Reporting Himself 175 The City of London Imperial Volunteers met with an enthusiastic reception in the City and elsewhere on their return from South-Africa. Time’s Appeal 176-177 Cartoons by Sir John Tenniel. [Illustration: May Day, Eighteen hundred and Fifty-one.] [Illustration: _July, 1853._ The Bear and the Bees.—A New Version of an Old Story.] [Illustration: _June, 1854._ What Nicholas heard in the Shell.] [Illustration: _August, 1857._ The British Lion’s Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger.] [Illustration: _February, 1859._ The Quaker and the Bauble. “It is the Land which the territorial party represents in Parliament.... That is the theory of the Constitution: Blackstone says so. But it is a thing which is not likely to be respected much longer, and it must go, even if involving the destruction of the Constitution.”—Mr. BRIGHT.] [Illustration: _December, 1859._ John Bull Guards his Pudding.] [Illustration: _January, 1860._ Dame Cobden’s New Pupil.] [Illustration: _May, 1860._ Lyndhurst as Nestor rebukes the Chiefs.] [Illustration: _November, 1860._ Right Leg in the Boot at last. GARIBALDI. “If it won’t go on, Sire, try a little more powder.”] [Illustration: _November, 1860._ New Elgin Marbles. ELGIN TO EMPEROR. “Come, knuckle down! No cheating this time!”] [Illustration: _March, 1861._ “Beggar my Neighbour.” PAM. “Is not your Majesty tired of this foolish game?”] [Illustration: _April, 1861._ Papal Allocution.—Snuffing out Modern Civilisation.] [Illustration: _November, 1861._ King Cotton Bound; Or, The Modern Prometheus.] [Illustration: _December, 1861._ Waiting for an Answer.] [Illustration: _December, 1861._ Columbia’s Fix. COLUMBIA. “Which answer shall I send?”] [Illustration: _May, 1862._ Peace. Mr. PUNCH’S Design for a colossal Statue which ought to have been placed in the International Exhibition.] [Illustration: _June, 1862._ The “Sensation” Struggle in America.] [Illustration: _June, 1863._ Britannia Discovering the Source of the Nile. BRITANNIA. “Aha, Mr. Nilus! So I’ve found you at last!”] [Illustration: _March, 1863._ At Home and Abroad.] [Illustration: _January, 1864._ Miranda and Prospero. MIRANDA (EUROPE). “If by your art, my dearest Louis, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.”] [Illustration: _January, 1864._ Shakspeare and the Pigmies.] [Illustration: _September, 1864._ The American Juggernaut.] [Illustration: _May, 1865._ Britannia Sympathises with Columbia.] [Illustration: _September, 1866._ Vulcan’s Best Customer. PEACE. “Not much doing, I suppose, Mr. Vulcan?” VULCAN. “Doing! Thanks to you, Miss, I’ve a’most more work than I can manage.”]