The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-18 00:00:00

membered, which that very Times, but a few days back,
when pressed on the candidates for Westminster, declared
to be the abuse of reform and the deadliest effort at sub-
verting the best institutions of the country ? Would the
Tinier support that "reform" which Mr. Thornely, doubt-
less, is prepared to advocate, namely, by voting Chris-
tianity an expensive bare, and destructive of that princi-
ple of freedom which allows every man to judge for him-
self.

As a climax of reforming absurdity, we refer the Times
to the speech of Lord Althorp at Northampton, after his
election, in which, among the advantages of reform, he
states, that the new Parliament will be enabled to effect
a salutary retrenchment and economy. Yes, Lord Al-
thorp may rest assured measures of retrenchment will be
pressed on future Chancellors of the Exchequer, which
his lordship will deem anything but a safe working of the
bill.

The Times says, "had the new constituency made, for
the first time, a dangerous or injudicious use of their new
franchise, and verified the pretended alarm of the anti-
reformers," &c. We would advise the Times, in the
school-boy's phrase, not to halloo till they are out of the
wood. Where is the proof, that the choice of new mem-
berg has not been both dangerous and injudicious ? Does
the Times mean to say, that the doctrines of Mr. Thornely,
as member for Liverpool, would be safe and judicious,
which, from Col. Evans for Middlesex, as they have
stated, would be wild, and leading to mad democracy ?
Let the Times reconcile such discrepancies. Let them
show how the old constituency of Liverpool, who elected
a Canning and a Huskisson, would make a safe or judi-
cious choice in a Thornely.
"Political Unions, and Conservative Clubs," says the
Times, "drew out their combined forces into the field,
and were signally defeated." We tell them such unions
and clubs have decided the election of the majority of the
new Parliament; and above all, of those whose princi-
ples approached nearest to what the Times justly charac-
terized as leading to mad democracy.

Such of our readers as feel interested in the proceed-
ings of the United States, must be aware of the excite-
ment which has for some time prevailed in the Southern
States, and more especially in the State of South Caro-
lina, on the subject of the Tariff Acts, which have been
denounced as unconstitutional and oppressive, inasmuch
as they throw a heavy tax upon the population of the
South, in order to foster and encourage the manufactures
of the Northern States. Unavailing remonstrances have
long been made in Congress against those measures, and
threats have been held out of a determination to refuse
obedience to the Tariff Laws, under the new-coined word
Nullification." By the Francis, from Charleston, we
have seen newspapers to the 24th November, from which
it would seem that this measure is seriously contemplated
by a Convention of Delegaies from all parts of the State
of South Carolina, assembled at Columbia, the seat of
Government. The following is an extract of a letter from
a Member of the Convention, published in the Charles-
ton paper of the 24th ult.

Columbia, November 21st-10 o'Clock P. M."

" I wrote you on the adjournment of the Convention to-
day, and have just learned that the ordinance of the sub-
committee is agreed to and will be reported at 10 o'clock
to-morrow to the special committee of 21. The special
committee will report to the Convention at 1 o'clock : it
is now distinctly understood that the ordinance will em-
brace the following provisions :-
Ist. The Tariff Acts of 1823 and 1832 for the protec-
tion of domestic manufactures are declared null and void,
and not binding on the citizens of this state without any
distinction.

2nd. If the United States attempt to enforce the same
by naval or military force, or shutting our ports, the
Union is to be dissolved, and the Convention is to be
called to form a Government for South Carolina.

3rd. All officers of the State, civil and military, are to
take an oath on or before the Ist Feb., (if in the State,)
to support the ordinance and laws passed in pursuance
thereof, or their commissions to be vacated as in case of
death or resignation.
4th. No appeal to be taken from the decision of our
courts and jurymen: in addition to the usual oath, will
be required to be taken an oath to put in effect the ordi-
nance and the laws passed in pursuance thereof."
What the effect of such a determination on the part of
the legislature of South Carolina may be, it is hardly
possible to foresee. The most obvious mode of enforcing
obedience to the law's of the United States, would be
blockading Charleston, and the other sea ports of South
Carolina, which a frigate and a couple of sloops of war
could easily accomplish ; we can hardly believe that the
Federal Government would at once resort to actual coer-
cion, although the following letter from 'Washington, to a
correspondent in Charleston, appears to countenance such
an expectation. Should Virginia, and the States south
of that, make common cause with South Cafolina; and
their interests are all equally affected by the obnoxious
Tariff Laws, it is hard to say what consequences it may
lead to.
" WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Among the rumours of the day, one to
which the newspapers have given some sanction, is that General
Jackson has determind to put down the Nullifiers by the agency of
the United Stet ?s' troops. You will see that some artillery have been
sent fromTortress Monroe to Charleston, in pursuance of this design.
This step is equally bold and anomalous. It is impossible for the
community at present to he informed of the informatiOn on which
this resolution is founded. It may be of such a character as to
warrant the design and the movement ; but there necessarily exists a
strong difference of opinion as to the propriety of such a demonstra-
tion until some actual step has been taken to call for the interference
of the President . You arc much better acquainted with the condi-
tion of the public mind in South Carolina than we at this distance
can be ; and can better decide as to the urgency which has rendered
this tranSfer,of troops necessary or expedient. We have had hopes
that South Carolina would of, herself correct the errors into which
some of her citizens hale fallen, and that interposition, on the
part of the Federal Government, as it would probably, in any event,
be mischlevous, might, in this instance, he found unnecessary. The
subject will doubtless engage the attention of Congress early in the
Coming session ; as it is expected that it will be especially and em-
phatically brought before that body by thePesident in his message."

The Mayor entertained Lord. Sandon and Mr. t wart, the
members newly elected for Liverpool, also Sir Howard Douglas
and Mr. ThorucLy, with some leading friends of all four, and a
large party a other gentlemen, at dinner, in the I owuhail, on
Friday.