The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-10 00:00:00

CONSUMPTION OF COAL IN

FRANCE.
Some statistics received connected with the consump-
tion of coal in France and the production of her col-
lieries will furnish a partial clue to the industrial
progress of that country during rather more than the
last fifty years. It is stated that coal had been 42112.
ployed in France before the fourteenth century, but it
was not till the year 1787 that the consumption
reached an important point. In that year the quantity
of coal consumed was 4,053,919 metrical quintals,
and the consumption went on steadily increasing till is
1815 it amounted to 11,121,942 metrical quintals.
Considerable as this increase was in comparison with
former periods, a much greater augmentation took
place in the course of the next ten years, and then
it appears that the quantity consumed had gra-
dually advanced to 19,943,853 metrical quintals.
The next important stage that occurred was
between that date and 1834, when we find that from
19,943,853 metrical quintails, the quantity had again
augmented to 34.144,059 quintals, each year of the
intervening period showing a further and progressive
increase. From that time forward an increase has
annually taken place in consumption, and the latest
return for 1844 gives the amount for that year at
54,861,501. Of this quantity of coal consumed the pro-
produc.ion of the interior during 1843 was 37,827,395
metrical quintals; and the difference between consump-
tion and production was made up of importations from
the collerios of Belgium, Great Britain, and the Rhenish
provinces joining Prussia and Bavaria. During the year
1843 Belgium alone imported into France 11,157,949
metrical quintals, and the importation from Great Britan
representßd 4.276:936.

A PRACTICAL PCSEYITE.—We have received a
statement of an occurrence which is said to have taken place
recently Within a hundred miles of Totnes, which, if correct
is very discreditable to the party chiefly coneerned. The
child of a po,,r woman hiving died, it was taken to the
pariah church fu. interment. Previous, however, to the
child being consigned to its final resting place, the parson
alluded to, inquired of the mother if it bad been
christened, to which she replied in the affirmative. "I ea-
pect it was by some Methodist," said his Reverence.
The woman declared it was not, but that it was done by a
regular church parson. The interment was then suffered
to take place; but the clergyman's zeal for the non-
intrusion of dissenter's children in his churchyard and the
spiritual good of souls did not stop here. After the corpse
had been placed in the ground he told the woman to follow
him into tha vestry, whey he detained her, we understand
above half an hour, during which time he elicited from her
that her offspring was not born in wedlock, and that he
doubted its ever having been christened according to the
rites of the Church of England. After giving her a severee
lecture en this syppos breach of duty, he took her into
the Church, and there actually read over to her the service
for the Churchly of Women, when she was allowed to de-
part. Could no other tine be found for the exercise of
relie:ious discipline than at such a distressing time as this?
—Plymouth Journal.

ITANKLE MissIC)NARY. I went to se, Mr. or
Dr. Williamson, who was here loth in the capacity or MlS-
si,mary and apothecary, and found with him -and-out
we,tern Yankee, of the name of Ilugg;ns, an odd, lonps
legged. sharp-faced, asparagus-looking every portion
of his body being R 5 narrow as the head he bore on the t, p
of it. This fellow being rather in the pious line, and profes-
si ig; to know something about farming, the missionary had
brought him from Illinois to raise corn and vegetables, as
well as to assist bim in his other labours: but he was such an
original, that the missionary himself at, • 1 no ens ice of being
noticed where he was. I never saw a Yankee that so com-
pletely came up to those quaint, drawling, vulgar, Jonathans,
the Idea of which is now so general. He always called
the Indians "critturs," had got all their intfriections
and trmts, and used them instead of "Yes" and
" No." He certainly knew more about the Indians
than the missionary. did,- and was more co istantiv
amongst them. Mr. Williamson was married, and
had a motive for remaining at home, but Huggins,
who was alone in the world, was in the habit of walking into
the tabees without ceremony, and, sitting down, would take
his psalm-b)ok and sing a few verses to the Indians, so that
the women had got accustomed to him, and lather liked him.
"Some folks is cou9iderable curious," he once said to me, " to
find out wbar these ignorant critturs corned from. lam as
sartin as ,'eith that they are the old Philistines of the Scrip
what
tures : they cant be the lost tribe of the Jews, bekase h-
a
hehadunderarch t ista tkbeeni ra youngbirds (
Indianber (beard.)
girlgone?" t
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wife?
asked
thriamnwehr:i
said he, "I alluw them her young painted Jizzabuls aint just
up
toffheinarying."—Featherstonhaugh's Canoe Voyage up
~ ilitß iIEngt,TB°O7.CATTLE BUTCIIERS."—On Saturday
night last Mr. Brett, sub-inspectortoit of police, Bandon, pro-
ceeded with apaarnty,offrponoili
informationceasse
whichl 1 -h i Russell-hill,
he
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K theintendednGe kaviliy, d
slaughter of three cows of a man named
received ass
ass
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to
Howse, he and his party ensconsed themselves in the furze
bushes on the ground, and lay in wait.
one o'clock, A.M , one man went into the field
recon-
noitered, Abonatnhdalf-past
and, having found that the cows were there, gave
a low whistle, which soon brought up three others, his
accomplices. Mr. Brett was sitting in a ditch hid by the
furze, and the first fellow, on the three others enter-
ing the field, sat down immediately under where Mr.
Brett was, and took out a large knife, which he commenced
whetting on a stone which he carried with him. The other
three followed the cows for the purpose of getting them
ingether into a corner; the cow• ran, and the lads after
them, when, unfortunately, cows and butchers tumbled over
the police, who were lying in ambush, and this prevented the
slaughter of the poor animals. The police arrested the three
:nen, the fourth having taken to his heels. Knowing their
:oan, they took no trouble in pursuing him, but in an hour
after quietly took him out of hi= bed. They searched his
house, andf)uud a gun, with a supply of powder and ball,
al.?o some articles which were taken out of one of the
k houses lately robbed in the neighbourhood, and which have
been identified.—Cork Constitution.