The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-26 00:00:00

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Central Criminal Court.---This Day.

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Tho February session of the Central Criminal Court
commenced this morning, and although there are 90 priso-
ners for trial, there is no charge of wilful murder in the
calendar, but there are several aggravated cases of wound-
ing with intent to commit that offence. There is a case of
a singular character, in which Mr. Sothern, the cele-
brated representative of " Lord Duudreary," is 'the pro-
secutor, and the defendants—three in number—are,
respectively, members of a highly respectable publish-
ing firm in Paternoster-row, the proprietor of a local
newspaper published in Marylebone, and the Editor of a
publication called the Spiritual 1114azine. Tho greater
part of the remaining cases in tho calendar are of the ordi-
nary character ; but it is a remarkable fact that there are a
much larger number of prisoners charged with uttering
counterfeit coin than usual there being no less than twenty
to bo tried for that offence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISTURBANCE AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATItE.—J. Mitchell
letter-carrier, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being
drunk, disorderly, and assaulting Sergeant Wart, 14 A, and
damaging his coat, in the Princess's Theatre.

Sergeant Wart said he was on duty on Saturiay night
in the theatre, and bad repeatedly to speak to the defen-
dant (who was in the gallery) in consequence of his hal-
boring and causing a great disturbance. The defendant
continued his noise, till at last the secretary and prompter
came and insisted on his ejecting him. He attempted to do
so, when the defendant threw himself on his back on the
seat, and called on the persons round him to assist him,
and tried to seize him by the legs, but he prevented him.
The defendant then said that, if he would let go of him, he
would go away, but, instead of doing so, ho placed himself
in a fighting attitude, and swore ho would not leave. With
the assistance of another constable ho got the defendant
to the first door, when ho said that he would takci his " ---
stripes off his arm," and kept his word by tearing a portion
of them off.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked whether the defendant was drunk ?
The Sergeant said he had been drinking enough to make
him annoying and violent.
The defendant said he had no questions to aslc. He had
taken some drink before he wont into the theatre, and it
got over him, and ho did not afterwards know what
happened.

The Sergeant said the performances wore delayed some
minutes through the disturbance.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that if the defendant had gone away
quietly when requested that was all that was wanted. Ile
would havo to pay a fine of 10s., and ls. the amount of
damage to tho sergeant's coat.

MR. COSSHAM ON AMERICA.—At a public meeting
in Bristol the following remarks were made by Mr.
H. COSSHAM :—"I feel that, after visiting America,
and having had opportunities of investigation and
inspection that are rarely enjoyed by travellers, I
am able to give information that may be useful, and
I freely admit that you are entitled to receive all
the facts that I have been able to obtain, and to
know all I can tell you, as to the present position
and future prospects of America. One thing, at
any rate the war has done : it has obliged the people
of this country and Europe to look at America.
We now know more of the Great Western Republic
than we did up to the commencement of the war,
and manifestly during its progress there was in
this country a guilty ignorance as to the strength,
resources, patriotism, and power of the New
World. I feel bound in all honesty to say that I did
not find in America the same ignorance as to this
country. They understand England better than we
understand America. One reason of this is that
they travel more here than we do there. I was in-
formed, on what I believe to be good authority,
that there are usually at least 50,000 Americans
travelling in Europe, whereas I do not think that
there are more than one-fourth of that number of
Englishmen travelling in America. I take this
opportunity of most earnestly counselling the rublic
and commercial men of this country to make a tour
to America, and if the aristocratic section of our coun-
try, the landed interest, would also take the trouble
to cross the Atlantic, it would marvellously tend to
open their eyes and brush away the dust of aristo-
cratic prejudices and ancient traditions. I venture
to say that in the future America will play so im-
portant a part in the history of the world that no
man will be fit to take a position as a statesman
and a public political teacher who does not keep
himself informed as to the policy and progress of
America. It is important, too, that America should
be visited by the right kind of men. They do not
want the kid-gloved and mere drawing-room men,
who believe in nothing but scented handkerchiefs
and themselves. America does not want snobs'
to visit her; she wants men who can look beyond
their noses, and see without prejudice the growth
of a country that in 75 years has sprung from
three millions of people to 30, and that in wealth,
intelligence, respect for law, patriotism, and religious
feeling is the equal, to say the least, of any of the
nations of Europe, not excepting our own. lam
bound to say that in returning from America I am
a little proud to be able to say that the opinions I
had formed of that country, and especially those
which during the last four years I had ventured to
express as to the causes and probable results of the
terrible war, now happily at an end, have been
more than confirmed,,,
—Anglo-American Times.
THE PENNYSLVANIA COAL TRADE. The an-
thracite gold product of Eastern Pennyslvania for the year
1865 foots up
an aggregate of 9,488,396 tons, against
9,998,046 tons in 1864—showing a decrease of 509,656
tons. Of this production, 3,835,916 tons were from the
Schuylkill region, of which 2,813,176 tons came to market
by the Reading Railroad,
and 1,022,740 tons by the
Schuylkill Canal. Prom the Lehigh region the production
was 2,291;017 tons, of which 1,402,277 tons came to mar-
ket over the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and 888,740 tons
on the Lehigh Canal. The Pinegrove production is
157,840 tons, and that of the Shamokin 457,162 tons. Of
the several regions
named, the Schuylkill showed an in-
increase on last year's production of 72,042 tons, and
Lehigh 237,511 tons, and the Shamokin 123,684 tons.
Tho Pinegrove production was less than the previous
year by 127,160 tons. The Wyoming and Lackawanna
region produced in the aggregate 3,341,158 tons, against
4,083,503 in 1864, being a loss of 742,315 tons. Of this
production 812,093 tons came to market through the
Delaware and Hudson Canal, being a loss on the last
year's shipment of 35,982 tons; the Pennyslvania Coal
Company carried 517,482 tons, a loss of 182,962 tons ;
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tons ; and the Delaware and
theW
Nyvoitmhinl nofa
2soh6: psBp2od 329,506 tons, a loss, as com-
pared Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 1,007,074 tons, a de-
crease of 295,383 tons. Thus it will be seen that the loss
of production in the Wyoming and Lackwanna region was
shared by all the carrying companies, but most largely by
the Wyoming and the Delaware and Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, while the increase from the more
southern anthracite regions was shared by all the carrying
companies but one, the Pinegrove. The praises of cotton,
as a civiliser, have been much and deservedly vaunted,
but in substantial and lasting value a half dozen
of the
richest cotton States in the. Union might be irretrievably
swept into the Mexican Gulf, and be scarcely felt in con-
sequence to the other States, in comparison to the suffer-
ing and loss to the country from the closing of the coal
mines and iron factories of Pennsylvania for a single
year. In 1820, the annual coal trade was but 365 tons—
one ton a day. Now, 01?0 single company, the Reading,
has brought to market its hundred thousand tons in a
single week. And but for the want of cars during the
past year the entire production of anthracite coal in
Eastern Pennsylvania would have considerably exceeded
ten millions of tons. Should the present prosperous con-
dition of the country continue, the trade, stimulated by
the present high prices of fuel and iron, may, and pro-
bably will, reach eleven millions of tons.

GREAT FALL OF SNOW IN TILE WEST OF SCOTLAND.
—Along the west coast the fall of snow has been very great.
Between West Kilbride and Fairlio, in some parts of the
road the snow lay ton feet deep ; and the large mail gig,
which should have been at Groonock at'4 30 on Thursday
afternoon, got stuck about West Kiibride. The gig had to
be left behind, and the driver pushed on with the mail
bags, riding the rest of the way, but ho did not arrive till
ten o'clock, being five and a half hours behind time.

The proprietors of the New York hotels had a
meeting lately, and adopted resolutions to exclude
hereafter all " deadheads " from their respective establish-
ments. Said deadheads, it is intimated, wore connected
chiefly with the railroad and steamboat i4terests.