The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-09 00:00:00

ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.

INCARCERATION OF AN ALLEGED
INSANE PAUPER.
Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the directors
of the poor of St. Pancras, held at the Vestry•hall,
Camden-town, Mr. Churchwarden Attenborough
in -the chair,
Mr. STOCKTON said he wished to call the atten-
tion of the board to a subject which he felt, when
they heard it, the board would consider it a duty
they owed to themselves, as well as to the ratepayers
and the poor, at once to investigate. From informa-
tion derived from Mr. Ross, Mr. Furniss and him-
self had on the previous day come to the workhouse
for the purpose 'of investigating the case of a man
named Stack, an inmate of the workhouse. As he
(Mr. Stockton) intended to ask for a committee, he
would not go into details, but would simply state
that this poor man having two children at Forest-
gate Schools, one of whom was veryill, if not dying,
had asked to go out to see it. Having been refused,
he got over the wall, and on his return, in conse-
quence of his alleged excitement, he had been sub-
jected to great coercion. This he thought justified
him in moving for a committee of investigation.
Mr. WYATT said the board could not consent to
a committee without knowing the allegations.
Mr. FURNTSS, who had been sworn in as a newly
elected director that day, said he should second Mr.
Stockton's motion. The fact was, that this poor
fellow, because he got excited about not being per-
mitted to go and see his child, had been, by order of
some of the authorities, locked up as a lunatic for
nearly a week. When, however, Mr. Stockton,
Mr. Ross, and himself went there on the previous
day, the keeper of the lunatic ward said he had no
business to be sent there, and when they sent for the
doctor, he ordered him out. For their own credit's
sake, he trusted the board would investigate the
matter. If they did not, they might depend upon
it the vestry would.
A lengthened conversation took place, but ulti-
mately the committee was appointed.

UNFORTUNATE EMIGRANTS.—On the 6th of No-
vember a number of Irish emigrants sailed from this port
in the James Foster, and after being at sea for 49 days,
they were landed at Queenstown and sent back here. They
were next put on board the Isaac Wright, which ezught
fire on the very night she ought to have sailed. They were
again placed on board the Isaac Webb, which has also re-
turned to port again, after being 24 days at sea.—Liverpool
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A SCOTCH PLEA FOR SCOTCH

NATIONALFEY.

(From the Dispatch.)
The Times has done that which Burke thought
impossible; he has raised a bill of indictment against
a.whole nation, and probably procured the ver"
' diet of a most impartial jury" in favour of a con-
viction. In short, he has impannelled England t!)
try Scotland for the crime of patriotism, which it
euphuises into that of " provincialism." A wh°l°
column of its report on the Burns Centenary was
taken up with the subject, and two elaborate
leaders followed. The occasion was remarkably
ill-chosen, because we could really find .nothing
provincial in the movement—no self-glorification--
no egotism under the cloak of love Of country.
Burns was, indeed, extolled ; but not " Scotland or
the Scotch." Was not the diatribe of the Times
itself a proof that it did not believe in its own
charge ? Would it really have offended a whel°
kingdom of its readers had it believed them to be
touchy and liable to take offence ? Was there not
a secret conviction that, after all, the Scotch would
have a good-natured laugh over it—while John
Bull would inwardly chuckle at seeing Sawn°Y
shown up ? We think we know both Pret,.bJ,
thoroughly, and it may be profitable to both to
know themselves and each other a little better. 1-1'
is perfectly true that Scotchman are intensely pa'
tional. They have a pride of country which they
cannot conceal. There is an unconscious patriotic
egotism about them which is very offensive Pt
strangers, just as any other egotism is. They ougu ,
to see and to know perfectly well that, how
proud proud they may be of their own land, the theme
cannot be the least agreeable to the natives of other
t
lands; that good breeding is good sense, and tht,,
they should not be so thin-skinned, and; at t';`,.
same time, so vain of theiftilation. They c10.11,,,,v
hear Englishmen and Irishmen continually thinking
aloud that their country can whip creation—that
it is curious every great man is somehow or othe,,
English or Hibernian ; they " let their work'
praise them." Our contemporary was only too haPPYt
jn his ridicule of the jealousy of the Scotch abolla
their coat-of-arms, about the Scottish lion, and
about England being used to express the Unite
Kingdom. The Scotch don't mean to be so " stu-Vr
before company"—they are not aware of their
weakness when they indulge in it—they don't kn6vir'
when they are extolling Caledonia with such unction!
that their auditors are secretly listening with Cent
tempt or disgust at a fellow bragging so about
himself, because he is really not boasting of himself,
but of that which he regards as a most disinterested
idolatry of what he looks upon as far above h. 00
self. But after all is not his "provincialism
natural ? It is quite certain that Scotland contra
•
butes of great men, of men of eminence in eves
line, man for man almost as many as England wit
six times her population and many times her ad.
vantages. It is • very remarkable, also, to see Su
poor a country bear up so manfully in producti▪ ve:.
ness, in commerce, in taxation, especially—that her
property and income-tax, her customs and excise'
are rateably quite as much as those of Englandr.
that in all subscriptions, philanthropic and pub'
objects, her liberality is so large and so sterlin▪ g'
But the real cause of her "provincialism," as i▪ t
called, is that her whole character is intensely ail,
tinctive and national, and that of England-is not'
Walk into your kitchen ; can your servants tell you
anything about Milton, aye, or even of Cromwell-0.
Hampden ? It is very doubtful if they know their
very names. Go to Egbam, ask the hedger, or thy
ploughman, to point out Runnymede, and to te;
you about it, he will stare, scratch his head, 01'
cry " anan !" He does not know- what you mean'
But no Scotch kitchen can be found where Burns '0
not sung and recited—no Scotch ploughman ale
cannot tell you all about Wallace and Bruce.
have walked behind Scotch peasants at the plough
who would talk for a whole day about " Sir Watty,
as they call Scott. Do any English authors eon'
mand such a national tribute ? What is the
reason ? To some extent, perhaps, inferior en
cation ; but chiefly because there is nothinb
distinctively national about their writings--:,
nothing sufficiently characteristic and individna'
about the thought and features to enable one to sl
that can be met nowhere else. Whatever, indeen'
is national, is in individual bearing suppressed. Ae
Englishman scorns to brag of his country, althour
in his secret heart he looks down upon everyboali
that is not an Englishman, although for the wall
he would not say so. He is too civilised an animal
for that. In fact, our ideal of him is that he is
emphatically a man rather than an Englishman ;,'
Hampden or a Falkland in his type—a- simP.l°
citizen. The nationalism of the Scotchman is veil
t
disagreeable ; but has it not its uses ? Has he n°
kept his own laws, religion, customs, indepen"
dente ? Has it not given him what the Times cal?
his "indomitable pluck ?" Does it not inspire his
emulation and animate his ambition—fire him g 3,
great deeds " for the honour o' auld Scotland •
Does it not combine society and heal its distractiont.o
whenever the common interest is assailed ?
it too often is. Honest John Bull, God bless hun'
has no jealousies. He puts the best man, the most
serviceable instrument in the right place, and thus
exalts the Scotch without envy or grudge—content'
ing himself with his joke that Sawney never find
the way North again. He is welcome to his jest'
" Let them laugh that win."