| For sale. | Sold. | ||
| Cotton goods, | 7,336,665 | 5,947,865 | silver rubles. |
| Woollens, | 3,448,295 | 2,620,175 | ... |
| Linen and hempen fabrics, | 3,126,736 | 2,375,736 | ... |
| Silks, | 3,220,489 | 2,239,989 | ... |
| Leather, worked and not, | 1,043,583 | 876,083 | ... |
| Produce of mines and founderies, iron, copper, hardware, jewellery, | 7,600,330 | 6,450,330 | ... |
Tea, for 7,107,500 rubles assignation, and other products of China, were brought to the fair; raw cotton, cotton-yarn, shawls, silks, skins, &c. from Persia and Asia, to the value of 29,796,819 roubles assignation, and chiefly sold. Of the products of Western Europe, which make but a miserable exhibit, the following are the chief:—
| Woollen stuffs, for | 256,455 | silver rubles. |
| Cottons, | 510,830 | ... |
| Linens and hempen fabrics, | 192,300 | ... |
| Silks, | 423,130 | ... |
| Indigo, | 918,000 | ... |
The growing magnitude of this fair will be appreciated by the following returns of former years:—
| Total commodities | ||||
| for sale. | Rubles assignation. | |||
| 1829, | 104,018,586 | of which sold for | 50,104,971 | rbls. ass. |
| 1831, | 129,457,600 | ... | 98,329,520 | ... |
| 1833, | 146,207,311 | ... | 117,210,670 | ... |
| 1835, | 143,369,240 | ... | 117,743,340 | ... |
| 1837, | 146,638,181 | ... | 125,507,881 | ... |
| 1838, | 156,192,500 | ... | 129,234,500 | ... |
| 1839, | 161,643,674 | ... | 137,100,774 | ... |
| 1840, | 165,427,384 | ... | 135,901,454 | ... |
The convenience of these fairs for the purposes of interchange, both between different industries and the populations of different provinces of the same empire, and with contiguous countries from which so great an affluence of merchants with their merchandise for exchange was attracted, has induced the government to decree the establishment of eleven new fairs in different towns, and fifty-nine others in as many large villages, which, in growing size, may be already compared with towns.
The internal commercial communications of Russia are chiefly carried on by means of those innumerable rivers and canals, that network of natural and artificial canals, by which she is intersected through all her extent, and which, taking their rise in various central parts of the empire, pursue their course singly, or falling into each other, and so constituting mighty streams, to the White sea and the Baltic, or fall into the Black sea and the Caspian. The total movement of this internal navigation in all the rivers, presented the following results:—
| Departures from the different ports in the interior in 1839, | 60,277 | barques. | |
| ( | do. | 24,421 | rafts. |
| Arrivals at ( | do. | 46,850 | barques. |
| ( | do. | 17,469 | rafts. |
| They were the convoys of merchandise dispatched from the ports to the value of | 737,814,276 | rubles ass. |
| Of merchandise forwarded to do. | 538,921,730 | ... |
| In 1837 the values dispatched from, ascended only to | 618,990,306 | ... |
| Do. forwarded to | 490,505,940 | ... |
The various and many basins of river and water communication, scientifically arranged, and showing how all parts of that vast empire are connected with each other through all and nearly every portion of its territorial extent, as in the report before us, is a document worthy of study and more minute analysis, but our limits forbid.