The Common Hall on Corporation Reform, in Guildhall, [London], 1856. Political meeting '...to oppose the London Corporation proceedings commenced by the Serjeant-at-Mace calling out that those who were not liverymen were to leave the hall on pain of imprisonment - an announcement which was received with loud laughter. The Lord Mayor then stood forward, and bill which was now before the House of at the root of their ancient and valuable the bill professed to widen the electoral basis of the Corporation, in other respects it was a to


The Common Hall on Corporation Reform, in Guildhall, [London], 1856. Political meeting '...to oppose the London Corporation proceedings commenced by the Serjeant-at-Mace calling out that those who were not liverymen were to leave the hall on pain of imprisonment - an announcement which was received with loud laughter. The Lord Mayor then stood forward, and bill which was now before the House of at the root of their ancient and valuable the bill professed to widen the electoral basis of the Corporation, in other respects it was a total extinction of those rights which they had possessed for many years bill had been called a moderate measure. That moderation moderation of the pickpocket, who stole a man's purse and then thought him well off that he left him his hat and '. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.


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