The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-03-11 00:00:00

A SCENE IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.

VERY SIGNIFICANT STATISTICS.

The following is a complete statement of the mar-
talPy of Paris for the period of the siege, as compared
with the parallel period in the previous 3 ear, and is
extracted from a letter from the Special Correspondent
of the Dail y Nom
For the Week E )ding
S,ptember 25 .....
October 1

1863 70
820
710
747
7 2
8-5
OS)
921
077
98
933
846
801
955
.... 98)
Si ...... 921
J soit'ary 6 • 1106
13 998
20 ......• 980 ....
••
27 ..... 1044 ..
Febt uoy 8 ...... 11(5 ....
10 ...... 1189 ..• •
17 ..... 1292 ....
•24 . 1362

...... 1271
...... 1134

• . .-
1483
..... 1612

ie
2e
November 5
12
19
16
December 3
11
1!

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.• 245

Total ...... 21 978 0414
To this it has only to be added that in the last week
the mortality has fallen to 3,500. The deaths from
tin ill-pox have been reduced to 134.
Next, take some figures AA to the changes wrought
by the terms of the Treaty on the relative dimensions
of France and Germany. Before the war North Ger-
many measured in extent 413,159 square kilometres,
and :4011th Germany 114,543; in all 527,702 square
kilometres. France on the other hand measured 543,051
' square kilometres. The territory taken from
France and annexed to Germany measures 15,580
equate kilometres. The result is therefore that
the relative d,mensions of the two countries are
reversed. Germany now measures very nearly what
France measured before, namely, 543,288 square
kilometres ; and France measures very nearly what
Gsrmany measured before, namely, 527,465 square
kilometres. As for population that of Germany
was before the war 38 581.000 and is now with
the addition of the conquered countries 40197,000.
That of France was before the war, 38,067,000,
and is now 36,451,000. The difference in favour
of Germany is 3 740,000. The French in taking
note of these facts are obliied to add another,
that they are a Isss prolific race than the Ger-
and that the death rate among them is also
greater. A comparison of the death-rate in the
two countries is very remarkable, if we regard young
people of the age between 20 and 25, for example—the
greatfighting age. In Germany, eight in a thousand
of this age die every year; in France, twelve in a
thousand. 'l'he French say that this excess of mor-
tality at the particul or age indicated is due Li their in-
stitutions, and notably to the conscription. It would
perhaps be more correct to say that it is due to the train-
ing and habits of the young people.

- . .
Lastly. .. . I venture to add a few facts which are
perfectly useless, but which may serve to amuse
imagination. They are in reference to the enormous
indemnity which France has to pay. If it were paid
in gold pieces of 20 francs, and if these pieces were
arranged in a straight line, they would reach from
Paris to Marseillex, a distance of 512 kilometri ii. The
weight of the ruin in gold would be 1,612,900 kilo.
grrmrnes' or nearly ten times the weight of the column
in the Ilace Vendome. If a min were to attempt to
count out the number of francs one by one, and if he
were able to count four francs every second, he wonld
still, working night and dry without ceasing, have to
spend a lifetime of 400 years before he child pay down
the last piece.