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considered themselves bound to lodge all public institutions in Grecian
temples.

This Dock was constructed in 1708, and twelve others have since been added,
occupying the shore from north to south for several miles, including one
which will accommodate steamers of the largest class. These Docks are far
from perfect in their landing arrangements. Cargo is discharged in all but
one, into open sheds. The damage and losses by pilferage of certain
descriptions of goods are enormous. Attempts have been repeatedly made to
establish warehouses round the docks into which goods might be discharged
without the risk or expense of intermediate cartage. But the influence of
parties possessed of warehouse property is too great to allow the execution
of so advantageous a reform. Whigs and Radicals are, in this instance, as
determined conservators of abuses which are not time-honoured as any Member
for Lincoln City or Oxford University.

In 1764 more than half the African slave trade was carried on by Liverpool
merchants. The canal system commenced by the Duke of Bridgewater next gave
Liverpool an improved inland communication. After Arkwright's manufactures
stimulated the trade of America, cotton imports into Liverpool soon began to
rival the sugar and tobacco imports into Bristol. The Irish trade was rising
at the same time, and the comparatively short distance between the midland
counties, where Irish livestock was chiefly consumed, soon brought the Irish
traders to Liverpool. The progress of steam navigation presently gave new
openings to the coasting trade of Liverpool. In 1826 the admirable canal
system, which united Liverpool with the coal and manufacturing districts in
the kingdom, was found insufficient to accommodate the existing traffic, and
the railroad was the result. By the railroad system Liverpool has been
brought within an hour of Manchester, two hours of Leeds, and four hours of
London; and into equally easy, cheap, and certain communication with every
part of England and Scotland; while fully retaining all the advantages of
being the halfway house between the woollen districts, the iron districts,
and the cotton districts, and America--the intermediate broker between New
Orleans, Charleston, New York, and Manchester.

Six-sevenths of all the woollen imported into England comes through
Liverpool, besides a large trade in sugar, tobacco, tea, rice, hemp, and
every kind of Irish produce.

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