The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-17 00:00:00

M. TRIERS ON NIS MISSION OF
PEACE.

M. Thit-rs who enjoys a reputation that may be
truly dent ibed as cosmopolitan, is now in the 74th year
of bin ago. Ile entered official life immeaiately after
the Bev°lotion of July, 1830, and held successively the
inntatt.arinorf krtn.ctrt;Srzcorri_ttoymomferSeteataliMiloutecr
of the
and President of the Council, and Minister of Foreign
Affairs. When Louis Napoleon undert tok the abor-
tive expedition to Boulogne in 1840 he proclaimed
Thiers as hie Minister, but at the coop dc (at of
December, 1851, the author of 'The Consulate and
the Ravin" retired into exile. In 1863 be returned
to political life an a Libsral deputy for the Depart-
ment of the Seine.

The Tones of Wednesday, in a leader, thus notices
his mission to London :

There arrtved among no early yesterday morning, but
the nature of the message he baare from the Government of
DeM ice gives no hope that his mission will conduce to the
speedy re establishment of peace. Si. Thiess has shown Isis
patriotic zeal In undertaking at an advanced age a Trost
onerous responsiblitty, bat all his zeal and all his energy
mast be unavailing It he has nothing more to c _en municate
ti,an the arguments he Is reported to have mg ci. SI.
Mien has passed a long life Immersed In public sit sirs. Ito
has been the !time Minister of Pearce. Ile was telore, and
he has been since, he held office a student of history. and has
written much and en- Tinnily en the conflicts and the rivalry
of nations. Ile ought to have emarcipeted thyself fnrn the
illusions of the populace, to have rLeu superior to the fluttery
with which nett ne delude themselves I'm he coons aumog
us, lie the very sti, it of the lasplaist Bourbons, to suggest that
the neutral nations should intervene to drive Ger.nany bark
bet ond the frontiers of France, If the Germans should not
immediately retire upoa their remonstrance.

It was announced in the SO.* that SI. Theire wss shout
to visit Ergiand to make no propositions of peace, but merely
to inquire what England meant to do canaidering the tiled
resolution of Fransoe to abida by the very letter of II Ferree
circular, to yield u.s inch of terrifory and to surrender no
stone of her foitreeres. This seethed a sufficiently fruitless
°trend, mid thole who real the Cotenant concluded that it
mud be in altogether unauthorised Invention, despite the
character of the Journal In which It appeared. The truth,
however, Is that the S:rele reported the mleston of
M. Totem to, moderately. Ile has no. Come to make in-
quiries leading to no Meg, but to urge upon us • line of
action that CHO no sooner lie stated thou it mulit repiul.atcd.
51. Priers asks clothing more or less thau th.t mutral Europe
should form a league to compel the Garmans to retire scorn
France. This is impossible, Is will be said; • man who
hoe himself filied the highest offfies of State cantot hare
undertaken an errand so fanciful, St. Forte toy as-
sume thin tone in a diplomatic Circular to t e French
agents, and it is lost Intelligible that on saturnine Whoa he
should, in notifying the change of Government to King
William, require him to withdraw hie armies front France ;
but M. 'Ehlers cannot have come to England to repeat such
demands. Yet this is pretty much what hi. Tellers is maid
to have done. It does not sppeer that NI. niers has sari
offer to make that can be transmitted to the King ul Frusta
as emotive to induce him to retire.

I he second Wil-t-sio-ii7n--w-1;i711- the Million Of M. Tillers
seems to be based must be abandoned bolero peace can be
possible. France appeals to Earope to maintain the Welt
city of her territory, oecause the balarce of power
will be otherwise entlangcled. . . . We know no
9.‘1:11 appreliensiod. TO. aggrandlvnient of Germany
excites no alarm la England. We deprecate the
dia,nemberment of France, because we ovoid not see
without regret the subjugation of the inlistoltanta cf
any province t o a rule they repudiate. We deprecate Pro
dismemberment of Franca, because we desire that Ire
present war nosy be concluded by a peace that shall give
Europe many years of uninterrupted tranquil& y. Fr
au oh reason., and for each reasons alone, we hoped
that those who guide the destmlea ci Pee m.cy
would know how to moderate the demands of
the German people, prompted by the resentment that has
been je-itleth!s Toned among them against Gael r enemies :
but we repudiate altogether the suppcnot neeesehy of main-
tattling a balance of power sea motive for our intervention
or even I. roar me.:iation in tile quarrel; we can see is the
fact that tit s motive is sumested nothing but fresh evidence
that the mischievous cause of the war—the spring of all its
miseries—hes deep in tire sentiments of the French people.

That France must be saved from all loss In the inter/at of
the world, which se, old eniTT irremediable injery were her
greatness diminished. This alone can, ‘,lain the mission ef
Tneirs, and it ilemon:trates (ho hopelessness of a speedy
termination of the war. We cannot as neutrals support by
our infleenee sty terms of peace which we should net, were
we in (i.e position of Germany, be ready to accept ourselves;
and until the French people are ready to acknowledge that
they have beeu guilty of wrong towards their neighbaurs, and
to give sureties ,galust a repmitiou of it, the just claims of
Germany cannot be satisfloi. It is too evident that France
has not reached this daps of self-knowledge. A sudden
cult,hte nment of statesmen and people may at say time
supervene, but until It arrives the war mitt proceed, and
the siege of P.als be added to Its accumulated miseries.
The Daily Tilegro oh Bays :
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The terms which M. Thiers Is empowered to submit
ard, we have reason to believe, of the following purport.
Ile has instructtous to represent that Ids country not
only wishes, but most ardently desires, to put WI
end to hostilities. The war is reputliatod by the en-
franchised conscience of France, and she is ready to
make amends for her part lu it. She Is prepared to pay a
heavy indemnity In money, corresponding to tho proved
expenees ana losses of Germane, Rtseibly up to the sum
total of one hunared millions storlidg. elm will cocsont,
tinder certain conditions, to surrender the half of hi r
tiwt to the victors, and to dismantle thy fortresses of
Metz and Strasburg. These Miles, Om will ell to aMne
for her fault ; but ahe 1,11 not yield one hot of
Alice and Lorraine. Rather than that she will &fen I
Paris ti the last extremity ; sod, wlien Parts if laid
In rules, she will calry on the war to the bitter Bad
from town to town throughout the land Such Is
an outline of the lustruetions cntdided to M. flier., in
order that he might urgo the Bottlah Cabinet to favcur a
speedy eettlement, as he will subsespently urge the Govern-
ments of Russia awl Anstria.