence with M. Drouvn de Lhuys with
mord to the reising of a fund in England to assist
b.,2 ride agriculturi-its who had suffered in the French
war, and a committee to administer it. That gentle-
Hi iP, who was president of the Feenich Society of
cult ure, had obtained from the Government assurances
that every facility should be given to such distributions
of seeds or supplies which the committee might have
at its disposal. An appeal to the agriculturists of lug.
land on behalf of their brethren across the Channel,
will, there fore. ere long be n!adr.

The report congratulated the members upon the
prosperity of the Club, as shown by the financial
statement, which exhibits a balance in hand of 4:3,7t45,
aud stock ins estrd in the Three per Cents. amounting
to 4,513.
lu the course of the proceedings the noble chairman
presented the various prizes to the winners, in lien of
the ceremony of presenting them at the annual dinner
of the club, this year abandoned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?

The following items respecting the postal and telegraph
arrangtMentS in the invaded districts of France appear in
the German papers :—The couriers who bring corresp.m.leace
from Berlin to the King of Prorate now use the railway Ufar
as Lanny, 15 miles from Paris, but peas a night at Nancy, as
night journeys are still pr.rilous in many reopens. The North
(human postal department now employs in France Ill; sta
tionary and Sn ititicra,t officials, the army deld pvt, the
permanent arrangements in Alsace and Lorraice, and the
I"st-oak., In the occupied provinces beim{ all under Its
charge. The operations of these three branches extend over
5 ON mile., Andean, Dj u, and Chartres being (ho entreat.
print., and au ex, eintuu of their servi.e is coatetaphste I.
rho te'egraph stat.on• at Clermont, Verdun, Commercy,
It a-le Lido, and Tout are now open to private rf1e.1170.1 trim
German soldiers and officials to their friends, and riot versa,
fionie trilitr stations are already on the IMMO footing.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-10

THE FUNERAL of the LATE COLONEL
PEMBERTON.

The unoetentatiousnees which flunked the funeral of
Cnrisapber Peach Penibetton, eon of Major Pem-
berton, of Newton-ball, Cambridgeshire, on Saturday
afternoon Not we aamanif wit an the deep regret ehown
on the uccaeion.

When the sad news fir-t reached Newton the neigh.
bouriug gentry and the inhabitants of the village ex.
pressed their eorro e, nod tendered their condolence at
the 1 mu of one so highly esteemed and who had served
his country so welL the discovery of the body at the
mind where duty had called the deceased increased the
cleeire on the part of sorrowing friends and neighbours
to pay the last tribute of reepect, and consequently,
though the day was cold, the funeral was witnedsed by
a large number of ep-ctators.

Du-ring the morning the bell of the parish church sent
fort g its knell, and long before the hour appointed the
churchyard was filled with parishioners, principshy
of the poorer class. About half-past one o clock the
funeral procession left the Roll, crossing the park lead-
ing to the church, that being theehortret distance. lb.
-
cilia was borne upon the shoulder of the servants of
the estate, the chief msurnere following being Major
Pemberton and Mrs. Pemberton, Mr. A. Pemberton
and Mm. liughes,(brother and slater of the dt c -ased),
the Rev. S. Pemberton, Mr. Hamilton Pemberton,
Mr. H. NV. Pemberton, Major Campbell, Mr. R.
Campbell, Mr. A. thglgeon, the Rev. Mr. Hudifon,
Colonel Wale, Mr. C. Vrancis, the Bev. Mr. Durbin,
the Hon. S. D. Montague, Captain Stracey, Captain
ilislop, the Rev. A. Day. General Malcolm,
Mr. J. W. Clarke. Mr. W. }Torre'', and the
Rev. Mr. Bowling. The procreeion was met at the
west door of the church by the Rev. Profeesor 3,147 n,
who read the service in &mud impressive manner. The
church was tilled, and many were moved to tears.
The first portion of the genic° bring concluded, the
procession moved outside to the newly-made vault
where the body was to be interred. The coffin, made
of oak, wag now brought to view, and upon the braes
plate the following ingcription was engraved :

" Christopher Peach Pemberton, Captdin and Lieutenant-
Colowl. Scots Fusilier Guards. killed in the battlo of Sedan,
in France, on the 1.1 of September, 1070, uht,e attoat.c.ng
tc ith the Prustion army, as mditary tot respondent; ailed 32."
The service bring concluded, the sorrowing company
remained two or three minutes, and then moved slowly
away to the Hall in the eame order sta they came. 'The
friends and the villagers were allowed to inspect the
coffin, which was afterwards lowered into the vault,
which is made of brick and enclosed in an iro'h palisade.
The old family vault at the other aide of the church
being full. the present had to be conetructed, and the
deceased is the first deposited therein.