The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

1134 13
1314 30;

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

General tone of Market firm. Salo, probably-
-6,000 or 7,000 bales.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DIIE.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton June IS.
a 'Marseilles June 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, byvi British packet. July 5.,
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 29.
China, Penang-, and Singapore, via Southampton June 18.
via Marseilles June 12„

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton June
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, rig Southampton Junel&
via Marseilles June 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton June 11.
Portu via Marseilles Jane 20.
gal ....
July 5.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 11.
Newfoundland via Marseilles July 5
Oporto and Vigo June 16.
.............
U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet June 16.
by U.S. packet
by Canadian packet June 10.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, California. and British Columbia..... June 10........

RACING FIXTU
Jun
Newton
Odiham
Bibury
Beverley 22
Stockbridge

RES FO) C 1864.

Chelmsford 2B
Ne weastle-on-Tyne .. • 2B
New Forest Hunt 2B
Ipswich .. 3O
Worcester (Summer) 3O

JULY.
Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Liverpool July
Stamford l4 Goodwood ...... 26
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RANT FIGHTING IT OUT "ON THIS LINE !"
" Manhattan " says :—Grant's memorable speech
completely shading the remark of the Duke of Wellington at
Waterloo, " Up Guards, and at them"), " I propose to fight
it out on this line, if it takes me all this summer," has be-
come a heading for everything. Brandreth heads his pill
advertisements with it. Bryant's Ministrels announce it
in negro talk. Omnibus lines, in announcing the lowering
of fares to six cents., say, " We propose to fight it out on
this line." I see advertisements quote it, and so does the
announcement of Coster, the bed bug :exterminator ; he too
proposes to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer
and the roaches, and moths, and other things, will feed it
THE PERMISSITE BlLL.—Yesterday Lord Pal..
merston received a numerous deputation from the
United Kingdom Alliance, The interview took place at
his lordship's residence in Piccadilly; and the object of the
deputation was to solicit his lordship to support the second
reading of Mr Lawson's and Mr Bazley's Intoxicating
Liquors Bill in the House of Commons to-day. The de-
putation was headed by Lord Calthorpe, and consisted of 51
gentlemen, including Messrs B. Whitworth, I'. Clegg,
Councillor Thompson, G. B. Addison, S. Pope, J. H. Raper
and T. H. Barker, of Manchester ; W. Saunders, of Ply-
mouth; J. Guest, of Rotherham; G. Tatham, of Leeds;
W. H. Higginbottom, of Bolton ; W. Hoyle, of Bury ;
Edward Whitwell, of Kendal ; W. J. Clegg and Joseph
Pearson, of Sheffield ; W. Campbell, H, Dyson, and G.
Ward, of Leeds; the Revs. the Hon. Leland Noel, Canon
:enkins, W. N. Molesworth, of Rochdale; Dr. Burns,
Dawson Burns, J. S. Workman, and 5, Schadhorst ; Pro-
fessor Newman, and several gentlemen connected with the
metropolis. Having been introduced by Lord Calthorpe,
whom Lord Palmerston recognised and shook heartily by
the hand, Mr Pope stated the object of the deputation, and
presented to his lordship a memorial representing that there
was a strong feeling against the present licensing system,
and a prevalent conviction that strong drink was an ex-
eeptional article of trade, that many landowners had stopped
the sale of it on their estates ; and that agitation had proved
that the people were prepared for the Intoxicating Liquors
Bill, which the memorialists prayed Lord Palmerston and
the Government to support. Mr Pope was followed by
the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, who spoke for the manufac.
turing districts; Mr Saunders, of Plymouth; Mr Tatham,
of Leeds; Professor Newman, the Rev. H. Gale, and Mr.
Raper. Lord Palmerston listened to all with marked at-
tention and evident interest, and elicited several pertinent
explanations ; and on retiring the deputation thanked his
his lordship for the courtesy and consideration which had
been extended to them.
BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.--Last evening the ap.
proaches to old Blackfriars Bridge were intercepted on both
sides of the river by barricades, and the pavement for a
short distance was taken up, with a view to prevent the
passage of traffic over the bridge, preparatory to its destine.
tion being commenced this morning.
In addition to the legacy of 10,000 f. made by M.
Meyerbeer to the Association of Musical Artists, a donation
of a similar amount has been left by him to the Association
of Dramatic Authors and Composers, as announced by
Mme. Meyerbeer in a letter to M. de Saint• George, the
president of that institution.
NOT DEAD YET. By J. C. Yeaffreson, Author of
"Live it Down," &c. 3 vole.--" This is a very clever
novel. There is a hearty pleasant tone throughout, and
the interest is sustained from the very first to the very last
page. The characters are sketched with a masterly hand.
Rupert Smith, the man about town.' plausible schemer,
and thorough villain; Edward Smith, the artist, as pure
and noble-minded a character as novelist ever depicted; Sir
Frank Starling, the hard unforgiving old baronet ; Mr.
Purfleet, the family solicitor ; John Harrison Newbolt, the
Radical Boanerges of the House of Commons, who buys
pictures as an investment, and thus becomes the patron of
Edward; his daughters Ida and Florence; the rollicking
but right-hearted medical man, Nat Savage ; pretty Kitty
Kent, Rupert's victim ; Dick O'Mulligan, the fortunate
digger—are all true to the life, and could only have been
depicted by one who is quite familiar with all the various
aspects of modern society."— United Service. Magazine,
GALLANT EXPLOIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE
CONFEDERATE ARMY.—Nov. 18, 1863.—We drove
the enemy to-day from his advanced lines in front of Knox..
ville, close under his works. This sortie was the occasion
of one of those dashing feats of individual gallantry which
demands a passing notice, A breastwork was charged by
our infantry. They winced under the galling fire of the
enemy and wavered, when Captain Stephen Winthrop,
formerly captain in her Britannic Majesty's 22d Foot, who
had joined our ranks and was on duty in Alexander's
Artillery Battalion, stationed several hundred yards from
the scene of conflict, mounting his horse and dashing across
the plain—the only horseman in the melee—rode in advance
of the wavering line up to the very works of the enemy. A.
hundred rifles were lowered upon him, but he moved on,
and rallied the wavering line; the work was carried, and
Winthrop borne away with a Minie ball through his shoul-
der, his sword scabbard broken by another, and the point of
his sword cut off by another. His escape was miraculous,
but he is doing well, and will soon again report for duty.
—Richmond Enquirer of Feb. 16, 1864.
A NICE STATE OF THINGS (according to " Man•
hattan").—Look at our position truthfully, and you
will see that I have described it. There are many
of our citizens who have long foreseen the gloomy
state of that which is about to come upon us. Look
IA the gold market. Up, up—nearly at its highest
point again. In vain the Government buys largely
of exchange, and throws it upon the market
at a losing price to keep down gold; it has
no effect. Gold rises, or rather greenbacks are
going down. All kinds of merchandise is rising.
Merchants refuse to sell goods at any price,
and will not until the fight in Virginia between
Grant and Lee is settled one way or the other.
This makes consumers and manufacturers anxious
to buy. Shoes that cost in 1860 1 dol. sc. now sell
for 5 dole. Boots made for 5 dole. now sell for

12 dole. It is so with every article that is sold.
If this goes on few will be able to wear boots and
sho2s. We shall have to step into sabots as they
do in Holland, though wood is so high that a pair
of wooden shoes would cost about 3 dots. 50c.
Everybody talks about the gloomy prospects. Men.
shake their heads and say, " What are we coming
to?" Others see live in the prospect so cheeringly
and so constantly announced in the daily papers
when Grant shall have captured Lee. But this has
been
so
often repeated that it is an old story. Tens
of thousands have left this city for the country
mites of New York—in order to live
cheaper. Of these thousands are returning to get
foothold
h
iontteordio in
than the
city.
They find food higher in
here. It is almost impossible to
ol
get board anywhere. Proprietors are afraid of the
rise in articles. Everything is adulterated. Pow-
dered white sugar is unsafe to buy. A heavy white
substance that sells cheap by the ton, is mixed
with sugar, and sold for genuine, so that to use
the article in tea or coffee, or in icecream, one is
liable to die by means of the mineral substance left
in the stomach. Fortunes are still made in Wall.
street on paper. Tested by sterling bills or gold the
prof ts fly off. The mining schemes and bubbles
swell out into magnificent proportions. Men
without a dollar have become rich by mining
stocks. All who are interested in the places of
public amusement are getting rich. Those places
are crowded every night. It seems as though our
citizens throng to them to drive away care, and I
judge it is so, because the more foolish the amuse-
ment the larger the crowd. If Jack the Gient
Killer was played at Niblo's it would draw crowded
houses every night, especially if the actors could
sing an allusion to our great giant Grant. Murders
keep up to the average standard. Not a day passes
without one or mote murders.