by making elegant tastes and
temperate habits respectable, and by raising up an opposition to the old
Slave Trade party, whose paradise lay in turtle soup, port wine, and punch.
He set an example to merchants of stocking a library as well as a cellar,
which has been followed, until now it is considered a matter of course.
William Roscoe died in 1831, at a very advanced age. He was a remarkably
fine-looking man, with a grand aristocratic head.

In addition to Huskisson and George Canning, Liverpool once very nearly had
the honour of sending to Parliament Henry Brougham, in days when the
Chancellorship and the House of Lords could scarcely have been expected by
that versatile genius, even in a dream.

At present Liverpool interests are well represented in the House of Commons.
The borough has had the good sense to prefer a merchant townsman, Sir Thomas
Birch, and the son of a merchant, and friend and co-minister of the late Sir
Robert Peel, Mr. Cardwell, to a soldier, and the dreamy poetical son of a
Protectionist duke. A place like Liverpool ought to find in its own body
better men than young lords or old soldiers. But young Liverpool dearly
loves a lord, of any politics; and a little polite attention from a duke will
produce an unconscious effect even on the trade report of a broker of
"fashion."

Mr. William Brown, at the head of the greatest American house in the world,
after Baring's, represents South Lancashire, but on Manchester influence,
scarcely with the consent of Liverpool. Mr. Brown, who is an Irishman by
birth, has been entirely the architect of his own fortune, and began
business--on a very limited scale indeed--within the memory of persons now
living. The firm has now agents in every town of any importance in the
United States, and is the means of keeping in active employment hundreds of
traders in all our manufacturing districts. The relations with Birmingham
and the hardware country are very close. Another Liverpool man of whom the
Liverpool people are justly proud, is the best debater in the House of
Commons, if he only knew his own mind, the Right Honourable William
Gladstone, the son of Sir John Gladstone, Bart., of Fasque, N.B., formerly a
Liverpool merchant. Sir John Gladstone is a Scotchman, and in conjunction
with another gentleman, also the head of a first-rate Liverpool house, Mr.
Sandbatch, went out to the West Indies (Demerara) as journeymen bakers, in
the same way that Mr. Miles, th