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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 186, 23 March 1867, Page 3

Regarding coal, England is getting somewhat easier. Great discoveries have been made in Shropshire, beyond, the boundary which geologists had assigned to the limits of the coal strata. It is remarkablp, however, that v one;;^living geologist ; - prophesied the disco very, ami gave correct arguments in support 'of his theory. Mr Bedlington, of the South Wales Rhymney Works, estimates that the upper and^lower coal seams of this district, two feet" 'arid upwards in thickness, contain 21,374,976,000 tons of -workable coal. The coal area is .over 886 square, miles, on best authority. and South' Wales now yield 11, 000, 000_ tons annually, at which rate the basin would not be exhausted for 1918 years ; or the United Kingdom might be wholly supplied for 229 years. These opinions are concurred m by the leading engineers of "South Wales ;so ; there is less occasion for alarm respecting the predicted exhaustion of our .coal fields. ? : v The Emperor Chaffed— The eoites'poi£ dent of the Globe is responsible for. th#following :— In Imperialist scdons this story is, I hear, told : The Princess Bajocchi-Game-rata, a near relative of the Emperor of the French— she belongs to one of the Benaparte families settled in Italy— went a few days back to visit His Majesty at Conipiegne. ■Having for some ye'ors resided in\Brittany, and taken great interest in agricultural pursuits, she affects rusticity in manners and language; and the greetings over, she cried —it was the first time she had seen the Emperor for many months ; "Ah ! Bismark has done you ! You can't deny that ; he has done you ! Lord ! How he has overreached you!" y The exact expressions of the venerable dame were in reality much stronger, more picturesque, and more trooper-like than these ; but it would shock polite eyes to to translate them, or to give them in the original— because they, as Bolleau said was sometimes the case with Latin "brave propriety."