General election mb-code 00372091 with flags and banners hanging

with flags and banners hanging from the ceiling

'The Real Irish Court

View of the residence of James Coles

pictured at the International Hotel

'Mutual Respectability

General election mb-code 00372091 with flags and banners hangingGeneral election, (1874?). A shrouded figure holds up the ballot box whilst, in the mists and gloom at the figure's feet, the Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone, with his Home Secretary Robert Lowe at his heels, gropes his way towards engaging in combat with the Conservative Leader Disraeli. A General Election was looming, especially in view of the recent troubles of the Liberal administration. The new voting procedures introduced under the Ballot Act,