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MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M.,

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
AND LONDON STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW

YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE,
CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME THIRTY-SIX.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1857.

CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE THIRTY-SIXTH VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, New York.
HENRY B. AUCHINCLOSS, Esq., of New York.

DAVID M. BALFOUR, Esq., of Massachusetts.

A. N. BELL, M. D., of New York, late of the United States Navy.
JOHN P. BROWN, Esq., of the United States Legation at Constantinople.
HENRY C. CAREY, Esq., Author of "The Principles of Political Econ-
omy," "The Past, Present, and Future," "The Harmony of Interests,
Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial," of Pennsylvania.

E. H. DERBY, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts.

HENRY M. FLINT, Esq., of Illinois.

CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York.

DANIEL R. HUNDLEY, Esq., of Illinois.

A. B. JOHNSON, Esq., President of the Branch Bank of Ontario.

CALEB LAMSON, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts.

JAMES MCHENRY & Co., American Commission Merchants, of Liverpool.
ADOLPHUS MEIER & Co., Merchants, of Missouri.

E. MERIAM, Esq., of New York.

PLINY MILES, Esq., of New York.

E. P. PEABODY, of Massachusetts.

C. J. W. RUSSELL, Esq., of California.

J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of New York.

L. W. TENELLI. Esq., of New York.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, Esq., Merchant.

AMASA WALKER, Esq., late Secretary of State of Massachusetts.

George M. WESTON, Esq., of Maine.

DAVID WILDER, Jr., Esq., of Massachusetts.

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor.

INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVI.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

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the wine grape in..

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enterprise abroad..

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113 Birds, trade in, and commercial value of...
500 Book trade, the...... 139, 265, 393, 521, 649, 777
635 Bottomry-hypothecation of ship, etc..

452

American commerce, present and future of. 516 Boston banks..... 74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714, 722

Americans and American trade at Constanti

for five years, dividends of..... 596
bank stock, fluctuations in '56 of..... 343
480
fire insurance in....
insurance companies, dividends of... 227

Bank stock, fluctuations in Boston, for '56... 343
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Barley trade of Albany

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in '56....

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Assay office, New Yo.k, deposits at,

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market, railroad and city bonds sold

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Assignments-debtor and creditor...

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in Kentucky, of fraudulent... 349 253 Australia, railways in

panies in 1856-7 in.......

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merc. lib'y asso'n, donation for...

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with Mediterranean & India, com, of 731 Brazil, light on the east coast of.......

96

66

Baltimore, Peabody Institute in.....

banks, condition of the.... Bank, dividend day at the

66 capital and circulation in State of New

434, 668

66

467 131

Bread, the basis of commercial enterprise... 390
494
and meat in cities, prices of .
Breadstuffs, United States exports to Great
Britain and Ireland..

York, increase of

66

of England.

66

of France

66 of Ireland, property of

66

of Paris, the international

725

66
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559, 682

92 & provisions, U. S. exp'ts of, 79, 89 into G. B. in 1836, imports of... 733

561

British patents

129

66

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pawnbroker's catechism..

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postal system, work of the..

622

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railways, tariff of taxes on

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743

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680

wreck register for 1855.

743

258

66

Banking, currency, and finance, journal of,

81, 217, 337, 455, 589, 721 66 and bankers in England..

66

in New York, the three eras of.... 592 law and banks of Illinois, new.... 469 Bank-note redemption, act of N. Y. State on. 727 Bank-notes, the use of...

424
729

66 doing double duty, half.. Bankrupt merchant, anecdote of a......... 773 Bankruptcy and barbarism in London...... 519 Banks and banking in New York State...... 465 66 and banking law of Missouri... connected with Montreal..... dividends for five years of Boston.. in Arkansas

Brooklyn, Berden's bakery in..

Burlington, Iowa, descript'n & statistics of.. 687
Business firms,

titles of

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Calcutta, directions for approaching the Sand
Heads in both monsoons..

520

365

Calcutta, port rules of...

738

725

66

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California, bonded and war debt of......... 210
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California, the debt of

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Canada, commercial progress of.

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imports at the several ports and du-
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