The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-04 00:00:00

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DON CIA.RLOS IN FRANCE.
The Times Correspondent at Paris, writing on Monday,
says:—

Don Carlos,. followed by his Staff, has entered
France. He crossed the frontier at 930 this morning.
The telegraph gave immediate information of it to the
French Government, who thereupon transmitted the
news to its representatives abroad, urging them to
give the utmost publicity to these happy tidings. The
Consuls stationed at Bayonne also eagerly telegraphed
the fact to the Ambassadors or Ministers of their
respective States at Paris, so that by four &clock the
news was confirmed on every side. By a singular
paradox, many of these announcements of the Pre-
tender's definitive defeat styled him "His Majesty "
a title which has been refused him during the struggle.
It was like an indulgent expression towards a van-
quished combatant.
As soon as Don Carlos had entered France, the
General commanding the French Military Forces of
the Frontier Departments, conformably with the orders
of the Minister of War, waited on him, to inform him
that, according to custom, the officers of his Staff
might retain their swords, and even the horses belong-
ing to them personally, but that he and his Staff would
have to submit themselves to the coders of internment
which would be communicated to them by toe civil
authorities. Don Carlos, visibly depressed, appeared
quit, disposed to Conform to the intimations given him,
and begged that his thankenaight be conveyed to the
French Government for the eourteens, "'min which
he and his suite found thiiniseiies received and his
officers seemed pleased at being able to reiskik.their
swords. The French Government, on its part, hastened,
it imitaid, to itrform the Spanish Government officiall,'
of Don Carlos's arrival, and to congratulate it on f'
happy conclusion of the-war. - - -

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The Tim's' Paris Correspondent, writing again on
Tuesday, says:—

In another letter which has arrived from the frontier a
curious description is given of the-spectacle now presented
by the Franco-Spaniah border. Whole bands cross into
France at St. Jean Pied de Port, and ask to be interned.
Some arrive barefoot, without bringing anything with
them ; others ride on horses or mules, which they sell
at a very cheap rate. Hundreds of horses and mules are
said to have been sold for a few duqos on either
side of the Pyrenees to the peasants, who fight for
the preference. The Battalions of Navarre, Alava, and
Ouipuzcoa have . been disbanded, some asking for Adnlto,
others erossing into France, generally at St. Jean Pied de
Port, whence they are sent right and left at the expense of
France, which probably does not care much about keeping
this burden, and will soon get rid of it. The ptioers who,
accompany Don Carlos seem well-furnished With Annoy and
arms, while their leader appesis—na to be 'depressed, and
does not show, ostensibly at least, either despair or thirst
for revenge. The Spanish Embassy here was illuminated
last night. To-day there have been numerous Spanish and
French visitors, and to-night there is a Reception.