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Show ON ENGLISH HUSTINGS: The Murquls of Lome Poses as - a - Liberal Candidate and Gets Quite v : a Reception, . v Consisting: of Rotten Eggs, a Smashed c Dicer, and a Free-For-All Fighti His Noble Nibs Jumps the Game and Escapes Back to London. v . This Is English, Von Know. London, Oct. 24. It is now, evident that the Parliamentary campaign will , not pass off without serious rioting in some quarters, as party feeling, which - already .rang high, daUygrows 'more hitter-- The Marquis -of Lorne, Liberal candidate for Hampstead, when at Brentford town, seven miles west of London, delivered a campaign speech. While addressing the electors a mob assaulted him with rotten eggs, and some of them, gaining the platform,. , c s SMASHED HIS HAT OVEB HIS HEAD. The supporters of the Marquis rushed to his rescue, and a fight ensued. The noble lord now became so thoroughly frightened that he hastily departed from the scene, ran through the streets in a drenching rain towards to-wards a way-station, and immediately de-' parted for London. Meanwhile the fight continued, the supporters of the Marquis being severely handled, and becoming discouraged dis-couraged at their desertion by their champion, cham-pion, they retired, leaving their contestants masters of the field. " - 1 Jl THEI SEIZED THE PUTFOBM , ,. , ' And passed resolutions condemning the polioy 'of the Liberals. When the Queen's son-in-law made his appearance as a Liberal candidate for Hampstead it occasioned considerable surprise, sur-prise, and when he put forward in his ad dress advanced radical opinions, the surprise greatly increased. -He "adopted Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's programme of free education, and advocated ad-vocated immediate disestablishment in Scolr land. He championed the prinoiple of the Free Land League, the encouragement of the subdivision of land and suggested that the sale of large, estates en 6Joc should be subjeci to heavy taxation, while sales of land to Ie divided into smaller lots should be left duty free. ..As to the, House of Lords he hardly went ' so far as the Hampstead radicals desired, being of the opinion that the venesable institution might be amended by the infusion of elected members. He favored the extension of local self-government to Ireland. |