The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-13 00:00:00

TRAVELLING IN FRANCE.

A Correspondent writes to Inform us { Titnei) that travel-
ling titre:nate /francs Is perfectly easy. Ile bed just passed
from south to north, and both In the more frequented towns
f Prentice and In the less ko:wn districts of Auvergne he
bad found h's movements perfectly free. Ile was never
Once, In a journey extending over a month, asked for his
paesport tilt ho came to the neighbourhood of Versailles. At
Bream., a few miles short of Juvity, the present terminus
Of the Orleans Railway on the Paris Ode, It FM asked for
and examined, and again at the entrance to Versailles and
at Amiens to all capes the greatest civility was eh two, and
the examinstion wee not rigorous. It may be useful to our
leaden further to know ha: It is possible, by leaving °deans
at 13.t0 am , to reach J artily and delve through Versailles to
8: Goon L'Aunione the station on the Calais line (Cron' end
St Usnist, In time to catch the dr o'clock evenh g express
for &Vend. The drive Is a charmiug one, through the
towns of Savlgny and Lonti Lute en to Versaillee, and thence
by Bt. Glertualn-en-Lnye coo she Frost of St. Germsin to 3'.
Once. There Is no time to spare, but with good hones there
need be no hurry.

Seven Farts newspapers were supprested on 8 Anrdsy by a
thence of the Commune. Among them Is the Tempe
. . . _ . . . .

The expl story chapel of Louis X VT Is, In v;rtue of a decree
Of the Corned Ate of public S linty, to be demolished within
a week from the Oh of Ms) ) Three decrees are now
dated according to the old It3itOllcala Calendar of 1703.
Li the coil at Masts In which Clnreret Is confined them are
Inscribed these words Citizen Clusimet, you have abut me
In hero I expect to see you here in a week —General
liergeret."
The state of the Parts streets brill is all description. An
Englishman lately asking the reason of Cal. Inexplicable
accumulation of horrors on thepavernent of the public way,
was coolly told that all the street sweepers being now em-
ployed as members of the ilaveroment, there was no one left
to cleanse the mitten.

The Paris re lap which has just been suppreesed by the
Commune Is now published at Sc. Germain-en- Laye, Where it
has for some little time issued an edition for the provinces.
fne Tempe declares that it ,t supf„rtsalon is an honour which
it had been expecting, and that the delay of the Commune
In decreeing It cal a kind of Insult.
The Dady News' Special Correspondent. in Paris says that
the precl onatton of M Tillers to the Inhabitants of the city
Is scare likety to be fay nimbly received. The Commune
may be hated, he add., but the Vermilion Government is
certainly not loved. M. Thiers will be very much mistaken
If he supposes that thorn Pi a vast majority to Paris awaiting
him as a deliverer.

turday's Journal o,beitl publishes a statement of the
(urea at the dispoaal ot the Parts Ineurgents. The total
number of the National Guards upon whom the Commune
can now c:.,unt is said to be 190,425 Of these 102,f5i
answered to their llama when the muster roll was called
over on the .lth. A Parts Correspondent says that although
these troops are undisciplined and unsteady, sometimes
fighting wonderfully well, and at other times giving way to
panic, they are now being thoroughly reorganised, and are
Uaely to 0111180 Marshal Macltakou a good deal of trouble.

THE LONDON INTERNtTIONAL
EXHIBITION. 1-

The first shilling day (Monday) fouild a large influx
of visitors to the International Exhibition. The pre.
dominating class of visitor was not, however, ad might
naturally be expected, of the &Wean or workman type,
the majority being well-to.do folks, with a strong
sprinkling of" carriage " people. During the day,
members of both Itousea of Parliament and well-known
notabilities from the shires were mingling with the
throng, and the picture galleries received an average
share of patronage; but the humbler visitors seemed
to care but little for what WBA to be seen above stairo,
and if they came there looked ili at ease, and corn
departed. Next to 1.-gnault's sickly feast of blood,
Laily Giodiva and Millais's Knight and Lady,
attracted the thickeet groupa, all classes acknowledging,
by their lingering no Ling, the apell under which the
resptclive artists had placed them.

The Machinery department, on the groundffleor,
wan always well patronieed, especially where the din
was 'midriff and the motion most bewildering. The
polished mahogany, and steel burnished like silver, of
which some of the machines are made, the West coun-
try and Lancashire operatives who attend to their
wants, and the clatter and shrieking which from morn
till night call aloud for an audience, are sufficient to
make the annexe a popular resort.
'I he first question seked by some of the country
visitors who appeared, was as to the whereabouts of
the sheep and hair.producing animals. These interest-
ihg objects were more complaisant than is their wont,
and, tempted probably by the spboadiel sunshine of the
earlier part of the day, came out of their retirement
and submitted to numerous digs in the ribs and
ticklings in the neck. The only exception was an mi.
pleasant-looking creature with a camel's head and neck,
and a low, long, ragged body. She had a camel's
temper, too, and rewarded any one who attempted to
pet her with a spitting operation the reverse of
agreeable. Thin was the huanaso. A male llama,
presented to the Zoological Society this spring by
the Duke of Wellington, lodges next door, and a
most comfortable.looking beast he in. Some of
Miss Burdett Coutt'e alparcae are in an adjoining
pen—the llama and alpaca bring the tame, as the
Huanaco and Vicuna were the wild wool and hair pro-
ducers of Central America centuries ago. The two
moufflons were bred in the Z ,ological Gardens, are the
only wild sheep found in Europe, are indigenous to
Sardinia and Corsica, and look more like genteel goats
than cheep. A far different character must be given to
the Cashmere shawl goat, whoee long, heavy, curled
horn appeared to make his head ache, and his longhair
surrounded him like a curtain which dragged the
ground. There is a tine specimen ot the fat-tail sheep,
brought by the Duke of Edinburgh from India, and
rent by him to Regent'e-park. The animal is black
with a tail an broad as a ehoveL The Merino rains
belong to Messrs. Sturgeon, Sons, and Co., of Gray's
Hall, Essex, are more valuable than beautiful ;
George 11. imp Tted the breed from Spain ;
but there is only one flock said to be left in the
country. Cragged with the Cotswold sheep, a
good breed is produced ; but for cloth soft wool the
Merino stands alone in his glory. Messrs. Dunn, of
Wragley, Gloucestershire, have sent superb specimeas
of the big Lincoln sheep, celebrated for its long, coarse,
deep•grown wooL The fleece of one of the ewes
exhibited is twenty pounds' and the wool fifteen inches
long. The Cotswolds sent by Mr. Brown, of Andovers.
ford, Gloucestershire, are also long.woolled •' but the
wool is finer. The Cotswolds are the oldest breed in
England. A Dorset ram lent by Mr. James, of
hlatrowden Court, Dorsetshire, completes the collection
of live muttons ; but there are stuffed specimens of
Shetland sheep within doors, and an abundance of
II eces.