The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGMSTREET.

AN INAPPROPRIATE NAME.—Goorge Artless, a sullen-
looking boy, was charged with the following robbery :
Mrs. A nn Gottfried, wife of Mr. Conrad Gottfried, baker,
of No. 27, Little Pulteney-street, said that on the previous
afternoon she left the shop for a minute, and on her return
she saw the prisoner leaning over the counter with his
hand in the till. She seized the prisoner, who asked to
be allowed to go, and took from his hand a half-crown
piece and a florin. Her husband afterwards gave the pri-
soner into custody.

In answer to ifr. Tyrwhitt, Mrs. Gottfried said there
was other money in the till, but not within the prisoner's
reach.

Hills, 154 0, said that on taking the prisoner into cus-
tody ho admitted taking the money.
The boy asked the magistrate to deal with the case.
The constable said he believed the boy had before been
at the court.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would only sond the prisoner for
two months instead of throe, in the hope that he would
change his ways.
A SEASONABLE GlFT.—During tho late inclement
weather Mr. Peacock, of the firm of Nurdin and Peacock,
the well-known egg merchants of Berwick-streot, St.
James's, with his customary kindness, gavo to the poor of
the district 50
waggon loads of wood, besides other
presents. Mr. Peacock forwarded a request to this court
that any poor person applying for firing might be sent to
his establishment.

THAMES.
ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.=-George Yates, a morose-looking
follow, whose left arm was in a sling, and whose clothes
were covered with mud and dirt, was brought before Mr.
Paget charged with stealing an old-fashioned mahogany
chair and savagely assaulting Joseph Simmons, a police-
constable, 127 K.

Simmons, who is an intelligent and useful detective-
officer, stated that yesterday evening he met the prisoner
in the Bile-end-road carrying the doctor's flat-backed
mahogany
chair now produced. He asked the prisoner
what he was going to do with it, to which he replied, " I
have been trying to sell it; I am going to take it to 4, White-
chapel-road." He told the prisoner he was not satisfied with
that account, and he must coma along with him. The
prisoner walked very quickly about 200 yards and then
said, "You --
don't hold me so tight," and, at the same
time, brought the chair down on his head with terrific
force and half stunned him with the blow. Ho seized the
prisoner again, and ho used fearful language and struck
him. They struggled and both wont down in the mud.
The prisoner threatened to kill him and tried to put him
under a horse and cart passing along the road. He nar-
rowly escaped being run over, but the prisoner did not
escape, for ono of the wheels went over his left shoulder.
This put an end to the conflict, and he took the prisoner
and the chair, which was broken, to the station-house,
where a doctor attended upon him and put his injured arm
in a splint, as it now appeared.

Inspector Kerressey, of the K division, said that he called
in Dr. Cornelius Garman, of the Fairfield-road, Bow, who
said that no bones were broken. The prisoner was very
much bruised.

Mr. John Burnham, chemist and druggist, Mile-end-
road, said the mahogany chair produced was the property
of his father, and stolen out of the shop near the door
yesterday evening.
The prisoner said he knew nothing at all about the chair.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial.

ANCIENT SILVER COINS.—A man, while plough-
ing up a headland on Chanton Farm, between Washington
thing whichdnABhin u°cna'Ssield esiet; felt his plough come against some-
to to be thrown out of its course. It
proved to be an old crock, or earthenware pot, containing
a number of old coins, chiefly of the time of Edward the
Confessor and Harold. They Were all packed in the crock
on their edges, as closely as possible, and had evidently re-
mained undisturbed since first hidden. Tho Government
authorities have been communicated with on the subject of
the treasure.

THE EXPORT COAL TRADE.--The exports of coal
from the United Kingdom continue to show a large
increase, the total in November having amounted to 790,109
tons, as compared with 731,329 tons in the corresponding
month and 773,395 tons in November, 1864. Nearly the
whole of the increase observable in November arose on
French account. The aggregate exports in the 11 months
ending November 30 last year amounted to 9,257,210
tons, as compared with 8,484,336 tons in the corresponding
period of 1865, and 8,141,388 tons in the first 11 months
of 1864. In these totals the shipments to France figure for
1,708,315 tons, as against 1,442,682 tons and 1,311,757 tons
respectively. The exports also increased last year to
Russia, Sweden, the Hanse Towns, Holland, Spain, Italy,
Brazil, and British India; and to the United States there was
a decrease. The value of the coal exported in November
was £415,701, as compared with £365,604 in the corres-
ponding month of 1865, and £370,456 in November, 1864.
In the 11 mouths ending November 30 last year the total
value of the exports reached £4,733,055, against X 4,071,475
to the corresponding date of 1865, and £3,829,084 in the
first 11 months of 1864. Franco paid for British coal to
November 30 last year£798,899, as compared with £652,426
in 1865 and £562,593 in 1864.