hereby made the duty of the said clerk to record every appointment made, and forthwith pay over to the treasurer of the county the amount so paid, taking the treasurer's receipt therefor.

SEC. 3. Each auctioneer, before making any sales as auctions, shall give a bond to the treasurer of the county in which he or they reside, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the said treasurer, in such penal sum as the said treasurer shall require, not less than $1,000 nor more than $3,000, with condition to pay all auction duties required by law to the treasurer of the said county; and also, that he shall in all things well and truly conform to the laws relating to auctioneers; which bond shall be filed in the office of said treasurer, with the indorsement of his approval

thereon

SEC. 4. If any person licensed as aforesaid shall receive for sale at auction any goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property, from any minor or servant, knowing him or her to be such servant or minor, or shall sell by auction any of his own goods before sunrise, or after sunset, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $200 for each and every offense.

SEC. 5. Every licensed auctioneer shall keep a particular account of all goods, chattels, and property sold by him, the names of the persons from whom the same were received, and the names of the persons to whom the same shall have been sold.

SEC. 6. If any person, not licensed and qualified as an auctioneer as prescribed in the preceding sections of this act, shall sell, or attempt to sell, any real or personal estate, goods, wares, merchandise, or chattels whatsoever, by way of public auction, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, for each and every offense.

SEC. 7. The tenant or occupant of any house or store, having the actual possession and control of the same, who shall knowingly permit any person to sell any real or personal estate by public auction in his house or store, or in any apartment or yard, appurtenant to the same, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $300.

SEO. 8. Nothing in this chapter shall extend to sales made by sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, constables, or collectors of taxes.

SEC. 9. No appointment granted as aforesaid shall remain in force more than one year from the date thereof.

SEC. 10. All appointments of auctioneers heretofore made, and all privileges and rights in virtue thereof, shall cease and determine at the time the provisions of this chapter shall take effect.

SEO. 11. No person, in virtue of any appointment heretofore made, shall be deemed a licensed auctioneer; but every person holding snch appointment shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter, in the same manner as all other persons not being appointed as above provided.

SEC. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEO. 13. No person, or association of persons, or body corporate, except such bodies corporate as are expressly authorized by law, shall issue any bills or promissory notes, or checks, certificates of deposit, or other evidences of debt, for the purpose of loaning them, or putting them in circulation as money, unless thereto especially authorized by law; and every person and every member of a corporation who shall violate either of the provisions of this section shall forfeit for each and every such violation the sum of $100.

SEC. 14. No person shall pay, give, or receive in payment, or in any way circulate, or attempt to circulate as money, any bank bill or promissory note, check, draft, or other evidence of debt, which shall purport to be for payment of a less sum than one dollar, or payable otherwise than in lawful money of the United States; and any person who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit twenty-five dollars.

SEO. 15. The penalties prescribed in this chapter shall be recovered by suit in the name of the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which the offense is committed, to be presecuted by the district attorneys of said counties respectively; and the same shall be paid into the county treasury.

SEC. 16. If the District Attorney or Board of County Commissioners, whose duty it is to comply with any of the requisitions of this chapter, shall neglect or refuse so to do, he or they shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than ten, or more than one hundred dollars, for each and every day he or they shall delay a compliance.

FREE SHIPS MAKE FREE GOODS.

TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS.

Hon. FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States, has issued a proclamation of a convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, which was concluded and sigued by their respective plenipotentiaries at Washington, on the 22d of July, 1854. The ratifications on both parts were exchanged on the 31st of October, 1854, by Hon. William L. Marcy, Secretary of State, and Mr. Edward de Stoeckl, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, on the part of their respective governments, and made public by the President on the 1st of November, 1854. Omitting the verbiage with which the official document opens and closes-we mean no disrespect to the "high contracting parties," for it is a time-honored form— we proceed to lay before the readers of the Merchants' Magazine, “ word for word,' every article of the treaty, as follows:

ARTICLE 1. The two high contracting parties recognize as permanent and immutable the following principles, to wit:

1st. That free ships make free goods-that is to say, that the effects or goods belonging to subjects or citizens of a power or State at war are free from capture and confiscation when found on board of neutral vessels, with the exception of articles contraband of war.

2d. That the property of neutrals on board an enemy's vessel is not subject to confiscation, unless the same be contraband of war. They engage to apply these principles to the Commerce and navigation of all such powers and States as shall consent to adopt them on their part as permanent and immutable.

ART. 2 The two high contracting parties reserve themselves to come to an ulterior understanding, as circumstances may require, with regard to the application and extension to be given, if there be any cause for it, to the principles laid down in the first article. But they declare from this time that they will take the stipulations contained in said article first as a rule, whenever it shall become a question, to judge of the rights of neutrality.

ART. 3. It is agreed by the high contracting parties that all nations which shall or may consent to accede to the rules of the first article of this convention, by a formal declaration stipulating to observe them, shall enjoy the rights resulting from such accession as they shall be enjoyed and observed by the two powers signing this convention. They shall mutually communicate to each other the results of the steps which may be taken on the subject.

ART. 4. The present convention shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of said States, and by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and the ratification of the same shall be exchanged at Washington within the period of ten months, counting from this day, or sooner, if possible.

BONDS OF MERCHANTS IN CHINA TRADE CANCELED.

The following letter from the Secretary of State, under date Department of State Washington, Nov. 9th, 1854, to Messrs. Goodhue & Co., Merchants, of New York, is of interest to a portion of the mercantile public:

GENTLEMEN Referring to your communication inclosing a memorial, signed by the merchants of New York, engaged in the China trade, requesting that instructions might be given to the United States Consul at Shanghae, to cancel the bonds exacted from American merchants during the period that city was in possession of the Insurgents: I have now to inform you that the United States Consul at Shanghae has been instructed to cancel all bonds and obligations received at that Consulate, under the provisional rules for clearing ships, issued by Mr. Cunningham, the late Acting Consul, on the 9th of September, 1853, and return them to the parties to whom they respecttively belong, and rescind the said regulation.

I am, gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. L. MARCY.

THE RECIPROCITY TREATY IN CANADA.

The Inspector general of Canada has issued the following public notice touching the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States:—

INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT, Quebec, Oct. 18, 1854. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL in Council, has been pleased to order and direct, that, pending the action of the Lower Provinces, and the completion of any further measures required for giving entire effect to the Reciprocity Treaty recently concluded between Great Britain and the United States, the several articles mentioned in the schedule to an act passed in the present session of the Parliament of Canada, entitled "An Act for giving effect on the part of this Province to a certain Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America," and hereinafter enumerated, that is to say:

shall be admitted to importation into this Province from the United States, under special bonds to her Majesty, conditioned for the due payment of the customs duties legally chargeable at the time of importation on the articles so imported, in the event that the said Reciprocity Treaty and the act herein before mentioned in relation thereto, do not go into operation and take full effect within six months from the date hereof, WM. CAYLEY, Inspector General.

LETTERS BY THE BRITISH MAIL PACKETS.

The following is an approximate estimate of the number of letters originating in and destined for England, conveyed in the course of the year by the British mail packets, namely:

By the Pacific packets...

200,000

By the Peninsula and Oriental Company's packets, to and from India,

China, and Australia.....

2,300,000

By the Cape of Good Hope packets....

280,000

By the West Coast of Africa packets.

50,000

POSTAGE IN FRANCE.

A letter sent from the United States to any place in France is invariably charged with double postage when inclosed in an envelope. This fact should be remembered by those writing to their friends in that country. In order to save postage, letters should be written very close on good, thin paper, and directed without an envelope. Letters without envelopes, weighing over 7 grains, († of an ounce,) are charged double postage in France. A letter on light paper, without an envelope, sent by an American steamer, costs twenty-four cents to Liverpool, and seventeen cents from there to Bordeaux, France, making forty-one cents if single, and eighty-two cents if enveloped or over weight. If sent by a British steamer, there is an additional charge

of ten cents.

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

STATISTICS OF TRADE AND COMMERCE OF IRELAND,

We are indebted to the editors of the Mercantile Journal and Statistical Register, one of the most reliable commercial papers published in the United Kingdom, for the subjoined statistics of Irish trade, as taken from the British Board of Trade returns. The first of the tables below shows the amount of the revenue received at Irish ports in each year from 1845 to 1853, inclusive. The second table shows the quantity of wine, spirits, tobacco, tea, coffee, and sugar retained for home consumption in Ireland during the years 1845 to 1853; and the third table gives the quantity (in quarters) of certain breadstuffs imported into Great Britain from Ireland in each of the lastnamed years:

REVENUE RECEIVED IN IRELAND FROM 1845 TO 1853, INCLUSIVE.

CHIEF ARTICLEs retained for HOME CONSUMPTION IN IRELAND FROM 1845 to 1853,

QUANTITY OF GRAIN EXPORTED TO GREAT BRITAIN FROM IRELAND.

COMPARATIVE COMMERCE OF OUR CITIES.

A correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer at Washington, gives the following tabular statement of the revenue for a single month, (September, 1853–54,) which furnishes at a glance the relative importance of several of our principal commercial cities, in so far at least as our import trade is concerned :

REVENUE OF SEVEN CITIES FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER.

8,059,972

19,955,276

41,367,956