THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIA- TIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND LOUISVILLE, ETC. VOLUME NINETEEN. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1848. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1848. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE NINETEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. A. D. BACHE, Superintendent of U. S. Coast Survey. DAVID M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts. G. F. SECCHI DE CASALI, Esq., late of Italy, now of New York. Hon. H. A. S. DEARBORN, Mayor of Roxbury, Mass. J. F. ENTZ, Esq., Accountant, of New York. R. B. FORBES, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, F. R. S., of London, England. THOMAS PRENTICE KETTELL, Esq., of New York. JAMES H. LANMAN, Author of the History of Michigan. JAMES A. LAWSON, Esq., of Dublin, Ireland. C. F. M'CAY, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia. ALANSON NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Georgia. GEORGE W. SAVAGE, President of the Eagle Life and Health Insurance Company. J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of the Ohio Bar. HENRY GRATTAN SMITH, Esq., of the Memphis (Tenn.) Bar. Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of "The Progress of the United States in Wealth and Population." GEORGE A. WARD, A. M., Merchant, of New York. A. WHITNEY, Esq., of New York. Hon. J. R. WILLIAMS, of Michigan. FREEMAN HUNT, the Editor and Proprietor. To find the exports, imports, trade, &c., of different places in the Index, see the name of the country, State, city, or ports; and for particulars relating to the commerce, &c., &c., of the United Kingdom, see "Great Britain,” “ England,” “British,” “English," &c. 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. INDEX TO VOL. XIX., FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1848. 331 productions of.... ... 315 403 .... 396 Agriculture, exp'ts from U. S. of prod'ts of, 1847 88 121 America, N. and S., geographical division of... 625 Belgian commercial regulations.... 625 Belfast, condition of bank of..... 453 Biography, mercantile......... 659 Black River (Mich.) imp'ts and exp'ts of, in 1847 27 456 Blacking, origin of Day & Martin's............. ... 567 Blackstone coal mines...... 617 Boat, invention of life.... 662 .... 452 554, 647 571, £79 456 570 456 Ancient commerce........ 131 Boston, annual rep't of Merc. Library Ass'ion of 118 106 Mercantile Library Association........ 673 value of property of..... Arrivals, forced and in distress...... Associations, savings funds among charitable... 173 Atlantic and interior cities....................................... 385 Boot and shoe manufactory. Attachment, law of, in Tennessee............ 387 crimps, improvement in......... 638 303 541 562 453 453 Averages, marine, Spanish law of............. 59 Brazil, regulations at Rio Grande du Sul....... 212 |