THB 414 MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 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. 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 J. R. M'CULLOUGH, Esq., author of the "Commercial Dictionary." 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 and French whalers, smuggling by.... 401 Art Union........ merchant, position of the.... 593 Anthracite coal trade, Pennsylvania............ 206 area of coal fields........ .... 236 535 Biography, mercantile.-David Ricardo......... 458 634 Philada., and Wilmington railroad. 326 British regulations for steam-vessels........ 527 .... 632 88 |