The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

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IT is one of the most striking characteristics of
modern statesmanship that it keeps steadily ad-

vancing towards the very consummation, which it
professes to be most desirous to avoid. Its policy
is essentially destructive and revolutionary, whilst
its authors are altogether without the manliness to
confess the ultimatum, towards which they are
proceeding. We look one way, and row the other;
and the most Conservative of our administrations
have their measures dictated to them by parties,
against whose views and objects they most stre-
nuously protest. A most glaring instance of this
fact is to be found in the concession, which has
just been made to clamour out of doors, upon the
subject of a reduction in the numerical force of the
army. It is notorious what are the opinions of
the Hume and Cobden party, with respect to the
retention of our colonial possessions. It is avowed
by these men that they would at once throw off every
responsibility, at present existing, to afford protec-
tion to British subjects who have settled in those
possessions. Yet, whilst conceding to this policy,
and depriving the country of the power of affording
that protection efficiently, mark how studiously the
Prime Minister of her Majesty's Government pro-
nst being supposed to entertain the opi-
those, to whose agitation they find them-
'ldled to succumb ! We quote from
well's speech on Monday night, in SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. _
The number of beasts is not quite so large, still it is conk
-ks of Sir William Molesworth
:• derable, and the demand but small. The weather being fa-
,d the house (Sir ;,;,eurbaebslte,krnriiidsayb'sutquseovtaetriaolnssecaorenrrlearteabLwaeilnl suunpspowit.edift)er

admirals with their suites were present. The greatest
enthusiasm was reported to prevail among the population.

LONDON MONEY MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The English funds opened this morning * lower than the
closing prices of Saturday, and the market has continued flat.
Consols are quoted 91 to for money, and 91k to * for the
account. Exchequer Bills are 365. to 395. premium for those
of March, and 378. to 40s. for the bills of June.

In the foreign securities the market is quieter this morning,
and prices closely assimilated to those of Saturday.

LONDON SHARE MARKET,

-YESTERDAY

• •
The market is very heavy this morning, except in East In-
dians, which, in consequence of the favourable concessions
granted by the East India Company, are quoted as high as par
to pm., having previously been unsaleable. Eastern Coun-
ties are quoted lower; in other shares the prices scarcely vary
from those of Saturday. French shares are about the same as
on Saturday.

LONDON CORN MARKET

.-YESTERDAY

The supply of English Wheat at market this morning being
short, factors were enabled to obtain rates fully equal to those
of last Monday ; the arrivals of foreign being large (a number
of vessels having come to hand since the arrivals noted at lout
were made up, and which then exceeded 45,000 qrs. during the
week,) a decline of fully ls. per qr. had to be submitted to upon
the price of this day se'nnight, and a very limited amount of
business was transacted at the decline. Flour a slow sale, with
the turn in price in favour of the buyer. Barley was rather
easier to purchase. Having large arrivals of Oats from abroad,
the dealers were able to purchase 6d. to Is. better. Beans and
white Peas unaltered; maple and gray Peas Is. cheaper.

Lord John R

YESTERDAY

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W. Molesworth

who has addres

..gsaauy auoactuuvo our su-
pply of sheep is rather less than on Monday last; there ai•e-
colonies where a reduction might be made in the number more buyers than on that day, but it is exceedingly difficult to
of troops, and referred among others to the case of the obtain the smallest advance in price. In consequence of the
lonian Islands. where he said the force might be very cold weather, lambs and shorn sheep meet with a very dull
(Hear, hear.) With respect to some sale, at rather lower rates. We have vT-3, few calves on offer,

greatly reduce

)e instances where too great a num-
,ntained ' • but I am quite sure my
cretary for the. Colonies, watches

lose not of first-rate quality ; prices remain about the
From Germany and Holland we have 180 Beasts, 660

iheep, and 44 Calves; Norfolk and Suffolk, 2,400 Beasts, and
;cotland, 250.

the troops, when piacticable. realiy think, however,
when the hon. baronet made these remarks the object he
had in view was different from the object of the Govern-
ment. We are in possession of a great empire, which has
been transmitted to us by our forefathers. The hon.
baronet only thinks of the way in which it may be dimi-
' ^rl If you will only take away from
, instead of occupying a larger territory—
s will only withdraw

CUSTOMS PROMOTIONS.—Mr. Price Edwards, collector
of Customs at Southampton, has been promoted to the
collectorship at Dublin, in the room of Mr. Worthington.
Mr. Powell, comptroller in Liverpool, has been appointed
collector at Southampton. Mr. Gardner, collector at
Manchester, has been appointed comptroller in Liver-
pool. Mr. Taylor, collector at Rochester, to be collector
at Manchester. Mr. Hodden, collector at Cowes, to be
collector at Rochester. Mr. Clark, comptroller at Sligo,
to be collector at Cowes.

our commanders and officers—
no doubt your military forces may be made very much
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member for Montrose

you may reduce

CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS.—The sum of £7O w
collected in Christ Church, on Sunday last, after sermo

them to 49,000 or 39,000. (Cheers.) But then our ob-
jects are different. Ours is, to maintain the empire we
have inherited from our ancestors in all its integrity.
(Cheers.) If once you say your object is to diminish it,
to make it smaller this year than it was the year before,
and take it away bit by bit, you may of course go on till
you reduce it to the limits of this island. (Cheers.) That
may be an economical experiment, but it is not one in
which I should be willing to embark. (Cheers.) My
belief is, if you give any signs of shrinking from your
duty of preserving the empire committed to your pro-
tection, that though you may have no enemy now, you
td find soon enough you had enemies who would de-
that you in honour could not
1 be that instead of such esti-
you we should be obliged to ask for
d cheers.)"

by the Revds. F. Ould and Dr. M`Neile, in aid of these
first-rate schools, which afford instruction to upwards of
800 children. The church in the evening was crowded to
suffocation, and the rev. doctor preached a most effective
sermon, which produced an impression even deeper than
that ordinarily 0000.aionoel by the. ray ganflaronn'a col Pron
appeals. It affords us the greatest satisfaction to find
that of the eight girls in this school recommended for ap-
prenticeship by the government inspector, the indentures
for five of them were actually received yesterday, so that
these promising children have a fair prospect of obtaining
a comfortable and honourable maintenance for life. The
other three, the government authorities declared their in-
ability to apprentice, because of a desire to confine the
number of such apprentices from this school to those
already granted. These facts, in connection with others
of an equally gratifying nature, which we have already had
opportunities of recording testify to the admirable capa-
bilities which the talented mistress of the school—Miss
Inman— possesses, of imparting to the children placed
under her considerate superintendence the instruction
which is valuable for them both in time and eternity.

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Nothing can be more certain than the fact that
such would be the result of the carrying out of the
very policy upon which the Government was at
that moment entering. If we shrink from our duty
of preserving our colonial empire, it will undoubt-
edly fall from us, to aggrandise some other power,
which entertains more just notions than ourselves
of the duty of parent states to their infant depen-
dencies. But is there not a course of action, by
which such a result can be brought about quite as
effectually and as rapidly as by our resigning the
military occupation
of our colonies ? Are there not
moral ties, and ties of interest, which we may.
break? We say, yes; and that very course of ac-
tion we have been pursuing towards our colonies
for years past. Nay, more; at this moment it is
producing its results. Before the ink was dry,
which recorded his lordship's profession of a re-
gard for the integrity of our
colonial empire, and
his determination to maintain it, if necessary, by
force, the British public were put in possession of
the fact that one of the most valuable portions of
that empire—Canada—was already debating the
question of total separation from the British Crown.
And that question must be debated, and decided
too, not only in our colonies, but at home. What
claim have we now upon the allegiance of Canada
which we are not preparing to break ? We have
already stripped the Canadian farmer of any advan-
tage over the foreigner in our markets ; and we
are about to extend the same policy to the Cana-
dian shipowner, What object can either have in '

How BEEF Is PROVIDED IN CALIFORNIA.—Ea;Iy this
morning a bullock was brought up and slaughtered in front
of the house. The process of slaughtering a beef is as fol-
lows :—A vaquero, mounted on a trained horse, and pro-
vided with a lasso, proceeds to the place where the herd is
grazing. Selecting an animal, he soon secures it by
throwing the noose of the lasso over the horns, and fas-
tening the other end around the pommel of the saddle.
During the first struggles of the animal for liberty, which
usually are very violent, the vaquero sits firmly in his
seat, and keeps his horse in such a position that the fury
and strength of the beast are exhausted without producing
any other result than his own exhaustion. The animal,
soon ascertaining that he cannot release himself from the
rope, submits to be pulled along to the place of execution.
Arriving here, the vaquero winds the lasso round the legs
of the doomed beast, and throws him to the ground, where
he lies perfectly helpless and motionless. Dismounting
from his horse, he then takes from his legging the but-
cher-knife that he always carries with him, and sticks the
animal in the throat. He soon bleeds to death, when, in
an incredibly short space of time for such a performance,
the carcase is flayed and quartered, and the meat is either
roasted before the fire or simmering in the stewpan. The
lassoing and slaughter of a bullock is one of the most ex-
citing scenes of the Californians ; and the daring horse.
manship and dexterous use of the lariat usually displayed
on these occasions are worthy of admiration, I could not
but notice the Golgotha-like aspect of the grounds sur•
rounding the house. The bones of cattle wera thickly
strewn in all directions, showing a terriblp slaughter of
the four-footed tribe, and a prodigious consunavtiol of
flesh,—What I saw in California,