The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

CANON LIDDON ON THE WAR

In London, on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Canon
IL Parry Liddon. preached to au overwhelming con-
gregation in St. Paul's Carhedral on the subject of the
war. Taking as his subject the first lesson for the
evening service (18th chapter of the 2ad book of
Kings), he explained the cirgumi tances connected
with toe Assyrian attack upon Jerusalem in the
clays of Henekiah. lie raid th, P -ntatench was full
of deicripti mo of unsre, not mere records a wars
-- so many killed and wounded but containing
trustworthy moral reflections upon them. It was
impossible to read the reports of the pteeents war which
were every day given in the daily newspapers without a
feeling of horror. It was impossible to understand why
wars should take place at all, ex,ept that they knew
they almost always had their influer.ce on lust of power
and ill-regulated political desire. Doubtlese wars had
their place in the purpose and iirovidence of God, as the
earthquake, the famine, and the ph cone. No one could
re fleet upon the news which start', d Loudon on the pre-
vioas day without:nuns moot, but they mn=t remember
that adversitywas no more a proof of morsl worthlemmees
than prosperity wasof rel exceli ence. The :treat Ines-
lion for Englishmen to et,Lsider was what influence the
war might haveupon themselves. All Europe was,in one
sense, it spectator of this war, and no people more em-
phatically so than Englishmen on account of the pre-
eminent excellence of the English prem. If the war
41 not teach Europe a profitable boson, I ; would un-
doubtedly find itself a °ire than it was before, because
in such a matter there was no suet thing as standing
still. Englishmen moat therefore do all they could by
sympathy and kindness to the ',filleted,. end, however
little some might he aide to accomplish, all might
heartily pray to God to give to all ratios unity,
peace, and concord.

THE COST OF WAR IN 1815 AND 1870.

The Cologne Go:, tte punl shes some curion, stotiotics
showing the losses in hadl and w•innacel in the iiattles
of 1813 and 1814, from whi h it api:ears that war was
smite as destructive then a, s ne,. A. the battle of
Lii zen (May 2, 1813) in which lid 0,0 Ruesians and
uosiaus, with 524 pw e, were ugag,d with 120,000
Frenchmen with 2110 runs, the allies Sot 10 000 men,
and the French 15000. At the battle of Bautzen
(May 20, 1813) 06,000 Ru-slanis and Prussians fought
against 130,000 Frenchmen. The losies were 18,000
men (including 6,000 killed) on the side of the allies,
and 8,000 dead and 17,000 wounded on the side of the
French, who were the victors. In the battle of
Dresden (August 26 and .27, 1613) there were 200,000
Austrians, Russians, and Prussians against 100,000
Frenchmen, The allies lost on this occasion
15,000 dead and wounded, and 03,000 pri-
soners. In the battle of Leipeic 300,000 allies,
with 1,384 guns, fought against IN apol.cn with
171,000 men and 700 gnus. On the tinit day of the
battle (October 16, 1813) the regiments engaged loot
upovortis of one-half of their men. The 7th landivelir
regiment of &hide was reduced from 1:8141to 160 men;
and on the three follo, ing slays the allied army lest
45 000 men. The losers 41 the French were 15,000
dead, and 15 OW wounded. Summing up the leases of
the whole campaign, we find that Napoleon lost in
Russia 500 000 men; in Germany, up to the armistice
of the 4th of June, 1813, about 40 000 men ; in the
bottles which ended with Leipsic 100,00 men; and
1101000 is the campaign of 1814, which, with the wages
of 1815. makes a total loss of nearly a niilliouof men
before Napoleon was subdued. Tan lois-a of the
allies during the inane period were only 100,000 men
lest.