The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-08 00:00:00

PRODUCTION OF COAL IN TILE

DIFFERENT STATES OF EUROPE.

After iron, there is certainly no produce of the minera.
kingdom which exercises a greater influence on our com
mercial relations than coal.

The following is a statistical sketch of the produce of
that article in the different countries of Europe:—
England possesses the richest veins of coal, both as
regards quality and quantity; they form a line from
south-west to north-east. In Northumberland and
Durham, from the Tweed to the Tees, coal abounds; at
Whitehaven, in the hills of Cumberland, in Yorkshire,
and in Lancashire. The most abundant mines are in
Wales.

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The consumption of coal in England and in exporta-
tion is so great, that it has often been asked if the mines
would not be exhausted ; but, according to calculations
made in proportion to the present consumption, they
could not be exhastcd under 1,500 years—the yearly
consumption in Great Britain is 20 to 21 millions of
tons.
The exportation increased in the following propor-
tions :—.ln 1830, 505,421 tons ; in 1832, 588,450 tons ;

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in 1834, 621,256 tons ; in 1836, 1,101,000 tons ; in
1838, 1,413,800 tons ; in 1840, 1,621,300 tons ; in 1842.
2,120,000 tons ; and-in 1844, 2,410,000 tons.
The number of miners exceeds half a million.

English coal is to be had in every part of the civilised
world; there are deposits at Rio Janeiro, at Odessa, at
Archangel, and at Constantinople.
France does not produce enough coal for her own
consumption, and is obliged to import. She possesses
250 mines, of which 182 are worked, and which ren•
dered in 1844 72,000,000 cwt. of coal, to the value of
21,000,000 f. (840,000/.) The produce is decreasing, as
in 1815 they only rendered 17,000,000 cwt. ; 40,000
men are employed in the mines, and traffic belonging to
them. In 1642, the importation of coal, into France,
amonntei to 16,711,328 cwt.
France imports her coal from Belgium, England, and
the Prussian provinces on the Rhine.
Spain draws but slight profit from her abundant
mines; the principal mine is in the Sierra Morena ; the
produce is not known. They import but little. In
some of the principal Spanish ports, there are depots of
English coal for the steamers.
In Portugal there are depots at Figuierds, at Coimbra,
and near Oporto.
The principal mines of Italy, which produce annually
from 140,000 to 150,000 cwt., are in the Savoy, and near
Genoa. The others, scattered over the Peninsular, are
of very little value, and there are depots of coal in the
principal ports.
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1,050,000 tons, a value of about six millions florins
(600,000/.)
Holland has no coal mines. There is a single mine in
the county of Limberg. They import all their coal from
England, Belgium, and the Prussian provinces.
Switzerland, though rich in metals, has very little coal,
and imports a quantity from England. The only mine
of any value in this country is at 11oehefeld; in 1843, it
produced 514,969 cwt.
Norway has no coal mines. In Russia the production
of coal does not exceed 800,000 punds. It seems that
between the Don and the Dnieper, and in Siberia, there
are rich coal mines, and the Government are now taking
measures to Wrn them to account.
Denmark has one insignificant mine at Bornholm, and
imports nearly all her coal from England.
Austria is rich in coal mines, but the produce is not in
proportion with the number of her mines. The annual
produce of coal in Austria is at least 12,000,000 cwts.;
in 1843 it did not exceed 9,000,000. Of this amount
Bohemia produces about one-halt; Moravia, 2,000,000;
Austria, 1,500,000; Styria, 1,000,000; Carinthia and
the districts of Ogragno, a little more than 500,000;
Hungary, 600,000; the coast lands (Kiisten-land),
60,000; Galicia, 3,000; Lombardy, a very small quantity.
Coal mines exist in nearly every province of the
monarchy. In Bohemia their are veins of the mineral
along the river Beraun, in the north districts of Klattan,
Pisen, and Rakovitz, to the neighbourhood of Prague.
There are coal mine in Erzgebirge, in the valleys of the
Eger and the Biela, and at the foot of the Riesengeberg,
from Sehatzlar to Landskron.
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In 1844, Austria exported 773,065 cwt., of which
703,262 cwt. were sent from Bohemia by the Elbe to