MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT,

EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON
STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, PHILA-
DELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, CHARLESTON, AND

CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME TWENTY-THREE.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1850.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1850.

CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

NATHAN ALLAN, M. D. of Massachusetts.

DAVID M. BALFOUR, ESQ., Merchant, of Massachusetts.

G. M. BELL, Esq., Bank Manager-Author of "The Philosophy of Joint Stock Banking," etc., of England.

SAMUEL BEMAN, Esq., of New York.

ABNER BENEDICT, ESQ., of the New York Bar.

HON. ALEXANDER BRADFORD, Surrogate, of New York.

E. H. DERBY, Esq., of Massachusetts.

HON. A. C. FLAGG, late Controller of the State of New York.

DAVID FOSDICK, A. M., of Massachusetts.

J. GARDENER, Esq., Merchant, of Rio de Janeiro.

DAVID R. JAQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar.

A. B. JOHNSON, Esq., President of the Ontario (Branch) Bank-Author of " Treatise on Banking, etc."

THOMAS P. KETTELL, ESQ., of New York.

SAMUEL MARTIN, A. M., of London, England.

C. F. M'Cay, of the University of Georgia.

A. NASH, ESQ., of the New York Bar.

J. S. ROPES, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts.

EZRA C. SEAMAN, of the United States Treasury Department, Author of Essays on the "Progress of Nations in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population, Wealth," etc.

JUNIUS SMITH, Esq., of South Carolina.

HENRY STOCKBRIDGE, ESQ., of the Baltimore Bar.

RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of New York.

WILLIAMI J. TENNEY, Esq., of New Jersey, and

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor of the Merchants' Magazine, etc.