A Little Tea Party Finish:Stretched omnibuses and carriages

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The cartoon is accompanied by a poem of the same name in which Punch makes the point that the Irrepressible Donkey

A Little Tea Party Finish:Stretched omnibuses and carriages'A Little Tea Party', 1858. Britannia asks: A little more gunpowder, Mr. China?, (a play on words as gunpowder is also a kind of tea. China replies: O no tan ke mum, in a somewhat xenophobic parody of a Chinese person speaking English. Towards the end of 1856, British troops had been on their way to the Far East as fighting had broken out between China and Britain. As a number of French citizens had been brutally murdered, France came into the