Value of Imports and Exports, annually, from 1821 to 1841... 563 Receipts into the Treasury of the United States, annually, from Customs, from 1821 563 Value of Bullion and Specie, Imported and Exported, from 1821 to 1841........... 563 564 Growth, Export, Consumption, etc., of Cotton, for 1842... 561 Legal Weights and Measures of Greece-Bank Law of Greece....... Greek Commercial Consulates in Foreign Countries.... COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Rates of Freight and Passage on Lake Erie, for 1842....... 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...... Tariff of Importation into Brazil......... 95 96 97 113 115 124, 125, 126 129 292 Commercial Relations of Sweden with the United States... 295 Tariff of Sweden on the Principal Articles of Import...... 296 British Tariff or Duties of Customs, payable on Merchandise, etc., imported into the 367 Corrections to the Tariff of Brazil.......... 388 Tariff or Rates of Duties payable on Goods, Wares, etc., imported into the United 457 Rates at which Foreign money and currency are taken at the Customhouse.......... 481 481 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 Bank of France-Its operations during the first three months of 1842.. Coinage of the Branch Mints of the United States......... MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES. Exchange at Manchester, in England, in the Nineteenth Century.. Complete Tabular Statements of the Population of every State and Territory of the 88888 85 86 86 Population of each County in the State of Pennsylvania for 1840... 87 Proportion of Persons to the Population engaged in Seven Principal Employments 337 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.. 104 104 Perkins's Chitty on Contracts.-Channing's Duty of the Free States.. 105 105 Holdich's Life of Fisk.—Harris's Great Commission.-Tracey's Great Awakening. 106 106 Hull's Jahr's Manual of Homœopathic Practice.-Cincinnati in 1841................. 107 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........ 202 202 203 203 Murray's Inward and Experimental Evidences of Christianity.. Olmsted's Life and Writings of Ebenezer Porter Mason.. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines..... 203 203 204 204 204 298 298 298 298 Liebig's Animal Chemistry.-Tassistro's Random Shots, etc.. 299 299 299 De Veauri's Traveller's Own Book........ 299 Ewbank's Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and other Machines for James's History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince........ 394 Burnett's History of the Reformation of the Church of England.......... 395 Frost's Book of the Navy.-Young's Introduction to the Science of Government... 395 Dunlop's History of Fiction........ Kane's Elements of Chemistry...... Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion...... Wright's Breakfast Table Science......... American Almanac for 1843.-United States Almanac for 1843.... Laws of the States relative to Imprisonment for Debt.-Self-Control...................... The Gift for 1843.-Christian Souvenir for 1843.-The Rose of Sharon for 1843.... 488 489 490 490 Willard's History of the United States.-Julia of Baiæ, or the Days of Nero........ 491 491 491 492 Renwick's Natural Philosophy.-Self-Devotion.-Nabob at Home, etc........... 572 Collins's Miscellanies.-Chapin's Discourses on Various Subjects....... 572 Ursuline Manual.-Christian Observer.-Parley's Young American....... 575 HUNT'S MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. JULY, 1842. ART. I.-COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE COMMERCE OF FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES, FROM 1827 TO 1836.* THE destiny of those nations of the present day who have made the furthest advances in civilization is connected in the most intimate manner with their commercial prosperity. Commerce is the most fertile source of wealth, and, consequently, of power; but the great and important interests which have become the subjects of daily discussion, cannot be thoroughly and completely understood, unless the facts connected with the questions are clearly stated and exhibited under their various forms, so that all their relations may at once be perceived. The great task, that of collecting and arranging such facts, necessarily devolves upon government, by whom alone the necessary knowledge of them can be obtained. Having had occasion formerly to deplore the scantiness of such materials, and to complain of the reserve with which power dispensed the light of which it alone had possession, we have now the pleasure of lauding the facilities readily afforded in the present day in France, to any inquiries into the causes and progress of our national prosperity. In its relations to the public, the administration of the customhouse has emancipated itself from the trammels imposed upon it under the "Empire," and which were carefully preserved by the "Restoration;" it has ceased, to the great advantage of the state, to shut up from public view the important facts which it daily collects. Superintending one of the branches of the public revenue, it has the means of verifying and comparing the acts of commerce, the movements of which are submitted to its inspection. The system of which the customhouse is the agent, does not appertain to For this able and interesting article, which we have translated from the French, we are indebted to the politeness of M. D. L. Rodet, its distinguished author, from whom we received a copy of it as originally published in the Revue des Deux Mondes. |