Merchants' Magazine: Index: January-June 1841, Vol. IV

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ORIGINAL PAPERS.Pago

East India and the Opium Trade, by Francis Wharton, Esq...................................... 9A General Bankrupt Law, by J. Van Cott, Esq............................................................... 22Turkey, Egypt, and Mehemet Ali, by E. W . Stoughton, Esq..................................... 35The Coal Business of the United States, by J. Blunt, Esq............................................ 62Imprisonment for Debt.......................................................................................................... 72American Steam Navigation, by James H. Lanman, Esq............................................. 105Commerce and Commercial Character, by Philip Hone, Esq......................................... 129Governmental History o f the United States, from the earliest settlement, to the

adoption of the constitution, by Henry Sherman, Esq................................................ 146Origin and Nature o f Fire Insurance, by George W . Savage, Esq.............................. 159Annual Report o f the Mercantile Library Association.................................................... 165The American Cotton Trade, by James H. Lanman, Esq............................................. 201Free Trade, by S. G. Arnold, Esq........................................................................................ 227Origin and Nature of Fire Insurance, (con. from p. 159,) by Geo. W . Savage, Esq., 238Banks, Banking, and Paper Currencies.............................................................................. 245The English East India Company, by Francis Brinley, Esq......................................... 297The Currency, by George W ood, Esq............................................................................... 317Weights and Measures— Comparison o f the Weights and Measures o f the United

States, and several countries with which they have commercial intercourse, byD. J. Browne, Esq............................................................................................................... 333

Commerce and Resources o f New Hampshire, by Jacob B. Moore, E sq................... 346British Navigation A ct, by Rev. Charles W . Upham..................................................... 393The Social Influence of Trade, and the Dangers and Duties o f the Mercantile

Classes, by Rev. G. W . Bumap........................................................................................ 415Remarks on Free Trade, by Horace Greely, E sq............................................................ 425Coins, Weights, and Measures— Proposed change in Weights, Measures, and Moneys

in Great Britain and the United States, by D. J. Browne, Esq................................. 434Liability of Insurers pay Contributions, by Zebedee Cook, Jr., E sq...................... 440Profits o f Marine Insurance, by Joseph Balch, Esq.......................................................... 444Merchants of the Time of Queen Elizabeth, by T . W . Tucker, Esq......................... 490Duties on Imports considered, by Professor George W . Tucker, L.L.D., o f the Uni

versity of Virginia.............................................................................................................. 506Plan o f a National Bank, by W . S. Wetmore.................. . .............................................. 528Imprisonment for Debt, by Constance Freeman Daniels, Esq..................................... 538

LAWS RELATIVE TO DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.N ew Y ork— Process— Provisions— Property Exempt from Execution—Jail Limits

— False Pretences— Deeds— Wills— Statute of Limitations— Foreign Attachments— Courts— Bills o f Exchange— Insolvency— Mortgages and Assignments — Judgment and Execution, by James H. Lanman, Esq., counsellor at law,New York................ ........................................................................................................... 74

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N ew Jersey— The Mode o f Proceeding in New Jersey for the Recovery o f Debts and Demands against Absconding and Absent, Qr Non-resident Debtors— Process— The Manner in which the W rit is Executed by the Officers— The Mode of Proceeding to Recover the Personal Estate o f the Debtor and his Effects, in the Hands o f a Third Person— When the Goods Attached by the Sheriff are Claimed by any Person— Action o f the Court on the Return of the Writ— Duty o f the Auditors— Rights and Obligations o f the Creditors— Proceedings before Justices, by John Chetwood, Esq., attorney and counsellor at law, Newark, N. J. 253

P ennsylvania— The Case o f Judgments obtained in other States, &.c.— Promissory Notes— Bills o f Exchange— Book Accounts, etc., to which there is no Defence— Cases in which the Liability is not contested, by P. P. Morris, Esq., of thePhiladelphia Bar.................................................................................................................. 448

M assachusetts— Attachment— Imprisonment for Debt— Discharge o f the Debtor — Poor Debtor’s Oath— Effect o f the Oath— Charges of Fraud— Trustee Process and Foreign Attachment— Insolvent Law— Kinds of Insolvency— Effect o f Petition— Choice o f Assignee— Duty o f Assignee— Debts Provable— Meetings o f Creditors— Secured Debts— Preferred Creditors— Effect o f Discharge— Objection to Discharge— Debts for Labor Privileged—Promissory Notes, by A . C.Spooner, Esq., counsellor at law, Boston, Mass........................................................... 549

MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY.

Life o f Stephen Girard, by James H. Lanman, E sq........................................................ 359The Rothschilds, by Louis Harper, L .L .D ........................................................................ 544Isaac de Buirette and his sons, by Louis Harper, L .L.D ............................................... 546

MERCANTILE LAW DEPARTMENT.

R eports, D ecisions, etc.Action on a Guarantee— Action for Freight.................................................................. 81, 82Illegality of Factors Pledging Notes for Goods sold by them,..................................... 82Factors Selling Goods to Refund themselves for the Duties they Paid— Common

Carriers................................................................................................................................. 83Chattel Mortgages— Decision o f the Court o f Errors...................................................... 173Imprisonment for Debt in New Hampshire,..................................................................... 174Law of Pennsylvania Commissioning Brokers.................................................................. 263Imprisonment for Debt— Tariff—Woollen Goods........................ ................................. 264Liability of Tenants in Case o f Fire— Collision— Bottomry.......................................... 266English Law of Wrecks— Salvage Services— Action for Freight................................. 267Legal Rate o f Interest in the Different States and Territories...................................... 268Punishment for Usury in the Different States and Territories..................................... 268Statute Laws Relating to Vessels— Registered Vessels— O f the Transfer o f Vessels

— Enrolled Vessels— Coasting Trade— Vessels Engaged in the Fisheries, 372, 374, 374Procuring Goods by False Pretences.................................................................................. 376Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts— Trustee Law— Prom

issory Note— Assignment.................................................................................................. 454Decisions in the United States Courts— Salvage Service............................................... 457Promissory Note Endorsements........................................................................................... 458

BOOK TRADE.

Entz’s Exchange and Trade between England and the United States..................... 84Lives o f the most eminent French Writers...................................... ............................... 84Cooper’s Mercedes o f Castile, or the Voyage to Cathay................................................ 85Armstrong’s Notices o f the War o f 1812............................................................................ 85Anti-Bacchus, or the Evils of Intoxicating Drinks......................................................... 85Combe’s Lectures on Phrenology........................................................................................... 86Mitchill’s Geographical Works.............................................................................................. 86Sacred Melodies, or Hymns for Youth............................................................................... 86Goodrich’s Token, and Atlantic Souvenir....................................................................... 87Sears’ Two Hundred Pictorial Illustrations o f the Bible............................................... 87Bryant’s Selections from the American Poets..................................................................... 87Campbell’s Centennial Address at Cherry Valley............................................................ 88Coutes’ Physiology for Schools........................................................................ 88Halleck’s Selections from the British Poets....................................................................... 88Heroines o f Sacred History— Young Ladies’ Companion............ ................................. 88


Renwick’ s Application o f the Science o f Mechanics to Practical Purposes................ 175Potter’s Objects, Rules, and Principles o f Political Econom y....................................... 175Life of John WicklifFe, D. D., by Margaret Coxe.......................................................... 175Pierpont’s Airs o f Palestine, and other Poems................................................................... 176Patrick’s Heart’s Ease, or Remedy against all Troubles............................................... 177Bradley’s Treatise on the strength o f Distilled Spirits, with Rules and Gauging.... 176Renwick’s First Principles o f Chemistry................................................... 177Life and Writings o f Samuel Johnson, L . L. D ............................................................... 177Irving’s Life o f Goldsmith, with Selections from his Writings..................................... 177Keightley’s History of England, from the earliest period to 1839................................ 177Distinguished Men o f Modern Times................................................................................. 178Noah’s Translation o f the Book o f Jasher..................................................4..................... 178Morris’s American Melodies— The production o f 200 W riters..................................... 178Hope on and Hope ever— Strive and Thrive, etc., by Mary Howitt.......................... 178Constance, or the Merchant’s Daughter................ ........................................................... 178Byrne’s Observations on the best means o f propelling Ships......................................... 269Renwick’s Life o f Dc Witt Clinton..................................................................................... 269Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child............................................................................... 270Johnson’s Religion in its relation to the present life........................................................ 270Thoughts in Past Years.......................................................................................................... 270Lyon’s Vindication o f Classical Studies............................................................................. 270Letters of Mrs. Adams, the W ife o f John Adams........................................................... 271Pilkington’s Artist’s Guide, and Mechanic’s Own Book............................................... 271Coleridge’s Confessions o f an Enquiring Spirit............................................................... 271Schmid’s Providence Illustrated— Stories from the German......................................... 271Mackenzie’s Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry................................................... 272Patrick’s Discourse concerning Prayer............................................................................... 272Old Humphrey’s Observations............................ 272Browne’s Banking and Mercantile Tables........................................................................ 272Sawyer’s Merchants and Ship Masters’ Guide................................................................ 459Riches without Wings, or the Cleveland Family.............................................................. 459Hodge’s Steam Engine— The Young Merchant— Boston Book.................................. 460Poetry, and History of W yoming......................................................................................... 461Walker’s Addresses and Messages o f the Presidents o f the United States................ 461Hayne’s Discourse before the Howard Benevolent Society........................................... 461Taylor’s Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State................ 462Cunningham’s Life and Land o f Burns............................................................................. 462Krummacher’s Religious W orks......................................................................................... 463Schlegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History............................................................ 463Anthon’s Classical Dictionary............................................................... . ............................ 464Remarks on Banks and Banking, and a Project for a National Bank........................ 464Sweetser’s Digestion, and the Diseases incident to it..................................................... 464Emmon’s Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditcli........................................................................ 464Bishop Wilson’s Private Meditations, Devotions, and Prayers..................................... 465Sutton’s Godly Meditations on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.......................... 465Writings of Charles Sprague................................................................................................. 465Carlyle’s Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History......................................... 465Hague’s Principles of Christian Union............................................................................... 465Hale’s History of the United States, from their Settlement as Colonies.................... 466Miss Martineau’s Hour and the Man— M y Son’s Own Book....................................... 466Sunday School Teacher’s Companion................................................................................ 466Birmingham’s Life o f Father Mathew............................................................................... 554D ’Israeli’s Miscellanies of Literature................................................................................. 555Hallam’s Literature o f the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries............................................. 556Goodrich’s Universal History Illustrated............................................................................ 556Stephens’s Commentaries on the Laws of England.......................................................... 557Life and Times o f Martin Luther....................................................................................... 557Barns’ Sermons on Revivals................................................................................................. 557Foote’s Texas and the Texians........................................................................................... 558Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons................................................................................ 558Elizabeth Thornton................................................................................................................ 558Blackstone’s Commentaries..................................................... 559Sleeper’ s Tales of the Ocean................................................................................................ 559Berquin’s Looking-Glass for the Mind................................................................ ............ 559

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Lindley’s Theory o f Horticulture........................................................................................ 560Charlotte Elizabeth’s Works................................................................................................. 560Reese’s Plea for the Intemperate......................................................................................... 560

ANECDOTES OF COMMERCE.

Commercial Integrity............................................................................................................. 179Making Conditions............................................................. 179Exclusion of the Inquisition from Antwerp....................................................................... 179Curious Mode of Barter.............................................................. 179Merchants of the Staple........................................................................................................ 273Tom of Ten Thousand— an Anecdote of the South Sea Scheme............................... 273A Merchant Sovereign.......................................................................................................... 273

MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES.

Ingenious attempt to defraud Insurers............................................................................... 180Beet Paper— Feathers................... , .....................................*................................................. 391The Salt Trade........................................................................................................................ 467Mercantile Virtues Rewarded.............................................................................................. 467American Carpeting.............................................................................................................. 467First American trade with China....................................................................................... 468Commercial Honesty,............................................................................................................. 468Comparative loss on Gold and Paper as a Circulation................................................... 468Marseilles Imperial Quilts...................................................................................................... 468Question for Accountants, answered by E. S. Houghton............................................... 275Measuring Corn...................................................................................................................... 277American Cotton— Russian Ports........................................................................................ 278Palm Leaf Paper— Arkansas Coal— Havana Savings’ Bank......................................... 582East India Cotton Company................................................................................................ 583British Foreign and Colonial W ool Trade........................................................................... 583Foreign Commerce of Russia............................................................................................... 584Commercial Speculation........................................................................................................ 61Mercantile Engagements...................................................................................................... 244Method o f Doing Business.................................................................................................... 447Mercantile Manners.............................................................................................................. 453

COMMERCIAL TABLES.

Exchange between London and the United States......................................................... 89Paris remitted to London compared with the direct remittance at sixty days’

sight............................................................................................................................... 89United States quotations of Paris at sixty days’ sight ........................................... 89Hamburgh remitted to London for negotiation, etc............................................... 91United States quotations of Hamburgh per Banco Mark....................................... 91Amsterdam remitted to London for negotiation...................................................... 92United States quotations of Amsterdam per Florin............................................... 92

MONEY TABLES.

Sovereigns compared with a Draft on London at sixty days’ sight.............................. 93Quotations of London Exchange reduced into Federal Money..................................... 93T o reduce Dollars to Pounds Sterling,............................................................................... 93Table showing the amount o f one Dollar at Compound Interest at the end o f every

year from 1 to 32................................................................................................................ 389Table showing the present value of one Dollar, from 1 to 21 years............................. 389Table showing the amount of an annuity o f one Dollar per annum, improved at

Compound Interest at the end of each year from 1 to 32.......................................... 390Table showing the present value of an Annuity o f one Dollar per annum to con.

tinue for any given number o f years from 1 to 21, reckoning Compound Interest 390Table for converting Dollars into Taels, and vice versa.................................................. 469Dry Measure Table................................................................................................................ 469Sterling Interest Table for calculating Interest on British Money for any number

of days, at any rate per cen t ....................................................................................... 470Table o f the rates of Insurance o f $100 on a single life................................................. 472Tables of Imperial Long Measure...................................................................................... 335Table o f Imperial Superficial Measure— O f Imperial Cubic or Solid Measure......... 336

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Table o f Improved Troy Weight— O f Imperial Apothecary’s W eight........................ 337Table o f Imperial Avoirdupois Weight— O f Imperial Liquid and Dry Measure........ 338Table o f Factors for converting old Measures into new, and the contrary................ 339French Measures o f Length compared with English Imperial Measure.................... 341

Do. Measures o f Surface compared with English Imperial Measure.................... 341Do. Land Measure— Measure of Capacity with Engiish Imperial Measure....... 341Do. W ood and Timber Measure— Liquid and Dry Measure.............................341, 342Do. Liquid and Dry Measures compared with Wine and Dry Measures o f the

United States...................................................................................................... 342Do. Measures o f Gravity or Weight compared with Troy Weight compared

with Avoirdupois W eight................................................................................. 342Do. Weights and Measures o f the Netherlands......................................................... 343

Weights and Measures o f the United States.................................................................... 345Universal Interest Tables...................................................................................................... 578Table for reducing Shillings, Pence, & c. to the Decimal of a Pound........................ 579Square-Yard Duty Tables for Bleached and Colored Cotton Goods.................. 580, 581

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

Arrivals at and Clearances from New York for November, 1840................................ 94Trade, Commerce, and Navigation o f the Island o f Porto Rico for 1839.................... 95Commerce o f Quebec in the years 1839 and 1840............................................................ 96Oil imported into the United States from 1815 to 1839, with price per gallon......... 97Annual Exports and Imports o f the United States from 1791 to 1840......................... 193Exports and Imports o f the United States under each Presidency.............................. 194Flour Trade o f Baltimore in 1840........................................................................................ 195Commerce o f Apilachicola from 1829 to 1840................................................................... 195Imports of Tea in the United States from 1834 to 1840.................................................. 195Arrival of Foreign Vessels at the Port o f New York in 1840....................................... 196Massachusetts Mackerel Fishery from 1831 to 1840........................... ....................... 197Canal Shipments at Buffalo of Flour, Wheat, Pork, Corn, etc., from 1837 to 1840, 197Tobacco Inspected in Philadelphia in 1839 and 1840............................. ...................... 197Arrivals of Oil into the United States in 1840.................................................................. 198Import Duties o f Great Britain............................................................................................ 198Canal Commerce o f Ohio in 1839 and 1840...................................................................... 199American Soaps, Oil, e tc ...................................................................................................... 200Exports from Russia into the United States in 1840....................................................... 200Trade and Tolls of the New Y ork Canals, from 1835 to 1840..................................... 200Relative proportion o f Cotton grown in the different States........................................... 214Millions of pounds grown in various parts of the W orld.............................. .................. 215Growth and Export o f American Cotton in each year, from 1791 to 1840................ 218Official value o f the Exports and Imports o f Great Britain for the last 82 years— 281 Price o f 3 per cent Consols, East India Company’s and Bank o f England Stock,

from 1760 to 1839.......................................................................................................... 28fCirculation of the Bank o f England in February of each year, from 1760 to 1841.. 282Number o f Bankrupts in England and Wales for each year, from 1760 to 1841........ 283Income and Expenditure o f the British Government in each year, from 1775 to

1785, and from 1792 to 1841......................................................................................... 283Table showing the average price o f standard Gold in bars, Bread, Beef, Masons

and Carpenters’ wages daily, from 1760 to 1841..................................................... 284Exports, Prices, and Stocks o f Cotton at Mobile, from 1829 to 1840.......................... 285Anthracite Coal Trade of the United States from commencement, 1820 to 1841.... 286Price of Flour in Philadelphia, from 1812 to 1840,.......................................................... 286Wholesale prices o f various articles of Merchandise in Boston, from 1812 to 1840.. 287Produce o f the Whale Fishery in New London, from 1820 to 1840............................ 287Fluctuations in Stocks in New York, at the close o f each month in the year 1840. 288Leather Trade of New York, from 1835 to 1841............................................................ 289Statistics o f the British Cotton Trade, Import, Export, and Consumption................. 289Stock o f Cotton in Great Britain at the close of the last five years.............................. 292Imports o f Cotton into Great Britain during the last seven years............................... 291Exports of Cotton from Great Britain, 1840...................................................................... 291Prices of Cotton in Great Britain on the 31st December o f each year, from 1836 to

1840................................................................................................................................... 292American Carpeting Manufactured in Danvers, Mass..................................................... 292Exports and Imports o f the New England Colonies, from 1697 to 1776.................... 353


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Value o f Imports and Exports o f New Hampshire, from 1791 to 1839........................ 354Vessels built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in each year, from 1829 to 1839........ 355Products, Resources, etc. of New Hampshire, in 1840................................................... 356Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks o f Cotton and Tobacco at New Orleans,

from October to February, 1841.................................................................................. 388Bill Circulation in Great Britain and Ireland.................................................................... 388Commerce of Honolulu in 1840............................................................................................ 388Beet Root Sugar Trade o f France....................................................................................... 391Bankruptcies in Paris in 1840.............................................................................................. 392Growth, Export, and Consumption of Coffee for the last eight years............................ 493Prices o f all descriptions o f Cotton W ool at Liverpool during the last week o f each

year, from 1837 to 1840................................................................................................. 484Commerce of the State o f New York in 1840.................................................................... 484Commercial Resources of Ohio............................................................................................. 485Flour Inspections in Baltimore, for the last forty-two years........................................... 569Product of Bread-stuffs in the United States................................................................... 571Exports o f Flour and Wheat, from 1790 to 1838............................................................. 573Commerce o f France............................................................................................................... 575Consumption o f Coal— Foreign Commerce of Canada.................................................... 576Consumption of British Goods in Italy— Commerce of Egypt...................................... 576Commerce o f Quebec for 1839 and 1840........................................................................... 577Tariff Regulations o f the State of Yucatan, adopted by the Congress......................... 274Cotton Regulations at Mobile............................................................................................... 274Inland Warehousing in the Prussian League.................................................................... 275Regulations adopted at the Fegee Islands.......................................................................... 380Regulations for Vessels destined to the Port o f Antwerp................................................ 381Health Regulations at Austrian Ports................................................................................. 381Regulations at Porto Rico...................................................................................................... 381Commercial relations of the United States with Germany............................................. 381Tariff o f Charges adopted by the Mobile Chamber o f Commerce................................. 561Method o f sending Letters for the New York Steamers.................................................. 564Tariff of the Republic of Texas............................................................................................ 564Rates of Toll on the New York Canals.............................................................................. 565

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE-----NAVIGATION.

Beacons on the Goodwin Sands............................................................................................ 98Cape of Good Hope Customs dues........................................................................................ 99British Regulations relative to Navigation of Steam Vessels.......................................... 99Harbor Regulations at Port Natal....................................................................................... 191New Light House at Stockholm.......................................................................... ............... 191Sunken Rocks near the Azore Islands................................................................................ 192Signal at Port Ostend............................................................................................................. 192New Light House at Bremen............................................................................................... 293New Light House off the Coast o f Kerry........................................................................... 283White Island Light House.................................................................................................... 293Shoal in the Mendoza Sea.................................................................................................... 294Nova Scotia Light Houses..................................................................................................... 294Scheldt Pilot Boats— Nautical Relic.................................................................................. 294T o Mariners entering the Weser.......................................................................................... 373Light House off the Mapland Sand..................................................................................... 377Proposed Light House at the Needles Point....................................................................... 377Vessels bound to Torquay...................................................................................................... 377Light Boat— Port o f Savannah............................................................................................. 378Illumination o f the Faro Lantern at Genoa....................................................................... 378Accidents to British Steam Vessels..................................................................................... 278Disasters at Sea, reported in 1840....................................................................................... 379Ice Bergs in the Southern Ocean...................... .................................................................. 379Passages of the Steam Ship Great Western in 1840....................................................... 486Passages of the Steam Ship British Queen and President in 1840............................... 486Number and description o f Vessels which passed the light boat on Bartletts Reef... 487Hamburgh Navigation— Floating Rafts on the Hudson................................................ 487Pilots of the Port of Boston— Bay o f St. Josephs, Florida............................................... 487Oriel Shoal, New Zealand— Shoal near the Equator...................................................... 48S


Rates o f Pilotage for the Port o f Baltimore.................................................. .................... 568Lights in the neighborhood o f Gottenburg......................................................................... 568

STATISTICS OF POPULATION.

Census o f each County of the State of New York in 1830 and 1840........................... 100Census of each Town and County o f Massachusetts in 1840........................................ 101Census o f each Town and County o f Connecticut in 1830 and 1840........................... 183Census o f each County o f Maryland in 1830 and 1840................................................... 184Census o f each Town and County of New Hampshire in 1830 and 1840.................... 278Population and Productions of each County o f Indiana in 1840................................... 473Population of the eighteen Provinces of China................................................................ 474Population o f the Western Reserve, Ohio.......................................................................... 475

BANK STATISTICS.

Circulation o f the Bank o f England in February o f each year, from 1760 to 1841.... 282 Amount of Capital, date of Charter, and expiration o f all the Incorporated Bank

ing Companies of New Y ork........................................................................................ 476Bank o f England— Quarterly Average, ending February, 1841................................... 477Statistics o f the Free Banks of the State o f New Y ork.................................................. 478Proportions o f Capital to Loans, and Specie to Circulation, of all Chartered Banks

in the State of New York, from 1837 to 1841................................. ........................ 480Resources and Liabilities o f the Chartered Banks o f the State o f New York, for

1840 and 1841................................................................................................................. 480Statistics o f the Boston Banks.............................................................................................. 480

STATISTICS, ETC., OF INSURANCE.

Classes of Hazards and Rates o f Premiums against loss by fire in the city o f NewY ork .................................................................................................................................. 185

Statistics o f Insurance in Massachusetts, for 1840........................................................... 489Dividends o f the Atlantic Marine Insurance Company, New York, from 1830 to

1840.................................................................................................................................... 471Economical Fire Insurance at Philadelphia...................................................................... 471Importance of Life and Fire Insurance.............................................................................. 472Table o f the rates of Insurance o f $100 on a single life................................................. 472

STATISTICS OF COINAGE.

Operations of the United States Mint in 1840................................................................... 382Coinage at the Mint of the United States at Philadelphia in the year 1840.............. 383Deposits o f Gold for Coinage at the Mint o f the United States, Philadelphia, 1840... 384 Annual amounts of deposits o f Gold for coinage at the Mint o f the United States

and branches.................................................................................................................... 384Deposits of Silver for coinage at the Mint o f the United States, Philadelphia, in

1840....... ........................................ ................................................................................... 385Amount o f coinage at the Branch Mints in the year 1840........ 385Amount o f deposits for coinage at the Branch Mints in the year 1840......................... 385Coinage of the U. S. Mint for each successive period o f ten years, from the com

mencement o f its operations, etc.................................................................................. 386Light Sovereigns...................................................................................................................... 387

RAILROAD AND CANAL STATISTICS.

Number o f Railroads in the U. States, miles in operation, total number o f miles, etc. 481Erie Canal Navigation in 1840............................................................................................ 481Amount o f Tonnage on the Erie Canal, from 1835 to 1840........................................... 482Number of Lockages at Schenectady for each month of the season o f 1840............. 482Statistics o f the Utica and Schenectady Railroad............................................................ 482Opening of the New York Canals in each year, from 1827 to 1840............................. 483Cost, Revenue, and Expenditures o f the Pennsylvania Canals and Railroads............ 567Cost of Railroads completed in the State o f New Y ork.................................................. 567

MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS.

Syllabus of the Lectures before the New York Mercantile Library Association for January and February, 1841.......................... 103

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Twentieth Annual meeting o f the New York Mercantile Library Association......... 182Eighteenth Annual Report o f the Philadelphia Mercantile Library Company........... 295Officers o f the Philadelphia Mercantile Library Company for 1841............................. 295First Annual Report of the Baltimore Mercantile Library Association....................... 295Officers o f the Baltimore Mercantile Library Association for 1841.............................. 296Officers o f the New York Mercantile Library Association for 1841............................ 296Donations to the New York Mercantile Library Association........................................ 392Our Fourth Volume— A Few Words to the Public........................................................ 104T o Readers and Correspondents— The Book Trade........................................................ 392Note the Article on the Cotton Trade............................................................................... 488Note to the Article on Imprisonment for Debt................................................................ 584

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