1-150-703 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

'Great Autumn Manoeuvre', 1873. Watched by a baleful Disraeli, Leader of the Conservative opposition, the Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone, hands a puzzled yokel his franchise. This relates to the bill proposing the franchise for agricultural workers proposed by Sir Charles Trevelyan in July 1873. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 9, 1873.