The Ugly Duckling Wooden Planks Beneath is a description and

Beneath is a description and a smaller image of the ruined castle

The poll-parrot is perched on the bar of universal suffrage

South-east view of the Royal Exchange's south front

The City Imperial Volunteers

'The mare's lamentation

The Ugly Duckling Wooden Planks Beneath is a description andThe Ugly Duckling, 1873. Britannia and Neptune watch one of the new iron clad ships 'Devastation' leave port. Such ships were armed with giant guns. The First Lord of the Admiralty, George Goschen, had overspent on the 12 ships by some 235,000 over his initial budget of 2 million. Mr Punch was not concerned for, as he said, the ships were so strong that the rest of the world, together, could not produce a force to fight Britain. From Punch, or the