SIR,—The complete omission of any reference in your pages to
the rejection of the Caledonian Power Bill in the House of Commons must strike your Scots' readers as distinctly naïve. This Bill, for which there was a majority of Scots' members by 47 to it, was rejected by the votes of English and Welsh Members. How much longer are we to pretend that Scotland is ruled democratically ? Democratic government in Scotland is simply farcical, it plainly does not exist. This Bill was a purely Scottish one, affecting the oldest distressed area in our island, the Highlands of Scotland, and had been approved by a majority of z6 votes to 6 in the Inverness County Council. Yet it was voted down by English and Welsh Members of the House of Commons. Clearly, only when there is a Scots' Parliament dealing with Scots' domestic affairs, will we have " Government of the Scottish people, by the Scottish people, for the Scottish people."—I am, Sir, &c.,
The Manse, Mid Calder, Midlothian. P. G. D. CLARK.
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