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Title: January 1844, Vol. X, No. I

Date: January 1844
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image-container-0 15 27 38 48 50 65 72 75 77 78 79 80 81 83 84 T H E MERCHANTS’ MAGAZINE, E s ta b lis h e d J u l y , 18 3 9 , BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOLUME X. JANUARY, 1 8 4 4 . NUMBER I. CONTENTS OF NO. I, VOL. X. ART. PAOK. ARTICLES. I. Commerce and Resources o f British America. By G. R. Porter, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary of the British Board of Trade,............................................................. II. Post-Office Reform, and Uniform Postages. By James M. W hiton, Merchant, of Massachusetts,..................................................................................................... III. Our Trade with the British Colonies. By James H. Lanman, author of the “ History of Michigan,” .......................................................................................... IV. Observations on Cotton. By Samuel T . Coit, Merchant, of Louisiana,.......... V. The Currency. By John J. Crocheron, of Alabama,...................................... VI. Commerce and Commercial Character: Review o f Mr. Hone’s Lecture,......... VII. Tobacco and Snuff Administration o f France...................................................... MONTHLY COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE, EMBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC., ILLUSTRATED WITH TABLES, AS FOLLOWS : Banks of New York— their condition in January, August, and November, 1843,... 73 Prices of Stocks in the New York market, in April, October, and December, 1843, 74 Commerce of the New York and Ohio Canals, from 1839 to 1843,.......................... 74 Banks of several States—their condition November 1st, 1843 and 1842,................... Number of Banks, and the Aggregate Capital, in each State, in 1830, 1839, and 1843,................................................................................................................................ Exports of Tea from Canton to the United States, in 1843,........................................ MERCANTILE LAW DEPARTMENT. Mercantile Law Cases : Marine Insurance..................................................................... Private Expresses : United States vs. Adams & Co.,................................................... Return Duties on Wheat and Flour reshipped— Auctioneers and Commission Mer chants,............................................................................................................................ Insurance on Cargo— Certificates of Deposit,................................................................ Insurance— Damages by Collision—Common Carriers,................................................ V O L . X . -----N O . I . 2
image-container-1 14 Table o f Contents. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. PAGK. Commerce and Navigation of the United States, in 1849,........................................... 85 Domestic Exports of the United States, in 1842,.......................................................... 85 Comparative View of the Commerce of the United States, in 1842,......................... 87 Imports and Exports of each State and Territory of the United States, in 1842,.... 88 Number and Tons of American and Foreign Vessels entered the United States, in 1842............................................................................... A.............................................. 89 Tonnage, American and Foreign, cleared from the United States, in 1842,............. 89 Condensed View of the Tonnage of the several Districts of the United States, in 1842,............................................................................................................................... 90 Vessels built in the United States, and the Tonnage of same, in 1842,..................... 92 Coffee Trade of the United States, from 1821 to 1842,................................................ 92 American and British Shipping cleared and entered England and the United States, in each year, from 1832 to 1843............................................................................94 Brazilian Cotton imported into Great Britain, from 1833 to 1842,............................. 94 COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Tariff of Duties upon Imports into British Guiana,........................................................ 95 Regulations of the Government of Hayti,...................................................................... 96 Inspection of Produce in New York,............................................................................. 96 Directions for preparing Beef, Pork, and Lard, for the English market,.................... 97 United States Law of Vessels for Foreign Ports,..................................1........................ 97 STEAMBOAT AND RAILROAD STATISTICS. Programme of the French Steamships,..................................................................... ... 98 Fares on the Western Railroad, between Boston and Albany,.................................... 99 MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES. French Excise— French Gunpowder Administration,..................................................... 100 Raisins or Grapes : Manner of preparing them,............................................................ 100 Manufactures of the South and West,............................................................................ 101 European Trade to China—Counterfeit Mexican Dollars,........................................... 101 T IIE BOOK TRADE. Prescott’s Conquest o f Mexico— Gore’s (Mrs.) Birthright,........................................... 102 Clay’s Life and Speeches-—Tyler’s Life and Speeches,................................................ 103 Choules’ Neal’s History of the Puritans,........................................................................ 103 Guizot’s Student— Bible Expositor-—Abbott’s Early Piety........................................... 104 Falkner’s Farmer’s Treasure— Smith’s Productive Farming,........................................ 104 King’s Memoir o f the Croton Aqueduct—Thompson’s Long Island,......................... 105 Jarvis’s Scenes in the Sandwich Islands, etc.— Taylor’s Family Poems,.................... 105 Cook’s (Eliza) Poems—Ellis’s (Mrs.) Works,................................................................ 106 Ripley’s Notes on the Acts— Lyra Apostolica—Victorine,.......................................... 106 Beecher’s (Miss) Domestic Economy—Keese’s Wintergreen,..................................... 107 Hemans’ (Mrs.) Works—Kendall’s Life of Jackson,.................................................... 107 Sir Walter Scott’s Monument— Letters from Ireland,................................................... 108 Christian’s Pocket Companion—Complete Confectioner,.............................................. 108 Ephraim Holding’s Homely Hints— Garland of Hops,................................................. 108
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