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Evening Star, Issue 3419, 5 February 1874, Page 2

It tised to be a common saying that “France w' as rich enough to pay for her glory,” and in .thojse days she little thought of the cost of adversity. Now the attention of the country is drawn to ,tqe Allowing items, which show what a costly game war sometimes is. The war indemnity is 5,000,000,0b0f. ; the interest on the same for two years, 300,000,000f.; the maintenance of the .German troops, 273,(137,000f. ; requisitions, 527,581.000f. ; value of objects taken with requisition, ?JH,172,000f. •; war contributions levied on Paris, 200,000,000f., stud 50 on till the account forms a total of 6,072,811, OOOf. But this enormous sum does not include pensions to the army, the damage done to material, nor the expenses of reorganization, nearly as much again. The average value of a day’s work in France is one franc and a quarter, so it is easily to calculate the amount of labor which will be required to repair the fpily of a few months of vMehce ahd 1 bloodshed.—' Pall Mall G'a'zet'td.’ I