.. 171 ......... 64 J. Manufacture of nails, improvement in the...... 342 of American parchments... 341 343 216 59 insurance....... 185 implements, patents for............ 428 114 insurance, Spanish law of.... .... 620 426 229 95 95 business of...... 231 failures in ........ 232 36 195 mackerel inspection 329 450 627 663 condition of railroads of........ 636 271 commercial regulations of.......... 549 444 ....... 551 170 552 103 ........ 320 104 78 557 454 House of A. & S. Henry & Co...... 63 Law Cases... 76, 183, 294, 403, 532, 630 .......... 652 Library Association of Boston.. 118, 673 431 181 Acquisitiveness 345 614 Accounts, limitation of............ 404 614 Merchant, the, a translation from the German.. 41 401 vessels, law of U. S. relating to...... 102 398 knowledge necessary to &............ 259 170 the honest boy a successful.......... 677 202 ..... 120 Magazine, character of ............ 669 640 Metals, electric decomposition of.............. 665 117 Mexican ports, reduction of duties in........... 212 and Westminster Bank, manager of.... 68 Mexico, liquidation of claims against.......... 331 95 vegetable soap of.................... 449 20 description of military lands of ....... 21 commerce of...... 24 agricultural capacities of... 30 649 30 121 31 95 31 195, 316 32 661 40 659 vessels built in, in 1847............. 95 55 tolls on canals of................... 434 64 66 manual dexterity in............. 660 produce of ores of Raritan Co.......... 11 ........... 229 Co., Raritan Manufacturing and....... 111 and Manf. Jour. of 227, 110, 338, 447, 558, 657 * 66 66 Mining on Lake Superior, ancient.. 663 New Orleans receipts, exports, etc., of cotton... 419 110 receipts of produce at, for 7 years. 408 562 " esports of, from 1848............ 409 663 .......... 503 338 511 452 507 453 509 113 imports into, from 1842 to 1847... 512 320 navigation of, from 1844 to 1848.. 517 565 condition of banks of............ 538 95 Newport, (Mich.,) imp. and exp. of, in 1847.... 28 115 213 and New Orleans, steamers between. 116 500 dividends of banks of.............. 107 593 condition of banks State of, 1847-8.. 109 vessely built in, in 1847... 95 81 82 445 189 446 191 678 imp. and exp. year end. June 30, 1848 192 imports, value of, in 1847-8........ 192 341 bank circulation from 1837 to 1848.. 194 648 value of merchandise, etc., imported 451 into, in 1846 to 1848.... 661 exp. package goods from Liverpool to 204 banking system of, laws relating to.. 220 ..167, 170 321 mutual insurance companies........ 330 ....... 303 customs, revenue of................ 303 161 list of the banks in State of ......... 310 162 price of foreign bills at............. 302 103 mercantile aspect of law reform in.. 271 163 271 163 city, population of.... regulation of telegraph companies in. 415 ........, 164 exports of breadstuffs in 1847-8..... 423 ......... 164 years... 547 condition of banks of.... 536 imports and exports of. 632 105 of specie at.... 633 duties collected at.. 633 638 ship-building in....... 642 city, personal and real estate of...... 669 canals, opening and closing of... ... 657 185 North Carolina, vessels built in, in 1847........ 95 563 555 645 54 482 95 224 55 bank, currency and finance of.........., 441 57 Mobile and, Railroad.................. 580 57 56 648 325 P. .... 384 16 499 #6 Pasic makers, commercial.. 234| Railroad progress of New York and Erie... 436 282 Petersburgh, Va.................... 436 341 Boston and Maine.................. 566 99 .......... 527 296 Mobile and Ohio................... 580 428 555 556 452 556 95 659 443 657 noise prevented on....... 568 569 568 year 111 666 391 ....... 204 Remington's bridge, etc....... drainage of Tixall meadows, .... 501 105 of France in 1817-8... 667 of Great Britain........ 668 453 95 condition banks of, in 1845-1818. 107 condition of bunks of... 195 490 546 557 467 468 their warlike character.............., 468 commerce of................ 266 646 manufacturing industry of.... 266 456 Rum, importation of, into England... ........... 678 561 S, 552 SAGINAW, (Mich.,) imports and exports of, 1847 27 213 646 145 229 031 216 city, description of.... 287 288 115 289 560 in New York.. 642 428 643 217 Shipping merchants, decision relating to....... 183 178 432 490 ............ 114 451 - ............ 5 44 46 60 337 .. 449 324 66 . 337 ... 53 T. .. 101 66 .. 647 Spain, debt of, to England ..... 564 United States, com. of all nations, in 1847, with 59, 178, 619 value of exp. of, to all countries.. 61 naviga'n in 1847 of, with all nat'ns 92 tonnage of each collection dist. of 93 82 number and tonnnge of vessels 615 built in each State of, in 1847.. 95 vessels built in the, in 1846–7..... 83 113 the sixteen million loan of....191, 83 exp. dom. produce of, 1841 to 1847 84 com, and navigation of, in 1847.. 87 567 debt and finances of, in 1843.... imp.of oil and whalebope into the 904 treaty between New Grenada and 205 g foreign postal regulations of the.. 211 191 value of principal articles of, ex- ported to Great Britain.. 193 fares and freights on railroads in.. 333 302 brondcloth factories in .......... 341 120 impurt of wool into............. 033 trade of, with Great Britain.... 325 exp. of produce from, 1807 to 1847 307 490 revenue and expenditure of...... 304 culture oftea in.... 455 sales of public lands of.. 1650 export of breadstufis in 1817-8... 423 37 477 next census of...... 540 finances of, from 1791 to 1848.... 563 171 exports, value and price of cotton. 594 555 599 British exp.of cotton manuf. to.. 600 634 416 revenue and expenditure of...... 635 ruilroads and branches of........ 657 steamboats in 1810, in... 658 Usurious interest, suits to recover back... 669 445 435 034 171 99 452 Venezuelian ports, Baltimore exp. of produce to. 198 95 condition of banks of, in 1847....195, 109 545 230 98 230 tobacco statistics.. 545 95 470 609 19 ...... 454 Indies, Baltimore export of produce to... 197 ... 403 Whalebone imported into the U. $. in 1848.... 94 425 products of, in United States.......... 479 527 89 Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad Co........ 117 300 Wool, pounds arrived on the Hudson... 323 355 import of, into the United States........ 324 .......... 324 Wyoming coal region..... Y. 170 Z. State of, in 1847. ..... 96, 97, 98 ZOLLVEREIN, articles imported from U. S...... 85 commerce of, wish United States. 86 cotton consumed in the.......... 86 duties, increase of the........... 648 CONTENTS OF NO. I., VOL. XIX. , ARTICLES ART. PAGE 63 I INTERNAL COMMERCE OF THE WEST: ITS CONDITION AND WANTS, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE COMMERCE OF MICHIGAN, PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE. By J. R. WILLIAMS, Esq., of Michigan.... 19 II. THE MERCHANT. GERMAN PROSE WRITERS. By David R. JACQUES, Esq........ 41 II. COMMERCIAL CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES.-No. X.-NEW BURGH, (N. Y.) Location and settlement-Early inhabitants-Effects of the embargo and war of 1812-Enterprise of Jacob and Thomas Powell-Newburgh Whaling Company-Investment in manufactures-Water power-Newburgh branch of the Erie Railroad-Statistics of Newburgh--Steamboats and other vessels belonging to Newburgh-Value of real and personal estate in Newburgh-Agricultural statistics-Manufactures-Steam mills--Powder works -Brewery-Highland factory-Newburgh print works-Oil cloth factory-Oil mill-MillsFoundries, etc., etc......... 51, 59 IV. COMMERCIAL CODE OF SPAIN.-No. 5.-MARINE AVERAGES, AND FORCED ARRIVALS OR ARRIVALS IN DISTRESS. By A. Nasu, of the New York Bar....... 59 V. THE MERCANTILE HOUSE OF A. AND S. HENRY AND CO........ VI. JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, F. R. S., GENERAL MANAGER OF Thu LONDON AND West MINSTER BANK, (with a portrait.) His early history-Provincial Bank of Ireland-Waterford Literary and Scientific Association-London and Westminster Bank-Mr. Gilbart's evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons on banks of issue-Present and letter to hin from the Joint Stock Banks—His published works-His private character..... MERCANTILE LAW CASES. Rights of children and grand-children of British-born subjects who have recently become subjects of the United States of America, with reference to the inheritance of land in Great Britain........... Libellant charter party-Right assumed by consignees of deducting a commission upon freight money due from themselves .... 78 Cotton planters and factors-Suit to hold defendants liable for loss on shipment of cotton to Liverpool. 79 In admiralty-Important decision to owners and lessees of wharves .......... 80 COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW, LXBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC., ILLUSTRATED WITH TABLES, ETC., AS FOLLOWS: The money market-Discredit of English houses - French Revolution-Exports of specie from New York to England, France, etc.-Precious metals-Spring business-Political difficulties in Europe Elements of prosperity-The loan of the Federal Government of $16,000,000—The loan of the State of New York-Exports of domestic produce from the United States in four years-Result of the revolution in Western Europe — Tendency of the commercial policy of the United States, etc.-Commerce of the German Zoll Verein-Imports into Germany-Cotton consumed in the German Zoll Verein-Commercial affairs of Austria-Imports and exports of Trieste, etc...... 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