The Glasgow Argus of the lath contains an address from
the work- men of the Govanhill Colliery to its proprietor, Ala Dixon, of Glas- gow. It is a very interesting document, highly creditable to the work- men who presented, and the able and enlightened gentleman who re- ceived it. Mr. Dixon's plan has heen to suggest and to aid in the fur- metion of philanthropic and instructive institutions among the people be employs, but to put the sole mai age acme of them under the work. men themselves. A Funeral Society, a Society fur the Stipport of the Sick and Aged, a Fund for Widows, a Library, a School, and a Reading.room, have all been established since leaa.), and are now in successful operation; the men having proved porta:4 competent to the management of them. It was on the occasion of removing the school to new rooms, erected at Mr. Dixon's expense, that the address
alluded to was presented. The fellowing pat Oculars of the School, show how much good may be done by the judicious administration of moderate means- " The school was put under our own man gr,ement I S27. We have now
upwards of 210 ehil.lren from ti to years of age at the day-school, including orphans and the children of w idows, who are taught gratuitously ; besides au evening class, which ha. va risd during the pat year fimo 1 iii to Iiii. In con-
sequence of your liberality in allowing the skint of It is name of rent, for a Louse to the teacher, and coals gratuitously for the use of his family and that of the school, the thildreu at the day'-school are taught at the rate of twopence per week ; from which our Committee have not only beim able to pay the teacher read other incidental charges, but have had it in their power to testify theii ap- probation of his abilities and exertions, by giving hint a present above his stipu- lated stalely."
The library consists of La Il volumes. The Pleading-room, the subscription to which is oafs a sitillihg a quarter, no fewer than 27 newspapers, besides other periodirals ; four of the newspapers are supplied gratuitously by Mr. Dixon.
Seeing the success of Mr. Dixon's plan—of what the Argus calls " his judicious coutidence" in the men—the Lord Provost of Glasgow is about to folio v it by erecting a school on his weld:is We under- stand that in Mr. Dixon's extensive establishment there has never been any dispute between the workmen ant1 their emphiyer ; and that the former are every year becoming more sober, peaceable, industrious, and better members of society.
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