3-052-531 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Election Sketches: the old voter who remembers the first reform bill, 1880. 'The past and present days of restless turmoil, with all their deep excitement of feeling, have been outwardly, in most places, exempt from scenes of disorderly violence, such as were formerly witnessed in "the good old times," before and after the Reform Bill of 1832, which men not yet aged can distinctly remember as an event heard of in their contemporary childhood...we may leave "the Old Voter who Remembers the First Reform Bill," to go on with his own personal recollections of that obsolete system of electioneering, upon which some retrospective remarks have been made'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.