In thirteen of the chief factories there were 263 spinning machines; three cotton factories alone contained 138. Besides these larger establishments, 3122 workshops, not considerable enough to be ranked as manufactories, employed alone 19,638 work-people; and 142 industrial establishments, such as founderies, breweries, distilleries, tallow and soap works, &c., gave bread to thousands more. The consumption of the principal raw materials of manufacture is thus stated as an average of that and recent preceding years. Cotton for the twenty spinneries of Moscow, 100,000 poods per an. Cotton yarn, 300,000 ... Dyed cotton yarn 200 ... Raw silk, 30,000 ... Dye woods, 100,000 ... Madder, 250,000 ... The machinery for the manufactories is made for the most part in the founderies and machine-works of Vladimir, Tamboff, Kalouga, and Riazan, but, above all, in the city of Tula and the village of Parlovo. In McCulloch's _Statistical Dictionary_, the number of steam-engines in the government of Moscow is stated, for 1830, at about 100--in 1820, two only being in existence. On what authority the statement is given does not appear; our own documents, to 1841 inclusive, are silent on that head. For Moscow, with its immediate environs, the total number and the produce of the cotton looms are thus given:-- Cotton loom, 17,000 Producing annually, 450,000 pieces of calico Do. 400,000 do. of nankeen Do. above, 2,000,000 do. of handkerchiefs In the whole, inclusive of other goods, such as muslins, velvets, &c., &c., equal to above, 40,000,000 arschines of fabrics Valued at 7,500,000 silver rubles. The arschine is about twenty-eight English inches. The silk manufacture, of recent establishment only in Moscow, presented the following results, for that city and the surrounding districts:-- Number of common looms, 10,000 Jacquard, more than 5,000 Producing annually, 15,000,000 arschines of st Valued at 10,000,000 silver rubles. The woollen manufactories of Moscow, inclusive of the environs, employed apart smaller loom shops:-- Looms, 5,139 Producing yearly, 30,000 pieces of superior quality Do. more than 50,000 do. ordinary for the army And do. 700,000 arschines of light cloths for China. The values not given. The imports of merchandise from Moscow by water, of which alone exact and detailed particulars are stated, amounted in--