A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It mb-height 2834 View of the old quadrangle

View of the old quadrangle

An Austin Seven Chummy with passengers

is inscribed Demosthenes

wielding a cricket bat

View of Somerset House

A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It mb-height 2834 View of the old quadrangle'A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It', 1858. This cartoon shows Mr John Bright, the Quaker. Bright was an outspoken advocate of parliamentary reform and peppered his numerous speeches with attacks on British aristocracy. In a poem entitled Mr Bright's Next, Punch also described his attacks on slavery, Catholicism, Russian serfdom, the House of Lords, Ireland and America. In this cartoon, though, Punch is suggesting