The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

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TUESDAY 1110ENING, 13, 1846

If we were to take the raving of every furious
Yankee, whom fortuitous circumstances have ele-
vated to a position of influence amongst his fellow-
countrymen, for more than idle and ignorant
bombast, we ought to be at this moment in a state
of most unpleasant perturbation. Visions of battles
and sieges, of blockades and cuttings out, would
haunt our eyes. The crack of the rifle and the roll
of musketry would be ever in 9ur ears. Sallow
cadaverous faces of triumphant Kentuckians and
fierce back-woodsmen would fright us at every
turn ; and we should wake every morning prepaied
to see the " star and stripes" floating above the dis-
graced Union Jack upon our spires, and modern
emulators of Paul Jones ravaging our shores and
carrying fire and destruction amongst the shipping
which now floats peacefully in our harbours.
Happily, however, we arc under no such danger
of being eaten up by our swaggering and irate
Transatlantic Brother. For all his threats levelled
against us, we know Jonathan to be considerably
mote disposed to talk large than to fight. The
" Generals" and " Colonels" whose military enthu-
siasm boils over, ever and anon, when talking of
Oregon and Texas, of California and Cuba—of
" licking the Britishers" and defying all Europe—
we know to be, when at home, sharp, thriving, quietly
disposed fellows, vending tape or powderhorns, or
mayhap rejoicing/ in the dignity of keeping dry
goods stores or flogging their own niggers in their
own plantations. The diatribes of such worthies,
with their sounding military titles, read awful in the
ears of simple and:peaceful people, when conveyed
across the Atlantic in print, and enforced by editorial
swagger; but sensible men, acquainted with the
Yankee character and the na•ure of Yankee insti-
tutions, are prone to laugh in their sleeve and to
sleep comfortably in spite of them. We cannot for
the life of us believe our brother to be in earnest in
his " calculations," when he so palpably intimates
to us the fact that he is thinking so much of glory
and of "American institutions," and so utterly for-
getting the God which he worships, symbolically, in
the shape of dollars and cents.
Prominent amongst those fire-eating gentry,
whose fierce denunciations against England ought
to drive the nation into hysterics—but dont—is a
Senator who rejoices in the name and military style
of " General" Cass, probably because, on some
occasion, he has commanded a detachment of militia
in a foray against some Indian tribe, or in a hunt after
half a score of runaway Weeks. We give our
readers an extract from his speech, delivered in the
Senate on the 17th ult., as a specimen of the ravings
of his class :
" He (General Cass) would now repeat what he had ex-
pressed heretofore—that it was ')etter to fight for the first
inch of Orezon than the last—better to meet the enemy
at the threshold, than await his approach at the hearth-
stone. And, however separated now by differences, or by
space, all parties, throughout the Union to its extremities,
he knew would be united in defence of the national rights.
Our destiny is onward—its westward movements cannot
be resisted -, you might as well attempt to stay the waves
of the Pacific as the tide of our emigration setting in that
direction. We cannot recede—we cannot stand still—our
claim must be maintained or abandoned. Our hardy popu-
lation of Oregon demanded the support of the go7ern-
mer t. or they would establish a government of their own.
We had an explicit and able memorial upon this very sub-
ject last week, setting forth that the memorialists were
tired of waiting for you, and would cast off all diplomatic
chicanery and national pusillanimity, and set up for
themselves."
I. ;8 a • !hat the " onward
destiny" of this people, :an neither recede nor
" stand still," sets in towards the West, and that, for
the present, at least, their views of territorial appro-
priation are confined to their own continent. It is
clear, however, from a subsequent portion of the
next speech that it is not to he so confined for ever.
" 1-le would go, remarked the general, for all future
extensions of our general area where they could be
rightfully made. There was n-ithing t 3 fear from the ex-
tension of our borders. The spirit of our institutions,
and the temper of our people, were better than fleets
and armies to the security of internal concord ; and if this
administration could secure the peaceable acquisition of
California, it would receive the lasting gratitude of the
people. (Voices on the Whig side of the Chamber, Ca-
lifornia,' Qj course, California," We must have that,'
' And then Cuba,' We have started and must go on:)"
What after Cuba and California ? Canada, no
doubt ! "Of course Canada!" "We must have
that." "We have started and must go on !"
Can it be seriously beliee•ed that any nation, of
which one half the population are not lunatics, can
permit its destiines to be guided by a party, of
which this General Cass is an oracle? Are the
merchantsl and traders of New York, Philadel-
phia, Boston, and New Orleans, the manufacturers
of New England, or the planters of the south pre-
pared to stake the vary existence of their vast com-
merce upon the carrying of policy so outrageous ?
We cannot believe that any considerable body of
the American people can dream of the possibility of
such unprincipled spoliation being attempted with-
out drawing down the combined wrath of the world
on their country as an intolerable nuisance.
No—orators of the General Cass species may de-
claim and threaten ; but, whenever the thinking
portion of the American people see themselges
of sternly opposed, by a nation capable, as England,
maintaining that opposition, and even of retaliating,
the cry for war, or even for territorial encroachment,
will he speedily hushed. America will not quarrel
with us readily, when she saes and feels the increas-
ing wealth which she derives from her present
friendly connexion with us, which may be estimated
from the following statement from our last file of
American papers.

EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK.
The shipments of bread stuffs, provisions, &c., from
this port, for some time past, (chiefly to England), having
been unusually large, we present the following as the
amount of each article cleared for foreign ports to the
16th instant (December), commencing with Sept. 1, 1845,
viz :
Wheat flour (barrels)
Rye flour
Wheat (bushels)
Corn
Rye 24,283
8ar1ey.....
Rice (tierce) .... 10,349
Beef (barrels) . . .
Pork
Lard (kegs) ....
Flaxseed (tierces)
Cloverseed 934
Besides the above, large quantiti?s of flour and grain
are in process of shipment, and now going on shipboard,
but as the vessels are not yet cleared, the exact quantities
cannot be ascertained.

This is not a commerce to be thrown away at the
bidding of the half civilized and lawless squatters of
Oregon or elsewher9. Brmher Jonathan may sigh
for California and Cuba, or cast a wishtful eye across
the St. Lawrence; but the magic tie of dollars will
restrain his arm from striking at England, his best
customer, however freely l::+ may choose to permit
his tongue to rail at us.

An account has just been published, from the
Statistical Departme t of the Board of Trade, re-
lating to the Trade and Navigation of the United
Kingdom in the 11 months ended sth December
1845, compared with the same period in 1844 and
1843 respectively, from which, as strongly indicat-
ing the increased activity both of commerce and
consumption during the past year, we shall make a
few compilations. And first we shall give a few
acts bearing upon the operation of the new Tariff,
upon the Agriculture of the country.
In the eleven months of 1843 we imported of
live cattle 1978 head, of which 1036 were oxen,
and bulls, 359 cows, 38 calves, 199 sheep, 6 lambs,
and 340 swine and hogs. It will be remembered
that it was predicted in parliament that no material
increase of importation was likely to take place as
the result of the reduction in duty under this head.
In the 11 months of 1845, however, the importations
were oxen & bulls 9088, cows 5891, calves 574, sheep -
11,866, lambs 112, swine 1134 ; in all 28,665. Of
beef " salted, not corned," we imported, in 1843,
42,194 cwts., in 1844. 101.240 cwts., and in 1845,
76,221 cwts. Under the heads of butter and
cheese, the quantity was in 1843, 280,840 cwts,. ;
in 1845 it was 456,384 cwts. Nearly the whole of
these were entered for Home consumption, and thus '
supplied the place of so much British produce, or,
in other words, added to the food of the People.
The amount of coffee, both British and Foreign
entered for consumption was in 1843, 27,762,7721bs ;
in 1844, 28,964,277 lbs ; and in 1845, 31,789,128,
thus showing a steadily increasing consumption of
thisimportant article of import. Another article,
affording the same index, in sugar, of which the i
quantity was n 1843, 3,752,566 cwts, ; in 1844,
3,871,081 cwts., and in 1845, 4,637,448, or upwards
of one-fourth added to the country's consumption
between 1843 and 1845. The consumption of tea
also increased from 37,009,43811 a. in 1843 to
40,956,4481b5. in 1845. The increase is also very