A Momentous Question! Finish:none Sir Charles Lyell

Sir Charles Lyell

after the Royal Exchange was destroyed by fire in 1838

View showing the suggested site for the Duke of Wellington's statue

crying her wares

The Rolling Stones having a cup of tea in their hotel garden at Douglas

A Momentous Question! Finish:none Sir Charles Lyell'A Momentous Question!', 1883. Czar Alexander III of Russia is majestic following his coronation. On one side is the representative of Constitutional Liberty and, on the other, Despotism. Whilst his coronation had been complete with pomp and celebration, he had not used the occasion to promise any constitutional reform. From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 2, 1883.