Doom'd! conference drums and trumpets played

drums and trumpets played

The hotel later became Shell-Mex House

prior to July 14th'

View of York Stairs

View with wharves in the foreground and signs for Bull Wharf

Doom'd! conference drums and trumpets playedDoom'd!, 1871. The House of Lords plans an ambush of the Army Regulation Bill which, sword under its arm, marches unsuspectingly towards sudden death. The Army Regulation Bill was mainly concerned with the abolition of purchase. It was possible to buy one's way into officer positions. It had had a third reading in the Commons but was being fiercely opposed. On the 17th July 1871, it was thrown out by the House of Lords. However, the Lords was forced