The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-08 00:00:00

TE11.7 LONDON PRESS.

(FROM THE TIMES.)
We have received New York papers to the 9th ult.
Though expected with impatience in this country, they
contain no decisive intelligence either from the nullifiers
in South Carolina, or from the Congress of Washington.
The two branches of the federal legislature in the latter
city were still occupied with the single bills which had
been submitted to the deliberation of each about a month
ago. In the senate they discussed the proposed measure
for the more effectual collection of the revenue in South
Carolina, and in the House of Representatives the bill
for modifying the tariff. Both measures had encountered
great opposition, the former from the senators of the
southern states, and the latter from the delegates of the
northern. Ou the former bill Mr. Calhoun, who had re-
signed the presidency of the senate in order to be able to
defend the policy of his own state, had not spoken, and
it was expected that he and Mr. Webster, his great
northern antagonist, would occupy the assembly for se-
veral sittings. On the 6th ult. neither had entered the
lists.

We know what lengthened debates are nearer home,
but we can form only an imperfect idea of the nuisance
to which the people of the United States are sometimes
sUbjected by the iron rungs of their orators.
A speaker on the tariff, for instance, thinks it no offence
against good sense_ and human patience to occupy one
or two days with his oration. Thus we find it announced
in the papers before us—" Mr. Brown resumed the floor,
and occupied the sitting till the hmir of adjournment !"
Of another long-winded gentleman it is said—" Mr.
Holmes has the floor to-morrow, and will occupy it the
whole of the day." It is extremely lucky for our North
American brethren that they have not, like the people of
this country, 658 members to talk, otherwise they would
be obliged to let two or three speak at the same tithe, in
order to give all their turn in the debate. The conse-
quences of this very absurd mode of transacting business
have been fully developed by Captain Hall and Mr.
Stuart. The members who are obliged to be present are
not obliged to, listen, and often write their letters or
transact their private business While the debate is going
.We can scarcely suppose, as is insinuated, (if we
remember right,) by the former traveller, that any view
to the receipt of the dollars a day, given for attendance,
has any influence in prolonging the discussion of a poli-
tical qdestion.
In the present instance the respeCtive parties seem to
tfe speaking against time. By the 3rd or 4th of March
the present session must terminate, and a general elec,
tion (we believe) take place. The deputies for the
northern states are anxious that the tariff should not be
altered, or the protective duties lowered, as ive observe,
by petitions or memorials from New York, Boston, and
other commercial or manufacturing towns. They have,
therefore, kept the bill nearly a month in corntnittee. It
will remain in the House of Representatives for some
time longer. The divisions on the imendinents,.which
have been numerous, are nearly equal. The nmendinent
of Mr. Adams to strike out the en/zaftig clause, or, in
other words, to throw out the bill, *as only lost. by a
majority of 18 in favour of Government. The bill, if
riot lost in the louver chamber, will haVe to Pass through
the senate, and may be there delayed till the session ter-
minates., In the senate the coercive measure' against the
South Carolinians is kept back by the same stratagem,
and, as it was still in committee on the 6th of February,
was not likely to pass the senate and receive the sanction
of the other branch of Congress before the"tennirtation
of the session, in the beginning of March. President'
'Jackson will thus be left. to his own resources and to the
existing laws, in putting down Carolinian resistance and
maintaining the federal union.

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kFROM THE HI I AHPI4N AND PUBLIC LEDGER.)
In an Evening Ministerial PaPer'ofatirrday We'fiiiii
...
-the following paragraph, Which we earnestly commend
to the attention of our mercantile friends in the City.
During ilifti'snspension of. intercourse with Holland conic-
Tient on the . embaNO, the merchants at Hull 'despatch their
goods as formerly,. bout in neutral b6tionis. Within' the last
few days, two Swedish and one Oldenbuith vessel have cleared
out, and sailed with full,cartioes of Pritish manufacture to Ain-
iterdarn and iiotteidain and will be iititheeded.by others now