Lord Grey offers a lamp from a box slung round his neck to John Bull who holds up his own old lamp looking over his shoulder to Peel. Lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1831.

On the reform bill of 1831 with reference to Lord John Russell's speech of 14 Dec. 1819 i which he made reference to the 'folly of the servant in the story of Aladdin, who is deceived by the cry of new lamps for old...' (M.D. George, Catalogue of political and personal satires, Vol. XI, London 1978, p. 452); possibly also a reference to Earl Grey's first speech in the House of Lords in 1808 which made his reputation as an orator and in which he referred to the Lords as a gloomy place: "What a place to speak in! with just light enough to make darkness visible, it was like speaking in a vault by the glimmering light of a sepulchral lamp to the dead. It is impossible I should ever do anything there worth thinking of"" (Grey MSS)(DNB)