The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS

(EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

The Hibernia, Captain Wilson, arrived at our
port to day, after a quick passage of twenty-two
days and a half from New York. She has
brought Journals, to the Ist inclusive, from that
city, but they contain no intelligence relative to
politics or commercial affairs, later than the
news recently received by the Halifax steamer,
for which second editions were prepared by the
New York press, on the evening previous to the
departure of the Hibernia.
The Americans, despite of their republican
notions, appear to be mightily delighted with
Lord Morpeth, who continued to be feasted and
toasted with unabated hospitality. He had been
entertained at a grand dinner given by the St.
Andrew's Society, on the anniversary of their
patron Saint; and his Lordship delivered an
eloquent speech on the occasion, acknowledging
the very flattering manner in which lie had been
received by the citizens of the United States.
The above was the third dinner he had attended,
on three consecutive evenings.

BUFFALO, Nov. 16.—Buffalo is without a bank. Eleven
were in operation as many months since ; but, alas ! poor
Yorick ! the pet of all pets, the Commercial, has this
day ceased to redeem, and is now at the mercy of the
Bank Commissioners. Some fifteen days since, a breeze
was raised about the ears of those having control of this
institution, in regard to the redemption of its bills at
Albany, but the matter was easy and very amicably set-
tled, and affairs looked smooth as Geneva upon a sum-
mer's day, when all at once this eruption burst forth,
leaving us totally prostrate, and without a bank of any
description whatever.

EXCHEQUER BlLLs.—Extraordinary as it may
appear, we have reason to believe, that upwards
of eighty thousand pounds of Exchequer bills,
which have been stamped by the Government
as genuine, are spurious, notwithstanding that
warranty.
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT LETTERS.—To-mor-
row the district letters must be put into the
General Post-office by 12 o'clock, noon, when the
last despatch for the town and suburbs will be
sent off. At the receiving houses no letters
will be received for delivery that day after
nine o'clock.

INCONSISTFNCIES.—The Morning _Herald is
one of the sticklers for the Church, and for ex-
tending the Church. But the clergy can only
teach as they are taught, and hence, if Univer-
sity education be bad, the cleegy will not teach
properly, and to extend the Church will only be
to extend improper teaching. The Herald, how-
ever, besides being a patroness of the Church, is
Anti-Puseyite, and its dislike of Puseyism in-
spired it yesterday with the following severe hit
at Oxford education :—" A college tutor, brought
up in the principle and practice of school logic,
can easily find a loop-hole to creep out at." But
a college tutor is the true pivot of college edu-
cation, and college tutors, according to the Herald
—a description which we believe to be accurate,
and to apply to the entire instruction of the
Universities—are brought up to quibble, to make
the worse appear the better reason, to pervert
and mystify, not to discover and establish truth.
Such is the character which the Church-loving.
Herald gives to the education which the tutors
of colleges receive and bestow on the youth
educated at the Universities. Can we wonder at
the consciences of priests being in all cases so
wonderfully flexible, while their avarice is un
controlled and intense? Our Contemporary has
also been a distinguished advocate for the abo-
lition of capital punishments. It is now very
zealous for the suppression of the slave trade, as
it had the good fortune to publish a notice of the
new treaty before the Times. This zeal, yester-
day, led our Contemporary into much exultation
at the existence and extension of capital punish-
ments, in the case of making the slave trade
piracy, contrary to the principles so well advo-
cated by the Herald. It affirmed that the
" ventures of the slave dealer will be fewer, with
the penspect of the YARD-ARM before him." Such
tricks do words play even with strong minds. Had
"yard-arm" been "gallows," the Herald would
have shrunk affrighted from encouraging the
vulgar belief that putting men to death is the
way to prevent crimes. The passions of great
men play sad tricks with their reason, and be-
fool them far worse than ever an old man was
, befooled by an artful maiden.

PARADISE LOST.

BY A WHIG Ex-mAcumAls.
Farewell the green Eden of Place,
And Downing-street's sweet, sunny clime,
Where, clasped in Enjoyment's embrace,
I spent so delightful a time—
Farewell, oh farewell, for my doom
Is to fly from those scenes I love most,
And cherish in exile and gloom,
The remembrance of Paradise Lost !

Yet in slumber my fancy still roves
Through that Eden, like Adam of old,
Still haunts the rich Treasury groves,
Where rolls a Pactolus of gold ;
But I wake, and the scene disappears,
And, wrecked on the barbarous coast
Of bleak Opposition, in tears,
I muse upon Paradise Lost !

If I strive to re-enter within
The gates of that Eden so dear,
Some Tory cries out with a grin,
" No Whig is admissible here;
" So be off, or I'll give you in charge,
" And then you shall find to your cost,
" What it is to be prowling at large
" Round the portals of Paradise Lost !"
Was there e'er such ill-fortune as mine?
I'm fit to do nothing, alack !
But to drown all my sorrows in wine,
Or play Hamlet at Woburn in black;
Though I bow to my tailor, yet still
The scamp looks as grim as a ghost,
And thinks with a sigh of his bill,
While I think of Paradise Lost !

Hark, bells from church-steeple and tower !
Hark, shouts from hill, valley, and lea !
'Tis Christmas's festival hour,
And all appear happy but me ;
I'm the cruellest treated of martyrs,
I'm the poorest of all the Whig host,
So I'll swing from the bed in my garters,
In my anguish for Paradise Lost !