MARNE. There are two French depart ments thus named, which present a fair amount of productive and commercial indus try.
In Marne the vine for the production of the famous Champagne wines is the chief ob ject of the landholder's care all through the department, more especially in the arondisse meat of Reims and Epernay, wherein the white wines of Sillery, Al, Mareuil, Pierry, Epernay, and Dizy ; and the pink wines of Verzenay, Verzy, Bouzy, Taissy, Curnieres, Al, Hautvilliers, Mareuil, Dizy, and Pierry, all of the first class. The Champagne vintage is noticed under WINE MANUFACTURE. Tho quantity of wine of all kinds made in the de partment annually amounts to 15 or 16 mil lion gallons. In this department, chalk, flint, millstone of the best quality, building-stone, potters' and brick clay, and turf, are the chief mineral productions. The chief manufactures are woollen stuffs of all ldnds, and cotton hosiery, which centre chiefly at Reims. There are also several tan-yards, dye-houses, paper mills, glass works, potteries, rope-walks, oil mills, soaperies, and establishments for the making of Spanish white. The most impor tent article of commerce is Champagne wine, the great marts for which are Reims and Epernay. Other articles of trade are corn, flour, brandy, the articles previously named, together with timber, hides, and firewood, of which great quantities are sent for the supply of Paris.
Hartle Marne, the other of these two de partments, is also a wine country. The vine is extensively cultivated in favourable situa tions, and about 13,000,000 gallons of wine annually made, two-thirds of which are con sumed on the spot, and the rest is exported to Switzerland and to the departments of Vosges and Haut-Rhin. The department is rich in iron ore ; several mines are worked ; the metal is smelted and manufactured into bars, utensils, and tools in numerous furnaces and foundries, in which wood charcoal is the fuel exclusively used. Building stone, marble, alabaster, gypsum, itc., are quarried. Marl, brick earth, fuller's earth, and turf are dug. Be sides ironmongery and cutlery, the industrial products include brandy, vinegar, cotton and woollen yarn, drugget, woollen stockings, leather gloves, 'cast-iron tubes, paper, leather, beer, &c. The commerce in the products be fore named, and in timber, planks, fire-wood, oak staves, oil, honey, tire., is considerable.