Two or three hundred thousand soldiers, who bad been lodged in the most closely populated districts, stimulated trade, and people began to cry out: "Hurrah for the army!" The rich, who had not been so quick to take alarm, were reassured more slowly.

But at the Stock Exchange a group of "bulls" spread optimistic rumours and by a powerful effort put a brake upon the fall in prices.
Business improved.

Newspapers with big circulations supported the movement.

With patriotic eloquence they depicted capital as laughing in its impregnable position at the assaults of a few dastardly criminals, and public wealth maintaining its serene ascendency in spite of the vain threats made against it.

They were sincere in their attitude, though at the same time they found it benefited them.