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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

MANOR OF K INFARE AND COMPTON

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ITHE COURT LEET and COURT BARON
1 and Customary Court of Henry John Wentworth
Hodgetts Foley, Esquire, Lord of the [mid Manor, will
be held On TLESDAY, the 25th OCTOBER INITAIIS, at 12
o'clock et Noon, at the Wok. Has Inn. Kluwer.
ELLSARD and KaIG.
Stewards of the Manor.
St urbridge. Bth Octal. r. 1870.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

ENGLAND'S NEUTRALITY.

Count Bernstorff, in a long despath dated on Satur-
day last, has replied to Lord Granville's note of the
15th of September on the question of England's neu-
trality during the present war. The North German
Ambassador's communication is ayery able and lucid
document, temperately worded, and courteous thrones-
out in tone. It must be also observed that it contains
statements deserving our most careful consideration,
and greatly strengthening the case which he has so
perseveringly pressed on our notice. For instance, in
answer to the Foreign Minister's assertion as to the
insignificance of the supplies of firearms from this
country, the Count affirms that the number sent Ricca
his memorandum of the :10th August was "treble and
four-fold the number of 40,C00 announced by Count
Palikao," and that "a number of manufactories, eve-
cially in Birmingham and London, are working day
and night for French agents." He has, he declares,
authenticated copies of con.racts concluded between
the French Government and English contractors. Now,
assuming that th,se statements can be verified, (re-
marks the Daily Telegraph ) they undoubtedly
go far to explain the existing irritation in the
minds of the Prussian people against England;
bAt suffice it for the moment to say, the greater
oglesser figure does not at all affect the principle for
which Lard Granville contended. If it is not contrary
to the law of nations, as held by Prussia herself, that
&belligerent should be supplied with arms by a neutral,
it is obviously unimportant whether the traders who
choose to rim the exceptional risk sell 40,000 or 400,000
lisle death-dealing wares. Should ow- G.vernistent
Loaroduce a new regulation in international practice,
too difficulties of enforcing puliiic law might be multi-
OW rather than lessened; and it is impossible to say
to what the precedent would not commit us. We see,
Lona the case of the trolled States, how impracticable
would be any aim at uniformity. Americans are doing
more to aid belligerent France tban we are; for they
send over not only arms and ammunition, but men.
What answer would Pi nada receive from Washington
to any remonstrance on the point? and where would
be the gain to her of a concession on our side alone?
The arsenal of France would in that case be wholly
across the Atlantic; and we, after yielding what we
had long oppoaed, would find ourselves in the position
of having unsettled international law and satisfied
neither side.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

The following letters have been sent for publication.
by the Hon. Secretary of the Westmituiter Emigration
Club:—

"School-room., Tothill.street, Westminster, 00. 6.
"I beg to enclose you the copy of a letter just received
from • man who emigrated to Canada last summer. The
writer is an Isiah Roman Catholic, married, with seven or
eight children, ranging from twenty years old downwards.
The family bad lived for twenty years In Westminster, sup-
ported by the patents, the father's wages being 21s. a week.
Their means were, therefore, scanty enough, and their society
was what the alleys of Westminster provide. The parents I
believe, can neither of them read nor write, but their chil-
dren poueas some little edueation. Their condition here
seemed likely to be for ever among the very poor, 'who,
inured to poverty and distress, act without aim, feel little,
and think lee.'
" But sal used to be in daily Contact with the father, and
know that ids statements are to be relied on, I am satisfied
that, having escaped from their old difficulties and influences
here, this family In Canada is already finding the path of the
more hopeful, and much happier."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

BUILDING SITES AT THE HEATH.
110 be SOLD by PRIVATE TREATY,
L various parcels of some of the most valuable
!WILDING LAND in the neighbourhood of Stour-
hridge.—Apply to Messrs. Oates, Perrens, and Wool-
dridge, Land Agent.
rro be SOLD for lees thin half its cost price,
1. e No. 9 ARM MACHINE; being used for Boot
tVurk. Payments by Instalments, if required.—To be
seen any day, by applying to Mr. Thomas Homer, Auc-
tioneer, fere llaye, Cradle; Beath.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

M. THIERS AND HIS MISSIONS.

Referring to the mission of M. Thiers to the Courts of
Europe. and more especially to the Court of St. Petersburgh.
tha Daily Nett. remarks :
Any one who is familiar with the long, industrious,
and, in many respects, brilliant career of M. Thiers,
must have been pained to see that clever and facile ex-
statesman reduced in his old age to a sort of political
mendicancy—going the round of the Courts of Europe,
and seeking for that which no man will glee him.
But any sympathy for M. Thiers as an individnal must
be lost in surprise over his intliecretion as an am-
bassador. It is convenient for the French at the pre-
sent moment to forget that they had designs against
the unity of Germany. They wish—and to some ex-
tent they are justified in their endeavour—to fix the
blame of the war on the Empire. Yet we learn that
M. Thiers, the messenger of the Provisional Govern-
ment, has just delivered himself of an incautious
speech to the Italian Envoy at St. Petersburg, which
is likely to attract the attention of the Prussian autho-
rities. lie is said to have remarked that his only motive
for opposing Italian unity was his fear lest it should
lead to German unity. This is a confession which is
very damaging at the present juncture ; and although,
looking at M. Thiers' antecedents, we are confident
that he spoke the truth as regards himself, he ought to
have remembered that he was on an official mission,
and that his indiscreet utterances might seriously pre-
judice the cause of the Government which he repre-
sent& M. niers, in effect, recall, to us the fact that
German unity has been the bugbear of France; that
France has considered it her business to prevent that
unifioation by every means in her power; and that, if
the imam, of the present war has taught her • bitter
lesson, there may still linger in the minds of her
statesmen the traditions of her policy. But M. Thiers
was born in the last century; and • European roux
at his age has a tendency to disturb and unsettle the
mind, and hung to the surface things which were better
forgotten.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

DESPATCH OF THE PRUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT. - -

BEIILIN, Oct. 10.
The following Prussian Memorandum has been
communicated to the Powers :

" The terms of the armistice communicated to 31. Jules
Fevre, and destined to usher in an attempt ti restore order
in France, have been rejected by him and his colleagues, who
have resolved on the continuation of • struggle, which,
after all that has happened, must be regarded as
hopeless by the French nation. Since the rejection
of our terms any chance. of victory France may have
bad In this pernicious war most have considerably diret-
niehed. Tout and strasburg have fallen, Paris is closely in-
vested, and the German troops have I enetrated to Loire.
The considerable forces in long detained by the two con.
quered fortresses are now, therefore, free for employment
In another direction. France will have to bear the conse.
queried s of the resolution taken by her rulers to engage in a
struggle a rout tame. lire sacrifices will uselessly increase,
And the destruction of her social system will be all but in-
evitable. The Commander of the German army regrets his in-
ability to prevent this ; but he clearly foresees the results of the
residence recklessly determined upon by the rulers of France,
and deems It necessary to draw attention to one point in
partictilar,—that Is the state of Pada The two more im-
portant engagements before the capital—those of the 19th
and 30th of September—ln which the most effective portion
of the enemy's forces did not succeed In repulsing even the
front Ilue of the Investing troops, justify the conclusion
that sooner or later Paris must fall. In the event of the
capitulation being put rif by the Provisional Govern-
ment atill the want of provisions compels the surren.
der, terrible c insequences will ensue. The absurd
deetruction of railways, bridges, and canal, within a
certain distance of Paris has not stayed the pro•
geed of the German armies for • moment: and all the corn.
municatleos by land and water necessary for our purposes
have been restored in a very short period But we have only
restored what w,, require for the military objects we have in
view, and enough remains demolished to interrupt many com-
munication between capital and provinces for • long time to
come. The German commander in the case above
mentioned will find it absolutely impossible to provision a
population of nearly two millions even for a single day.
Neither will the neighbourhood of Pais for a distance of many
marches supply any means of succouring the Parisians, all
that there is in it beteg indlspemiebly require 1 for the troops
Nor shall we be abbe to remove a portion of the population
by the country roads, as we have no available numbs of
transport. The inevitable consequence of this will be that
hand reds of thousands will starve. The French rulers can.
not but foresee this as clearly as ourselves. We can only
fight out the quarrel forced upon us, but those who bring
on inch extreme consequences will be responsible for them."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

OLD HILL.

CAUTION TO BICYCLE RIDEE9.—At the Petty Sessions,
on Wednesday last, before F. W. O. Barns, Eiq., Philip
Moore, of Halesowen, was charged by Superintendent
Mills with riding a bicycle on the footpath on the 24th
nit, on the Dudley and Halesowen turnpike road. Police-
sergeant Powner stated that he saw the defendant riding
on the footpath for nearly a hundred yards, and he turned
him over. Ordered to pay coats, and cautioned.—There
was other business enteree hesring, bat as there was
only one Magistrate pr-seot tb coses had to be ad-
journed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

VICTOR HUGO AND THE PRUSSIANS.

M. Victor Hugo Ku written a very characteriatic
article, Aux Parisiena.

" So," he begins, "the Prassians have decreed that France
shall be Germany, and German Prussia. That 1, a.a
Lorrainer, am a German ; that the Nile, the Tiber, and the
Seine are affluent of the spree ; that the city which for fora
centuries has irradiated the globe is superfine.. Berlin
henceforth being capable of answering every purpose; that
Montaigne, Rabelais, Pascal, Mollere, Diderot, Rousseau,
Denton, and the French Revolution have never existed; that
haying Bismarck, we do not want Voltaire; that the rest-
verse belongs to the conquered or Napoleon the Great and
the conquerors of Napoleen the Little; that henceforth
thought, conscience, poetry, art, progress will begin at
P..telam and end at Spandau; that, moreover, it is not
established that our existence Is necessary, that we are Sodom
and Gomorrah, and they, the Prnselans, are the Ilre of
heaven; that Ills time to put In end to this state of things,
and that henceforth the human race will be • power of the
second order. This decree, Parisians, they are executing
upon you. When they suppress Parte they mutilate the
world ; their attack is aimed urbi et orb. is snob a future
possible ? We answer only by • smile."

M. Victor Hugo proceeds to show the nature of this
conflict. It is the old one between the Archangel and
the Dragon, and it will have the old predestined end
—the Dragon will be overthrown. The war has hither-
to only been a small war—it is about to become grand.
M. Victor Hugo is sorry for the Prussians, but as they
have made their bed in they must lie on it. He chal-
lenges them to come forward like men.
.

"No more forests, no more thick fogs, no more tortuous
tactics, no more gliding along In the dark. The strategy of
the oat will not avail when u meet the lion. In vain you
will etep softly The very dead will hear you. Faris is
watching you—the lightning In her hand. Come out of the
Bhadows, advance, show yourselves. Your easy successes
are over, and you must tight tootle foot and baud to hand.
You are about to meet a great soldier, whose Dame was
Mau, wheu you core the licruseiaDs, and who calla himself
Frhoto 110 W that you are Vandals. 'Mile. magno.e,' said
Ctes.a of France : 'Soldier of God,' mid :thakespeare. We
are golag to put your generals to the test, and Bee whether
your Mollke's ability Is really better than the Ineptitude of
Le Breuf."

M. Victor Hugo then discusses famine and bombard-
ment as meant' of reducing Paris, and proceeds
" Attack PAZ.* then ; blockade, bombard her. Try II;
hut while you are about it winter will come—anew, sleet,
MU, rain, trot, Ice. Paris will dogged herself with Are—
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

BUILDING LAND, OLDSWINFORD.
UOR SALE, an Eligible Corner Plot of
BUILDING GROUND, in New-street, contain-
tog 611 square yards.—Apply to Mr. Hecklord, Haglut-
,tratt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

NEWS FROM NANCY.

A Special Correspondent of one of the newspapers,
passing through Nancy on the 6th inst., writes
rho only news I have been told by officials here is that
the mayor returned this afternoon from Epinal, whither
he had gone the day before to try and come to
terms with the chief of the Franca-Tireurs who killed
the two Prussian gendarmes at Flarigny and Ver-
sailles. and captured six more alive. As you know,
the two mayors of these villages were taken pit.
semen, and it was Intended to shoot them to-day.
The Mayor of Nancy has been successful so far that
the prisoners will be restored, and the two mayors con-
sequently will escape death. Meanwhile, the houses in
which the murders took place have been rued to the ground.
Three eminent engineer., of water-work speciality, have
arrived from Germany to set the Great Rhine-Marne Canal
which the French had blocked up to the detriment of their
own trade, going again. The taxation here has keen regulated
equitably, the Germans keeping up all the local institutions,
inches lunatic uylums, schools, refuges, tc., out of the rates,
Tribunal, of Justice have been established for criminal and
civil cases. The French administration were invited to continue
their tune ;tone at their former salaries, but declined to sot
because the German authorities required them to head
their acts "in the name 01 the law, while they insisted on
the formula, "In the name of the French people" The fact
Is that people here, official and non- official, are fout-and- out
Frondeurs. Their worst feature is, that, while they have
hitherto been thoroughly for Napoleon, they can now find
no words severe enough to revile him—particularly the high
ofh-dals, all of whom, however, continue steadfastly to
wear the decorations they received from him. One of the
traits In the French which the Germans despise melt Ii
their foulmouthed ingratitude towards the ex-Emperor."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

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STOURBRIDGE SCHOOL OF ART.

rilliE Course of LECTURES on GEOME-
_I_ TRY and PERSPECTIVE will commence on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 1870.
This is a favourable time for intending Pupils to join
the School, as it allows them good time to work up for
the Examinations to be held in March nest. The School
has been particularly successful in all the Government
Examinations of the year.
Art Instruction is given useful to the Artisan and
-/ecorative Artist.
Morning Class for Ladies, on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
torn Ten to Twelve o'clock. Terms, 10s 64 per Qnarter.
General Evening Class on Mondays, Wednesdays, ad
Fridays, from Seven to Half-past Nine o'clock. Tina',
6s per Quarter.
Further particulars may be obtained upon personal on
written application to the Head Master, at the School.

Decorative

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

HEREFORD RACES.

(AN THURSDAY, OCT. 20th, an EXCURSION
kJ TRAIN sill leave Rowley at 10,5 a.m., Cradle),
MIS. and Stourbridge at 10.20 a.m., for HEREFORD;
returning from Barn Court Sndion at 6 25 p.m. the same
day, or at 7.45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21st.
For Fares and lull particular., is. Hand Bills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, October, 1870.

Entrance to Third Seats, High-street. To 00111811111111111
at Eight o'clock.
H. RIDGE WOLRIGE, Hon.
A. W. FENNELL,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

PROPOSED ENGLISH INTERVENTION.

On Tuesday night a meeting of the Intervention
Council, appointed by the combined associations, was
held at Poet's Corner, Westminster, to adopt measures
for taking prompt steps in the present aspect of the
threatened bombardment of Paris. Dr. Congreve pre-
sided, and Mr. Oliver, the representative of the Inter-
national Democratic Association, retorted that his
Association had passed &resolution recommending that
in the event of the threatened bombardment being
carried out by the Germans amass meeting be called,
to be held by torchlight, to show the horror I f the
English people.
On this Mr. M'Sweeny moved a resolution to the
effect that in the event of this terrible calamity of a
bombardment of l'aris a torchlight meeting should be
immediately held in Palace-yard.
Mr. 011iver seconded the motion, and said that his
association also suggested that the cry should be
raised at the meeting of "To the Relief of Paris; to
the rescue of France!"

After remarks by Mr. Weston, the chairman, and
others, on the point as to the time such meeting should
be called, the resolution, with the adoption of the
motto, was carried an • proposal to be recommended
to the general meeting.
Mr. Merriman then proposed, "That in the event of
the bombardment of Paris the people of England de.
mend that all pensions hitherto granted to any Ger.
wan princes concerned directly or indirectly in the
bombardment shall cease either to them or their wives
and children." _ . _

Mr. Mliweeny seconded this, and it was agreed to.
It was also agreed that if the torchlight meeting in
Palace-yard was held after the bombardment those
present should be called upon to form themselves into
depntstion to wait upon Mr. Gladstone to request from
him a statement of reasons why the British Govern.
men did not earlier intervene to prevent such an cut-
rage upon modern civilization.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

,Socat nub istrict 4,tctus.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONSTITU-
TIONAL ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of the above association
was held in the reading room, High-street.
There was a good attendance of members. Mr.
W. Roberts was voted to the chair. There were
also present Mr. A. Freer, Mr. W. J. Hodgetts,
Mr. Rose, Mr. Hughes, ivc.
The Chairman then remarked that as he was
looking at the balance-sheet before him, he was
glad to see the balance was on the right side,
and that the association continued to flourish.
He had heard but very little about the society
during the past year, and had not been able to
do much himself; but he was glad to hear that
efforts had been made to provide the members of
the association with some wholesome literature
in the shape of a library, which would prove ad-
vantageous. He was quite sure that associations
of this kind tended to do good. He then called
upon the secretary, Mr. Oething, to read the
minutes, and the report:—
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

PREACHERS WANTED.

A correspondent of the Paine, writing front Cohere,
says We would revire at present In France many pros-
then like Pere Joachim, a Cspucbin who preached on Sum
day at Cahors, to the Church of St. Bartholomew. Ile pro-
duced &wonderful effect on Ms audience by the utterarcee of
an ardent, elevated, and, so to speak, imperious patriotism.
Abandoning the conventional mode of preaching, ha spoke of
the country, the Pruselaus, the sacred duty incumbent on
every one to rash at once to arms. A new Peter the Hermit,
anew Bridalne, he electrided his audience by an eloquence
which was simple, but powerful, like all which proceeds
from a noble heart. I obtained an Introduction to Pere
Joachim, He told me he had come from Brittany and La Ven-
dee through which he had hurried, raising the people In the
acme patrie: Ile spoke with admiration of these
countries, where every man will arm himself—perhaps indif-
ferently, but will yet arm himself lie preached recently Male
open air to 12,000 hearers who appeared to be animated with love
for France and with fuey against the Prussians, fie told me
that he would not realist the desire to march at the head of the
combatants, but that he would regret being unable to use the
sword or gun. I replied that he had in Me favour the exam-
ple of Bishop Adhemar, who, in orier not to spill blood and
rest faithful to the evangelical laws, knocked down his
enemies with a mace."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

HALESOWEN

ANNIVERSARY SERII two sermon
were preached in the •: tli J ~ in aid of the
Trust Fund, by Mr. .H, AI, • ' . 411 d at the close
of each sermon a c-Ileetee. The choir in
connection with the New Chapel gave their
services gratuitoasl7. Mi. .0 • ell rendered by
them.

ANNUAL TEA MI ‘o.—On Mends: last the annual
tea meeting was held .0 tor:I:onion with h the Primitive
Methodist body, at the Chapel, i), 13 rmingliatn-street.
Upwards of one hundred eat down to tea; after which a
public meeting was held, and the chair was occupied by
Mr. .1. Holston, of Hagley, who referred at some length
to the fall of the Napoleonic dynasty, and termed Napo-
leon the eldest son of the Pope, and the principal stay of
the Church of Home. He also dwelt on the loss of tem-
poral power by the Pope, sod expressed his belief that
Pope Pius IX. would be the last Pope that would reign.
Speeches were also delivered by Messrs. E. Pearson, S.
Bate, W. Price, T. Tether, T. Diugley and J. Diugley.
Most of the addressei were very instructive, and the pro-
ceedings were terminated by the singing of the Doxo-
logy.
.

--a, -
ANNIVERSARY SERMONS.—On Sunday last three ser-
mons were preached in the Haysich Primitive Methodist
Chapel; those in the morning and evening by the Rev.
J. Huff, of Dudley, and that in the afternm,n by the Rev.
J. Stroud, of Old Hill. At the close of each service col-
lections were made amounting to £7 IN.
STATUIR FAIR.—The annual fair for hiring servants
was held on Monday last, on which occasion an ox was
roasted in the Bull Ring. There was a large concourse
of persons assembled together, and there was the usual
amount of shows, swing boats, rifle galleries, railway
bicycles, itc. There were but few servants presented
themselves for hire.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

Pee Sib. to. sink the offal.

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Infer. comes beasts 8 8 4 Prbne Soutbdown 5 6
Second quality._ 4 8 6 Large coarse calves 0 4
Prime large Oiell.. 52 6 Prime small
Prime Scots, &c. .. 610 6 Large bp
Infer. coarse sheep 3 63 1 Neat =all porken 5 6
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METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.—Mo -gDAT
The market has been moderately supplied. The UM* has
been firmer, at our quotations.
Per 81 . by the carcase.
s. a. d. •d.s. d
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Middling ditto ...... 3 3 8 Middling ditto, 4 44 10
Prime large ditto.... 4 410 Prime ditto 5 56 •
Prime .all ditto.... 5 6 4 Large pork
Vaal .......... ...... 4 3 0 Small post.. II £6

HOPS.
Lugs supplies of new hops have been on sale. Booboos to
a moderate extent has been ooncluded, bat prigs bout bout
with difficulty maintained. Old sort, have been sostootod.
Mid. and East tent, 50s. to 140..; Weald of soot, 600. to
808.: Suess; 46a. to 70a. ; Farnham and country, 75a. to
and Old, 20s. to 6fis per owl.

ma.
Turbots. Be to les. ;bt4ll. Si. 64. to es. ed. ; dory, U.
to 6.. e.ol plaice, 101. to lea. ;haddocks, 81. to Its.
_per
box; soles, la to 4s. pee pair; oat, £BlOl.B per lean; live
ditto, Bs. to 12a. 64. each ; bloater', tt to M. ed. ; Moyer;
es. to ta per box; whitings, Si. per Omelet; lobsters, la. ed.
to is ed ; crabs, IL ed. to 2a. ed. each; nail's oyikes,
£10; commons, lin to Itt pee bnaheL

POTATOES
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demand ham been heavy, at our quotations. English
40s. to 100 s. ; Scotch Regents, 455. to 901 ; RoMM, 401.11710 t
per ten.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

ST. CLOUD SHELLED BY THE FRENCH.
A FRENCH SORTIE REPULSED.
ROYAL HEAD-QUARTERS.

VERSAILLES, Thursday.

All the French fortresses on the Belgian fron-
tier are making preparations for a siege. It is
expected that the bombardment of Mezieres will
shortly take place. The Commanders of Calif'.
brai and Londreires have ordered the country
surrounding the fortresses to be inundated.
The French have shelled St. Cloud. A French
sortie has been repulsed.

Touns, Thursday.
5,000 Prussians are before New Breisach.
The investment is rigorous and complete.
The Germans are levying large requisitions
no ir Colmar.

Toyus, Friday.

A decree prohibits, on all the frontiers of be
Republic, the exportation of uhl the main staph s
of food.

Informatimi has been received that Bazaine
is m iking frelnent sorties from Metz, and in
one has inflicted great low: on tho Prussians.

ANOTIIER SORTIE BY BAZAINE.

CAPTURE OF LARGE SUPPLIES FROM
THE PRUSSIANS.

NanscHATEAU, Wednesday.

It is reported that on Saturday Ilazaine made
a sortie, and carried otT Irge supplies from the
Prassilllll4.

EVREAUX, Wednesday.

3,000 Prussians have arrived • at Olson, to
make a requisition in the districts of Vexin and
and Epta.

FOREIGN NEWS.

NEW YORK.

Thursday.

Gold eloped, 'II l!„ F:xeliange 108!„ Rond
U.S. 112.

NLWs.

Ptaxs .Itweigtion Teleyottits.
FRIDAY.

The kr/oo is authorised to deny the Daily
Neto version of liouritaki's visit to the Em-
'filo proceedings of the Church Congress, at
Southampton, closed to-clay.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT CORK.
TWO OFFICERS DROWNED.
On Tuesday, Ltintenant Nugent, Royal En-
gineers, and Captain Hatche 3, 43rd Regiment,
' :ft .1 in Cork TTeri,our, t in a pru.t.
Both ollicers are believed to have been drowned.
The punt has since been found bottom np-
war.is.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

THE BUTRIT AT BOULoGNE.

land only a few hours to remain In Boulogne, and, In my
anxiety not to be late for my train, was nearly half an hour
too early. When an Englishman boa nothing else to do, his
mind naturally turns towards food. I accordingly entered
the buffet, and frond myself a. solitary as was Robinson
Crusoe in hie desert island. There was not another soul In
that large dining room—not even a waiter. The boat from
Folkestoee had arrived, hut the few passengers it brought
reached their destination when they got to Boulogne;
and beside ru)self not another Briton went tear the
station. And what a station—what • buffet—is now to be
seen there ! With considerable difficulty I obtained from
an aged dame, who had replaced all the active waiters
that used to attend to our wants in former days,
a piece of cold fowl and a pint bottle of the pale ale of
Albion. The old wordan groaned in sorrow when I asked
her whether she had no better custom on other days, but
recovered her spirits when charging me three francs for my
very modest repast. The amount was nearly double what it
ought to hive been, but In consideration for her troubles, I
had not the heart to resist the robbery. Then the train,
which used to be the longest of the long. was reduced to two
first and three second class carriages. Nor was either buffet
or train more changed than the railway offLiala The latter
used to be the clviinst of the civil, but when I saw them the
other day they had all the regular war scowl which seems
now to be de rigueur In France, and would hardly answer
any question put to them. But this can hardly be wondered
at, for who knows how soon the Prussians may not find their
way even to Boulogne—and what, then, becomes of the rail-
way officials?"—Newspaper Correepondent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

SHIPPING NEWS.

QCEENSTOWN, Friday.
The Mune:iota arrived last evening at eight,
and proceeded for New York at nine.
MALTA, Friday.
The Nehio, with the heavy India and China
mail, leaves this afternoon for Southampton.
The Poweih, from Sonthampton, left on Mon-
day afternoon for Alexandi in.
GIBRALTAR, Thursday.
The Poomsh, with heavy Bomhoy mails, leaves
to-morrow for Alexandria.

LONDON CORN MARKET (CLOSE).
FRIDAY.

The market closes firm. English wheat real-
ised fully last Eonday's rates. Foreign also
well supported. Town flour unchanged. Coun-
try and American remain firm. Barley unaltered.
Oats dill, and sold at Is below Monday's quota-
tions. Maize also a shade cheaper. Beans and
Peas no change.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.

FRIDAY.

The wheat trade has assumed a firmer tone,
and to-day we have a fair demand for white and
good red at an advance of IA per quarter on last
Friday's prices. Very fine barley maintained its
value, but other F.ortB are neglected. In beans
and oats, no alteration.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

discharging tube at the bow for launching it under
water. The peculiarity of the torpedo is that it will
maintain its passage at any particular depth between
five and fifteen feet from the surface, the propulidon
being entirely submarine and effected at the rate of
six or seven miles an hour by the action of the coin.
pressed air on a screw propeller. Two torpedoes were
run Egainet the A igle, a large hulk lying in the harbour,
both from a distance of 140 yards. The first contained
a charge of 6711 w. of gun-cotton, and hit the hulk, ex-
ploding on impact, and making a dean hole, 20 feet by
10 feet in area,and sinking her at once. Nets were placed
at 15 feet from the side of the hulk, and the second
torpedo run at them, being launched from a framework I
attached beneath a boat. This torpedo, containing a charge
of 181 b. of glyoxoline, was caught in the nets and ex-
ploded there, doing no damage whatever to the side of
the hulk. The machine is the invention of Mr.
Whitehead, an English engineer, haring works at
Fiume, in Hungary.

WHERE WILL THEY SroP !—Our American
cousins are exerting their inventive faculties in a very
active, if not in a very laudable, manner to improve
the mother tongue which is their property in common
with our own. We heard, when the president took his
holiday trip, that he had " excurted ' from Washing-
ton; and an old lady whose house had been robbed,
and who had been put into mortal terror of her life,
was said to have been "burgled." But what they are
likely to do with " defective " verbs this extract may
fairly serve to show :—" Of • gentleman whose walk in
life was 'burgling,' a poet says--
' " "
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

Commenting on the addition of Garibaldi to the elan
of the French Republican army, the Pull Mall Gazette
&leo remarks :

It I. Just as well to recollect, while French Republi,ans
exult In the addition of Garth dril to the Malt of their army,
that that erratic warrior, though at times he has been extra-
ordinarily successlul In revolutionary movement., has been
nniformly unfortunate in his encounten with regular troops
in the open geld. In 1859 his volunteer command was only
saved from being destromid or driven Into take Como by
General D'Urban, who had completely ouhnuu.o. Limed his,,
because at this critical jancture the allied army advanced
toward. the Ticino, and ()Inlay was forced to cell hi
all detachment, instantly to meet them at Magenta. In
18C6 the volunteer army corps which co-operated under
Garibaldi in the mountains west of Lake Guards van held
in check by a mere handful of Austrians, and proved
of extremely small service In facilitating the attack on
N'enetia by the regulars under the King and Cialdiul How
utterly the last two Italian expeditions of the hero of
Caprera come to grief at Asprotuonte and Mentana is in the
memories of ell. The fact is that Garibaldi', forte is alto-
gether In • different line from that which the French need.
He is great at exciting enthusiasm in a population that
has been slumbering under the evils of • despotic Govern-
ment until the fire of revolution le kindled. But the French
want quite another sort of leader, one who understands the
details of war on a grand scale, and, above all, can enforce
discipline, and that has been always the weak point in
Garibaldi's forces whenever and wherever he has appeared
at Ike bead or one.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

FED HILL, STOULBRIDGE.

rut) LET, with Immediate Possession, all that
1. ljentrel and commodious Semi-detached VILLA,
situate at Red Hill, late in th• occupation of Miss K. C.
Raker (deceived), containing Hall, Dining and Drawing
Rooms, Kitchen, Pantry, China Closet, excellent Cellar.
Fur licdrooms, Two Attics, W.C., Stable and
toschhouse, Lawn.. and good Kitchen Garden. The
House is fitted with Gas and Water, and is within Fire
Minutes walk of the Railway citation.—For particulars,
apply to Mr. John Taylor, Land Agent, 56, High-street,
Stourbridge.

NITRIC ACID and AQUAFORTIS BUSI-
NESS to be LET, near Wednesbary. Rent low.
Plant and In-coming moderate—Address, with real
name, " Chemical," Post Office, Birmingham, till called
for.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

THE EMPRESS IN HER NEW HOME.

A fairer home in this her time of trial than that
which she has found at Camden-place, Chieelhurst--
one, too, more hallowed by interesting tradition and
historical association—the Empress could not well have
(remarks the Globe). A house that is the picture of
Georgian substantiality and comfort; warm and
snug-looking, with walls of yellow brick, standing
upon a kind of platform of velvet turf, whence there
is a view right away, past the leafy woodlands
of Kent, past Sydenham, with It. glass palace, past
rustic homesteads and smoky towns, away to the breezy
uplands of Surrey—a house up to which there leads a
stately avenue of trace, which have outlived storm and
tempest as they have outlived the gallants, and the
belles, the courtiers, and the wits, the statesmen, and
the authors of a past regime, who have talked,
flirted, intrigued, speculated beneath their shade;
entered through huge gates fantastically decoratedwith
white and gold ; a garden whose beds gleam in this bright
October sun with the gayest of autumnal flowers, pool-
lous with statues who meet you at every bend en the
groves and every turn in your walk; a park in front,
on one side elevated above the surrounding country,
and looking down upon a magnificent series of woods,
where foliage glistens with the thousand hues of
autumn--green, russet, golden; on the other imme-
diately contiguous to Chiselhurst-common : this is
Camden-place. . . .
The interest with which the house and its surround-
ings are invested mainly descends to us from the days
when the great William Camden was its lord. Then
Camden-place was a rendezvous for much of the most
brilliant society of the day. Ben Johnson was a re-
gular guest, and would bring down with him a band of
chosen friends to enliven the great antiquarian, who
founded the History Lecture at Oxford, with their wit
and all the latest anecdotes of the town. It is possible
that the scenes of the "Mermaid " may have been re-
enacted in the glades and galleries of Camden-place.
A pleasant flavour of antiquity clings, indeed, to the
whole neighbourhood of Chieelhuret—the Saxon "Cieel-
'lyrist "—a name expressive of its situation among the
trees. Sir Nichols. Walsingham, the Elizabethan
statesman, lived at Seadbury, close to Camden-place,
and it may not perhaps be generally known that the
whole manor of Chiselhurst was once the marriage
portion of the 'Fair Maid of Kent," daughter of
Edward 111., and later passed into the hands of the
great Nevill, Earl of Warwick, "the King-maker," the
lard of those mighty barons who overawed the Throne
and the Commons.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

FRANCE AND HER FORMS OF
GOVERNMENT.

It Becalm a pity that the French, who have tried
every known form of government, now that they are
making a change cannot hit upon something new
which may have a chance of that permanence which
is almost indispensable for the well-being of a State
(remarks the Pall Mall (lazette). It seems to be taken
for granted that the triple division of Governments
into the forme of monarchy, aristocracy, and demo.
onto), must be exhaustive. D'Alembert in his analysis
of hionte4quieu's " Elprit des Lois" makes an attempt
to apologise for the want of invention displayed on
this point.
. . . .

Three aorta of government he says) may be distinguished ;
the republican, the monarchical, and the derpotic. In the
republican the people in a body has the sovereign power.
In the monarchical one person governs by the fundamental
laws. In the despotic, no other law is known than the will
of the muter, or rather of the tyrant. This does not mean
that there are not in the wend any but three kinds of State.;
it doe@ not even mean that there are Matra which belong
wholly and strictly to some one of these forms • most States
axe, ea it were, mixed or subdued with one another. In one,
the monarchy Incline, to despotism , In another, monarchical
I. combined with republican government. in • third, not
the whole, but only a part, of the people have the power of
making lawr. But the preceding division la not lees accu-
rate or lees jest. The three kinds of government which it
includes sre so distinguished that properly they have
noth,ng In common, and moreover, all the States which we
know partake of one or the other of them.
• •

Sir George Lewis, remarking on this passage, says that
D'Alembert here proposes to remove the d
lii-
culty by the very considerations which give rice to
it. The irreconcilable hostility between the three
forms of government may, he observer, be illustrated
by the three numbers in the Greek language, the
singolsr, dual, and plural ; each of which represents
something distinct from the others, and incompatible
with either or both of them. A noun can no more be
at once of the singular, dual, or plural numbers than
a State can be at the same time a monarchy, an white.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

HAIR BRUSHING BY MACHINERY,

HAWKINS'S HAIR-DRESSING AND
SHAMPOOING ROOMS,
120, 111011-STREET, STOLTBRIDGE
(OPPoiltirE CO3IIKERCIAL BVILDINGs).

A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF BRUSHES,
COMBS, PERFSMERY, &c.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

LION COLLIERY, CANAL RIDE,

OLD HILL.
UNRESERVED SALE.

Ay R. T. HOMER has been favoured with
4.11 Instructions to SELL by AUCTION, on Moe.
oar NSIT, OCTOBER 17, 1870, the valuable and hand-
some HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, belonging to Mr.
J. H. Crockett, who is leaving the Neighbourhood, cot •
slating of Mahogany extending Dining Table, mahogan,
Chtilloneer, six mahogany Chairs, with horsehair seats";
two Easy do., mahogany oval Table, mahogany Sofa, in
fancy horsehair ; Cabinet of Foreign Sires, with ma-
hogany frame and stand; cornice Poles and Brackets.
Mahogany Half tester Bedsteads, with damask hangings:
Mattress, two Mahogany Arm Chairs, in horsehair,
square Piano, mahogany Bookcase, one Dressing Glass.
to mahogany frame: 1 do. with marble slab; mahogani
, 'best of Drawers, two mahogany %Vitalism-lids, splendie
--tglit-day Clock, in mahogany case Child's Crib rua.
tiogany and cane, cane•stated Chairs. Toilet Wart,
splendid Dinner Service, cut Decanters and abet
(ileum, China Tea Service, large Chimney Glass, in
jilt frame ; ditto, in rosewood and gilt; Nine 011 Paint-
ings. in gilt frames; quantity of Books, oak Dining
Table. Six kitchen Chairs, two large Iron Fenders, me
Chamber, do., two Coal Hods, set of Dish Covers, tht
Water Plates, two pairs of Steelyards, One Perambulw
tor. two Gnus, quantity of Sundries.
Sale to commence at Ele•eu o'clock.
Auctioneer's Residence, Five Way, Craelley Heath.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

COTTAGE SPRING INN,
MOAT PLEASANT. BRIERLEY HILL.
TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. S.
INSULL, OD MOKDAY, OCTOBZR 17, 1870, upon
the Premises as above, the whole of the HOUSEHOLI;
FURNITURE, consiating of Square and Round Tablee.
Papier Machie ditto, Windsor Chairs, crown back; dith
cane seated ; Mahogany and Painted Chest of Drawers,
Washing Stands and Tables, Birch and Tent Bedsteads.
Feather and Flock Bede, and Palliasse; together with
the SHOP FIXTURES, comprising Deal Counter, Tea.
PEOVD4iOD, and Flour Scales and Weights; Tea and Cof-
fee Canisters, partitioned Flour Bine. Coffee and Pepper
Mille, Malt Crusher, two-knife Chaff Engine, Spring
Trap, suitable for • Pony; five-pull Ale Machine, quan-
tity of useful Timber. set of Brass-mounted Harness,
Tubs, Buckets, and other miscellaneous useful Effects,
belonging to Mr. Miles Keen, who is leaving the
premises.
Sale to commence at Eleven o'clock.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15

DR. JACOBY'S SPEECH.

The following isa translation of Dr..Tacohy's speech,
which proved so very disagreeable to the Prussian
Governntent

The chief question, the decision of which alone has any
Importance for us, is this: lias Prussia or Germany the right
to appropriate Alsace and Lorraine? They tell us Alsace
and Lorraine belonged formerly to the German Empire.
France possessed herself of theme lands by craft and by
force. Now that we have beaten the French, it le no more
than what is right and proper that we should recover from
them the spoil. and demand back the property stolen
from us. Gentlemen! do not let yourselves be led
away by well sounding words, and, thorgh they offer
you the empire of the world, be not tempted to worship
the idols of power. Test th.s well-sounding phrase,
and you will flud that it is nothing hut. disguise for the old
and barbarous right of force. Alsace and Ermine, they say,
were formerly German property, and must again become
German. Lion so, we inquire? have, then, Alsace and Lor
rain° no inhabitant,? Or ere, perchance, the Inhabitants of
these provinces to be regar led as having no volition, as a
thing that one muy at once take posseodon of, and dispute
of Just as one likes I Have they lost all their rights through
the war, have they become slaves, whose fate is at the arbi-
trary disposal of the conqueror Even the most
ardent and incarnate partisan of annexation allow.
that the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine are In heart
' • "

and soul French, and wish to remain French. And however
much they might have offended us, it would be contrary to
all human Justice should we tly to Germanize them compul-
sorily, and Incorporate them against their alit either with
Pnusla or any other German State' Gentlemen ! There is
an old German proverb, which low been raised to a universal
moral law on account of its being so true—" Do not unto
others what you would not they should do unto you." How
should we and our "national Liberals" feel if at some future
time a victorious Pole should demand back and seek to
annex the province. of Posen and Welt Russia? And
yet the same grounds might be urged for this that are
now brought forward to support an annexation of
Alsace and Lorraine. No, gentlemen! It ts our duty to
oppose such tendencies of national egottem. Let us hold
fast to the prhiciples of justice as much in public life as in
private life! Let us openly declare it to he our deep and
inmost conviction that every incorporation of foreign terri-
tory against the wishes of the inhabitants is a violation of
the right of self.constitution common to all people, and
therefore as obj,ctionable as It Is pernicious. Let us, with-
out being led astray by the intoxication of victory, raise a
protest against every violence offered to the inhaSitants of
Alsace and Lorraine. Only he who respects the liberty of
others is himself worthy of liberty.