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NEW YORK: FREEMAN HUNT, No. 142 FULTON STREET. BOSTON: FETRIDGE & Co., REDDING CO., and CROY VICHOLS, PHILADELPHIA: W. B. ZIEBER AND J. R-NEVER-UOVO. MORGAN.

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I. DEBTS AND FINANCES OF THE STATES OF THE UNION: WITH REFERENCE
TO THEIR GENERAL CONDITION AND PROSPERITY.-CHAPTER VIII.-THE
WESTERN STATES-MICHIGAN. By THOMAS PRENTICE KETTELL, Esq., of New York.. 131
II. THE UNION OF THE SEAS.-Land Routes to the Pacific. By CORA MONTGOMERY...., 146
III. TEA: AND THE TEA TRADE.-PART II.-BY GIDEON NYE, Esq., Merchant of Canton.... 155
IV. THE ENGLISH STOCK EXCHANGE.-Francis' Chronicles and Characters of the Stock
Exchange.-First Political Hoax on Record.-Sketch of the Life of Thomas Guy.-Samp-
son Gideon, the Great Jew Broker.--Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid, Brokers.-Last
Crisis in the Stock Exchange.-Morals and Manners of the Stock Exchange....

173

V. CULTURE AND MANUFACTURE OF COTTON: To the Editor, in reply to an article by Mr. A. A. Lawrence, published in the November number of this Magazine. By Gen. C. T. JAMES, Civil Engineer of Rhode Island....

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VL. "BANKRTPTCY-BANKING" a Letter to the Editor, in reply to "G. B.," in a former number of this Magazine. By FRANCIS G. SHAW, Esq.

195

MERCANTILE LAW CASES.

Points in Mercantile Law: Barbour's Chancery Reports..

Usury: as to Rights of Third Persons.......

Life Insurance-Administrators-Action on Joint Contracts--Bills of Exchange-Rights of

Endorsers....

Re-insurance.--Of the Right to tax United States Property within the States.
Action to Recover for personal Injury by Collision of Railroad Cars.....

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COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW:

EMBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW of the united states, ETC., ILLUSTRATED WITH TABLES, ETC., AS FOLLOWS:

Demand for Money-Rate of Interest--Progress of the Free Banking System of New York-Securities in the Hands of the Controller-Comparative Circulation of the Free and Safety Fund Banks of New York-Amount of California Gold Received here and in England-Accumulation of Coin in London, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and New Orleans-Supplies of Gold affecting the Currency of the World-Bills Introduced into Congress for creation of Mints in California and New York--The Benefits of the Warehousing System-Operations in Real Estate-Usury Laws-Shipments of Merchandise on Pennsylvania Canal five last Years--Exports of United States for four past Years-Exports of Cotton from United States for four past Years-Destination of Cotton-Comparative Receips of Cotton, etc....

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COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

Foreign and Coastwise arrivals of Vessels at Port of New York in 1849....

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Commerce with California-Number of Vessels left Different Ports of the United States for California to Close of 1849....

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Reduction of Expenses of Collecting Revenue from Customs: a Treasury Circular..

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Of Frauds upon the Revenue by Foreign Shippers: a Treasury Circular to Collectors of Customs. 216 New Orleans Tariff of Insurance Premiums........

Of the Assessment of Duties on Merchandise Imported into the United States..

Commercial Privileges of Cardenas, Cuba..

New Orleans Levee and Wharfage Dues..

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NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Laurel Shoal.-Light-house on Cape Sierra Leone..

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Vessels Passing Tuckernuck Shoal in 1849.............

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Discovery of a New Shoal or Ledge of Rocks.-Light-house at the Foz of the Douro............. Light on Minot's Ledge, or Cohasset Rocks.--Light-house, Lake Erie....

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JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE.

Condition of all the Banks of Ohio, November 1, 1849.......

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The Ohio Bank Agency: Established at Cincinnati for the Regulation of Exchanges..

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Cotton Manufactures of Massachusetts-kind of goods-quantity, etc....
Woolen and Miscellaneous Manufactures of Massachusetts...

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Business of the Little Miami Railroad, from 1845 to 1849 inclusive,.

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Consumption of Coal in Steam-Furnaces.-Pathfinder Railway Guide..

244

MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES.

Mercantile Library Association of New York: an Abstract of 29th Annaal Report of Directors... 246 Letter from Paris Chamber of Commerce: and Resolutions of Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia relating to the Merchants' Magazine........

Position and Prospects of the Cotton Trade......

Influence of Commerce upon Civilization.-Goodrich's History of all Nations..

THE BOOK TRADE.

Notices of 34 New Works, or New Editions of Old Works.......

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