Men for the Fleet! Crooked Billet Inn 2) and Wolfgang Overath bowed

2) and Wolfgang Overath bowed in despair

with boats on the water in the foreground

This relates to the recently announced details of the Parcel Post whereby the Post Office would handle parcels under a fixed weight for a fixed charge

View showing the junction of the Regent's Canal at Paddington

Later it was converted into an estate fire engine and fitted with a Merryweather steam fire pump from an old horse drawn fire engine

Men for the Fleet! Crooked Billet Inn 2) and Wolfgang Overath bowed'Men for the Fleet!', 1859. In May 1959, Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second son, was appointed aboard HMS 'Euryalus'. Although he is depicted as a child in this cartoon, he would have been about 15 years old at the time of his appointment. From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 14, 1859.