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 TO
ΤΟ 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
Africa, commerce with the eastern coast of..... 29
at Heligoland....
91
Agates from Oberstein, the................................................ 533
on the western coast of Sleswick...... 634
Alabama, law of debtor and creditor in......... 57 Beaver island, (Halifax,) light-house on........ 315
Alta California, commerce and resources of..... 34 Belgium, coal mines and coal trade of.......... 235

merchant, position of the............ 936 Boston, imports at in British steamers.......... 426

Anthracite coal trade, Pennsylvania..................................
Anton Lizardo...

insurance companies in...

206
509
316 Bounties, revenues, &c., on merchandise........ 109
Annuities, life-insurance, tontines, etc....... 48, 445 Book trade............. 123, 219, 331, 427, 538, 640
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
corn crop of U. States, in 1839...... 562
average price of corn at New York

New York.... 297
Philadelphia.. 216

101

ocean steam navigation, origin of...... 172

44

Bremen, post-office regulations on letters to..... 616

Brighton cattle market...

527

208 Bristles, manufacture of at Cincinnati.......... 632

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

State, of Indiana, condition of branches, '46 412
of France, condition of the, 1847......... 623
Bankruptcy, statistics of uniform system of, 1841 414
Banks of Baltimore........................................................ 208
Massachusetts.................. 208, 307
New York, chartered and free........ 304
N. York, means and liabilities of,'45-47 609

แ

599

British imports of tobacco, 1845-46..

tobacco warehouse at Liverpool...

hop trade.........

44

426, Coinage of U. States mint and branches........ 506
396
entire of the U. States, 1793-1846...... 624
639 Coins and currency of the Hawaiian islands..... 622

Brooklyn, Union White Lead Company at...... 421 Columbia railroad, merchandise on the......... 326

Brusterort, light-tower at......

Buffalo, imports of in 1846..

44 arrivals and clearances, 1846...

315 Colonies, British, commerce of.....

398
599 Commerce with the eastern coast of Africa..... 29
and resources of Alta California..... 34
and navigation, academy of at Trieste 60
curiosities of.........
and the missionary enterprise........ 65
and the opium trade at Hong-Kong... 122
of Norway, trade and.......
138

62

46

91

Canals and other public works of Ohio......... 420
of Belgium......
Canton, foreign trade of, 1845................. 198
Cape St. Vincent, new light on............. 91, 215 Commer. chron. and review, 72, 184, 287, 387, 490, 604
Tenez, notice of a rock off............... 633
Frehel, light on........

regulations...... 81, 213, 311, 405, 497, 611
statistics........ 98, 194, 317, 425, 513, 625
navigation of Great Britain, 1821-45... 197
cities, effects of internal improvements. 263
cities and towns of the United States... 596
speculation, novel................... 301
prospects of Singapore............... 302
regulations of Cuba...............
314
regulations with Mexico, U. States..... 455
vessels entered and cleared, 1845-46..... 341
treaty between U. States and Hanover. 611
gross revenue from customs, etc., 1845... 341 Company, Union White Lead..
................ 421
value of imports and exports, 1845...... 341 Companies, insurance, in Massachusetts........ 508
pearl fishery.....
342 Connecticut, sea resources of the coast of....... 273
342 Contract, French tobacco.........
509

population, 1836........................................ 340
productions...

340

cinnamon exp. to England, 1827-34..... 341

198

66

shipping...
Chemistry applied to arts and manufactures..... 630 Consumption and production of sugar.......... 64
China, commerce of in 1845-46........
of tea in the world..
export of teas to U. States, 1845-46.. 199, 425 Copper trade, the British..
200
ore, duty on in England...
Chinese manufactures in France, exhibition of... 631 Coral fishery...
89 Corn laws, the British....

........ 304

Cincinnati, manufacture of bristles at.......... 632 preferable to money for Ireland...
Cleveland, Ohio, receipts of produce, 1841-46... 190 "importation of into England, 1846-47...... 628
64 merchandise cleared at........ 190 Cornwall and Swansea mines...

railway construction in Great Britain.... 536
44
wool trade of Great Britain............. 111
wool, imports and sales of..
121

*6 and iron trade of the Ohio valley.. 450, 629 Cotton-gin, invention of the...
Coast of Sweden, light-house on...............

Creditor and debtor in Alabama, law of....... 57 Exports from England to Mexico, 1846......... 457

62

316

timber, exported from Norway, '35-41 140 Five Fathom channel, wreck near the.......... 512
exports to Norway, 1835-41.......... 144 Floating lights on the coast of Ireland..
vessels cleared from Norway to, '33-43 150 Flour, Rochester manufacture and trade........ 96
66 to Norway, '33-43 150
inspections at New Orleans, 1845-46...... J14
Detroit, Michigan, commerce of, 1842-46....... 322
export of from New York, 1843-46........ 187
Dollar-mark, origin of the......
receipts of at New Orleans, Baltimore, and
Duck, American manufactured.

66

66

309

535

190

New York, in 1845-46....
receipts of at Cleveland, Ohio, 1841-46.... 190
price of at St. Louis, 1844-46...

pro forma sales of.........
Foreign arrivals at New York, 1846.....

322

626

195

and constw'e exp'ts of N. Orl'ns, 1845-6. 317
currency, weights, and measures........ 507
commerce of, in 1844-45..... 476, 547
general and special commerce of.... 477, 548
commerce by land and by sen....... 477, 548
maritime trade of.............................. 478, 549
trade of with various countries...... 478, 549
imp't trade of with various countr's. 478, 550
exp't trade of with various countr's. 479, 550
articles of import..

export........

....

480, 551
481,552

44

66

66

628

64

326

of teas from China to U. States..... 199, 425
Exports, domestic, of U. States, from 1821-45.... 106

exports from to U. States, 1844-45... 484, 555
imports from U. States to, 1844-45... 484, 555
exports from to Mexico, 1844-45.... 485, 556
imports from Mexico to, 1844-45.... 485, 556
exports from to Texas, 1844-45...... 486, 557
imports from Texas to, 1844-45..... 486, 557
importation of grains, etc., into.......... 409
condition of the bank of.........
623
exhibition of Chinese manufactures in... 631
duty on iron for ship-build'g abolish'd in. 632
iron and coal mines.......
329

whalers, smuggling by American and.... 401
tobacco contract....................... 509
West India islands, new regulations of... 314
wines, reduction of duty on............................... 639

vi

GENOA, light at the port of....
German railroads, traffic on, 1846..
Gluckstadt, harbor of...

Gold mines in Orel and Siberia....
Grain in England, prices of, 1845-47.
Granary of the west, the....

Great Britain, cotton-wool trade of.....

66

304 Industry of New York, manufacturing........
314 Increase of population in western states........
394 Ingenious method of smuggling tobacco...
426 Injunctions, cases of......

218 Insurance, life, annuities, tontines, etc....... 48, 445

mutual life.........

152
society on the basis of mutual........ 152
512
companies in Massachusetts, 1846.... 508
619 Inspections of flour in New Orleans, 1845-46.... 114
215 Internal imp'ments, effects of on commer'l cities. 263
629 Invention of the cotton gin...................

606

46

44

nautical, for steering ships......... 90, 215
363 Ireland, emigration from Great Britain and...... 191
floating lights on the coast of........... 316

.. 111

66

imp't and sales of cott'n-w'l, 1845. 111 Iron trade of Europe and the United States...... 574
46 shipped from Philadelphia, in 1765......... 575
"No. of furnaces in Pennsylvania, in 1810........ 575

iron trade, etc., of.........

114

64

the process of underwriting in..... 121
emigration from.....

46
44

.....

121

64

and y'ly prod. in U.S., 1810. 575
in Great Britain, 1740...... 578
"British duties on foreign, from 1782-1819.... 579
"prices of in Liverpool, from 1806-46 -

exported from Russia, in 1793.

exp'ts of certain articles from New
$4
189, 190
York to, 1845.............
commercial navigat'n of, 1821-45. 197
entries and clearances of foreign

and colonial shipping, 1821-45.. 197
cost of railway construction in.... 536
623
revenue of, 1846-47....................
Greenbush and Troy railroad.........
Gulf of Smyrna, buoys in the........

H.

66

66

581

583

to U.S., 1832-38.... 583
"exported from Spain to Great Britain....... 584
"prices of in Cincinnati, from 1814-31....... 586
works of Penn'a, No. and product of, 1842.. 587
"rolling-mills and nail fact. in Penn'a, 1846... 589
"product of fifty-four forges......

587

91

anthracite furnaces erected since 1839, and

590

in blast in 1847, with their annual product. 592

"trade, etc., of Great Britain.....

... 315

"works, Archimedes..................

foundry, New York.................
"mountains of Missouri....

330

HALIFAX, light-house on Beaver island..
Hall's hydrostatic ink fountain.........
Hanover, commercial treaty between U. S. and... 611
Harbor regulations of Macao, China, 1846....... 213
....... 215
46 of Gluckstadt............
Havre and New York, ocean steamers between.. 617
Hawaiian islands, coins and currency of......... 622
Heligoland, beacons at........

114

93

93

94

"manufacture of railr'd in the U.S... 97, 212, 530

" and steel, manufac. imp. into U.S. 1821-45.. 107
329
"and coal mines, French.......
450

........

91

"and coal trade of the Ohio valley..........
"mines and manufactures of Belgium..
"furnaces, etc, etc., in Belgium.....

531

532

322

218

Belgian, exported to France, 1821-44.
"wood, American....

532

..........

218

404

Hemp, manufac. of imp'ted into U.S., 1821-45.. 107

price of at St. Louis, 1844-46.......

Hints to merchants and business men........

Hong-Kong, commerce and the opium trade at... 122 Island, Soerhaagen, new light-tower on.........
639 Islands, Hawaiian, coins and currency of the..... 622
404
newly discovered......

and sales of cot'n-w'l in G. Brit'in, 1845. 111 JAMAICA, currency of prior to 1739............. 347
...... 122

survey of damaged goods landed at.... 348
208, 303, 412, 506, 622
duties, reduction of in Denmark........ 411 Journal of banking, currency, and finance..118,
194
mining and manufactures... 92, 201,
372
327, 421, 530, 629

44

66

at Boston in British steam packets.......
of tobacco, British, 1845-46......

426

K.

426

2. Rio Janeiro from 1836-39..........

from U. States to France, 1844-45... 484, 555 KIACHTA, the Russian trade at.

38

exports of w'len cloth from Russia to.. 39
40
barter trade at, 1843.........

66

and duties of Philadelphia, 1830-46..... 527

511

Imprisonment for debt.......

Indiana, condition of branches state bank of..... 412
Indies, East, free ports of.........

314

1846.... 620
production of sugar in the.......... 375 LAKE Michigan, railroad from to the Mississippi. 115

West, new regulations of the French..... 314 Lakes, vessels built and launched on,

regulation fixing the price of Russian
goods at..

41

L.