The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01 00:00:00

SYMPATHY FOR FRANCE.

A are and enthusiastic meeting of working meo
was held in leindon on Saturday eveuing at St. Jatues'a
Hall, to expresa their eympathy with tin. Provisional
Government of France. An address to Mr. Gladok ue
was adopted urging him, on the part of the Govern.
!tient, to use every effort to bring about peace kittewt en
the two contending willow!. A riailution WAS also
mooed in favour of an immediate recognit!on of the
French Reput.lie by this country, and cc mgr, attilatory
address to the French people on the pisition taken by
/ff. Julia Fairs WAN agrt ed to.

Another demonstration in honour of the Fren6
Republic came off on Sunday afternoon in If y.le.rark,
and, cempared with that on the previous Sunday, was
a successful gathering. The meeting was organieed by
the International Democratic Association, under
whose it spicia pr. mission• from ration! points in the
metropolis toJk place. Resolutions were passed in
eff-tt the same as those adopted at the meeting on
the previcusniht.

On the subject of these meetings, Tire Times, in a
leader, save
It is difficult to underetan•l what practical object is to be
attained by emitinued Demo stratum,a in favour of the
French Republic. There have been two more of these en-
htintions. Oa Saturday night there was a meeting in St
James's Dail, and on Haunay afternoon • "gatheriug hi
Ily.le Park, which organised itself luso a group iii meetings,
each with its president sod ora'ore. The farmer aimed at
preserving sorue appearance of impartiality and moderetion,
said sought to Associate with VS proeeedinge toe names of
some 'toadies Liberals in and cut ,of Parliameut. The
latter was under the auspices of the .• lesterna•
Monet Democrats of London ;" its memons carried
Tt ed Republican banners ; its leaden were attended
by inters bearing the terror; the linolutiohe were proposed
la the name ~1 the Itcputilicans of London, and declared,
among other things, that the Republic Is the only ferny or
Government by which liberty and justice are secured by the
people. It will thus be seen that the meetings ',presented
the Democratic party in two pleases, and, for what we know,
the one may be inclined to repudiate the other. We have
not the clibhtest objection to either holdisg as many meet-
legs as it pleases, an long as it contents itself with deaffiar
with home affairs. hut can they not lied wane other en hject,
of invective at the preeent time titan ourforeign pulley with
I record to the war B People may argustbat such meetnigs as
these are 001 01 maiden& importance for comment, and cer-
tainly need not erode Apprehension. In ordinary matters we
shon,d agree with this opialon. Yhe adveemy of Alsedre Bred-
The most pr •fitable business in the Cuited Kingdom 11,:itur. ioi
jagtrt Istedeemal.eytoistet.
~ likelyeuot J. a‘dt.4..nvc.olTalrisy. cause,lL, sodre.
is just making another concession to the public con- presentative of the working man. Bet foreign ntfairs aro a
vehience in the half-penny postage for newspapers subject on which the elute:ter And ability of the speakers
and the niednage earth.. It is safe to predict for the cannot, be properly welched by sense of thole who ere
latter a wide popularity. The idea is borrowed from chiefly interested All that the world beyond the British
Isles MU maisratsnd of such meetings as were held on
Prussia. During the present war the German army Saturday soil H,,,,,i„,, is t hat greet llamoustrodiont hive
has used more than ten millions of them. The soldiers been made against Prnssn and if favour of Franco, and
write their little till,f sages at night, after the battle. or that the British Government I'M been required by
hi the merning before the day's march begics and send the Democratic party in England net Cll4 to recap-Me
them off by the Field Post to tell the folk; at Some ! the rating men In fart, as a Goeernment, bet to combine
i w thhatthul in.
atil,c,ee a Ltytendh:
town how lather, eon, or brother in faring at the wars. r tub d:
,rteftl'ehti be l in
lisenrntP
2rrito'
In England the cards will do more peaceful errands. i speakers and their heiMerli reaeudia very much those of the
Ally message not a strictly private one, may be I meetings in the l'arni sohnrbs some righieeti months inner .
cheaply and conveniently sent without the trouble , mil' be explained to Frenchmen, bet they will not think the
of paper, envelope, and stamp. The card is ready its ot the Deinoustrations on that •ccount, seeirog that the •
stamped, he palter and envelope in one. Titers party which the gather's., at neliewllle rofepresented is now
,•Ds Perla and Lulls,' chief towns France.
is nothing to do hru tint to write the es sae on
--8 - - one supremeus We mt, therefore, confess • real anxiety concerning the
side, the addre.s on the other nide, arid to put it into . effect of these meetings, though periectly conscious of the
the post. A traveller may send home a melange with- utter hollowneas of the agitation at tame. litre it Is only
out delaying his journey an instant ; may icrilible it nu the roost igliesent of the people mio are likely to be in
the card as he walks along the street. Ladled may itoeucad by Clio buguear of erusabui aggreli,saion It is but a
de-patch their morning orders to their tradesmen iu as T1",,,1y,,triwi...,,,„grrt7,if,,„,,,,,,w,,,0,„. ,t,,r,..,,,:"„:0.
little time as they could give them by word of month, go to cheer the French Republic the feeling Is so strong that
and many busineen trannactions will he facilitated by the scar wag utterly without escum on the part of France
the ,Iniektli. RS with whit Ii the cared, may he de.patched. that the spankers are obliged to cJniess that ise long
Nor need the publicity be feared. The cards will be as the Empire lasted the German* were in toe tight.
too numerous for the officials to read the mesaiger. and We hu.w PcrfectlY wet' Lill, Atl these meeting. will
have no effect whatever ou the pulite: opinion ot the United
penple who do not wish their servants to do so have Kingdom or on the acts of its Government. Teat opinion
only to keep their letter.boxes locked, and the messages has been mardeated In the most decided manlier from the
will he as practically secret as though it were shut up . nrrt cloy of the war, and it id now lined by time sad °vain
ste env., I beyond posslntlity of change The first resolve of the .
country is that it will Oct allow itself to be drawn into .
lan interference, ihrict or indinict, in the ear, An ,
• TRUE BLitt). 1 tipliilly hum ininvictinn is that our tdovernstiout stn.': I
— , attempt to mediate without hoeing sti..arlateed
Life, Goello precioud gift, has been shockingly wasted from le ith conioatanta that thry are disposed to rteeive
iif late, and atone of its most ruthlred demedien will our 005rtUres levonrably, arid that there are certain prin. •
have their nanlea benthel down to posterity coupled nines Co which they are agreed. Toe people of this couistra ,
m ed riot he told that Ur. Giseistout anti Lord Gramrille will '
with no other terms than those of admiration and won.
not chahge their course at the toddles of Coleuel Dickson ;
der (remarks the Duel!, Teleoiraph). The renown that ond the report of the eneettag lealf shows that froth the ad-
attends the conqueror, in whose train " victory follows weaned T.lberals who were appealed to in sum, dr of the
like a menial,' will he its ire ; and the splendour of Demonstration no LAYOUT II:410 rations., and, hides, in most
that proud eml.legoriment will glow in hiatorie pages , case, no non/nide at all, was received.
containing no record of the darker features which 1 Ahrond, however, the Bulllort,inco of the nieetires may,
be quite uthuneentood. The unhappy Frey ch
represent the hideous reality so distiuguinhed from the ! P°"WIY,
glitterieg pageantry id war. but, if aie destroyer of I rs'alt ttlieft?; taihcaers'ul'ole'C't"T. hhie'y!,fre'iurcuutt '.'d licit' 'gri-"X.
Die Merits such honour, vil,A 'halt be dont for its - they each at any support, however trail, aoil when It breaks
saviour ': If a man deserves the laurel wreath for under their hands they grasp at another. They lime been
having faced death in order to ihflict death, of what looking for animus on every side. The Lea that Berme was
reward is he worthy who confront* daniier and death ias lnatons as themselves of Prue lin lid-Notice, nod would aid
in order to pi mere,' life': We ask the q nestion them In
icill.e.eLi:;,.....itl,tieottiMl:gtf.t.,...^oriteroa;ivntr,iti,t :ter;
breathes an opportunity is presented to the public, still rennins Nothing been. cepanlc ot expellengit ,aideast„ up
just now, of showing that all tile '• glory" is hot to be to tin (ley whe., Parka disappeared from view it NAP, ar r alg as ,
istworbed by invenbow if het (Ile- OM., revolving easi- over innoicr too iwialam in War this winch posit ad the I
none, and other swift reaper's of the dreadful harvest. nibution ot IL Thiele. 'lbis atakenian ot experiorco, thes
The public ILLY freqm-utly road earnest appeals for the historian who has sketched the diplomatic negctiatiens '
big at or W, whose heroic devotion to a noble lab or nct...::,,:e7,1,8:',..1e'f,p8ew""A" ".„"i, 7,L:i.rull a
ii
tin
has already deprived our stormswept c mite of half take up aria, alit enale to the resew% all ror ioVe of
their terrors. These gallant fellows work on without France and hatred of Prussia. The net is tits French I
lkipc. °revel: desire, of material reward. Not for them 111.0 lo long looked repel themaelvea an an duets. I
are titles and estates, conitly oche victory' wreathe, Wt.' nest privileged poop], that they nannot ~.,,,sva I
the bouour ol liduz embalmed in diplomatic despatches theniselies to lie ieit to the chant:. of war. ittir capital 1
has bens the gathering place of Matinee, MA they have ,
or id having their deeds traced by the historian in
belleved that ite world could hardly iinwittiont it, es. I, '
characters ref bra Al! the noire uv-vessrY fit ti• tila'' a a eandoi, sod mould lufallibly retool any MIA,* that issiihe
friendly pen elloutil occanionaliy drag their lin Tits into deface es charley. Ever since Sedan they have been clement. '
the light., and tell humanity how greatly it in their lug for kughsn imeriereuce. which we lind, when interpreted
debtor. Here, for instance, is a testimonial now being ay at Tillers, Mein% an Eualuffi albinism, &genet the anima-
field that the greatest iadtgidition Ina prevailed at
PrePaTed for jaaac./ &Erna% late comawaiwof the limns.
ZY:i. eel nt Tnciand ar d that Pandang threat.. to
Ode life-bugle, who is about to rt tire from that twed , 'l,,loi',,'",;e°o',.;o•Stn w—rdn--ed; do'nis day. All this stows that
and to accept other dutiee. What haa good Isaac i
... Vratiee a declaration ot England against the Germans
done that ho should have a testimonial thrust upon le hoped for, said it need not be mint Mat teeth meetings as
him ? From an appeal recently Sowed we loam those of the L iindrit Radicala mid D--moor ne are likely Si.
that durine the ten yearn in which be has filled the Dire that hype tote notive
,exp:ck.-Atiorti
thN ,it‘en, ~ , c,,,,: n:
i
(Alice of coxswain, hobo " been instrumontal in, 17‘5.re um"ele"iiinuganattri„Nt t'tier:tn'd:7 met torn al' emit r,,,,.P.,. of ..„.:
saving the liven of nearly four hundred persons.' land helping trance lathe manner Which Frenchmen look for.
"Four htilitlind lives" we say, our Mew Long we esve dose the par, of frietol.; bna ainea. A. Lin: beginning
enlarged by st:e events -what is that ? A pest sire at the annute we Usterfered at the spacial requeet Of /rah no

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