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which the owners, &c. have provided for thealleviation of distress occasioned by explo-sion * and other accidents in mines, this saysnothing in regard to the sacrifice of humanlife; and so long as the lives and the social tiesof existence (which I presume exist in thebreasts of miners and their families as inothers) are a subject of national consideration,an anxiety must be felt for their fate.

“ This would be better elucidated and pro-duce greater conviction if laid down in a moreextensive form than my ability or the length ofmy paper will allow. Suffice that the destruc-tions which are caused can alone be preventedby the application of. such measures as arefound best and most certain to obviate acci-dents ; and certainly, as your lamp appears topossess this efficacy, it ought to be a matterof serious public consideration to see it moregenerally adopted. ,

“I fully anticipated all the local objections,

* This fund does the owners and agents much credit,as it evinces their humane wishes to ameliorate the suf-ferings which habit and custom have led them to believeare unavoidable, and strongly induces an opinion in mymind that it only requires proper elucidations, and a con-ciliation of interests, to unite them in the general adoptionof scientific improvements and preventions.