18 OCTOBER 1884, Page 13

A PRECEDENT.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "1 SIR,—In common, I suppose, with most Liberals, I greatly regret the excesses at Aston Park. But the Tories need not be so much scandalised after all. Some of us have not forgotten the irruption of a mob of well-dressed Jingoes into a Liberal meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel, in the days of Lord Beaconsfield. I was in the hotel at the time on other business, and a more violent set of people than the gorgeously apparelled intruders I never came across.—I am, Sir, &c., 19 Belsize Square, Beleize Park, N. W. J. R. MACDONNELL.