Chapter III: Liverpool 31

Liverpool in 1860-1870 32
The Town 33
The Docks 35
The Dock Board 37
Election 38
Birkenhead 39
Bootle 41
The Exchange 42
Cotton Brokers 44
Commerce 47
Shipowners 48
Merchants 49
The American War of 1861-1865 51
Blockade Running 53
The Southern Bazaar 55
The Volunteer Movement 55
Intellectual Life 57
Society 60

CHAPTER IV.--BUSINESS LIFE 64

My Father's Office 64
Financial Panics, 1857-1866 65
1861--Wrecked in the "Great Eastern" 67
1861--Arrested in New York 69
Leech, Harrison and Forwood 71
My brother Arthur 72