The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-27 00:00:00

Tlig TRADE OF RUSSIA.

BERLIN, NlAltalt 24.
The state of trade at the port of St. Petersburg
during the past year, showing the extent to which
that poi t not only recoyeted, but also surpess,d its
commercial activity before t ;e war, will c,rtainly
be of too great inter.v., p•lrticulally to yoiir Com-
al reader,, to require anv kngthe:ied exor-
dium on our part, or apology for its introduction
here.

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In 1856 the total value of all articles imported was
68,871,752 r. ; of all artias exported, 54.926,091 r: ;
Of the imports the nips,. ext,nsive were raw cott•tn,
amount:ng to 13,452,029 r. ; ptecious
9,343,672 r. ; raw sugar, 8,005,520 r. ;
colours,
6,702,447 r. ; sundrie..„ 15,786,050 r. Of • t
total =ult of 68,871,752 r., no less thau
64.257,7-20 r. was the value of good, imported -by
Rus4.an merchants, whsle the foreign-i-s -trading
there imported only to the amount of 4,491,740 r.
• Of the exports the m-st extensive were grain, to
art al:ll,mA of 15,355,666 r. ; tailuw, 11,445,92t)r.;
sundries 14.762,035 r. ; and then the only article of
any amount remtining to be mentioned is tiptop,
4,100,458 r. Of the t a.notint of 54,926,091 r.,
ihee Rus-i.n merchants expoited to the ex eut of
39,558,999 r., whde the foreigners trading there ex-
ported to the amount of 15,311,562 r.
The total amount of Customs dui s received at St.
Peterahurg-, and Cron,tadt on the imports and ex-
ports of 1856 was 9,700,733 r.
The following -LAWN of the exports cleared out at
St. Petersburg during the last four years will show
the effects of the war on that chief port of Russian
trade, and its recovery atter the peace

Rouhlfs.
The exports in 1853 were 53,267.261
I/ 1854 „
If 1855 „
1856 ~
The following figures show the large proportion
of Russian exports that Great Britain takes, which
teaches us at the same time the exp ditui3y of Bet-
ting to wof k at once to obtain ago d treaty of com-
merce with her, as soon as the tirif atrangemeLts
are concluded, and the neQessity of providing our-
selves during peace with other markets to buy in,
so that we may be independent of her when poli-
tics require we should go to war with her. Of•the
1,214,000 ponds of hemp which she expo/tea in
1856, England took p 20,800 pou.le ; r f 238,400
pouds of flax, 598,800 ponds 2 • of 2,574,121 ponds
of tall w, 1,856,954 ; of 727,160 pouds of Loir'es,
676,929 ; of 765,142 tchetwerts of wheat, 649,307 ;
of 32 ',693 telicrwerts of cat,4, 297,494 ; and of
695,093 ponds of iron, nearly the whole, namely,
641,435 ponds, b;.isides 9,09 u l ouds of Old iron.
The navigation opened May bth (N.S. 17th),
and was closed Nov. 22d (N.& Dec. 4th). The
total number of arrivals was 3,374 ; of these 1,176
came in hallaA ; of the remaining 2,198 vessel,
631 brought coals. Of the 430 steamers 'hat
entered that port last year, 155 came from Eng-
land. The suddenness with which the winter set
in caused no less than 377 vessels to be blocked up
the ice at St. Petersburg and Cronstadt, against
Bon the previous winter. The total number cf ar-

rivals at the port during 1856, as mentioned above,
3,374, above, when compared with 1,921, that of
1853, the last Tar before the war, an increase of
1,453.

Addit;onal light is thrown on Russian trade and
navigation by a report on the craft that has paised
the Sound daring The last year, from which we ex-
trict the following

Ttie vesBels that pawed the Sound in 1856,
coming from the German Ocean, with car-

goes, were

Ditto, in ballast
Coming from the Baltic, with cargoes
Ditto, in ballast

8,930
1,362
9,839
499

Amounting altogether to
being an increase of 4,745 vessels on the preceding
year, but a diminution of 228 on the number in
1853. Of those that entered the Baltic 2,485
brought carg( e 4 for Russian ports, the most promi-
nent element which was raw cotton, amounting
in all to 170,000 bales, of about 4501 b. Russian
each ; of these 170,000, there culla 56,100 direct
from the Uttie:l 95,0:i0 from England,
12,000 from Holland and Belgium, &c. Of those
vessels that left the Baltic with Ruz-sian exports ou
oard them were 4,183—viz., 1,901 from St. Pe-
tersburg, 1,581 from Riga, and the rest from
Wyhorg, Narva, Liban, Revel, Pernau, &c. The
Russian shipping trade seems to have endeavoured

tu the pa-t year io wake up by increased activity
for the losses it had sustained during the war, for
we find that 194 Russian vessels, of which uo
fewer than 66 were built from 1855 to 1856, con-
trived in the latter year to make 456 trips thr3uwh
the Sound. bast year's navigation of the Baltic
has been remarkable for the great increase in
the proportion of steamers, of which no less than
684 passed the Sound ; 414 of them were English,
158 Swedish-and Norwegian, and 7 Russian.
The general results of the movement of trade
throughout the empire in the preceding year,
viz., 1855, have also been publahed. According to
these statistics there were in 1855 goods exporttd—

Over the European frontier to
Over the Asiatic frontier
In Finland
Out of the kingdom of Poland

R
7,577,297
10,347,649
1 643,257
9,947,237

Precinug 'petals exported—
Over European tfontier
Oyer the Atlititic frontier
Out of Poland

39,515,440

-1.990,599
3,895,227
244,184

Total exports..
Goods were imported—

6,130,010

45,645, 450

Roubl.e.
Over the European frontier to 40,640,911
Over the Asiatic frontier
From Finland
Into Poland

Precious metals imported—
Over the European frontier
Over the Asiatic frontier
Into P 4 laiLd

72,699,881

1,461,072
69,105
346;869

1,877,046

Total imports 74,576,927

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.)

LONDON, March 27.—Wind this day at noon, W.;
light airs and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, March 26.—Wind W.S.W.—Anived—
Ocean, from Fec.atop, for Newfoundland; Heatherball,
London, for Hobart Town. Sailed—kLM.S. Plumber, for
the westward.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 2G.—Sailed—Washington, for
New York,

SWANSEA, March 26.—Wind E S.B..—Sailed—Henry
Rankin, for Coquimbo.
CARDIFF, March 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Prince-
ton, from Savannah. Sailed—Vancleuse, for New York.
GRIMSBY, March 26.—The Sephora (s.), from Bor-
deaux, was driven foul of by the Jamaica, of Sunderland,
and received damage to rail, bulwarks, b-ats,&c.
LERWICK, March 22.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Augusta,
for Rio Janeiro
_Emma, Davis' Straits.
PETERHEAD, March 26.—The Rienrje Willemina, fr'm
Music, for Leith, was stranded at Rattrsy Head on the
22d inst., and is discharging.
QUEENSTOWN, March 26.—The Murningtori,‘ St .
John's, timber laden, was fallen in with this morning off
DungbryLn, by the Don Pedro (s.), of this port.
CUXHAVIEN, March 24. —The brig Susan, front Shields,
for Hamburg, has been abandoned in a sinking state; crew
saved and arrived here.
AMSTERDAM, March 25.—The Branck, from Sunderland,
for Hartlepool, wbioh was stran,led on the island of Ame
land on the sth inst., has been sold by auction, with part
of cargo on board, for 181 f., and the rigging, masts, and
spars for 1,106 f ; the whole of the cargo saved has been
deposited in Government stores.

Wind E.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPR.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Arrived—Montmorency, from New Orle =na ; Henry
Gardner, Belize; Harbinger, Alexandria; Adlrr, Ham-
burg.
Sailed—Thomas, for St. John's, N.B.
QUEENSTOWN, March 25.

Wind N.W.
Arrived—Argo, from Galata.