Show cost of the war the war has put the sultan and his western friends to the following trifling expense I 1 british loans extra extraordinary ordin ary french do d do turkish do do total what the russian expenditure may have been we have no maans of knowing positively that it must have been large is is cle clear ar from the number of troops kept on foot and of gourse bourse fed and clothed at the expense of the imperial government it has been estimated by a well hell informed and apparently an honest writer a al a year for extra military expenses occasioned by the war and as much more for the wilful or necessary destruction of property at this rat ethe war must have cost russia halt as much again as the allies and end would not square the account but a large portion of this expenditure was in in dull nuil buildings dings ships produce and merchandise and though as serious in in the lonz ion lon run as the expenditure of f hard cash it will be bonfer longer in in being felt probably three hundred millions of money have passed from the imperial treasury into the hands of army agents contractors cin c tractors purveyors and contractors on account of or the army taking this figure as the basis of calculation we arrive at the conclusion that within less than twelve months about seven hundred millions of dollars have been diverted from trade frade and agriculture and expended by the belligerents in in the prosecution of the war some idea of the enormousness of this sum surn maybe may be derived from a knowledge of the fact that the united incomes incomes of the whole people of great britain and ireland are only supposed to amount to five times as much it is is equal to three fourths the total debt of austria under which the house of hapsburg has been tottering this many a year more than half the whole debt of france twice the debt of russia up to 1853 nearly four times the average assets of the bank of england at the present presort day and more than fourteen times as 88 much as the national debt of 0 f the united sta states les leg r former 0 rm C r wars never coel anything like it the theold old oid wars with england were waged for what it has cost in in this war to fit out a single expedition the peninsular war under wellington and the naval wars of nelson collingwood and find En glands other heroes which s swelled welle the tha debt of england to its present awful figure floure flo ure were economical pi pastimes compared with thia this pitt pill waga wasa wa a niggard gard in in comparison with palmerston never has the world seen money flow so freely before IN H Y herald of july 23 Z |