The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-19 00:00:00

QUARTERING ON THE ENEIIY.

The erpectation of the Parisians that the German Main
would be famished by cold and hunger while awaiting the
capitulation of Paris or preparing to bombard it does not
seem at all likely to be realize I writes a correspondent).
Much has been maid of the impossiudity of the troops
making a winter canipsign without tents. Toe French them-
selves have supplied them with what are much better than
canvas coverings—good comfortable houses. From parlour
to top story every house in every village along the lines of
Investment is filled with troops. Provistine the soldiers
have In abundance. What they cannot find in the enemy'.
country—and they search diligently—ls brought to them
from Germany. They are every day digging up the potatoes
and thrashing the corn which the French farmers sowed,
and their ability In discovering wine, even when buried in
gardens or stowed away in cellars hermetically sealed by
double walls is marvellous But discoveries and requisi-
tions do not suffice for the supply of the armies now around
Paris; and consequently civres have to be brought from a
distance. At this side of Paris the army of the Crown
Prince of Saxony Mu put two Iliac, of railway again into
working order. From the station at (imam and the
dation at Mitry they have direct railway comunication
Wills all Germany. French locomotives and waggons are
every day employed In the transport of sUpplles.

A SAD PP.OSPECT 1011 THE PAM II PEASANT.
We were compelled to remain the night at Meaux, and
walked the next they through a lovely country to Lanny. The
apple and pear orchards by the roadside were loaded with
ripe fruit, which is already abundantly strewing the ground,
where it will rot for lack of hands to gather it. IS was
melancholy to pass hundreds of acres of orchards in this
condition, and to think that the poor peasant proprli tars
were probably starving in Paris for want of the money which
their lost crops would have brought them if they hed only
staid at home. by the roadside I observed numerous signs
of the cattle disease, in one place as many ae 10 or 15 cows
lying in cheap. These were imported from Germany. Our
carter, • Protestant peasant of the reighbourhood, looked
ruefully forward to the prospect of its spreading through
the already impoverished country. This man was unfortu-
nate enough to inhabit a village which had resented the
conduct of some Garman soldiers in a way more forcible
than prurient, and the result was that heavy requisitions for
carte and horses were put upon the inhabitants. Those thus
singled out looked forward to distress and famine, for they
were unable to sow their autumn crops, and their horses
were completely worn out with constant travel. They re-
ceived a small pittance as compensation, but according to
my informant, it barely sufficed to feed himself and his
horse. Ile was an interesting specimen of a French peasant,
being the leader of a small Protestant community, and he
pointed out to me the small chapel in which lie said, evi-
dently with some feeling of gratified self-respect, that he was
in the habit a conducting the service. Ills own political
sentiments were Orleanist, but he sail the majority of Ills
community were Republicans, while the Napoleonic dynasty
had very few eupporten."—Correspondent of The Times.

VINDICATING lIIMsEI.r.
Don Angelo de Miranda, the editor of the Paris Gaidoie
who was arrested at Versailles for having presented himself
to Count Bismarck under his Christian name only, and
ordered to 'defence as a suspected spy, haa made his escape.
lie gave his parole to proceed to Mayencs voluntarily, but
Immediately absconded. In a letter to a Brussels paper he
lays I was authorized by the Crown Prince to pass through
. the Prussian lines on production of a formal safe conduct,
which contained my real name and actual official character
(President of the Spanish Financial Commission in London).
I was then arrested under the pretext of having puldished
anti-Prussian articles. All my papers were taken from ;
but nothing sac iclous being found In them they were re-
turned, with the exception of the safe conduct. Alter serious
lll.usege I was ordered to Mayence, and I was naked for my
word of honour not to escape. I gave it, and have. neverthe-
less, escaped, because I regarded myself as sequestrated, and
not as a prisoner. These are the facts , public opinion will
decide on them."

A "SAD FATE," INDEED!

The Miiitair Wochenbtatt, of Berlin, his published a
table showing the fate of the relics of each infantry
regiment of the former regular Army of France. The
whole of the Guard, eight infaetry regiment., of three
battalions each, with one battalion of Chasseur., are
prisoners. tif the hundred Infantry regiments all are
prisoners but sin four of these last, which were for-
merly In Algeria, being now with the Army of the
Loire, and two. whi3h were at Rome, being in Paris. The
whole of the Zonate., three regiments if three halation.
each, are captives ; so are the twenty battalions of Chamois
S the Line, and the three regimetts of Turco% a body for-
merly of the same strt tigth a. the Z waves. The only other
troops unaccounted for are three single battalions of light in-
fantry, specially raised for Algerian service, and supposed to
be still in the colony, and the Foteign Legion formed for the
same purpose, and said also to be there at last accounts.