Show THE CHANCELLR IS I LOUDLY CHERED i Haroourt Ridicules Gham berlains Idea i THE AUDIENCE RISES AS ONE MAN Salisbury Has Thrown the Gage We Will Not Shrink The Rouse of Lords Scorched in a Speech That Calls Forth the Plaudits of the People The Xa tional Liberal Federation Also Denounces the Pampered Darlings in Unmeasured Terms HUH Groivn to Be an Intolerable Abuse Portsmouth Feb HAt an enormous enor-mous meeting in the Drill Hall tonight to-night Sir William Harcout chancellor chancel-lor of the exchequer ridiculed Joseph Chamberlains idea of a national party as impracticable Referring to the position of the House of Lords he said Lord Salisbury had thrown down the gage of battle and they would not shrink from the fight The audience here rose in a body cheering frantically and waving their hats Sir William went on We have to face probably the rashest and most reckless leader that ever noaded the Tory partyso extreme have been his counsels that even our own followers follow-ers have shrank from his violence The work in the house of lords during dur-ing the last fortnight had marvelously ooened the eyes of the public Give them rope enough the speaker exclaimed ex-claimed let us have a few more such fortnights let it be burnt into the minds of the country that the lords have become the champions of all abuses and the enemies of all reforms The verdict of the people will determine deter-mine once for all whether what Lord Russell calls the whisper of fashion is to prevail over the will of the people Loud and prolonged cheers were given Sir William when he finished his speech The Lords Denounced I Portsmouth Feb HThe National Liberal Federation continued its meetIng meet-ing today and endorsed the Newcastle programme and unanimously adopted a resolution to the effect that the habitual I ha-bitual disregard of the national will by the house of lords was an intolerable ble abuse and assuring the ministry I of enthusiastic support for whatever measures were adopted to secure the commons paramount authority In speeches for the resolution the lords I I were denounced as a fraudulent company com-pany using its political position for its own pecuniary Interest and that what 01 eople wanted was first i quarrel with and then destruction of their great enemy Sold For n Title London Feb HThe marriage of Miss Virginia Bonynge daughter of I Charles William Bonynge of California to Viscount Deerhurst eldest son of the earl of Coventry will take place during the second week in March at All Saints Church Ennismore Gardens |