The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-19 00:00:00

MURPHY'S POLITICAL AL/IfANACK.

PREFACE.-My political predictions of last week having been all ful-
filled to the letter, I am encouraged with a modest and becoming con-
fidence, to offer a few more for the present week. That they will prove
to tie equally correct with their predecessors, I have not the slightest
doubt, for they are based on scientific calculations, and we all know that
modern politicians proceed invariably on the most profound ;dentin
; I have said it: Quoth Richard Murphy,

MONDAY, TEL lOrst.
Tkis night O'Connell, with spleen O'creast,
Having had no fun for It fortnight past,
And dying for want of a skrimmage, will fat/
In his wrath upon Colonel Pcreeval,
Who, just as fond of a row, will reply
With proportionate ferocity.—
'Tis known however, despite their paiiefi
That Dan and the Colonel lore eadh °theft
(The latter esperially doats oh Dan
As David dotted oh Jonathan),
So, after a brisk setoo, when each,
From sheer ealhalistion, has lost his speech,
They'll both sit down looking vastly clever,
Shake hands, and be better friends than ever.
Tniassaa----20ru.
When St. Margaret's chimes ring evening out
On Tuesday night, there will be a rout
Of Members rushing across the floor,
With a natural wish to be first at the door--
See, with what nervous haste Lord John,
With Hobhouse beside bins, flies panting on,
While, Daniel, as I need scarcely raention.
Skips otter with visible apprehension ;
And the motionless Speaker, left alone.
Nits, like a Niobe, turned to stone !
'Tis Peter Borthwick will cause this slight,
By rising to speak about Milo at night;
He will clear the Homo in as great a hurry,
As once in Othello he cleared the Surrey, *
And address his speech more heavy than lead.
To benches as empty as S--hth—o's head!
WSDNESDAY, '2I BT.
To-night—the very thought ont'spleasant--
There will not be forty Members present,
So the Speaker with simpering looks and gay,
Will throw ole his wig and scamper away
(Taking big leaps like a boy at play)
To make the most of his holiday.
munsartsv
On Thursday night, like a shrewd taatidan,
Lord John will flirt 'with the Opposition ;
He will cast on Sir Bob a, languishing eye,
While Daniel and Duncombe cry out " Ofs fie!"
And smirk and look fond in the Baronet's face
With a sweet expression that promises place;
Whereupon Sir Robert will reply
With a glance of congenial coquetry;
But atom with a phiz o'ercast with gloom,
He will solemnly talk of his conscience, while Hume,
Turning to Wakley, will whisper, I weep,
" //is conscience: What can the fellow mean ?"
N.ta Meese—This scene of coy flirtation
Is meant, of course, for the good of the nation-
FRIDAY-23 D.
This night the Radicals, one and all,
Looking grave as Mutes at a funeral,
Will circulate divers grim jokes and Stories, •
Of a coalition 'twixt Whigs and Tories ;
Joe Home will sigh, and Wakley wiimper,
And Dan putting on a doubtful simper,
Will hint, in a whisper to the Tail,
" Now, boys, 'tis tine to think of Repale !".
Whereat each joint will begin to clatter,
Lite knives and forks on a pewter platter 1
LTU ADAM--24 TIE.
To-night the Speaker, all frolic and fun,
His senatorial labours done,
Will exclaim, with a House-of-Commons cough,
" Enough for the day is the dullness thereof,"
And then, dismissing his carce for a time,
Will probably go to the Pantomime!
* This eminent statesman once played Othello at the Surrey Theatre,
and played it with such incomparablealrollery and grotesqueness of ges-
ticulation, that a respectable married lady of the Jewish persuasion,
who chanced to be in the House at the time, miscarried from excl.'s; of
laughter.

1=1.•______........0•••m......
THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, E
TWEL V O'CLOCK.
We have received the Cape of Good Hope Gazette of the Sits Dec •
but it does not contain any news, being entiaely filled with acliertise-
ments. The ship letters from the East Indies are of old dates.
TIM FUNDS,
Although it is Monday morning, and double post day, when general,/
numerous arrivals are expected, we are greatly disappointed, for we have
very few. and of old date. In "consequence a very great dulness Pre'
veils in the City, as well CO a stragnation in the various funds, both
British and Foreign.
Consels opened this morning at the leaving-off' prices of Saturday.
921 1 for the Account, same for Money. Exchequer Bills, OS 57 ;
India Bonds, 55 57 ; Bank Stock, 203 206 ; India Stock, 264 i 263i,,' .
'
In the Foreign Market the same inactivity prevails as in the British; Spanish Active 191 4, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 2'41; Three .pet
Cents,
,18i Brasil 73i 74 ; Columbian, "i
Dutch, 53i i. i 28 ; Mexican,, 991 '
f vcs'or-
We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp 0- • ~
day's date, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 16th inst.
Half per Cents, &I 3.15; Five per Cents, 101 13.16.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
..---•
Bank Stock '2054. i India Stuck.
S per Cent. Sec! 0114 I,i,N 1 Ditto Bonds
.........
3 per Cent. Cons, 9.1304% South Sea Sc. k
314 per Cent-- „.. ........... Out Anrinities ... ...... ....„ ....-..
Ditto Red, lot% 1 4 New 0itt0....... ............... ~,, —. New 3 g per Cent MX, li iii 3 per Cent.. Annuities. 1751...
Two,ane a
New 5 per Cent.. - Exch. Billa, £l,oofl ......... 55 57 ova.
Rank LougAnnuitlestoexpire Ditto ..... ........500........ b', 57 pna.
Jan. 5. Mt..— ...... 15 ,Ii 3-16% Ditto Smil ................ 55 57 pm..
Oct, lu, 1,,50 — , Ditto Connaercial
JJan. 5, 13651 14 IS-16' Ditto Advertised'., ........... —pm
an. 5, 1880 ............. ....... Bank stock for Account ----
Jan.Aprii 5, 18.50...... .... ........ -- India Stock for Account —.•
b. lr'
- Consols fur Account

,873........,

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds 10(114
Belgian Bonds
.
Datio Account ...........
EXAsilianßonds
.. ... 7414
Ditto Account ............. -.71 33,a ...'itto New Bonds ......... .....
Buenos Ayres Bondi — Ditto Account
Ditto Account ~« .. Ditto, 3 per cent. liN
19
hillisin 80nd5...... .. .......... .. ..... Pincs:an Bonds ............ ....--
_.a.
CADitto Aczinint — i Re..sian Bonds, 1822.: .. .... •••••• ..-
Dututika Bonds ..... .........
_...
CoIIDO Accouiit ........ ...... ~ Ditto Metallic ....... .....
...., s., I
Diumbian Roads, it 124..... 27 , SPanish Bonds ....... ....... -
tto Account ....... .........;7%!0i Ditto Account ......
....,
Danish Bonds .... ...
Ditto Account ..».... — Ditto Aewrint l9%g
Greek n0n444....... . . ... . ........ French, 5 per cent.......... _l. ---
. ....
--.
l)(eka Bonds. 1825 — —— 4 per cent.......
... '
__e.
__J. -'•
Ditto Account - 3 per cent....,.....• , _..c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent -- ---• Eichl',re... .........
.....„ L.
DDitto Account
itto, 6 per cent. ...... 29% 1,4 . Ditto Acc0tur......... ....... _.-. Ditto Acc0unt,.............
....
N05p01itan.•......••••• ........... ..• .... i Mkt A'...comit
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY
per Share-
Paid.
3
Anglo Mexican Mining Conito,aity (iss. at 5/. pm.) 109
Brazilian Imperni I Minillil 1.,.. tim"..ed at 5/. pin.) 20
AT ONE O'CLOCK-
Ditto Masaubas Cootie* Co'
, . ...mi 4.4
1)i Bo St. John del Rey ... ..........................
9 4%
................... ~,
9d
British Iron Company ................... 0
.................. .
BBilrr,itllni,n4gt,hatimin
aainidd
GDieorubey.lsic;rowitlyZ:lyiv,:zzy„...... 2its) 17% 17 3'6'
9!4
4
Cheltenham a
las Gre4 Woistern Railway
Company. ......
foininercial l,all Railway Comp. y
6C to
Wit
r.aDuptelirn. acnodutail,i,:ent,zilwitaavilway
2 Ureat Wet;ila Hallway Com 3 15
larlahttle. Ital.way Companpany 65 ‘5 y
14 5
LoiniOai and hlackwail Itailway a
Ditto Scrip .............. 7.3 i 7...... .....
Lon inn and Birmingham Railway Coni.isany
29
Ditto 1,4 Shares ...... . • 5
London and Creenwich Railway Company 2tl 10% London and Soulhampton Railway Company 5O
41 40
London aacl Southampton (New) Railway a 22
M netiesiter and Birminghtun Railway 7 9%54
No,rtliesti and Eastern Railway Company
mann Midland Railway CsonpanY 25
8 suth Durham Railway Company 2%
South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 7
York and North Midland Railway Company l2
Colonial Bank
2:1
!'RILES O 1 OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 17.
'filer Cent. Consols 92 Grand Canal Dens. ii per cent. ill%
Ditto Reduced —l Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ........... 151,,
336 per Cent. stock 99%1 Ilibeinian Bank ..................... 2%
Ditto New. IS3) ........
g% tin' Cent. Debenture.
Bank Stock
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stuck 28% cent
• ......... -..--
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Very little doing in either or the Funds, although the British Market 1 at rather improved since the early part of the morning, from 92i 4 to
92i, at present 92i, sellers. Exchequer Bills, 55 57; India Boll*.
56 57; Bank Stock, 205* ; India Stock, 265.
No speculations of any consequence have taken place in the Eoreigp
Market during the morning : in the Foreign Securities, Spanish Active.
114 li, with Coupons; Portuguese Three per Cents, 18; McTican, 29i;
Columbian, 27- i Dutch Two-and.a.Half per Cents, 53 4; Bra-
zilian, 74 114.
Casuals Ihr Itte A,

Account 5 V
:HIS DAY AT ONE O,cLOCL-
Per Boar's
Ditto Account
Portuguese 2Son.le
Ditto '
Vitt-

Accet

-....
--

104

ut.s,2l THREE O'CLOCK.
c

-
TNE WEATIIIIN.—(From the provincisl papers of Seta"' day.)—The frost continues unabated. Last evening we had a violent
wind from the E.S.E. We are much afraid that we shall hear of some
disasters among the numerous vessels that are off the port. 1-10 T Majesty's mail-packet had not, we understand, arrived a late hour.--
Liverpool Chronicle.
et,
Tuii EATIIER.—In tho course of the week we haVt.),
experienced frost in great rigour. Last night the wind because ver3
boisterous, which has had the effect of raising the sea, and several v 4-1-
sels which left this harbour yesterday have returned. The thermometer
to.day stands at the freezing point.—Berwick Advertiser.
The weather, which had been for many days
piercing
cold, assumed a still severer character yesterday afternoon, and, as night
approached, every door was closed, and every precaution used to
mak!,
all tight within. The streets are quite deserted, and the thoughts ni
what occurred in the winter of 1836-7 filled many a mind with anxiouC
apprehensions of shnilar disasters. In fact, no one's windows sir
can possibly be expected to ride out, and so shifting
is the wind, that
chimney-stacks appeared secure. Such a storm as now rages, no coaster,
there can scarcely be safe navigation any where. In short, this Is alto-
gether the severest weather we ever remember to have experience
The Quicksilver snail, which comes by way of Plymouth,
has alone
arrived, and we must not expect further arrivals till the storm abates,
chance of being
fur the coach that can make its way through the snow stands a go"
and of course, no bUsluess is doing.—Cornwall Gazelle.
upset by the tempest. The :hops in Truro are clawed..
country
Flocks of Swear have been seen in various parts of the
`During the whole of this week, the weather has been
y; not once thawing except where the Sun's rays could penetrate.
there it was but Llightly, for by the time the Sun was near the tre*-
tern laorisen the ground was again hard and crisp, and the nights have
been very cold ; the mean temperature of this week, compared with also
corresponding week of last year, is I 8 degrees colder.—en'aridgC
Chronicle.
On Thursday yea, 130 carp, tench, and chub, and
29 eels, were taken In a small spring of water, about a yard and s hale
'iint*.t, CI the bead of a
sheet of water at the front of Brawith
u4.4r Thirsk, where they had been fumed up for air, owing to the in-
tense frost prevailing at that, Walt\ Many of the eels weighed upward,
of 3lbs. each,
0411,U(V,i FlstirNG.,--rriday was the first tiny for result,-
lAg the Tweed fisheries, but in consequence of the shore being covered
Vi'itti Ice, operations were confined to a few stations. At Norhato,
st tiara called Canny caught two s.almon and a trout yesterday, and this
afternoon throe of
""`Bertek4 4dvertek.er,
the statious below the bridge caught one twat each.