ce of Russia by sea was carried on, during the year
1841, by 2,596 vessels, inwards loaded, tonnage, 452,760
2,174 do. in ballast, do. 410,164
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Totals, 4,770 862,924
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4,582 do. outwards loaded, do. 819,232
312 do. do. in ballast, do. 58,046
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Totals, 4,894 877,278

In the coasting trade in the Northern seas, the number of vessels
dispatched from port to port was 2007, in the Black Sea, 5,275.

The revenue from customs in 1841 amounted to 27,387,494 silver rubles,
or upwards of two-fifths in excess of the receipts of 1830.

In order to exemplify the nature of the trade betwixt Great Britain and
Russia, and exhibit it in its most disadvantageous aspect, we shall add
here, from statements verified as authentic by competent authorities on
the spot, the returns of British trade and shipping with certain Russian
ports for 1842, which we have recently received direct. They will assist
us to a conception of the relative importance of each place in respect
of its commercial connexion with this country.

The commerce of the port of Archangel, omitting from the table Onega,
Kola, Kemi, and Soumsk, the other ports in the White Sea, their traffic
being inconsiderable, is thus represented.

1842.--Total shipping outward, 212, of which,
British, 153, tonnage, 31,704
Total imports, (exclusive of L.13,816
by Norway coasters,) L.18,384
Of which from Great Britain, L.801
Total exports, (omitting L.22,236 to Norway,) L.427,789
Of which to Great Britain, L.305,823
In 1841, 176 vessels exported for
Great Britain the value, L.408,077
Exclusive of cargoes by 2 other vessel, to the amount
of L.7,208, for the Hanse towns and Holland.
In 1840, 250 vessels, tonnage 48,249, exported to
Great Britain the value of L.442,381
Exclusive of 6 British vessels which carried cargoes to
the Hanse towns