2 FEBRUARY 1867, Page 2

Lord Elcho delivered an able address this day week to

the miners of Midlothian at Dalkeith, in which he pointed out how much the law had done for collieries, and how much more it could do for the protection of miners, by provisions of the same visas. In Belgium every inspector is obliged to go down every mine under his supervision four times at least each year. In the United Kingdom a single inspector has no less, he said, than 900 mines. Lord Eloho went on into the general subject of Trades' Unions, and announced the very probable appointment of a commission to investigate the'relation of capital to labour both here and abroad, with special relation to combinations intended to act on wages. Lord Echo's speech was, as usual with him, really fair and candid, though of course biassed against the Unions. He was evidently gratified that the Scotch miners reposed no less personal confidence in him for his Tory line on the subject of Reform.