The news from the United States is important. The new
Tariff Bill proposed by Mr. CLAY, and approved of by Mr. CA.LHOUN, the leader a the South Carolina party, passed the House of Representatives on the 26th February, by a majority of 118 to 85. The bill was carried by a direct coalition between the Southern and Western States, against the North, East, and the Middle States, which was found irresistible. As usual, the great body of the members for the South sunk all minor differences among themselves, when the struggle came to be, as they supposed, between the North and South. It will be recollected that we have more than once stated that this would probably be the case. One member from Virginia voted with the manufacturing interest : with that solitary exception, every vote South of Ohio was given for the re- duced scale of duties. The bill is looked upon as a surrender of the principle of "protection," and an abandonment of the American sys- tem. • South Carolina, therefore, has in fact obtained the main point for which she contended.
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