1-150-980 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

Stay, Prithee, Stay!, 1886. Little Lord Randolph Churchill for the Conservatives, and Joseph Chamberlain for the Radical wing of the Liberals, beg Charles Parnell to keep his seat, rather to that gentleman's surprise. This relates to the introduction by the Liberal Prime Minister of the Irish Home Rule Bill. One of the major sticking points of the Bill, and one which had led in part to Chamberlain's resignation from the Cabinet, was the proposed exclusion of Irish MPs from Westminster. From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 15, 1886.