English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

CHAPTER XIV.

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John Leech's _Punch_ Cartoons.--The "Albert" Hat.--O'Connell.--Sir James Graham.--"Peel's Dirty Little Boy."--"How do you Like the New Whig?"--"The Premier's Fix."--"The Railway Juggernaut."--Between Free Trade and Protection Sir Robert Peel falls through.--"Dombey and Son."--Lord Brougham "in order."--Smithfield.--Louis Philippe.--The Year of Unrest, 1848.--French Expedition to Rome.--"A Bright Idea."--General Haynau and Barclay & Perkins' Draymen.--"Joe" Hume.--The "Papal Aggression" Cartoons.--"The Boy who Chalked up 'No Popery' and then Ran Away."--Great Exhibition of 1851.--The _Coup d'état_.--The Peace Society.--"The Old 'Un and the Young 'Un."--War with Russia.--Evils of the Purchase System.--Generals _Janvier_ and _Fevrier_.--"The Return from Vienna."--Incapacity of English Generals.--"Urgent Private Affairs."--"Staying Proceedings."--The Royal Levées.--The French Colonels.--"Religion _à la mode_."--Fête at Cremorne.--Plots against the French Emperor, and their Consequences.--"Invasion of French Light Wines." _pp._ 294-314.