Hunt's

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE,

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT.

VOLUME TEN.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1844.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

MDCCCXLIV.

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INDEX TO VOL. X.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1844.

ORIGINAL PAPERS, ETC.

Commerce and Resources of British America, by G. R. Porter, F. R. S., Secretary

of the British Board of Trade,.........

Post-Office Reform, and Uniform Postages, by James M. Wheaton, of Massachusetts, 27

Trade of the United States with the British Colonies, by James H. Lanman, author

of the "History of Michigan,"

15

38

Observations on Cotton, illustrated with Statistical Tables, by Samuel T. Coit, of

Louisiana,..

47

The Currency, by John J. Crocheron, of Alabama,...

Commerce and Commercial Character, by Hon. Philip Hone,.......................

Tobacco and Snuff Administration of France,.......................

50

65

72

Commerce and Manufactures of the Papal States, by J. T. Headley, of New York, 111

Commerce and Resources of Mexico, by Brantz Mayer, of Maryland,............................................ 118

Sugar Trade of the World, No. 1: Importing Countries,........

132

Mercantile Education, by J. N. Bellows, of Vermont,

143

Product of Precious Metals since the Discovery of America,.

146

Prescott's Conquest of Mexico: Aztec Merchants,..

152

Auction System in New York,..........

154

Merchants and Shopkeepers of Great Britain, in the Seventeenth Century,.......... 158

Chinese Smuggling Boats,.........

161

Russian Trade with China,........

163

Sketches of Russian Commerce, by J. G. Kohl,....................................

207

Origin and History of the Danish Sound and Belt-Tolls, translated from the Danish

of Schlegel, by Hon. George P. Marsh, Member of Congress from Vermont,.... 218

Sugar Trade of the World, No. 2: Exporting Countries,...........

232

Coinage of the United States,..

240

Post-Office Reform, by Hon. William B. Maclay, Member of Congress from New

York,..........

250

Tonnage and Navigation of the United States,................

268

Other Rights of Sovereignty over the Sound and Belts, appertaining to the Crown

of Denmark, by Hon. George P. Marsh, Member of Congress from Vermont,.... 303

Trade and Commerce of Pennsylvania,........

308

Commercial Intercourse of the United States with Porto Rico,.......