MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDIKG MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LOXDON CINCINNATI, ETC. VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE 1862. New York: 1852. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS’MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW J. P. Brown, Esq., of the Legation of the United States at Constantinople. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER INCLUSIVE, 1852. .. 224 770 124 7 . . 611 .. 329 488 364 215 394 | Banking, free, law of Indiana....... American enterprise in Sydney........... 647 " Journal of... 87, 215, 344, 473, 601, 737 trade in India......... Bankrupts, payment of debts by............ 523 Anchorage duties of Brazil reduced ..... Barbadoes, light on south point of.......... 126 dues of Brazil...... 500 Bay of Fundy, bell buoy in................. Arithmetical accumulation of money....... 613 Behring's Straits, whale fishery about....... Arkansas, lead mines of...... 258 Belvidere Knoll ........................... Assay office for Australian gold ........... Bill of lading-common carriers .......... ... 79 66 of lading, action on a......... . 459 Assumpsit, action of, for goods sold, &c.... Austria, effect of customs duties in ........ 650 Bills of exchange, damages on .......... Australia, population and Commerce of..... 637 Biography, commercial..... 570 Blasting of rocks under water ......... Australian gold mines ..................... 132 320 Advance in the price of sperm and whale oils 723 Bombay harbor, beacon at entrance of...... 364 Act of Ohio touching fraud in trade........ 239 Bonds issued by railroad corporations in Me. 104 46 sale of Indiana railroad.............. 101 6 of New York relating to insurance co's., 240 * Pennsylvania loan ..................... 98 Book Trade, notices of. 139, 267,395,525, 651, 771 Book trade of France...................... 651 establishing a branch mint in California. 352 * of Maryland relating to small bank notes 612 Bookselling system of London ............. 264 4 of Maine relating to telegraph lines ... 464 Boqueron Channel port of Callao........... 1 of U.S. relating to exports to Mexico .. 496 Boston and Worcester Railroad, statistics of. 251 66 6 relating to bonds of Planters' Bank, Miss. 358 banks, average dividends of......... “ merchant, J. Tarbell ............. Action upon a promissory note............. 336 66 progress of bank, stocks in ........ 488 6 of covenant, &c.................... 203 u to recover merchandise detained.... banks, capital and dividends of...... 603 A creditor's stratagem to collect a debt..... market, fluctuations of stocks in .... 87 4 stock fluctuations in................ Adulteration of coins in Paris............ 16 of pale ale................ Mercantile Library Association of.... 263 Bottomry-the Apn C. Pratt................ 197 of coffee in Paris...... Advertising, hints to merchants on... Brandies, imports into Great Britain of ..... 361 African Arts and manufactures. Brazil, our Commerce with................. 265 Agricultural productions of Virginia... “ anchorage duties of............ ............... 124 “ statistics of the U.S......... anchorage dues of ........... Agriculture of the U. S.................. Breadstuffs, imports into Great Britain of ... 230 Alabama, act to regulate sale of cotton in... 124 “ exported from U. S ........... 620 Ale, adulteration of pale .................. 525 British consols and debt.................... 610 An eye to business ........................ 769 “ post-office system of remitting money 743 66 treaties, list of ..................... 125 Brokers, board of........... Baltimore Board of Trade, report of........ 66 contracts to deliver stocks......... Bank of England, dividends of............. 605 Business, absorption in.................. 393 is notes of olden times...... 603 5 Freedley's treatise on............. 433 account overdrawn....... 590 4 and study................... .... 396 loans, regulations of Louisiana....... notes, four, of one million sterling.... 4 note, value of a mutilated............ 330 Cadiz, American trade with.............. ...... 495 checks-overdrawn account.......... 590 Calcutta, revised tariff of.......... .624 6 accounts, the merchant that kept two. 104 California, gold mining operations in..... 445 Banks, capital and dividends of Boston..... railroads in..... 252 6 capital and dividends of Philadelphia. 98 gold, entire product.......... 66 of N. York, capital and dividends of. 92 gold mining in 382 4 of the State of New York............ 219 branch of U.S. Mint in......... 352 dividends of Boston................. 215 items of gold mining in ........ 753 of South Carolina, condition of...... 93 Caloric engine, Ericsson's ................. 20 " under the general banking law of Ill.. 742 Canal, tolls on James River and Kanawha ., 251 Banker, the benerolent................... 650 € Statistics...... 112, 241, 376,506, 631, 754 500 B. ....... 626 333 . . . 356 351 473 |