Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1855 — The Commerce of Russia. [ARTICLE]

The Commerce of Russia.

Some elaborate tables have-been published by tbe statistical department-of tbe Trade, conveying all the latest information obtained regarding the commerce and finances of Russia. From these it appears that in 1862 the bublic debt of the empire, domestic and foreign, wm 63,185308/. In the same year the revenue from Customs and Excise duties was 4,824,608/. As regards the general revenue, the amount is not given for a later period than 1849, when, exclusive of Poland and Finland, it was 24,794,735/., of which 7,275,468/, was from direct taxes, 7,745,110/, from indirect taxes, and 9,774,167/ from the brandy monopoly. Under the head of shipping, the tables show that the total of vessels entered at Russian ports in 1852 was 8,616, of an aggregate burden of 1,670,654 tuns, more than half of which were to the ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff. The total clearances were 8,407 vessels of 1,680,160 tuns. Of this trade fully a fourth was carried on in British ships; Turkish, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Sardinian, Austrian, Prussian and Danish coming next in order. The most important of any single ports is UuCood, WllCie tub ttl 11l *4ID 111 lUm/UU ed to 589,178 tuns, while the value of the cargoes shipped, and which consisted principally of grain, was 5,627,500 U/., or about 150 per cent, above the amount in