GERMANY. This large and important country, including the states which form the ZOLLVEREIN or German Customs Union, will occupy an important position at the Exhibi• tion of the Industry of all Nations. In addi tion to the brief details given under the heads of the component countries, [BADEN ; PRIIasrA; SAXONY, &c.], we will give the following abstract, relating chiefly to the arrangements for the Exhibition.
To carry out the intentions of the English commissioners it became necessary to esta blish special commissions in Berlin and the leading points of the Prussian monarchy—in Munich, Stutgardt, Dresden, Brunswick, Wiesbaden, and Frankfort, in order to digest and arrange the applications for space in the Crystal' Palace. The results of the collective labours of these several commissions have been transmitted to Berlin, to be from thence forwarded to London. By these it appears that there have been 1,572 applications from the artistic and industrial producers within the Customs Union. Of this number 455 belong to the eastern, and 430 to the western pro vinces of the Prussian monarchy ; 197 to the southern states, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Baden ; 339 to the central German States, Saxony, Brunswick, the Anhalt, and Thurin gian territories ; and 151 to the states of western Germany, viz., the two Hesses, Frankfort, Luxemburg, Nassau, Birltenfield, and the principality of Lippe.
In a long and valuable report which the Prussian commission has issued a review is taken of the industrial resources of Germany, and of the power which she possesses to occupy a distinguished place in any Exhibition of produce and manufactures. Germany is the great store-house for zinc; in 1849 she produced 452,548 cwts. In the Rhenish pro vinces more than 1,800,000 cwts. of iron were made in that year. Anhalt, Westphalia, and the Rhenish provinces can produce specimens of lead and antimony; Prussia and Saxony can contribute copper; cobalt and small are found and abundantly used in Bavaria ; coal is found in various parts of the Zoilverein ; salt is abundant; aluminous clays, pottery clays, building stones—in short almost every kind of mineral produce useful in the arts is to be met with in one or other of the German states ; and the Prussian Commissioners have striven so far as lay within their authority, to have all these varieties represented at the Great Exhibition. The same may be said of vegetable and animal produce used in the arts. In the section of manufactures Germany is in a condition to produce a most varied assem blage, if her manufacturers put forth their best powers ; while in machinery and in the fine arts, there is no reason why she should not equally maintain a high reputation.
As an example of the admirable way in which a systematic arrangement enables the Zollverein to contribute from each state what it can best contribute, we may take the depart. ment of Drugs, Perfumery, Dyeing and Tanning materials and Printing materials. Here we find that balsams and mountain herbs will be exhibited from Hirschberg. Perfumes by Farina (the elder and younger of Cologne), by other houses in that city, and in Dusseldorf. Specimens of woad—an article which was once of great commercial importance—will be sent from Erfurt, where the last remnant of its cultivation has been still preserved. Madder and madder dyes will be sent from Mnl hausen ; indigo carmine from Cologne ; printing ink from Markttift (in Lower Fran conia), and from Mayence ; ink for copper plate printing from Frankfort-on-the-Maine ; extract of gall-nuts from RatiSbon ; alkaloid and Peruvian bark from Rhenish Hessen ; printing colours from Leipsic ; aquarell, Indian ink, and paints from Saalfeld, in Meiningen.
In respect to textile materials, fleeces will be sent from Limmenau, Dombran, Zwerbrodt, Hennersdorf, and Oberberg, all in Silesia; from several places in the Grand Dukedom Posen, Prussia proper, Brandenberg, • and Saxony. Raw silk will he exhibited from Berlin and the Grand Dukedom Posen. Bristles of peculiarly good quality will be sent from Mach, in the neighbourhood of Erfurt. And so likewise in respect to tanned leather. Hides will be sent from Neckarsteinach (ex hibiting a novel and peculiar process of tanr,nag); from St. With, Muhlheim, Trier, Bingen, and Mayence. The eastern provinces, Berlin, Magdeburg, Stettin, Weissenfels, Miihlhausen, and Gera, will send samples. Lacquered leather, skins, &c., will be sent from Palgorebeim in Bavaria, Bingen, Offenbach, Frankfurt, Worms, and Mekenheim. Sheep skins and morocco leather will be sent from Waldin, on the Lahr, in Baden; parchment and drumskins from Erfurt; instrument leather from Altenburg ; saddlery, harness, Russian 'and strop-leather will be forwarded from Trier, Barmen, and the Marches. String gut will be sent from Tilsit and Briiel ; animal glue from Cologne, Miihlhausen, and Stral sund; grainy and fine-ground animal charcoal from Tilsit; carmine, and other animal dye stuffs, from Elberfeld, Berlin, Liegnitz, and S chwo in furt.
Nearly all the other departments are equally rich in examples.
The shipping trade between Great Britain on the one hand, and the entire of Germany on the other (including both Austria and Prus sia) exhibited the following results in 1850.— The vessels which entered British ports were 3,147, of 464,770 tons; while those which left British ports were 2914, of 405,218 tons.