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 EIGHTEEN. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1848. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1848. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE EIGHTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. J. BALESTIER, United States Consul at Singapore. R. BURN, Esq., Editor of the "Commercial Glance," England. Hon. THOMAS G. CARY, Merchant, of Massachusetts. E. HASKET DERBY, Esq., President of the Old Colony Railroad Co. Lieut. CHARLES HENRY DAVIS, of the United States Navy. CHARLES H. GLOVER, Esq., of the New York Bar. JOHN ENDICOTT GARDNER, Esq., of Massachusetts. L. A. HINE, Esq., Editor of the "Herald of Truth," Ohio. EDWARD KELLOGG, Esq., author of "Labor and Other Capital," etc. JOHN AMORY LOWELL, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. Lieut. M. F. MAURY, of the U. States Naval Observatory, Washington. C. F. M'CAY, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia. ALANSON NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. Hon. F. O. J. SMITH, of Maine. Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of "The Progress of the United States in Wealth and Population," "Life of Jefferson," etc., etc. J. B. VARNUM, Esq., of the New York Bar. JOHN WILKINSON, Esq., President of the Syracuse and Utica Railroad Company. E. B. WASHBURN, Esq., of Illinois; and FREEMAN HUNT, the Editor and Proprietor. 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. 233 105 456 455 458 517 518 vices void in law........ Agreement to allow a clerk commissions....... 296 Banker, a fraudulent......... Agulhas, light-house at cape.............................. ...... scythe and fork manufactory... manufacture of pins.. panorama of the Mississippi River... 232 85 Beacon light on Tampico bar.... .... 114 Bills of lading, advances upon....... Amsterdam, shipping expenses at.............. 319 325 339 631 530 295 sterling, rates of, in New York.......... Attachment, foreign.. ....... 325 Atlantic railroad, where shall it begin?........ 592 Book trade, notices of... 121, 234, 352, 457, 569, 671 ship-building at, in 1847. and Susquehannah Railroad........ 220 Boston and Providence Railroad.... Bank circulation of England....................... 309 ships destined for........... 424 56 imports and exports of specie from 1828 202 |