SEPARATISM RUN RIOT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Gladstone's Home-rule frenzy seems to have set the separatist spirit at work in Scotland and Wales as well as in Ireland. Lord Rosebery, if he is rightly reported, proposes, should the quarters of the Scots Greys be changed, to reopen the question of the union between Scotland and England. A curious attitude surely is this of a nation striving to in- corporate within itself Imperially communities all over the globe, and at the same time dallying with various proposals for its dissolution. Is it certain that Scotland, had she remained separate from England, would ever have been per- fectly united in herself F What progress had Lowland and Teutonic Scotland made in the incorporation of the Celtic Highlands, aliens to her in race, language, character, and political customs ? As to Wales, would it be possible to show that she ever was the seat of united nationality and settled government before her incorporation with England ?—I am, Toronto.
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