[Illustration:
THE CHAPLAIN.
(HON. AND REV. F. E. C. BYNG.)
"COMMONS PRAYERS."]
[Illustration:
RT. HON. A. W. PEEL.
THE SPEAKER.
"ORDER!"]
[Illustration:
ASSISTANT SERJEANT-AT-ARMS.
(F. R. GOSSET.)
"AU REVOIR!"]
[Illustration:
LEONARD H. COURTNEY.
DEPUTY SPEAKER.
"ESTIMATES."]
[Illustration:
LORD CLAUD HAMILTON.
"LATE OF LIVERPOOL."]
[Illustration: A.
AKERS-DOUGLAS.
"AN UNBROKEN FRONT."]
[Illustration:
C. BRADLAUGH.
"HOUSE OF COMMONS' MANNER."]
[Illustration:
ALEX. H. BROWN.
"A BROWN STUDY."]
[Illustration:
J. CHAMBERLAIN AND J. MORLEY.
"THE RIVAL UMBRELLA."]
[Illustration:
RT. HON. J. H. MACDONALD.
ABSENT FROM THE POST OF DANGER.]
[Illustration:
A. J. BALFOUR.
IN HIS PLACE AT 4.30 A.M., TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1887.]
[Illustration:
THE G. O. M.
"WRITING TO THE QUEEN, AND COMMITTING THE 'HAPPY DISPATCH.'"]
[Illustration:
ASHMEAD-BARTLETT.
EXTINCTION OF EYE.
Effect of Proposed Scheme of Redistribution on Ashmead-Bartlett.]
[Illustration:
LORD HARTINGTON'S
ATTITUDE TOWARDS MR. GLADSTONE.]
[Illustration:
MR. BRIGHT.
"I CANNOT TURN MY BACK ON MYSELF."
Of course he has tried to do so, and this shows him in the
act of making the unsuccessful contortionist attempt.]
[Illustration:
J. LOWTHER. SIR R. PEEL. LORD H. LENNOX. SIR E. CLARKE.
THE NEW FOURTH PARTY.
IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.]
[Illustration:
H. CHAPLIN
AND
"THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER."]
[Illustration:
BARON DE WORMS. COL. WALROND. AKERS-DOUGLAS.
RECORD OF THE SESSION 1887.--422.
"DEAD HEAT."]
[Illustration:
SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE.
"Remote, unfriended, _solitary_, slow,"--or,
Little "Tom All-alone" in the Lobby.]
[Illustration:
D. H. MACFARLANE.
"THE SAILING-MASTER."]
[Illustration:
LORD R. CHURCHILL.
The New President of the Working-Man's Conservative
Association--"A Horny-handed Son of Toil."]
[Illustration:
COLONEL FRAS. DUNCAN, C.B.
"Duncan comes here to-night,
The gracious Duncan!"
_Macbeth._]
[Illustration:
LORD H. LENNOX.
"MOST IMPORTANT!"
He was with Lord Salisbury for quite three minutes, and then left.]
[Illustration:
BRADLAUGH AND THE BEETLE.
"FETCH IT UP, OLD HOSS!"]
[Illustration:
SIR W. V. HARCOURT.
"MR. PECKSNIFF."
"Lord Randolph Churchill"--(_groans and hisses_)--"'do not let us
groan at our opponents.' Nay, my Christian brethren, do not let us
groan or hiss at our opponents. We can find other ways of dealing
with them."--_Speech at St. James's Hall._]
[Illustration:
SIR R. A. CROSS.
"VERY CROSS."]
[Illustration:
LORD R. CHURCHILL. SIR J. E. GORST. SIR H. D. WOLFF.
"ONE OF US."
FIRST APPEARANCE OF SIR J. E. GORST AS SOLICITOR-GENERAL.]
[Illustration:
R. F. F. CAMPBELL.
"HEAVY CAMPBELLER WITH BIG 'STAKE IN THE COUNTRY.'"]
[Illustration:
P. CALLAN AND G. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK.
"MUDDLED MORALISTS."]
[Illustration:
HON. R. BOURKE.
"BOURKE AND HAIR."]
[Illustration:
C. T. RITCHIE. DE WORMS.
W. H. SMITH. R. CHURCHILL. R. A. CROSS. HICKS-BEACH.
H. CHAPLIN. J. MANNERS. G. HAMILTON.
NEW MEN AND OLD ATTITUDES.
PRINCIPALS OF THE NEW CONSERVATIVE COMEDY COMPANY TRYING TO LOOK
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE LIKE THE OLD PUBLIC FAVOURITES.]
[Illustration:
GETTING GLADSTONE'S COLLAR UP.]
[Illustration:
C. B. STUART-WORTLEY.
"PLEASE, SIR, I DID."]
[Illustration:
SIR U. J. K. SHUTTLEWORTH.
"THE MILDEST-MANNERED MAN."]
[Illustration:
C. S. PARKER.
"IF A MAN TOUCHES PITCH, &C."]
[Illustration:
J. P. B. ROBERTSON.
"IRELAND AGAIN!"]
[Illustration:
H. MATTHEWS.
"SAT SMILING."]
[Illustration:
J. GILHOOLY.
"TOODJOUR PERDRICKS."]
[Illustration:
MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON.
"STARTINGTON."]
[Illustration:
SIR C. FORSTER AND SIR R. A. CROSS.
SIR RICHARD (VERY) CROSS. Off with his hat!...
So much for----!]
[Illustration:
LORD R. CHURCHILL.
"A GLOOMY VIEW OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION."]
[Illustration:
LORD R. CHURCHILL AND SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF.
"RAPTUROUS DELIGHT OF THE FOURTH PARTY."]
[Illustration:
J. T. HIBBERT.
"IT'S VERY STRANGE."]
[Illustration:
W. AGNEW.
"RAPT ATTENTION."]
[Illustration:
A. ORR-EWING.
(ORR-ANYTHINGELSE.)]
[Illustration:
A. ILLINGWORTH.
"WAITING FOR OPPORTUNITY."]
[Illustration:
SIR R. TEMPLE.
"THE SLEEPING BEAUTY."]
[Illustration:
LORD R. CHURCHILL.
"RANDOLPH MEDITATING."]
[Illustration:
F. H. O'DONNELL.
SUSPENDED FOR A WEEK BY ORDER OF THE SPEAKER.]
[Illustration:
CHRISTOPHER SYKES, M.P.
"WHO PASSED THE CRAB AND LOBSTER BILL."]
[Illustration:
E. GIBB.
"THE ECCLESTON GIBB-US MAKES ITS PRESENCE FELT."]
[Illustration:
R. DAVIES.
"A LIVELY CONTEST."]
[Illustration:
H. H. COZENS-HARDY.
"OUR HARDY COUSIN."]
[Illustration:
T. H. BOLTON.
"THE MEMBER FOR EXTRAORDINARY TIES--NO--TITHES."]
[Illustration:
J. B. BALFOUR.
"NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING!"]
[Illustration:
SIR MATTHEW WILSON.
"POSTING HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS."]
[Illustration:
COLONEL TOTTENHAM.
["IRISH MEMBERS, THIS STYLE, 8S. 6D. EXTRA."]]
[Illustration:
LEONARD H. COURTNEY.
"COURTEOUS COURTNEY OF CORNWALL."]
[Illustration:
LORD R. CHURCHILL.
"NOT THE SHADOW OF A LEG TO STAND UPON."]
[Illustration:
SIR R. A. CROSS.
"SIR RICHARD 'RECEIVES.'"]
[Illustration:
GLADSTONE BADGERED.
"HERE JOSEPH GILLIS WAS IN HIS ELEMENT."]
[Illustration:
HON. C. R. SPENCER.
"HAVE YOU PAIRED?"]
[Illustration:
R. W. DUFF.
"WONDER IF HE'S PAIRED."]
[Illustration:
MITCHELL HENRY.
"WHERE IS MY WORKING HAT?"]
[Illustration:
L. L. DILLWYN.
"WOE IS ME!"]
[Illustration:
J. H. A. MACDONALD.
"AIN'T I LIKE HARCOURT?"]
[Illustration:
G. J. GOSCHEN. J. CHAMBERLAIN. SIR H. JAMES. SIR G. O. TREVELYAN.
MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON.
A BACK SEAT.]
[Illustration:
T. HEALY.
HERE'S TIMOTHY HEALY,
WHO SPOKE TOO FREELY.]
[Illustration:
E. J. M. P. DE LISLE.
HERE'S MR. DE LISLE,
WHO "DIDN'T EVEN SMILE."
(_Fancy Portrait_.)]
[Illustration:
BILL 'ARCUTT.
SIR W. VERNON HARCOURT.--"I am in entire sympathy
with the Costermongers."]
[Illustration:
W. H. SMITH.
"THE O'SMITH. BIG WITH FATE. THE START."]
[Illustration:
THE FEROCIOUS FORESTER.
"PENNY PLAIN, TWOPENCE COLOURED."
[LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL was initiated into the mysteries
of the Ancient Order of Foresters.]]
[Illustration:
R. CHAMBERLAIN. J. CHAMBERLAIN.
"CHAMBERLAIN BROS."]