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 9“'S. v1.AU@.4,19oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 91 QdcG0vERN_says can be proved. He says the Spoltjgogre Juat lgisgi ; “ there is no seyerance 0 ”° t e i erence is one °` etween parent and:chi1d,” but “ the children disown ” the _connex1on. 'I‘his is bad enough to witness against any Keople; but worse could be told, for the Hxg landers, not content with “ re- senting the Irish descent,” have a deep-rooted antxpathyto everéything Irish, and are said to possess t is stoc petition :- Build a dyke as high as Ben Nevis Atween us an’ the teevil, And a bigger ane Atween us an’ the Irish. If Ma. McGoveny can point out a nation that says a worse thing about its ancestors than ghagl lmrfhen Calvinism goeshdownhand the CQ _ e up ancestor wors i, t ey can build shrines to the Irish, according to MR. R{cGovsl1;N, o_r to ghlei go{‘illas,Ts;.]ccr»rding to essrs. arwxn an ux ey. e bare pro- spect o_f having to decide between two such aéutilioritxesfls enough in itself to establish a. vmism or ever. “ But does not such an explicit statement as Scotch ang Irtism ..... is the difference between rent an c i ...... not ...... a severance of blhootd,” perrtain ai the gatural order of com- posl ion _ nown as “t e new journa ism”'l Aersi sée xnhS<;1otland (who pcresumably have r i cotc istory) to ta e it seriously? The Scottish nation is a com ound of Picts, Celts of several families, gaxons, Danes, N orsemen, with a sprinkling of other peoples. Somgdtuge afteirfthe Christian ella, tlrishmen nam cots e t, or more pro a ly were kicked out of, Ireland, and took refuge on the western coasts of Scotland. Their race and territory were trifling fractions in the zzpuritgy, but, true toh their garlrulodus origin; ie “ oys” seem to ave orate an agitate tt; such an extkiga that then, world iénagined ere was no y e se a ut an North Britain in time came to be called Scotland, the land of the Scots, or people who could shout loudest. Needless to state, however, these Scoti were soon put into their proper place-that is, they disappeared in the mass of the nation. The name Scotland remained for want of another, but, like the name Ame- rica, IS ta starlgling memorial off ilaxpuétlent assump ion. o great wonr er i t e cot- tish natgog “resents the lllrish descentdwith as muc eat as it wou c an im ute one from the Hottentots.” The Scottigh nation has never taken kindly to humbug. The other_statement about James VI.’s Irish plantations being “nothing short of a return of the descendants of the original Irish colomsts to the mother country” is a good l J l I enou h bit of humour, but may not be appre- ciated in Ulster, where ancestral feeling runs high. Newlighton the Ulster plantations may have ap eared lately, and, if so, we should be glad to have it, but hitherto it has been sup- posed that Ulster was planted (as far as the Scotch are concerned) chiefly from the Borders, where the people are lar ely of Norse descent. The colonists were largcgy composed of such names as Johnson, Kerr, Ferguson, Irvine, Stevenson, Kitson, Armstrong, Mus- grave, N ickson, Rutherfoord-Norsemen all. "heir fathers may have been in Ireland on an occasion, but I ima ine the Irish paid them few compliments for their visits, and they made short work of the Scoti wherever they were found. The feuds between the Orangemen and the Irish are the last embers of the conflicts carried on by their fathers, conilicts which at bottom sprang from race hatred. These dutiful children, the Orange- men, own their fathers so heartily that even a few days ago, if we can believe the news- papers, they were marching through Ulster towns “cursin the Pope, the Beers the Fenians,” and aIl that is associated with the term “ lrish.” ' To say the Scottish nation is of Irish descent is as reasonable as to say the English are of Welsh descent. The Scoti freckle but little, and are alwa s light in colour. If any one contended that the pure-blooded Scoti do not freckle he would e hard to disprove. The Pict tans. The mixed bloods are the great freckled fople. The Pict complexion dwindles or gatliiers into spots in some half-breeds and other mixtures, and when the face is tanned besides the resulting effect com ares well with the plumage of a mavis. ChiIl)dren of one family exhibit curious variations. One child may have red hair and a clear com lexion with lightish freckles ; another will have black hair, Jew complexion, and a few small dark freckles ; while a third, with black hair and dark complexion, shows no freckles. The Pict has come to the surface in the manufacturing districts, and seems better adapted b nature for mechanical occupations than the other races. He is also the most conceited of thc races of the land. He is more excitable and emotional than the Celt. but does not show his temperament so much on the surface. P. F. H. Perth. Mounrrrcmrr CASTLE, BLACKFRIARS (9°*' S. vi. 25).-The statement quoted by MR. HEBB from ‘Old and New London,’ i. 200, requires some correction, as Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, had been in his grave thirty-three years when the Dominican community was