THE

39

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT,

KDITOR 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.

TO THE

SIXTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE.

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 ΤΟ VOL. XVI.,
XVI.,

Anton Lizardo.........

535 Biography, mercantile.-David Ricardo......... 458

936 Boston, imports at in British steamers........

316 Bounties, revenues, &c., on merchandise........ 109
123, 219, 331, 427, 538, 640

Annuities, life-insurance, tontines, etc....... 48, 445 Book trade......

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

Arts and manufactures, chemistry applied to.... 630
Association, mercantile library of Montreal..... 296
New York.... 297
Philadelphia.. 216

66

66

101

ocean steam navigation, origin of...... 172
and Pacific oceans, union of........... 278

91

Australian copper ore......................

95

B.

BALTIMORE, banks of...............

44

567

Bremen, post-office regulations on letters to..... 616
Brighton cattle market...

208 Bristles, manufacture of at Cincinnati...

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

527

632