The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

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alone, and a few nacos in advance id his staff, he walked to-
wards his carriage. I have stood close to hfin on a gee nt
many occasion. durlngithe last twenty years ; hut I have never
seen him looking no anxious and so gloomy as he looked on
this July day, since I saw him riding along the Paris B
yards—then, as now, in advance of his staff, and of his
age perhaps—on the 3rd of December liiiil Napoleon
Isnot a sovereign who is given to dancing upon a volcano,
or tin making merry with his lords, after Belshazzar's fashion
!while the. Medea and Persians are at the gate. lie looked

fully imbued with 05,-are of the tremendous reap.-
stitility he has incurred ; of the responsibility of one
ho has risked his all upon a throw, and stet toll on a long
Journey grunt Paris without taking a return ticket.
Ceenir followed the yr,ditig Augustus the
Prince Imperial, in a neat sous lleuteirdit's uniform,
carrying Ms kepi in his hand—the Emperor alone
was covered—and looking very delicate. Prince Na-
poleon was riot there. Some cries of " Vies l'Empereur !"
greeted the Emperor as he parsed, and mole were hoard I rom
the spectators outside as he entered his passage ; but, as 1
before remarked, no regular troops hod been mustered to
greet his arrival, and the Messina themselves are a lethargic
race, whose limited energies do not seem to go beyond asking
you ten francs for five hours' sleeping accommodation in a
dog kermel."—llets Correspondent of Daily Telegraph-

Mallon

- era manufacture of the Government, carried on in
Government faiffories by Government officials, since the days
of Scharnhoust, and it is not a natural product, for history
shows that the German was once a very sell-asserting, rather
turbulent, and individualising moo, who gave great, trouble
to rulers and rarely acted with his fellows for a common
obj,,cr. Now Ilia very nature Is &wised, and he has given
up his life and merged his individuality in the great national
current, which is directed by the will of a few nom, who can
guide its forces as they list. rlin Correspondent.

All the Einperora Ministers have subscribed £2OO each to
the French patriotic fund.
All the Frenoh officials who received Fru, shin order 7 alter
the Exhibition of 186 T have returned their Insignia to King

A story is told of a French conscript who the other day
asked his sergeant how far it was to Berlin. Berlin, con-
script, is 300,000 Prussians off" This movie of measurement
was not foreseen in the meta foal system.
The emissaries of some Prussian bankers have been de-
tected in conveying gold to Prusda. On this, says a patriotic
stock jobber, we may allow the Prussians to draw first on the
bank of the Rhine, but not on the Bank of Prance.
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In agent o the Austrian Government has. it is said, been
Sent to Florence to agree with the Italian Government upon
a Common policy towards the belligerents to be followed by
Austria and Italy.

A correspondent of the Indep•ndance Belga states that the
inhabitants or the little town of Osterode have offered a re-
ward of 10,0 0 thalers to whoever shall take the Emperor of
the French, dead or alive.

A letter from Havana In the New York papers states that
an agreement has been entered upon by Prussia and Spain
for the transfer of the sovereignty of Cuba, under certain
stipulations to Prussia
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The French War Office ls collecting a great number of
mules for the army. Three new regiments of Tereus are
being ridded in ALerla, and there is talk of another forps
d'arne4e being formed at Chalons.
The following Bavarian Princes are named as taking part
In the campaign :—Otho, brother to the King ; Luirpold,
uncle to the King, with frissons Louie, Leopold, and Arnold;
and Duke Emmanuel, brother to the Empress at Austria.
At a meetlnv of Oraugetnen, held on Tuesday night at En-
niskillen, speeches were made condeumatmy .oi France, and
extolling Prussia. It was resolved to meet 'hi thousands"
at Dromard on the 12th, for the purpose of expressing sym-
pathy with Pruszia.

In Ireland horses are still in demand for the Continent
and the price of chargers and draught horses has risen con-
siderably. Fay left Dublin last Fiiday ; 18 were purchased
by a dealer who has generally bought for French use, but may
have changed his account, as he is a German. The rest were
selected by a Belgian agent.
The Danish government is showing great apprehension; it
seems that it is not at all sure of being master of the situation
if a French fleet appears in Danish waters. The journals
called nationalist exerc,se a paramount influence on public
opinion, and they all side with nance against Prussia.
On Friday night the corrwponflent of a Belfast paper was
arrested at Meta lie was found hi the camp at balf.pist ten
o'clock at night talking with soldiers, al ci eking for an
Officer Who,e name WRY unknown to any one. Ile WWS sent to
the central poet to spend the night and to been mined on the
next morning by the Pinvo:-Geueral. Ills pap -re seem to
have been In miler.

Ott dit that a gentleman well known In sporting circles,
and who is said to have potted a heavy slim ou the last Cork
races. has staked £3OO to £l5O on $l.O 'first knock down" In
the p eaent war. Hi/ has ffered the odds that France wins
the first battle, and rds offer has, it is said, been taken.
I he war has Its ludicrous aspects as well salts serious ones
At Canihral n person was arrested on suspicion of [along
notes of the numbers and armaments of the troop.. lie was
subjecied to an examination, when it was discovered that he
was the village pedagogue col racting his comi.ositlon
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" A Prussian," says Fire°, 'excused himself for not
being itt a hurry to leave Par:s by the following observation:—
. You see, P.ris is, in fact, one of the largest German towns ;
there are here 200,000 Germans, and on the other side of the
Rhine, with the ex,eptiou of Vienna Berlin, and Hamburg,
there is no town In which we are so numerous.'"
Three Prussian splits (genuine one?, let it be hope-I, this
time) are led in, with their hands fastened behind their
hacks, with a sort of dog-chain, with a brass padlock of the
pattern we me to our hat b ,zes. They are twilournt,
comm, n-looking tOres, in dirty blouses ; more of the
"casual" io their countenances than of Major Andre "—Front

Camp at Metz. •
'lnere Is au emliarrasrnent of riche. in B.rlln just now. The
numerous mu nrada of the German Houses when names may
he found in the A manack of Gotha have come here to de-
mand military service, ano in many instances their demands
have met with a refusal simply because there was and Is no
stuff employ for them. It has been half seriously proposed by
cone to loim them into a corps d'ilite, no many and so keen
are they.
With regard to the feeling with which the straggle between
France and Germany is viewed in America, the New York
Journal of Commerce says that it le not very e ,nest tither
way. 'I here is c moidered to be nothing in the nature of the
quarrel and nothing lathe current of national rympathy that
would incline the Americ in people as a whole to in ropathize
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with the one against the other.
French accounts of some fron'ier skirmishing which to,,k
plane on the 20th ult. state that, when the advanced posts on
either win were bOO metres apart, the Prussians firee, but
their bullets fell Ilk metres short, The French then tired,
and, though they missed at the tint volley, at the second
w me Prussians fell.
The Paris LibertJ has printed a sensation canard, in which
the name of our gracious Sovereign is most impertinently in-
troduced, to the effect that England is about to occupy
Antwerp, and thrt atoning England with pains and penalties,
Ac. A mere contemptuous notice of such canards is all that
they are entitled to.
" The Empress Eugenie who daily receives religious con-
solation from the Able Caner, came into Paris, on Sunday,
iu a very unpretending brougham, anti spent an hour on her
knees befote a statue of the Virgin in the Church of Notre
Dame des Tictoires. her Imperial Majesty has great faith
in this Madonna, to whose intercession she ascribe, her
sudden elevation to her present rat.k."—Correspoudent of
Daily Nam
A committee tor the relief of wounded German soldiers is
about to be formed in Upper Styria.
ulo the appeal which

has been publish( d by the promoters it is said that they witl
only collect for the soldiers of German nationality, and not,
as done by the similar committee in Vienna, for all the
wounded a ithout distinctto? of r‘!cis. The appeal concludes
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by Baying that the people of Styria do not underatand that
view, and decline to have anything to do with the Fret oh.

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It appears from the report of the select committee
appointed to control the kitchen and refreshment rooms of
the lions, of Commons, that during the present session up
to the 23rd of July, 6)t dinners and 4,912 luncheons were
served. The committee observe with great satisfaction that
the proposed alterations for the better accommodation of
members are about to be carried out by next session.
"Ou the subject of the Secret Treaty the seml.official
papers c,mthlue to misquote what is said In the English
Parliament and the Elialish papers in the most bare-
faced manner. Toe mouse now urged for Of. Benedetti is
that when he simnel he was more Prussian than Count
Bismarck."—Pull Mall Gazette.

While Spain, from her ger graphical situation, seems likely
altogether to e cape entanglement in the war, it is certain
see will benefit largely from the demand it will create for
her proonce, liar harvest this year has been abundant, and
it is stated that during the past week purchases of wheat,
wine. brandy, Sm., have liven made there on account of the
French Government to the amount of £3,20,0,0.

An appeal made by the French "National Society rot Help
to Wounded Soldiers in Time of War" at Paris has been
followet by numerous offers of service from Buricoll9 and
hospital students. Stores of surgical materials of all kinds
have been rapidly developed. Ambulances are being our,
and the personnel of the first ambulance has teen
completed. A chaplain, purveyor and assistants, and mule
transport conductors, will De attached to each ambulance.
The Emperor's incognito departure from Paris produced a
bad erb•ct among the lower orders, who infer from it that he
did not go willingly, that his health is bad, and indulge in
other unfavouranle suppositions. It excited remark also
that he di/ not mount his hone to make hie entrance into
Mets. but went from the railway station In an open coinage.
There was, however, heavy rain at the time.
Lord Augustus Loftus has received an official commnnica-
Bon from Baron Thile to the effect that the King's
Government has resolved not to permit any foreign corre-
spondents to go wi, h the armies into the field, considering
Ito AMT., which may arise from the tranemisolon of news
relating to military operations. This answer has been com-
municated to those interested, awl of course L ird A Loftus
cannot tuterfere with the discretion of Ministers in such •
Question.

There is assuredly no lack of heart in this war on the side
of the people of Berlin ;wriiess Correspondent) The societies
for help to the soldier and the associations with patriotic
objects, which it would he offensive to cell charitable, en-
large daily, and iii. a sight to see the railway station when
a regiment Is starting Irontierwarda filled with the agents,
male and female, of the e bodies, supplying the men with
beer and little articles likely to prove useful in campaigning.

On both sides the want of -horses is most felt. The-Pi:Mule-1i
army not long ago mustered not a number f cavalry horses,
and these have now to be got back. The French ate above
all ill off for artillery horses. groin early morning to evk Ong
the peasants are bringing in their horses to Meta, where they
get prices which they never could have dreamt of miderother
circumstances As the hay crop has been very poor this year
they are so much the mole willing to get rid of their horses,
which they would hod considerable diffiality in maintaining.
The seven members (including there) who voted on
Tuesday night against the grant of £2,000,000 for incensing
the aim), were Ur. Geo,ge Anderson, metnh, r for Glingow
Mr. Alfred ihingworth, member for Kr.reshorough ; Mr,
Charles Reed, rlembtr for Hackney ; Mr. Henry Richard,
member for Merthyr Tydfil : Mr. Peter Rylands, member for
Warrington ; Sir Wilfrid Lawson, member for Carliale ; and
Mr Thomas Potter, member for Rochdale.

Marechal Ler,etit's little speech to the sin young Garden
3.lobles who are now his secretaries seems to have been very
much to the purpuse: •• ilentlemen, we are beginning the
campaign ; we will live well when circumstances are favour-
able ; when we can get nothing, which may happen, we will
buckle our waistbands in tightly. You will hove much work
and little rest, my es'eem. the certainty of being useful to
your country, and on the leant indiscretion a ball through
your head. And now, gentlemen, break up."

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The Exchange Garetec in speaking of Russia, says:—" We
ought to maintain an absolute neutrality, but an armed
neatrality. We ought to wet. Austria, and not allow her
und,v any pretext whatever to take part in the conflict. To
attain that end, we must be prepared to silence her its an
Instant. iii course, we cannot prevent Austria from taking
her revenue for Sadowa ; but our own interests, as well as
those of. Europe, imperiously demand that such a revenge
should out be accomplished during the Franco .Prussian war,
because Austria's intervention would bring a general con-
flagration."
M. ()Ulster has had an interview with the representstivee
of the principal Paris newspapers, and has expressed a hope
that it will not be necessary to have recourse to vigorous
measures to enforce the new press law. The Government
did not intend to forbid accounts being published of events
which had already occurred. With regard to the admission
of newspaper correspondents to headquarters, M. °Disler
said the matter rested with the Emperor slid Marshal
Lebomf, who had not hitherto been in favour of granting
permission.

"By the-bye, I ought not to omit to tell you that the cor-
respondent of one of the French papers on his way to
Chalons fell In wilh a striking character, who turned out to
be no other than James Stephens, the Fenian leader. The
French correspondent describes trim as a man of singular
intelligence, speaking French very purely though with a
strong English accent. They dismissed together all the
European conipllcatlons actual anti possible, and Stephens,
of course, declared himself strcngly in favour of France."—
Correapondent of Globe.

"Lint" was a prominent word on Monday, In almost all
the non-diplomatic or non-warlike telegrams; and we say
unfeignedly that "lint" is a good and seasonable word. While
diplomacy " may signify a vile mixture of cunning and of
falsehood, and "civilisation" is confounded in Imperial pro-
clamations with the Chassepot and the mitrailleuse, "lint"
seems to he the on, noun-substantive which the frightened
lips of Peace, wishing good will towards men, can venture to
pronounce.—Daily Telegraph Leaner.
The Abhbar (Journal aays that Mita are
being organized on au extensive scale in Algiers for ttie funds
in aid of the sick and wounded. Extra representations are
given at the theatres. The ad vertisenieuts of these read
curiously enJugh. "La Marseillaise "Is sung by the opera
company. Among the pieces are—. Bismarck; on, Le Marc
rebouilli ; actuallts condone," and " Les %Ins du Chin."
The subscription list has been responded to alike by c ,kniets
and natives, Jews, Arabs, and Moors. A merchant sends
10,000 packets of tobacco and the same number of cigar,. On
all sides the war fever seems to be raging.
The Internatii nil SLciety, which was founded at Geneva a
few years ago, is represented at Brussels by a number of
active and generous gentlemen, among whom it is only fair
to mention the chairman, N. %leachers, who was vice-presi-
dent of a pe. ce congress in Paris a few years ago A lady of
the aristocracy, the Barone, de Crombrugghe, also ;Ate at
the board. She was received by the Queen, who graciously
deigned to patronise the institution. In the meantime the
municipalities and private committees are at work to help
the wivee, children, and families of the poor fellows who
have been recalled to the army after having obtained a pro-
visional discharge The King subscribed sum of 25,0001„
and the Count of Venders 10,0001.
A young volunteer has Just Joined the French whose case
Is sontewhat remarkable. The Vicomte Ulric de Cloy la only
seventeen years of age, and narrowly escaped death only two
months ago from an accident with firearms. Ile might well
have lit ea excused from serving, but nobleible oblige, and he
has enlisted for the duration of the war. The strange part
of the story is that the young Vicomte is a grandson on his
mother's side of the Duke of Brunswick who commanded the
combined Gelman armies and melt at Jen and of the other
Doke of Brunswick 5 ho fought heroically at the head of his
hussar. AWL was killed at W aterloo. A French paper dratt s
this moral from the occurrence, that the cause of Prussia is
not that of Germany ; that the best friends of the great Ger-
man people desire the chastisement of the " vulture Bis-
marck.'