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    1. [IRL-CAVAN] Anglo Celt - Assizes, Mayo Mining - June 3, 1852
    2. Kay Stanton
    3. "The Anglo Celt" Cavan; Thursday, June 3, 1852 SUMMER ASSIZES - 1852 The following is a list of the respective circuits which the judges have fixed upon to take at the ensusing Summer Assizes:- North-East - The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice; the Right Hon. Baron GREENE. Home - The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Please; the Hon. Judge BALL. North-West - The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron; the Hon. Judge TORRENS. Leinster - The Hon. Baron PENNEFATHER; the Right Hon. Judge MOORE. Connaught - The Hon. Judge PERRIN; Mr. Sergeant HOWLEY. Munster - The Hon. Judge CRAMPTON; the Hon. Judge JACKSON. MAYO MINES. - Notwithstanding, the mania for everything foreign, we repeat our oft-reiterated statement, that the most valuable metals and marbles are within the reach of human labour in our mountains. This is no idle boast - it is a statement founded on the investigation of an eminent chemist. We frequently informed our readers, that in the neighbourhood of this town, Mr. John ATKINSON has detected the presence of copper, tin, and other valuable ores, all of which he has tested by chemical analysis, and found them to contain an unusual proportion of the several metals. We may enumerate, for the information of the dubious, that in the mountains of Burren, within four miles of Castlebar, are to be found, in the quartz formation, copper, tin, pyrites, and manganese; in Pontoon range of mountains, including Raheenbar, copper, pyrites, iron, tin, lead, as also semi-metals, as cobalt, manganese, bismuth, and antimony; and in both ranges specimens of beautiful black and ! variegated marble, capable of the highest polish. All of these have been proved by experiment to exist in these ranges; and specimens of each may be seen at Dr Atkinson's establishment. We have also learned from an eminent engineer, that in the quartz formation in some of the latter mountains rich auriferous veins are to be found. - Mayo Constitution. ALLEGED INTERFERENCE IN ELECTION MATTERS. - A statement has been published in a Belfast paper, and also in a Dublin contemporary, which is indeed passing strange; though in the face of it, it bears marks calculated to throw discredit on the story. It is represented that while Major-General THOMAS, who has succeeded Major-General BAINBRIDGE in the military command of the district, was reviewing a company of pensioners, in Enniskillen, on Wednesday last, he urged such of the men as had votes to give them to Mr. WHITESIDE, or other nominee of Lord ENNISKILLEN, at the next election. One of the pensioners, named M'KINLEY said he had not been treated by Colonel COLE as he had a right to expect; and as he had voted for Mr. COLLUM before, he would do so again. It is then stated that Major-General Thomas told him that such an act would be discreditable to an old Enniskillener; and Captain BEAUFOY (commander of the company), Col. Cole and others, set upon him that he was obli! ged to promise he would vote as requested. The account in the Belfast paper says Major-General Thomas "shook his fist at M'Kinley; telling him, at the same time, he was a disgrace to the name of Enniskillener, and to the body which he belonged. This is no doubt, an exaggeration, or probably a perversion of the facts; for, we could not believe an officer of such experience could so far forget the respect due to his position as to suffer himself to be so betrayed. We thus give the substance of the published statements, as no doubt the matter will come before the public, on a future occasion.

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