The New Russell Six-Pounder Finish:20-pack Rats taken alive

Rats taken alive

24th November 1967

Built by John Smeaton 1n 1756-59

This relates to a meeting arranged by Lord Salisbury to decide how to vote on the Liberal's Franchise Bill

showing part of the City of London

The New Russell Six-Pounder Finish:20-pack Rats taken alive'The New Russell Six Pounder', 1860. At the beginning of March 1860, Lord John Russell, Foreign Secretary in Palmerston's Cabinet, introduced a Government proposal for parliamentary reform. It was planned to reduce the borough franchise to 6 which would have the effect of increasing the number of potential voters to an unprecedented 634,000. This was seen as a milestone on the way to Household Suffrage, and from there to Universal Suffrage. This is