The Vultures Aglaia Mr Gladstone on the right

Mr Gladstone on the right shakes hands with Prime Minister Disraeli

Charles James Fox attacking a many-headed monster

Ronald Kray was charged with his murder

Performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre

The Vultures Aglaia Mr Gladstone on the right'The Vultures', 1887. The vultures of the War Office and Contractor hover over a fallen soldier. This concerned a great scandal over the supply of defective weapons to the armed forces. Some weapons were unfit for service. Bayonets would twist and bend, as would swords. Guns exploded and cartridges jammed. The supplies too often arrived via a corrupt system of contractors, but would, of course, put Britain's fighting men in grave danger in the field.