THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON VOLUME TWENTY-TWO. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1850. New York: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1850. CONTRIBUTORS. TO THE TWENTY-SECOND VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. DAVID M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts. GEORGE BACON, Esq., of New York. Edmund Dwight, Esq., of New York. DAVID FOSDICK, A. M., of Massachusetts. JAMES FERGUSON, Esq., of the National Observatory, Washington, D. C. WILLIAM GREGG, Esq., of South Carolina. General C. T. JAMES, Civil Engineer of Rhode Island. JOHN B. JERVIS, Esq., Civil Engineer of New York. THOMAS P. KETTELL, Esq., of New York. A. A. LAWRENCE, Merchant, of Massachusetts. JOSHUA LEAVITT, Secretary of the Boston Cheap Postage Association. C. EDWARDS LESTER, Esq., late United States Consul at Genoa. Professor C. F. M'CAY, of the University of Georgia. Rev. SAMUEL MARTIN, of London, England. A. NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. GIDEON NYE, Jr., Merchant, of China. Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of the Charleston (S. C.) Bar. J. S. ROPES, Merchant, of Massachusetts. FRANCIS G. SHAW, Merchant, of Massachusetts. RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of New York. Hon. B. G. SHIELDS, late Charge d'Affaires at Caraccas, Venezuela. JUNIUS SMITH, Esq., of South Carolina, and FREEMAN HUNT, Editor, etc. The names of the contributors are appended to the titles of the several articles, in the table of contents on the first page of each number, except such as have been prepared or adopted by the Editor. INDEX TO VOL. XXII., FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1850. A. Act of New York relating to Short Measure.. 576 Banks of State of New York, condition of 92, 443 "of Ohio taxing Banking Companies.. Action to recover Money Loaned... Administrators (law case). Africa, Liverpool trade with. 66 675 African Slave Trade....... Agricultural and other productions of Cuba.. 561 Railway Guide........... Ardnamurchan, Light-house on................. in Ohio, tax on the profits of......... 103 Securities for free circulat'n of N. York 201 condition of Ohio......... 222 66 66 66 446 66 Austria, exports from Alexandria, Egypt, to. 556 66 582 history of Savings, of England.. condition of Charleston.. Banking, remarkable incident in.. 660 514 451 B. Baltimore, vessels arrived and cleared in 1849 332 |