English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

CHAPTER XII.

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Political Sketches of HB. (continued).--Lord John Russell.--"Jonah."--Reduction of the Stamp on Newspapers.--How it was evaded.--Arguments of the Opponents of the Measure.--Hard and Soft Soap _versus_ Newspapers.--Strange Arguments of the Newspaper Proprietors of the Day.--"The Rival Newsmongers."--Brougham Watches for the Door of Preferment being Opened.--"The Gheber Worshipping the Rising Sun."--Made Lord Chancellor.--"A Select Specimen of the Black Style."--A Scene in the House of Lords.--"The Duel that Did Not Take Place."--Dissolution of Parliament in 1834.--Brougham's Royal "Progress" through Scotland.--Annoyance of William IV., who Determines to Get Rid of Him.--"The Fall of Icarus."--"The Vaux and the Grapes."--The Irish Coercion Bill of 1833.--Irish Disaffection which led Up to It.--List of Irish Crimes for One Year.--Scenes between English and Irish Members.--"Prisoners of War."--Good Effects of the Coercion Bill.--Irish Agitators of 1833 and 1883 Compared.--O' Connell and the Irish Peasant.--Unscrupulous Political Conduct of O'Connell.--"The Comet of 1835."--"Doctor Syntax [_i.e._ Peel] on his Faithful Steed in Search of the Picturesque."--Amazing Number of HB's Political Sketches.--His failings.--His Imitators and their Fate. _pp._ 254-276.