A mouse on a dressingtable Colonel James Turner The British police had been

The British police had been under fire in recent years following various scandals both in London and in the provinces

Palmerston steers the ship of government at a time of dead calm

aka Loulou outside his first London Rive Gauche store on New Bond Street

This cartoon shows Britain holding a teapot in the shape of a large gun and pointing it straight at the alarmed Chinese

This cartoon shows Dr Wiseman

A mouse on a dressingtable Colonel James Turner The British police had beenA mouse on a dressingtable, 1859. A cat dressed as a matronly housewife enters the bedroom to find a large mouse preening himself in front of the mirror on the dressing table. From Punch, or the London Charivari, 1859.