FRANKFORT. With the exception of Sachsenhausen and its 5000 inhabitants, who are principally agriculturists, gardeners, and day-labourers, the citizens of Frankfort-on-the' Main derive their subsistence from commerce, money operations, and manufactures. It is a place of considerable transit for German and foreign produce. The chief articles of trade are wines, English, French, and Italian goods, Bavarian timber, German wools, colonial pro duce, and German manufactures. The chief manufactures are carpets, galloon, tobacco, cards, cottons, silks, printer's black, &c.
An establishment formed here for the sale of Bohemian glass, contains some of the best examples of that manufacture. The works which supply the stock are situated at Heyde, and the activity with which they are conducted here and elsewhere is necessarily a means of many improvements and novelties. Some of the examples of verre perruche are very beau tiful; this is a production in which glass of different colours is joined together. There are also many examples of enamel on colour less glass, presenting forms and designs of much taste. There is in this city an establish ment for the extensive sale of the productions of the iron-foundry of Henan, comprehending a very extensive assortment of objects of uti lity and ornament—as candlesticks, branches, paper-weights; vases, tazzas, and every other ornamental object which the French artists and manufacturers produce in bronze. The
finest manufacture, that in gray iron, is also brought to a high degree of excellence ; this class of productions comprehends every orna mental article in which iron filligree is in any wise available, and so fine is the workmanship in this hair wire material, that iron, equiva lent in value to 11. sterling, may be manufac tured into a variety of articles amounting in value to 10001.
Many curiosities from Frankfort will appear at the forthcoming Exhibition.
There is another Frankfort, called Frankfort on the Oder. The manufactures of the town consist of wines, mustard, brandy, tobacco, sugar, gloves, stockings, linen, leather, &c. its trade is extensive, and the three periodical fairs, instituted in 1253, are well frequented, particularly by Polish dealers.