The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-10 00:00:00

ONE OF THE SAD SIGHTS OF PARTS.

Few things are more Indescribably grand than 5 me of the
large rules from last week's Ere (writes the Paris C Tre.
spondeni of the Dei'v News). I have been the round. many
time., and each time I have returned the reinembamece of
the ruin of the Hetet sde Ville Stands out before all the
others.... Three who live opined ato the Place, and who
Were ey e witnetees of the trotted tee all round them, Bleak
now wth awe even of the remembrance of nearly every
square block In the neighheurhcod In flames, with the
One great castle in the centre burning from tot/ to hottem
Tee work was done swiftly and well. h i felt, ring
hands laid the petroleum. It Is a gluten; sight ti- lay
to see ell three blackened gutted house., and to ref cot
on the causes and results These private IN.. per.
Map. appeal more to the leafier, sirtke home with greater
affect, than even to gene on the Map of reins formed by such
public buildings as the Tuileries or the II del de Ville. Vet
to staid in the Avenue V lc' oil a and e the remain. of the
latter, looking Infinitely larger au Its rOn than ever it did as
• building, lute sees Meat that many • pilgrim will j dirney
to this sumo er. Buret down to the middle of the neat
floor, with many of the statues hardly touched Icy thesmoke,
and nearly all the tall thireneys Kill standing, the few
fine columns yet remaining lookleg so slender amid the
open sp ice and ruined walls around, thi, massive memento
of the Commune Insureect on teaches a Inva it venal net
be 111 if It remained .o commemorate. Were 1 • Freech.
man I would wish to preserve the Hotel de Vllle as it
is. Uis loins •11 th,daghts of dela; feasts and prefect's
balls, of stormy debates end occardonal revolutions, that
have gmo on inside those wells. The excited and some-
times fret s'aci p pulation that have ro many times Oiled the
open Iqu .re to gr. their men, the deree crowd that hailed
the formal estahltahment of a Commune nine weeks ego, and
the scorer cf cannon (hot were so lately parked Gyre, vanish
Mee aver, tar i a.% n• no lee It I ow all c dot
d out, alt were, In state, with noihieg but thin metre
yet 'Ming out of the fallen atone. What • sight that hlg
hull4lng was on Sunday, the 4.h September last, when Jules
Faire and ilarnbetta were drawn by the people in a carriage
without hovms to earn Vat E. brief triumeh With what rapture
tbe crow, rushed round the velalcle that shortly afterwards
brought Rochefort there, arreyel fantastically in a reel serf.
l/ow her days afterwarom these politicians and (her coad-
jutors received ovations all day long, and made orations
out of the windows. Eapeclally remahis in my memory how
Gambetta and It mbefort were the Idols of the hour, lisle
an exile, after an unprecedented cllctatorobly, the other •
prisoner in danger of death As singular as the fate of these
02016—nay, more so—are tie positious occupied by Gemara!
Troche iced II Jules Fevre. Such reflections Impre.slialy
suggest Gunnel..ue a• one gaz a on this last and striklug
scene in the panorama of which, since last September, the
Hotel de Vtne has been the centre.