The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03 00:00:00

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kicks with.-hts hot. fillenciiiifiF, the solitary wales-fin:-
patient and becomes ohstreperotta Schulz wakes up, and,
rubbing his eves, looks out of the porte of his guiehet ex-
claboing " Wee ?" and Petit, of the Municipsis, prepares
for a sortie on the midnight wanderer. Untie ! thump!
kick At last a light appears to the hostelry, the door is
opened, the stranger bounds in, and RS the light falls on his
face a dark figure glldes from under a latuppoet, and ex-
claims, "it IR he!" But the door Is closed, and the soltary
stranger vanishes. The dark figure belongs to an intrepid
Special. Ile has seen the lone; It is that of the British
Envoy. He has dogged him from the Bond's-K..10, at the
pungent whteh he left him at ten o'clock, or a little liter in
the night. Fir It Is in the city of Versailles this event takes
piaci life Mr. tido Russell who is the winery stranger,
and the dark figure belongs to a very active ,pedal corm
spondent oi the prowl for Item, Mr. James would have
treated the subject In some such manner-far more artisti-
cally. no doubt-the aullect being a nocturnal visit of Mr.
alo Ronal to Count iliamarek, nAS A his return to his hotel
after midnight, and the tint "wee small hour ayont the
twal," through the silent desert of Versailles.-Tirnel
Correspondent et the Ilead•goarters, Versailles.

Vie German editon have heLd officially cautioned against
printing correspondence on military movement.
Preparations are being made at Versailles for the recep-
tion of the Kings of &traria and Wurtemberg.

Alsatian Mobiles, prisoners of war, who own retil property,
are released ••n signing a document signifying their consent
to the di:list-lotion of their land if they fight again against
dummy.
When M. Gsmbetts returned to Tours it was observed that
he came hick With clouded brow, as ii the tidings ho brought
were not the most cheeraig.
It is said to be the opinion of the °win in military
authorities that If the French army of the Loire min be sur-
rounded, ai of the Emperor Napoleon at Sedan,
before the f I• tuber the war will he over.

The N, A "as been taken im by the Berlin
banker, -•, • 1.0 public at Di, and to be
ratiskt . • the choice ot the Govern.
moot, • ,
On •, .4 telegram it Is stated that
the . Aden a letter to the Blog or
. • • answer. The Lagitlnitst agent

GENERAL CAMBRIELB' APPEAL.

General Cambriels, now an invalid at Lagrange (Ande),
write, to M. Garnbetta, rie his " natural protector" to com-
plain that while passing throngh the little town of Lesignan,
on his way from Montpellier, his carriage was surrounded
by a moo of men and women, who insulted and threatene.
him. The general is aware that the al forestal ion was own,.
to certain Journals wlalch have described him as the "tend. .r
Csolbsiels." tin is W.W.I of having abandoned the VOP
passes, which were each to defend. Ills defame is slwri.
this : Ho was wounded lii the head by a splinter from a
shell at Sedan, lie escaped to Me stares on Fentember
11 with three colonels and several ,nicer., wild, like
himself were prisoners of war, and had ref used to give the it
parole. M. Gambetta knows better than anybody how readily
the instant he arrived in Nes he offered his services to the
country and the "Republic." lie was appointed commander-
Inchief of the Belfort dial rict, and accepted it, although his
wound was far free cured. Thence he was called by
the presence of the enemy in the Vosges, but soon
found that with the 10,0000 r 11,100 badlydirmed I rdops which
he had that it was Impossible to hold the positions against
a fi roe of ii:"..(00 men with a good deal of artillery.
A Council of war unanimously agreed in his opinion,
that the right none was not to sacrifice the nu-
cleon of an Important army to a local interest, but to
Petire to Beset.; di, collect his scattered troops, and e non,
and organize them, together with reinforcements. All this
he did, lie repulsed two attacks, and for the first time sloce
the beginning of this war charged the enemy with the
bayonet Ile left behind him with hie succeuor two organized
divisions, numbering 20,000 men, a reserve of 3,000 and a
Moldie column of &GOO. And Odle he demands a emir-
martial to justify his conduct. It is remarkable that the
name of Garibaldi, with whom General Cambriels was called
upon to co-operate before he gave up his command, is not
mentioned in his letter.

• •' ` nistratton has published a notice
. 4 ling of Uhri tmas pr. sante to the
• ..is containing preeent• will not be
..• t` December. Atter this date the field.
• • rt. to tof Card them.

' he New York World has interviewed
• Zr Die," raid the ChancLll,, "the
Cr never Iv on this baok of the Shine,
• e, where I hoped should exist one great
people, and one great Emperor."

n
A n amp writes to him parents from Cherbourg
on the _ ovember that he has juat returned from a
cruise in toe channel, during winch a ve.sel havlug 2000,
Larre's of guano on hoard was captured. The prize is valued
at a mink°. The twenty persons who Ironed the crew are
prisoners of war.

The Patrie states that within a few days 100 "enormoue
boxes and case., coming from Englend, containing similes'
appliances and medicines, provistma and medical comforts,
have undyed at the Ambulance oil the Passage St Franc*
at Toure, addreved, " For the French wounded."
_

Coblenlz has now the aspect of a French garrison town.
0ft1.3111 of various deaf:Optima In brilliant ni.ifornie are to
be seen in all the streets, although of the 2,000 eflicers in-
terned there, eld or 5, 0 have dispersed themselves in the
neighbourhood, and very many have assumed civil dress.
A German Bohner before Paris writes the constant
sweetie in chicO we live, helehtened by various alarms,
especially at night, whereby the I est thing we have—sleep—
is robbed from us, tends much to increase our bitterness
against our enemies. Ilia has reached Its climax, and lean
a.sure you we shall show no more mercy. On my last field
watch I fired on peasants who wanted to smuggle forage.'
lii. observed in hospitals where wounded and dying sol-
diers of the French and German armies are lying side by side,
that the former do not bear polo so well as the latter. They
scream and howl where the Germans will not otter a sound.
Tue German soldier's fortitude in this instance is owing to
the awe he stands 10 of his superior. But when the over-
whelming terrors of inevitable death are upon them the
Germane' training breaks down, and they give the most un-
mistakeable Ogee of terror. 'lto Freuchnitui, on the con-
trary, generally shows the greatest Coolness and um; Alcorn.

M. Wr—de Fonvielle, editor of the LibertE, then pre- clareddefirtiliers and came to be members, but in con-
sented himself to speak, and was greeted with cheers. sequence of the plaintiff guaranteeing payment of Sir
He was introduced by the chairman, who called at- Minto's losses he was allowed to continue a member.
tention to his letter in The Times of that morning. On the 31st March, 1883, the defendant executed a
He was very thankful for the resolution they had deed to the plaintiff for the payment of the above
carried. He could say that he was at that moment sums. amounting to £1.,121. 3..' but Sir Mint., foiled to
in a sense a representative of the whole of France, meet his engagement, and this action was brought to
and that his countrymen would be proud to know how recover the amount.
cordially and sympathetically their position VIM aPPre- t,fr Ituasell (for the plaintiff) argued that the law of
elated in this noble metropolis of England. He had England did not render all betting illegal, but eirnply
good ground for saying that at present the Parisians refused to enforce by the aid of a court of law a mere
were quite justified in the pi sition they had assumed, betting contract. In the present instance the covenant
because from day to day without cessation they we: e to pay was under seal, and although the consideration
busily engaged in fabricating arms, iu exercising or of it was void, the covenant would stand as being good
marshalling their soldiers, iii making guns and new at common law without consideration. The case
kinds of powder ; and when they issued from behind found that according to the law of France gambling
their walls it would be to achieve the victory of re- debts were recoverable in the courts nf France where
venge. They would count their soldiers by hundreds the amounts were not excessive. The case further
of thousands, and not many days would elapse before Sound that the debt in question would not have been
that was done, held to be excessive in that country. The coura of
The meeting was brought to a close by • vote of England had in several recent cases given effect to the
thanks to the chairman, and with three cheers for law of France, by enabling parties to recover in Eng-
France. land gambling debts contracted in France and not
illegal by the law of that country, and he cited
amongst others the case of " Kemp r. Kemp," 8 Law
Reports, New Series. •
Mr. Justice Blackburn, in delivering tie • unanimous
judgment of the Cones, assented to the view or 'lie law
as laid down by the learned counsel for the pla...H
and gave judgment for the amount claimed, with e
per cent, interest from March 31. 1868.
Judgment for the plaintiff accordinkly.