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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, a Wednesday, November 30, 1853.

Established 1823.

(For Hasxard's Gasette.) OBSERVATIONS

ON Till SCOTTISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE itszuovsi. or SCO'l"l‘lSH GRIEVANCES AND THE VINDICATION or SCOTTISH RIGHTS.

As some of the Scotch and Scotch-descended settlers in this colony may not et have seen an account of the Nation- al Associstson for the indication of Scottish Rights, a few re- marks are here ofl'ered on a subject deeply interesting not only to all Seotsmeu who dwell within the bounds of Scot- land, but also to ever son of Caledonia, and to every one of Scottish ori in or escent in whatever part of the world his abode may . . _ _

The Association was formed in Edinbur h only a few monthsa and italrcady numbers many i uentia names ; the presidgnt is the Earl of Eglinfia; among the vice-presi- dents are the Marquis of Ailsa, the ‘ rl of Ei-roll, the Earl of Dundouald and Lord Cochrane. Amen the members are Sir A. Alison, author of the History of Europe and Professor A - town the post; these two are conservatives in politics. T e provost and town council of many of the towns have joined ; the general committee includes about two hundred names and among them are Mr. Buchanan, editor of the Culedonian Mercury; the editor of the Scottish Reformers' Gazette, and the editors of several other pa rs. The Association has not the slightest connection wit part olitics as is shown by the fact that Conservatives and i rals, Wlii s and ’lories alike belong to it; nor has it anything to o with ecclesiastical dissensions.

The secret.-ir is Mr. Fred. H. Carter, Accountant, 16, Queen St., Edinb.; the yearly subscri tiou of members is five shillin ssterling; the objects of t is national society are set mil. in a short pamphlet of 36 pages entitled “ Ad- dress to the People of Scotland and Statement of Grievances [lay the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish

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e entrcat every lover of his country to procure this pamphlet, and till he is able to 0 so, some account of the question may be found in Blnckwood's Mag. for Sept.

'l‘he chief grievance is that the Scotch members of parlia- ment are too few in comparison with those of England; most of the other grievances arise from this, and we shall therefore examine into the matter with great minuteness. To determine the pro or proportion of representatives for Scotland and for Sen Britain respectively. some corisider the number of the po ulation, and others the amount of the taxation contributed yeacli country to the common fund. One ofthe chief uses of the House of Commons is to vote away the mono paid by the people in the shape of taxes, and as this ist e case, they who pa the mono ought to have a voice in the disposal thereof corresponding to the pro ortion the contribute. It is stated in the Society's Ad rcss page 1 , that the average taxation paid yearly by each inhabitant ofScotland is forty-tliree shillings, and of England forty-four shillings and two pence. By the census of I85], the population of Scotland is 2, 870,784, and the above tax from this number shows a revenue of £6,171,830. 'I‘lie pqpulatiou of England and Wales or of South Britain is 17, . 22, 768 and the above tax from this number yields a revenue of £39, 878, 168.

Now if L‘ 6, 171, 830 the revenue of Scotland is voted away by -33 parliamentary re resentativcs then, £39, 878, 168 the revenue of England oug t to be voted away by 337 and not by 500 members of par inment the present number for England and Wales: England has thus 163 representatives in the House of Commons more than she is fairly entitled to.

Or if it be said that £39, 878, 168 the revenue of England requires 500 mein rs to administer it, then to observe the same proportion, 11 6, 171, »830 the revenue of Scotland ought to have 77 members to look after it and not 53. Thus according to the revenue view of the iuatter, Scotland has twenty-four representatives in parliament fewer than her fair and just reportion.

We are of t a number of those who think that the revenue view is the only proper one by which to adjust the fair or 'ust roportion 0 members to represent each of the three

ing ems in the United llouse of Commons, but as a mat- ter of curiosity we may glance at the population view of the same important question. _

As 2,870,784 the population of Scotland return 53 mem- bers, then according to our old friend the “ Rule of three," 17,922,768 the pulatiou of England and Wales ought to return 330 mom rs,and not 500 ; thus having 170 too many. Or, if 17,922,768 the English population require 500 mem- bers to look after their interests, than 2,870,784 the Scotch population ought to have 79 members and not 53. Thus one of two things is the FACT, either England has 170 members too many, or Scotland has 70 ew.

Even so (posing that Scotland sent 79 members, and South Britain Elli, their just ‘proportions, it is evident that the smaller country woul run some risk of its interests bein more or less sacrificed to those of a coiiutry return- ing 5l members more than herself, but how much more likely when, as at present the Scotch are 447 fewer in num- ber thuu the English members. Even if no bad elects resulted from the resent plan, we maintain that the under- representation of tlsud in the British House of Commons is an insult to Scotland and places her in a position degrad- ing and humiliating in the aiglgtof foreigners and every one who considers the matter. otchmen ve as delicate a sense of personal honor as the natives of any other countr , and it is generally thought by other nations that they be d the honor of their country in as great fefitfd as their own ; or, if possible in still greater regard. any we know, to whom it would be much safer for any one to oler any im- pertinence intended for themselves, than it would be if the remark was intended for their country.

That he is the honorable possessor of such feelings every son of Scotia has now an opportunit of showing h imme- diately joining the new Society, the appy and muc requi- red formation of which will give a roininenoo in Scottish History to the year of our Lord 18 . It is, as it were, a committee ofthe whole country to watch over the interests of the nation; nor after the Society has succeeded in its object], will it cease to be required; on the contrary, it will have to continue to watch with the eye ofa Wallace and is Bruce, over the equitable re-arrangements which will prebabl he made in that partnership of three nations all whose iearts heat wlth loyalty to the fair descendant of James VI. King ofscots.

Each tch member of Parliament represents an avera

pulation of 54,165; each English inomber represents tfi interests of 35,845 only, being 18,320 fewer than the Scotch member; rsader choose to imagine that the energies of a member are exhausted after he has attended to the in- terests of an average constituency of 35.8<l5,then each Scotch member has to neglect the interests of 18,320 person

An egigtabls apportionment of members to Scotland and South Iain, according to their population, might

b ddi to t th lit 1' ll ‘h.I|unl"|:"“.gOt°bo£'79¢33'p; u I ion 0 t 0 two

‘ persons ; divide by 553 "'0 “"3159? 0' 310350?‘ bl‘ both ; thus there is a mem- ber for s

M“ ‘V’ srioiqgmnn. 18.100

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And divide the Eu ish population by 37,601 : the result is 476 members and ere an , rsons over. Seventy six and 476 make 652 and the two remainders make up a number for the deficient member of the 553.

To return to the revenue view of the question, if we divide £6,171,830 the revenue of Scotland, by 63, the number of Scotch members, each member represents £1,164,473 of revenue.

Secondly, if we divide .€39,878,l68 the revenue of England and Wales, , the number of their members, each member represents onl £79,756 being £1,084,743 less than is represented b sac oteh mem r.

Thirilly, if we divide £4,000,681, the revenue of Ireland, £y I04, the number of Irish members, each represents only

38,101 of revenue, being £1,I26,392 less than is represent- ed b each Scotch member

e may now allude to a few of the grievances which flow chiefly from the above iusuflicient represenmtiou of Scotland in the House of Commons. The facts are detailed in the Society's Address.

last year, under the head of Charitable Institutions and Hospitals, England received from Parliament £3,000, besides a sum for the sup rt of Bethlehem Hospital: Ireland re- ccived £48,575; an Scotland received two undo’

Under the head of Police it ap rs that ndon, receives yearly £131,000, Dublin 36, , and the Irish counties £486,924. Half of the expense of the English county police is paid out of the common fund. No al owauce for police is made to Scotland. ~

Injustice to Scotland similar or nearly similar to the above, is instauced in the Society’s Qsternent under the fol- lowing heads:—Harbcurs of Refuge, Free Libraries and Museums, Woods and Forests, Arts and Science, Scottish Royal Palaces. Antiquities, Geological Survey, Poet Olfice, Stamp Office, Military Establishments, Naval Establishments, Militia, Scottish Naval and Military Academy, Naval and Militar Charities, Scottish Lighthouses, Patent Laws, A higher ncome Tax on Scottish than on Eu lish landlords, Universit Representation and Allowances, . kc.

In s on ing of things so irritating to the Scottish mind, it is muc easier for every one to use the burning words of indignation, than to stop short at the simple narration of of the facts. But the facts require no comment, they speak but too strongly for themselucs. Let the Scottish colonist reflcct that the more members the Home Society has, the better, and let him hasten tojoin one of the Branch Socie- ties, which will doubtless be formed in every locality abroad, where the sons of Albyn are to be found, and we should like to be told of an plaice in the world where the ad- venturous spirit ofthe hardy Scot has nULt'-|I'l'l|‘d loiiii. Let those in the United States, who are ofSc.ittis':i descent, for- get uot the land of their Sires.

" llreslhos there a Scot with soul so could, Who never to himself has said. '

' This is my own my native land’!

\Vliosa heart has no‘! within him horned, As home his footsteps he has turned, l"ro.n wandering on a foreign strand."

Sir Walter s on to say that if such there be, the wretch concentered a l in self, living shall forfeit fair renown, and dcubl dying, shall go own unwe t, unhonorod, and de- spi to the vile dust from whence e sprun

at we ve an earnest he and expectation that even in these utilitarian days there will not be found any one so base as to forget his native land in its hour of rice ; these national grievances and indignities have been reclaimed to theworld, and as fully known must be the o rt to remove

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A writer in Blaclsoool (Sept. 1853, trul observes-— “there is this peculiarity about the ets t at they are slow to proclaim a grievance, but resolute to redress it when proclaimed. heir extreme quietude ofdemeauour and retinenoe of s h have sometimes been incorrectly interpreted as indicating a want of spirit; whereas, on the contrary, no people can be more keenly alive than they are to a sense of injury."

In viewing t a state of aliirs of the firm of which Scot» land, England and Ireland are the partners it on ht to have been previousl mentioned that if we divide £4. ,68l the Irish revenue (1 " Companion to the Alnurnac”) by the numbcrof the Iris population, it ap rs that ofaverage yearly taxation each inhabitant of relaud spa s twelve shillin s and three pence (each Scot pays £2. . and each South riton £2. 4. 2 .

As £4,000,681 the Irish revenue is represented by 105 Irish members, theu£5,l7I,834 the Scotch revenue ought to be represented by 161 Scotch members and not by 53. Compared with Ireland, Scotland has thus 108 members too few. Or, if £6,171,830 the Scottish revenue is voted away by 53 members, then £4,000,681 the Irish revenue ought to be voted away by 34 members, and not b 105. Of the Irish revenue, there was last ar ex u cd in Ireland £3,847,134 leaving abalance 0 £153, 7 transmitted to London, while of the Scottish revenue only £400,000 was expended in Scotland, and the balance transmitted to South Britain and spent there was £5,764,804. (Society's Address).

e beg to conclude these remarks on this vitally im- pormnt subject by an extract from the ' ercury

of the 10th, Oct.

“ Scotland has a ri ht to assume a high position, and she has assumed it. “area England was a hcptarchy and Spain a collection of provinces; when ssia was but the dukedom of uscovy; when Prussia and the empire of Germany were but the dukedoms of Brandenburg and Austria ; when Belgium was the county of Flanders ; when Saxony, Bavaria and Hanover were, but paltry electorates, Seer so was a Knsouou with a Ion line of crowned and hereditary monarchs on her throne men who in the arts of war or re place to none) and she was regal in all her rank, immunities and emblems. We look back to those old historic days with honest pride ; and repel with just scorn the aggressive spirit that would treat us as a vinoe won by the sword. and not as a free and iudepeu out kingdom united to England by the votes of our parliamwt even as South Britain was ‘freely and inde uden y united to us."

_0ther countries do the Scotc the honor to think that they possess more love of coon y and more nationality than other races: lot over Soot both llighlandaud Low- land endeavor to preserve t is good character; let him not forget that the hi her and more rvsspechble the character of any nation, in libs do is each individual of that us- tion cstecniod; let not procrastination cause him to delay sendin his name and subscri tion either to the secretary of the . ationul Society in Edinburgh, or to any branch of it that may be formed in his neighbourhood.

We are not so lmpertinont as to make an remark in the slightest degree disparaging of what is ca led Party Poll- tics, but truth permits it to be said that the movement now being made by the Scottish Natlonal‘Association, is totally different from, and much superior to anything of the nature of Party Politics, Therefore, list not im who is timid about engaging in , litics, hesitate to join the new Society.

Be not so base in nded as to be satislled withyour own in- dividual advauccment or gain. Forget not " the stirring memory of a thousbnd ears." Think of our country's Past and other Future. ' ink of what her has and of what her future ought so be, and will be, if each

of you make the sli t suuuqulsltv tojais our Na- tionsisooioty. is so less teysurpestulty.

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HEW! BY TlI__EIGIiI§H HAIL.

ARRIVAL 01" Tl-ll R. M. S. CANADA.

The Royal Mail Steamship Canada, arrived at Halifax on Thursda morniu . Russia has accepte the chal engo of the Ottoman, and- has declared war. e elsewhere ive the Czar’s manifesto. This document will not eccive anybody. The intelligence from the Bank of the Danube has daily become more alarming. Hostilities have assum- ed a different shape, but the main body of the Russian Army has been defeated by an inferior body of the Ottoman troops. In addition to this, the Emperor of Russia has published a hostile manifesto, couched in threatening terms, and justifying himself in making upon Turkey a war of extermination.

It appears that it was not the fort of Isatchks, but a small town situated near that place, and bearing the same name, that was burned by the tire of the Russian gunboatl.

A communication from Constantinople states that the most perfect tranquility prevailed, and that the pay of the functionaries and the army were regularly kept up.

Yannt Cattorgi, the famous Smyrna bandit, is to be brought to Constantinople for trial, with a view, it is stated, of proving him to be one ofthe chiefs of the secret societies established at Smyrna, under the inspi- ration of ussia.

A despatch from Vienna states that the following are the conditions insisted on in an ullimatura presented by Omer Pache. to Prince GortschakolI':—-‘ ‘ All the strong places in the Princi slitios to be given into the hands of the Turks immediately; the complete evacuation of the Principalities as speedily as possible, and a guar- antee of all the powers against similar invasion.”

On the Asiatic borders the Turks are stated to have obtained several decided advantages over the Russian arm .

Oii the '2nd instant the English and French fleets, under the command of Admirals Dundas and Hamelin, anchored in the Bosphorus, and the commanders pro- ceeded to Constantinople. ~

Five Russian ofiicers, prisoners of war, arrived at Constantinople on the 4th.

A telegraphic despatch states that the Turks have taken Cherkedy, a town in Asia.

25,000 Turks have crossed the Danube, at Whidden into Wallachi.

Fresh Military levies are being raised in Egypt. The son of Abba Pacha has been named Minister of war.

The Cholera has made its appearance in France, and several deaths had occurred at I-Iavro.

At the Civic Banquet to inaugurate the new Lord Mayor—tho Russian Ambassador being present—Lord Aberdeen, in a few brief but telling sentences, placed his meaning on this head fully before the meeting and the country, and we infer from the tone of his speech that the Ministry are prepared to act with promptitude, if action become necessary; but with the Igallant stand which the Turks are now makiu on the anube, they seem able to brave the power 0 the Czar, and to curb it without any assistance from any quarter.

The so plies of Grain in Great Britain and Ireland is said to be superabundant.

The Medea. 6, paddle, Commander J. E. Bailey, notorious for the grievances of the Ward-room Otlicei-s, ending in sundry ('ourts martial, arrived at Spitheud on the 6th from the North American station.

It is stated that Vice-Admiral Hyde Parkes, now the senior naval Lord of the Admiralty, will succeed Vice- Admiral the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, C. B., as Command- er-in-Chiof at Sheerness.

Mr. Richardson, the sculptor, has been commission- ed by the ollicers of the 43d egiment, to erect suitable memorials to those ollicers ofthe regiment who fell in the discharge of their dot in the late Calfre war in South Africa. To Capt. rmshv Gore, for Osweslry Church; to Lieutenant, the on.—-Wrottesley, for Tetten hall Church, near Wolverhampton; and to Or. Davison, for St. Mary's Church, Perth.

The European Times says:

" The proclamation of war by the Czar against Turke , which was wn to e ' isters of the Crown at thyo time, and was zpnblished ollicially in the St. Petersburgh Gasette of the , cuts off all present hope ofau adjustment of this lamentable rupture. hose persons who hoped that the Czar would relinquish his presumptuous pretensions to avirtual sovereignty over Turkey, must now see that nothing but brute force or the Es‘-‘essiug fear of it, will ever induce him to yield. Several glieh oficers have already taken u arms, and have been sent to the Turkish camp. The Turiish army is described as in an excellent state of discipline, and up to this time have well done their work. We have not 'veu the number of the corps engaged, as the accounts so llbr that we cannot guess at an approximate of the truth. However, our own opinion is, that if Omer Pacha has a reserved ready to cross the river at Bratlol’, in addition to the places which he alreday occupies, he may succeed in turning the flank of the Russi- ans, whose retrcat into Moldavia would be completely out of, and the Turks would achieve a glorious campaign. A sin is lance at the me will show our readers the practice- bil ty 15' successful mi itary strategy. _At an rate, as we predict, the Turks at the outset have gained t e sdvantatge, and the Prestige of Russian su rlcrity is destroyed. I it be true that the Our (as the ienna says) has inti- mated to the Vlsdika that he wishes to have the support of the Men as, the Cssr is certainly bent upon war, and upon provoking other powersto take u ams a inst him. On the 21st ult., the Osar issued a maul sto, doc ring war against Turkey.

The that encounter has, we are glad to find, been altogether favourable to the Turks.

At Kslofst and Oltssiss the Russians‘ suflbrsd severely: indeed at the ‘ latter place the Russians admit the loss of is superior oflccrs, and ISO killed; besides I superior oflcers, I8 subslisrns, and 479 privates wounded. The combat lasted three hours, and was fought at the int ofthe be cast. Of course the Rome English ‘ocrnsls w lne over this efest, and whilst they declare to 3 set terms that the urks are quite in the righno make war, in the same breath they say it will be lucky ifbiser schs ls‘ welllicksd, as the Russians bein esnqaerorsfllbs sates of peace will bsthsrsb increased This is its ‘suitable revealing omens" rbdnsish politicians, by which ibqsspest reins; about as bsaesrsbls passe-

Shs brings news that."

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