Sumatra, E. I., commerce and productions of 62 United States post-office, statistics of, 1858.. 282 127 115 66 66 & Brazil, new post route betw. 367 757 Vessels employed in the whale fishery...... 627 365 870 Virginia, finances of.. Tobacco trade of the United States for 1859.. 477 228 124 78,347 tobacco inspection of.. 734 223 66 public debt of..... 848 flour trade... 483 66 (leat,) exp't of, from U. States, 1859. 478 66 66 crops of Kentucky.. 66 consumption of, in the world 66 and corn at Canary Islands receipts at New Orleans for 15 years 164 (manuf..) exp't of, from U. S., 1859. 477 487 734 251 Toledo & St. Louis, comparative business of. 609 insurance in... Trade and commerce, statistics of, 66 92, 226, 352, 473, 609, 724 ins. company, action against to 590 357 Washington, on currency.... 137 772 Washoe silver mines of California.. 471 Water-gas, process of manufacture of... 378 Turkey, culture of tobacco in.. 384 Wealth, mourning.... 653 Tuscan coinage, the.... 225 Weaving, electro-magnetism applied to.............. 755 506 I. REVIEW, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL, OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY: OR, INTRODUCTION TO A MORE COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM. PART IV. The Sociology of the Greeks Considered-The Ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and Polybius, critically examined-The Famous Remarks of Solon and An- acharsis, the Scythian, briefly commented upon-Some Remarks on the Constitution of Sparta and Athens, and on their Famous Lawgivers, Lycurgus and Solon-Conclud- II. REMARKS ON LANDED CREDIT. By Wм. BROWN, of Cote des Neiges, Canada.... 42 III. CANALS OF THE UNITED STATES. A Brief View of the Canals, their past History and present State-Like Canses produce like Effects-Certainty and Celerity, with Sav- ing of Time, and this. too, every day in the year, are the Watch-words of Commerce, produced by Railways, to the Decadence of Canals. By JOSEPH E. BLOOMFIELD, Esq., IV. COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. No. LXXI. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Cincinnati the Pioneer-Laying Off-Value of the Site--Tribu- tary Territory-Advantages of a Central Situation-Population-Comparative Pop da- tion-Wealth of Cincinnati Hamilton County-Concentration of Capital-Its Accumu lation-Manufactures -Value of-Leading Items-steam Tonnage-Railroads-Cost- Mineral Region-Its Extent and Connection -Coal --Iron - Imports and Exports- V. SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND SUMATRA: THEIR COMMERCE AND PRODUC- TIONS. By THOMAS DALTON, Jr., of New York.... Decision in Admiralty on Appeal-Collision between Sailing Vessels-When Larboard Tack Decisions in Admiralty on Appeal.. Fall Business-Importations-Supply on the Market-Western Trade-Crops-Sales of Goods in the South Elements of a Demand for Material-Current of Gold-Supply in Banks- Receipts of God-Bank Discounts- nfluence of Taxes on Loans -Rise in Money-Rates for the Year-Bank Deposits-City Loan-State Loan-Kentucky Debt-Mississippi Bonds- Missouri Debt-Exchange-Sight Bills-Counter Exchange-Rates of Bills-Continental Bills-Export of Specie-Supply of Bars-Assay-office -Mint-Specio Basis at the West- National Imports and Exports-Balance due the Country-Interest due Abroad-Travelers' 70-78 City Weekly Bank Returns-Banks of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Pitts- Closing of the Port of Carthagena, New Granada.-Passports to Prussia and Germany.. Port Regulations of Havana.-Tobacco and Corn at Canary Islands... JOURNAL OF MINING, MANUFACTURES, AND ART. Comb Manufacture of Newburyport.. Formation of Diamonds. - Remains of Ancient Salt Works in the Salines of Illinois How to tell the Character of past Seasons.-African Fibrous Plants Nativities--Population of Boston and New York Men Monkeys of Malacca--Their mode of Life, Marriage, Customs, etc HUNT'S MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. JANUARY, 1860. Art. I.-REVIEW, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL, OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY:* OR, INTRODUCTION TO A MORE COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM. PART IV.t THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE GREEKS CONSIDERED-THE IDEAS OF PLATO, ARISTOTLE, AND POLYBIUS, critICALLY EXAMINED THE FAMOUS REMARKS OF SOLON AND ANACHARSIS, THE SCYTHIAN, BRIEFLY COMMENTED UPON-SOME REMARKS ON THE CONSTITUTIONS OF SPARTA AND ATHENS, AND ON THEIR FAMOUS LAWGIVERS, LYCURGUS AND SOLON-CONCLUDING GENERAL OBSERVATION. THE Greeks, as they were the first European nation to cultivate science, were also the first, in point of eminence, in scientific as well as literary attainment, among the earlier nations of Europe, and indeed all among the ancient nations. As it has been said of the modern Germans, so it may be said of the ancient Greeks, that they have left no field of literature or science unexplored. Among such a people, as might reasonably be supposed, the science of Sociology did not escape a searching investigation, at least in some of its departments. It must be admitted, however, that their sociological ideas were rather crude and imperfect, and, as the earlier ideas in every science are apt to be, for the most part, superficial. The Social Philosophy of the Greeks was predicated, almost entirely, upon the idea that the social welfare of mankind is to be attributed to political causes. With this view, they prosecuted inquiries into the science of Politics with great zeal, and, in so far as the fundamental principles of government are concerned, with considerable success, though with Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year 1859, by GEO. W. & JNO. A. Wood, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the southern district of New York. ↑ ERRATA.-Owing to the miscarriage of the author's revised proof of the previous article of this review, some typographical errors occurred that are worthy of note. On page 661, last line, "Dr. Maistre" was published for De Maistre; on page 671, sixth line, “Kamayana" for Ramayana; on page 604, seventeenth line of second paragraph, “Superior" for Supreme; on page 665, last line, commonest for communist; and other errors occurred, which, though very slight errors of type, produce very serious errors as to signification, and impediments as to the force of the author's language. |