PAGE. P. PAGE. on... 66 port of.. 6 66 Pacific telegraph, account of........ 157 Q. 428 161 167 49 360 R. 54 Railroad, canal, & telegraph statistics, 292 73, 217, 299,462, 546 315 communication betw'n New York and Washington.. 73 Erie, earnings, expenses, &c. 1852-1861.... 470 Erie, report of receiver.... 465 Illinois Central, annual re- 463 to Lake Superior... 547 272 in United States, earnings 217 for February and March, 548 86 303 in Chili... 301 in Connecticut... 73 75 in Pennsylvania.. 471 io Peru.. 217 218 in the world, length & cost 197 462 225 218 182 182 315 70 428 408 Religion of paying debts... 472 Revenue of the U. States post-offices. 77 Review of an article "what is money.” 234 49 of the saltpetre trade of 1861 452 591 16 Rights of belligerents in British ports 484 52 337 Rope, important tests of wire.. 556 67 409 329 208 each frontier, years 1853-59 456 railways in.... 218 563 401 S. 172 540 St. Paul, Minn., exports of, 1861..... 287 Mass.. 194 315 77 PAGE. ocean. ered in.... G PAGE, 151 Tartary, cotton culture of..... 272 304 “ manufacture of.... 556 162 cable, the Atlantic... 302 the Chesapeake, cable laid 546 experiments... 160, 299 extension on the Pacific.. 161 475 ..... 61, 159 274 tariff, the Californian... 157 16 299 89 Co., expenses of.. 547 Pacific.... 157 to India, 222 69 291 182 Tide water deliveries of the canals.. 213 189 Tobacco trade of New York........ 208 historical, statistical, diplo. 190 513 170 Tools for working in iron.... 495 321 Trade and commerce, statistics of, 128 82, 208 273, 357, 449, 574 321 of Buffalo.... 368 of Boston.... 281 of Chicago 182, 363 of San Fran- cisco.... 357 of Toledo.... 365 283, 210 with China, Japan and the 544 155 of New Orleans for year ending 472 March 1, 1862.... 545 508 76 399 pote and loan bill.. 477 notes by the cart-load... 293 80 regulations, trade on the Cumberland and Tenn.. 481 175 69 “ Trent,” facts as to stoppage of..... 1 270 195 U. 82 Uniformity of postage, advantages of 448 191 rights of bel'gerents 479 in the ports of.... 484 381 United States and China, convention between, for the ad- justment of claims.. 483 prospec- 90 tive... 391 66 PAGR. PAGE, United States, failures in 1861..... 316 Vessels, arrivals of, at N. Y., 1851-61 273 of, at Philadelphia... 285 recovery of sunken.. 70 directors, with his- tory, coinage, etc. . 247 W. 475 53 of U. States... 187 origin, &c., of.. 349 221 73 94 Western Bank, of Missouri, semi-an- .290, 291 449 Wheat exports of U. S., 1841-1861. 449 trade of France, 1841-1861... 449 307 trade of G. Britain, 1841-61.. 449 84 362 flax and cotton flax. trade of Great Britain.. 449 573 93 jackets, duty on. 52 66 87 GEORGE W. Wood, Printer, No. 2 Dutch Street, N. Y. THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. JANUARY, 1862. INTERNATIONAL LAW VS. THE TRENT AND SAN JACINTO. PACTS AS TO SAILING AND ARREST OF MESSES. MABON AND SLIDELL-PRINCIPLES MORE SatisPACTORY AUTHORITY THAN PRECEDENTS-NATURAL JUSTICE THE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL Law-THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENCE AND THE DUTY OF NEUTRALS NOT TO BENEFIT EITHER BELLIGERENT NATURALLY FLOW FROM IT-THE SUBJECT OF CONTRABAND OF WAR A NECESSARY CONCLESIOx—THE RIGHT OF VI8IT AND SEARCH, IN TIME OF WAR, CLEARLY FOLLOWS—THE ACT OP THE CAPTAIN OF THE TRENT IN ALLOWING MESSRS. MASON AND SLIDELL TO TAKE PASBAGE ON HIS VESSEL A GROSS VIOLATION OF THE ABOVE PRINCIPLES-STILL THEIR REMOVAL BY CAPTAIN WILKES WAS WRONG-WE MUST DELIVER TIEM UP TO ENGLAND IF SIIE PROPERLY DEMANDS IT OF US-WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES NOT TO ALLOW SUCH A CASE TO STAND AS A PRECEDENT-ENGLAND SHOULD BE CALLED UPON TO MAKR REPARATION FOR THE ACT OF TIK CAPTAIN OF THE TRENT IN ALLOWING THESE COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE PASSAGE ON IS VEAEEL, &c. The seizure of Messrs. Mason and SLIDELL has given rise to many questions of international law, and their arrest on and removal from an English vessel has been made a ground of complaint by Great Britain. These individuals were once Senators of the United States. For the past few months, however, they have been engaged in a traitorous conspiracy to overthrow the government of which they are subjects, and in furtherance of that object have, with others, formed a government of their own, which has been recognised by England and France as a belligerent power. When arrested they were on their way to Europe, on board the Trent, (a merchant vessel carrying the mail and belonging to persons subjects of the Queen of Great Britain,) as commissioners of the government they had thus helped to form, and for the purpose of obtaining the assistance of European nations in their treasonable endeavors. They first fled from the United States to Havana, and there, after making known their object and position, took passage and were received on the Trent, VOL. XLVI.-NO. I. 1 |