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

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

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

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Mlles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1864.

1863.

1864. 1863,

Belfast and N. Counties 136 13t:
Belfast and Couuty Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28

X •
2,018 2,C66
758 675
1,944 1,139
*,9;0 6,579
18,675 16.856
3.3 237
402 415

,iyth and Tn,
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214
Caledonian 252 234}
Cockermouth& Workington &4 84
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6} 6}
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 654 534
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l} 48
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 169}
Furness, &c 5O 50
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 714 711
54.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3734 329
Great Western 10564 10564
Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 864
Inverness & Perth Junction 119}
Irish North-Western 145 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 395}
Limerick and Ennis... 244 244
Limerick and Foynes 264 261
4134

2 4 233
533 462
1,906 1.619

390 368
1,180 1,173
1,598 1.707

287 192
2,763 2,506
8,233 8.093
3,432 3,138
10, 58 8,18.4
20,096 31,2(2
31,063 26,312
2,131 2.157
582 533
8,789 8,144
64,515 61,376
1,356 1,2.8
1,476
1,597 1,851
3J,303 44,416
219 162
1.2 126

Llanelly 46/ 46i
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &B. Coast 261 2501
London, Chatham, & Dover 72k 72*
Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 ok
Man.,Sheffield,&Lincolnsh
Blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9 9}
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 3l 31
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 610
Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind 262 2594
Monkland 714 714
Monmouthsh. Bail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth

737 722
103,832 101,181
1,950 2,184
83,u56 21,881
26,8.4 20,872
5,669 5 23)
1,4 9 660
15,172 17 831
1,3r9 2,796
1,761 1.351
2,214 2,379
33,199 43,317
5,225 5,136
1,648 1.555
2,85 k 2,305

and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 1095 10791
North London 9 9
North Staffordshire 254 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O 42

13,289 12.173
86,862 53,539
3,122 3,568
7,582 8.951
I,la 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-
t.ome 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 Cater, the bed bug :exterminator ; he too
prooses 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 BILL.---Yesterday Lord Pal-
n:crston received a numerous deputation from the
Unites Kingdom Alliance. The interview took place at
his lordsh.p's residence in Piccadilly; and the object of the
deputation we., to solicit his lordship to support the second
reading of Mr .awson's and Mr Bazley's Intoxicating
Liquors Bill in the Zouse of Commons to-day. The de.
putation was headed by Lxd Calthorpe, and consisted Of 51
gentlemen, including Messrs B. Whitworth, 'l'. Clegg,
Councillor Thompson, 11. B. AddiNn, S. Pope, J. H. Raper
and T. H. Barker, of Manchester; 17. Saunders, of Ply-
mouth; J. Guest, of Rotherham ; G. Tatham, of Leeds ;
W. H. Higginbottom, of Bolton; W. iloyls, 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
jenkins, 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 retiring 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. Thera are many
of our citizens who have long foreseen the gloomy
state of that which is about to come upon us. Look
ut 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 pf 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 ono way or the other.
This makes consumers and manufacturers anxious
to buy. Shoes that cost in 1860 1 dol. sc. now sell
for 5 dols. 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. 50e.
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 cc ffee, or in icecream, one i l
fe
liable to die by means of the mineral substancureleft
in the stomach. Fortunes are still made in a
street on paper. Tested by sterling bills or gold the
profits fly off. The mining schemes and
bubblesAien
swell 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 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 more murders,