THE

MERCHANTS MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

W.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN IUNT,

DITOR 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 SEVENTEEN.

TO THE

SEVENTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS MAGAZINE.

J. BALESTIER, United States Consul at Singapore.

CHARLES F. BRIGGS, Esq., Author of “Life in a Liner,” otc., etc., of New York.

W. S. CHACE, Esq., of New York.
HENRY C. CAREY, Esq., of New Jersey.
Thomas L. DUNNELL, Esq., of Rhode Island.
E. Hasker DERBY, Esq., of Massachusetts.
GEORGE LEIGHTON DITson, Esq., late U. S. Vice-Consul at Nuevitas.
Lewis FEUCHTWANGER, M. D., of New York.
BARON Gerolt, Prussian Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington.
Rev. WILLIAM Hague, of Massachusetts.
Rev. FREDERIC W. HOLLAND, of New York.
David R. JACQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar.
James J. Jarvis, Esq., Editor of “The Polynesian," Oahu.
ALEXANDER JONES, M. D., of New York.
Thomas PRENTICE KETTELL, Esq., of New York.
JAMES H. LANMAN, Esq., Author of the “ History of Michigan," etc.
C. EDWARDS LESTER, late United States Consul at Genoa.
C.F. M'Car, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia.
Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Alabama.
Hon. ZADOCK PRATT, of Prattsville, New York.

E. ROBERTS, Esq., Author of "Scenes and Characteristics of AngloIndian Society."

J. W. Scott, Esq., Editor of the “Toledo Blade," Ohio.
HAMILTON SMITH, Esq., of Kentucky.
HENRY GRattan Smith, of the Memphis (Tenn.) Bar.

John L. STEPHENS, Esq., Author of “Incidents of Travel in Central America,” etc., etc.

A. C. SPOONER, Esq., of the Boston (Mass.) Bar.
C. TOWNSEND, Esq., of the Manchester (Michigan) Bar.

Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of " The Progress of the United States in Wealth and Population,” “Life of Jefferson,” etc., etc.

CHARLES TYNG & Co., Commission Merchants, Havana. WILLIAM S. Wart, Esq., of Illinois ; and FREEMAN Hunt, the Editor and Proprietor. I The names of the contributors are appended to the titles of the several articles, in . the table of contents on the first page of each number, except such as have been prepared or adopted by the Editor.

66

Nuevitas.

..............

ngton.

.... 406

n," etc.

.. 205

A.

| Banks (State) at par in New York...... 115
ABSENTEES, suits against........

72

of New York, resources and liabilities of. 116
Agriculture, and the influence of manufactures

of Connecticut, condition of........ 119, 209
and public improvements on agriculture...... 547

(State) in the U. S., condition of, 1847.. 206
Albany, price of flour in, from 1821 to 1846.... 197

of Maine, condition of, 1847..... 208
Alloys, vziuable....

New Orleans, movements of, 1847....... 209

538
American commerce, regul'ns of Canadian and. 94

in U. S., loans and circulation, 1839-47.. 200

in State of N. York, condition of, 1847.. 317
Mining Journal, the.......

112

New York city, condition of.... ..
gold for coinage, deposits of, 1846.... 119

of Ohio, movement of................. 318
hemp trade..

198
1847.........................

533
ice trade, the........

219

1835-47...................... 511
biscuits, import of at Liverpool...... 219

530
cotton, Indian and.......

of Germany..
325

261
ocean steam navigation.....

Barbadoes, exports and shipping of....

357
produce exp'd from N. Orl'ns, 1846-47 613 Barbour's reports of cases in chancery......... 392
merchant, temptations of the........ 636 Beacon, Blyth Sand...........

485
Amoy, (China,) trade of in 1846.............. 110 Beans, pro-forma sales of at Havana...
Andraad's new system of railroad locomotion.. 40 Beef,

486
Angostura
, (or Bolivar,) commerce of for 1846.. 197 Belgian railway, 1846.......

211
imports into from U. States, 1846.... 197

receipts from 1835 to 1846..... 211
exports from, 1846.......

197

average No. travellers, 1835–46 212
Anguilla, soil and productions of...

262

Belgian tariff, modification of the............. 621

261 Belgium, commerce of, from 1844 to 1846...... 174
Apples, pro-forma sales of at Havana.......... 485

1846 to 1847... ... 520
538

174

exports from, 1844, '45, '46..
Association, mercantile library of Boston.......
87

175
imports into,
Cincinnati....

88

import of cotton-wool into, 1831-46.. 328
and..........
67, 104 Berbice, productions and shipping of, 1836......

264
steam-ships, the French..............

176

Bermudas, imports and exports of, 1846–47..... 262
Austria, commerce of........................

611

vessels entered and cleared, 1846-47. 263
val. of imports and exports of, 1831–44 611

vessels registered, 1846-47.......... 263
75

staple productions of.....

vessels belonging to, 1846–47........ 263
B.

arrow-root, potatoes, and onions, ex-
90

ported from, 1841-45......... 264
Bahama benk, Isle of Man, floating light on. 525, 625 Bills of exchange........

186, 617
262

and promissory notes......... 597
118 Birkenhead dock charges...

99
118 Biscuits, American, import of at Liverpool..... 219
120 Blyth Sand beacon.......

205
estriction act

, and finan'l crisis of '47. 131, 227 Boards, pro-forma sales of at Havana.......... 486
1844–47.............. 509 Bombay, commercial regulations of..

522
New York, 1845-47...