A GLOOMY MARQUIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1912, Page 8

A GLOOMY MARQUIS.

TIRED^OF ENGLAND. J>ROM OTTfi OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, 29th December. The Lusitania steamed into Fishguard in time for passengers to eat their Christmas dinner on land. There was a festive appearance about all, with tho exception of one man, who, dressed in the height of American fashion, was sad and depressed and refused to bo merry. It was the Marquis of Queensberry, who created something of a sensation at the Christmas concert held in the saloon, over which he presided, by making a speech in which he publicly renounced his British citizens-hip. The Marquis has spent the last four months in the States, and hat. been amusing tho American, public by writing sporting articles in a Chicago paper. The Marquis was even more gloomy than the gloomy Dean of St. Paurs. He was sick of his own country and country, men. Thus : — • "I have not come over expressly to spend Christmas in England, but to take my family back to America. The British aristocracy is being replaced by men who are simply capitalists and plutocrats. They are driving us out of the country which we have helped to build up. I approve of the ideals of American citizenship. " The • old families which. have struggled for centuries 'to make England what she is are being replaced by the modern millionaires, and one reason why I am going back to America is that I have not the Jewish passport to success. If 1 possessed that I should do all right in England, but unfortunately I do not. My children will go back with me, please God; they will be brought up and educated in that country, and I truet they will never come back." The Marquis has been fhe most discussed passenger during the voyage. He started from New York quite merry and bright, but he seemed to become more despondent the ' nearer the Eusitania brought him to Fishguard. On the tender he strolled about gloomily in the rain, with his-hands thrust deep in his pockets. He was the most interviewable of peers, and his parting remark to the pressmen who swarmed round him was: "I like journalists." '

The reserved judgment of Dr. A. SPArfihur, S.M., in the piemium bond prosecution is to be given on the 13th msfc. In the course of hie opening remarks, when the case was heard, Mr. T. Neave, on behalf of the Crown, made ifc clear that it was not contended that the purchaser did not get value for the money he spent. The Saturday Review recently paid % handsome compliment to a political opponent. "Does Mr. Asquith ever make a poor speech on a set occasion?" tho Review, asked, and goes on to say — "We cannot recall one that read ill next day. His excellence is extraordinarily level, his parliamentary form flawless. One has heard much poorer speeches at; times from genius, from Randolph Churchill, from Mr. Balfour and Lord Salisbury, if not from Gladstone. Mr. Asquith is 'doubtless a groat Commoner. The Tarliamentary historian will probably set him at least as high as Peel, Russell, or Palmerston." To-morrow, at their rooms, 195, Lamb-ton-quay, Messrs. Harcourt and Co. will sell furniture and effects, including piano, dining room suite, and 40 carved Japanese tables. r . Messrs. Brand and Johnston insert particulars ia our auction' columns of an auction sale of household furnishings and appointments, including upright grand piano by H. Ivory and Co. ; also two pedigree Persian kittens, and one broton gelding, to be held in their rooms, Lambton-quay, on Wednesday. '