The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

Anglo American Miring.

Amongst the numerous indications of an ap-
proaching identity of feeling and interests between
Great Britain and America, we may reckon that of
the union of capital and skill in developing the

mineral resources of the latter country. We are
led to these remarks in consequence of having re-
ceived from a correspondent the first of a promised
series of articles upon the subject of American
mining and practical mineralogy.
The writer very appropriately commences the
plumbago, or, as it is
black-nlead," which - lie is speorii)._l.lsialN;iiyt h
caanl
eadr, ti e"le b
in-
duced to do in consequence of the great revo-
lution lie anticipates will result, both in
the Fine and Industrial Arts, from the
introduction, to an illimitable extent, of this sub-
stance from the celebrated Ticonderoga mines of
Essex County, State of New York. When it is
in England, a source
iintyand that a fabulously
considered, first, that the yield of pencil lead is at
and, secondly, that
et
hleof :dar t ;
e]
the Ticonderoga mines yield a quantity sufficient
hspoirgevastly
pricelimitedinferior
o obtainedt°n
for the requirements of the whole civilised world,
and that too of a quality which is absolutely secur-
ing for it a preference over all other sorts, it can
be no matter of surprise that the liveliest in-
terest is evinced in the prospect of its intro-
duction into the English market.. Equally im- '
portant is the fact that the other varieties ne-
cessary in stereotyping, electrotyping, and in the
fabrication of stoves, furnaces, crucibles, stove po-
lish, lubricating compounds, and numerous sources
of its employment, present and prospective, are to
be obtained iu vast abundance from the same loca-
tion of very superior quality. The latter feature
was most satisfactorily proved during the Exhibition
of 1861 by the display of numerous large masses in
the American Court, and has been more fully ver
fled by the importation into this country from time
to time since of specimens unequalled in bulk and
quality.

As, however, our readers will shortly be afforded
an apportunity of judging of the correctness of these
statements upon the issue of a prospectus of a com-
pany organised for the special purpose of working
the mine in question, we will content ourselves
with referring them to the statistics contained
therein, and claim an attentive perusal of the articles
upon the subjects about to appear in our columns.
One remark, however, in conclusion, we cannot re-
frain from offering—it is this. The Ticonderoga
Golconda is at the present time, and has been for a
long period, in active and highly successful opera-

tion, and we reiterate the sentiment with which we
started, that we look upon
_its introduction to the
notice of English investors as a means of furthering
the object prominent in the hearts of every well-
wisher of his country on either side of the Atlantic
—a closer union amongst the members of the Anglo-
Saxon race.—Anglo-American Times. •

THE LATE MISS MATILDA WRENCH.—Our obituary
a few days ago contained the announcement of the death of
a lady so quietly useful in her generation that it is only
right that somo notice of her life, labours, and character
should be taken. By birth and family connection Miss
Wrench was English, but during tho last 20 ygars the
greater portion of her time had been spent in Scotland ;
and while not confining her liberality to Scottish objects,
her energies and her possessions were largely devoted to
the advancement of the interests, spiritual and material, of
the people in our Western Highlands, especially in Skye,
,where she built and endowed a school, and where her me-
mory will long bci warmly cherished. Sheihas left transla-
tions which attest the extent of her scholarship and her ad-
mirable English style. Among these we may mention Nean-
der's "Life of St. Bernard," and portions of the very in-
teresting memoirs of her "Life and Times of Frederick
Perthes." For many years Miss Wrench was the honoured
associate and worthy successor of Mrs. Fry in visiting the
prisons of London, and striving by the power of female
sympathy and Christian truth to raise her fallen sisters
from the depths in which they lay. Some record of this
portion of her life will be found in a volume entitled "Visits
to Female Prisoners at Home and Abroad," published iu
1852. In 1816, the year of dreadful famine in the High-
lands, Miss Wrench's warmest sympathies were roused,
and as with her sympathy never remained a more senti-
ment,eulinf ol f s
e sufferers.e w she wrote and published an interesting narrative
followingt the relief
young
her work e
g a a
directions
h
as h
as enabled
Miss tow e n contributeeh
died aa
tlarge sumd en
for ,
in Selkirkshire, on the 18th of October.—Scotsman..
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ordered and, among others, reprimanded
shoesaker for
she not
hsd
mong others, insisted that they were not
fellows. Crispin replied that he purposely mado them so,
in order to oblige her, well knowing the modesty of her
disposition, and that she was not fond of fellows.