Railway Responsability Size:S: 36 x 28cm The Barbican area of the

The Barbican area of the City of London

A procession of City merchants with an address to the King in support of his government has arrived at St James's Palace

The gathering includes two figures resting on a street sellers barrow

People crowd towards the makeshift platform made from a cart where Hunt sits

Railway Responsability Size:S: 36 x 28cm The Barbican area of the'Railway Responsability', 1874. Mr Punch tells a fat railway director that his train operators seen in the background amidst the buffers and broken rails are not to blame for the latest train crash. There was more and more criticism being levelled at the directors of the railways who were failing to keep investing in the system to ensure that the latest in signalling, tracks and trains were being brought in. From Punch, or the London Charivari,