DE BOW'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW ; A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF TRADE, AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, COMMERCIAL POLITY, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IM PROVEMENTS, &c. Published Monthly, in the City of New Orleans. Terms $5 per Annum, in advance. Advocating the interests of the South and West, the COMMERCIAL REVIEW will not be the less mindful of the great interests of TRADE, COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE throughout the World-Commerce in its various and multiform relations-in its History, its Laws, and its Statistics; Commercial commodities; regulations of Trade, inter-State and inter-National; Treaties; Foreign and Domestic Tariffs, Excises and Posts; Marine relations; Enterprises of Commerce, in SHIPPING, CANALS, RAILROADS and STEAM NAVIGATION, etc.; Mercantile Systems, Codes, Laws and Decisions, ancient as well as modern,. Banking Insurance, Exchange, Partnership, Factorage, Guaranty, Brokerage, Bankruptcy, Wreck, Salvage Freights, Privateering, Marque and Reprisal, Piracy, Quarantine and Custom House Regulations, etc., etc.; COMMERCIAL LITERATURE AND BIOGRAPHY. PROSPECTUS TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH VOLUMES. THIS work has been regularly published nearly two years. Its success ha been signal throughout the whole SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTRY, and it subscription list steadily and rapidly increased there and in other sections of th Union. In this brief period it has gained a larger circulation than any othe Southern work, and the strongest influence. Complimentary letters and notice have been received from every source, even the very highest, as could be show did space permit. The COMMERCial Review has advocated and upheld the Commerce and Agriculture of the Southern and Western States, and exhibited from time to time their complete STATISTICS, in such a manner as could not but have secured the best results. The papers whic have appeared upon SUGAR and upon COTTON, upon TOBACCO and RICE, and MAN FACTURES, upon THE PROGRESS OF OUR COMMERCIAL RELATIONS with all nation and upon MEXICO, may be stated as examples. Indeed, this has been admitte from many sources. Although devoted in its aims to the development and exh bition of the Resources of the South and West, the Commercial Review neglects no view of American and European Industry and Enterprise, in every department, and must be of equal value to AMERICAN CITIZENS wherev they are found. Is there a section of the union, too, or an interest which has concern with the progress and resources of the GREAT WEST, of which Commercial Review is the faithful exponent? TESTIMONIALS. A host of If the Index of contents now published were not sufficient evidence of what the work has been and is, we might remark that it has been highly commended to us, among others, by the Hon. Henry Clay, Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Hon. J. Q. Adams, Hon. Levi Woodbury, Hon. E. Burke, Patent office, Hon. Abbot Lawrence, Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, the most important chambers of Commerce, etc., etc. letters might be easily published, and notices from Journals of highest character; as the Union and National Intelligencer, Courier and Enquirer, Charleston Courier, Mercury, Patriot, and News, New York Courier and Enquirer; all the New Orleans papers and others throughout the country-Skinner's Farmers' Library, Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Simmond's London Colonial Review, etc., etc. Improvements for the Fourth Volume. At the opening of a FOURTH VOLUME, it is well to state that there are many great and important improvements now in course of preparation, which must add greatly to the interest and value of the Review, some of which this number will evidence. 1. Regular monthly Summaries of American Commerce will be prepared by one of the ablest writers upon such subjects in the Union. 2. A similar European Correspondence is secured, and publications will be made. 3. No pains has been spared to obtain the pens of the ablest American writers for the work. 4. A series of papers will be published beginning with the present number, and extending through one or two years, from the pen of the editor and other collaborators upon II. COTTON AND COTTON MANUFACTURES. III. STATISTICS AND RESOURCES OF THE GREAT WEST. A regular series will also be published upon Silk, Wool, Hemp, and similar subjects of agriculture and manufactures. The first of the series appearing in our November or December Number upon SILK, being an elaborate and valuable paper, full even to details, from an able and practical pen, aided by all the statistics of the Patent office, and illustrated with numerous wood-cuts. This Treatise will be invaluable. 5. A Department of American MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY will be embraced, of leading characters taken from the MERCHANT CLASSES in every section of the Union, embellished with STEEL ENGRAVINGS, a feature to be first introduced by us in this country. These, in addition to the engravings we have already published, and wood-cuts, greatly increase the expense of publication. Maps, etc., will, if possible, be introduced. 6. The typographical execution of the work, paper, binding, etc., will be of the most superior order, not excelled by that of any other publication. 7. The work will be enlarged, and will contain Monthly, from 112 to 128 Pages, in Close Type, and annually be embraced within TWO HANDSOME VOLUMES OF SIX HUNDRED PAGES EACH. This is an increase of size equal to one-third over previous numbers and volumes. 8. The work will be stereotyped, and issued regularly on the first of each month. nd furnished to subscribers without delay, and in the most secure manner; great mprovements having taken place in the arrangement of our office. The subscription price will be unchanged, but the greatest promptness in pay Inents will be required from subscribers. We beg each of them to make use of his paper in acting as our friendly agent to increase the circulation. We would e glad to present or work with ut charge, for one year, to any one who would rocure three permanent subscribers and forward us the money in advance. We have kept our promises in th past, as the Commercial Review will evince, nd shall keep them in future. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Bound Volumes of Commercial Review for 1846. We are happy to announce that a reprint of these in two handsome Volumes will be issued about the 1st of November from the press. The style of execution and finish is most superior. As the numbers for 1846 have great value and were much sought, and as we have not been able to furnish them for many months back to our orders, this re-publication must pass through a very large edition. We have not, however, ventured to print many at first, but only to supply our orders, &c. Those persons who would complete their sets, had better do so at once; and all of our subscribers, new as well as the old, will be furnished the Volumes for 1846, bound in very superior style, for the subscription price remitted us, without any extra charge for binding. We are ready to supply from the beginning, and offer these accommodations that all may have the work complete. This arrange ment to extend to no other Volume. Editors of Newspapers not Receiving the Review, Who will remit us two dollars, and acknowledge, occasionally, the Numbers of the work, and the Circular we send them now, will receive it for one year. We should be happy to furnish the press, who have been so liberal to us in the past, without charge, but the expenses are too great; we, however, make what may be considered a liberal offer. A PREMIUM. We will present any one who will send us two new subscribers and the money, without postage or discount, the Review for 1846, in one complete Volume, bound. The Third Volume of Commercial Review, for 1847, Is illustrated with HANDSOME STEEL ENGRAVINGS AND WOOD CUTS, representg the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, the BALIZE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN 1804 AND 1847, the ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC, and the SOUTHERN RAILROAD ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Articles for Commercial Review. We announce the following list of subjects for the coming Volumes, and invite contributions : The prospect of American Hemp; the Copper and Lead resources of the Northwest; the Gold Mines of the South; United States Mint and Branches; the Value, Character and Tests of Soil in the South and West; The Pilot System of New York and New Orleans; Changes in the Mississippi river; its banks and mouth; Summer Seats on the Gulf and Texas coasts; Internal Improvement Schemes at the South and West; Texas as a State; The Santa Fe and Mexican Trade; Our position with Mexico; New Orleans in the Past and in the Future; Historical Sketches of the States; Sketches of Southern and Western Cities Manufactures of the South and West; Sketches of the Biography of Eminen Practical Citizens; Essays on Commercial Law, Commercial Decisions, etc. Lafitte; Coins; The Polar Seas; Weights and Measures; American Treaties Canals; American Railroads; Steam Navigation; The Mines; Banks and Bank ing; Western Rivers; Southern Manufactures; Trade in Breadstuffs; Com merce of Cuba; Light-house System; Coast Survey; Iron and Coal of Penn sylvania; Florida; Resources of North Carolina; Virginia; Trade, &c., Balti more, New York, Boston; Lumber Trade of Maine, &c.; British Colonia Trade; Trade of European Powers; American Fisheries; The Slave Question The Ocean; The Printing Art; Naval Stores; Provisions; Production Arden Spirits; The Book and Paper Business. Letters in relation to the Review will be directed, post-paid, to the editor J. D. B. De Bow, or to the publisher, B. F. DE BOW, Office of Commercial Review, New Orleans. It is desirable that all past accounts shall be early closed: agents wi please exert themselves. Specimens of the Review for examination will be ser to responsible persons who apply. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted on stitched leaves and cards on accommodating term We will be pardoned for extracting from the mass of notices in our possession two or three which happen at this instant to be at hand. It is better, however, that the work should speak for itself. From Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. "DE BOW'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW for May contains much valuable matter of a Commercial and Miscellaneous character. It has reached its seventeenth Number, which is, in our opinion, the best of the series. Success to our name-sake. "The No. for June and July opens with an elaborate and highly interesting paper, on the Romance of Louisiana History,' from the pen of the Hon. Charles Gayarre, Secretary of that State. There are also articles of value to the agricultural interests of the South, on the introduction of new products, as the vine, the cork, camphor, flax, etc.; and the cotton-worm, in its history, character, visitations, etc., forms the subject of another article. Dr. Hort, of New Orleans, has furnished a scientific analysis of Texas sugar soils. But the paper which has interested us the most, is that entitled 'Commerce and AGRICULTURE SUBJECTS OF UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION,' from the pen of the accomplished editor of the Review, in which he submits the plan of a Professorship of Public Economy, Commerce, and Statistics for our Colleges and Universities. The plan has our hearty approval, and will, we trust, ere long be adopted by some of our higher institutions. The article on 'CHARLESTON AND ITS RESOURCES,' we shall endeavor to find room for in a future number of this Magazine." From the New Orleans Commercial Times. "DE BOW'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.-This able exponent of the position, exigencies, prospects, &c., of the trade and commerce, the agriculture and manufactures of the South and West, comes to us in its present issue in a double form, containing the June and July numbers under one cover. There are fifteen original articles, each of which has its particular merit. They treat of subjects embracing almost every interest connected with the development of Southern and Western prosperity, and we may add, indeed, in reference to the first article, of Southern and Western refinement. Article No. 5 is eminently deserving notice, as the matter brought forward in it is of a character that imperatively addresses itself to our most prominent interest. Shall not Commerce have a chair in the newly established University of Louisiana-Commerce, the all-in-all of our wealth? We concur with the editor, that without a Professorship of Statistics'-a science embracing such a variety of subjects, all united under the head of Indusry, in its various applications, remote and near-the University will be comparaively a lifeless, inert mass, while 'STATISTICS' will strip it of its monkish lullness and passiveness, and invest it by its practical quality, with that vitality vhich shall be, and is, characteristic of our age and nation. The whole publiation, in its several departments, evinces talent and extraordinary industry." From the Concordia Intelligencer, of Louisiana. "The great industry and ability with which this periodical has addressed itself the wants and practical interests of the people of the South and West, have seured for it a high and established reputation, and many powerful and zealous friends mong the most enlightened and productive classes in this and contiguous States. lready have many articles appeared in it which have been deemed of inestihable benefit to those engaged in Sugar and Cotton culture. Of some of these rticles, it has been said by citizens of Louisiana, distinguished alike by their rivate excellence and public zeal, that each of them was worth the subscription rice of twenty years to the work. Their value is not imaginary or prospective, ut immediate and real, and comes home to the daily pursuits of the planter and erchant and all interested in increasing the wealth of the South-west. "The Review improves with every succeeding number. It has been greatly beaufied in typographical execution and otherwise lately, and is now one of the most andsome monthly periodicals in the world, as well as decidedly the most practical, borious and useful publication of the kind with which we are acquainted." 66 A splendid steel engraving of Stephen Girard accompanies Le September No.-the first of a series of " Eminent Merchants.' H. LONG & BROTHER, 32 Ann Street, New York. ITS POSITION IN RELATION TO SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PERIODI- THE design and object of an enterprise, new in its character, which is to be dependent upon public sympathy for support, ought to be distinctly stated in the outset, and clearly understood. If purposes of an elevated nature are to be achieved-the occupation of ground rich in resources and hitherto untilled-the diffusion of instruction and light upon interests most practical and important— the advocacy of widest sections, and everything that contributes to their moral and physical advance-if the aims be high as these, and guarantees be furnished for their attainment, then we conceive, beyond all question, the enterprise places itself at once upon a basis of enduring strength, and commands the approval and support of every citizen! wishing well to his country. But if, on the other hand, the scale be reversed, and that which is proposed be in reality valueless, even when accomplished-if the field to be occupied is already ably and adequately commanded, or thei would-be occupiers are meagre in resources, of inefficient action and circumscribed views-in such a case, we imagine, no prophetic vision can be required to pierce into destiny, and determine that declension and decay which are following inevitably on-rapid-certain-unla mented. There is no power long to deceive mankind in matters o this nature. A keen sensitiveness happily prevails in the world, whos benign influence it is to rescue society and literature from the excres i cences which would otherwise grow up upon them-a sensitivenes which chastises pretension with neglect. The Journal which is now ushered upon the world, and subjecte to the ordeal delineated, will, of course, stand or fall as it approx mates to the one extreme or the other of the contrast which has bec drawn. That the Editor will have a powerful incentive, demandir his whole resources and energy to reach the happier and better fortur involved, will be conceded without argument: and, indeed, if a lor and careful study of the history, the wants and resources of the Sout ern and Western States-if a practical as well as theoretical acquair |