292 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
343,400 tons ; but in consequence of the commercial depression, this 
fell to.1, 
were for new lines, and the aggregate of extent about 1,200 miles, re- 
quiring a production of more than’ 500,000 tons of iron. The: price 
it commandec ; 
was 2/. 53, 6d. per ton; in March 1845, it rose to 5/.; and in May to 
months of this year, was 260,000 tons, or at the rate of 520,000. tons 
per annum ;-—the production having been doubled since 1840. It is 
the opinion of the iron-masters that since 1840, nearly all the increased 
fuction 
From this, c ned, perhaps,. with other causes, the amount of pro- 
duction in England for 1845 was only 917,500 tons, being 238,000 tons 
less than the production of 1840. From comparing several returns, it 
is clear that we have no reason to dread a failure of material,-some 
valuable and extensive fields of black-band ore havin been recently 
discovered in Wales ; but it seems not improbable that the aren 
oal 
erected, at Stanhope, for smelting this rider, and pig-iron of a strong 
ing works, near Walsingham. The difficulty then arises in the sup 
of la is hopeless to sti ! 
ail tis he person 
ready employed. ‘They are naturally ready enough to exact higher 
ratesiof wages when the demand for their labor becomes more urgent; 
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