BRUNNER COAL MINE.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 604, 2 December 1869, Page 2

BRUNNER COAL MINE.

.-s>— ■ (To the Editor of the Qrey River Argus.) Sib — In this morning's issue of your paper there is a letter signed by George Young, complaining of the want of ability in mining matters of the managers of the Brnnner Coal Mine generally, and of Messrs Dent and Batty particularly. I will premise by observing that it is clear that George Young does not reside in Cobden, nor is aware of the very&ejnr/u and patriarchal Government officials who have the majority of the inhabitants in that thraldom, that they dare not utter a syllable if the Camp influence desires it to be unsaid. If George Young does not wish to live in " this land of liberty," this "land of pure delight," ycleped Cobden, where it is criminal to speak of official incapacity-, or breathe a complaint against the imperious tyranny exercised by the oflieials in this Paradise; let him transport himself to Russia, where, if the climate is inhospitable, anyhow the form of Go\'ernment is immeasurably less despotic, les3 arbitrary, than that practised by those in authority in this police- ridden district. But to the point, it seems that George Young gives Dent credit for conducting the works at the mine to the best of his ability ; what that ability may be, the mine itself on examination would prove most unmistakably ; and would not the late frequent accidents that have occurred at the mine point out some blundering 1 Is there a doubt that if the fatal accidents had occurred when the mine was under the management of the late company, the Judge would not have had something to do in the settlement of them ? 1 think not the slightest. I beg, Mr Editor, that in the name of humanity you will raise your voice, and use your best influence to prevent this frightful trifling with human life. So long as incapacity threw away a few hundreds, may be thousands, of public money ; or only interfered, perhaps, with the liberty of her Majesty's liege subjects, it did not much matter, but when human life is sacrificed, I think it is high time even for the serfs of Cobden and Brunnerton to enter their protest. — I am, Ac. , A Rebel.