The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-08 00:00:00

MEETING OF LIBERAL MEMBERS
A very numerous meeting of Liberal Members
of Parliament was held, at three o'clock on Saturday,
at Lord John Russell's house, in Chesham-place.

We understand that the subject of their delibera-
tions was the course to be taken with regard to the
Coercion Bill and the Sugar Duties.
The meeting was attended by Lord Palmer-
ston, Lord Morpeth, Mr. John Hobhouse, Mr.
Macaulay, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Sheil, Mr.
Bright, Mr. T. Duncombe, Mr. Ward, Mr.
Flume, Sir Thomas Wilde, Sir W. Somerville,
Mr. Wakley, Sir Charles Lemon, and a great num-
ber of otber Members of every shade of opinion in
the Liberal party.
We understand that the meeting was unanimous,
with the single exception of Lord Clements, in de-
termining to resist the second reading of the
Irish Coercion Bill, and quite united in sup-
porting a proposal of Lord John Russell's for
an extinction at no distant period of the differential
duty in favour of colonial sugar, accompanied by ef-
fective measures for the promotion of immigration of
free labour into the West India colonies.

Among those who addressed the meeting were
Lord John Russell, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Bright, Mr.
Hume, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and Mr. Ward.
The meeting lasted rather more than an hour.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000
bales, including 1,000 on speculation.
In the usual return, issued by the Bank of England, the
following was the more important changes in the various
departments, as compared with last week's statements. An
increase in the notes issued of 287,015/, or to 27,993,880/.
A decrease in the Rests of 47,158/. The public De-
posits show an increase of 419,457/., now amount-
ing to 5,228,640/. In the other deposits there
is an increase to 16,165,620/. In the amount of bullion there
is an augmentation rather over 14,608,0971., or more by
423,421/. Upon the whole, the present return may be con-
sidered as a very favourable one, as respects the state of the
currency. With the present favourable appearance of the
growing crops, and the stock of foreign grain on hand,
stated at over two millions of quarters, there cannot be any
sudden derangement of the circulation of the Bank of Eng-
land or its branches; unless, indeed, the weather should be
such in the autumn as to damage the crops, which are now
represented, from all sections of the United Kingdom, as
being most luxuriant and promising.
There have not been any arrivals from the Colonies to-
day of late dates.
The market for Consols is very firm this morning at 97
buyers and sellers ex. div. There have been a few private
bargains in the Three per Cent. Consols fbr the first transfer
day next week at 961 with the dividend. The premium
upon Exchequer-bills has fluctuated from 16s. to 225. Bank
Stock at 2053/4.
About half-a-dozen bargains have been transacted in the
Foreign Securities this morning. The Spanish Three per
Cents. have remained at 37%, the Mexican Deferred at 171,
Chilian Deferred at 504, and Belgian Four per Cents.
at 96%.
The Railway Share market is again in a dull state, and
business is very slack indeed.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 205% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95% 95%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96%7% % 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97% % 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, MO .. 101,4 1034
Consols for Opening .. .. .. .. .. 95% %ex div 95%
Exchequer Bills. l%d. 110.
1,0001... .. .... 16 22 pm. 22
5001. . .. ... 16 22 pm. 22
Ditto. Small .... 16 22 pm. 22
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chß= Bonds, 6 per Cent .. .
Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent .. 50%
Mexican Bonds, 1537, 5 per Cent • •
Ditto, for the Account .. ..
Ditto, Deferred 175‘, 16A,
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • •
Ditto, for the Account 50
Ditto, 4 Der Cent •• •• •• •• 50
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • •
Ditto, Passive Bonds 5 ki
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. • • 37% 37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.

Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 96% 96%
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60 60
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SH PAID. DONE AT
ARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Buckinghamshire 425. .... % .• % dis.
Caledonian .. 10 .... 11%.. 11%
• . 11%
Ditto, Extension .. 2;4 .... 1% 1%
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. ..
Chester and Holyhead .. • .. 22% 21% 34
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5 4 .... 3 . .
Direct Northern .. 234 —1%
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165..... 23% % ........ 2334
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. %p • •
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 1%
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... .. •••• • • ..
Ditto 14 Shares .. .. 10 .... 17
Ditto New '4 Shares.. .. 12% .. • ..... 1834
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2
Goole, Doncast., and ,hettleld, &c. 42e. % di5....... % dis.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .. • 234
Great Western .. .. 85 ......
Quarter Shares .. ... . . . 16%
Leicester and Birmingham .. 223. •• .. 74 dis
Leicester and Bedford .. 223..... ;;; 14 p...... p
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 423. • • . dls dls
London and Birmingham . —lOO 228% ...... •• .. 22834
Ditto Thirds .. 24 .... 62% • • ....
London and Blackwell, .. 161. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, New .. • • • • 2% • • ... • • ... • • 334
London and Brighton .. • • • • 50 • • • 6534 6514
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d.
London and South-Western • • 411. 6s. 10d... ........ _
Ditto, New Congo'. Eighths .. 34 ....
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 17% .... 29%
Londonand York .. • • • • ..
London and Windsor • • • • ..
Lynn and Ely .. • • • • • • 15
Manchester and Leeds .• • • • • 82
Ditto Extension .. 425..... 2 2% p
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4
14
Do. Cont. and Welsh Junction 1%
m Manchester,jdi
an
d. .. . .. .. ..
Ditto, New • • • • • •• 18 ••• • 31
Newcastle end Berwick • • •• 15 25
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1%
North British .. .. • • 2234 2934
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • •
8,i•••• 11%•••
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1%
North Kent and Direct Dover •• .
1%
North Staffordshire - • • • • • 423. •• • • 3% 4 p 4
Scottish Central .. • • • • • 10.. • 16 15% • • 153

P

• .. as
Ditto New . .. • • • • • • 2% •• • • —.. • • • 7
South Midland .. .. .. .. 425. .. . % % dis :... % dis
South Eastern and Door • • • • 33% .... 3884 3934
Do., New (d 0.33/. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 13% .......... 13N
Ito., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 1814........ •. 1814
Staines and Richmond .. • • • • 1 . 5.
Warwickshire and London .. 425..... ;ii dis
Welsh Midland .. .. • • • • 2% .• • • 1 ..i —.. • • .... 1
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. .. .. 2!... P•• ... 2N P
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. . • •. 12 .... 11 !.4 .
ford., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .. .. ..
.. .. ..
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .. .. ..
..
.. ..
Central of Spain .. .. .. .. 2 .. .. 17e 2 2
East Indian .. . .. .. .. ss, .... %T.„ .. _

Luxembourg
1 I(
Sambre and Berdeaux 6 ...... • • • •
Orleans and Meuse .. 8 ........ • • 5
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... .. •• • • 6

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Londonand Westminster .. .. 20 .. •• • • 26

MINES.

Real del lifotite, Unregistered —33 A 4

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LEEDS, JUNE 5.
STOCK EICIIANGI.-The sales are-Huddersfield and Sheffield,
6% p. cash-Leeds and Dewsbury, 2 p.-Ditto, Branches, 4 p.-Lon-
don and Brighton, 15% p.-North British, Carlisle Branch, 81. 6d.
P.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 16s. 6d. dis. -Essex and Suffolk,
15s. dia.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dls. -Leeds and
York, 295. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, ss. Gd. p. -Lincoln, York,
and Leeds, 235. dis.-London and York, 6s. dls.-Manchester, Bux-
ton, Matlock, and Midland, 17s. 6d. p.- Northumberland and Lan-
cashire Junction, 17s. dis.-North Staffordshire, W. 17s. P.-North
Western, % p.-Welsh Midland, 265. dia.-West Sliding Unto; 41.
!U.-York and Carlisle, 1% dls.
HULL, JUNE 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North British, Carlisle, 325. 6d.
-Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 125.-Buckinghamshire, 425.
-Chelmsford and Bury, 11e. 3d.-East Limolnshire, 195.-East
Coast, 16s. 6d.-Grand tinion, 13s. 6d.-Hull and Barnsley Junction,
28s. 3d.-Leicester and Bedford, 275.-London and York, 2%-Lon-
don and Manchester (Rem.), 155.-Ditto (Rastrick), -Mallon
and Driffield Junction, 475. 3d.-North Staffordshire, 51. 19s. 6d.
-North Kent, 275.-Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 24g.
-Rugby and Huntingdon, 235, 9d.-South 311u1and, 321.-West
Riding Union, 41. 13s. 6d.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JrWE 5.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—North British, Halves, Car-
/isle, Bs. p.—Newcastle and North Shields, 66.
HUDDERSFIELD, JUNE 5.

STOCK EXCBANOE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Berwick,
25% —Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, B%—Huddersfield,
Halifax, and Bradford Union, 31. 19s. 4d.—North Staffordshire, 6%
p.— Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, I%—London and York, 2
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield. 15s. 6d.—West Riding Union, 41. 18s.
YORK, Jura 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 11. 3s.—lpswich and Bury, 6—Leicester and Bedford, 1%—
London and York, 2IA —Melton and Driffield Junction, 2/. 7s.—
Newcastle and Darlington Extension, 9%—North British, Carlisle
Extension, 11. 13s. —North Western, 11. Bs.—Welsh Midland, IL 3e.
West Riding Union, 41. ISs. 6d.—York and North Midland, New
(East and West Riding), 11%.
EDINBURGH, JUNE 3.

STOCK ExcuANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, Bauff, and Elgin,
258.—Airdrie and Bathgate, 625. 6d.—Caledonian Extension, 325.
Carnwath and West Linton, 22s.—Direct Northern, 385.—East Indian
Railway, 14s. 9d.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 751.—Edinburgh and
Leith Atmospheric, 18s. 9d.—Edinburgh and Northern, 51. 103.
Ditto, Newport, 15s.—Forth and Clyde Junction, 375. 6d.— Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 42s 6d.—lnverness and Elgin, 21s. 3d.—
North British, Extension to Carlisle, 32s.—Shrewsbury and Hereford,
98.—Stirling and Dunfermline, 31s.

GLASGOW, Jura 4.
STOCK Excungaz.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate,
65s.—
Clydesdale Junction, 13/.—East Indian Railway, !U.—Glasgow Ge-
neral Terminus, 9%—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 3134
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 43s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and
Ardrossan, 30s. 6d.—Lanark and Lothians, 445. —Lesmahagow, 474.
6d.—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 30a. 6d.—South Mid-
land, 295.

A STEAMER ON FIRE IN THE RIVER.-011 Friday
morning, about five o'clock, an alarming fire broke out on
board a large steam towing-vessel, called the Trinity (master,
James Read), while proceeding up the river off Rotherhithe,
with a cargo of salmon for Billingsgate, which she took on
board near Gravesend, from a disabled smack. The fire, it
appears, broke out in the engine-room, and extended eo
rapidly that the engineer and stoker were compelled to make
a hasty retreat on deck. All attempts to extinguish the
flames at that juncture proving ineffectual, the anchor was
dropped, and the Thames police were dispatched for the float-
ing engine, lying higher up the Pool. It was speedily brought
alongside and got into operation. The flames, however, still
extending, it was determined to scuttle her, which was quickly
done, and by that means the fire was subdued. On the tide
receding she was got higher on shore, when her damage was
found to be very considerable. It is supposed to have origi-
nated with the Overheating of boilers.
HERRING TRADE.—W MAT 28.—" There has
been a considerable importation of herrings from the Lews,"
says the John o' Groat Journal, "since our last publication,
and four vessels have been cleared out with cargoes for the
Baltic." There has been a great capture of cod and ling at
Stromness, and there is a large shoal of herrings on the
coast. There are also symptoms of a large shoal along the
Caithness shores, but the weather has prevented the boats
going out. The other day a boat's crew, belonging to Staxi-
goe, brought ashore no fewer than 350 cod. This was lite-
rally what the fishermen call " a good tide."