The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-24 00:00:00

ITETI3 OF THE MR.

A another of German chants:a have been cent to France to
disinfect systematically horpitals and 'Litt 'atlas.
tie the ltrh of :leptenier a French elllcti was slut for at-
tempting flight.
Prose's Is prepared fore prolunge I campaign, 100,000 furs
befog ordered for the army.
Subscription, have been opened at the Fritter Consulates
at Bombay and Calcutta In aid of wounded French soldiers.
It Is reported that several hundred Germans and French
let New York hut week for Europe. In order to eni!st In the
armies of them countries, their expenses being had by Ger.
mall and French patriotic committees.
At the bombardment of Meta en Friday evening a
tremendous storm commenced, and the torrents of rain were
so heavy that the earth was washed anuy from the graves of
the burled s

&clan L golet. and the people aro returning to the town.
Some of the cloth manufictorica have re. limed work.

Post.,go t t unps bearing the effigy of the Emperor are atilt
In use throughout France.

To slck and wounded Prussians at Bouillon are dyleg fast
ot typhus lever, wall in the Prussian csnip at Rheims ths
deaths are reported to he at the relent ferty per day.

The Prn•clia-nlane, It seem; have rot the unen-viable
carte of the German Tureoa, for their "Indiscretions" dur-
ing the war.

French oflicera who are talsoneri !myna° in one of ?Istvan
cities—Braden, Bono, Wteshadeu, Dusseldorf, Mut., &c.—
according to choice. Ihey are to receive lodgings and pay
as at home.

—fhe-Ta.i.eis General were opened on Monday at the Hsgne
by the King. Ile said that the friendly relations which had
subsisted hitherto between Unhand and Foreign rowers had
in no way been disturbed by the war.
An association of butchers has been formed at Sher.
fled, In connection with the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Butcher.' I :den, to endeavour to have the restrictions upon
the importation of cattle removed, it is stated that meat is
15 per cent. cheaper in London than in tiro north.

The Retell recommends the clergy to warn the people,
that if they die when fighting against the Prnanlana, they
will go straightto heaven without any purgatorial difficulty
or delay ; but that, if they keep aloof front the ramparts of
France, they will go with terrible swiftneie to • vtry dif-
ferent place.
Thlera complains bitterly that he cannot make Lord
Granville ace that it is not in the Interest of England to allow
the complete triumph of Prussia. Ile asserts, moreover, that
he has every confidence In France coming auccessfully out of
the present struggle.

The Russian Czar, on receiving the news of the battle of
Sedan, at Moscow, on the 3rd September, gave a dinner,
when, having drunk to the health of his Ito)al uncle of
Prussia, he br ,ke the glass according to German custom,
which prescribes that none shall drink again from a glass
which has been used for very solemn toasts.

The military hosatal, exhibit some singular cases to the
surgeon,. One mull was struck by a ball in the head, which
lodged In the Internal arch between the skull and the brain.
Ile is well In health, can eat, drink, and sleep well, but
cannot move about, M jibe coos, he feels the ball rolling In
his head. Anothec, whose brain was reached by a bullet, par-
tially lost Li 3 merncry, and has forgotten all his mans. If
he wants hit gun t o is oblige.i to ask for it by a plraphrase.
So great a change Les taken place In the appearance of the
POT)el or Nanoleou t.nt he in hardly rcer gnisah:e. liii las
Is awake and of bilious colour. Ile Is dial 4 about the eyes,
which seem to tare no tpecuiation in them. ilis gait is
forced and mechanics); inn writ, his whnle eppearance is
such ato produce a painful feeling In the beholders. lie
goes to bed lat., and rises early. Tai windows of hit bed-
chamber are often teen lighted at midnight, and before dawn
he is observed walking In the garden.
Berlina has left no means untried a supplying that want
of carrier pigeons or ether sure messengers which has boon
to severely felt in his mein Nor some time It is well known
he received and sent messages by the shale means of bottles
floated down the Mosoile. This device was found out and
counteracted by nets. Smother means has since been teed,
but apparently without the success which the ingenuity of
the besieged deserved; for • small air balloon apparatus,
Carrying despatches from Metz, has descended at Oberwitt-
stadt, a village In the north of Wurtemburg. The content,
of the letters thus conveyed have not been made known, as
they were at once transmitted to Stains/dead thence to the
Prussian staff.

A Frenchwoman has issued an appeal begging 20,000 of her
sisters In G-rmsny to come at once to Paris, when with
20,000 Frenchwomen they will throw themselves between
the contending armies. This," says the Frenchwoman,
with some historical inaccurwy, "prevented the Greeks
and the Romans from killing each other."--A gentleman
has also requested some patriot of wealth to hand Min over
100,000 francs, in order to enable him to make • machine
capable of destroying the whole Prussian army.

Some parts of France are becomirg infested with robbers.
In the commune of Tot,Nate, excited, it Is supposed, by
Socialist speeches, as well as by their natural instinct', a
considerable baud have visited fluguaux, St. Simon, and
Lardenne, on Ix log refused employment at exorbitant wages
they began devastating the country. Three detachments of
the National Guards from Toulouse attacked and repulsed
them, capturing the greater number, iso will be rigorously
pluti.rhed. At :tam& t tom plandorers have bum breaking
into heartland ransacking them. Abut d.,zen youog nun
welt: ergeged In CI3I of those experltlo tr, tied were c trosar-
log in lira cellar alien the ;or ndarm. arrived and captnrei
five of them. The ;Ingham- er wan 'vacated to pa, awl the
res to three Months' ttsp:L.n.ment.

The Tomps publishes lin eloquent viliirem from the pastori
of the Protestant churches in Paris to their bathren in
Germany, urging them to promote pe,ce. Tim following
' passage occufl in this document —'Alit, changed Since the
thnbderbolt which has destroyed a throne and eunthilattil a
power, of which we forbese to speck since it la fallen; In; us
leave it to the juatice of God. The King of Pruoda, on the
eve of engaging in the present struggle, had mlendily declared
that be knew how to distinguish between France and the
Empire. The Empire hi no more. Germany now audit bee.
sell opposed to a new power, which repudiates the motives
that the fallen Government aufgued to the war, It follows
that Germany by continuing It would no longer wage a poli-
tical war to protect such and such an interest of major im-
portance, but a war of vengeance and cowluest." This
addreu U signed by twenty-41z putora

A collision occurred of fear o'clock on Tuesday morph g
at Clews, near 'Leone, between two trains. Itoven perrons
were killed, and 25 injured Among the former was AL
Dtiv.ll,, the editor of the Debats.
'ill, Croatian Civil Governer of Alsace has Paned a pro-
elms:att., to the Catholic, Preto:Awe, and Jewish clergy. It
declaim (bet ell ore to retain their present sights and
stipends. The Clonat will not be interfered With by the
&Me, but wsclesteAus pr. eel& u, specking, or acting against
existing authorities will he punished by military law.
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"The United Males for the peat throe or four days have
been thoroughly given up to German rejoicings. The won•
derful successes of the German arms, mulling In the over-
throw of the French Empire awl the surrender of Napoleon,
here causod the most exuberant demonstrations of joy."—
ftinica' American Correapordent, Sept. O.
It terra cut tliat thereport about Ilazaine's escape from
Metz to not true ; but • small IKdr at troops of all wins,
about WO strong, broke savoy from the city, trying to make
their way to Paris. Lying Id.l In the woods ty day, and
marchtog hy night they have coached Mfzierei, Inn are ;mid
to be fen:Ming on to the westward.
President Ziangacond, the judge who for his staunch ;
Imperialism was telected to plead at the High Court of
Ilhda, the e.lier day, noticed the Emperor's butt yet remain-
login Court, and mid to the usher, "lake that away or I
shell go"
A correspow'ent states that rinderpeat is killing numbers
of tier Prussian cattle, lint on the whole the Prussian• are
exceedingly well off for feud. 'their comuulisariat is excel-
lently well arranged.
Tire Minister of War hen given orders for a large number
of mitrailleuses to be manufactured by prieate Mous in Psrls
and the ;Mpartroents. Already more than thirty meidifeca
tui ors have taken eoutracte, and 30,0.0 men me engaged in
C4101,g tin on out.
A reat many of the Para Mobiles have told their oillaers
that they will Lot fire a shot to the cry of "Vice to France!"
Tory openly declare that they will not tight for a geographi-
c .1 expreadon, although they are prepared to lay down their
livos for a principle.
" (funerals Wolf and C.:mbduls, oho escaped loom the
disaster of Sedan, bosh wow:tied, hfive arrived in Parts, mid
placed themselves at the orders of th I :averument. General
Duerot has also reached the capital tor the same purpose."—
Gekrnani.
Many leach soldiers who were rimer the Mouse, rather
than rurrender to tho Privslars, swam over it in the :Mat
of the lire of the nal:milieusos which followed them. One of
; the survivors, • well-known captain, arrived in Paris at Ids
aged father's house. Before enewacing him hislather asked,
" Have you signed the capitulation l' No, seen pere."
, "Then, my son, come and embrace me, and go and fight t"
; A few days heck a poor Freneli soldier was wandering
; abut the street. of Genteel, in no excited manner, istopplog
; every few minutee it fall on one knee, as II in the Itei of
firing his rifle, and then, with shout. for France, making for
OIJO of the trees In the avenue, behind which he eared him.
; telt from his imaginary enemy, and roes tail rennin( lay same
; gentlemen, who conveyed hien loon asylum.
In Paris, the other evening, two corporals et the line
having been ;Averred to change a 150-franc note In a iViao
; shop at Eatignolles, were followed by two men who in
putt of the Avelan eta Cilchy stablaed thclll ta the back, line
telt demi and the other was seriously wounded. One of the
arsamins e coped, but the other wa. arrested.
; The French peasants hi their distress, ray to strangers
"Is was not we who wetted war. It was all the Emperor
; and his wretches of Minis:ere. France now has done wlah
; the Bonapartes for ever." And if one talks of the l'i• biecite.
; they ;soy, "It was the peasanto who wed Oii I, and they are
; pa 3 log for it. Bat even they eld not think they were vales
for war. They only voted neMnat he Rouges and the towns.'

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The espouses of the war are reckoned ivy Dr. G. Ilirth us
fella es —Cost of the military action ot Germany, 1,250
millions of trims; direct losses, 1.230 million.; int:Beet
tours'! 2fo war compensation for the recomplered
territory, Alamo awl Locraine, especially Strasburg, Yeo
milltotte. Total, 4,930 millions of francs.
A Paris lodging-bouts keeper has issued a prospectus,
addremed especially to English travellers do trout of "as-
sitting" at the siege of Paris, <Pieties comfortabie apart-
ments, completely out of the range of bombs. Norsouti
persons may be accommodated with 1,00121 s In the cellars,
and CAVrligts are kept for promenades to the fortifications !
An official telegram from Neufchatel reports the Muting of
n balloon iletel Meta September 16. The balloon, it Is said,
coutoii ed 5,00 ollicere letters, which elate (hot the
besieged hal plenty of provisions stnce ths battle of
Gravelotto ; that Marshal IlJe line had been victorious In the
bottles of Armlet, and that there was no doult: be would
cut his way throu-th when the proper time arrived. If the
above it:dement should be true, it wctild give one c fli.er to
every three soldiers.
Mr. Karl Bided, loan appeal published In the German
presa, while lot lug on the full rights if Germany is tie
present war, and hying blame on the sot majority ot partial
ant leaden in France, cr.:presses eyinpathy eith the mesh-
Wilmot tof the Republic, discrediting and dem-mini-9 in
;trove tcrirk the alleged scheme fora restoration if Napoic
nal niftiest of esti factory guarent •cs t Germany. he
would unfortunate'y p- noes death bine to the Republican
cause in France; he thunder* would fold hope that it der
toughs w.II pre, ail at Palle.
A letter from Berlin in the Cologne Gazette says that the
opinion in diplomatic circles la ih k the siege of Paris will
not lest wore than two or three weeks, and that after this
period hunger and other privations a ill induce the city to
surrender. ii..me apprehend the nectsoliy of aci galena.,
of military operonons in the South of France, but tills 'sill
depend on the turn Minas take at Paris. Atter its capture
a sufficiently powerful peace party will assume the helm of
Government.
G.Vel grant that I may prove a false prophet, bat my firm
comic:inn is that it the Prmelans carry the place by storm
the leeflitaliCo if a large portion of the population, rot em
dud i• g women, many of whom have ermeri themselves with
reels ers and even rifles, will be so tore Mous and !temperate,
continued ido to the last moment from house to hews and
street to street that the result will lie Cu Indiscriminate
slssphtse worths of the dark ages. Holey indeed will Ile
the responsibility reviling upon the heads of those who have
spared a sinele effort to avert so fearful a calamity."—
'1 one. Paris Correspondent.
It la stated that 11. de Keratry has found in the archives
of the Pretectnra if Pollee proofs which the late Government
could not remove in time, that the es-Empreee. M.
and Count de Pallkao had plotted a corny d,tat for he
evenin:4 of byte: Mr 4. They had intended to throw all the
members of tie Left and the principal itspublican leaders
into Mans, to make Pant so Lientenant-Ganeral .1 tim
E entre under the iterenty, and thou to treat with Pens- M.
Tato breath of popular indignation blew away this conspiracy
without bloodshel.

M Jules Fevre has addressed • circu'u to the diplomatic
agents of France, in which. apropos of the atteration made in
date of the elections to the Constituent Assembly, he again
declares the iota Government guilty of the war, whilst ad-
mitting that F,ance mint bear a .me of the responsibility,
and professing she readiness of the nation to make such
am, nds as ore possible itut to Insists that Franco will
praftr a thousand times disaster to dishonour, and nromtste
rosiatance to the last, encouraged by the sympathy of foreign
!Whale, if rilinin will nut make peace upon equitable
terms.

We hove been strived (nays the Nprth G.,7111111 Corn.
sperident, that Napoleon lii. In conversing at No rave with
a distinguished diplomat:A who is greatly cevoted to the
Imperial *')Ott), used the following words:—"l must hive
all nraise to the dsclsline and bravay of tee Penmen
treeps. Their dist:Mlles is always the same, red to star.
psseel only by their courage. Nothing coo resiet ilea), and
slip will enter Paris, which cannot defend itself success-
fully against them."
The Journol de St. Prtereourg nays: "Prance must be
the best judge of what cults her, and Serene, 'whin
at her, does net dream of hindering her internal reorganise.
lion Let her pursue the new experiment she has begun, but
let her not try—there would be peril for her—to draw her
neighbours Into her msvenent. The fraternity of peoples is
all wry well, but the federation is a chintera " The Journal
comments in very severe tenon on the address of the Inter-
national Society of Workmen, the addrers of the Inter-
national League of Peace, and the address of Victor lingo.
The environs of Paris are described as nearly deserted,
keens, the ordinary population of which la 600, has now
only 14 inhabitant, All the farmers sod villagers of the
Stine etd nee, of the inner see plaints of Seance, arid those of
Loviet ere cenveying their corn to Paris, Nantes, and
11,rdeaux. to a word says the Pattie, therein, complete
and decided void within a large radius of the capital. A
great part of the InLahitaide of Scams have left, can eying
with them their valuables. Those who remain are reedy to
take refuge in Paris on the first alarm.

_
--Among tun material taken at Sedan Were Itiv,tATOCitassepOta 1 " A Uerman journal Las repreaeuted Situ static—of the Em-
end 84,0 0 cwt of powder. peror In qaite a different light, Per it alleges thot so destitute
On Seturday last, Ludy Cowley arrived at WilhdmsLiiito en was he of resonrees that tho Prussian Mad at Sedan had to
,et the &weel In the forenoon and, after a wl,v,alnhcoavehlumm
I::: _.CO)
poTihnitsthstgory is, like the rest,
a 11031i011 iv
fit; interview with the Emperor Napoleon, returned to totally unfouvded.
to these assertions, so
E .glaurl In the evening.
Toe new Po fect cf lidintl has issued an 54dr.5 55 the in.-
tetuatitrhei:Ocobn,tfr:rn,ynt to ti.,h,e, truth,
triOotheinsath:fhcoompeautftapcukt,tiinifigt al:
habitants, calling on Gunn to defo'd their town. Great ex- end to attack. upon a Sovereign who, under the mist ortunes
c-romeut prevails, and all English residents have prepared to
bare. order that all may know how Cr ry slat:dor their foundations
The Injury received by DaltoWllliam of Mecklenburg, from are, and to how small an moonlit of faith they are entitled.
the explosion of n tosgszims ill the citadel of Loon, is nut " I trust 3on will give this letter Insertion In jour journal,
onions, but only a contusion of the toot, which dots riot pre- and, in thanking you by anticipation. The; you to receive
yens ho following the troops in a carriage, the assurance, At., "0. Ficriil,
Part of the d,,Gris of the aim that was conquered at " Private Sec. to the Emperor Napoleon."
Sedan has made its way to Itotten, with DO army sin-goons.
sad a numher of the ambubmes corps. The strode are full
Of soldiers, and great military excltemint pro ails.
According to send.ofticial advices, the Commandant of
Lion BC¢lll3 to have born innocent of the explosion of the
citaceL Tito woi k Woe probably blown up by an artillery-