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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 93, 21 April 1871, Page 4

. The Cost of War. — The correspondent of, the, Daily News writes : — The war indemnity exacted of the city of Paris, amounting to 200,000,000 francs QE8,000,000 sterling), is in course of liquidation. Last Monday the sum total was conveyed to Versailles\ according to agreement. It was compose! of drafts upon Berlin to the amount of one-half, and the other half of notes of the Bank of France, enclosed in two iron chests. The Prussian receivers wanted to check the amount, notwithstanding that the seals were intact, a fact to which their attention was directed, as a guarantee of the integrity of the contents. In return a sum of fifty millions of francs was. handed over to the French Commissioners to be exchanged — still according to the Convention — agaiust thirty millions in gold and twenty millions in silver. The French Commissioner insisted upon the verification of the fifty millions returned into his hands. On Tuesday the Bank of England remitted seveu millions of silver. The Prussian agents proceeded to count out the amount ; but perceiving the operation would require too much time (at the rate of a thousand a minute one man would need 116 consecutive hours to perform this arithmetical feat), they contented themselves with weighing the coin. On Wednesday last seven millions more were handed over to them, which the Prussian comptrollers were condescending enough to take upon trust. On Thursday the balance of six millions was paid, and to-day the thirty millions (francs always) in gold will pass into their hands. This enormous sura has been drawn by the Bank of France from its branch at Brest.

The following is a specimen of an educated school master in ancient times : — "Roger Giles, Surjoun, Parish \Clark, and Skulemaster, reforms ladys and gentlemen, that he draws teeth without waiting a moment, blisters on the lowest terms, and viziks for a penny a peace. He zells Godfather's cordel, kuts korns, and undertakes to keep every bodys nayles by the year or so on. Young ladys and gentlemen larned their grammer language in the purtiest manner, also gust case taken off their morals and spellin, also larn singing, teeching the base vial and all sorts of phancy work. Queedrills, pokers, pokers, weasils, and all other con'| trary dances toast at home and abroad at perfekshun. Perfumery and snuff in all' its branches. As times be cruel bad. He begs to tell that he is gust begun to sell all sorts of stash uary, wases, kox, hens, foles, chicks, poltry, blacking hauls, herrings and coles, skrubbin brushes, arakel, Godly bokes and bibles, gimlets, mice traps, brick dust and wisker seed and all sorts of meats, including taters, sassages, and other garden stuff, also phrute, hats, songs, hoyle,., lottery bakets, and other ratables. Ko'rn, and bunyar sarve and all hardwares. |He also performs flea-bottomry on the shortest notice: and forthermore in partikeler he has laid in a large assortmena of trype, dogs meet,' lollipops and other pickles — such as Hepsorm zalts, hoysters, Winser soap, & c . — old ' rags bort and sold here and nowhereshels, uew laid eggs every day. By me Roger Giles. P.S. Singin birds kept, such as howls, gukes, pakox, lobsters and critics. I teeches joggrephy, rumatick. and all them outlandish things.