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From Cries of London

at the mansion house where the Territorial Information Bureau is attracting crowds daily

The police lining the route faced the crowd and missed the occasion

He is being waved off by figures in boats

Wisdom and Wind-Bag Product:Postcard From Cries of London'Wisdom and Wind Bag', 1866. The master of rhetoric, Thomas Carlyle, is shown commenting on a speech being given to the masses by John Bright. Bright is seen to be rousing his audience by anger by telling them how the House of Commons hates any of the measures it is forced to discuss that might actually improve the lives of the ordinary working class man. The implication is that he is telling his audience lies. From Punch, or the London Charivari,

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