orning the vessel was ready to sail. They
spent the interim in walking about the docks, full of vessels of all
nations,--sixteen steamers, they heard, ran between Hull and Saint
Petersburg,--in looking at the quaint old houses of the town, and in
visiting the monument raised to Wilberforce,--a lofty pillar, the first
object which greets the mariner as he returns home. At the base is a
simple inscription: "Negro Emancipation, 1832."

"How far more worthy was he of the pillar than most people who have
monuments raised to them; and yet how he would have despised such an
honour, unless it induces others to labour as he did for the benefit of
their fellow-creatures," remarked Cousin Giles. "Remember, my lads,
this monument, and endeavour to walk in that great man's footsteps."

A lovely morning found the voyagers on board the _Ladoga_, and, after
much pulling and hauling, clear of the docks, and steaming down the
Humber.

Cousin Giles face wore an expression of dissatisfaction as he found her
deck crowded with huge, heavy iron machines and bales of cotton.

"This is nothing; we are often obliged to carry twice as much deck
cargo," said the master. "Competition is so great, we must do
everything to make the vessel pay."

"Were a heavy gale to spring up, it is your underwriters would have to
pay, I suspect," answered. Cousin Giles.

"Oh, you don't know what this vessel would go through," replied the
young master.

"Humph!" remarked the old lieutenant; "I know where she would go to if
you did not heave all this deck lumber overboard."

"I presume you have been to sea before?" said the master.

"At times," answered Cousin Giles quietly.

England sends large quantities of machinery of all sorts to Russia. The
cotton had come from America to Liverpool, had been thence sent across
the country by railway to Hull, and was going to supply numerous
manufactories of cotton goods which have been established in Russia, and
fostered by high protective duties. They are chiefly managed by
Englishmen, and the foremen are mostly English or German. Manual labour
is cheaper than in England, as is the expense of erecting the buildings;
but, as all other items cost much more, the Russians have to pay very
dearly for the cotton goods they use. Even with the high duties imposed
on them, they can buy English manufactures cheaper than their own.

In addition to the cargo on deck, there were twelve fine horses which an
English gro