The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

IRISII MINES.

The subjoined statement appears in the Waterford
News of Friday. It affords a cheering hope that a field
of enterprise has been opened up, the probable benefits
of which cannot be over-estimated at a time when every
interest is more or less suffering under the effects of three
successive failures of the food of the people:—
" Kilmsethomas, July 2.
"Mining agents and inspectors from the firm of
Rothschild and Baring, of England, are almost every
second day visiting an inspecting the newly discovered
mines, and are seeing the Marquis of Waterford this
week, on whose property they are to make the neces-
sary arrangements with him, and to begin to work them
at once. Judging from all the circumstances which
hive already transpired relative to these works, it is
extremely probable that, in the course of a month or so,
2,000 or 3,000 of our poor starving labourers will be
employed in these valuable works, and nowhere is to
be found a finer or more honest set of labourers than

-five in the vicinity of these mines. They are willing
to work, and where is the heart that is not distressed
in seeing such noble fellows perishing of starvation in
a country of luxuriant fertility, and teeming with the
richest productions of nature ? The three mines are
situated in the parish of Clonea, in this county, and
when opened will drain the parishes of Newton,
Portlaw, Fows, Clonea, and Rathgormic of the masses
of idle and wretched labourers who are strewn in such
a horrible condition on the road side, like so much use-
less lumber or the dead bodies of a vanquished army on
the field of battle. The Noble Marquis will, no doubt,
feel happy in entering into any fair arrangement with
the agents, as nothing could give his generous and good
heart greater pleasure than the employment of the poor;
and this is fully demonstrated in the vast numbers which
he employs in his own demesne."

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH
COAST RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—Observing a letter in the Times this morning re-
lative to a supposed racing of express trains on this rail-
way, which is calculated to create unfounded alarm, I
think it right to furnish you with the facts as they really
occurred.
The up-trains from Croydon and Epsom run upon a
line of rails entirely distinct from that used by the Brigh-
ton and Dover trains, and consequently it often happens
at the period of the morning when frequent trains aro
arriving that two trains may run for a short distance pa.
rallel to each other in the same direction, and thus have
the appearance of racing. In such cases the rate of speed
will appear to the unpractised eye to be greatly accele-
rated, and consequently, in order to prevent alarm,
strict instructions have been given to the engine-drivers
at once to slacken the speed of the train which is last
due at London-bridge, so as to allow the other train to
run ahead.
On the morning in question the express train from
Brighton overtook the Epsom train between Forest-hill
and New-cross, and proceeded at a regular pace thence
to London, but the driver of the Epsom train, instead of
slackening speed at once, according to his instructions,
did not do so until the trains had run for some littlo dis-
tance parallel to each other, thereby creating the ap-
pearance of racing, by which your correspondent was
alarmed.
The Brighton train never veiled its usual anA regular
rate, and neither of the trains was ever running at an
excessive speed, nor was there the slightest danger; and
your correspondent may depend upon it that the engine-
driver by whose disregard of instructions the shock to
his nerves was occasioned will be so dealt with as to en-
' sure their punctual observance in future.
I am, air, your moat obedient servant,
F. LIGHT, Secretary.
Secretary's-office, London, Tuly 5.