The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

AN INFANTRY BALASLAVA.

Coto re I close this letter ;write. the Times* corresponotent
I meat cxli atientiim to a ',linnet which It really behoves the
trench I:overeaten& to inquire into. I ani not stating from
my owe knowledge any thi. but the exist..ee of the bourse-
alon—tray, the Moo belief—ln the minds of the Germans,
which mint had to very Lrrible ...oneness if the war goes
on, as it will, I leer, accoroling to eit probability. Ott the
30th of thAoler, durng the action at Le huh-get, a French
regin,ent Mgsh to wave white handkerchiefs and to raise the
butts of thtor muskets in the sir The Colonel of the Queen
Augusta Regimeet, Count Wahlersee, ordered Ills men to cell
firing, and rode tower la the French, Slot suddenly fired on
him lie fell dead from his horse. Ills Adjutant rode up to
rat., him from the ground, and was brought down badly
wounded, as was inedher officer behind hint. Can this hetroe
All I know Is that it is firmly believed at the Croon Prince's
Ilea& Qaarters, and hag caused the utemat Indignation there.
Ills Le thoute.t seems to have been in some way no Infantry
bnlaklava iii the Roth the French sent out two loatialioos
to the viii olie. and dislodged • Prosalan post of one emm,any,
Illeh tell back on Its riapports. The position was really un-
hupurtaut There is art Inundation near It which covers it
oil olio Able, soil it Is rather commanded loy the fort of the
Root ; but the Crown Pit, en of :taxouy thought It a question
of honour not to It the French stay In the place. which you
may renumber as n station outside Park His Roy al High.
sem, who is • most gallant sod resolute toiler, therefore
gave enters for the place to be carried next day The
General in command of the Guards represented that it
woelo cost early to occupy the place, as the French Mel
set In work to barricade and fortify 11, hut he was met by a re-
mark that it would scarcely be creditable to the Prustim
Guard If they were deterreol from dols their duty by Well
oonaleoret lona Next day the Second Division Of the Guard
were sent to storm the place, after It had been subject to a
severe came nade, hut It seems the fire hail little or no elf.ct.
The Guards were revelled by a molt terribie fire from
house*, behhod wails, the railway, and barricades, but premed
01l in the looit splendid manner, carry iog house after home,
Min lighting their way through every lane, over every barrL
cede, till they clearod the town and took au officer. and 1,100
men, lint the pisoo IA to loportatit, and there Is • great
sorrow over the affair. The Adjutant General of the Army
has been sent fer to give etiolanstioms to the King hr person,
who deeply feels for the losses of his troops. Poor fellows !
Pence will come too late tor the. They will never enj
that triumph to which every German eeldier looks—a pre-
..oe le the flesh .•In Pal lou.

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The English and American. who recently left Pails,
mostly sympathise, according to a German letter, the former
with I;ermany and the latter with France. They state that
large placards have been posted at the street corners an-
nouncing revoluth •.. at Munich, and the proclamation of a
republic, An Englishman who had believed this statement,
on being convinced of Its fabulousness, exclaimed re-
peatedly " they ;the Parisians are all mad." Another
placard reported that the Crown Prince was dangerously 11l
with inthimmatlon of the lungs, which was thought
a good omen for France. Great hopes were placed In
a large army of the tooth, which WAS supposed to he
advancing to relieve hezeine, and then in union with
him to le.troy the German army before l'aris. On the
other hand the refugees deny the rePorts of the distur-
bance. in Paris. The spy niania, however, prevails, blue.
eyed and light.balred Englishmen being special °Neut. of
suspicion, and being constantly arrested as Prussians. At
the police prefecture an official Ls fully employed in receiv-
ing arrested foreigners, and dismissing them with an
apology. Most of the English in Paris are frying to leave,
hut there are difficulties, the British Embassy being re-
moved to Tours, where.. Americans easily obtain passes
from their Minleter. A ladder is ahernis placed by the
statue 01 Sirashuig, to enable passer:Ay to place Int-
ruortellas 011 the top A kind of camp religious service is
Ira meetly held at its foot, rams being said by a priest, and
the Volt...nears INIIO go by iincov, and play the devout, as
religion. at Unice 1/IOUSOII MOM. 0:3110, longer burnt. At
Judi the bonlevards are deserted. Palli has become tern us,
hut it still believes wLat it Is told, and not a single news-
paper dares to speak the truth. The people fancy that
the departments are sending large Unites to retie the siege.

THE PRO,SIAN FIELD POsT.

Ti., following postal atetielies bawl jest !Irmo hatted !
250,540 Inter, and postal cards are forwarded daily to the I
Alloy, and 150 WV are derpatched homewards from the
army. From the lelth Joly to the 31st wit the "expedition,"
in ronno numbers, has neer, no less Nom 117,450,000 lateen
Red earths 'Foe rn..nes forwarded from Germany to minim,
Chests In. ll,ii tOol 010 '1..0 priv.le rnooer
4ortters to the army hare herrn X 340,040 thialeM; from the
Arley, some 11.0 (Nn, tinders, official packages, 20,750 poor
y..tarirs and clerk id it 'As packages Clicse only Iron
15th to ....tod 111. 173000' Indy one hag with 1,9.0 thalnrx
has hems hot on the road, during the WO% coming through
the ihd* 4.kaltenne. Vor the traneport of the 170,000 paper
pio aquae forwarded hi Arlan of it pew regulation), 0,760
large bags, Cs railway trucks, awl 2112 horse waggons have
rota, med. 110 moot*/ daily Iseroseao.

THE FRENCH POWERS OF IMAGINATION !
A eme•ponactit of a Berlin paper has RAI.. the trouide
to cat lip the German hews whloh have been announced
In Frehch bulletins hod orresianidenta. lettars since tho
hegintewg ht tl war, and he iPols that acoording to thew
were ,u,chr,e,iciere shoot I. Wee millions of German addle.,
Lave leen killed. Tory hare also reported the death, in
listilo or 14 disease, of Pane, Albert and Prince Charles of
Pru•- la, Niece Vredarlok I Barlow Colalt Moltke, the Duke
I N :tin to, ileheral Treskow, and the Brown Prtnce himwit
An ter the King find his Chief Ministcr, the former has been
repro-hided as haying 1ii9,11 deprived of retro., through
remover for his titration of the ward toll of France wed
the letter as having be en killed while endeavouring to re-
p.. REE emture by Bavarian withers. flee ttories of the
quarries at Jounient, where the enemy was aid to have
peel hed tor thousailds, of the mysterloos some, octet of the
8,1100 Farina widows in MOURDEREZ, are further notorious
lostahce• of French powers of huggination.

THE " iiTTER BARBARIANS" REaPECT roll AUT.
low readers will be glad to learn that the studio nail reel-
dance of Sladile. Rosa Bonheur, at the picturesque town of
E.t.a...Mean, to the south of Paris, Is to he spared and
relve,iril by the Germans by a special order of the Crown
}Thee of Prussia; and also that orders hive been given by
the King of Prussia at fleallgitarteM to the mime effect let
tavolir of the studio sod alwele of the cruet, SI Eiouard
Fiera, at klooneti. M. Blanchard, the well-known engraver
of very maoy of the hest French pictures, and who., same is
well known In England by his engravings of i• the Derby
Day," •• The Marriage of her Royal Ifighnese the Prillet.ll
Royal ORh the Crown Prince of Prussia," &1., we are sorry
to hear, Is shut up lie Pare; and, It le hoped, even. if Pants
should be subjected to a dual ainault and capture, a similar
courtesy tin:l 10, extended to hien. to. Blanchard's son, a
lieutenant of Artilltty, out Meto but a bother to is
tea prieCriter id still a mystery to the edict's trielldoll
LUIII:011. he slim-log of tho tunes of artists, so far from
showlog that the il.rmatis are utter barbarian.," weald
500511 realer to recoil the noble conduct of Alexander the
Great, alit, when he took Thebes, ordered the home of the
poet Plotter to be respected and spared when he redUileal the
rest of that city to ruble.

PERHAPS IT WAS ALL FOR THE REST.

TFIE Wont: iiililotlAlis ARE ENGABEB IN!
" Laid mall I received a letter from Egypt, In which there
wen a remark which struck me greatly :—'flow can you
Christians,' asked the writer. ' expect us to pay the leent
attentien to your minion., lee when we reader two of your
greatest nation:. making war and commiitlng all aorta of
mollies on e-th other, although you declare it to against
your Ph to do no; kild other great Chrhtian nations not at
agr .0 making preparations for it, end are in leer of being
attacked r We afar off reader hear of your 'lobes, and beg
you will keep your missionaries at home. But we all any
war is a wicked end pence a blessed thing. By the side of
Blood-atained lidera we have many good and earliest men
reading and proyidit. The Minister of War—Von itoon—of
all men, i a patron of reripture reader., and Mr. Alexander
(ail,' acts as agent to the society which had the kiosk in
the Paris Exhibition) hat, under his protection, travelled
among all the prisons In Germany,diecrilicting bibles in tons,
and is in, on his Way back through Belgium The cols-
alimarles, Indeed. have even gone no far as to try their
powers on the Turcos.”—Tinses' Correspond.nt with Gil,
man Army.

THE LES.SON POE CHRISTMAS.

The Provisional Govertment has taken • fresh pledge to
ahlie by its former declarations The Germane do not
deceits, hemselves about the future. They have been di:-
Appointed lei finding Paris stubborn, but they now calculate,
with an asithmeticsl pricislon which is most significant.
that Paris cm hold WI, for e 5 days from the let of November
before capitulating through starvation. lilt dots not fall
before through bombardment, It will fall on the 3rd of
January because ibis at the sna of its provisione. Meanwhile,
the Invaders are ready to do and suffer all thing. They have
been fired at night aidl day for, month without a chance
of returning a shot, and the slide of Le Bourget
showed that while victory may be certain it may he costly.
But they ao tot hesitate. they do riot even shrink from
she anticipation of honor, such as their countrymen sid-
les el about Mete, where huts flooded with water and rile
pits which had herniae ponds laid low 500 aday, many from
typhus. They are prepared for all this. Parla mast fall.
Pestilence and slaughter may strike down besiegers and
besieged. Villages may be burnt le France, and families
Jolt fatherless In llern...ny, and little children learn by in-
effaceable lessons through tile Christmas of 1070 the Gospel
of Hatred and Revenge. it matters not. Two inflexible
wills are i.e collision, and it is thus, end thus only, that it
can he discovered which has strength enongh to grind the
other to pow cler."—Laider In The Times.

The White of the negotiatiohs was not only inevitable. It
was, perhaps, on the whole, desirable. Nothing would have
been gatited by an armistice followed by renewed hostilities
and, chocking as the bombardment of Feria said he, we be-
lieve that it i.e less injurious to France and Europe than
a hastily patched-up pence. If the French had accepted
the GOMIIIII terms without further lighting, the great body of
the nation would probaids have cern/Jed to believe Post
the aeceptauce had been a work of necessity. lb.
accusations of treachery which are now launched
against Marthell Ibis:tine would have extended to the
ruecuiers of the Provisional Government. The preva-
lent belief in France wi,ubl have been that Parts had been
betrayed by Its self constituted defenders just as it was on
the boint of intlictibg a Rice reverse on the German armies.
In the confusion which would have followed upon the Coll-
c;usiou of peace, come political party would certainly have
been found to nicks this cry their Owe, and to use tease
, stepping.stone to pow.r. Once in office, this party would
j have bad no choice but to make vengeance for military
asters the key-tote of their policy both at home and abroad.

AV; STOMII3RTDdi OBSERI7EIt

An tornrance company ban Mon formed at Lille to Wore
property against the dumps resulting from bombardment.
The Aupberg Gazette manUotm that the tiritaLlon of the
population 01 iitrainurg luereame daily. German soldiers
are continually found ansielnated. 4The 'Menem seem to
excite the auger of tho inhabitants most awl ore °limiest
attacked.

rot/118k of M. Tillers thilsing Pula 'by permission r To
think ef Jag .14# ,Mtsnt .11 Rromen In I.IIV. of It
WI
tal .•-..t. 4/ If , 14 tee tend VW L'mp
debt of Tie ?Uses.

I hol here moth. r lo,lat CA of the d1.1.01!1,470,1ii,t, or
rather. 1 might say, the hididerenni wniat rciicoe among
the officers of the regular array, end If among the officers
•s, plos forte raison ' among the Mon As we u ere atoll iI
1°,044 at the distant horiam, which we could command on
three sides of ua, amen who was showing us over the place
pointing 1KM1414111 the left bank of the river 1., the direc-
tion of Iteaugeuey, • If the Prussians come here, they aill
COllle 111 that direction ....' If they come ' intempted
• )outig officer of Lancers, who had ridden over from Pow.
tij ii,• they'll come aa mire no fate. Why.' he continued,
MIS 1,01 111 sufficient force to oppose them a nilnute.
They still attack tia with about 200,000 men come from
Mete, and we are only about 50,000 at Marchenolr and
Poutljm • "—Duiiy Nerve' Correspondent at Blois

Freonlt Genera,' and in Ida entimeasui Went so far as
to heeeribe his private isharacter and eeputation UI
France as thoroughly spotless. He did not, indeed,
place Bandon as a man on the same level as Mac -
Mahon, whom he styled a perfect gentleman. a modern
chevalier saes pear el sans ioproche. He (Tlders) WWI
from the first opposed to the locztrtious movement
which ended with the disaster of Sedan. He waned,
•vii TI hrrl 1,4 :/ab e 1 a11,,.'' Cao, • laTra,
but hoped peopie_would Dew ho neoe ~.I,ced
la.Leu I 0 ban* He pow sincerely desired peace.
.Te
ti Ivo France front is prseent deeps rain pcsition
it was necessary above all thiogs to extricate it from
the provisorium in width it was sticking fact. A 00.
iditueet Assembly, chosen by universal suffrage, was,
therefore, necessary. He did not, however, conceal
that it would be very difficult to handle such eines-
done with the Nth Government, which was not free
from illusions, end to convince it of the unevoidablee
sees of making sacrifices. Turning to the German
troops, he termed' Count Moltke indisputably the
greatest etrategiat of the age, and expreesed respect
for the Prussian office's. He, however, by so UMW/
likee the Piussian system, of the imoplo hi arms.
The French army, he thought. became tient thoroughly
disorganized through the half measures of Na-
poleon 111., whom he throughout polveri very
handily. His ideal is still a paid army with five
yew.' service. France bad certainly taken up arms at
an unfavourable Cum, and when lie) miii declared him-
self in the Chamber "archipret," he (triers) knew full
well that the War Minister was deceiviog himself.
The officer went with him up to the bridge, and there
gave the little man his hand, that he might get out of
the carriage with less difficulty, On seeing Paris
before him his eyes became moist, a nervous tremour
came over him, and quiskly taming away he exclaimed,
" qua j yds name arc rimir ainai /a capitate."
According to another account his words were "Oh,
gentlemen, I never knew before how much I loved
my unfortunate native city! What • terrible position
to find it in." When greeted in a friendly manner by
the Duke of Saxe Coburg at Versailles, he said "How
frightful are the circumstances under which I have the
honour to meet you again," and burst into tears. M.
114inusat, his companion, who convereed with Kale
other efficers, tried to comvince them that Germany,
having shown herself to be stronger than France, could
not require a cession of territory.