30 JULY 1887, Page 15

SCOTCHMEN IN ENGLAND.

go vex EDITOR OP TICE"SPECTATOR."] Era,—In your issue of July 23rd, your correspondent " Scotus " makes the following astounding statement :—" There are more Scotchmen in England at this moment than in Scotland itself." As I have the last census of 1881 before me, will you allow me to say that the number of natives of Scotland in England at the time of the census is put down at 253,528, and the population of Scotland by the same census was 3,735,536 ?—I am Sir, &c., STATIST. [The statement was obviously of the nature of hyperbole.— En. Spectator.]