INDEX. ORIGINAL PAPERS. East India and the Opium Trade, by Francis Wharton, Esq. A General Bankrupt Law, by J. Van Cott, Esq.... Turkey, Egypt, and Mehemet Ali, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq.. Origin and Nature of Fire Insurance, (con. from p. 159,) by Geo. W. Savage, Esq., 238 Banks, Banking, and Paper Currencies.... Weights and Measures Comparison of the Weights and Measures of the United States, and several countries with which they have commercial intercourse, by D. J. Browne, Esq....... Commerce and Resources of New Hampshire, by Jacob B. Moore, Esq. British Navigation Act, by Rev. Charles W. Upham.. The Social Influence of Trade, and the Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Classes, by Rev. G. W. Burnap... Remarks on Free Trade, by Horace Greely, Esq. Coins, Weights, and Measures-Proposed change in Weights, Measures, and Moneys Liability of Insurers to pay Contributions, by Zebedee Cook, Jr., Esq. Profits of Marine Insurance, by Joseph Balch, Esq... Merchants of the Time of Queen Elizabeth, by T. W. Tucker, Esq........... Duties on Imports considered, by Professor George W. Tucker, L.L.D., of the Uni- versity of Virginia... Plan of a National Bank, by W. S. Wetmore.. Imprisonment for Debt, by Constance Freeman Daniels, Esq. LAWS RELATIVE TO DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. NEW YORK-Process-Provisions-Property Exempt from Execution-Jail Limits -False Pretences-Deeds Wills-Statute of Limitations-Foreign Attach- ments-Courts Bills of Exchange-Insolvency-Mortgages and Assignments Judgment and Execution, by James H. Lanman, Esq., counsellor at law, NEW JERSEY The Mode of Proceeding in New Jersey for the Recovery of Debts MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY. Life of Stephen Girard, by James H. Lanman, Esq. 448 549 359 544 546 MERCANTILE LAW DEPARTMENT. REPORTS, DECISIONS, ETC. Illegality of Factors Pledging Notes for Goods sold by them,.. Action on a Guarantee-Action for Freight........ Factors Selling Goods to Refund themselves for the Duties they Paid-Common .81, 82 82 Liability of Tenants in Case of Fire-Collision-Bottomry.. 266 English Law of Wrecks-Salvage Services-Action for Freight... 267 Legal Rate of Interest in the Different States and Territories..... 268 Punishment for Usury in the Different States and Territories... 268 Statute Laws Relating to Vessels-Registered Vessels-Of the Transfer of Vessels 376 Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts-Trustee Law-Prom- 454 Decisions in the United States Courts-Salvage Service....... 457 Promissory Note Endorsements...... 458 BOOK TRADE. Entz's Exchange and Trade between England and the United States.... Halleck's Selections from the British Poets..... Heroines of Sacred History-Young Ladies' Companion.... 88 88 Renwick's Application of the Science of Mechanics to Practical Purposes... Potter's Objects, Rules, and Principles of Political Economy.... 175 175 175 176 177 Bradley's Treatise on the strength of Distilled Spirits, with Rules and Gauging.... 176 Irving's Life of Goldsmith, with Selections from his Writings.. Keightley's History of England, from the earliest period to 1839. 177 177 177 177 Distinguished Men of Modern Times..... Noah's Translation of the Book of Jasher. Morris's American Melodies-The production of 200 Writers 178 178 178 Hope on and Hope ever-Strive and Thrive, etc., by Mary Howitt.. Byrne's Observations on the best means of propelling Ships.......... Johnson's Religion in its relation to the present life................................................................................... 270 Schmid's Providence Illustrated-Stories from the German.................................................... 271 Hodge's Steam Engine-The Young Merchant-Boston Book.. 460 Poetry, and History of Wyoming..... 461 Walker's Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States............ Taylor's Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State.... Remarks on Banks and Banking, and a Project for a National Bank.. 464 Sweetser's Digestion, and the Diseases incident to it..... 464 Emmon's Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch...... 464 Bishop Wilson's Private Meditations, Devotions, and Prayers. 465 Sutton's Godly Meditations on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper... 465 465 Carlyle's Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History.. 465 Hague's Principles of Christian Union..... 465 Hale's History of the United States, from their Settlement as Colonies... 466 Miss Martineau's Hour and the Man-My Son's Own Book........ Tom of Ten Thousand-an Anecdote of the South Sea Scheme..... 273 Palm Leaf Paper-Arkansas Coal-Havana Savings' Bank... East India Cotton Company... British Foreign and Colonial Wool Trade............................................................................ Foreign Commerce of Russia....... Commercial Speculation....... Mercantile Engagements... Mercantile Manners ......... COMMERCIAL TABLES. 180 391 467 467 467 468 468 468 468 275 277 278 582 583 583 584 61 244 447 453 Exchange between London and the United States...... Paris remitted to London compared with the direct remittance at sixty days' MONEY TABLES. Sovereigns compared with a Draft on London at sixty days' sight......... To reduce Dollars to Pounds Sterling,..... 93 93 93 Table showing the amount of one Dollar at Compound Interest at the end of every 389 Table showing the present value of one Dollar, from 1 to 21 years........ 389 Table showing the amount of an annuity of one Dollar per annum, improved at 390 Table showing the present value of an Annuity of one Dollar per annum to con. 469 Dry Measure Table..... 469 Sterling Interest Table for calculating Interest on British Money for any number 470 Table of the rates of Insurance of $100 on a single life..... 472 Tables of Imperial Long Measure.... 335 Table of Imperial Superficial Measure Of Imperial Cubic or Solid Measure....... 336 337 339 Table of Improved Troy Weight-Of Imperial Apothecary's Weight...... Do. Liquid and Dry Measures compared with Wine and Dry Measures of the 341 341 342 Do. Measures of Gravity or Weight compared with Troy Weight compared Table for reducing Shillings, Pence, &c. to the Decimal of a Pound.. Square-Yard Duty Tables for Bleached and Colored Cotton Goods............ 580, 581 578 579 COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Arrivals at and Clearances from New York for November, 1840.... Trade, Commerce, and Navigation of the Island of Porto Rico for 1839.. 94 95 96 Exports and Imports of the United States under each Presidency........... Oil imported into the United States from 1815 to 1839, with price per gallon....... 97 Arrival of Foreign Vessels at the Port of New York in 1840. 196 ..................... Massachusetts Mackerel Fishery from 1831 to 1840... 197 Canal Shipments at Buffalo of Flour, Wheat, Pork, Corn, etc., from 1837 to 1840, 197 Trade and Tolls of the New York Canals, from 1835 to 1840.. 200 Relative proportion of Cotton grown in the different States. 214 Millions of pounds grown in various parts of the World... 215 Growth and Export of American Cotton in each year, from 1791 to 1840....... 218 Official value of the Exports and Imports of Great Britain for the last 82 years.... 281 Table showing the average price of standard Gold in bars, Bread, Beef, Masons 282 283 284 285 286 Wholesale prices of various articles of Merchandise in Boston, from 1812 to 1840.. 287 287 Fluctuations in Stocks in New York, at the close of each month in the year 1840. 288 289 Statistics of the British Cotton Trade, Import, Export, and Consumption........... 289 292 Imports of Cotton into Great Britain during the last seven years................... 291 Exports of Cotton from Great Britain, 1840..... 291 Prices of Cotton in Great Britain on the 31st December of each year, from 1836 to American Carpeting Manufactured in Danvers, Mass...... Exports and Imports of the New England Colonies, from 1697 to 1776... 292 353 |