With the Stream mb-width 365 Fleet River

Fleet River

Two fishermen and a boy gossiping in the hold of a boat

'St Peter healing the Cripple at Lystra'

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the Thames and surrounding areas

With the Stream mb-width 365 Fleet River'With the Stream', 1885. The cartoon depicts the new Conservative administration rowing in the 'Liberal stream' towards a General Election. Towards the stern is the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach and, at the bow, is the unpredictable Conservative MP, Lord Randolph Churchill. Having rather unexpectedly taken office, the Conservatives were more or less keeping to the proposed programme of their Liberal predecessors. It