THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE,

AND

Commercial Review.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT.

VOLUME VIII.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1843.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

MDCCCXLIII.

INDEX-VOL. VIII.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1843.

ORIGINAL PAPERS, ETC.

Commerce of Egypt, by J. W. Jenks, A. M...

Progress of Population and Wealth in the United States, in Fifty Years, as exhibited

by the Decennial Census, taken in that period, by Professor George Tucker, of

the University of Virginia-

Chapter IX.-The Probability of Life-the Deaf and Dumb, the Blind and the

Insane...

Chapter X.-Emigration.....

Chapter XI.-The Past Natural Increase of the Population, White and Colored 240
Chapter XII.-Future Increase of the Population......

330

Chapter XIII.-The Future Progress of Slavery....

427

Chapter XIV.-Increase of the Atlantic and Western Slaveholding and Non-

Mercantile Biography.-Life and Character of Gideon Lee.....

Sketch of the Life and Character of Samuel Ward, by

Charles King, Esq., of New York.....

550

Home League to the People of the United States, by C. C. Haven, of New York. 64

Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes, by J. W. Scott, of Ohio....

75

Life Insurance in the United States, by T. R. Jencks, of Massachusetts...

The Trading Nation, by J. N. Bellows, of New Hampshire.....

164

Marine Insurance.-Opinion in the Case of a Whaling Voyage, by Zebedee Cook,

junior, of New York...

169

China and the Chinese Peace, by Francis Wharton, of Pennsylvania....

205

Life Insurance in the United States, No. 2, by T. R. Jencks, of Massachusetts...... 227

Organization and Practice of Existing Life Insurance Companies......

227

British East India and China Trade...

249

Grounds of Protection, by Horace Greely, of New York...

257

Lecture on the Moral and Intellectual Culture of American Merchants, by Rev.

George Putnam, of Massachusetts.......

301

Commercial Banking, by William M. Gouge, of Pennsylvania.....

313

Internal Trade of the United States, No. 1, by J. W. Scott, of Ohio......

Third Session of the Twenty-seventh Congress-Its Doings and Undoings..

321

335

Home Trade Preferable to Foreign, by C. C. Haven, of New York....

Trade and Manufacture of Salt in the United States.....

343

357

National Debts of Europe, by Francis Wharton, of Pennsylvania.....

Internal Trade of the United States, No. 2, by J. W. Scott, of Ohio................

The General Principles of Free Trade, by the Hon. Levi Woodbury, of New

Hampshire......

Commerce of France....

397

407

438

447