The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-05 00:00:00

HIBERNIAN MINING COMPANY.

A Special General Meeting of Proprietors was held yes-
terday at the Company's office, in King's Arms-yard,
Coleman-street, to receive the Report of the Committee
appointed at the last Meeting to investigate the affairs of the
Company, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire in the Chair.
Mr. BLAIN, the Chairman of the Committee, read the
Report, which detailed the several steps taken by the Di-
rectors for the working of the mines in Ireland ; the cost
of the two establishments of Directors in Dublin and London.
Mr. HARTLEY, one of the Committee, was anxious to
disclaim the responsibility of even indirectly recommending
the propriety of going on with the concern. He would
leave it to Proprietors of larger interests than he possessed,
to determine that matter, but his own impression was
against carrying on the Company.
Several Shareholders and Directors here intimated that
there was no intention of abandoning the concern.
Mr. HARTLEY then moved that the report just read, be
received and approved of.—Carried.

The Duke of DEVONSIIIIIE complimented Mr. Hartley
for the anxiety he evinced for the prosperity of the Company,
and said it was to his (Mr. H.'s) exertions, at the last
meeting that they were indebted for the appointment of the
Committee. He concurred in the motion of thanks to the
Committee, and expressed himself ready at any time to as-
sist the Company, if they conaidered his services of any
use.—(Cheers.) _ _

Thanki were then voted to Mr. Parkes, the late Secre-
tary, the Directors, and the Noble Chairman, and the
Meeting adjourned.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.-Arm 2.

MONTHLY RETURN OF PATIENTS,
From March 1 to 31.
In-Patients admitted by letters
Ditto, Accidents 33
-147
Out admitted by letters 173
3itto, Accidents 145
-318

In-Patients discharged
Remaining in the Hospital

Total 465
136
ISS

The main contriver of the different mail and
stage-coach robberies, is at length in custody, on a charge
of abstracting, and afterwards destroying the Italian bags
from the Dover coach.

PROTESTANT MEETING IN FAVOUR CF
EMANCIPATION.—A Requisition appears in the Castlebar
Papers, addressed to the High Sheriff of Mayo, requesting
him to " call a Meeting of the Freeholders of that County,
to consider the propriety of petitioning the King to re-
commend to Parliament the restoration of his Majesty's Ro-
man Catholic subjects to their rights, and thus rendering
Ireland, in fact as well as by law, an integral part of the
British Empire." The High Sheriff complied, and the
Meeting was to be held on Saturday.—Dublin Morning
Register.

A singular circumstance occurred in the pig
market, Chichester. A man was standing with a sow for
sale, when she was taken unwell. He was advised to &crush
her, in doing which she broke the bottle in her month, and
was in the act of swallowing the neck of the bottle, when
the man put his finger in her mouth to take it out; the sow
instantly bit his finger off, which he regained, and put it
into his waistcoat pocket. The wound was dressedshortly
afterwards, but the man was peen in the afternoon in the
street, bleeding very profusely from the wound. Prudence
would, one might have supposed, dictate more caution than
to have entrusted the hand in the mouth of the pig in the
agonized state in which she was at the moment. She was
obliged to be killed on the spot.—Brighton Paper.
On Monday se'nnight, one of our Hastings
fishing boats brought on shore a very curious fish which
was caught about thirty miles at sea: it appears to be a
species of Dolphin, commonly called the Dolphin of the
Ancients. The following are tbs dimensions taken while
it lay on the beach :—Length from the tip of the nose to
the tail, 7ft. 6in. ; circumference of the head, 2ft. .siin.;
circumference of the middle, 3ft. 1 tin. ; circumference
behind the fin on the back, 3ft. 3in. ; circumference at
the end next the tail, Ift. ; the number of teeth in the
upper jaw, 236 ; the weight about 3 cwt. The tongue
and eyes very mach resemble those of a pig. It was exhi-
bited o❑ the beach till Friday last, and it is now gone to
London.—Brighton Paper.
SENSATION BEFORE BATTLE.—The pros-
pect of being every moment hurried into action, even though
it be accompanied in the bravest heart with sensations, not
perhaps of alarm, but of something remotely akin to it, is,
upon the whole, to a soldier in full march, and surrounded
by gallant comrades, one of the most animating and exqui-
site sensations of which human nature is susceptible. It
is not then with him, as it is in the stillness of his tent or
bivouac, when he knows that to-morrow's sun must light
him to a field of carnage and death. Then, indeed, there
is time to think ; and no man can think of an impending
dissolution without at least a degree of seriousness which
no other thought is capable of producing. But when he is
scouring the woods, or advancing through fields and inclo-
■ures, his men all about him, and eager and animated, like
huntsmen about a fox-cover, the officer must be phlegmatic
indeed whose energies are not wrought up to a degree of
enthusiasm which causes all apprehension of personal risk
to be forgotten, and directs his whole thought into one
channel, namely, how he is most successfully to discharge
his duty when the moment of trial shall arrive. lam not
one of those who, writing in my own study, pretend to
say, that I should prefer a bloody battle to a Snug dinner
with my friends, and a social glass of wine after it ; but I
confess, that during the remainder of our progress, one
wish, and one only, rose into my mind ; and that was, that
the Americans would afford me an opportunity, with. the
twenty brave men whom I commanded, to make what im-
pression I could upon any of their ambuscades, however
udiciously disposed.—A Subaltern in America.