The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-27 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

l' EXTRACTS, SERIOUS AND COMICAL, PROM THE NEW
YORK MORNING HERALD, RECEIVED YESTERDAY BY
THE " PATRICK HENRY."
THE WIND-UP OF AN ARTICLE ON BANKS AND
CURRENCY.—These are lamentable, happy, hellish,
pleasing, terrible, delightful, ghastly, agreeable events.
We are in the midst of the total wreck of the present
. banking and eoustsercial systems. Our prospects are,
on oee hand, a metallic currency of 80,000,000 dollars
to measure all values, or a National Bank, with its
centre in New York, and circumference around the shores
of the Atlantic and the Mississippi, to furnish a safe
general currency, on a sound specie basis. There is
no other alternative. We say, therefore, to the fashioe-
able mercantile bankrupts of New York, as our Lord
said to Judas Iscariot, the ancestor of Major Noah,
" What thou dost, do quickly." Break—for God's
sake, break at once—break to-day, don't wait till Mon-
-1 day—break now, one and all, and if you can't break
ithe banks, break all the brandy glasses of the City
Hotel to-night, and let us at once come to a metallic
currency, or a national bank as fast as possible. Break,
bankrupts—bankrupts, break—and as the man in the
play says, so say we, " Who the bell cares ?"
A DUEL TO BE DONE,—M. Tasistro has written a
letter, charging the two brothers Porter with certain
conduct ; the Porters intend to challenge Tasistro, as
they cannot otherwise meet the " soft impeachment."
The result will be a duel, for Tasistro will fight ; whe-
ther Porter will fight or not is doubtful. He will eat,
drink champaigne, swell, swagger, and brag ; but it is
doubtful if he will fight. However, presuming that
he will fight to patch up his reputation and
his breeches, we will give both the core-
Intents some advice. Don't go into Wall-street for
sceonds. Webb knows nothing about duels, and hates
the 'well of powder ; Noah is an old botch, except
when he is amongst old clothes ; but come to us, gen-
tlemen ; we have two compositors who will make the
best seconds in the world ; they have stood three
shots each, and have more courage and pluck than
Webb and all his friends put together, now that the
veritable Colonel Pluck has " shuffled off this mortal
pail."
SPOILS OW THE SUN.—A down east editor says that
a s Nit about an inch in diameter, or " as large as a
I pieCe ,lt
chalk," is plainly to be seen " with the naked
eye."
• CURIOUS ROBBERY IN PHILADELPHIA.—A lady
fainted and ,s;eii
down at the corner of Market and Se-
cond streets, ell Tuesday last. Another lady went
to her assistance .
Nu; actually stole her reticule, con-
taining a few articles .1116) 20 dollars in money. She did
it from pure sympathy.
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PROGRESS OF AMALGA
LADELPHIA —Since the le:
ULTION..---MORALS OF Pin-
ned savans and beautiful
women of Connecticut have t
NCisquez and his woolly headeic!such an interest in
brethren,
as to bring
their children to be kissed by them,. and to take lessons
theseselves in Mandingo and Moonshee
.from them, the
progress of amalgamation has advanced wraith immensely
rapid strides. A short time since a beaVtiful white
girl was discovered here living with a Wm. k rascal,
who had enticed her from her parents in Phila.
I ,%.(phia ; the papers brillg us an account of g very
lido tsome white girl, the daughter of a coope.",
in F:Anklin, La., giving birth to a black baby ;
a young "bite lady at Haarlem has become so com-
pletely smiaers with the " sable fever," that she has
opened a school exclusively for black children. And
lastly, we have the following instance of the improve-
ment in morals and amalgamation in Philadelphia. A
. carriage containing two ladies, egho represented them-
selves as mother and daughter, stooped at the outer
gate of the Alms House, over the Schuylkill, on Thurs-
day last, when the youngest informed the keeper that
her mother was anxious to obtain a white child, an Lis
fant if possible, to adopt her as her own, she having lately
Jost one. She was shown several, and at last made a
ab.lection that pleased her, and requested permission to
silos, it to her mother, who was in her carriage, and, if
1 it 4uit,,,d her, they would obtain an order from the guar-
. dia„; of the poor, and call in a day or two for it. The
j child w -ae wrapped up in its cradle clothes, and taken by
j herself to .41s.carraee, and after a few minutes' delay she
returned and
nt.seetrthe babe where she found it, stat-
ing that they,
wcssfsl call next day and take it away.
4.40 driven off, and nothing fur-
The carriage was
ther thought of the tra
Isocaion, until it became neces-
I sary to remove the child .'et;:onie cause, when it was
discovered that the white chii:l lad been taken by the
persons in the carriage,f and a blae_l( toe left in its place.
Truly the osuse of amalgamation 24 isnzspering ex-
ceedingly 1.
Parson Pierrepont, of Boston, has been 2seharit,d^
i from his religious calling by the congregation of Hollit.
1 street Church, for the following novel reasons :—His
attention was drawn from his duties by the making of
books, and the manufacture of stoves and screws, and
razor strops—and by his entering into every exciting
topic that the ingenuity of the fanatic at home, or the
imported mountebank could conjure up to distract and
disturb the public mind, such as Imprisonment for
iThibt, the Militia Law, Anti-masonry, Phrenology,
Temoerance, and, last of all, and, above all, the Aboli-
Ition of „Slavery, a question which threatens more than
all else the destruction of our Glorious Union.
A PRINCE IN COURT.—Prince John Van Buren
mWe his appotrance yesterday before the Court of
j Erroes. He ma,:le a speech in the case of the Bank of
Buffalo, versus N. 5. Kortright. His argument was
as king, but hardly as stiff, as his whiskers. He is not
equal to his Royal Father, but surpasses him in smal
talk.
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Min Shirreff had quite a splendid benefit on Satur-
day night. Ai I was lounging tLere, I found myself by
accident at full length standing clogq to a very respect-
able looking old gentleman, whose fare I did not see.
As he turned round, I found it to be iny friend John
Haggerty. I thought at first I could have swallowed
Mount Etna, and bit in two Vesuvius, but discovering
several very beautiful women near him, " order was re-
stored to Warsaw." In a short time I expect he will
send m's the 500 dollars, as I want it particularly to give
to the sufferers in the great Mobile fire. N.B.—ls it
f►ir for Mr. Wa!lack to exchange red dog notes for
Miss Shirreff's musical notes, without paying the
discount?

AMERICAN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE—CHEAP TRA-
YELLIN C. TO EUROPE—REDUCTION OF FARE.—There
is not another nation on the face of this earth
like the United States. God never made but one
ry such, and we doubt whether he will ever try to
make a second. None can build such floe ships
and produce such men to command them—noblemen
by nature—all of which is owing to our beautiful, spi-
ritod, lovely, glorious women, the very favourites of the
Holy Virgin herself. New packet ships are turned off
from the ship yards on the East river, almost as rapidly
and as seautifuliy as young babes are thrown up into
existence, exactly nine months after marriage, or as the
Herald newspaper is thrown from our double cylinder
1 press, which pints over fifty papers per minute. On
Wednesday morning a new ship of one thousand tons
borthen was launched from the yard of Messrs. Webb
and Allen, and as she dipped into the water, was
1.-ained the " New York." Her contour is very much
like the Patrick Henry, and if there is any difference,
it is in the more perfect symmetry of the bows of
the " New York." William C. Barstow, Esq., for-
merly of the South America, wall take command of her,
and he sails hence for Liverpool on the 7th of next
; month. Price of passage in the cabin 100 dollars.
The cabins of the New York will surpass as ery thing
of the kind afloat—even those of the famous English
yacht belonging to the Earl of Yarborough. They will
wet when finished 8,000 dollars, and the ship altogether
00,000 dollars. There are to be forty berths in twenty
slte rooms, each to be finished off in the highest style
and slegance. The wine vaults, the camboose, the ice
house, the cow house, the place for fowls and such
things have been so improved upon, that fresh eggs,
fresh milk, 0001 winrr, and fresh meats will be on the
table every da.v during the passage across the Atlantic,
and what more can a sea voyager wish ? With the
launch of this shccr commences an entire new system
with three Liverpoo.! lines of packets. The price of
passage in the New ork, Virginian, Patrick Henry,
George Washington, United States, South America,
independence, Westchester, Sheffield, Oxford, Cam.
bridge, Europa, Columbus, arid Itoseoe, has been re-
duced to 100 dollars. Thus every person who crosses
the Atlantic in the above named si;ins will save forty
dollars each trip, and enjoy themselves the same, 11%e
the same, and have all the same c,-nnforts that
th. 7 would in the steam ships at 170 do liars, or in
four other Liverpool vessels at 140 dollars.
Collins's line, therefore, sticks at the high-priced I.tzY
system, as the sixpenny ‘Vall-street papers do, but she
other lines have reduced their fares and taken' ground
on the sound principles of cheapness, excellence, rapidity,
and comfort combined, 'ln short, they are acting on
our system.
A saint of Wall-street assures us that our old friend
Jask Olittggerty, is decidedly in fa a
your of 9
main-
tenance of specie payments. Glad to hear he isgett
getting
right at last. Jack must have been reading the Herald
of late. If he is a real convert to the principle of specie
payments, per fat ant nefas, as taught by us, 1-shall
expect soon to receive his check for 500 dollars he got
me improperly fined in 1837.
General Jackson was reported dead en Saturday.
We don't believe he will die till h of s,„p,n:
aim and downfall ef ihe United States Bank When ti
monster is dead, then Jackson will say, " Biddle's Bark is
drvid—now let thy servant rest In peace, Ohl Lord,"
CONSUL TRIST.—At the last accounts from Havana,
Trist was packing up his duds to come home, and val
probably be here soon. By private letters we learn
that the crew of the William Eng; have been released
from prison. They were over one year in chains, and
private ind';viduals were compelled to remonstrate with
the Spanish: Government before the the poor sailors
were set at liberty. They repeatedly applied to Trist,
but he answ tired them with a twist of his mustaches, " I
neither knowQf, or care about them. You have already
troubled me too much."
ROGUERY.—Burglars and incendiaries are plenty in
New Orleans, Mobile, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
They will soon increase in nnmber in New York.
Look out for them.