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Mary Tofts gives birth to rabbits in an illustration of the famous hoax she pulled off in 1726

In the foreground a riot has broken out

watched as the two were carried away on stretchers - and the thin red line became a little thinner

View of rioters setting fire to Newgate Prison

View of a burn making its way down into the River Dee near Braemar

A game of foot-ball as played by certain Westminster boys mb-width 4932 Mary Tofts gives birth to'A game of foot ball as played by certain Westminster boys', 1858. In this cartoon, Derby (in the crown) is on the left with Disraeli representing the Tories, whilst Palmerston (the former prime minister) and Lord John Russell (the little one) are on the right and representing the Liberal Party, a newly developing party forming from Whigs and Peelites. Mr Punch held the view that India was being made the football of British politics during 1858. Two