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Cabotage, technical name for the French coasting-trade, p. 447 Canada, fleets from, respectively called, according to the time of year, the "Spring" or the "Fall" fleets, p. 123 ——, by great exertions, secures more rapid communication between interior and the sea than America, ibid.

——, people of, naturally hope that the German emigration to the United States would pass through it, pp. 124-5 ——, produce of, so long as protected, had little ground for complaint, p. 130 ——, could not be imported into England through New York, p. 131. ——, general results of the effect of the Navigation Laws as regarding, pp. 132-3 Canadians, a large number of them, maintain that the effect on Canada of Protection was, practically, mischievous, p. 127 —— assume that the opening of Canadian seaports to vessels of all nations would restore their trade, p. 128 ——, though for a modified Free-trade, which might benefit themselves, were not prepared for it unconditionally, ibid.

—— naturally hope that they may be able to engross the trade of Western America, p. 130

Canton, American vessels allowed to trade there, though British vessels were not, p. 106 Cardwell, Mr. (now Lord Cardwell) thinks the effect of maintaining the "long-voyage" clause would defeat the policy of the warehousing system, p. 237 —— asserts that the "warehousing system" was the result of a judicious relaxation of the Navigation Laws, p. 238 ——, remarkable action of, in the preparation of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, p. 320, note

——, greatly increases the number of lighthouses, &c., p. 414

Castro, Viscount de, replies sarcastically to Lord Palmerston's letter of inquiry, pp. 216-17 Chain cables, great mistake to test them by enormous strains, as these tend to destroy the fibre of the iron, p. 318, note, and p. 480 —— and anchors, now tested through the agency of Lloyd's Registry, p. 557 China, trade with, passages of "Clipper Ships" engaged in, Append. p. 611 Clay, Mr., though a Free-trader, declines to support Government till the restrictions on Shipowners were done away with, p. 200 "Clipper Ships" first built at Aberdeen in 1846, to compete with the Americans on the Chinese coasts, p. 288 Coasting clauses, in Mr. Labouchere's Bill, withdrawn on the receipt of Mr. Buchanan's letter, p. 223 Coasting Trade rigidly kept in the hands of England; indeed, made more strict by the Act of 1825, pp. 106-7 —— thrown open, and manning clause repealed, in 1854, p. 353 ——, we do not even now know the number of ships in our, p. 465 Coasting Trade of America liable to be diminished on the opening of the railway across Central America to Panama, p. 374 ——, all parties agree that America has acted selfishly in withholding her, p. 384 ——, error in supposing it only a trade to San Francisco, p. 385 Coasting Trade of North American Colonies still confined to British vessels, p. 400 Cobden, Richard, letter from, to Mr. Lindsay, March, 1856, p. 75 and note

—— the chief of the new statesmen, who exploded the pernicious fallacies of Protection, pp. 74-77

—— asserts that we can build better ships than the foreigners, and cheaper too, quality considered, p. 201

—— that the sailor is as able to compete with foreigners as the artisan, ibid.

—— that the Shipowner pays none of the rates with which the landowner was charged, p. 202