New Elgin Marbles mb-width 6410 The upper view shows London

The upper view shows London Bridge decorated with flags and on both riverbanks crowds have gathered to watch the occasion

and was shot at the Tower

William Faithorne the Younger

The ghost of George is shown prodding the ghost of Washington

Hackney Marsh

New Elgin Marbles mb-width 6410 The upper view shows London'New Elgin Marbles', 1860. Lord Elgin (of the Elgin Marbles fame), holds a marble the size and weight of the cannonballs with which Peking had been threatened. China, forced to submit, is left in no doubt of the fate of Peking should it renege again on the terms of the Treaty of Tientsin. In 1858, China had been brought to sign the Treaty of Tientsin which allowed France and Britain a number of commercial concessions, and renewed the terms of the