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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 307, 29 December 1870, Page 2

An English* paper estimates the value of the property which the defenders of Paris expose to danger by awaiting a Prussian attack, as follows:—" Value of buildings, £154,350,000; value of furniture and other contents of dwellings, £77,175,000 ; value of stock in trade, £77,175,000. Total, £311,700,000, which we may take as the minimum value of private property in Paris destructible in a siege. Wbe& the danger to such property alone is considered it may well make the defenders of a great city pause — apart altogether from the losses already sustained in the environs; the probable destruction of roads, bridges, and other works not insurable and not here reckoned ; the danger of monuments, libraries, museums, and works of art whose real worth cannot be reckoned in money; and the tremendous sacrifice of life which such a destruction of property would imply. In mere money, the loss of Paris would cost France quite as much as years of ordinary war."

The Proprietors of the Evening Mail have much pleasure in announcing to their subscribers and the public generally, that they purpose bringing out their Paper in an exlakged form on January 2, 1871.