The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-20 00:00:00

THE FUNDS._ (THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK.
This day being Good Friday it is a close holyday is the
city, but the letters by the mails are delivered.

A Lisbon mail and a Dutch mail have arrived, the
Former sailed on the Bth April.

We have also an arrival of the estafette from Paris,
bringing the French Rentes steady at the same price pre-
viously received, 70f. 50c.

The official report of the cholera at Paris states, that
on Monday last the deaths were 512, on the preceding
Monday 861.

In Paris a report was in circulation that M. Perier was
not likely to resume his office. The French flag was taken
down at Ancona on the 31st of March, and a treaty re-
specting the legat;on had been concluded at Rome.
By the French mail this morning, a Paris Paper states
that the deaths by the cholera, since the commencement of
the disease, is calculated at from 9 to 10,000.
Accounts from Antwerp state that a plot had been dis-
covered in the citadel of that place as twenty-one officers
on suspicion had been sent on board the Dutch ship of
the line Zeeuw. Also that an encounter took place at
Bergen•op-Zoom with the citizens and the troops of the
line in garrison. A Dutch major had deserted from the
citadel.

As we stated in our City article of yesterday that
Austria and Prussia had ratified and exchanged, the
Dutch Treaty is now confirmed ; that of Russia is still
wanting to give the final blow to the affairs of Holland.
The question now is, what will the King:of Hollandpo ?
To resist the five great Powers for any length of time
would be cutting off his nose to be revenged of his face.—
The enormous expense of keeping up his army will soon
cause a discontent amongst his subjects; and, bis ports
blockaded, would likewise destroy the commerce of Hol-
land. This the Dutch nation cannot withstand for any
length of time ; therefore we are of a firm opinion that
Count Orloff will act as a mediator in regard to the mo-
difications which will be soon brought on the tapis, and
the King of Holland will make the best bargain he can.
Hobart Town Papers, to the 27th of October, have
been received at the North and South American Coffee-
house. So unfavourable has been the season for feeding of
cattle, &c., that the t illow-chandlers of Launceston cannot
procure fat sufficient to supply the usual demand forcandles.
The Lieutenant-Governor has arrived at Launceston.
The whsle of his Excellency's time was occupied in consul-
tation on aboriginal affairs.
A detachment of military is about to proceed to New
Zealand, for the purpose of taking possession of that
island ; thus adding to the British empire.
We are sorry to find the shipments of wheat from this
island of late have been too great to allow of the price
holding np. At Sydney about half of the Nintrod's wheat
was sold at 6s. 9d.
So rapidly has Sydney increased within dm few
months, and wages are so high, that mechanics and
labourea are now kicking their heels at Hobart Tow*,
would make a fine barred by visiting us.

A LAMENT.FOR THE RIGHT TION..T.

CROKER.

TUE REPRESENTATIVi OF TILE 3R1T1311 POETS,••

A;eqUj Toy .Mwviv. Bios.

I weep for that wag, one of Ilertford's old cronies,
Whom Lawrence has painted an Irish Adonis.

In strains which Stunt sublime would call but Jeffrey mediocre,
I sing the fall—the dismal fall--ef poor John Wilson Croker.

I've prayed the Muse to aid my song, but vainly I invoke ber,
She's fast asleep o'er the lyric lays of poor John Wilson Croker,

I roused her with " Busaeo,"+ but the name, I thought, wouli
choke her,
So utterly she hates the rhymes of poor John Wilson Croker.

But yesterday, and who so famed as wit, buffoon, and joker ?
To.day, and who so great a quack as poor John Wilson Croker P
In vain he rises in the ?louse, stiff, starch, as any poker,
The Tory snores, the Whig he roars, " Oh poor John Wilson
Croker.•j

In vain in the Public's ear he shouts, the dame when he has
woke her,
Cries " Curse the fellow's impudence"--phi poor John Wilson
Croker.

In vain in all the fustian robes of Tory cant he'd cloak her-
No tailor to tke public taste is poor John Wilson Croker.

He's shipwrecked as a Statesman, he's bankrupt as a broker
Of pedlar wares is verse and prose—Oh, poor John Wilson
Croker !

Ah mei my eyes are filled with tears, my checks like yellow
ochre,
When I think of the fall—the latter fall—of poor John Wilson
Croker.

• At the late celebrated Hogg Dinner, the health of Lord
Porchester (of Lord Porchester!) was given as the Represen-
tative of the British Poets.
;3de Mr. Croker's Poem of 13uss.co, in which, if we remem-
ber rightly, the Lyric Muse is represented as a postboy, bearing
an express to Britannia, informing her of the Duke of Wel-
lington's victory, and presenting her with an exact catalogue
of the corporals slain in the engagement.