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

THH NAVAL FORCES OF PRUSSTA.

The King of Prunus offers to charter and arm at his ex-
pense any bomber of ships that will take p.rt in the pending
hostilities The crews will have to ha supplied toy the owns!'
'abject to the approval of 11,ivernment. They will wear the
uniform of the Federal Navy, and be treated in every respect
on an equal rooting If a ship thus chartered be Injured or
destrmed, she will be paid for by the Government; if. on the
°tin r hand, she capture or destroy a hostile vessel, she will
receive a premium of 50,000 (haters for an iron.eafed frigate,
30,000 thalers for an irowcased corvette or ram, 20,000
tinders for an iron battery, 15,000 tbalers for a screw-vessel,
and 10,0(0 thalera for a screw of smaller
_dimensions. if
_ .

a ship ls neither her,elf injured nor successful in 'Wining the
enemy, she must content herself with the pay of her crew
and with a hire amounlue to one-tenth her value, which is
awarded on the charter party being signed.

WAR TO THE KNIFE!

Would you like the latest r.. of Paris society? It is
that Bismarck would willingly aci, pt a great de eat, and
would then say to France, 'Take what Rhineland you re-
quire, but for the future leave us to do awe lake in Germany.'
Impossible as this may seem to you, such a terminaiion to
thia war, which Is ruining both countries, would not surprise
me. I said ruining., for already some score of tradespeople
have toll me that if the war lasts six months their ruin is
inevitable. I fancy, too, that the war, if not carried by a
areq, de tactin—! hat is my hcpc—will last 1, months, per-
haps years. France is resolved not to make peace unlees ahe
can do en not only with hearnr hut wi-h glory, and with a
feeling that she has closed the tract European wars at least
for a generation It is an awiul thing to write, but it is
true, that the feeling of France—l do not ray of her ruler,
who is a state‘man, or of his NPrihtera, who are men of the
world, but of France pure and simple—is war to the knife
fits a war of revenge, and tithe to vendetta non restart° in
Corsica.' Plow the French people hate the Prussians you
Oust live here to know. If my private letters tell the truth,
the "maims are equally bitter."—Correspondent of the
Daily Teo-7,'Fh•

THE " SHIN-27" WILL BE TAKEN FROM BIM.

There was one who entered the same compartment of
the tennis and travelled with sue to Meta, ales was a perfect
study. lie was, new as cream chesse, as new as • hot roll,
Sinew as anew-laid egg. Ile was a;I new. The broadcloth
of his tunic was glossy with the last touch c' '• t and
had the sultry smell of hid-pruning. Li is bliss • -
So many little planets dark-blue flisualm•nt oA cat.
His panto/on garante ulus,lort as though Aurora of the rosy-
tipped-fingers had been his talloress. Ills sword was is
marvel of newness. Ile fluLered the hilt nervously. I fallole.l
him trying to look at himself in its bright polished scabbard,
as you have seen a fool at a dinner-table look at himself in
lila 'plot), lie had new gloves, hOW hots, a new Mallet.,
"pdirch iilhrg at his side, and on the cushion beside him, in a
box altaped like the figure it eirbt. and with silver paper
peeping from beneath the li, Won I iv epsulettes. fie
bad better, perhaps, have let those trinkets at home, hut
his face was the newest of all, bright. earliest, 1. tangent,
nervous, and the skin shiniog with the sedulous application
of au unwonted razor. . . . Ile too, like Mr. Micawber,
must wait for 'something to turn up.' It may be a mar-
shal's baton thirty years hence, and it may he a bombshell
before the middle of next Wsek.e—Correapondent of Moly
rekgraph.