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

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

General tone of .Alarket firm. Sales, probably
6,000 or 7,000 bales.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Hallways. ~.--....:---,,,.....---......-...,
1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
£ £
Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,018 2.C66
Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 758 675
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,944 1,139
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214 6,910 6,579
Caledonian 252 2341 18,675 16.856
Coekermouth& Workington B4 8i 3t,3 237
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 902 415
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage si 61 2 4 233
Cork and Youghal 324 324 533 962
Cornwall 654 53i 1,904 1,619
Deeside l7 17 390 368

Dublin& BellastJunction 63 63 1,180 1,173
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,598 1.707
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l} 48} 2,763 2,505
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 169} 8,233 8.093
Furness, &c
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E. Union

Great Northern
353 351 31,063 26,312
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 2,131 2.157
(it. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 712 582 533
9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3735 329 8,789 8,144

Great Western 1056i 10561 64,515 61:376
Inverness & Aberdeen June— 861 862 1,356 1,2.:8
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 1,476
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,597 1,851
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 3954 31,303 44,416
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 219 162
Limerick and Foynes 26k 261 112 126
Llanelly 461 461 737 722
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,950 2,1E4
1
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 250 26,84 20,872
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 n 5,669 5 230
Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 65 1,4 9 66S
Han.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 1,369 2,796
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan . 3l 31 2,214 2,379
Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 641 630 34,199 43,317
Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind... 262. 2591 5,225 5,136

Alonkland
- -

71i 1,648 1:555

Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44- 14 2;515 i 2,506
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee

N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 1079 i 58,862 53,539
North London 9 9 3,122 3,568

North Staffordshire 254 254 7:582 8.951
Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 1,114 1,063

GRANT 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 Ccster, 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 PERMISSIVE 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, T. 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
.Tenkins, W. N. Molesworth, of Rochdale; Dr. Burns,
Dawson Burns, J. S. Workman, and S, 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-
ceptional 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 retiriug the deputation thanked his
his lordship for the courtesy and consideration which had
been extended to them.
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
it 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 dols. 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
shoes. 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 dole. 500.
Everybody talks about the gloomy prospects. Men
shake their heads and say, " What are we coming
to?" Others see hope 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
—within 200 miles of New York—in order to live
cheaper. Of these thousands are returning to get
a foothold in the city. They find food higher in
the interior than here. It is almost impossible to
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
street on paper. Tested by sterling bills or go t
profits fly off. The mining schemes and bubbles
Men
without out into magnificent proportions.
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 Giant
Killer was played at Niblo's
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houses
night,t especiallyoar great giant Grant. Murders
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keep up to the average standard. Not a day passes
without one or more murders,