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loss of life is set down at 151,812, of which 62,000 

 was in the Hungarian war, 31,023 in the Italian, and 

 23,000 in Naples and Sicily. 



The cost in money was $336,400,000, of which 

 Austria incurred $125,400,000 ; France $85,800,- 

 000 ; and Russia $100,000,000. 



It is estimated that all the agricultural labor done 

 in England, in 1848, cost X18,200,000. Official 

 letters show that the cost of her army establishment 

 for the same year, was X 18,500,000. That is, 

 £300,000, or a million and a half of dollars, more are 

 paid for preparations for consuming and impoverishing 

 war, than for all her golden harvests, and to the 

 700,000 laborers who produce them. 



Elihu Burrit says — " Look at the fortunes which 

 nations have squandered away in the sanguinary 

 litigation of the sword. Take Great Britain for 

 instance. Her wars with the neighboring nations, 

 from 1688 to 1815, cost her £3,383,022,500, 

 including the interest she has paid on money borrowed 

 for the work of human slaughter. How can we 

 measure this vast amount thus wasted ? Let us 

 weigh it in pure gold, and we shall find it weighs 

 73,543,967 pounds troy. It would require 36,770 

 able-bodied men to carry it from the mint, each 



