1830 5 poods, 32 lbs., 59-1/2 zdotnicks. 1832 21 --- 34 --- 68-3/4 --- 1834 65 --- 18 --- 90-3/8 --- 1836 105 --- 9 --- 41 --- 1838 193 --- 6 --- 47-1/2 --- 1840 255 --- 27 --- 26-3/8 --- 1842 631 --- 5 --- 21-1/4 --- The total of the thirteen years has been 2093 poods, 38 lbs., 46 zd. The pood, be it remembered, is equal to (rather more than) 36 lbs. avoirdupois. The total general yield of the older worked mines of the Oural mountains for 1842, was, besides, 149 poods, 18 lbs., 58 zd. And of platina, 53 -- 33 -- 67 -- On a rough estimation, the produce of all the gold, platina, and silver from the silver mines, could not have amounted to less, perhaps, for the year 1842, than three millions sterling. According to the learned academician Köppen, of St Petersburg, in a lengthened memoir upon the subject, the total population of Russia, inclusive of Poland, Finland, and Trans-Caucasian provinces, ascended in 1839 to 65,000,000 Or of Russia Proper alone, 55,500,000 With an empire so gigantic, a population so large, however disproportioned as compared with territory, and with resources so incalculable, it must appear extraordinary that foreign commercial relations are so limited. The total of exports and imports together for 1841, represents only, in round numbers, a commercial movement to the value of 165,811,000 silver rubles, or in sterling, about L.25,907,300. The matter which most concerns this country, is the very disproportionate interest which results to its share in the export and import trade of Russia. Taking the latest British returns of the value of Russian products imported into England, for the Board of Trade tables give quantities only, as we find them stated by Mr McGregor, the indefatigable secretary of that board, for 1838, at L.6,977,396, or say, in round numbers L.7,000,000 And British exports at the declared value here of, say, 1,700,000 ----------- There would appear to result the very heavy difference against the United Kingdom of L.5,300,000