From the Baltimore american.
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Russia.-The statement below, of the amount of
Russian commerce, is from the London Courier.
The progress of this empire in civilization, and the
extension of its frontiers all sides, within the last


century, are the more interesting as they seem to
have received their impulse from the genius Of single
man. 1t was Peter l., who conquered provinces in
order to obtain port for his dominions, that gave


the first movement to that policy which has been so
consistently pursued BY his successors. M The posi-


territorial grandeur. The limit of European civili-
zaton to the east, she has on several parts of her
frontier such weak and unpoHced neighbors, (if we
NAV use the expression that she can hardly fail to
come out Of every conflict with them. with new ac-


misitions. The event of her present war with Per-
sa will show this truth, and still farther extend the
dominion which she has been pushing with such sue
cess in that part Of the world
II was once the fashion Of the day, to regard the