MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT,

EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON
STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, PHILA
DELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, CHARLESTON, AND
CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME TWENTY-SIX.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1852.

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New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1852.

CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE TWENTY-SIXTH VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

JACOB ABBOTT, A. M., Author of various works, of New York.

DAVID M. BALFOUR, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts.

WILLIAM C. BARTLETT, Esq., of Ohio.

JOHN P. BROWN, Esq., of the United States Legation, Constantinople, Turkey.

M. LOUIS CHITTI, late Professor of Political Economy in Brussels.

JOSEPH B. COLLINS, Esq., President of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company. STEPHEN COLWELL, Esq., of Pennsylvania.

C. F. MCCAY, Professor in the University of Georgia.

HENRY GASSETT, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts.

ENOCH HALE, Jr., of New York.

ROBERT HARE, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, and Associate of the Smithsonian Institute.

E. A. HOPKINS, Esq., of New York.
DAVID R. JAQUES, Esq., of New York.
REV. JOHN P. KNOX, of St. Thomas.

E. P. SMITH, Esq., of New York.

RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of New York.

J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of Ohio.

HON. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of the "Progress of Wealth and Population in the United States," &c., of Pennsylvania.

HENRY D. A. WARD, Esq., of Michigan, and

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor of the Merchants' Magazine.

To find imports and exports of different places, see name of country, State,

port, or city, in index.

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