MY COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE--RETURN TO LIVERPOOL. 1850-1852 109 How I first met my wife--Engaged to marry her within forty-eight hours--Governors in my charge--Our wedding and the commotion that preceded it--Phrenology. CHAPTER X BUSINESS SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA. 1853-1855 126 A fine income at twenty-one--Melbourne in those days--American ideas introduced--Accused of stealing $2,000,000. CHAPTER XI THE GOLD-FEVER IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND TASMANIA. 1853-1855 141 Lucky and unlucky miners--David D. Porter--Sydney in those days--Free immigrants--Sir John Franklin. CHAPTER XII OTHER AUSTRALIAN INCIDENTS--A REVOLUTION 156 Proposed as a candidate for President--Riotous times--Curious incidents in business. CHAPTER XIII A VOYAGE TO CHINA. 1855 171 Failure of ambitious plans--My first love of flowers--A remarkable Dutch colony. CHAPTER XIV IN CHINESE CITIES. 1855-1856 182 Hetty Green's husband in Hongkong with me--Pirates and the slave trade--Honesty of the Chinaman--Eating rats-- Pidgin-English--Li Hung Chang on board. CHAPTER XV TO INDIA AND THE HOLY LAND. 1856 204 New ideas in religion--My early Methodism recalled--Where Christ was born. CHAPTER XVI IN THE CRIMEA. 1856 215 Plans in speculation that came to naught--The war, and what I learned of it. CHAPTER XVII HOME ONCE MORE, AND THEN A RETURN TO EUROPE. 1856-1857 221 Boston and New York after a long absence--With my wife I go to Paris. CHAPTER XVIII MEN I MET IN PARIS. 1857 226 A ball at the Tuileries--Eugénie very gracious to me--An unexpected woman comes in--William H. Seward. CHAPTER XIX BUILDING THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 1857-1858 237 Queen Maria Christina's fortune employed--Salamanca, the banker--How I secured a great loan. CHAPTER XX A VISIT TO RUSSIA. 1857 249 I carry a message to the Grand Duke Constantine--A dinner with Colonel Greig--Moscow and the Nijnii Novgorod fair. CHAPTER XXI BUILDING THE FIRST STREET-RAILWAYS IN ENGLAND. 259 A line in Liverpool that still exists--Making a start in London--Better success in Staffordshire. CHAPTER XXII