Some Facts About Russia

Somc ut n publishcd relativ ! and material developnient óf jíusímíi during the last threfl years. The uns stito of public education is acconnted for by the doficiencyof te on the other b botk in numbsr and aírenla tion. 7. thegreatest progress hn-, of course, be n m ide ia the corameveial und industrial dopartracnts. In 1860 tho value of the rxports was 168,031,587 roubles, and of the importa 138,181,745 roub 70 theoxportswi ables, and the value of the importa was 315,407,400 roubles. Tho foreign trade of Russia has tlius increased by 128 per cent. in the last ien veins. The inci in tho importa, moreovor, is not .i normal one, for it is cansad, to a considerable extont, by the importation i rails, machinery nnd othcr artiolcs ter whioh thoro is not ft coi: tand. T!: ports oonsist ohiofly ol , i etc. (168,000,000 loubli con, oattle, skins, hops .od, Xho larpfcst t v : ■ ! is vith Eng!: nd exporta) 170,000,000 roubles 'm po roulilcs' vroitli of the ' , and imported iuto Kussia 125,000,000 coubks' worth.