The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

A meeting of tho miners of Scotland was held im
the City Hall, Glasgow, on Mond for 0111 pusposs_edpee-
seating an address to the Hon. Mho, F. Elmatrd, H.P.
for Perth, in recognition of his advocacy of the claims of
miners in the past and previous sessions of padiame-at, and
his effoets to secure in the promotion of their occupations
the greatest possible protection against personal injury or
Ices of life. The large lull was nearly filled, the audience
befog almost entirely composed of the mining and other
working climes, during the assembling of whom Mr.
Lambeth dinoursed several appropriate and stirring airy
from the 15ti Y.P.
which elicited loud applause. Robe
]may, h, .P. for the city, preluded on the occasion,
end on the orm. in addition to the various delecate"
meant, were Sir John Lawrence, Robert Banbury
it
M.P., Thomas Baxley, Esq., M.P., Sir James Andmem
Andrew Orr, and others.
The Conniver", who me received with colVtpli=
mid—l am very glad that you have given me the opportu-
ally ef being present here today. I cordially comer in the
object of this meeting, for I know no man, no member of
parliament who deserves better of the working classes than
our friend, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird. cheers.) I
CID not believe there is any man in the Houle of Commove
who has more sincerely at head the good of the working
population, and I am quite sure there is no man more din-
intend ed in his endeavours to promote their physical and
moral welfare. (Applause.)
Mr. A. M'Doesto, Secretary to the Miners' Association,
said—This, I believe, is the first time the miners of
Wetland have met to do bower to any gentleman connected
with the House of Commas, or a member of either horse
of parliament. For may years pad the miners of Scotland
rifees ommigsba L_. eM nay have bees
t looked upon by other clams of the community, or km 4 of
only when some strike convulsed the country or in some
mon anything but enviable. The cause of this, I believe.
was to be attributed to the fact that their condition was
ignored altogether as a class, although hard-working. Some
Ws ago a feeling came over the miners themselves that
the evil' they suffered were such as demanded the inter-
femme of parliament, and they went there with a com-
plaint The first persons to whom the miners of Scotland
■ppli.ealatturlenci'm and those
otleEnZglbanroddiewrereLtl;:
Kinesird. (Cheers.) From that moment the miners of
Scotland and England both felt that the gulf, so to speak,
which existed between them and the governing classes of
the country had been bridged over, and they now felt the
utmost confidants that their claims, shady heard, would
be listened to over the length and breadth of the land.
(Cheers.) lam glad to say, in the preseuoe of this meeting
—and I wish to make the statement public—on behalf of
myself and fellow.elsiegates to London last 111110d011, that we
met generally with the utmost kindness from every member
of the House of Commons, and were treated with that re-
spect which was due to the representatives of sash a large
body. Befogs reading the address, lam more the Hon.
Arthur Kinnaird, to whom it is to be presented, that this
day is looked upon as a medal day in the histcay of the
miners of Scotland. I have kittens In my pmerson from
Fifeshire, Clackmannanshire, Lialithgowehiee, sad East
Lothian, !tad there are delegates here present from Wiring-
eh*" Lmlithgowshire and every part of the county of
Limit You (addressing Mr. Einnaird) have the bed
wishes and the holiest desires and maritime of every miner
throughout the length and breadth of the land. (Loud
cheers.) Mr. M'Donahl then read the address.
The Hoe. A. F. KINZAIRD, who, on rising to reply,. was
greeted with repeated and enthusiastic cheering, mid in
the course of his remarks—l am perfectly aware that you
do not wish to express the sentiments contained in the
adder to myself alone, but maul to couple with
me tone other members of the legislature who have
given such warm support to your cause. lam happy to see
that the county of Middlesex is represented here today in
ray friend Mr. Banbury—(cheers)--and that the important
city of Manchester is also represented in its worthy mem-
ber, my friend Mr. Barley. (Renewed applause.) Both
these gentlemen, and very many other members of parlia-
ment—mid nose Ws, I am sure, than your friend and my
friend, Mr. Ayrtoo, ea well as your representative here--
have given their most cordial support in endeavouring to
secure your just rights in the measures brought forward for
your benefit. Bet we must bear in mind that measures
such as these are nut carried in a day or in a session.
(Hear, hear.) I have to remind you of the labour" of my
noble friend who is so well known to you—Lord Shaftes-
bury—who for ten long years fought thecae's of the factory
children ,in parliament. (Cheers.) That, I am hagritzoe
en,, is no longer an experiment. My friend, Mr.
will bear interne to the good effects resulting from
shortening of the hours of labour ; and only this year we
had the official report from the medical inspector of fac-
tories, whose statements I can suppo7t from my owe per-
sonal observations, testifying to the complete change which
has occurred in that population since the priming of the
act. These factories were beginning to witness the sick,
emaciated, attenuated forma of the young women who were
to be the future wives and mothers of the working popula-
tion ; but the impactor says they are now so healthy, so
changed—so "plump in their appearance," is the expression
used by the medical officer—that they will vie with any
eosininon oveurr the lengthu abiLedvebreadbeen thooldthwe
land.b4prauseelat..
notice the efforts year made to secure a satisfactory
oda:Mica for the children of the miners. lam a parent
myself, and I should be ashamed, both as a Christian sad
as • matt, if I were not prepared to um the best of my
exertions to obtain for your children, in the same measure
arid degree, those advantages I am
.so anxious to obtain for
my own. (Rear, and cheers.) It is for these reasons that
I trust we shall be prepared in the next session, not to
halt in our endeavours, not to leave this question till we
have placed those interested in it in as good a position
relatively as the factory children of Manchester. (Applause.)
You are pleased also, in your addreet to notice what others
in parliament, and those associated with me, have done to
"'cure protection to limb and life for the mining population.
Sir, I hold that when persons are amassing great fortunes,
aad accumulating vast wealth by the exertions made by
wain men in the mines, the legislature are bound to
ass that every appliance of science and art should be
adopted in the waking of these mines, in order to save the
lives of the population. (Loud cheers.) You have been
pleased to advert also to my efforts to promote the cause of
civil and religious liberty at home and abroad. We in this
country, I believe, enjoy a greater amount of civil and
religious liberty than any other country on the face of the
globe—(ebeers)—and I pity that man or those men who,
having acquired fur themselves these great privileges and
advantagehave no sympathy for those struggling for the
same. 1 pity that man who can, at the present time, coolly
look on what is now passing in Italy, where a pliant monk
are singeing and striving to wrest for themselves out of the
bands of tyrant& those liberties which we enjoy. I had the
good fortune, last year, to visit those countries, sad to
make the acquaintance and gain the friendship of that
great and good man General Garibaldi. (Hear, and
Mese.) He himself man,
me that he looked for the weal
support of the people of this country with the mad per-
fect confidence. He has been among us, be knows the
feelings of our people, and be mired me he bad not the
slightest doubt that, in that arduous conflict in which he
was about to engage, he would have our cordial sympathy ;
for be is essentially himself a man of the people, and he felt
that he would have the cordial and warm support of the
working men of this country. (Cheers.) Before I sit'
down, however, I think I would not be discharging my
duty were I to omit to mention that among those to whom
your Osaka are dm I am bound to state the names
of the Home Secretary, Sir Cornewall Lewis, and also the
tinder Secretary, my friend Mr. George Clive, for no two
men could have been more hearty and unremitting in
attending to your interests than those two members of go-
vernment (Loud cheers.) When that bill, which had
been so carefully dimmed in the House of Commons, went
to the House of Lords, it was very much owing to the sup-
port of Mr. Clive, and to the influence he brought to boa
upon the government that we even obtained what we did in
the midst of the damaging amendments there forced upon
us. (Applause.) My advice to you., my friends, is this—Do
sot give up this question in despair. (Hear, and cheers.)
All experience in this country, and in our free institutions,
lead' us to expect occasional difficulties in passing measures
rods al this ; but we may depend upon it that a muse so
Jut Wring for its object the social improveruent of the
people, will, sooner or later, in its full messure.lobtain the
ruction of perlioneat (The hon. gentleman resumed his
seat amid prolonged alamatas.)

filuicEos or • Consul. IN Lrvrarooi.—A painful
mention was created in the neighbourhood of Fluskimon-
dem* yentirray mooting, comequent on the death, by tun
own land, et a gentisman named Weiekhmann. The de-
weed resided at the house of Mr. Taylor, Upper Rusk:Won-
env* where be bad been staying about a fortnight. He bad
latterly been in a delicate state of health, and valiant( from
• oomplaint et the bowels, for which be wee attended by
Dr. Orimadale. Nothing was observed in the deceased's
conduct to indicate that his mind was in any way affected.
Is the morning, shortly before nine o'clock, the servant took '
some warm water up to the deceased's bedroom, and he then
to be as usual. She came down stairs, and in
=rkei
n minute* the family were alarmed by bearing the
retort et a pistol. Mr. Taylor proceeded at once to
the deeseeed'a bedroom, sad oci uteri was horrified at
the rat which presented itself. The deoeasrd was lying
on the Boer quite dead, and near him • pistol with which
it was evident he had terminated hie existence. Part of
Ma skull was shot away, and the fragments, besides pot-
time et the brain, lay scattered about the room. The UR
appeared to have pared through the right side of the bead,
seer the temple, and afterwards bi an oblique direction
upwards towards the ceiling of the room, when it was sub-
tly (mod. Immediately after the occurrence Dr.
was called, but kis MANI were of no avail. Two
ether medical geatleraea, Dr. Onniedale and Dr. Fletcher,
else came to render amaioleaee in ewe el seed. Prom an
adders card found in deeured's badman, it would appear
that be Mid. ea official poeition—that ot consul to his
Itnielia Maisel, at Marseilles.