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Show The KinmA. Tim cloud of gloom which lias enshrouded the Kiunwi mini) for the la.il lnv yearn, in Apparently as im penetrably uu uvor, On the Hlh uf July a Hpecial nieeliiii; of the company com-pany Him held iu lAmdon, when the directors presented a lengthy repoit, lrom which no extract After detailing detail-ing tho company's lluancial and legal trouble, the directum say: The mine iUelf has not been worked bine 1st December, 1H7-1, and it in now in the bands of the mai-nhid, under an attachment of Mr. Park, who has obtained iv judgment tor his claim, and who, under that judgment, by ivum twenty Olio days' notice, can sell the mine, and who has already under that judgment actually ac-tually mild all the plant, tools, and ore on the dump that is, all the excavated ex-cavated ore and there remains, therefore, no nunc, no tools, and no ore; and the only assets the MacDou-all MacDou-all Iniarvl have had lelt to them to deal with, in th small amount of ca.sh puul over to them, and a claim on some real estate at Chicago, recovered re-covered fiom a debtor, a- to tlie value of which tho direct'iis can offer no opinion except that it is not cafily realisable; and lhi is all thai is lelt of the million jhuiiuU bterluu; which the proprietors paid lor (he Kuuna mine only four years ko. Thedireelora ure, however, convinced that that million pouiuU was obtained by means of a (rami u lent contract, and they (eel no doubt hut that thii fraudulent contract would be set asiile, and (he money ordered to be restored to tho company, if the company can put Ihetiirtklveo mi a position to seek lei;al remedies against Messrs. Park, Alhert liraut, nud any other pjrsons who were parties to that fraudulent contract, con-tract, and also against the ordinal directors, as being responsible fur the (also statement. conl'iim-d in the OfiMKVlus. The inont im porta i it I ijileUon, therefore, remaining is an, to how the company can nlacu iUeK in a position to seek the-e legal remedies. reme-dies. The hinds of the company being exhausted, the only way under ordinary circumstances, wo iid i be for the director to invite the pro-1 pnetors to Mitttcnhe to a fund for con-1 .meting v d proce-diiii; but the di j rectors have liad placed before them i an otter from Mr. Alexander Willum Me i 'onfall, tne eliairinau, and tne nreft shareholder in the company, ' lo undertake at his own personal n.-k. j ttiu expenses of seeking these leal , remedioi in tlie name and on Itohail ol tlie company, and tho direct on ' recommend that this oiler be accepted , ; by the proprietors. j A special meeting was to be held on the COth of Janu.uy, to consiJt r n j resolution toaccipt Mr. McIKju.iII'b j proposition. Tho company have I hoard of a body of ore being found within a "few feet of the E;n:n boundary," but they do not know whether to place confidence in the j story. They are alo afraid that tlie suits started some sinio since against Park and others, are being conducted ; in the interest of the defendants, into j into whose hands, it U thought, the j old boaid have been playing. Among the other incidents of tLt meeting, Mr. Alt wood, the manager, was criti- j cistfd fur being in London, while he was being employed to manage the mine. When the stockholders get thoroughly sick of the Emma, and it paes out of their possession, some enterprising American will get hold of j the property, and eoon transform it j |