No. 5. “The Huntington Business.”

“Sir John courts enquiry” was the oft-repeated assertion of the Conservative newspapers, in view of the approaching session of Parliament at which the charge brought by Mr. Huntington was to be regularly tried. The Cartoon was meant to depict the gallant Knight in his “courtship” in such a way as to render the quoted statement “sorter Ironikal” as A. Ward would say.

July 5, 1873.

No. 5.

THE HUNTINGDON BUSINESS. “SIR JOHN COURTS ENQUIRY.”—The MAIL.