The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-07 00:00:00

Return of Killed and Wounded of the Troops under the
Command of Major. General M`Caskill,
Camp Istalif, Sept. 30, 1842.
•
Mountain Train-1 European officer wounded.
3d Company Ist Batt. Bombay Artillery-2 rank and
file wounded.
Christie's Irregular Cavalry-2 horses killed and two
horses wounded.
Her Majesty's 9th Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file
killed ; 1 officer. 1 sergeant, 13 rank and file wounded.
16th Regt N. I-1 rank and file killed ; 1 European
officer, 3 bavildars, 8 rank and file, wounded.
Broadfoot's Sappers-2 rank and file killed ;1 European
officer, 6 rank and file, 1 horse, wounded.
Her Majesty's 41st Regnnent.-1 officer, 1 rank and file
killed ; 4 rank and file wounded.
42d Regiment N. 1.-4 rank and file wounded.
Total.-1 officer, 5 rank and file, 2 horses killed ;
4 European and Native officers, 4 sergeants and
havildars, 37 rank and tile, 3 horses, wounded.
NAMES OF OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Lieut. Evans, H. M. 41st foot, killed.
Lieut. Richardson, horse artillery, slightly wounded.
Lieut. and Adjutant Spencer, 26th, N. 1., slightly
wounded.
Lieutenant Lister, H. M. 9th Foot, slightly wounded.
Captain Broadfoot, sappers, slightly wounded.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Orr's charger wounded.
11. HAVELOCK, Captain, Deputy Assistant-
Adjutant-General Infantry Division.
RETURN OF ORDNANCE CAPTURED FROM TIIE ENEMY
ON SEPT. 291
_842.
ermli-17Mir,"8ept. 30, 1842.
2 brass six-pounder field pieces, of native manufacture.
J. B. BACKHOUSE, Captain. Commanding
Artillery with the Force.

TRADE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND

CHINA.

As whatever may tend to throw light on the direc-
tion taken hitherto by the foreign commerce of Chins
cannot fail to possess additional interest under actual_'
circumstances, the following statement of the trade
carried on with Russia, derived from official sources.
and not before published, to the latter date at least,.
maybe acceptable to commercial and statistical reader'.
It is generally taken for granted that the whole of the
commercial transactions between Russia and China.
are operated at the great annual gathering of the
merchants and dealers of the two nations at Kiaktar.
at the southern central extremity of the government.
of Irkoutelt, part of what is officially termed the-
kingdom of Siberia, and confining with the Chinese
frontiers and vast wastes of Mongolia. it will be
found, however, that a traffic of growing, though at
present of no great extent, has gradually been
established, however indirectly, along other parts of
the Siberian line, and by sea in the ports
of Southern Russia. According to ancient and
special compact between the two empires, however,
the traffic, which is strictly limited by conditions to
one of simple barter, or mutual interchange of com-
modities, from the liquidation or facilitating of which
all monetary agency, whether of gold, silver, or
paper instruments of value are carefully excluded on
each side, should be strictly limited to Kiakta. Thus
the singular spectacle is presented of a trade by pure
barter, so that whatever increase or diminution of de-
mand exists on the one side must necessarily be
balanced as nearly as possible by a corresponding
movement on the other, so far as the authorised in-
tercourse of that particular and privileged spot. It
will be perceived that the exchange imports from
China consist almost wholly of tea. The total values
of exports and imports by, way of Kiakta are thus
given in official documents for the two years 1839
1840 respectively:—

1839. 1840.
Exports by way of Kiakta Silver Roubles.
into China 2,262,416 2,287,222
Imports into, from China .2,474,422 2,493,669
For the better intelligence of the Russian values
referral to, it may be added that the silver rouble is
equal to 37d. sterling, and the Russian pood to nibs.
avoirdupois as generally calculated, although in
reality nearly 14 ounce over.
A large proportion of the export exchanges of
Russia consists of furs and skins, partly the produce of
Russia herself, and partly derived from the traffic
with the Nomadic tribes of the steppes on the fron-
tiers of the Governments of Orenburg and Siberia.
The quantities and value of Russian manufactured
goods which enter into the total amount of these ex-
ports, and the nature of which will be of more in-
terest here, are thus given :

Silver Roubles.
Of cotton fabrics for 1840
Of woollens 1,241,133 arschines of the
value of

984,403

Total

so that they constituted more than one-half the value
of the total exports. These figures, so far as woollens,
show an increase over the similar exports of the year
before, though not of much importance.
Silver Roubles.
1839—export 1,212,364 arschines of
woollens, value
Bnt, as compared with 1830, the export of wool-
lens shows a considerable progress. In that year
the quantity exported did not exceed 144,441
arschines, of the value of 364,056 silver rs.
The Chinese imports into Kiakta were composed
almost exclusively of teas. Thus in
Poods. Silver Roubles.
1839, tea in chests 141,997f value 2,287,112
tea in brick or as some-
times called, tile tea 64,6981
1840, tea in chests 149,731
tea in brick ....
Thus of the total value of Chinese exchange
imports in 1839 of
Teas entered for
And of the imports of 1840 of
Teas for
Exclusive of the entries by Kiatka, however, im-
ports of minor quantities took place through other
quarters.

110,812
- 2,303,859
110,394

through the country of the
Kirghises and other tribes
along the line of Siberia, in roods.
'835, tea in chest
• tea in brick

Roublos.
8,227
19,912
62,663
19,039

840, tea in chests
tea in brick

11:522561

Through the ports of Southern
Russia, of teas entered, 1839 1,6921 115,202
1840 2,002 97,696
So that the total imports of teas into Russia, and
the consumption, so far as officially known, stood
thus for the years cited, so far as as
the ts in chests,
Foods. ' Silver Roubles.

In 1839
1840
It is to be observed that a decline in the price of
teas equal to about 4 per cent. occurred at the market
of 1840 as compared with 1839. The following
,re-
turns exhibit the progress of the imports and con-
sumption of tea, starting with 1830 :
Roubles Assignation.
In 1830 total quantity 154,554 1 value 6 262 0
poods and 161 chests , 28
Tea in Chests. In Brick.
1836 ... 136,229 poods 79,455 8,623,108
1837 135,809 58,161 8,111,043
1838 ... 129,215 71,937 7,864,389
1839 ... 143,842
66,0311 9,077,848
vlaslut9sshlre—represented apparently, as
66,426 8,894,438
with
.preceding amounts in respect of the
compared The el xBc4eos excess
same values, arises from the fact, as will be noted,
that these values are given in rouble assignations, or
paper money, and before in silver rouble3. Until
1840, the financial accounts of the empire were kept
and reckoned exclusively in the paper, or rouble as-
signation money; in that year an order was issued to
calculate and keep them in future according to the
silver rouble standard. The relation which each
value bears to the other is however readily rendered ;
one silver rouble is equal to 31- roubles assignation,
that is 350 roubles assignation go to 100 silver
roubles. The tea in brick, that is, made up in the
shape of bricks, is of a very inferior description, com-
pounded of all sorts of refuse tea mixed up with other
herbage and caked together. It sells commonly for
about two silver roubles the pood, and is exclusively
destined for sale and consumption among the nomadic
tribes in the southern provinces of Russia. From the
immense distance, and the consequently heavy charges
of carriage, with interests of outlay and profit cor-
responding, the nearly 24- millions value in silver
roubles of teas imported by Kinkts. and Siberia, is
on arrival for sale at the great fair of Nijny-Isfov-
gored, converted into a value realised equal to 2i
times the amount, say between six and seven millions
,of roubles. The trade is almost entirely carried on
I for account of the enterprising merchants of Moscow,
and its profits serve greatly to enrich them.—lferald.

CHINESE PROGRESS.—We have heard it, stated on
authority on which we can rely, that a surgeon to one
of the principal London hospitals has been applied to
to receive a young Chinese into his house to teach him
be art gnd mystery of surgery.