INDEX-VOL. VI. ORIGINAL PAPERS. Impolicy of Countervailing Duties, by Condy Raguet, LL. D........ Morals of Trade, No. 2, by J. N. Bellows...... New Sources of Trade.-The Barbary States, by H. A. Buckingham.... Commercial Guilds of Russia, by Charles Clark, of St. Petersburg.... Abuses of Classification.-The Mercantile Class, by William Dolby.. Remarks on the Computation of Interest, by William Palmer......... The Currency.-Method of Correcting the Currency without the aid of a United States Bank, by J. Louis Tellkampf, LL. D.............................. The Falkland Islands, a Memoir, descriptive, historical, and political, by Robert Greenhow, Esq., author of a Memoir of the Northwest Coast of North America... 105 The Currency.-On a Government Paper, and on the connection existing between The Lights and Shadows of Mercantile Life.-1. The Confidential Clerk, by the : Commercial Voyages and Discoveries, No. 1, by W. S. Mayo, M. D., New York... 393 Trade and Manufactures of Belgium, from manuscript notes by Alex. Jones, M. D. 409 Russian Insolvency Laws, by Charles Clark, of St. Petersburg... Our Trade with England, by Henry Colman, editor of the Genesee Farmer........ 458 Commerce of Syria, by J. W. Jenks, A. M., of Massachusetts............. Commercial Voyages and Discoveries, No. 2.-Voyage of Vasco De Gama......... 531 Proceedings in Bankruptcy in the United States District Court of Massachusetts... 354 Bankrupt's privilege from arrest on Execution for Debt........ Prices of Stock at the New York Exchange on the first of each month, in 1841...... 78 Warehousing.-Commercial Value of Old Paintings.......................... Twenty-first Annual Report of the Mercantile Library Association, New York.... 265 Industry and Commerce, by the Rev. Doctor Channing... Importation of Wheat into Great Britain.-Book Trade......... Comparative Rate of Interest in England at different Periods..... Espy's Theory of Storms.-Salt Trade of New York........ Origin of the word Schooner.-Baltimore Mercantile Library Association............ 272 Second Annual Report of the Baltimore Mercantile Library Association......... 383 Method of Computing Interest, by Thomas Jones, accountant.-Sisal Hemp........ 388 Capture of a British Merchantman, an incident of the revolutionary war of 1776... 462 Imports and Exports of the Island of Cuba for 1840, compared with 1839...... Imports and Exports at, and from, the different ports of entry in the Island of Cuba, Austrian Commerce; Exports and Imports from 1828 to 1838...... Russian Commerce; Exports from St. Petersburg to the United States, to Septem- Tonnage of Vessels entered the Port of New Orleans, from 1832 to 1841..... Total amount of the growth, export, consumption, &c., of Cotton, for the year end. Tonnage of the United States, from 1789 to 1815...... 182 Arrivals at, and Clearances from, the Port of Boston in 1841...... 182 Foreign and Coastwise arrivals and clearances at, and from, Boston, from 1830 to Imports and Exports at Boston, from 1830 to 1841. Comparative annual productions of New York and Massachusetts... British home consumption of Foreign and Colonial Wheat........ Commerce and Navigation of the United States from 1831 to 1840.... 184 184 .... 185 185 ..... 185 ... 186 .... 186 .. 187 187 188 189 189 Lake Commerce of Cleveland, Ohio.-Canal Commerce.... 190 ...... 287 Tobacco, Snuff, and manufactured Tobacco exported from the United States 242 Statement showing to what countries the larger portion of Tobacco is exported..... 242 243 244 469 Declared Value of Woollen Manufactures exported from the United Kingdom in 469 Exports of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise, in 1840, 1841, and 1842.......... 470 471 Vessels employed in the Coasting Trade of the United Kingdom, in 1840, 1841, 471 Export of Teas from China to the United States, from 1832 to 1841........... 472 472 Prices of Cotton, Tobacco, Flour, Wheat, Corn, Bacon, and Sugar in North Caroli 473 Commerce of Java: Imports and Exports from 1836 to 1840.... 473 Arrivals at Java-Java Ports from 1836 to 1840........ 473 New York prices of Flour, Beef, Pork, and Tobacco, from 1828 to 1840............ 474 Exports from Buenos Ayres from 1840 to 1841.... 474 Fuel imported into Massachusetts from 1835 to 1838.. 475 Consumption of Cotton in the United States from 1826 to 1841.. 475 Exports of Cotton Manufactures from the United States, from 1835 to 1840......... 475 430 Quantity and Countries to which Iron was exported from Sweden, from 1831 to 431 Value of Imports into Belgium from different countries, from 1831 to 1834....... 416 416 563 Commerce and Navigation of Havana in 1840 and 1841............ 564 Exports of Sugar and Coffee from the Island of Cuba in 1840 and 1841.............. 565 565 565 Commerce of Kingston, Jamaica:—Imports of 1841 compared with 1840......................... 566 566 Trade and Tonnage of St. Louis, Missouri, for 1841........ 566 Exports of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice from the United States, from 1820 to 1840... 567 567 567 Cotton grown in the United States from 1819 to 1840-its value, &c.......... 571 571 572 Trade of Sandusky, Ohio........... Commerce and Navigation of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, from 1840 to 1841...... 572 COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Regulations of the Port of Baltimore.-Dockage.-Wharfage........ Table of Foreign and Colonial Moneys and Exchanges denoted at par with 89 91 Russian Ports-St. Petersburg.-Information for Shipmasters..... 280 Bills of Lading for the Russian Trade........... 281 Rates of Toll chargeable on the Pennsylvania Canals and Railways, for 1842....... 284 284 BANK STATISTICS. Condition of the New York Savings Banks 1st January, 1842.. Winter Tariff on the Railroad between Boston and Albany........ Table of the Cost, Receipts, Incomes, and Dividends on Railroads in Massachusetts, Passages of the Cunard Royal Mail Steamers in 1840.... NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. 94 285 285 286 286 Sabine Pass.-East End Galveston Island.-Corpus Christi Pass.-Aransas Bar.- Espirito Santo Pass.-Pass Cabello........... Value of Barometrical Observations....... 5555 95 95 |