text:  Our object in prefacing at this length and with seeming irrelevance perhaps our review of the commercial policy of Russia with its bearings on the interests of Great Britain is to show the differing action of the same commercial system in the present case of the prohibitive and restrictive system in different countries both in respect of the mode in which the internal progress and industry of countries acting upon the same principle are variously affected themselves and in respect of the nature and extent of the influences of such action upon those relations of interchange which they entertain or might otherwise entertain with other countries where an opposite or modified system prevails