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Show Rosebery Taunts Chamberlain. LONDON, June ' 13. Addressing ' a Liberal ' meeting last night at the Hotel Cecil, the Earl of Rosebery declared that Mr. Chamberlain's preferential prefer-ential scheme is a disturbance of the foundations of the edinoe of the empire In order to promote the stability of the structure. He maintained deliberately and solemnly that the burden of proof lay with those who were attacking the nation's fiscal policy. He would not dismiss without examination any proposition for the promotion .of the closer union of the empire, but It was with pain and grief that he was unable to support the scheme proposed by the Colonial Secretary, who, he believed, waa anxious to benefit the empire. |