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 driver wears gloves and goggles

Geoff Barnett

South-west view of the London Orphan Asylum in Lower Clapton

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