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Show his sins roRarvEN by - HARDY jnCKHLANDIRS. LONDON, March JO. The dispatch . Of the remains' of MaJ.-Gen'.'MacDonald. who committed suicide In Pari, to Scotland last night by train-was .the occasion; for a remarkable demonstration owing to the fact that his widow has decided that ..the burial shall take place at C o'clock In jtbe morning Immediately after the arrival of tha body at Edinburgh T . Hundreds of Scotchmen, representing the Highland societies, and several Scotch members of Parliament, gathered on the platform at the King's Cross railway station sta-tion here." " Moet of the Scotchmen wore their national eoetumea, wreaths were placed on the coffin in the name of the different clans, snd the pipers played na-tloal na-tloal dlrgea aa the body was entrained. AH attempts to persuade the widow to delay the Interment and permit Highlander High-lander to arrange for a national funeral In, the Highlands having failed, a large number of influential Scotchmen adjourned ad-journed to the hotel In the railway station and held a meeting of protest. The Scotch members of Parliament, Allan and Gallo-way-Weler, and others, made speeches, and a resolution was adopted urging f. he Lord Provost of Edinburgh to renew .the efforts to have the funeral postponed. |