The Man in Possession Parliament building The pampleteers shown had fallen

The pampleteers shown had fallen out with the 'Satirist' journal

Peter Brown

Church of St Olave Jewry

View of John Humphrey's Dock and Hay's Wharf

The Man in Possession Parliament building The pampleteers shown had fallen'The Man in Possession', 1877. Russia is depicted as rowing her boat, loaded with gunpowder, at the lock gates of the Suez Canal. The lock is being guarded by a good, solid, British lockkeeper. This relates to the war recently declared on Turkey by Russia. Lord Derby, the former Conservative Prime Minister, had been in contact with Russia to express the Government's concern that the Suez Canal should not be targeted. Russia replied that, provided