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THE MEECANTILE AND MAEITIME GUIDE.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Times' City Article, March 12, 1856.
The Mercantile and Maritime Guide,
by Messrs. Willmore and Beedell, is a work
for consultation on the various questions con-
stantly arising as to the rights and duties of
merchants, shipowners, brokers, &c. It con-
tains also full instructions for the performance
of the usual branches of commercial business,
besides a collection of the orders of the vari-
ous Government departments, and a great
number of statistical tables. Altogether, the
work appears to have been prepared in a very
complete and satisfactory manner.
Morning Chronicle, March 14, 1856.
One of the most useful and essentially ne-
cessary vs^orks connected with trade, has just
been issued. It is the joint production of
Mr. Graham Willmore, A.M., one of her
Majesty's Counsel, and Mr. Edwin Beedell,
of her Majesty's Customs, London, and au-
thor of the " British Tariff." The object of
the work is to furnish to all persons connected
with the mercantile and maritime interests
of the country, such matter, arranged in a
clear and compendious form, as shall inform
them of their rights and duties. This labour
has been most efficiently accomplished, and
the book is a most valuable addition to the
standard works of utility. It concentrates
the laws relating to the established custom
of merchants, the decisions of courts, and
the enactments of the legislature, with all
the orders and regulations bearing upon ship-
ping, and upon the home and foreign trades
of the country, with a variety of most useful
miscellaneous facts. The Consolidated Mer-
chant Shipping Act is given with explana-
tory notes and comments of a practical nature,
likewise the pilotage and harbour dues of
every port in the United Kingdom, with all
the rates and charges on shipping, and re-
gulations observed at the various docks and
wharves in London, together with complete
tables of duties and drawbacks of customs
and inland revenue, all official orders con-
nected with trade, and an exposition of the
mode of transacting the import, export, and
transhipment business, the whole comprising
a vast amount of mercantile and maritime
information, heretofore widely dispersed, but
now brought within a comprehensive manual.
We confidently recommend the work to the
commercial interest, as a valuable guide in
all matters relating to trade.
Morning Advertiser, March 18, 1856.
The very extensive subject of the rights
and obligations of members of the commercial
commimity, under every ])ossible state of cir-
cumstances and in every portion of the world,
has been" admirably condensed within the
limits of this volume, the contents of which
sufficiently attest for themselves the amount
of varied research and of intelligence which
has been brought to bear upon the task. It
has been accomplished in a manner that can
leave little to be desired, affording to the
merchant all necessary information to enable
him to conduct his operations with security
and confidence. Great attention has evidently
been paid to the very numerous details of the
subject, and the merchant might rely with
confidence upon its furnishing him with as-
sistance and advice under all circumstances.
Globe, March 17, 1856.
This work might be well entitled an Ency-
clopaedia of all the law which concerns the
business of the merchant and the shipowner.
The legal acquirements of Mr. Willmore,
associated with the official experience of Mr.
Beedell, have combined to produce nearly
twelve hundred pages of matter, from which
nothing seems omitted that ought to be con-
tained in a volume professing, as this does,
to enlighten the commercial world on every
subject of interest to them. Amongst the
more prominent subjects treated, are — the
laws which govern the merchant shipping
service — those which regulate the passenger
traffic— the existing customs' duties, includ-
ing the rules applicable to inward and out-
ward transit — bonds to the crown, foreign
moneys, weights, and measures — exchanges
and insurances, with several useful and ela-
borate tables. The volume, judging by the
latter alone, seems got up with a disregard
to expense, for which the proprietor deserves
the warmest gratitude and support of the
mercantile classes.
Athen^um, April 12, 1856.
The compilers of this thick vohime redeem
their prefatory promise " to furnish all per-
sons connected with the mercantile and
maritime interests of this country, such
matter arranged in a compendious form, as
will inform them of their rights and duties,
and enable them to transact their business
with accuracy, confidence, and facility."
Here is a practical object plainly described,
and it has been fulfilled by bringing together
and explaining the law of the subject, arising
from the custom of merchants, the decisions
of courts, and legislative enactments, by
collecting all the regulations in force con-
cerning shipping and trade, and by present-
ing the necessary information on matters of
fact. The various statutes have not been
merely cited, but explained in legal treatises,
brief, lucid, and careful. The recent and
most important statute, the Merchant Ship-
ing Act, is quoted at large, analysed, and
Printed and Published hy William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.