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Show Cannot Forget the Rebel Ricl. Montreal, November 18. A deputation of members or the Club Cartier has waited on Senator Lacaste and requested him to accept ac-cept the leadership of the Conservative wing of the French National party, which is to be built on the Riel question. .. Mr. Lacaste has " asked a few days' time to consider the matter. mat-ter. He also intimated that he would first require to hear the explanations of the French Canadians. The students, together with some quarry-men quarry-men and others, numbering about 8C3, paraded the streets to-night. The quarry-men quarry-men carried ax-handles, clubs and thigh bones. They shoved the people from the sidewalks, frightened horses and committed other aggressive acts. It was thought at one time they would attack the Salvation Army Hall. They have threatened to attack La Miner ve office to-morrow, night. About 250 of the Sixth Fusileers had assembled at Dominion Square, to meet the French Canadians Can-adians if they attempted to carry out their purpose of burning Colonel Stevenson in effigy on the Square. It is stated that tonight's to-night's demonstration was the result of information in-formation whioh the students of Victoria University had received during the day that the students of McGill (English) University intended to burn Riel in effigy on the Champs de Mars tornight. . |