THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE, AND Commercial Review. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT. VOLUME V. NEW-YORK: FREEMAN HUNT, 142 FULTON-STREET. NEW-ORLEANS: J. F. CURNS & CO. 1841. INDEX. ORIGINAL PAPERS. The Mississippi Scheme, by Francis Wharton............ .......... Profits of Marine Insurance-The Mutual System, by Zebedee Cook, jr.. Question of Average, by Judge Willard Phillips.... The Law of Contracts in Missouri, by Charles G. Whittlesey, Counsellor at Law... 9 27 37 50 58 63 67 70 105 American Manufactures, by James H. Lanman.... 122 General Average-Its application to Lighterage and Freight, by Judge Willard British Import Duties-Abstract of the Report of the Committee of the House of Agricultural Commerce of the United States, by James H. Lanman......................... Of Missouri, by Charles D. Drake, Attorney at Law, St. Louis... Of Illinois, by Charles Gillman, of the Quincy (Illinois) Bar... 252 446 261 Russia and her Commercial Strength, by Francis Wharton.... 297 321 338 Venetian Commerce, by E. W. Stoughton... 393 Thermometrical Observations, as connected with Navigation, by James Mease, M. D. 411 British Import Duties-Evidence of John Bowring, LL. D... Morocco, and its facilities for American Commercial Enterprise, by W. S. Mayo, 489 Commercial Relations of the United States, by James H. Lanman.. 507 British Corn Laws, by James M. Whiton....... 519 The Morals of Trade, No. 1, by John Bellows.. 526 Familiar Scenes in the Life of a Clerk, by the author of the "Victim of Chancery," 530 540 |