The Rod Still in Pickle mb-code 1192871 Scene outside the City hall

Scene outside the City hall in Belfast during the opening ceremoney

Pedestrians and horse drawn vehicles in Mare Street

In the Winter Garden

Punch points up the devaluation of the religious tradition of pilgrimage which ought surely to carry with it a certain amount of renunciation and discomfort

The Rod Still in Pickle mb-code 1192871 Scene outside the City hall'The Rod Still in Pickle', 1883. The Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone, in the guise of a schoolmaster, reviews the progress of his pupils at the end of term. At the front are Joseph Chamberlain holding his Bankruptcy Act and Mr Walter James with his Corrupt Practices Act. At the back is Sir William Harcourt, the Liberal Home Secretary, holding his slate on which he had started to write out the London Municipality Bill which had had to be abandoned