3-052-636 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Meeting of the new Parliament: arrival of new Members in Westminster Hall, 1880. 'Gentlemen of the long robe were not wanting, as will be seen from the Engraving, to give variety to the aspect of the assemblage of spectators within the hall. So strongly is their honourable profession represented in the new House that these worthy practitioners in the Courts of Westminster might almost be said to claim a vested interest in the Lower Chamber - as a stepping-stone to "another place." Whilst they regarded with characteristic coolness the new and familiar faces that passed them, the general public present respectfully saluted, the best-known members as they entered Westminster Hall...The bearded face of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the witty advocate of "Local Option," will be recognised in our Illustration. The hon. Baronet is being saluted by a couple of the firm yet civil members of the police force who efficiently guard the approaches to the House. The second member is as yet unknown to fame. After him comes Sir Robert Carden, the venerable City Alderman lately returned as Conservative member for Barnstaple, and in the rear is one of the youngest but one of the most promising members of the new Government, Sir Charles Dilke'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.