The advisability of removing the bronze statue of the Queen from the Park had been under discussion in the City Council, and created considerable interest. Grip, in this Cartoon, took the liberty of suggesting a work of art to supply the place of Mr. Marshall Wood’s figure. The persons represented are, in the centre, Mr. A. Macnab, Police Magistrate of Toronto; on the right, Mr. Nudell, a popular Court official; and on the left, Alderman John Baxter, J.P.
June 21st, 1873.
No. 4.
LAW AND JUSTICE.
A DESIGN RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED TO THE QUEEN’S PARK STATUE COMMITTEE.
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.