text:  In the course of the discussions which terminated in the treaty of commerce and navigation with Russia laid before parliament on the opening of the session--the stipulations of which however chiefly bore upon the extension of certain reciprocal rights of navigation--the Emperor Nicholas in answer to representations pressed upon him from this country for a liberal extension of the same principle to the general commerce of Russia to foreign imports as well as shipping and exports--to let in a glimmer of the free-trade principle in fact--replied as we observed in a former article that "the system such as it was he had received from his predecessors and it was found to work well for the interests of his empire