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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 200, 19 July 1860, Page 1

SADDLE Horses on Hire at the Rutland, Hotel, and every care taken; with, horses at Livery,.. . June 23, 1859. |yOISON is laid for DOGS on my grounds TIIOS. I-lIGGIE. Wanganui, May 24, 1860. HAS arrived by the Sea Gull, and as his stay here will necessarily be short, he will be obliged by those who wish to have tlieir Piano Fortes Tuned or Repaired communicating with him immediately. Wanganui, Ju1y,12,1860. ,

Scotchmen, in the- Ascendant. Our • northeru neighbours always deserved, if theydid not everywhere attain, success. They'got in by clans in the-Bank; olEngland to so great an extent that a law was passed .to exclude - them. They turned the. East ludia .House into a nasional monopoly, A Scotchman and -: a Newcastle grindstone became a proverb as expressing a sort of übiquitous presence. Many > a post in the Highlands that used to lend its-* help to the Campbells of Argyllshire had a - benediction written on it, or uttered by it, “ Heaven bless the Duke of Argyll/’ We do, not wish to insinuate that the Scotch occupants of existing dignities are unworthy of their elevation. On the .contrary, to our certain knowledge, Scotchmen have shed honour on themselves and their country in the parliament, the pulpit, and the press. A Scotch clergyman wrote the best and most brilliant’ articles in the Times not very , long ago. A., Scotchman, who has raised himself by his ~ worth, and integrity, and talent, is one of its - staff, at this moment. The late lamented editor of that able journal, the Daily News, wus a Scotchman. The Lord Chief Justice, a few weeks ago, was the son of a Scotch clergy--man, and the uncle of several nephews holding benefices in that venerable establishment... He is now the Lord Chancellor. Macaulay hr Scotch by blood, if accidentally English by birth. 2'he Bishop of London is a Scotch- ... man, retaining all the general ore rotundoi of. the south of the land of cakes; and his rivals .- er enemies allege that he has Presbyterian ■? baptism and no Episcopal confirmation. Let Scottish grievances be what they may, they cannot complain that the “ Blue Bonnets” are not welcome “over the border;” and we, do, not mean to say that these, and others we ■ could name, are unworthy of their success.. But there is a class of Scotchmen we have no respect for. They consist of a body of aspirants after this world’s good things, who lay,, themselves out to conceal their origin, not; because in their hearts they are ashamed of it,, but because it stands in the way, as theythink, of their preferment in England. It is not difficult to detect them. They usually affect an Anglicised style of utterance—meant to be a pure Anglican accent —but neither. Scotch nor English except by its containing the worst defects of both. They have heard, of oatmeal cakes, but have no sort of notionof what they are made. A piece of tartan is to their eyes what scarlet is to a bull’s. They make it a sacred duty to deny that they were ever in a Scotch church in England; and if confronted by evidence to the .contrary, they, aver it was by mistake. We have no respect’ for any man, Saxon, Celt, or Irish, who sacrifices and ignores all his antecedents, and nationality, and religious relations, not in deference to conscience, but to political convenience.. Having thus written very plainly, we are atliberty to state that we as strongly reprobate the conduct of a Scotchman, he he.who he may, who makes nationality a reason for promotion, or who acts on the Highland plan, “Scratch' me, and I’ll scratch you.” Let merit alone determine precedence. Let it; never be established that a Scotchman, because a Scotchman, is excluded from preferment or promoted to office. Country should not be regarded as a claim or a barrier. We reprobate the conduct of that Caledonian who renounces his country, and his church; and even his family, in order to get on. We no. less denounce that policy, or rather partiality to his countrymen, which has provoked Lord Campbell, the Lord Chancellor of England, to raise to the Bench Mr. Colin Blackburn, whose only claim —and one never ostentatiously set forth—is, that he is a Scotchman; It is this unjust and partial nationalism which creates mischief in all directions. It is the sacrifice of--duty to dan* cmd iL©tQblood, not excellence. 7t inflicts far more injury on Scotch merit than any avowed attachment to kith and kin, however noisy o&ardent. —London Press,