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

KINGS AT THEIR OLD WORK AGAIN!

But those who are looking on the political facts wander
from the theme, fascinated by the sudden horror of the thing
—dazed by the gleaming ont of this ghastly warelire In
Elope. By-11.41-07, there is too little room to doubt, when
the armies have settled to their dreadful task, and attention
is held fast by tierce battles upon the scene, the fact of the
war will be realised, As yet little things, rather than great,
. are explaining to the reluctant news of Christendom that
the old sanguinary business of all human history is to be
renewed, and that Kilter are at their traditional work again.
For ex mole, here is a slight, nut suggestive. Piece of sow.
I " Two Imodren arid thirty-four case. ~5 surgical instrummts
, wore sant by express of the Bunton Railway yesterday alter-
bums to the frontier" What a continent lies here upon
. "glory 'arid the "soldiers of Jose"! Yet we all gt ieve, In
ludicrous inconsistency, at the casualties of a railway acci-
dent ill Yorkshire or Provence. Sme we Meting out
the "state of war" by the au 'den interruption of plea-
sant travelling plaits for the trimmer. The Enloe had be-
nine within three days a tns.e, with furious 111111 Ti mar-
ahal led on either bank. The railways will soon 141 reserved
for the purposes of war; the ancient towns aid lovely scenes
which thousands of viatto's were preparing wul be centres
of deadly danger; Sllti while the first reoilar battle is de-
layed, there lea rush of that I people homeward, meeting
another rush of young Prussians and Germans, who are
summoned to the defence of Fatherland. We shall all, then,
for one more geoeration say f are wen to the dreants of bro-
therhood, the gentle allid lofty hopes of science, awl the
promise of the angels, " Pmee on earth, goodwill towards
emit !" How hollow and far-muff the music of those w•nda
s-mial in this rattle of arms amid rumble of artillery ! Man,
well descrioed as the only carnivorous animal which is also ere-
garims, fins at present larger erodes and better inventions
of bloodshed than he over had heirs ; and the world, linked
together by electric wires to onj .y the news all at once
gathers rain,' the two great military nations of Europe to
watch it dearlestruggle which will he cheaply finbthed for a
hundred thousand human telegraph,

NO LOVE LOST!

A correspondent writes :

I am afraid that the French do hate the Prussians cor-
dially. I remember to have been in France at the height of
the Crime n root; hot rarely, either In society or among the
common people, were any expretdoi s of diroot or personal
against Busda to Inn heard The French fought
wAh the Itundans, brit stewed to like them nevertheless; 'ilia
they Were food of remembering that the Cossacks in 1515
never did much more than to drink up all the oil in
the street-lamps At Citnillat, Anti eat up up all the tallow
cmdles in the department of Indre-et.L.ire. But very dif-
ferent Wf. the case with the Tire la no don it
that their behaviour hi Paris aft.r Waterloo was abominable
They nauked the Palace of St Cloud: they wantonly destrmed
the lama, 111,1111(NCLOry St E+s, 111 l ; and, brit o. toe inter-
ha time t,I the Doko of Wellington, anti that hero's judiciously
making Field-Marshal Balcher ezwedingly drunk at a dirtier
at Verey's, the Prussians witthl certainly have blown up the
bridge of Jena. Wherever they a ere quartered in the
country distlicts of France, they stole everything thy
could lay their hands upon, mud what they could
not carry away they burnt. The sons and grandsons
of the people thus noutreated by Blllaher's soldiery are not
very likely to hold the actual Prussian nation or army in
very great favour: nor, without some hi 4erness aud gnash-
ir g ot teAlr, do they recall the tact that William 1., the
reigning Hohenzollern, actually, as a atripting Peineeformed
tart 11 that hunattt, acorn. til costoge of allied Soverettrts
and Gent rale, tab:trod° into Parts ono in triumph along the
toulevards aftta. the I'd! of Napoleon. The long em-Older-
hg hatred between Frenchmen and Prussians was very
ro.atly leaping up into fierce dame in the Exhibition year
Phil, end Or the Chants de Mars itself, when the North
German workmen, on the occasion of a.m. na,hnial anni-
versary, had the Made!. had Mate to dr,s, up Kropp's gull
and a brotaa equestrian statue of some fioltenz tilers a rth
branches ot buret. Toe FreroM workmen were 60 enraged
at tbre that they were with d Acuity prevented from pitch-
ing liqi.po's putt and the bronze liohenZoilern into the St-lie,
%rich contiocent of Pruwiatt workmen to keep those reit v
company. these are among the reasons why, in Paris, the
very idea of ear with Prubala is all but univenially popu-
lar.