Cotton loom, 17,000 Producing annually, 450,000 pieces of calico Do. 400,000 do. of nankeen Do. above, 2,000,000 do. of handkerchiefs In the whole, inclusive of other goods, such as muslins, velvets, &c., &c., equal to above, 40,000,000 arschines of fabrics Valued at 7,500,000 silver rubles.
The arschine is about twenty-eight English inches. The silk manufacture, of recent establishment only in Moscow, presented the following results, for that city and the surrounding districts:--
Number of common looms, 10,000 Jacquard, more than 5,000 Producing annually, 15,000,000 arschines of st Valued at 10,000,000 silver rubles.
The woollen manufactories of Moscow, inclusive of the environs, employed apart smaller loom shops:--
Looms, 5,139 Producing yearly, 30,000 pieces of superior quality Do. more than 50,000 do. ordinary for the army And do. 700,000 arschines of light cloths for China.
The values not given. The imports of merchandise from Moscow by water, of which alone exact and detailed particulars are stated, amounted in--
1837, to 22,881,000 rubles assignation 1838, 22,074,563 ... 1839, 17,467,391 ... 1840, 28,283,877 ...
Three and a half rubles assignation, are equal to one silver ruble. Moscow enjoys the advantage of being an internal bonded port, or port of intrepôt, a privilege now seeking by Manchester, so that importers of foreign merchandise are not called upon for the payment of duties until the moment when, withdrawing their imports, or any other portion of them as occasion requires, the payment becomes necessary. Formerly the duties had to be paid in the frontier ports, and often in bulk. The customhouse revenue resulting, amounted in--
1837, to 637,074 rubles assignation 1838, 614,464 ... 1839, 626,764 ... 1840, 776,021 ... 1841, 898,398 ...
These returns are proof indisputable of industrial and social progress. It is unnecessary further to remark upon the great and growing importance of other branches of industry in Moscow, or to extend the limits of this notice so far as to comprise a review of the iron and hardware manufactories, and the numerous tanneries of Tula and Perm. The active movement of internal commerce, may, however, be inferred from the returns of products exhibited and sold at twelve fairs held annually, with one thrice, and another twice, in the year, the total value of which exposed for sale in 1840, was stated at 101,551,000 silver rubles, and of the quantity actually sold at 64,326,700 rubles. Of which alone at--