Turning the Tables Finish:Rolled in Church Street

in Church Street

Mr Samuel Plimsoll was pursuing his fight against the often deliberate overloading and subsequent loss of ships and crews

pedal rubbers

and Pakistan

London in 1780 during the Gordon Riots

Turning the Tables Finish:Rolled in Church Street'Turning the Tables', 1887. The Lord Chancellor yawns as he queries why the House of Commons is not getting on with its business. If this goes on, he warns, then it will have to be the Commons that will be abolished. Mr Speaker is on the left with all the Bills for the coming session under his arm. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name that says that the practice of debating the opening address to Parliament takes up valuable time that