The commerce of St Petersburg ia very considerable. Ships of large burden cannot come up to St. Petersburg in consequence of a bar scrota the mouth of the Neva, which has not more than nine feet of water upon it The gross Imports into St Petersburg In 1849 were valued at 71,540,996 silver rubles, or about 11,300,000/. sterling ; the exports amounted to 33,340,747 silver rubles, or about 6,000,0001. sterling. The chief items In the exports were hemp, flax, tow, linseed, tallow, hides, vat-lone hempen and flaxen manufactnres, timber, leather, bonee, potash, bristles, iron, copper, furs, &c. The imports are chiefly colonial produce ; tissues of cotton, flax, silk, and wool ; dyestuffs, wine, spirits, 14a The harbour is at Cronstadt [Cnosersrer.) When large ships are built, the hull la usually constructed at St. Petersburg, and thee towed down the river by steamers to be fitted up at Cronstadt In the transit they are placed on large rafts called camels. A canal connect. the river system of the Neva with that of the Voles, thus affording an unbroken water comm un icat ion between the Baltic and tI. Caspi.us pea% a distance of upwards of 1400 mile& St. Petersburg is connected by railway with Moscow, a distance of 400 miles.
(Milner, Tat Balite, it. Gates, Norm, and Cities. London, 1854; Kohl; Plow of Cr. Petersburg, published by the Society for the Diffusion
of Useful Knowledge.) PETEItSFIELD, I I ampithire, a market-town, parliamentary borough, and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, In the parish of Petersfield, is situated In 61' V N. lat, 0' 56' NY, long., distant 1S miles E. by S. from Winchester, and 54 miles S.W. from London. The population of the parliamentary borough in 1551 was 5530. A mayor Is chosen annually, but his only function is that of returning.offieer at parlia mentary elections. The borough one member to the Imperial Parliament, The living is a curacy, annexed to the rectory of Buriton, In the archdeacoory and diocese of Winchester. Peters6eld Poor-Law Union contains 13 parishes and townships, with an area of 40,112 acres, and a population In 1851 of 7814.
Petersfield Is a clean country town, well supplied with water, lighted with gas, and paved. Resides the parochial chapel, a building chiefly of the 12th century, with fine Norman arches, there are a chapel for Independents, Churcher's college or school, National, British, and Infant schools, a library and reading-room, and a bank. Near the chapel Is an equestrian atottte of William III. A county court Is held. The market in on alternate Wednesdays. Fairs for cattle and sheep are held on July 10th and December 11th.