Show skull shull used as argument using a skull as an argument J S clarke a labor member of tho the glasgow torp corporation oration induced the other members to appropriate for the purchase of a portrait of mary queen of scots clarke declared the skull was an authenticated one of a soldier killed in the tha battle of longside Lang side now a residential part of glasgow where the army of the scota queen was defeated he instanced this to emphasize p it alize i the advisability of buying the portrait which had bebenin been in the possession of the earl of Mor mortona tons family for nearly 8 BO years and for which there had bad been offers of from to the painting is by a famous contemporary french artist philadelphia inquirer |