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Commercial History of France.-3. Neckar and his Administration, by Francis
Wharton......

Commerce of Cuba...

301

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Proportion of Persons to the Population engaged in Seven Principal Employments
in the United States, as Exhibited by the Census of 1840, by Jesse Chicker-
ing, M. D...........

337

Protection to Home Interests the True Political Economy of the United States, by
C. C. Haven......

343

Morals of Trade, No. 7, by J. N. Bellows.......

348

Preferences by Insolvents.-Anonymous.....

352

Origin of Paper Money.-Translated from the French..

Life of the Hon. Joseph Hopkinson, LL. D., by Francis Wharton....

Commercial Legislation, by George S. Boutwell..........

Laws Relative to Debtor and Creditor.-Iowa Territory, by E. B. Washburne...... 443

354

397

Mehemet Ali and the Commerce of Egypt, by James Ewing Cooley.....

Resources of the United States, by James H. Lanman.........

Lights and Shadows of Mercantile Life.-3. The Merchant in his Study........... 446
Commercial Decline of Spain, by Francis Wharton.........

493

Analysis of Bookkeeping, as a Branch of General Education, by Thomas Jones.... 513
Preferring Creditors in Assignment-Its Morality....................

527

Progress of Population and Wealth, etc.-Chapters 7 and 8...........

.529, 531

Law Reform.-Reforms Requisite in Pleading, by Addison Dougherty......
Sketch of the Life and Character of Condy Raguet......

Mercantile Assumptions, by William S. Price......

Warehousing and Dock System.....

534

542

544

547

416

427

430

MERCANTILE LAW DEPARTMENT.

Digest of Recent English Cases.........

.74, 75, 76 and 77
Bills of Exchange-Notice of Dishonor-Memorandum in Writing-Princi.
pal and Agent-Arbitration-Setting aside Award-Umpire-Refusal to
hear Witnesses-Waiver-Goods Sold and Delivered-Contract-Accept-
ance and Delivery......

74

Statute of Limitations-Construction of an Agreement-Demand--Contract
-Consideration-Horse Race-Wager-Carrier-Stoppage in Transitu-
Bankruptcy-Taking Possession-Evidence-Authority-Confirmation... 75

Bill of Exchange-Irrevocable Appropriation-Equitable Assignment-Bankruptcy 376
Marine Insurance-Bills and Notes-Contract of Sale..

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Embracing a Review of the Trade, Commerce, and Currency of the United States, with

Tables, as follows:

Assets and Liabilities of the New Orleans' Banks, April 30th, 1842..
Condition of the Banks of New Orleans, April 30th, and May 28th, 1842...

77

78

Western and Southwestern Banks which paid Specie on the 15th of June, 1842.... 78

Condition of Suspended Southern Banks.........

Rates of Domestic Bills at New York at different periods in 1842..
Condition of Banks at Cincinnati in June 1841 and 1842.....

Louisiana State Debt-Biennial Reduction of Duties under the Compromise Act.... 81
Commerce between Great Britain and the United States, from 1834 to 1840, with
Tariff of Duties..........

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Exports of Domestic Produce to England in 1839 and 1840..
Exports of Foreign Goods to Great Britain.........

Comparative Prices of the Leading Articles in all the Chief Cities of the Union... 185, 186
Prices of Cotton, Flour, Beef, Pork, and Wool, for Ten Successive Years in the
New York Market

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Annual Exports of Cotton, Flour, Beef, Pork, for Twelve Years, with Export Value 188
Import of Foreign Colonial Wheat and Flour into Great Britain, at the close of the
year, from 1828 to 1841.....

189

Corn Duties of England, per Old and New Tariff...

...... 189

Wheat Entered into England, for Consumption, etc., for Four Years...........................................
Export of Flour from the United States for Seven Years.........
Population and Agricultural Products per Head in Seventeen States of the United
States........

190

190

191

Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, from January to July, in the Years
1841 and 1842.....

284

Monthly List of Prices of Flour in the Port of New York for Seven Years.......... 285
Principal Articles of Domestic Produce Exported from the United States in Six
Years

286

Aggregate Imports and Exports of the United States for Five Years....
Imports and Exports of each State and Territory for Three Years.........
Proportion per cent of the Imports into each of Six of the United States for Six
Years

286

286

287

United States' National Debt.........

288

Loans, Specie, Circulation, Deposits, etc., of the Banks of New Orleans, at different
periods.........

361

Cost, Revenue, and Expenditures of the Lines of Pennsylvania Canals and Rail-
roads..

363

United States Treasury Notes Outstanding, on the first of each month, for a Series
of Years........

365

Progress of the Debts of the States of New York and Pennsylvania........
Business of the New York State Canals from 1824 to 1842.....

. 365

366

Value of Real and Personal Estate in the City of New York, with the amount of
Taxes and Population, at different periods.....

452

Prices of Certain Articles in New York and Boston, before and after the Passage
of the Tariff of 1842.........

453

Prices of leading Agricultural Products, at New York, New Orleans, and Boston... 453
Rates of Sterling Bills in New York, from July to November, for ten years.......... 454
Wheat Imported into France, for a series of years, with the Export for 1840........ 455
Flour, Import and Export for 1840.........

455

Rates of Domestic Bills at New York, from February to November 15th..

551

Condition of Ohio Banks, September, 1842, etc.........

551

Table Showing the Imports into the United States for Twenty Years, distinguishing
the leading Ports of Entry........

553

Assessed Value of Property and Taxation in New York and Boston, for 1841 and

1842.......

554

Registered Tonnage of the United States, with the Number of Tons Entered and
Cleared, distinguishing the American from the Foreign..........

555

Imports and Exports of the United States with the British Possessions, and all parts
of the world...................

555

Tonnage Engaged in the Trade between the United States and the North American
Colonies........

556

Value of Imports and Exports of the United States with the British American Colo-
nies........

556

Agricultural Products Exported from the United States in 1840......
Import of Gypsum from the Colonies into the United States, with the Aggregate

557

Import and Export.......

557

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

Commerce and Tonnage of the United States...............................

98

193

194

Exports and Imports of the United States, at four successive periods....
Commerce and Navigation of the United States, from 1830 to 1840.....
Amount of Imports and Exports, American and Foreign Tonnage, annually enter-
ed and cleared in the United States, from the year 1821 to the year 1830........ 198
Value of Cargoes carried by American and Foreign Vessels, for a series of years... 199
Ratio of Tonnage, American and Foreign, to value of Cargoes in three different
years.......

200

Number of Enrolled and Licensed Vessels, built in the United States, etc., for sev-
eral years........

200

Manufactures of Wool, Cotton, Silk, Teas, Coffee, Sugar, and Glass, imported into
the United States, in each year, from 1823 to 1840........
Statistical Sketch of the Commerce and Navigation of the United States, for 1841..388-389
Commerce and Navigation of New Orleans, for 1842.....

.289-292

390

Exports of Cotton and Tobacco from New Orleans, for 1842..

390

Exports of Sugar and Molasses from New Orleans, for 1842......

390

Receipts of the Principal Articles of Produce at New Orleans, from the interior,
during the year commencing Sept. 1, 1841, and ending Aug. 31, 1842.....
Monthly Arrivals at New Orleans, for 1842.....

Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks of Cotton and Tobacco at New Orleans,
for ten years...

Exports of Flour, Pork, Bacon, Lard, Beef, Lead, Whiskey, and Corn, from New
Orleans, for 1842....

391

391

391

392

Commerce and Navigation of Rio de Janeiro, for a series of years...
Revenues of the Customs and Consulados of the Empire of Brazil...

393

394

Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States, exhibiting the value of Im-
ports from, and Exports to, each Foreign Country, for 1841.......

481

Statement of the Commerce of each State and Territory of the United States for
1841..........

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Tonnage of the several districts of the United States on the 30th Sept., 1841......... 558
Navigation of each State, etc., of the United States, for 1841....

560

Tonnage entered the United States-American and Foreign, 1841...
Tonnage Cleared the United States, etc., 1841.........

560

561

United States Imports, Exports, and Consumption of Sugar, from 1821 to 1842..... 562

Value of Imports and Exports, annually, from 1821 to 1841......

Receipts into the Treasury of the United States, annually, from Customs, from 1821
to 1842...

563

563

Value of Bullion and Specie, Imported and Exported, from 1821 to 1841......
Cotton Crop of the United States......

.... 563

564

564

Growth, Export, Consumption, etc., of Cotton, for 1842...

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

Rates of Freight and Passage on Lake Erie, for 1842.......

95

Legal Weights and Measures of Greece-Bank Law of Greece.......

Rates of Pilotage for Tibee Bar and River Savannah..............
Russian Tariff, of Import and Export Duties, for 1842.....

Tariff of Foreign Gold and Silver Coins, permitted to circulate in Greece.........

Tariff of Import and Export Duties of Greece...............

96

97

113

115

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Tariff of Sweden on the Principal Articles of Import........

296

British Tariff or Duties of Customs, payable on Merchandise, etc., imported into the
United Kingdom from Foreign parts....

367

Corrections to the Tariff of Brazil......

388

Tariff or Rates of Duties payable on Goods, Wares, etc., imported into the United

States from and after the 30th day of August, 1842, according to an Act of Con-
gress of that date...........

457

Rates at which Foreign money and currency are taken at the Customhouse..

481

Tares allowed by Law at the Customhouse.......

481

Export Duties on the growth and Produce of the Empire of Morocco....

482

BANK AND COINAGE STATISTICS.

Price of Bank Notes at Philadelphia, for twenty-eight years, from 1814 to 1841

91, 92, 93, 94

Bank of France-Its operations during the first three months of 1842..
Bank Law of Greece......

95

119

Cost of Coinage at the United States Mint and its branches....

88

Coinage of the Branch Mints of the United States.........
Deposits for Coinage at the United States Mint and its branches, since 1824..... 90

89

MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES.

Exchange at Manchester, in England, in the Nineteenth Century...

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Complete Tabular Statements of the Population of every State and Territory of the
United States, as taken by each Decennial Census, since 1790......... .31, 132, 241
Population of each County in the State of New York for 1840....
Population of each County in the State of New Jersey for 1840....

85

86

86

87

88

Proportion of Persons to the Population engaged in Seven Principal Employments
in the United States.........

337

Population of each County in the State of Delaware for 1840.......
Population of each County in the State of Pennsylvania for 1840...
Population of each County in the State of Maryland for 1840....

88

BOOK TRADE.

Morris's Tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Arabia Petræa, etc..

103

Tappan's Poems and Lyrics.....

103

Sparks's Life of Washington.-Butler's Works.-Mexico in 1842..

104

Sorin's Domestic Circle, or Moral and Social Duties........

104

Perkins's Chitty on Contracts.-Channing's Duty of the Free States.

105

Chandler's Bankrupt Law.-History of Mary Smith...

105

Holdich's Life of Fisk.-Harris's Great Commission.-Tracey's Great Awakening. 106
Brewer's Wilson's American Ornithology..

106

Hull's Jahr's Manual of Homœopathic Practice.-Cincinnati in 1841.........

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Burnett's Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England........... 202

Lover's Handy Andy.-Howitt's Little Coin, Much Care, etc......

202

Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1842..
Hooper's (Lucy) Poetical Remains.—Sears's Bible Biography.
Holmes's Homœopathy and its Kindred Delusions........

202

203

203

Murray's Inward and Experimental Evidences of Christianity.....
Bryant's Fountain and other Poems.....

203

203

Olmsted's Life and Writings of Ebenezer Porter Mason......
Whateley's Elements of Logic..........................

204

204

Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines........
Downing's Cottage Residences, or Designs for Cottages, etc...
Talfourd's Critical and Miscellaneous Writings......
Adams's Christian Triumph.-Emma, or the Lost Found.....
Whateley's Elements of Rhetoric..........

Liebig's Animal Chemistry.-Tassistro's Random Shots, etc..
Johnston's Elements of Agriculture, Chemistry, and Geology..
Harpers' Library of Select Novels.......

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