M. P.'s in Session From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery   By: Harry Furniss (1854-1925)

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From MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY.

BY HARRY FURNISS.

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FAMILIAR FACES.

MR. PUNCH ( CARTOONIST IN CHIEF ). "OH, I KNOW ALL YOU OLD MODELS, I WANT SOME NEW 'CHARACTER'!" Frontispiece.

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M.P.'s IN SESSION

FROM MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY

My own Work Harry Furniss

LONDON: BRADBURY AGNEW, & CO., 8, 9, 10, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. 1889.

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M.P.'s IN SESSION. from Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery.

[Illustration] W. V. HARCOURT. THE SPEAKER. C. N. WARTON.

W. E. FORSTER. R. A. CROSS. J. G. DODSON. H. GLADSTONE. H. LABOUCHERE. R. N. FOWLER.

THOROLD ROGERS. THE CHAPLAIN. W. LAWSON. C. DILKE. H. BROADHURST.

H. LENNOX. SERJEANT AT ARMS. A. BARTLETT. J. CHAMBERLAIN. E. GIBSON.

R. CHURCHILL.

H. D. WOLFF.

COMMONS SUMMONED TO UPPER HOUSE.

[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."]