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offering to submit to the arbitration of the congress. 

 The committee, however, decided that in consequence 

 of the proposition coming from only one party, they 

 could not interfere. But that if Denmark and Hol- 

 stein were to unite in such a proposal, the congress 

 would engage to find an arbitrator. After the 

 termination of the peace congress, Elihu Burritt, 

 Joseph Sturge, and Frederick Wheeler visited the 

 two governments of Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, 

 by whom they were received in the most courteous 

 manner. Denmark could not exactly comply with 

 the terms of arbitration proposed by Schleswig-Hol- 

 stein, and so the matter rests. There is no doubt, 

 however, but that the object of the visit of these bene- 

 volent men would have been accomplished but for the 

 interference of the great powers of Europe. 



At the peace congress at Frankfort, Mr. Cobden 

 read a letter from Baron Von Reden, one of the most 

 eminent statistical authorities in Europe, in which he 

 estimates the armed force of the European States, 

 including all persons who are paid out of the appro- 

 priations to the army and navy, in numbers about 

 4,000,000 men. Assuming the whole population of 

 Europe to have been, in 1840, 257,000,000, then, 

 according to elaborate investigation, he estimates the 



