DUSSELDORF is one of the most manu facturing districts in Rhenish Prussia. There are extensive manufactures of woollens, silks, cotton, thread, leather, steel, iron, ironware, and cutlery, tobacco, soap, &c. Iron, coals, and potters' clay, are among the native pro ducts. At Duisberg there is a large vitriol factory, steam cloth mills, slips for building steam and sailing vessels, and several other industrial establishments. Lennep has im portant cloth factories, and dye-houses, and trades in wines, hats, iron ware, &c. Miild heim has large silk and cotton factories, zinc, and iron works, and establishments for the manufacture of steam machinery. Neuss, Ronsdorf, and Ruhrort are busy manufac turing towns. Solingen, sometimes called the German Sheffield, is famous for the manufac ture of sword blades, foils, cutlery, and iron ware. At Wesel the inhabitants manufacture woollen and cotton cloths, soap, hats, cordage, leather, beer, &,c., and carry on a considerable
trade with Holland by the Rhine, and with Westphalia by the Lippe, which has been made navigable ; the chief articles of com merce are corn, timber, coals, salt, wine, brandy, and colonial produce. Diisseldorf, the chief town of the district, has manufactories of woollens, cotton, leather, hats, tobacco, jewellery, mirrors, stockings, &c., and carries on a considerable trade in cotton, wool, wines and spirits, colonial produce, coals, timber, slates and other commodities. It has been a free port since 1829. The growing import. ante of Dusseldorf as a commercial port is seen from the following table of the quantity of merchandise imported and exported in the years stated:— The manufacturers of this part of Prussia are about to take an active part in the approaching great Exhibition.