Brazil now got . . . 3,200,000 l. in two loans;
Colombia . . . . . . 4,750,000 l.;
Peru . . . . . . . . 1,366,000 l. in two loans;
Mexico . . . . . . . 6,400,000 l. in two loans;
Buenos Ayres . . . . 1,000,000 l.;

and Guatemala, a state we never heard of till she wanted money, took a million and a half.  Besides these there were smaller loans, lent, not to nations, but to tribes.  So hot was our money in our pockets that we tried 200,000 pounds on Patagonia.  But the savages could not be got to nail us, which was the more to be regretted, as we might have done a good stroke with them; could have sent the stock out in fisherman’s boots, cocked hats, beads, Bibles, and army misfits.

Europe found out there existed an island overflowing with faith and overburdened with money; she ran at us for a slice of the latter.  We lent Naples two millions and a half at 5 per cent stock 92 1/2.  Portugal a million and a half at 87.  Austria three millions and a half at 82 1/2.  Denmark three millions and a half at 3 per cent stock 75 1/2.  Then came a bonne bouche. The subtle Greek had gathered from his western visitors a notion of the contents of Thucydides, and he came to us for sympathy and money to help him shake off the barbarians and their yoke, and save the wreck of the ancient temples.  The appeal was shrewdly planned.  England reads Thucydides, and skims Demosthenes, though Greece, it is presumed, does not.  The impressions of our boyhood fasten upon our hearts, and our mature reason judges them like a father, not like a judge.  To sweep the Tartar out of the Peloponnese, and put in his place a free press that should recall from the tomb that soul of freedom, and revive by degrees that tongue of music—­who can play Solomon when such a proposal comes up for judgment?

“Give yourself no further concern about the matter,” said the lofty Burdett, with a gentlemanlike wave of the hand; “your country shall be saved.”

“In a few weeks,” said another statesman, “Cochrane will be at Constantinople, and burn the port and its vessels.  Having thus disarmed invasion, he will land in the Morea and clear it of the Turks.”

Greece borrowed in two loans 2,800,000 pounds at 5 per cent.  Russia (droll juxtaposition!) drew up the rear.  She borrowed three millions and a half, but upon far more favorable terms than, with all our romance, we accorded to “Graeculus esuriens.”  The Greek stock ruled * from 56 1/2 to 59.

* A corruption from the French verb “rouler.”

Into these loans, and the multitudinous mines and miscellaneous enterprises, gas, railroad, canal, steam, dock, provision, insurance, milk, water, building, washing, money-lending, fishing, lottery, annuities, herring-curing, poppy-oil, cattle, weaving, bog draining, street-cleaning, house-roofing, old clothes exporting, steel-making, starch, silk-worm, etc., etc., etc., companies, all classes of the community