POOR PROSPECTS FOR THE TEMPORAL MILLENNIUM.
We clip the following from the Chicago Times of Jan. 24, 1862: “The Almanack de Gotha, for 1862, has just been published. . . . From the Almanack we take the following statistics in relation to the armies and navies of Europe: “ITALY.—The official effective, on the 10th of June, 1861, amounted to 327,290 men, and the navy to 106 vessels, carrying 1,036 guns, and 18,000 seamen and marine troops. “FRANCE.—Land forces—War footing, 767,000 men, and 130,000 horses. Peace footing, 414,868 men, and 73,850 horses. Navy, 608 vessels in construction and afloat, carrying 13,353 guns; 373 of these vessels are steamers, 56 of which are ‘plated.’ The navy contains on the peace footing 37,375 men, which, in time of war, may be immediately increased to 60,000. The marine troops number 26,879. “ENGLAND.—Land forces, 212,773 men, and 21,904 horses. The navy consists of 893 vessels, carrying 16,411 guns. It contains 78,200 men, of whom 18,000 are marine troops. There are 9,500 coast guards. “RUSSIA.—The land forces number 577,859 men, besides 106 regiments of cavalry, 31 battalions, and 31 batteries of irregular troops. The navy consists of 313 vessels, of which 242 are steamers, all carrying 3,831 guns. There are also 474 stationary and transport ships. “AUSTRIA.—The army contains 587,695 men, and the navy 58 steamers and 79 sailing vessels, carrying 895 guns. “PRUSSIA.—The land forces on a peace footing number 212,649 men, and the war footing 622,866. The navy contains 34 vessels, of which 26 are steamers. “Add to all these the million and a half of men in the United States, and we have a formidable series of figures, which may well shake our faith in the proximity of that millennial time when ‘swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, and spears into pruning-hooks.’”