844, 



COAL 



The Bate of Increase in the Production of Coal from the French Coal-fields has been as 

 follows, to the end of 1867 : 



The following Table will place the whole question of the coal consumption in France 

 in a more satisfactory light : 



Production, Importation, and Consumption of Coal of all kinds in France from 



1787 to 1866. 



1 From Mons, Charleroi, Kamur, Liege, &c. 



1 From Saarbrlick and St.-Imbert, Prussia, and Rhenish Bavaria. 



1 This Table has been compiled from the ' Statistique de 1'Indnstrie Minerale,' which is issued in 

 France about every five years by the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, but has 

 not appeared since 1867, and then the returns were to the end of 1864 only. 



Tim metrical quintal of the original tables is taken at 220 Ibs. avoirdupois, and the English ton at 

 2,240 Ibs. 



