EDINBURGH. Important and interesting as the Scottish metropolis may be in many particulars, it is not in respect to manufac tures or commerce that it appeals to our no tice. Its maritime commerce is all conducted at Leith; while its manufactures of paper, types, and other commodities, are of the mis cellaneous kind which belong to a large me tropolitan city, rather than partaking of any one distinctive character. The same may be said of Dublin, except that Dublin has no such great rival to its industry as Edinburgh has in Glasgow.
It is in the aid which the educational and literary talent of Edinburgh affords towards the study of all sciences, and their application to the arts, that we are to look for the chief link which connects Edinburgh with the in dustry of the age. The Scottish Society of Arts, among other institutions, has rendered valuable aid in this direction.
The county to which Edinburgh belongs has a few industrial towns. Dalkeith contains
a large iron-foundry, a gas-work, and there are manufactures of felt and beaver bats, straw hats, and woollen stuffs. At Mussel burgh, besides a small coasting-trade, there are manufactures of sail-cloth and hair-cloth ; and there are coal mines in the neighbour hood. Leith claims a word of notice elsewhere. [LErra.] The number of parties who have come for ward at Edinburgh as exhibitors at the Great Industrial Exhibition amounts to 163. Of these, 14 will be in the section for raw mate rials and produce, 68 in the section for ma chinery, 62 in the section for manufactures, and 19 in the section for sculpture, models, and the plastic art. The entire space which will be required extends to 10,143 square feet, of which 3,558 is floor space, 1,939 table space, 4,646 wall space. The articles that are proposed to be exhibited are very miscel laneous.