MTULLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY, b. at Isle of Whithorn, Wigtonshire, in 1789, a distin guished, political writer, and the foremost among our political economists, first became known in connection with the Seotsthan newspaper and the Edinburgh Review. He came forward as a contributor to the former soon after its establishment in 1817; and for a considerable time was its editor. He made his debut in the latter in 1818, by contribut ing to it an article on Ricardo's Principles of Political Econom,y, and continued for about '2,0 years to write pretty regularly for the Review, having contributed almost all the eco nomical articles that appeared in it during that period, with a few on other subjects.
however, is best known by his numerous works published in the course of his life, which are remarkable for the scientific spirit in which they are written, their practical good sense, and the clearness and directness of their style. By these he has done more to establish and popularize the doctrines of political economy than perhaps any other writer. His principal publications comprise: A _Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects, and Importance of Political Economy; _the Principles of Political Econ omy, with some Inquiries respecting their Application, etc.' ; The Literature of Political Ewnomy, etc.; Treatises and Essays on Money, Exchange, Interest, the Lettiv of Land, Absenteeism, etc.; A Treatise on the SUCCe831.072 to Property vacant by Death, including Inquiries into the Influence of Primogeniture, Entails, etc.; A Treatise on the Circumstances which determine the Rate of -Wages and the Condition of the Laboring Classes,- A Dictionar Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation; Statisti cal Account of the British Empire; Geographical Dictionary; A Treatise on Taxation and the _Funding System, etc, Most of these works have gone through several editions. A third edition of the work on taxation, which appeared in 1863, was the last work of the author, and was nearly re-written. M'Culloch also published various occasional tracts and notices, some of which had a very wide circulation. His edition of the Wealth of
Nations, with an introductory discourse and notes, and his collected edition of the works of Ricardo, deserve to be ranked among the tnost important services which he rendered to his favorite science. Towards the close of his life he edited two volumes of scarce -economical tracts for the political economy club, and four volumes of the same class of tracts for lord Overstone. In 1828 M'Culloch was chosen professor of political economy in University college, London; but having resigned that chair, he was subsequently (1838) appointed comptroller of her majesty's stationery office, a situation which he held till his death, and in which he is understood to have effected various important reforms. Ill`Culloch was a foreign associate of the institute of France; and he enjoyed a pension of E200 a year, conferred upon him by the late sir Robert Peel. He died Nov., 1864.
MeCURDY, CHARLES JOHNSON, LL.D., b. Conn., 1797; educated at Yale, and called to the bar, where he took a high position. He was several times chosen to the legisla ture, of which he was speaker for three years. In the years 1845 and 1846 he was lieu tenant-governor of the state. He was appointed by Mr. Fillmore minister to Austria in 1851; and from 1856 to 1867 he was an associate justice, first of the superior, and after wards of the supreme court of Connecticut.
MeDONALD, ft co. in s.w. Missouri, having Arkansas on the 8., and Indian terri tory on the w.; 475 sq.tn.; pop. '80, 7,816. It is a fertile region, the surface undulating; productions, wheat, Indian corn, oats, Irish and sweet potatoes, cotton, tobacco, and butter. Co. seat, Pineville.
.MeDONALD, CHARLES J., 1793-1860; b. S. C.; settled in Georgia, where he was admitted to the bar. He was a judge of the state circuit court in 1825, a member of the state senate in 1837, and governor 1839-43. From 1857 till his death he was an ass°. ciate justice of the state supreme court.