ABSTRACT
The total amounting to 114 companies, with a gross capital of upwards of one hundred milljons sterling. The sho.res of most of these companies stood at first o.t a. high premj um, and, in particular, the mining companies of Mexico and South America ran their shares up to a. preposterous height; the Real del Monte,
wit,h shares of a nominal value of £400, of which only £70 were paid up, were sold on the 2nd January, 1825, at .£1350 a s!Jare-that being two a.nd a half times their quoted price only a month before.
