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MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT,

EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
AND LONDON STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL
SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIA-

TIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND LOUISVILLE, ETC.

VOLUME SIXTEEN.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1847.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1847.

A. H. Thover, of in York.

(1,3-6.) 1853 juny 2. Gift of the Editor.

CONTRIBUTORS

J. BALESTIER, Esq., United States Consul at Singapore.

C. BRYAN, Esq., Counsellor at Law, of Ohio.

J. E. BLOOMFIELD, Esq., of New Jersey.

JESSE CHICKERING, M. D., of Massachusetts.

C. G. CHILDS, Esq., Editor of the Philadelphia Commercial List.
Gen. H. A. S. DEARBORN, of Massachusetts.

C. F. DANIELS, Esq., of Connecticut.

J. F. ENTZ, Esq., Accountant, of New York.

Dr. LEWIS FEUCHTWANGER, of New York.

D. R. JACQUES, Esq., Counsellor at Law, of New York.

THOMAS PRENTICE KETTELL, Esq., of New York.

JAMES H. LANMAN, Esq., of Pennsylvania.

CHARLES LANMAN, Esq., of New York, author of "A Summer in
the Wilderness."

J. R. M'CULLOUGH, Esq., author of the "Commercial Dictionary."
A. NASH, Esq., Counsellor at Law, of New York.

LORENZO NEELEY, Esq., of New York.

Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, (Judge,) of Alabama.

JUNIUS SMITH, Esq., of New York.

Hon. F. O. J. SMITH, of Maine.

J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of Ohio.

L. W. SLOAT, Esq., of New York.

J. SNOW, Esq., of New York.

RICHARD C. TAYLOR, Esq., of Pennsylvania.

FRANCIS H. UPTON, Counsellor at Law, of New York.

WHELOCK S. UPTON, Counsellor at Law, of the New Orleans Bar.

RICHARD VALPY, Esq., of England.

GEORGE ATKINSON WARD, A. M., Merchant, of New York.

JOHN A. WRIGHT, Merchant, of Pennsylvania.

Hon. CHARLES WHITTLESEY, of Ohio.

RICHARD WILLIAMS, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts.

S. WOOD, Esq., Farmer, of New York; and

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor of the Merchants' Magazine.

The names of the contributors are appended to the titles of the several articles, in the table of contents, on the first and second pages of each number, except such as have been prepared or adopted by the Editor.

INDEX TO VOL. XVI.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1847.

A.

Barter trade of Kiachta, in 1843...

40

ACADEMY of commerce and navigation at Trieste 60 Beacons on the Nidingen rocks, Cattegat........ 91
Africa, commerce with the eastern coast of..... 29
at Heligoland.....
91
Agates from Oberstein, the.................... 533
on the western coast of Sleswick...... 634
Alabama, law of debtor and creditor in......... 57 Beaver island, (Halifax,) light-house on........ 315
Alta California, commerce and resources of..... 34 Belgium, coal mines and coal trade of.......... 235

and French whalers, smuggling by.... 401
East India and Pacific trade......... 528
manufactured duck............................

Art Union........

merchant, position of the....

593

Anthracite coal trade, Pennsylvania............ 206
Anton Lizardo........

area of coal fields........

.... 236
exportation of coal to foreign countries. 240
export duty on coals.................. 242
canals and railroads.................. 255
weights, measures, and currency....... 303
department of finance at Brussels...... 412
iron mines and manufacture of........ 531
iron exported to France............... 532
Bills of exchange....
71, 285

535 Biography, mercantile.-David Ricardo......... 458
Robert Thom.......... 381
936 Boston, imports at in British steamers.......... 426
insurance companies in................ 509
316 Bounties, revenues, &c., on merchandise........ 109
Annuities, life-insurance, tontines, etc....... 48, 445 Book trade............. 123, 219, 331, 427, 538, 640
Architecture, sketch of navig. and naval. 19, 131, 227 Books and engravings, duties on in England........ 122
Art Union, the American..............
593 Brazil, coast of, fixed light on Ceara.......

634
Arts and manufactures, chemistry applied to........ 630 Breadstuffs, cost of production and foreign demand 561
Association, mercantile library of Montreal..... 296

Philada., and Wilmington railroad. 326 British regulations for steam-vessels........
Bank of England, bullion în.........

527

.... 632

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