The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-05 00:00:00

consumers, only a small quantity goes west from
the northern coal field by the Erie Railroad and
its branches. Port Richmond, near Philadelphia,
and Elizabeth-port, near New York, are the chief
centres of the coal trade on the coast. It is calcu-
lated that the yield of the mines could be doubled,
to produce 20 millions of tons a year. But the
supply is calculated to last, even at this rate, several
hundreds of years, when recourse could be had to
mines of bituminous coal scattered profusely, not
only through Pennsylvania, but in other States of
the Union. The cost of mining and starting the
coal varies from $l-01 to $2-GO per ton ;an average
of $2-12 on leaving Maunch Creek, the central
point of the Lehigh mines. This includes the pay
of the miner, which varies from 35c. to 75c. a ton.
The rest of the $lO to $2O paid per ton for the
coals in New England is for carriage, and for the
profits of intermediate dealers.
The various names by which anthracite coals are
known in the market, as Lehigh, Hazelton, Peach
Mountain, Lackawanna, Beaver Meadow, &c., only
indicate the mines, or groups of mines, from which
they arc taken. There are shades of difference be-
tween many of them, sometimes of hardness, some-
times of purity, and often only in the care with
which they are prepared, and the slate culled before
being sent to market. Apart from the land con-
taining the coal, it costs $150,000 to open a coal
mine, to bring it fairly into operation, to provide
it with timber, and tracks, and cars ; to erect the
building and put in the machinery for breaking up
and separating the coal for the market.
It is a peculiarity of the anthracite coal veins
that they lie wrinkled and bowed between the red
sandstones and conglomerates that are their inse-
parable companions. The bituminous coals lie in
even, parallel strata ; but the convulsions of beat
and force that manufactured the anthracite coal
turned its beds into the bow shapes in which they
are found, sometimes coining out to the surface for
light and to announce themselves, and again hidden
beneath their neighbours and protectors. But the
presence of the latter is a sure sign of their hiding-
places. The anthracite veins are of all sizes, from
two to three feet to near 50 and 60 feet, though the
latter are in fact several coal seams separated by
thin layers of slate and conglomeiate. The usual
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The Police Perjury OftV.

JUDGES'O HAMBE RS -COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

TILE QUERN V. BARRY AND 11A.Y2S.

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This was an action on behalf of two persons, Barry and
Haves, two police-constables (the latter of whom was tried
and convicted of perjury at the last sessions of the Central
Criminal Court, arising out of evidence given by hint and
the prisoner Barry at the trial of two lads, named Dye and
Pearce, who were tried and acquitted for an attempted bur-
glary, at the Central Criminal Court), for a wait of certio-
rari to remove an indictment found against them, and
which charged them with conspiring together by commit-
ting perjury to procure the conviction of Dye and Pearce.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine appeared to support the applica-
tion, instructed by Messrs. Ellis and Ellis, solicitors to ties
commissioners of police ; and Mr. Sleigh:(instructed by Mr.
Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street) appeared for
the prosecution.
The application was founded upon an affidavit which set
forth that the prisoners Barry and Hayes had each been tried
for perjury upon substantially the same facts, and whereas
one was acquitted the other was convicted of the charge, and
furtherthat the Recorder,who presidedat each of such trials,
had intimated his opinion that the indictment for conspiracy
might very properly be removed into the Court of Queen's
Bench and tried by a special jury. _

Mr. Sleigh said he was not instructed to oppose the appli-
cation. Of course the usual order requiring the defendants
to give security for costs would be made, and ho should ask
that sufficient time should be allowed for inquiring into the
sufficiency of the proposed sureties.

Mr. Sergeant Balkntine said the commissioners of police
were instructing him, and he thought his learned friend
(Mr. Sleigh) could scarcely press that application as against
thorn.

Mr. Sleigh, referring to the affidavit made on behalf of
the defendants, remarked that in point of fact there was a
discrepancy between the two verdicts, inasmuch as on the
second trial further and material evidence was adduced for
the prosecution.
Mr. Justice Shee made an order that the indictment be
removed to the Court of Queen's Bench, the defendants to
find two sureties in £2OO each, and that 48 hours' notice be
given to the prosecution for inquiry as to the substantiality
of the sureties.
The trial will come on in February next before the Lord
Chief Justice and a special jury.

A LADY BURNED TO DEATH IN CLERKENWELL.—
Last evening Mr. W. Payne, the coroner for the City, held
an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital relative to the
death, by fire, of Mary Ann Andrews, aged 65 years. From
the evidence it appears that the deceased was a maiden lady
and was living (at No. 9, Easton-street, Clerkenwell, and
at a quarter to 7 o'clock on Monday morning one of her
lodgers, hearing a noise, entered her room, when he found
the poor creature lying on the floor in the corner of the
room nearly dead. There were two match boxes on the floor
alight. Her clothes were entirely burnt off her back. De-
ceased was conveyed in a cab to the above hospital, where
she died from the effects of the burns. Ycrclict, accidental
death by fire.