THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE, AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT. VOLUME IX. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1843. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. MDCCCXLIII. INDEX-VOLUME IX. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1843. ORIGINAL PAPERS, ETC. Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, with a review of the past and present condition of the Polynesian Groups generally, in connection with their relations to Commerce and Christianity, by James Jackson Jarvis, author of the "History of the Hawaiian Islands," Internal Trade of the United States, by J. W. Scott, of Ohio,...... Progress of Population and Wealth in the United States, in Fifty Years, as exhibited by the Decennial Census taken in that period, by Professor George Tucker, of the University of Virginia 15 31 Chapter XXI.-Increase of Wealth in the United States,....... 509 A Protective System-Its Expediency and Necessity, by Hon. Charles Hudson, of Massachusetts,...... 58 Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands-Their Commerce and Agriculture-Their ProspectsTheir Chief Towns-Seizure by Lord George Paulet, by James J. Jarvis,.......... 111 Our Railways, by W. R. Casey, Civil Engineer of New York,......... 144 Inland Navigation of the State of New York, with a short account of its origin, and of the Trade and Tonnage of the Erie Canal, by Henry S. Dexter, Civil Engineer of New York,... 148 Commerce of the Mississippi, by James H. Lanman, author of the "History of Michigan,".... 154 Free Trade: Mr. Woodbury's Views of the Tariff, by J. B. Fisher,.... 161 167 Story on Bills of Exchange, Guaranty of Bills, and Letters of Credit,.. 169 Debts and Tariffs of the South of Europe, by Francis Wharton, of Pennsylvania,... 207 Usury and the Usury Laws, by J. O'Connell, of New York,.......... 243 Letter to Cotton Manufacturers, by Henry Lee, of Massachusetts,.... 253 Maritime Law, No. 1: The Doctrine of Lien, with reference to the Law of Shipping, by Alanson Nash, Counsellor at Law, New York,......... 261 ....................... Salem East India Marine Society,... 266 Sketches of Commercial Legislation: Chartering of the late Bank of the United 303 Impending Revolutions in the Commercial Intercourse of the World, by Hon. H. Letter to Cotton Manufacturers, by Henry Lee, of Massachusetts,....... 351 358 Meteorological Observations at Sea, by James Mease, M. D., of Pennsylvania,....... 365 366 399 Massachusetts and her Resources, by Hon. Charles Hudson, of Massachusetts,. 418 436 Our Shipping, by James H. Lanman,.. 444 |