est we have in her prosperity, we cannot fail to see that in the
East is rising up a Power, in part of our creation, young and weak as
yet, but full of hope and promise; and therefore, in concluding this
imperfect record of her 'past and present,' we heartily commend her
future to the earnest watchfulness of every English friend of liberty.

[Footnote 200: According to some, there are more.]

[Footnote 201: Although we have endeavoured as much as possible to avoid
burdening this popular treatise with statistics, one set of figures
which have been kindly supplied to us by friends at Bucarest and in
London is so significant, and indeed of such general interest, that we
must claim the reader's indulgence for giving it _in extenso_. It
comprises the values of Russian, Turkish, and Roumanian securities from
1870 to 1880, which are as follows:--

TURKISH.
RUSSIAN. General Five per Cent. ROUMANIAN.
Six per Cents. Debt. Oppenheim.

1870 83-1/2 to 94-1/2 45 to 51 75 to 98
1871 88 " 97 44-1/2 " 52-1/2 86 " 96-1/2
1872 95 " 100 46-1/2 " 55 91 " 104
1873 96 " 100-1/2 45 " 47 98 " 104
1874 97 " 103 45 " 46-1/2 98 " 108
1875 95 " 104-1/2 23 " 45 100 " 109
1876 74 " 100-1/2 11-1/2 " 23 74 " 106
1877* 71 " 93 6-1/2 " 11-1/2 58 " 91
1878* 74 " 91 8-1/2 " 12 87 " 105
1879 84 " 93 10-1/2 " 12 93 " 110
1880 85 " 96 10 " 12-1/2 102 " 112

And in 1881 the prices of the Oppenheim loan ranged from 105 to 116.
From these eloquent figures it will be seen that whilst Russia has been
stationary, and Turkey has fallen 75 per cent, the condition and
security of Roumania has risen, roughly speaking, 25 per cent, in the
eslimation of the financial world during the last ten years. The two
years marked with an asterisk were years of war.]

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX I.

_Table of Movements and Settlements of various Nationalities and Tribes
in the Provinces bordering on the Lower Danube between the Getic period
and about the end of the Thirteenth Century, A.D., compiled by
the Author, and corrected from the Ancient Historian