My Father 2 Edge Hill 4 Everton 5 Bootle 5 Seaforth 6 The "Great Britain," s.s. 7 Wrecks on the Seaforth shore 8 Walton 10 Aigburth 10 The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 12 His last speech 13 1848--Waterloo and Southport Railway: Opening 15 Edge Lane 16 Early School-days 17 Home Life 21 Wavertree Park 23 CHAPTER II.--VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 25 1857--Sail in the "Red Jacket" 25 Australia 26 West Coast of South America 27 Easterly gales in the Channel 28 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