.HASZARD'8 GAZETTE, JUNE

LOUOILIIIIIIATTLI.

Thinking that there exists an undue amount of deapondsiicv in the public mind in r and to the losses sustained by our army in the times, and believing that this is attributable, to a large extent, to as ignorance or a fcrgatfulneas of the losses sustained b European armies when oonlictiii with each ot er in previous wars, 1 have drawn ap. from notes taken some years ago from Allison's Euro , the casualties that occurred in some of the principal battles that were fought during the time of the French revolutionary wars. A consideration of

these casualties may tend to calm the minds of our 3 goo

anxious friends

For the sake of brevity and clearness I will omit the dates of the various battles mentioned, as well as the number of troo engaged. and content myself with giving the name of the battle and the numbers killed, wounded, or taken prisoners on each side.

The Bridge of Lods'.—The Austrians lost 2,000 killed and wounded out of 12.000 men engaged. The French loss was also 2,000 men.

rcola.—The Austrian loss in killed and wounded, 18,000; French loss, 16,000.

The Nile (sea fight)-—Nelaon lost 895 men in killed and wounded. ’l‘he French lost 5,225 men killed and wounded, besides 3,005 prisoners, and 18 ships out of 17 engaged in action.

The Bay o .dboukt'r.—The Turks had 9,000 engaged—-the rench 8,000. he Turks lost every man ofthe 9,000 in killed, wounded or prisoners.

Trcbbi'a.—During the three days that this battle continued, the French lost 12,000 in killed and wounded, and the allies the same number, though each had only 36,000 engaged.

Regarding this Ianguinary contest. Allison rcmrrks-“ If shows how much more fierce and sangninary the war was destined to become when the iron hands of Russia were brought into the fi ,1

old.

Regarding the campaign of 1799, the writer observea—“ In little more than four months the French and allied armies had lost nearly a half of their effective forces, those cut oil‘ or irrecov- erably mutilated by the sword being about 116,-

men.

Novi.—The allies lost 7,000 in killed and wounded, and 12,000 risoners. The French lost 7,000 killed and wounded, and 3,000 prison- era.

Engera.—Losa in killed and wounded on each side (the French and the allies) 7,000 men. ar¢ngo.——T|;g Austrians lost 7,000 in killed and wounded, and 4,000 prisoners; the French lost 7,000 in killed and wounded, and 1,000

.—'l‘he Austrians lost 14,000 in killed and wounded, and the French 9,000.

Austerlitz.—The allies out of 80,000 men lost 30.000 in killed and wounded or prisoners; the French lost only (1) 12,000

Maida.—0ne of the most extraordinary battles on record. The French, out of 7,500 men engag- ed, had 700 killed, between 3,000 and 4,000 wounded, and 1,000 prisoners; the British had onl 44 killed and 284 wounded.

he asto isliing result of this battle was more to awaken apoleon out of his dream of his own invincibility than any previous loss he ha sustained-

Jena and Auerstadl,-—'l'he Prussians lost about 10,000 killed and wounded, and nearly as many prisoners. The French lost 14,000 in killed and wounded.

Iou.—1n this terrific engagement the Rut siana last 25,000 in killed and wounded, and the French 30,000.

Fried.’omL—Russia lost 17,000 in killed and wounded; France 8,000.

Wagram.—The Austrians and the French eaoh lost20,000 men in killed and wounded.

'I'nlovera.—22,000 British opposed by 45,000 French. After two days’ fighting the British remained victors. and lost 6,268. The French lost 8,794 men killed and wounded.

Albuera.-The French loss was 8,000, that of the allies nearly 7,000, the British alone having lost 4,300 out of 7,500 engaged! When the m ater ofthe Buffs was‘ called after the battle, tlfiee privates and one drummer answered their names.

uniaaca.—The allies lost 5,200 men, the French 14,000.

SmoIenslro.—Tlie French loss was 17,000 ; that ofthe Russians 10,000 men.

rodino.-" The most murderous and ob- stinately disputed battle on record.” The French lost, killed, wounded and prisoners, 50,000, the Russians losing the same numbr.

he survivors of the French army from the Russian campaign were not more than 25,000 men out of an army of about 500,000.

Lutzen —The French lost 18,000 and the allies 15,000 men. l Dresden (continued during two days).—The‘ allies lost in killed, wounded and prisoners, 25,-. 000. The French lost between 10,000 and 12,-, 000. I Lt-ip.ri'c.—Niipoleon had about 180,000 men and ' 720 pieces of cannon. The allies had about 190.000 men and 750 pieces ofcaniion. The battle Iastcil ll1I’t'(3 (lava Napoleon lost 2 marshals, 20 geiicrali. and about 60,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. The allies lost 1,600 officers, and about 50,000 men. . Vi!Ioria.—'l‘he Frem h lost 6,000 in killed and wounded, and 1,000 prisoners; and the allies 5,180 killed and wounded. i Craon.——'l‘lic Russians with 20,000 men en- gaged tlic Freiich with 40,000. The formcr'e

loss was 0,M0 in killed and wounded; the lat- ter'a was 8,000. Of this battle Allison remarks —"The Ruuians, under Woronaow, fought with the utmost bravery and with amazing steadiness. The retreat (of the Russians) that ‘ tllowed the battle was almost unequalled."

Tolouse —The French I 4,700 in killed, wounded and prisoners; thea lies 4,580 men.

Paris.-The allies lost 9,093 men, and the French 4,500 men.

Li .—'l‘lie Prussiana lost 15.000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners, and the French

Qualre Bras.-—The allies lost 5,200 men, and the French 4,140.

Waterloo.-The total loss of the allies was 16.636 men; NapoIeon’s was about 40,000 men, and almost all his guns, ammunition, dtc.

Let any of your readers compare the losses incurred by our army in the present Crimean campaign with those detailed in the preceding table. and then let them say if we have any cause for dismay at our present position. Our arm has been more than two months in the enemy a country; it has fought and won three pitched battles, it has taken two ofthe enemy's towns, and it has bombarded. with little intermission, for two months, one of the most extensive and fortified towns in the world. doing enormous injury to the enemy, and all this at a cost in killed, wounded and prisoners, of about 6,000

ea. In most campaigns on the field, as in battles in t e “ ring,” the victor has many a fall to lament before victory finally declares on his side. But such chequered fortune has not been ours in the present contest, e have come off victors in every engagement. Our losses, compared to tho-e of our enemy, have been inconsiderable.

ith any army inspired by the spirit that aniinates our noble troops, with our commanding position and our superiority in fire arms, we have nothing to fear. but everything to hope.—Cor. North British Daily.

TRUE SUCCESS IN LIFE.

It is said, that amon t the middle-class of this country, ‘ the life 0 it man who leaves no property or family provision of his own acquir- ing, at his death, is felt to have been a failure.’ There are man modes in which the life of an industrious, provident, and able man may have been far other than a ‘ failure, ’ even in a com- mercial point of view, when he leaves his family with no greater money inheritance than that with which he began the world himself. IIe ma have preserved his family, during the years in which he has lived amongst them, in the highest point of elficiency for future pro-

uction. a may have consumed to the full extent of his income, roducing but accumulat- ing no mono -ca its for reproductive con- sum tion . an in irectly, but not less certain- ly, e may have accumulated,whilst he has consumed, so as to enable others to consume profitably._ If he have had sons, whom he has trained to manhood, bestowin upon them a liberal education. and causin t em to be dili- gently instructed in come calling which requires skill and experience, he is an accumulator. he have had daughters, whom he has brought up in habits of order and frugnlit , apt for all domestic employments, instructs themselves, and capable of carrying forward the duties of instruction, he has reared those who, in the honorable capacity of wife, mother, and mis- tress of a family, influence the industrial pow- ers of the more direct labourers in no small degree; and being the promoters of all social dignity and hap iness, create a noble and vir- tuous nation. the capital thus spent in enabling his children to be valuable members of society, he has accumulated it fund out of his consumption, which may be reductive at it future day. He has postponed is money-con- tribution to the general stock, but he has not withhold it altogether. He has not been the ‘ wicked and slothful servant.’ On the other hand, many is man, whose life, according to the mere capitalist doctrine, has not en ‘a fai- lure,’ and who is taught his family to attach only a money-value to every object of creation, bequeaths to the world successors whose repa- city, ignorance, unskilfulness, and improvi- dance, will be so many char es upon the capital of the nation. He that has on weak enough, according to this ‘middle-class’ doctrine, not to believe that the whole business of man is to make a ‘ muck-hill, ’ may have spent existence in labours, public or private, for tho benefit of his fellow-creatures: but his life is it‘ failure!‘ The greater part of the clergy, of the bar, of the medical profession. of the men of science and literature, of the defenders of their country. of the resident entry, oftho aristocrucv, devote their minds to igh duties, and some to heroic exertions, without being inordinately anxious to guard themselves against such ‘ a failure. ’ It would, perhn )8, be well, if someof those who l)0lic\'e that all virtue is to be solved into

ouiids sterling. were to consider that society gciuandn from ' tho iiioncy-mttking classes ‘ it more than ordinary contribiition, not to indis- criminate benevolence, but to those public instruments of production—educationul insti- tutione, iiiiprovcd sanitary arrangcincnts— which are licst calculated to diminish the inter- val lictivi-on llic wry rich und the very poor.— Charles Knight’: Knowledge is Power.

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A . Novai. Msaauca SITTLIIINT.-A u rnarriage was solemniaed at a farm-house in West Bloomfield, in Massachusetts, on the first of this month, which presented some features without a precedent, we be- lieve, in this or any other country.

c bride was Miss Lucy Stone, a dis- tinguished champion of the disputed rights of negroes and women. The groom was Henry.B. Blackwell, Eaq., who is likewise anactive apostle of the sect. Sympathy of opinions begal: sympathy of sentiment, and But

one flesh. how to do this without

so as to equalize their rights and duties in

the married relation was difficult, if not im-

possible, and would involve a delay, to

which the fervcncy of their passion could

not be reconciled. They finally hit upon

an expedient which they concluded would

secure their rights and their anticipated

matrimonial bliss at the same time. What

that expedient was is thus described by the

Rev. T. W. Higginson, of Vlforcester,

Mass., who olliciated on the occasion, in a communication to the Worcester Spy- [We omit the reverend gentleman's re- marks, which have only one smartly turned point. He says that by the present mar- riage systcm “ man and wife are one, and

that one is the husband.” We omit also it long protest against sundry marriage-griew ances signed by the loving couple and read on the solemn occasion. The Evening Post from which we have quoted, thus speaks of it:]—“Tlie unusual precautions taken by the subscribers to this protest, not to be cheated in the bargain they have just made, doubtless have their origin in an acquain- tance with each other’e character and pro- pensities, which thc public generally does not possess. It is not safe, therefore, for ii. stranger to venture a criticism upon them. But there is one omission to which we may venture to allude, and which we can hardly account for except upon the supposition that their expectations from the future are more limited than young persons commonly enter- tain when entering into the marriage rela- tion Therc is no provision that Mr. Blackwell shall make his share of the baby clothes.

EATING MEAT.

The Americans are the greatest enters of animal food. The pork consumed in the United States is three times the quantity consumed by the same number in Europe, if statistical accounts are to be believed- Animal food is generally set on the table three times it day in the Western Country. An Irishman, writing home, and extolling the luxuries of his condition in the new world, added, by way ofa clincher, that he commonly took meat twice a day, upon which his employer asked him why he did not state the whole truth. He replied that if he had said “ three times,” all his friends would have believed that he lied.--This was going a little too far for common cre- dulity. But after all, the Americans are a spare, hungry-looking people, not appear- ing, as if well nourished. The inhabitants of Northern Europe and Asia are physical- ly and morally weak, though living mostly on fish and flesh. The Scottish and Irish who eat but little meat, are strong, capable of great labour and fatigue, and more able- bodied men than the English, who are ad- dicted to animal food. The strongest men in the world, oftvhom we have any account, are the porters of Smyrna, who never taste flesh. The South Sea Islanders are very powerful men upon it diet mostly of vegeta- bles iind fruit. It is said that the soldiers ofGreece and Rome seldom tasted meat, though qualified by physical power and endurance for the conquest of the world. The suspicion is quite strong that Joiintlinii would gain flesh and improve his geiicrol appearance by the substitution of bread and vegetables for a part of his dinner instead of animal food.

Poxr. Roor, Miur Wnnn AND D.\NDE- 1.l0.\‘.—-F|‘0m long and repeated use of the above nnined vegetables as culinary articles both myself and family consider one of them as equalling in value the iisparagiis or the pic plant. The first two nnincd may be

.coolied and dressed in the some iiiuuiier as I

asparagus, and will he found to equal, if not surpass it in delicacy and richness. The last named may be rendered equal to endive or lettuce, as a salad, by means of bleaching. Allthese are among the tender- eat of our early spring greens Experience has demonstrated satisfactorily, that the dandelion in particular, exerts at that pe- riod of the year, a mild but favourable influence over the secretion of bile, improv- ing, perhaps, both its quality and quantity. Several individuals have been enabled to

finally, from being twain, they would become dispense with the use of aperient medicines,

by employin as food a suitable umount of

betraying the great principles of freedom_to this vegetab e. In localities in which they which both stood pledged before the public, do not abound, they will pay for the trouble was the question. To get the laws altered of introducing and cultivating them in the

garden. Neither would require more room or attention than asparagua.—Cor. Ohio rater

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How 'ro Pitiivaivr Woitaia on Titans.- A resident of Albany, New York, gives the following receipt for preventing the nuisance of worms on trees:—“ Bore a hole into the tree the size of roll brimstone, six inches in depth, any four feet from the ground; fill the cavity four inches with the roll brimstone, plug two inches, and seal over with pitch. The sap absorbs the sulphur, and imparts a healthy hue to the leaves; beside being very offensive to the worms, it causes them to leave for parts unknown.”

GLEAIING8 FROM LATE PAPERS.

TIMBER TRADE. We are very sorry to observe that there are no signs of im rovement in the demand for our rincipal ai-tie s of export in the English mar- et. he prices of Timber have remained almost stationary for a long time, atn figure so low, that little or no profit can be me e upon its manufacture. The causes are undoubtedly an excessive supply during one or two previous years, and the atria ncy of the money market at home. U n loo in over our files we find that the mar eta of 185% and 1855 present the following disagreeable comparison. The prices given b the Liverpool Times, of the dates 22d April, ast year, and April 23d, in the present year, are as follows, taking the highest quo-

tations :— April 22, 1854. April 23, 1855. £ a d .2 a d White Pine. Quebec 0 2 2 0 1 3 “ St. John 0 2 5 0 1 10 Quebec Red 0 2 6 0 1 10 Oak 0 3 3 0 2 9 Elm 0 2 9 0 1 9 Ash 0 l 6 0 I 3 Deals,Quebeo W.P. 17 0 0 14 10 0 Masts, Yellow Pine 3 3 6 0 3 6 ‘ inc 0 4 0 0 4 0

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Stoves, lat quality 60 0 0 This statement shows that in the principal articles of White and Red Pine, the alling of amounts nearly to one half of the whole price, while in such articles as Masts and Sta.ves, which do not constitute the bulk of our Timber trade, the figures remain either the me ora little better than last year. The to 1 value which will be received by this Province for Timber, must therefore, be much less this car than last, unless a great, and at present ittle expected revulsion take lace. It is satisfactory to know that the leading firms engaged in the business, seein breakers ahead of them, largely curtailed t eir operations during the winter.

Tiia Rasroitsriox or Por.aitn.—The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer thinks that the cry “ Strike at the heart of Russia through Po- land" is gathering strength in Europe, and un- less Sebastopol or Cronstadt soon falls, must speedily challenge general attention. The great difiiculty, however, it as s, in the way of restorin the nationality of P0 nd, is the want of popu ar confidence in the exiled nobles. The aristocracy will not sacrifice the vassalage of those who till their soil, and the peasantr will not fight to reinstate the Polish nobility into their ancient homes and privileges. The experience of the not has done much to open the eyes of the Polish nobility to their mistake; and since then the Polish democratic socitiee of London and Paris have thoroughly discussed and firmly agreed u on it programme emanci- piiting the surf, ce ing the land to him free froin all fedunl charges and without indemni- ficution to the proprietor. If England and Franco aid in restoring Poland, it will not be done witliout xi. condition, and those powers would for prefer the erection of a liberal, con- stitutional ii'ion:irchy to it republic in that quarter of Europe.

SEEDS ritoii C1ll.\'A, (('C.——DT. 1'). McGowan, missionary at Niiigpo,Cliina.liu.s been authorized to purchase and send to the United States Patent Oflice, seeds, stones of fruit, &c., from North China. An urrnngeiiicnt has jiist been perfected with the iiutlioritics of Sweden and Norway, whereby we are to receive seeds in exchange for