The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-09 00:00:00

IRISH MINES.

(From the Dublin Morning Post.)

In the present agitated state of this country,
continue,that jt is
aoi(trii°,:',:ibelgt
Nll.ll 1 itihniet...
and amidst the wrecks of the many 'Joint Stock
Companies which the past two years presented,
it is somewhat consolatory to find that some of
them yet survive' to exhibit the resources of Ire-
land, and the means of .rernunerative employ-
ment of her people. %Ve are led to this obser-
vation from the,perusal, of a document placed in
our hands, and which we subjoin for the infor-
mation and the 'satisfaCtion of our 'readers. It is
a statement-of Irish copper ores in quantity and
!do:at:tit:
ofm otnhteh l ys
Minesale atw h
iwhich
produced Swansea, on
ttvhia'eehMl,ststlotat of Ross Island is worked, after a very
considerable
From its
bylas tthaeotHmaiblerrietip)a,oneratrgA,llvien,it:
ifet
st. Company.,howve
operationsr, twithh there
e regret,v‘,itl
quality of the ore is of. the richest assay. The
Andley-Mines, whose ores are next in• value,
increasing
absei
negn
pnroowthv‘i
e•oer,kaerde aboutthe
propertythree
ing Company of Ireland, whose
.operations
in this as well as' in various other dis-
tricts in Ireland, as they give employment
to some thousands of the population, We are
glad to understand, are, by a strict ad-
herence - to its motto---,, Industry, Eco-
nomy; and Perseverance," likely to be
remunerative to its proprietors. The other
Mines in the list are the properties of private
adveuturers, to whom we equally wish success.
The annual' value, according to this monthly
return, is above 55,0001., of which it may be
reasonably calculated that one-half is- expended
in the payment of the labour that produces it.
-It will form a new item in the tables of the Ex-
port of.lrish produce, when it states,
Irish Copper Ore, value 55,0001.

.
IRISH COPPER MINES.—At the monthly
sale of copper ores at Swansea, on the Ist inst.,
the following lots, the produce of Ireland, were
sold, at the prices annexed :--
M;nes. Toni. Price.
Mebaces 99 £9 5 0
9 18 01 X 1489 19 0
Do. ' 58
Audlef 6B
11 5 "
..1354 18 6
Do, ... - -.. 69 , 810 6
.0 '
Cronebane • 4,3 . 5 5 0 • 225 15 0
Tigrony
Wicklow
Do. S
Ross Nand 93 l2 15 6 _ LISS 1 6

Amount.

Total 501

£4696

SHUMLA AND. VARNA.

On this subject an extract from an able article
in the last number of the Foreign Quarterl!!
Review, may not be unacceptahle4o our readers
A Turkish fortress is not a Flemish one—
Shumla is.not a Bergen-op-Zoom, but the na-
Itural defences of, rocky positions, though only
surmounted with thick brick walls, flanked with
•
bastions,. at which Vauban and Cohorn would
have sneered with- the ntermostdisdain, have
often: been ..for the Turks barriers' of strength,
over which the - utmost' courage and gigantic
nunlbers of the " enemy -could not triumph.
In' nothing is this most remarkable of warlike
nations, the Turks, more distinguished than
by the indomitable energy, skill, and suc-
cess, with which they defend :their rude,
unscientific fortresses and fortified camps.—
On •the Danube, Brailow, after vast slaughter
of the. besiegers,. surrendered—the garrison, with
all the honours of war, being allowed to march
to Silistria, a still more important fortress, which
Occupies the attention or a large division of the
Russian army ; while another division. cries aloud
for, succours, apprehensive ofsorne rear move-
ment of the .Dacha who commands. n Widdin.
All this, and more, is behind the 'Autocrat, and
before him the Balkan, and Shumla, and Varna.
Shumla is the land, Varna the sea—key of
Rumelia, When the Russians, after six or
seven years' occupation of Bulgaria; attacked
Shumla in 1810, the Pacha, after they had re-
tired in dismay, and precipitavily retreated be-
yond the Danube, wrote to the Sublime Porte,
that he had cut off as, many Russian heads
as would form a Iriidge to the moon—an
oriental hyperbole, but significant enough of
the loss sustained by the assailants before
this rude but admirably situated fortress.
Varna; though less 'indebted to natural po-
sition, is artificially Stronger, and can only
fall by a combined powerful and ably conducted
attack by sea as well as by land. While this
third line presents obstacles so considerable,
hitherto indeed invincible, the invaders have
only passed their army over the second line, the
Danube, without having made themselves masters
of some of its most important fortresses, which
are said to be well supplied and numerously gar-
risoned. in the event of retreat, these must
present' alarming obstacles to a discomfited army,
while their capture at an earlier period cannot
be effected without great loss to the invaders.
Should the Russians gain possession of the
strong places north of the Balkan, they will pro-
bably penetrate in three divisions, of unequal
force and character, by the passes we have men-
tioned, into Rumelia. This movement from
Varna, Shinla, and Ternova, ou,Adrianople,
' could not, from the character of the country, and
the overwhelming incumbrance of ordnance and
stores, be accomplished in less than a fortnight.
But when to these natural difficulties come to be
superadded the resistance
determined' foes, a still longer period of
arduous struggle may be before them ; yet, like
the British amidst the Pyrenees, they may carry
well-contested height, and eventually rush
.ee numerous warlike
down
every
into Amelia.

Wednesday Mr. CHAS. WHITE, of Upple-.
don, shot a most beautiful specimen of the red-legged r
French partridge, at Corse Hill, Gloucestershire. —Rath
Chronicle.

T h the Cg. 'mostPS
of R joAvir Rrel:dOeCrsilarieNf,„ SitTiiißarAwTilithAtLheL
remainsAN.—
Roman camps at Ai doch—the most entire specimens
of the• manner in which the ancient toasters of the world
threw up their military entrenchments that . are now
to he found in Scotland—we question much if they
have found an accurate idea of their extent. We are
enabled, by the kindness of a correspondent, to state
their exact. dimensions. "There are three Roman camps
quite near each other in the vicinity of Ardoch. The mean
ternegatdltih l,
of the large
.
feet, or 193 h- English, there will remain an intranai area of
3,773,507 superficial feet, which is nearly Kafficient to ac-
commodate an array of greatest part of
Deducting d i camp is
theis 2 1n8t0e(I rva rleleuttn, soil
of 200 its
Roman
mean
this rampart, with three gates, remains entire. The King's
road enters the south gate, and in so GiOing has levelled one-
' half of the Bowen epaulement which covered it. Within the
east rampart is a square redoubt, situate on.a gentle emi,
nence, which is the only instance of the kind now extant,
in any of the works: of AGRICOLA., Near this camp is
another of smaller dimensions, sufficient for the accommu-
' dation of 12,000 men. It cuts off a corner of the larger
camp, which is enclosed within it. There is a third camp,
with much stronger entrenchments, which might perhaps
4cepuirnodate.4,ooo men, and may have been formed for
the use of t garrison left there when the rest of the array
was removed to distant strvices,"— Stir/lop Journal,