BORDEAUX. This celebrated city,!one of the most important in France, has great faci lities both for foreign and internal commerce. Wine, brandy, and fruits are the chief articles of export. The Medoc or claret wines are sent chiefly to England ; the inferior sorts to Hol land and Germany. England was among the best customers for Medoc wines as far back as the time of our Norman kings. The produce of this famous district of the Gironde is about 105,000 hogsheads annually. One half of the total produce of the three hest vineyards, viz. Chateau Margaux, Chateau Lafitte, and Cha teau Latour, comes to England. Large quan tities of wine are also shipped to America; but this trade is chiefly in the hands of European and American Spaniards who are settled at Bordeaux. Other articles of commerce are, all kinds of bread-stuffs, hemp, flax, pitch and tar, cork, oil, salt provisions, hardware, metals, cotton yarn, ship timber, and rigging. Ships
are fitted out at Bordeaux for the whale and cod fisheries. The manufactures of the town are jewellery and plated goods, linen, muslin, woollen stuffs, calicoes, hosiery, gl.-yes, corks, soap, chemical products, musical instruments, &c. The town also has several distilleries, sugar-refineries, breweries, gas-works, glass and china works, tobacco-factories, rope-walks and dockyards. Colonial products, cotton, dye-stuffs, pepper, hides, tobacco, and rice, are the principal imports. There is a regular service of packets from Bordeaux to the Ha vanna and the coast of Mexico. The custom duties paid at Bordeaux amount to the large sum of 12,000,000 francs a year,—nearly half a million sterling.