Vin] PROTECTION IN RUSSIA.

15%

t Merchants proposes to export a cargo of Russian manu- 1847.
Actures to the Pacific as an experiment, and amongst the Zr. 43.
icles which they think of sending are boots and shoes,
“l-cloth, cordage, low-priced woollens, linen towels, coarse
nen, such as ravenduck ; articles made of wood, such as
boxes, ete. ; and nails, ete. Here are many manufactured
oducts which are natural to Russia, and who can say
low much the development of such indigenous industries
"3Y De interfered with by the protection of cotton goods,
te.2 Baron Meyendorff considers Russia more favoured
hap any other country in the production of wools. In
Russia there are public granaries in every commune, in
"hich, according to law, there ought always to be a store
f grain kept for the safety of the people against scarcity ;
his, like all their laws in this great empire, is little more
hag waste paper. Instead of ordering the erection of
2ublie granaries, the Government, would have done more
Wisely to have devoted its attention to the construction of
ads by which grain could have circulated more freely in
the Country, and thus have prevented the occasional famine
one part of the empire whilst thereis a glut in another.
tt roads were made in Russia, the merchants and dealers
% grain would supply the wants of any particular district
¥ ®qualising the supply of all.”
“8%. Petersburgh, Sept. Tth—Some time ago a Yankee
venture asked permission to establish a hunting-station
the North American territory belonging to Russia, but
b wag refused. A year or two after this occurred, Baron
Meyendorr happened to be calling upon his friend the home
Unigter, who, putting a letter into his band, remarked,
Here something to amuse you; it has occasioned me
! At an hour's incessant laughter. It was a despatch from
‘he governor of Irkutsk, describing in pompous language