Star.
London, England, 1825-12-22 00:00:00

TYWARNHALE MINING COMPANY.
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Yesterday a numerous and respectable Meeting. of
Shareholders and others, interested in this Company,
was held at one o'clock, in the Great Room of the
Auction Mart. Mr. Johnson, in the Chair.
The Meeting was called to receive the Report of a
bodrof Proprietors, who consider themselves aggrieved
by the proceedings of the Directors and the Officers
entrusted with the management of the concern; and
also to pass such Resolutions as should compel the
Directors, or their Agents, to act it; a fair and honour-
able manner, according to the regulations and agree-
ments upon, which the Shareholders peseta had been
induced, to become subscribers.

The itrpoit in question was read at considerable length, and
being put from the Chair was received, and unanimously agreed to.
A series of resolutions were then proposed and se-
conded, appointing a Committee of nine persons, five
of whom to form a quorum, for the purpose of taking
such legalvoceedings as might be necessary to resort to.

Tuesday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock,
the Secretary of Legation arrived at the Prussian Minister's house,
in M.tnsfield•atreet, with dispatches for his liactllency.
We understand thnt t!ie new titles created by the
Emperor of BRA 74 L, on his last hirth•day, were forty-
o insstead of twenty-five, as mentioned in our Paper
of Saturday. The title given to General BRA NT, is
%risco:int of Banancatt», in the Province of Minas
Geras ; Chevalier DE GA MEI RO, BirDTI of ITARIATANA,
in the Province of Bahia ; M. TELLES DA SILVA, at
present the Brazilian Envoy at the Court of Vienna,
and son of the Marquis of PENALVA, is created Vis-
count of BEiENDE, in the Province of Minas Geraes
and M. BO !ICES DE BA II [MS, Brazilian Envoy at Paris,
Baron of PEDIIA BRA DCA, in the Province of Bahia.
These arc the dieliniatic agents of Brazil in Europe.
An Invest was held in the Fleet Prison, on the body
of Junes Hutcheson. The deceased had been ill a short
tine, and on Wednesday was seized with a fit of cough-
ing, by which he burst a vessel, which caused
death instantly. An alter Inquest was held on the body
of Elizabeth Per rott, whose husband went to his labour
on the previous morning, leav ng her in bed, and on his
return in the evening, he found her lying dead on the
fluor, v. i,h implements for scowering the room by her
Verdicts—" Natural Death."

OLD ENOLISH HosPirnt.rrx.—lu those days when
the tefinemetit of the Court had not quite expelled the
rustic manners of our old English squires, and when in
country society there was an odd sort of a mixture of
town manners and country bluntness, a knot of young
fellows in the army, lovers of fox hunting and drink-
itg, were invited to dine at the house of a wealthy
squire. The dinner passed; a most formidable regi-
ment of bottles provided by the care of the Lady (the
dowager squires:), had been severally discussed, when
the nom elcome sound for mote wine reached the ears
of the astonished matron, "Old chalk 'em," cried
she, "be 'em a dry yet ? then do, ye, .lihn, car 'etn op
some skier."

According to a late regulation, all those who retail
exciseable articles are obliged to have " Licensed to
sell" on the sign board. An honest couple, travelling
through the village of Liuchars, in Fife, happened to
cast their eyes upon the sign of a well knowo publican,
" Dear me," says Janet to her husband, " Lint-seed to
sell—this is no the time o year o lint-seed at retry rate.
I never kept Jack Carmichael sell lint-seed before
Jock was a)e a queer chiel—he has may-be puttin'
that up for fun." So saying, they proceeded.
Daring die famous discussions upon electricity, above
fifty years ago, when Franklin, Priestley, and others,
wets engaged in demonstrating its similarity with
lightning, in some experiments on the Continent, a Mr.
Maschenbrock described himself at having been so
struck from an electric battery, that he would riot take
a second sh-ck for the kingdom of France. Priestley im-
mediately proclaimed the affrighted professor to be
"a coward," and exultingly referred, by way of con-
trast, to what he called " the magnanimous and truly
philosophic heroism of M msieur Bose, worthy of the
renowned Etnpedocles," who said _he wished that he
might die by the electric shock, that the account of his
death might furnish an article for the memoirs of the
-French Academy of Sciences! It would be difficult lc
say which was m re ludicrous—the d tstai dl) ante-
her sion, of one prole:so:, or the ga swim aof the t,ther.