THE

MERCHANTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Commercial Review.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT.

VOLUME V.

NEW-YORK:

FREEMAN HUNT, 142 FULTON-STREET.

BOSTON: SAXTON & PIERCE.
PHILADELPHIA: DREW & SCAMMEL.
NEW ORLEANS: J. F. CURNS & CO.

1841.

INDEX.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

Phillips..
Question

Protection

The Mississippi Scheme, by Francis Wharton.....

9
Theory of Banking, by a Merchant of Buston, Mass.....

27
rogress of American Commerce, hy James H. Lanınan.

37
Caryland, and its Resources, by William G. Lyford..

50
Free Trade, by S. G. Arnold....

58
Profits of Marine Insurance-The Mutual System, by Zebedee Couk, jr..

63
Question of Average, by Judge Willard Phillips....

67
The Law of Contracis in Missouri, by Charles G. Whittlesey, Counsellur at Law... 70
Commercial History of France, No. 1, by Francis Wharton....

105
nerican Manufactures, by James H. Lanman.....

122
British Import Du ies—Abstract of the Repurt of the Cunimittee of the House of
Cominons
on Import Duties, etc..

145
General Average-Its application to Lighterage and Freight, by Judge Willard

157
on Average, by Zebedee Cook, jr....

159
Culture of Silk in the United Sates, by Louis Tinelli..

162
vs. Free Trade, by Hurace Greeley....

166-
Agricultural Cominercy of the United States, by James H. Lanınan..

201
Skeiches of Distinguished Merchants
Charles Louis Montaussiers...

229
Noice of the Life and Character of Joseph May..

356
Life and Characier of the late Niche las Bruwn..

538
Commercial Dicks, by D. J. Browne, Civil Engineer....

239
Laws relative to Debtor and Creditor-
Of Mi-souri, by Charles D. Druke, Attorney at Law, 8.. Louis....

252
Of Tilinuis, hy Charles Giilman, of the Quincy (Illinois) Bar..

446
Suffolk Bank System......

261
Russia and her Commercial Streng h, by Francis Wharton...

297
Coinage of the Precious Metals, by J. v. C. Smith, M. D.

321
Philosophy of Storms, by S. G. Arnold.

338
Venetian Commerce, by E. W. Sloughton...

393
Thermometrical Observations, as connecred with Navigation, by James Mease, M. D. 411
Brij-h Import Duties-Evidence of John Buwring, LL. D..

422
Illinvis, and its Resources.....
Dutch Commerce, from the French of M. Buis Lecumple..

437
Townsend's Icebreaker....

444
Morocco, and its facilities for American Commercial Enterprise, by W. S. Mayo,
M. D...........

489
Commercial Relations of the United States, by James H. Lanınan.

507
British Corn Lows, by Janies M. Whiton.....

519
The Murals of Trade, No. 1, by Juhn Bellows..

526
Familiar Scenes in the Life of a Clerk, by the author of the “Victim of Chancery,” 530
The Computation of Interest, by C. C. Gordon..........

540

427