The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

IRISH MINES AND COLLERIES.
In no country in Europe, perhaps, is there a
greater abundance of minerals than in Ireland
in none, certainly, are they so generally diffused,
or in equal variety.
GOLD is found at Croghan, in the county of Wicklow.—
This mine first attracted attention about the year 1795. Ac-
cording to moderate calculation, before Government took pos-
session of it, the sum of 10,0001. had been paid at 31. 15s. per
oz., to the country people, for what they collected of this metal.
Among these collections was one solid piece, weighing 220 z.,
presumptively the largest found in Europe.
SILVER occurs south of Kilross, in Sligo, on the western side
of the Arrow River; in Cavan, in the King's County, near
Edenderry ; and again, south-east of Lough Derg, west of the
town of Nenagh.

COPPER is found in eighteen different counties, and occa-
sionally in different parts of the same county; in Londonderry,
Galway, Sligo, Limerick, Leitrim, Cavan, Westmeath, Meath,
Dublin, Wicklow, Queen's County, Kilkenny, Tipperary,
Clare, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, and Kerry.
LEAD is found in eighteen counties :—ln Donegal, London-
derry, and Antrim ; in Down, Armagh, Cavan, Monaghan,
and Leitrim ; in Westmeath, Longford, and Galway ; in
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, and
Clare.

IRON has been found in nineteen counties out of twenty-two
that have been examined ; and it is fair to presume that it may
exist in several of the remainder. At Arigna, near the source
of the Shannon, is a mine of iron-stone, superior in point of
quality to any single ore of England ;* the stratum is said to
be inexhaustible. The neighbourhood yields coal, also superior
to most found in England ; the bed extends six miles by five.
—Fire-brick clay likewise, in the vicinage, and free-stone,
abound ; and here is a bed of potters' clay, two miles in length
and one in breadth. The counties in which iron is found are
—Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Monaghan,
and Down ; Leitrim, Longford, Cavan, Mayo, Sligo, Ros-
common, Queen's County, and Kilkenny ; Wexford, Water-
ford, Cork, Limerick, and Clare.
TIN is found in Wicklow and Sligo.

COAL is found in fifteen counties ; in many places vastly

superior to most in England ; yet, from the want of capital
and spirit heretofore, almost the whole of what is consumed is
brought from Great Britain at an expence to the country of
nearly a million sterling, annually. The counties in which
coal has been discovered, and in some few in which it is par-
tially worked are Donegal, Londonderry, Fermanagh, Leitrim'
and Sligo; Monaghan, Westmeath, Dublin, Queen's County.
andKilkenny ; Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Mayo, and
Clare.

COBALT
11 hY ; Manganese in Donegal,
,Antimony, in Mayo ; Tale, in
lona gis
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found
and i n
Slige and Carlow.
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PEARLS occur in Galway and Kerry ; Amethysts in the lat-
ter country and in Cork; Crystals in Londonderry, Antrim,
Down, Dublin, Wicklow, Carlow, Kerry, and Galway; Gar-
nets in Donegal and Leitrim, and Chalcedony in the former ;
Jasper in Cavan, Longford, and Kilkenny ; Porphyry in
Dublin. •
MARBLE is found in nineteen counties :—ln Donegal, that
resembling what is termed statuary ; with beautiful granite,
soliceous sand, and different kinds of clay, in Londonderry, of
a handaome species, with valuable pebbles ; in Tyrone, Down,
and Armagh, an elegant variety; in 111onaglian and Lengford,
a profusion of various colours ; in Westmeath, that of a hand-
some yellow and dove colour ; in the Queen's County, Carlow,
and Kilkenny, in the last county, of a singular description,
and exquisitely beautiful ; in Wexford and Waterford, that of
a handsome green, and of a black colour ; in Tipperary
and Cork, of a great variety of tint, and of exquisite
polish ; in Kerry, with a pleasing combination of colours ;
in Galway, of a superior beauty ; in Roscommon, ex-
hibiting the petrified skeletons of animals and in Mayo,
beautiful black inarble without specks ; in Sligo, a singular
stone is seen, which is very hard, and exhibits the figures of
serpents; takes a high polish.
GRANITE appears in seven Counties; decomposed granite
or porcelain earth in Wicklow. The whole Island is possibly
one stratum of limestone, as at various depths it is constantly
found.
SLATE is met with in six counties; steatites, or soap-rock,
in Down ; gypsum in abundance in Antrim ; beautiful spars in
Clare, resembling those of Derbyshire ; petrifactions in Lon-
donderry and Cork. Fullers' Earth is found in six counties ;
clay of different kinds in nine; ill Leitrim, of a green, yellow,
pale red, and crimson colour ; sulphur occurs in Wicklow j-.
Nothing can more neatly prove the want of working our
Coal Mines, than that, before the improvident spoliation of the
forests of the country, according to Sir Wm. Petty, there were,
in 167, as many as 6,600 forges at work, or perhaps 8,000,
which gave employ to nearly 25,000 persons.
" Kirwan's Mineralogy.
Newenham's View of Ireland, 45, 50.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington has been pleased to ap-
point Lieutenant-Colonel Lisle to the situation of Barrack-
Master at Waterford, vice Captain Mansergh, appointed to
Belturbet. And his Grace has been further pleased to trans-
fer Capt. Mansergh, from Belturbet to the district of Roscrea,
in the county of Tipperary.

LEINSTER CIRCUIT.
County of wicklow, at Wicklow, Thursday March 4.
Wexford, at Wexford, Tuesday, 9.
Waterford, at Waterford, Monday, 15.
City of Waterford, same day.
County of Tipperary, at Clonnell, Friday, 19.
Kilkenny, at Kilkenny, Saturday, 27.
City of Kilkenny, same day.
Right Hon. the Cum' JUSTICE,} judges.
Hon. Baron Sir W. C. SMITH,
JonN DOMV IL, } Registers,
CHARLES HUBAItD,
The City and County of Cork Assizes will commence on the
31st of March and Ist of April.

MICHAEL HAMERTON, ESQ.—This estimable Gentleman
is still alive. Since the application of the trepan, by which the
brain has been relieved from pressure, he has greatly recovered
his recollection, but is unable to speak. The power of deglu-
tation is, in a great degree restored. On Wednesday he made
signs for pen, ink, and paper. On getting them he wrote or
seribled the word " watch ; ' on which his watch was handed
to him, and often since he has looked at it. • On Thursday
he got out of bed and walked to the couch which is near his
bed. In our notice of this most atrocious transaction in our
last number, we omitted stating that John Bagot, the meri-
torious sad trust-worthy steward for thirty-four years, at
Hamerton, was the person who dispatched an express to Dr.
Eagle, Mr. Singleton and his police ; that an hour did not
elapse before the Doctor and the police arrived—that shortly
the Doctor came— and that early in the morning the Rev.
Mr. Stephenson, and Robert Constable, Esq., reached Ha-
merton. Two men of the name of James Hogan and John
Murphy have been since taken up, and committed for fur.
ther examination. After a pursuit of two hours and a half,
the former was taken by one of the Lisronagh Police. The
coulter of the plough, with which the assassins struck Cap-
tain Hamerton, was taken from Patrick Purcell, of Do.
noughmore. We have no doubt but the exertions which our
Magistrates are making will be crowned with success, and
that this murdering gang will be brought to condign punish-
ment. The hideous aspect which this atrocity presents is
frightful in the extreme ; it fixes a horrid stain upon the char-
acter of our peasantry, and is fraught with circumstances of
deepest horror. We never observed a stronger expression of
indignation than has occupied the public mind on the present
occasion, nor witnessed a more general and lively interest than
has been felt for this most amiable and excellent Gentleman.—
When the-aged—the universally respected, and benevolent pro-
prietor of Hamerton has not escaped the assassin's hand, it may
well be inquired, who shall escape ? The unsafe state in which
the window was, through which these desperate fellows entered
Harnerton-bonse, will, we trust, excite a necessary degree of
caution in every gentleman who resides in the country.—( C/oti-
I met Herald.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 20.

LE BRETTON V. WILLIA3IS.
This was an action for breach of covenant in a deed, where-
by the defendant resigned to the plaintiffa school, in St. James's-
street, for the consideration of 8001., and covenanted not to set
up any school within three miles of that place.
It appeared that Mr. Williams, after the payment of the
money, conducted a school in St. Alban's place, which was
less than a mile from that which he resigned, and had several
pupils who had been at Mr. Le Bretton's institution.
Mr. MARRYAT, for the defendan!, relied on a discharge of
his client under the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,
subsequent to the breach of covenant, and which operated as a
bar to the action.
The discharge of Mr. Williams was proved by the usual
testimony, and that he had inserted the 8001. received as a
premium in his schedule, for which the plaintiff was a creditor.
It appeared, however, that previous to this discharge, the
school in St. Alban's-place was conducted in the name of the
defendant's son.
Mr. SCARLETT, for the plaintiff, urged in reply, that the
breach of covenant did not, upon the evidence, arise till after
the discharge, and consequently was not affected by it.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left this point to the Jury, and
directed them, if they found that the breach was subsequent to
the discharge, to give Mr. Le Bretton such compensation as
the injury done by the rival establishment might seem to them
to require.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501.
RUSSEN V. LUCAS AND ANOTHER.
This was an action against the late Sheriffs of London for
the escape of Mr. Hamer, a prisoner, against whom a detainer
was lodged by the plaintiff:
The question in this cause was, whether Mr. Hamer ever
was arrested. It appeared that the officer went with the writ
on the evening of the 21st of July last, to a Coffee-house
Jermyn-street, where Mr. Hamer was sitting in one of titz'
boxes, and told him "he wanted him." Mr. Hamer made no
objection, but sat still, and a gentleman named Oldfield, who
was present, remonstrated with the officer on arresting a gen=
tleman in the public room, when the man replied, " I want,
you too ;" and Mr. Oldfield went with him into the passage.--
In the mean time Mr. Homer made his way through the bar,
and the officer lost him.
Mr. MARRYATT submitted that Mr. Hamer was arrested,
though there was no contact of person, because he had acquies:
ced in the caption.
The LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE assented to the doctrine that
personal contact was not, in all cases, necessary ; but to disc
' pense with it on the ground of acquiescence, there must be some
positive act done, and not a mere absence of objection. He was
clearly of opinion that no arrest was proved, and certainly had.
an escape-warrant been applied for, it would not have been.
• granted.
The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.
The other causes were entirely destitute of interest.