The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-15 00:00:00

THE BOURBON MAIiRFEWDI

The following is the full test ~f the Proclamation of the
ounte de Chambord, some important sentences of which
were suppressed n the telegraphic despatch :
" Frenchmen ! lam in the midst of you, You have
~pened the gates of France to me, and I could not
renounce the happiness of again seeing my country.
But I 010 not wish by a proloomea sojourn to give new
pretexts to stir up men's minas, already so disturlosi
at this moment. I therefore leave this Chambord,
which you gave me, and of which I have with pride
borne the title for these last 40 years,^in the land of
exile. As I depart ram anxious to tell you that I do not
separate myself from you. France is aware that I
belong to her. I cannot forgetthatthe monarchical right
is the patrimony of the nation, nor can 1 forcgo the
duties which it lays upon me with respect to it. I will
fulfil these duties, you may take my word an an honest
roan and as a King for it. By Goa's help we shall es-
tablish together, whenever you may wish it, on the
broad basis of administrative decentralization and of
local franchises, a Government in harmony with the
real NI ants of the country. We shall give as a security
for those public liberties to which every Christian
people is entitle,' universal suffrage honestly exercised,
and the control of the two Chambers, and we shall re-
sume the national movement of the latter end of the
18th century, restoring to it its true character.

" A minority rebellious against the wishes of the
country has taken that movement as the starting-point
of a period of demoralization by falsehood, aml of dis-
organization by violence. Its criminal excesses have
forced a revolution on a nation which only asked for
reforms, and have driven it towards the abyss in which
it would lately have perished, had it not been for the
heroic efforts of our army. And it is upon the labour-
ing classes, upon the workmen in the fields and in the
large cities, whose condition has been the subject of
my most earnest solicitude,: and of my dearest studies,
that the evils of this social disorder hare fallen most
heavily. Ibit France, cruelly disenchanted by unex-
ampled disasters, will perceive that it is not boy going
from error to error that one can reach troth, that it is
not by shifts that one can escape eternal necessities.
She Will mil me, and I will come to her toed otier
with my devotion, my principles, and my Flag..
" With respect to this Flag, conditions have been put
forward to which I must not submit.

" Frenchmen ! lam ready to do all in my power to
lift up my country from its ruins, and to restore it to
its proper rank in the world. The only sacrifice that
cannot be expected from me is that of my honour. I
am and wish to be the man of my own age. I sincerely
do homage to all its greatness, and, under whatever
colours our soldiers marched, I have admired their
heroism, and given thanks to Heaven for all that
their valour has addefl to the treasure of the glories
of France. There must be no misunderstanding,
no conceahnent or reticence between us. What-
ever charges about privileges, absolutism, and in-
tolerance -or, what do I know ?—about tithes, about
feudal rights, the most audacious bail faith may lay
against me, whatever phantoms it may conjure up to
prejudice you against me, I shall not suffer the standard
of Henry IV., of Francis 1., and of Joan of Arc to lie
torn from my hands. It is by that Flag that National
unity was established, it is by it that your fathers, led
by none, have conquered that Alsace and that Lorraine
whose fidelity will be the consolation of our misfor-
tunes. It is that Flag which conquered barbarism
in that land of Africa, which saw the earliest deeds of
arms of the Primrs of my house ; it is that Hag
which will overcome the new barbarism by which the
world is threatened. I will intrust this nag with con-
fidence to the cry of our army. The army well
knows Cid, the NVlnte Flag hi4l4 never followed any
other path than that which teals to honour. I received
it as a saered deposit from tla, old King, my grand-
father, who died in exile. It has alwaysbcen inseparably
associated in my mind with the remembrance of my
distant country. It has waved over my cradle. It
will overshadow Inv grave. In the glorious folds of
this stainlesS Flag I will bring you ORler and Freedom.
"Frenchmen ! Henry the Fifth cannot forsake the
Whit, Flag of Henry the Fourth.
" Chambord, July 5, I87L"

" HENRY."

A Versailles Correspondent says that the Count de
clainilaints proclamation is considered by the Legitimist
Finals to be the death blow to their canoe. Meanwhile a
,rt lit official reply, emanating, it is believed, trom the
Legitimist deputies in the French Assembly hag been pub-
lished in the Gazette de l'Opest of Nantes, the Union de In
seethe, and the l'aion de l' (Meet. It states that the views
of the Count de Chambord I,elting to himself alone, and that
tire supporters of the principle of hereditary monarchy re.
main devoted to the interests od France, anti will not separate
themselves from the flag which she has adopted.

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
A clergyman in Connecticut boasts the title of Rev.
Hezekiah Fiddle, al).
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A Boston
.pa'per, writing of a recent addregs there,
says, ''The discourse was an hour in length, awl was listened
to with ability." This is a tirst-rate notice for the audience.
The New Harm Rqii,ter say, "In
the mtble upon Vale college, in our last issue, for ' alum
water' read Alma Mater."

A lecturer was dilating upon the powers of the mag-
net, defyhm any one to show or liaise anything surpassing its
powers. A hearer demurred, and instanced a y,anig lady
who used to attract him thirteen miles every Sunday.
Troy's affection for Albany finds expression in the
Whig of the former place, which speaks of Albany ova •‘ little
onedmuse place, made up of the legislature and another
cattle market."
A New York cemetery sculptor published thi
card —"As: the holidays are approaching, and the time for
presents is nearing, I beg to call attention to my stock of
tombstones."
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A man in New Hampshire had become so used to
matrimony, that on the occasion of marrying his fourth wife,
when the minister requested the couple to stand up, he said,
" I've usually sat." _ .

• During a trial in court a young lad, who was called
as a witness, WOO asked if he knew tlie obligation of an oath,
and where he would go if Ile told a lie, lie said he supposed
he should go where all the lawyers went to.
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The following is the idea about it of Henry Ward
Beecher —"it. will scarcely be denied that men are superior
to women, as men; and that women are hniucasurably
superior to men. as women while both of them together are
more than a match for either of them separately."

An American gentleman has recently put a revolver-
bullet through an organ-grimier who was annoying him by
playing before his study. Does that funny proceeding suit
the tastes of that large body of Englishmen who also suffer
from tho disease of organ on the hymn?
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A New York mechanician says, "I anze invented a
shaving machine to go by horse power. When it was com-
plete, I sat six men in the chairs, adjusted the belt, and drove
up. It was the cleanest shave that anyone ever got. While
It worked well enough, those soon were obliged to complain
Very much of the loos of ears, noses, and eyebrows. People
got to looking on it with disfavour, and I was obliged to turn
it into a sausage-cutter ''

Mr. John David Walker, the oldest newspaper pro-
prietor in England, and proprietor of the GlottregterJottrital,
and satttluily on hilly Walti liut. nut, and O.