Cobden's Logic mb-code 2502620 12th March 1984

12th March 1984

Transverse section of St John's Chapel in the White Tower

Vaults beneath Leathersellers' Hall

Interior view of Queen's Bench Prison

Recorder of London

Cobden's Logic mb-code 2502620 12th March 1984'Cobden's Logic', 1863. Cobden, MP for Manchester, made a speech in neighbouring Rochdale in which, on the one hand he condemned the British proletariat for their illiteracy, yet, on the other hand, advocated that the masses should be enfranchised. Punch, of course, never slow to pick these things up, made the most of this ambiguity by depicting John Bright, a firm supporter of parliamentary reform, supporting Cobden who is telling the local