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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 July 1864, Page 4

I PLOUGHS, I sows,lreaps,lmows,lgetupwood for winter ; I digs, I hoes, and taters grows and for what I knows I owes the printer. I do suppose all knowledge flows right from the printingpress ; so off I goes, in these 'ere clothes, to settle vp — I guess. CoysusiPTiojr op Coai.— The following statistical returns wiil doubtless prove interesting to some of our readers : — At the last sitting of the Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques M^Dalloz gave the following interesting particulars on the consumption of coal: — In 1*789 France consumed ;500,000 tons of coal, 220,000 of which -were imported. In 1811 the quantity was 773,000 tons. During the four following years there was a considerable diminution, the extraction in Prance being reduced to 4,000,000 tons, andthe importation°o 2,100,000 tons. In 1853 the consumption rose to 9,400,000 tons, and in 1859 to 12,400,000 tons. In 1563, the third year, after the Conventions of 1860, the . quaritity consumed was 15,000,000 tons, 5,200,000 of whichwere imported, showing the immense increase of manufactories during a period df tranquility aud order, At the commencement: of the present century England pordnced 13,000,000 tons ; in 1838 the quantity rose to 28,000,000 tons,- and in 1862 to 84,500,000. tons! England alone produces much more than half the coal extracted throughout the world. The productionofcoalintheTJ.S.A.valuedatls,ooo,ooo tons ; that at Belgium at 9,000,000 ; the Zollverem produced upwards of 14,000,000 tons in 1862 ; so that, if England he omitted, France is one. of the richest coai-prbducing countries in the world. The production of coal is intimately connected with that of iron, in which Erigland again' holds the first rank. In 1789 France only: 69,000 tons of cast iron. •. This quantity rose to 115,000 tons in 18121 ; in 1830 to 347,774 the figures Ve>-e respectively 602,772 and 376,636 "; in 1850 the productiori'had falliri to 406,000 tons of cast iron* and 237,372 of wrought-' ironi Anew rise occurred immediately after the Republic ; in 1859 France produced 856,000 , tons, , of; cast, iron, and 520^000 of wrought iron. 7 ; a^d in 1863 is vaguely statecTat the enormous figure: of i,180,000 tons of cast iron, arid 705,500 tons of Tvroright iron. :■■ The production of Englandis! nearly -4,000,000 tonsTofcast' iron : fv that of the ZoUve^rein, -1551,593; of Sweden, 143,000 ; M,Am^^y^of^y,^oA Apt Belgium; ; 161,900.— GdUgnaniY