A Dead Calm walking cane showing John Bull on his

showing John Bull on his hands and knees on a flat rock

with the blowing up of St Paul's Battery

1824 from the Strand

Blackpool Tower with people sitting on Blackpool Beach LAFjan05 January 1st Building of the famous Blackpool Tower in England is completed 1894

with a large lantern above the door

A Dead Calm walking cane showing John Bull on his'A Dead Calm', 1862. Palmerston steers the ship of government at a time of dead calm. As he whistles for a wind, Earl Russell (at the front right) says he would be better employed spinning a yarn. This can be said to relate to the spinning of yarns by sailors, or the telling of stories generally. Right back on the horizon can be seen the gathering clouds of a storm labelled Education. From Punch, or the London Charivari, March 22, 1862.