MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1851. New York: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1851. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. STEPHEN P. ANDREWS, Esq., of New York. GEORGE BACON, Esq., Manufacturer, of New York. DAVID M. BALFOUR, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. SAMUEL BEMAN, Esq., of New York. WILLIAM H. BOGART, Esq., Clerk of the New York State Senate. J. C. COCHRANE, Esq., Counselor at Law, of Rochester, New York. T. F. CRAM, Captain United States Topographical Corps of Engineers. THOMAS O. DORR, Esq., of the New York Bar. PROFESSOR JAMES FERGUSON, of the National Observatory, Washington. HON. A. C. FLAGG, late Controller of the State of New York. THOMAS R. FOSTER, Esq., Merchant, of New York. HON. M. R. H. GARNETT, of Virginia. WILLIAM A. GLIDDON, Esq., late acting American Consul at Cairo, Egypt. DAVID R. JAQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar. A. B. JOHNSON, Esq., President of the Ontario (Branch) Bank-Author of "a Treatise on Banking, etc." HON. GEORGE P. MARSH, Minister of the United States at Constantinople. THOMAS PROSSER, Esq., Manufacturer, of New York. M. D. L. RODET, of the Paris Chamber of Commerce. A. R. RIDER, Esq., of the New York Bar. J. S. ROPES, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. GEORGE R. RUSSELL, LL. D., Merchant, of Massachusetts. J. W. Scort, Esq., Counselor at Law, of Ohio. HON. E. G. SQUIER, late Minister of the United States to Central America. RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of New York. HON. GEORGE TUCKER, late Professor in the University of Virginia, and |