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RUSSIA. 



penditures was for the first time published in 

 1863. The receipts and expenditures weu 

 estimated in it as follows : 



The Nobility of the Empire have been, since 

 1785, in possession of the right of holding rep- 

 resentative assemblies every third year. Ac- 

 cording to the Imperial Patent issued in that Receipts 

 year by Catherine II., the nobles in every prov- L ORDINARY: 



ince form a corporation under an elective presi- i- -j^P * 1 !^,, 43529 521 



dent or marshal, to whom is joined a govern- indirect taxes'. !!.!!!'!!!!!!.!!!!.'!!! levies 



ment commissioner. The governor of the Prov- 2. Royalties 13,686,666 



ince is not allowed to be present at the meetings. ; ^SS^^^.^^".'".: '. 



These representative assemblies have their own 5. Revenue from Trans-Caucasia. .'.'....'.... 

 seals, archives, secretaries, treasurers, and per- 



manent committee, the latter of which will TT 



. ,, i**fj.\. 1L Extraordinary receipts 15.707, i tO 



unite with deputies of the towns to examine m. Receipt* for special purposes 13,329,446 



the estimates and allotment of contributions to 



be made by the country. These assemblies S47,867,B60 



have recently become of greater importance Expenditures. 



than they were formerly. Those in the western i. ORDINARY : 



provinces of Russia, where nearly all the nobles * P ublic dobt. 5 ,MHH 



AT> vi. i i . i A.-I 2. Supreme State bodies 1.165.875 



are of Polish descent, took an active part in the 3 . orthodox clergy Sjiaslsie 



national movements of the kingdom of Poland. 4. imperial household. 7,755,444 



More recently, several assemblies of Russia wT^.^. 8 .'"!::": ;;;;;;;: ;;:;;;:; iJiglo 



proper petitioned the Emperor for the intro- i'. Navy!!!.."..!.!..!..!!.."!..!!!.!!.".'!.' 18',029',7S3 



duction of a representative form of Government g. Finances 



. , -r, . 9. Imperial domains 9,149,332 



into KUSSia. 10. Southern Colonies 431 ,619 



The Russian Empire comprises one-seventh n. interior Department 8,8*6,244 



of the territorial part of the globe, and about g ^^^&\ \\\"\\\\\\ it!!S 



one twenty-sixth part of its entire surface. The 14. Post Department. 



area of the empire, according to an estimate ij ^rlai 'Roister:!" """I!:. !":!!" %m 



made by Mr. Koeppen of the Academy ot 17. Trans- Caucasia 8,266.is3 



Sciences of Petersburg, is as follows : 1$- Costs of collection. 32,887,278 



; 330,538.414 



apVicafw. Population. H. Delinquent receipts 4,000,000 



miles. III. Expenditures covered by special receipts . . 13,329,446 



Russia in Europe 90,117 69,330,752 847,867,860 



Northern Asiatic Russia 223,780 4,070,933 A/vr>Wlin<r tn nn nflRmil stitomPTit tlm r>nn 



Southern Asiatic Russia.... 8.123 4,008,766 According to an iciai statement, u 



Grand Duchy of Finland 6,400 1,724,193 solidated public debt amounted on January 1, 



Kingdom of Poland ^IMS 1862, to 556,141,949 roubles, and the floating 



American Colonies 17,500 72,3 (5 , . ' , , naaaAtttrin 



! 1 debt, on Jan. 1, 1861, to 1,062,648,719 roubles. 



343,240* j 73,992,373 The exportations amounted, in 1861, to 



\ ' 177,179,000 roubles, and the importations to 



As to religious denominations, the population 167,111,000. The number of arrivals in the 



of European Russia and of Siberia is divided as Russian ports was, in 1861, 10,634 vessels, with 



follows : a tonnage of 1,024,103, and the number of clear- 

 ances, 10,739 vessels, with a tonnage of 1,025,- 

 m . Of the arrivals, 1,956 were British vessels ; 



Orthodox Greek 49,809,891 2,626.704 1,834 Russian, 1,468 Turkish, 763 Netherland- 



Schismatics (Rascoalniki).... 759,880 62,538 j^ /TRO Italian 558 Norwegian 483 Danish 



Armenian Catholics 33,304 10 IStt, if OZ Italian, O ^Norwegian, 4 >al " sn 5 



Roman Catholics 2,800,228 5,740 440 Hanoverian, 2,379 of different nations. Ihe 



Protestants j'^g'ijl f' 1 ? 4 merchant marine numbered, in 1859, 1,416 ves- 



M e oh S ammedans". '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.:!!!! sffiew l,044jC5 sels, with an aggregate tonnageof 172,605 tons, 



Pagans 197,373 280,950 and manned by from 10,000 to 11,000 seamen. 



The Russian army consists, in general : 1, of 



The religious statistics of Caucasian Russia the Active Troops ; 2, of the Reserve Troops ; 



have not yet been ascertained. In Finland, the 3, of the Irregular Troops. The total strength 



orthodox Greek Church had, in 1860, 40,161 according to the reports of the War Ministry, 



souls; nearly all the others were Lutherans, was in 1859 as follows: 

 Russia proper has three cities with a population 



of more than 100,000 : St. Petersburg, with Gcnerala - Ofgcers - Fr ' V8te '- 



520,131; Moscow, with 336,370 ; Odessa, with Active Army 834 26,997 783,352 



104,169. It has eight cities with a population g^ 1 

 from 50,000 to 100,000; forty-three cities with 



a population from 20,000 to 50,000; and 101 | 887 ^' 16 



cities with a population from 10,000 to 20,000. 



A budget containing all the receipts and ex- There were, besides, in the provinces, 503,33 



veterans on indefinite furlough, of whom 239,245 



* Equal to 7,612,874 English square miles. bad to join, in time of war, the active army; 



