The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-23 00:00:00

INCITING WAR FEELINGS.

Some of the French papers are dung all they can to excite
sugnoton and hatred of &Oniony A writer In the Fiyaro
Colic attention to toe fact that clube the Count of Filwders
it in command of the troop. at beverloo, his wife,
shyer or Prance Leopold of !Linens ,Ilera, is now at
marin,eu with her son, the hdr ",reaumptive of the
tioijniøfl Cr. kWII. "Sughl facts," he adds, ought to be
twou.tht tinder pnb.ic notice In Paris and 4:doughnut
France, for it Must not be forgotten that under the
guarantee of this so-called neutrality all our northern frontier,
from Lille to Meta is exposed." In "no her part of tile same
Journal M. Alexandre inurernoh, reerernire de la redaction.,
mentions two l.mt, !a cider to give an boa of the degree
of noun lenee to he repose:l In our Maids the Beigla n"
These facts !re that General Brialmont, who has just been
',mead in command of the corps Warn& •of Am were, three
lear. ego VIPVIsOIei an ahilsive pamphlet ag,l, u Frame. and
Eh at General Olsen .1, omtmantlet. of another co.'s d'arn.Cs, is
the same who, when r of war, In open Parliament de-
clared that he had adopted the Wahrendorf g I.lllloll—s can-
non of Promoss hunter scture—ni Os der that un the fluid t-i
tile the ll:titian mid Prussian artillery, having guns of the
some calibre, might fraternise.

THE CHASSEPOT.

A corresponkit.nt %mt., to The limes:—

Now that or is declared, a small contrOmtion to the rock
of knowledge your readers may p eters* 011 the subject of thu
military preporations of one of toe belligerents will, perhaps,
he acceptable la the curly port of the present year a con-
tract made with a London in use in the neighbourhood of
Finsbury for 50,000 ChassepOt riles was compiled uod the
weapons delivered. A sample of this formidable Instrument
was exhiniten to me by a French othimr of Engineers, and Its
capabilities explained. Tun shots per minute can he dis-
charged from the piece, time beteg allowed for raideg It to
the shoulder; twelve, if that movement is dispensed with.
I knave not how wooly more thausamis of reasons France issue
hove for uttaciong Frmsla. but cad vouch for the 50.000
re*red so. Well may Horace say, "801 l a matribur
dart!.tita."
IS THIS OUR BOASTED CIVILIZATION

To what end are education, philosophy, awl religion
spread nomad in a nation, if at the first blush of national
riealry all vanish MI o the smoke of the callow) Is this the
fruit i.f the boasted civil z iii,,. if the nineteenth century,
of increased trade and culture, of the discoveries of science,
i hat large numbers of men shall be forced Into the field to
tight and kill one another in the shortest possible space of
time? So tar as the happinees of mankind Is concerned,
better were it that we hod remained ignorant of ninny of the
powers of nature which science has brought forth
from their hidieg place, if the supreme effort of
electr'city is to result in engines of wariare which
slaughter five hundred men and horses at a sieve
blow. Happier is the savage of Central Ana or the red man
of the prairies than the clvtligal savage who has to use and
face the weapons which fire anots at the rate of thirty in a
minute. One almo4 wonders how any man id flesh and blood
with testy nerves of ordinary formation, eau be Induced to
face the horrible modes of death presented on a modern
bottle.fteld. No one but a lunatic would lace a mitrailleuse
in cold blood, or allos auwher man to fire at him for hours
with a ChassetO . era needle gun ; nut put a hundred t how
send, into a field as/ainat anther hundred thousand
the one side shouting .• Vorwarts " and the other "Eni
avant," and all th.rught, all re.• to rani, h. Mee who actor
saw each other before twh together in deadly hate, and give
their blood, their limbs, their lives, /or a cause which they
never bend of until a week before.

ENROLMENT OF STEDRNTS Al' BONN.

A correspondent, writing from Bonn on the lob instant,
says:—" Last Mot more than 1,000 students, lining the
entire number in the town belirgieg to the Univemity here,
presented themselves before the amhorities, and asked that
they might be instantly enrolled in the eel once of the country.
Feline ledlittg it serions, nut firm. Men, women. said
children are aevoted to the defence of the Fatherland."