Before The Trial Size:S: 36 x 28cm Mr Speaker is on the

Mr Speaker is on the left with all the Bills for the coming session under his arm

The premises of Harvey and Son at no 9 Ludgate Hill

sprouting antlers

View of the north front of Sion College

Before The Trial Size:S: 36 x 28cm Mr Speaker is on the'Before The Trial', 1867. This cartoon depicts Gladstone (left) and Disraeli (right) admitting that the whole matter of reform could be settled immediately if it were not for the in fighting of the parties, and the need to present an opposition on the part of the Liberals. However in reality, at the end of February 1867, Disraeli, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, had introduced the details of the present plans for parliamentary reform to