BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. PUBLISHED MONTHLY, At 142 Fulton-street, New York-at Five Dollars per annum, in Advance. The "MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW" will continue to include in its design every subject connected with COMMERCE, Manufactures, anD POLITICAL ECONOMY, as-COMMERCIAL LEGISLATION, COMMERCIAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY; MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY; Essays from the ablest pens on the leading topics of the day, relating to COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS; DESCRIPTIVE, STATISTICAL, AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE VARIOUS COMMODITIES WHICH FORM THE SUBJECT OF MERCANTILE TRANSACTIONS; PORT CHARGES; TARIFFS; CUSTOMS AND COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS; TREATIES; COMMERCIAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, and the different countries of the world with which we have intercourse, including their PHYSICAL CHARACTER, POPULATION, PRODUCTIONS, EXPORTS, IMPORTS, SEAPORTS, MONEYS, WEIGHTS, MEASURES, FINANCE AND BANKING ASSOCIATIONS;-ENTERPRISES connected with COMMERCE, embracing FISHERIES, INCORPORATED COMPANIES, RAILROADS, CANALS, STEAMBOATS, DOCKS, POST OFFICES, &c.; PRINCIPLES OF COMMERCE, FINANCE AND BANKING, WITH PRACTICAL AND HISTORICAL DETAILS AND ILLUSTRATIONS; COMMERCIAL LAW AND MERCANTILE LAW REPORTS, and Decisions OF COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, including INSURANCE, PARTNERSHIP, PRINCIPAL AND AGENT, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, SALE, GUARANTY, BANKRUPTCY, SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION, &c., and whatever else shall tend to develop the resources of the country and the world, and illustrate the various topics bearing upon COMMERCE AND COMMERCIAL LITERATURE; and we may venture to say that no work heretofore published, embraces in its pages so large an amount of information on all these subjects, as the nineteen volumes now completed. Our means of enhancing the value of "THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMercial_Review," are constantly increasing; and, with new sources of information, an extending correspondence abroad, and other facilities, which nearly ten years' devotion to a single object have enabled us to make available, we shall be able to render the work a perfect vade mecum for the Merchant, Navigator, and Manufacturer, as well as to the Statesman, Commercial Lawyer, and Political Economist, and, indeed, all who desire information on the multifarious operations of business life. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. From Hon. Samuel R. Betts, U. S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. "I have received the Merchants' Magazine since its establishment, and regard it as one of the most valuable publications of the day. As a Register of Facts connected with Political Economy and Industrial Interests, Commercial, Agricultural, and Manufacturing, it is, in my judgment, not equalled by any work of its size and cost, in fullness and accuracy; and its collection of Cases and Doctrines in relation to Maritime Law, will be found highly useful to professional men-often furnishing American and English cases of great value, which are not to be found in any other publication. I most cheerfully recommend the work as useful in a high degree, to all professions studying the current history of the times." From Hon. Henry Clay, Ashland, Kentucky. "I have long known the great merits of your Magazine, the most useful and valuable of all the publications known to me, published in the United States." From the Hon. Levi Woodbury, one of the Justices of the United States Court. "I have heretofore read most of the numbers of the Merchants' Magazine with much satisfaction and advantage. It is exceedingly useful to the politician and scholar, as well as those engaged in commercial pursuits, to have the useful statistical information with which it abounds, collected together and presented for their perusal seasonably." From Hon. John Macpherson Berrien, Senator of the United "I have been, for some time past, in possession of the several volumes and numbers of the Merchants' Magazine,' and in the habit of referring to it. I can therefore unhesitatingly say, that I consider it a very valuable addition to the library of the statesman, as well as the merchant, and express, as I do cordially, the hope that its publication may be continued with increased benefit to yourself, as I feel assured it will be with advantage to the public." From the Hon. Washington Hunt, Member of Congress from New York. "I am gratified to learn from your letter that your valuable Magazine continues to receive a liberal support from the public. I have long considered it one of the most useful publications in the country. Indeed it may be regarded as indispensable, not only to the statesman but to all who wish to be well-informed respecting the commerce of the world, and the rapid growth and vast importance of our own commercial interests. A work of so much interest and usefulness ought to have a place in every school district library in the United States. I wish by some such means it might be brought within the reach of every intelligent man in the country. I am convinced that it has done much to liberalize and nationalize the public mind, and I hope your circulation may continue to increase, until the patronage of the work shall be equal to its merits." From the Hon. Edmund Burke, Commissioner of Patents. ✦✦✦✦ "When it first commenced I thought its contents Your publication is equally creditable to the periodical A few complete sets of the MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE, embracing NINETEEN semi-annual volumes, of more than 600 large octavo pages each, bringing it down to December, 1848, may be obtained at the Publisher's Office. 142 Fulton-street, New V the cubscription price. |