1. POLITICAL ECONOMY. No. 1. By AMASA WALKER, Esq., of Massachusetts........ 275 II. AMERICANS AND AMERICAN TRADE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. By JOHN P. BROWN, Esq., of the United States Legation at Constantinople...... V. MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY: SKETCH OF THE LATE SETH SPRAGUE VI. THE EVILS OF COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY. By DANIEL R. HUNDLEY, Esq., of EMBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC., ILLUSTRA- TED WITH TABLES, ETC., AS FOLLOWS: Stringency in the Money Market-Various Modes of Depleting the Sub-Treasury-Interrup- tions to Commerce and Transportation-Arguments against Special Legislation-Wharves and Wharfage-Yield of Gold, and Business at the Assay Office and Mint-The Bank Move- ment-Imports and Exports at New York-Tonnage Statistics, and Relative Trade in Foreign JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. The Public Debt of the United States The Banks of the United States. By DAVID M. BALFOUR, Esq., of Massachusetts Gold Received at New York from California PAGE. 837 338 839 340 Condition of the Banks of Massachusetts in 1856.-Purchase of the United States Stocks....... 841 Railroad and City Bonds in Boston Market in 1856-57.-Condition of Banks in the U. States Fluctuations in Boston Bank Stock for 1856 The Savings Banks of Massachusetts.-Financial Condition of Texas JOURNAL OF INSURANCE. A Practical Question of Fire Insurance-Case of Fire Insurance in Dispute COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Revised Customs Regulations of Hamburg....... Of Fraudulent Assignments in Kentucky Law concerning Colored Seamen in the Ports of South Carolina Commercial Regulations of Peru respecting Articles of Consumption .. 342 843 ..... 844 345 846 348 349 850 831 852 Directions for approaching the Sand-Heads in both Monsoons. American Seamen ........ .................... STATISTICS OF POPULATION, &c. Immigration at the Port of New York... 865 366 866 367 868 868 Figures about the Population of Paris.-Population of the Gold Diggings in Victoria.. 869 870 Bread: the Basis of Commercial Enterprise.-"The Post-Office as it has been, is, and should be." 390 The Old "Red Cent" of the United States.-"Our Relations with China." |