The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-07 00:00:00

POETRY.

FISH OUT OF WATER, OR THE DORSONS A'1".111E

EXHIBITION.
A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE.
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Oh, dupe ! civee !......HoRAc e.

Run, neighbours, run; our Royal house of Somerset
Is thronged like a levee day with London stars;
Run, strain a point, ere fashion's gaudy summer set,
To prate about (what critics call) pieturee are :
Quick, for the Strand is tilling fast,--oh glorious !
With carriages of Western Lords and Ladies all notorious,
While waddling in the rear come those city macaronis, Sir,
The Tomkinson's, to whit, with young Higgs, the East Adonis, Sir.
• Run, neighbours, run, &c.
" How like Noah's ark ! shows our varied picture Gallery,
With dimities, lions, bears, auil geese," cries Mister Dobbs;
" Wary like the Nore indeed," replies Sir Digby Mallory,
The Alderman—a sage remark re-echoed by Miss Hobbs--
Pfau bent : this is not put forth, you see, as witticism,
But simply as a sample of your proper London criticism,
Where city connoisseurs are coined, without a previous drilling,
Sir,
As animals are blown from glass—by payment of a shilling, Sir.]
Run, neighbours, run, &c.
So touch fur generalities, now listen Lords and Ladies all,
A doleful tale I insult tO tell of enmity city folks,
Iksj,itefully isialteeuted by thuiwortiaulia whose trade is all
To pick and steal (no matter what, or where, ur holy) and
hoax ;
On May the First, the Deimos-41ns begins my tragic story,
•
14/Petitioned Pa.to take them to the Strand in all it's glory, Sir,
So a coach was hired, and in they popped, just six in prime
.condition,
With Tommy'on•tbe box • .towards the Royal Exhibition.'
' Run, neighbours, run, &c.
Now, Thomas, I shoulditelkyou, was a wag, a jolly fellow tun,
The terror OM Gl,lrtias front Whiteehapel to Cheapside ;
drove a little, gamesa little, got a little mellow toe,
h ail 'ileh ,and thitiiV;Ut eutirse.—in fact, I know not what
Well, turning down; front Holborn he diSlodgeil his dear relations
all, . •
Who, awful to relate, its gutter took their stations
And, after such ablution—don't you weep for their condition ?
Pedestrian and pensive, reached the Royal Exhibition,
Run, neighbours, run, &c.
Just then two artists or renown, with legs exceeding black, Sir,
Had tried their skill on two old maids, whose stockings were
as blue, •:
[ Viz. fleeced them of their reticules} and turning round their
backs, Sir,
Espied the Dobson flintily rich clearly as a Jew;
One sharper instant points to "Richmond Hill" us truly' glorious,.
Old Dobson wipes his glasses, while' the other with notorious
Dexterity, effects an illegitimate divorce, Sir,
Between his wedded watch and fob.—but these are things of
course, Sir.

'Run, neighltours, run, &c.

He stormed aloud, the Dobson I thrust his hands within his
pockets, Sir,
Od rot 'em all (he said) to dare affront a man like me,
But, oh I thought his eyes would sure have started from their
Sockets, Sir,
When neither purse, nor pocket, no, nor lining could he see;
He summoned all his elan, then off he stalked in stern ferocity ;
Astounded (as I was myself) at such a bold atrocity,
Nor !lid his wrath abate at borne, 'till Moll, his favourite dough:-
ter, Sir,
Had mollified its bitterness with pipes and gin and water, Sir.
Run, neighbours, run, &c,
Now had these good folks staid at home, the daughters in the
kitchen all, •
The father at the counter with' a pen behind his cur,
And brother Toni arranged his debts, instead ales! of ditching all
•Ilia kinsfolk—they had,itever seared their Eastern hemis-
phere—
But no—lis not in man to be content, lie covets ever
That chiefly which he feels is far beyond his best endeavour ;
The cit would play the lord, and the lord be sore offended, Sir,
Should he grasp no ducal coronet, ere " life'r poor play were
ended," Sir.

Run, neighbours, run, &c.

ANGLO CHILIAN MINING SCHEME.
Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders in this scheme was
held et the London Tavern, to consider the state of their affairs.
The sums obtained by deposits is no less than 76,9001. Prom
IS to 20,0001. was expended. in outfit, and in all upwards of
50,0001. had been employed by the Directors. Out of the 16,000
shares, no less then • 6,064 were declared liable to forfeiture by
the non-payment of the last call of 31. per share. Bills to the
amount of 44,0001. had been drawn upon them by Mr. Cald-
cleugh, the .CoMmissiuner to the Company in Chili, which' Bills
the Directors thought it was to the interests of. the Company
should be duly honoured. The non-payment of the depoeits
would prevent them doing so; and it was for the Shareholders to
consider whether those who had not paid should be allowed an
opportunity of nutking good their deficiencies., They recom-
mend the payment of the deposits. They represented the prospeeta of the Company as highly ,
hovantageous. They had chiefly traded.'
ine
ore,
'the nd svalueilver. ere to the value of ao,oooi. as well as copper
( to ef ,9:0,001.
was
now otE it, Way home, The
Directors bad rteeiTed no novices as
.to what the bills bad been
drawn for.
After some eintinients cn the conduct of the Commi"it'ner, '844
the ttesPe"ch" O" .tiql Probability a the success of the Company; port was auopted, A resolution was passed 'recommend-
ing- the Directors to " ellow!' the, Shareholders who had not
the last call, to pay up the 12th instant. paid

LONDON,
iVEDNESD.A Y EVENING, JUNE '7, 1 828,

Despatches have been received from Captain
FRANKLIN of the Arctic land expedition, dated at
Winter Quarters, Fort Franklin, Sept.
the summer, three expeditions, under Captain FRANK-
LIN, Lieutenant BACK, and Doctor Iti9NA R9soNi,
were made preparatory to the great objects to be under-
taken next year ; and the expedition under Captain
FRANKLIN, went to the mouth of Mackenzie river,.
which he found to discharge itself into an open sea.
There is one island near its mouth, called by Captain
FRANKLIN, Garry's Island; from the summit of this
island the Captain aaw.the sea to the Northward all
clear of ice or islands; to the westward he saw the
coast to a great distance, his view terminating at very
lofty mountains, which, he
.calculates, were in the '
Longitude of 130 deg. West.
The expedition would proceed early in, the spring
on its ulterior objects ; the Officers and men were all
well, and in high spirits at the favourable circumstances.
which had hitherto attended their proceedings

The Paris Papers of Sunday, and the Etoile dated
Monday morning, reached us last night. They con-
tain accounts from St. Petersburgh to The 23d ult.
chiefly relating to the death of the Empress Dowager.
This event was published by a Proclamation from the
Emperor NICHOLAS on the 21st, which will be found
in the extracts from the French Papers iii another
column. A belief is expressed, that the Coronation
would be deferred in consequence of the Empress's
death.

An article in the Etoile, dated Aleppo, INfarch the
I ith, gives an account of serious distnikowes which
*lied broken out in that city, in consequence of sotne
offence given to the Mussultnen by the Monks, and
Christian residents.,

The French news is of no interest. A petition was
reported at
Saturday in the . Chamber of Deputise;s,
c
from two individuals, praying the interference of Go.
vcrnment in behalf of the Greeks. After the reporter
had mode the following observations, vindicating the
policy of neutrality, the motion for passing to the
Order of the Day was carried.
•
A, Gentlemen—The interest with which the Chamber has heard
in a recent debate the eloquent expression of the sentiments which
the misfortunes of Greece inspire, proves that it is unanimous
upon this point. They are, in fact, unfortunate men; Christians,
who combat with courage, not to defend a political opinion, but to save their property, their lives, their religion. On seeing them
full by thousands under the sword of The Turks, who could refuse
his pity to so much auffering—his admiration to so much courage?
But the cause of Greece has served as a pretinee for some men to
attack the Government, and the Chamber has thought, with rea-
son, that it would not become the Government to meddle with
then attacks. It has thought that the silence of all the other
nations would be sufficient to justify the conduct of Government.
How, in fact, could France take upon herself to light the torch of
discord, and 'throw, perhaps, all Europe into a general war?
" These eonsiderations, Gentlemen, have determined us to pro-
pose to you, not to receive a proposition, which is not only the
expression of a sentiment of pity, but which would be, if taken
into consideration, the approval of a political system which 'pre-
sents the greatest danger."
.„,_,

The Mtremberg Correspondent to the 30th, and
the Allgemeine Zeitung to the 81st ult. have reached
ue. The former .contains an article from the Frontiers
of Poland, dated the 20th of May, stating that the
sentence of death, which bad been passed on some
of the parties implicated in the revolt at St. Peters-
burgh on the 26th of December, had been carried into
effect.

From the Elbe, 'reports are said to prevail that
Prussia, had imposed a very high duty on all articles
coming from Rolland, in consequence of the Govern.
meat of the Netherlands having persevere/Ain its oppo.
sition to the free navigation of the Rhine.
It is mentioned in an article dated Maine, May2s,
" that the fertilizing raine,And thunder stortns, middle
warm air of the preceding days, had again checked the
speculation's on high corn prices, which, in connexion
with the state of thins in England,
.sserned to be
tolerably. secure." It
_.is added, _" Every thing looks
admirably." , These papers contain no political news,.

The Etoilc, dated yesterday, reached us this morn.
by Express. It contains an article from' Madrid,
dated the 2Stl May, by which it appears that
Mme
movements had taken place at Ahneira.
In consequence of sn'onYmotis notic haulm),
es) hinting at *a insumc.
the part of aft) enemies of the tlsrone and
ti At t
A ay last, the Governor of Munn it
Tres adopt-
atirotgirra,ry nn