Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) M.P.'s IN SESSION. [Illustration] From MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY. BY HARRY FURNISS. [Illustration] FAMILIAR FACES. MR. PUNCH (_CARTOONIST IN CHIEF_). "OH, I KNOW ALL YOU OLD MODELS, I WANT SOME NEW 'CHARACTER'!" _Frontispiece._ [Illustration] 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. PRINTED BY "MR. PUNCH" AT [Illustration] THE PRINTING OFFICES OF BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., WHITEFRIARS, E.C. 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."]