THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 345, 16 February 1871, Page 2

THE WAR.

At the beginning of December tho total of the North German aud Baden army losses were as follows :

1. Officers—dead, SO2 ; wounded, 2,420 ; missing, 2-I—total, 3,252. 2. Soldiers—dead, 10,499 ; wounded, 50,249 ; missing (which categoiy includes the dead not found), 7.872 — total, 68,620. Grand total of all losses, 71,872. To this figure must be added the Bavarian losses officially reported up to the battle of Orleans, with 901 dead, 4,614 wounded. The Wurtemburg losses remain to be accounted for, as also those by sickness in tho whole army. We know, though so much, that the present war has been no exception to the old rule of disease being a more deadly enemy than powder and shot.

The MUitair Wochenblalt, of Berlin, publishes a table showing the fate of the relics of each infantry regiment of tho former regular army of France. The whole of the Guard, eight infantry regiments, of three battalions each with one battalion of Chasseurs, are prisoners. Of the 100 infantry regiments, all are prisoners but six ; four of these last which were formerly in Algeria, being now with the army on the Loire, and two which were at Rome, being in Pnris. The whole of the Zouaves, three regiments of three battalions each, are captives; so are the twenty battalions of Chasseurs of the Line, and the three regiments of Turcos, a body formerly of the same strength as the Zouaves. The only other troops unaccounted for are the three sir.gle battalions of light infantry, specially raised for Algerian service, and supposed to.be still in the colony, and the Foreign Legion formed for the same purpose, and said also to be there at last accounts.

A Paris letter of November 20, in the London Times, supplies the following amusing report of the mode of boarding in the restaurants of the city:—The writer says : "1 do not know what is going to happen to Paris. I suppose it must fall in the end, if the neutral Powers do not interfere. But pray do not run away with the idea that it will fall soon. It is a question of the body, nothing more. Our beef and mutton will be exhausted in a fortnight, perhaps sooner. Will Paris feed on horse, of which there is an abundance ? T believe it will, and those who, like myself, vow never to touch horse, will live on vegetables. For me, lam Shadrack You remember the story of the three children who would not eat the flesh that was offered to idols, but fed on pulse. At the end of forty days they were very fat. I think I could get up in Paris a Shadrach, Mesheck and Abednego Club. When the war is over, you will see us as fat as pigs on our diet of pulse, beans, peas and lentils. Talking of pigs, let me end this letter M'ith an anecdote. I took a friend to breakfast with me yesterday at Brabant's. On the bill of fare I found cochon de lait. Now, I have many weaknesses, but all are as nothing in comparison to my weakness for suckingpig. lat once said, 'By all means we shall have sucking pig.' But I called back the waiter and asked him if it was a real sucking pig. ' Truly.' Then I said, ' A little pig f He replied, 'Surely.' Again I said, 'A young pig ?' But this question floored him, and he hesitated. At last he confessed, 'It was a guinea pig, cochin a' Inde.' Now, I ask you, are you equal to guinea pig ?"