The New Year's Gift London taxi Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath

View of the interior court at the Apothecaries' Hall

Mercedes completely dominated the race

The railway lines are a danger to the unsophisticated rural worker

The New Year's Gift London taxi Hampstead Heath'The New Year's Gift', 1858. This cartoon shows Sir Colin Campbell presenting the leashed tiger of India to Palmerston who, rather in the manner of a lion tamer, shelters nervously behind a chair, reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'. 'Pam (To Sir Colin). Well upon my word eh! I'm extremely obliged to you but eh! how about keeping the brute?'. Sir Colin Campbell was made Commander in Chief in India by Palmerston in July 1857, at the height of