The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-27 00:00:00

MOURNING IN PARIS.

'I he paris Correspondent of the Daily Nests says Come
with int to the Church of our Lady of Victory, and you shall
ace them humble, devout, patient, praying tu• their dear
ones. and registering their vows before Heaven. The whole
church is tun of memorials from those who have suffered
And have prayed, whose heart's hunger has been mercifully
aatistied. and who have Inscribed their gratitude on the
goored walls I was at this church on the Napoleon (Re- day,
• again this morning It lead many worshippers on both
tearful women vvrapt in prayer for the most part,
• • - and there. priest and an
_ege.d man. le grate.
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with be and th.r. ^ - e---
ted,,, to oar Lady for preserving a Manua child when in
greet peril eb:l then come initials and the date. •Ls hum-
ble tbebgtebbiee for the return of my beloved husband from
the we,' nano.. Our Lady for her merciful
Inter-
vention on a day
named: 'ln acknowledgment of the
'
prayer Our Lady answered,' end so forth, cover a great
part of the interior of the conrch. Each sentiment Is
graven on a small marble tablet come eight inches by
four, and edited to the walla, or the pillars overhead, ao
that the place is lined with the records of gratitude. Several
of them are too minutely peraonal for quotation, but all
breathe the name spirit, and all helped to give a tender
meaning to the bowed Beares absorbed in brayer. There
.orere lighted candles and pictures, an officiating priest in
mintmente, and glittering altar ornaments, and votive offer-
ings But you hardly see these. The poor women and their
sorrows shut them out. Theirs are the passionate cravings
/or more than human help, the pitiful longing for other and
more personal solace than the most brilliant national
victory could give the humble shrinking domestic hopes
and fears which centre upon Jules or Antoine, his safety
and his We, lie is, perhaps, lying stiff and stark with
a Prussian bullet through his head even as they pray,
but they are upheld, poor soul'', by hive and faith, they de-
posit their little gifts in one of the bags held by ladies at the
church's doors, nod go their way serene and comforted. The
'tumbrils yesterday for the men about to be wounde.l, and
the church in which prayers for soldiers' safety are being
offered up to-day—it is hard to say which was sadder. There
were no heroines present, and (did not see a angle worshipper
who seemed capable of playing the Roman. it was all humi-
lity and timid hope ; and when one looked round next at the
vacant places for tablets of gratitude It was with atrength-
*Med convictions concerning the horrible barbariam—the re-
lentless wickedness of war"

MOURNING IN GERMANY.

The I lermans, says the Berlin Correspondent of the Dctly I
.6% eu,,, feel their losses deeply, so deeply that the wives of
officers and other persons belonging to the wealthier classes,
who are doing their duty in uniform, have now ail, self by
common con eau t—whether they have received good, sad, or no
news at all from their husbands, put on mourning. The fashion
has COMB at rigcur, and expresses the public feeling
very correctly And! am informed, by very good authority
indeed, that it eitorserea the feelings if the royal family too,
the it rig included, who has given practical utterance 10 this
teeing hy urging upon the staff general, and upon the three
conananders-in,hiel, that the French now having had sufh-
Ment opportunity for convincing themselvesthat their adveri
aeries had just as much Elan and contempt of their own life
we they are wont to arrogate to themselves, it had become
nudiewt ?non strategy to spore human life as much as
possibio.