Hunt's Merchants' Magazine

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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.

1852, Sept. 13. of 1 TX A. it. Thayer, of Eras York.

(v. 1, 3-6.) 1853', juny 2. Giff of the Editor.

CONTRIBUTORS
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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.

BOUND NOY I 1912

ACADEMY of commerce and navigation at Trieste 60
*Africa, commerce with the eastern coast of.....

29
533

Agates from Oberstein, the.......
Alabama, law of debtor and creditor in..
Alta California, commerce and resources of.....
population.......

climate and productions..

revenue....

exports, 1846..

Barter trade of Kiachta, in 1843...

Beacons on the Nidingen rocks, Cattegat...
at Heligoland...............

on the western coast of Sleswick...... 634
57 Beaver island, (Halifax,) light-house on........ 315
34 Belgium, coal mines and coal trade of..
area of coal fields........

235
236
exportation of coal to foreign countries. 240
export duty on coals......
242
255

canals and railroads.........

customs-duties at Monterey, 1844

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
71
74

of lading...

593

shipping ent'd Monterey, 1844-5 37
America, product of gold and silver in.......... 413
American whale fishery, statistics of........ 98, 319
iron-wood..
............ 218
and French whalers, smuggling by.... 401
East India and Pacific trade......... 528 46 in London, rates of.........
manufactured duck................. 535 Biography, mercantile.-David Ricardo........ 458
Art Union......
Robert Thom.......... 381
merchant, position of the........936 Boston, imports at in British steamers.......................... 426
Anthracite coal trade, Pennsylvania......
...... 206 46
insurance companies in.....
509
Anton Lizardo..........
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.......
Arts and manufactures, chemistry applied to.... 630
Association, mercantile library of Montreal..... 296
New York.... 297
Philadelphia.. 216

634

Breadstuffs, cost of production and foreign demand 561
rel. val. of wheat and flour in N. Y.. 561
corn crop of U. States, in 1839...... 562
average price of corn at New York

Atlantic sperm fishery.....

101

ocean steam navigation, origin of...... 172
and Pacific oceans, union of........... 278.
Australia, western, ports of......................................................
Australian copper ore...........................................................

and New Orleans, 1841-45....... 562
imported into G. Britain, 1840-46........ 567
an, imp. of wheat into G. Brit.,'41-43 567
exports of grain from Ireland to Eng-
land, for 5 years.........
Bremen, post-office regulations on letters to..... 616
Brighton cattle market.........

567

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208 Bristles, manufacture of at Cincinnati......
Philada., and Wilmington railroad. 326 British regulations for steam-vessels....
Bank of England, bullion in.......
74
1 " State, of Indiana, condition of branches, '46 412

527
632
88
88
207

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ships, foreign seamen in....

311

copper trade......................................
corn laws............
customs-duties on timber, &c..
colonies, commerce of.......

tariff, table of duties under...
navigation laws, suspension of..
revenue from 1836 to 1845...