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COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

Ships sailed from the Port of Alexandria, Egypt, in 1849..

Commerce of Alexandria, Egypt, in 1849...

Exports, quantity and value, from Alexandria to Austria, England and France, in 1849..

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Imports into Alexandria from Austria, England and France, in 1849.

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Imports into Alexandria from Tuscany, Turkey, and Syria, in 1849.

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Total Imports into Alexandria in 1849..

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Value of the Imports and Exports of Alexandria to, and from, each Foreign Country..
Agricultural and other Productions of Cuba in 1849..

561

Exports of Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Honey, Wax, Tobacco, Segurs, &c.. in each Year, from 1824 to 1849......

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Exports of Sugar, Coffee, and Molasses from Matanzas, in each Year, from 1830 to 1849, inclusive 562 Exports of Produce from Havana in 1849.....

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A Complete Statistical View of the Railways of New York in 1849.

Boston and Worcester Railroad....

Statistics of the South Carolina Railroad for 1849.

Railway Guide for the New England States.....

Camden and Amboy Steamboat and Railroad Lines..

JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE.

Debts and Finances of the State of Ohio in 1849....

The New System of Assessing Taxes in Ohio...

Leading Features of the New York City Banks on the 30th of March, 1850..

Boston Banks, Dividends, Semi-annual, payable in April, 1850..

United States Treasury Notes outstanding, April 1, 1850....

Bank Dividends of South Carolina in 1849.............

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Banks and Bank Capital of Connecticut in 1849..

Counterfeit American Gold Coin....

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

An Act of Massachusetts Relating to Alien Passengers...

An Act of New York to Restrain Short Measure in the Sale of Dry Goods....

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Of Distilled Spirits, Wines and Teas: a Treasury Circular to Officers of Customs in the U. States 576

JOURNAL OF MINING AND MANUFACTURES.

Manufacturing Establishments in Massachusetts....

Manufacture of Cotton in Mississippi......

Supplies of Iron sent from Interior of Pennsylvania in 1848 and 1849.

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Difference between Iron and Steel...

How Axes are Made...

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Shoals in Main Ship Channel of Nantucket.

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The American Packet-Ship "Star of the West.-African Slave Trade..
Effects of the Repeal of the English Navigation Laws..

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THE BOOK TRADE.

Notices of 29 New Works or New Editions...

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HUNT'S

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

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COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

MAY, 1850.

Art. I. GERMAN NOTICES OF CALIFORNIA.

CALIFORNIA is at present the object of attention and interest throughout the world. Even though its metallic riches should not produce such effects upon commerce, civilization and government, as are now anticipated, still its sudden rise and rapidly increasing influence are of not the less immediate importance. Upon a remote and hitherto almost unpeopled and ungoverned region, adventurers from every people, nation and tongue under heaven have already, as it were within a moment of time, swarmed into a polyglot population of many thousands. Merchants and bankers, politicians and philosophers, are speculating upon the destinies of a new and mighty nation, whose first act of sovereignty the Congress of the United States are about to sanction and confirm. It has already opened a new outlet for surplus population-made new marts for commerce--stimulated mechanical industry to new invention, and may, for aught we know, lay the foundation of an entirely original and national architecture. For in a country thus extemporaneously settled, a style of building must be immediately adopted which shall be suited alike to the peculiarity of climate and the pursuits of the inhabitants. It must therefore be decidedly utilitarian, and also unique and original. On this side of the continent we have no such characteristic. Our buildings, public and private, present a conglommerate of every style and order which has ever been known. The heavy roofless Egyptian mixing with the arched-groined and pointed Gothic, while the brighter fronts of Italy are often broken and overshadowed by the wiry galleries and scooped cornice of the Chinese.

Apart from its physical properties and present condition, the future destiny of the new realm has already become the theme of philosophical speculation, not only to the blunt English and mercurial French, but also to the more staid and considerate German. Among the notices of California of the latter class there has recently (in 1849) been published at Berlin a paper upon the Present and Future (Gegenwart und Zukunft) of California,

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by A. J. Hoppe, accompanied by an essay upon its climate, and the geographical position of all the gold regions hitherto discovered, by A. Erman, Professor in the Academy of Sciences, at Berlin. Professor Erman is known as the author of a voyage round the world, two volumes of which have already been translated into English, and has for the last twenty years given a great portion of his attention to the study of the physical constitution, natural history, productions, commerce and capabilities of Northern Asia and Russian America, extending his researches on the American continent as far southward as lower California. A long residence in Siberia, though chiefly employed in making magnetic observations, has enabled him to acquire extensive information concerning the Asiatic part of the Russian empire, and to collect and prepare a great number of papers, historic, scientific and statistic, in relation to these immense and little known countries, their resources, productions, and the state of their industry and trade. sonsiderations have, as a matter of necessity, been avoided altogether. the collection of these informations, Professor Erman has been aided by the Minister of Finance of the Russian government, and has already published, under the title of "Archiv von wissenschaftlicke Kunde von Russland,"Archives of Scientific Knowledge of Russia-400 papers upon these subjects. The publication already makes eight volumes, of about 700 pages each. The part of it which we have seen (about half of the sixth volume) contains the following papers which will sufficiently indicate the character of the whole work. "Odessa in the years 1845, 1846 and 1847." "Notice of Lieut. Sagoskin's travels and discoveries in Russian America. History of Muridism in the Caucassian Country. Industrial statistics of the government of Wladimir. A subterranean forest in Courland. Sketch of the north side of the Caucassus. Steam navigation on the Wolga. The Turkish patois in Southern Siberia. Poetry of the Fins. Review of Russian literature. The Russian colony Ross in New California. Mahomedan Numismatics in relation to Russian history. The climate of the Russian empire. Teeth of mammoth crocodile (riesigen Saurier) found on the western slope of the Ural." As a part of these papers (now published separately) appear the treatise first mentioned, on the Present and Future of California, and the essay of Professor Erman upon the climate of California and gold regions in general.

These papers are by different authors, and are now collected under the title of Archives of Scientific Knowledge of Russia," by Professor Erman, Professor Schott, and Mr. T. J. Lowe. Professor Schott is well known for his philological acquirement, and extensive knowledge of Oriental history and literature. To us at the present time the papers upon California will be of greatest interest, particularly as they seem to be written with more care and better information than any previous account of that country. We propose, therefore, to give a brief outline of the two principal treatises, referring to the works themselves for farther particulars.

This is a statistical account of the City, its population, commerce, manufactures and revenues. + Muridism is a new sect of Islamism, founded in 1823, by Chas or Gasi Mahomed, a native of Jaragh, in the Aslan country. The name of the sect is from an Asiatic word, Murid, signifying “seeker of the right way." In 1830 the sect numbered eight thousand. They were exterminated in 1832, having kept the Russian forces at bay for nearly two years.

The title of the Æneid of the Fins is Kalewala.

Ross is a Russian settlement, founded in 1812, about 60 leagues north of San Francisco. tained in 1840 about 800 Asiatics.

It con

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