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

TEIE LOBES BY WAR,

The Cologne Gaulle, reverting to the question of the com•
parative mortality in the present and former wars, remarks:
—"Great losses now follow each other rapidly in • few
days, simply because great battles rapidly succeed each
other ; but, relatively to the numbers of the opposing
armies, the losses are in smaller than in all previous great
war., that of 1+,66 alone excepted. In the former wars,
eapeci ally in the Seven Years' War, those battles were first
esteemed very sanguinary, in which, as not unfrequently
happened, a fourth, and more than a fourth, of all the com-
batants lay stretched on the field, a proportion which in the
present war has not been approximately reached even by
single army corps, aLci hak occurred but very exceptionally
with single regiments. As to the oollective loss through the
whole war to the whole country and the families of the com-
batants, the infinitely improved hospital arrangements have
to be considered. In earlier wars, and even in 1013, war
pestilence. not seldom destroyed alert lives than the sword,
whereas we now hear scarcely any thing ol pestilence In the
field or hospital, but much of advancing convalescence
among the wounded. It should further be borne in mind
that at the first moment after • victory the losses are not on.
frequently over-estimated. The losses of the French, even
exclusive of prisoners, have been In all the engagemeuta eon-
sidernbly larger than ours."

HOTEL LIFE IN WARTIME.

"At Pont.3-Moon many of the hotel-keepers have, in a
most unbecoming manner, taken to flight. At the Hotel do
France, which is still open and still applied to the ordinary
Purposes of an hotel, 40 horses are crammed Into a stable not
large enough for 30 and 20 or 30 coachmen sleep together
on the straw by the side, or rather at the hack, of their
horses. The landlady ha. nothing, literally nothing, to oiler.
Then, relenting, she thinks she has a piece of German
mirage left; and the landlady's daughter, In a moment of
forget( olneas, reveals the fact that there are some pigs' feet
In the larder. Another guest has extorted the promise of so
egg, and a few minutes "(Untied"' a wetter or waitron salon

Tt, intinproom crowned wPh llw,ry visitors. ni.n Casio
Winch LI the gentleman who we.i promised the egg, whim,
is the gentleman who was prondeed the pigs' feet, mu i a high
is hi gentleman who was promised the slice of German
sanaige 1' I smut that the two latter gentlemen are but
one, and thmigh am not readily bellevad, titunipli in the
end. The all,ers at this hotel pay for everything except
their rooms, so UM it Is not altogether unprolltalde to enter-
mum Correspondent

STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER

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tyv. pr ,de ore. amen:it gill trio late Iselslat,re Body,
protested stalest their forcible etpnhlon and dissolution. In
the Official Jouloal M. litters, iii; said, could not refuse (Wit
pn, votau refuse') his services in the Government ; a souse-
list patronising formula I, It In the character ant
esparlty of a veteran Statesman, writer awl orator,
who air no all °GILn boa constantly jun I rally
Ihrouja.ut Ids whole public life fostered that lust of mittruy
glory, that 1050 Wend of the Nat.okoetc nen, that pas don
for exclusive pr.dcrolosoce in Eon e, stitch has fur Ihe
third time bronchi all the misery and diegrsce of an Invasion
upon Fume.? There would bee cei tutu poetical and dranatle
Justice In the spectacle of this lindorlatt and state,mso, who
thirty eats ago WAS inwil.ta'lm; a sudden attack upon the
lic.t in the Medilelrd.eau, mn.lng ri diplomatic tour
1,. his old nee al a supy.l.nit for the moral yltei runt, oft i.e
neutral Pont rs to ease his c nn.try Loot Om retributive
con,cipicnces if lb it ref gi liens and, egra raise spill% and
policy of which M. T dors hos from Into y otith no tosu tte
nue: clt gnat and powerful ativocate."—Daily News.

NI. au Fuet wile made
maitre on Shoday.

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WI

The S,Aele,a)a that t01:1 auratoris and Acheson' took tip
armaand foorbt at Sedan, awl that Do were killed.
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It is eatd hat the Emperor Napoleon Is a great holder of
Dutch Dailey bonds. Has Mi Idsty about • mouth Mace
pieced aL4ieo in them.
A French i.palroo, consisting of four large ironclad., was
teen to:tilde the Goodwin Sands on Monday morning. The
ships were seaming wettward.
The ergiiter Alkr, who wars detained at the bagne of
Toulon for iha murder of a r oSca age? t, has been set at
Eberly by odor of the new French Government.

A liriMitfirt Jou] mil reports th it a regiment belooteng to
the gttilon of stsalburg nvirebed out of the fortreni ou
Stiodac ari: laid d.isru their arms, stating that they were not
hound by tie military oath to the E open, r.
Prlnce 14:x Sibes lm, major In the 4th rrusenn arensudli r
Gu.si•is, "Queen AuLusta," who wee kilted at Gravelotte Oil
the lilt of August., while Loading his litttlhou, was ono of
Via hercea of the Mexicali war. After tho oat sitroptie at
Q isretaro 10 rot timed to Europe to resume his military carmir
in the Prnui su army. lie Moo In to, 42i04 year.
A letter from Paris published in the Nerd Oates that the
Pouch Guieral Lo6r.md, who fell at Grave,otte, Mut left
lotiud him—uuprovided Sr. A national
sit'acilptiou haa bean let on foot for the purpose of ob-
taiiiiim liltillS for their education. mad for their marriage
portions.

A letter town before Metz, dated the Stb, says :—" 51arehal
Bat due, al la baing Mformel of the capture of Napoleon,
per. limiorCy refused a free!. cumulous td surreuder,
with tbe remark that the Emperor did cot concerh him m
the lies., aml that he dime had the command in Metz.

The Algeria., Meal/cur states that on the news of the
pr.:lama:lm et' the Republic arriving at night at Algiers, the
tricolour was Immeltu.tely hoisted to the tqll&l.C. it will
soon give Vase ton tree of liberty. At two a to. mumou mid
bola awoke many of the tuhabaants, who thought at first
that the ne,ltli arms had had • sudden return of fortune.

A correspondent says :—Never was a place so completely
hemmed In as Metz. 1 kuow ft r a fact that for many days
a rtwthl of beo,ooo irises had been tiered to at.y one whO
en)'. imcceed In taking ante:edge to the Marshal and bring-
:og back his reply. 0.10 man very neatly p,formed the
feet, bat was taken and shot at the last moment.

Arch hottest of France team betrothed to an aristocratic
young t flier of high rook In the French army. At the not
mdteation of scar, the 3ouflf °Meer, whose nuptials a ere to
be celebrated on a, early day, resigned his CorandOgOn. On
beentg this, his Ltrothed man Inm ut the foilowleg o-
Liu Ict•er—'• I intended to marry a man. You are not even
WOhlaiL CoUht no longer on me."
The devastation caused in Parts by the preparations of the
siege ha affected the spirit of the bilstitatts. 'We are
utterly ruined /already." said 61 niers, preparatory to start-
ing ou his mission to England, "and It cat, now make very
!WI Moreno/ to us whether our enemy occupies farts and
France for two years or for two months to come."

At the capitulation ot Sedan, when, at head-quarters, the
oaken word retinetted to give their parole, G. oral
callad LUtgUel &LAI told him that at any riik
to Inuit mcape with hie se ord. 1 have made all my corn
-
yogis with it," add the general, "cud I would not on any
ac4ontit doltver It to the Prueshine."

Fwaro psyl a very high compliment to the abilities and
character of M. Thiess, and sacs that if pt.° is 35,1
Imp ,s-
-tii..ie he will obtain it. but Fig.° hattily dares to hope.
Enjted Isolates herself, and it is doubtful whet or ilumia
mat AaAtia still intervene, while Prussia herself fa " bllntisd
with blood."

use Surd publishes a letter from its Paris corregrindent
waieit sap that the minion of M. Titters to the Eat;lish,
Austrian, awl Itus.thit thwerianeetta is only to procure the
recoguition of the Itepub!le bp the great Powers. It Is pro-
hli ever, that he will sus gt st the esLing ol a Etnopesn
.iatiarets, which Is leoktil upon jibt now with favour in
France.

It is atated that there are among the French prisoners at
Stettin t men belonging to a regiment a cirmd Zophyre,
nese men are illithiguAlled from their red (rumored brethren
by wearing nether garments of blue. This regiment of Zopii3ro
Is ronii.red of —nut of the lowest class, sun as
th.eves—who are permitted to porches, their freedom by axis
of bravery on toe field of battle.
'lire hones if tho 12M S igen Corps in the three days before
S.dau aro illolaliy reported to Dresden se follows
Alder S, two bib I six wounded; captains, five killed,
eleven wounded; u7altrnts 11.11 d cadets, ten kilted, forty-Ilse
wounded. The numbers of the rank and blb casualties are
not yet given. As in the North German Army gel coolly,
the captains :.ppear to 111,1 been cepeoially exposed, jailging
the returns of Vie number actuslly

lhe ri,lllall POOt rclAtes that alter the .laughter at VIA:-
villa, Cu the ISth of August, a strange stud toile/dug apectacle
w-a psesen:ed iii the evenlog ce I bang tone led by the
tat Itegtmeut of Ihrgoons of the Guard, GO2 richt-less hJrses
auswe,el to the stmmons, J.t led, and in many cases
maimed. The nol,le animals still retained their ditelpltued
habits.

Among the victims sacrificed at the battle of Mark la-Tour
woe II:. ll,t menu P.ebst, no of the must prtmtaing historical
writers of Germany. flu was engaged upon 11 work en I Wien
history, especially with reference to the lives of the Popes.
IN'hen the war broke oat be left Naples to take part in it,
and mat his untimely fate as adjutant t e the 2nd Grenadier
Blalliithblllg Regiment
A Danish paper, the Aarhaus SOftklidende, speaks
seriously of • new oleease having risen in Denmark It Is
coiled the Weieseinburger fever. It appears that ashen the
success of the German lumps at Weissenumg became known
in beomark, the excitement caused by the defeat of the
French brought en numerous disorders of a nervedie charac-
ter, which showed themselves in fever, severe stomach
aft diens, be., to which the doctors have given the name of
"VS-assent:mg .1. fever "

The Journal des Ihbats call attention to the fact that
three leading regime of opinion in fingland, Belgium, B.nd
Russia respectively—The Times, Indepenelemee Beige, and
Journal of Se. Peteraburg—havo, without previous concert,
coma to Cu ideutleal conclusion as to the mordents Which
Prussia may fairly claim from France, aid see-gests that the
accord is worthy of the couelderation of both kelligereut
Power,.
The Sale declares, in spite of all denials, that negotiations
for all at...tattoo are still going on ; but Ict us not deceive
ourselves (it wide), they will result in nothing. Let diplo-
macy pursue Its work lilt for ourselves we must con-
tinue our preir.rattom for defence without looking back,
widtout wasting a nileutc ; our safrty depends upou it,
liemerking that the anseareadors will remain in Paris, the
S jr ache whelk, r their prmence sr ill secure the capital tram
the hovers of • beinharo ment I the enemy were a human
tied a civiiised enemy it would, but is a case when Bis-
marck Is concerned, It is impossible to say.
lir connesionesith the gall-rat defence mile by the garri-
son of etrarbuter, the Journal de. Debaes mention* for the
admiration of Prni..brisen the names el the two officers who
i.e olden), re-spent%) for the safety of that iniportent
fortress. One is General l'ericb, the cominandaet, and the
weer Is Oatmeal Leone lillo woe summoned to take part in
the defence f Strasburg after the place had been annually
invested, but who made his entrance in diaginse. It is saki
that so sell had he coucsaloil his identity thaz he was taken
before he rid comrade, Geeeral Uhrich, as an eruhaary of
tbe enemy.
The Meseager do Midi, reporting the arrival at Toulon of
lutantry sualiers oho escaped from Sedaur, says s me suc-
ceeded in raving their arms and baggage, while outs aban-
iloeed everything. They unaeimonily affirm that ouch a
scene ef centurion was never witniaed in
memory. The gem rale, officers, and sailors were whirled
about pell-mell io a hui ricane of grape-shot. There was no
longer rank or discipline; eyrie, body fix himself, and at
certain moments when a few regiments rtill mem-deed tried
to eater thee retreat Fay fired at each ether in the belief
that Premien troops were facing them.
"Out of the 7,440 inhabitants ef ABLlOrill not are could be
found there this evenlbg (dept. 12 ) 1 shoal not be sur-
prise-I were orders leered to billet the deuiznis of the
leaestiese On those of inereainural Paris. Mail of those too
tditisiatel know not this night where to ley their heads
The linty of affording them asylums sinned be relnetainly
discharged I.y househalters, no matter how Republicin in
the,r fedti g. But It la a thing to be gone tlirengh, like
nursing the wounded or receiving Mobiles, suit if confidan-
te usly faced, may do much to erase disc hatreds, which
were no fetal to the Republic of lete."—Daity News Corre-
spondent.
"We have come to the end of M. it-ohm's famous
'Never.' The Italians have entered the Papal Sinks, and
are not likely to be ,top-ed at the getea .1 Items The Pops
will have too satisiled with "The Vetican and a garden,"
and thus will terminate the Temporal Power. There Is
eveirntly nothieg unattainable to modern progeny. Not
only do inusossiele things come to pun, but they hardly
strike us mat all portentous, and we accept them as common-
place occurrences which we bad been looklog forward to as
inevitable, and which have, indeed, long been overdue.
Events ore 1110 mountain, they dwarf one another by their
coniparative height. '—Leader iu The Times.

A field of battle is first a terrible, then a pitiable, then a
loathsome alaht : and the field or fields on which the battle
of Medan was fought hays now reached the loathsome stage
On the around nearest the city the dead men, only two days
Otte he light, had, for the moat part, been buriad. Tae
dead horses had been skinned, cut up and partially eaten.
The huge red Carcasses were lying about everywhere, amid
smashed helmets, ',token muskets, rusty sabres, torn heap
sacks, stray epaulottes, and battered accoutrements of all
kinds—a alaughter-hatuse and a del,Ol for merlon stores cons-
blued —2 im,s Correspondent.

" We are struggling with two great perils, either of which
may prove overwhelming—war and revolution.... The
fear of possible next Government Is greater than the fear
of the Prustitua Our Lew Republic la only six days old, and
already Ita od:t bitter enemies are to be found in the Re-
publican party. At Lyons, at Toulouse, and In other great
towns, the chief dillicultiea the Government has to contend
with are raised by Shelled and Socialist party. At Lyens the
red flag has been unfurled pertinaciously—a flag to which
every peasant to 111•1.1 Ce would infinitely prefer the Primal=
eagles. —Parid Corre,pondent.
'AS Varennes all the clocks had stopped,—that Is trite ;
and, what is equally true and far more extraordinary, in that
a servant at the hoteito whom I spoke on the subject attri-
buted the general stoppage to some malevolent influence
exercieed by the Prussian,. Toe fact is, people in the
towns occupied by the Prussian troops get so worried, so
terrified, and so utterly perplexed, that they take no note of
the flay of the month, the day of the week, or of the time of
day. It matters very little to them what o'clock It Is. Wily,
then, should they wind their clocks up The hour which
they maunder, above all, and are not likely to forget, Ii
that In which the Prusalant first appeared before them."—
Correspondent of Timm .

We are now officially informed, that the number of pet.
boners sorrendered at Sedan was 83,000, including 4,000
officers; which, with 25,000 captured in the battles and
14,000 wounded, gives the extraordinary total of 122,000 men
fallen into the hands of the King. The conqueror also took
70 mitrailleures, 330 Bad pieces, and 150 siege guns 10,000
homes, ands vast quantity of war material. No nation can
recover from • blow like this without a long interval of
peace. Garde-Mobiles and Franc-Wenn alike are quar-
tered on the householders of Paris. Every one whose dwell-
ing Is rated at over 41.32 • year has to take charge of one pro-
vincial patriot; at LOU a year, two; at £lOO, four, and so
on. Those who have not beds to spare may pay Et. per diem
to get rid of their guests.