text:  But there is some candour in TWENTY-NINE provisional committees and their accumulated nominal capital proves to be--how much think you gifted reader and confident dabbler in new stock? Why merely this--TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS!!! Now--for we wish always to speak and write within the mark--let us calculate the eleven Harpocrates Companies and the Northern Schemes (which are more than eleven ) at fourteen or fifteen additional millions; and you thus have parties engaged _in the course of a single week_ for FORTY MILLIONS STERLING or _about one-twentieth part of the whole national debt_; which according to this rate of subscription may be extinguished by our surplus capital in the short space of five months