Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Military Technology, Politics, Government

    As in PU1/38/12/2, this plays on the analogy between the range of new armaments and that of Lord John Russell's Reform Bill. Notes that while William G Armstrong's 'twelve-pounder' will outreach Joseph Whitworth's 'three-pounder', the range of 'Russell's six-pounder' (a reference to the £6 qualification for the franchise in towns) 'Bids fair to be the longest and lowest of all'.