The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

DUTCH RUE NISH.

The receipts for the fortnight ending the 31st
July, 1865, amounted to £15,911, and for the cor-
responding period of last year to £14,841, showing
an increase of £1,070. The receipts since the com-
mencement of the present book year, on the Ist of
May, including the above, amounted to £78,797,
showing an increase as compared with the corres-
ponding period of last year of £8,575. The work-
ing expenses for the fortnight amounted to £4,892,
or 30.74 per cent., and for the corresponding period
of last year to £4,532, or 31.04 per cent., showing
an increase of £360. The working expenses from
the Ist of May to the 31st of July amounted to
£28,216, or 35.80 per cent. The working expenses
for the year 1864-65 were 3F82 per cent. of the
receipts.

IMPERIAL MEXICAN (LIMITED).
The first half-yearly meeting of this company
was held on Friday at the London Tavern—Mr. R.
W. Crawford in the chair.

The report, an abstract of which has appeared in
7 he Sun, was taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said that the people of Mexico continued to
take a great interest in the progress of the under-
taking, and the works were proceeding satisfac-
torily. The company had two lines open at the
present moment, one connecting the city of Mexico
with an adjacent town, and the other 48 miles in
length, running from Vera Cruz to the west part of
the country. The traffic on the Guadalupe line was
almost entirely confined to passengers, while the
traffic on the seacoast was chiefly carried on with
goods. The amount received per mile per week
on traffic on the suburban and Guadalupe line
was £36, while the goods traffic in every part has
yielded something in excess of that sum. This re-
sult would, he thought, be considered satisfactory.
With reference to the goods traffic on the line to
Vera Cruz, there were not less than six monthly
steamers arriving in the city from foreign places.
If the external commerce of Mexico was able to
sustain six steamers monthly. to Vera Cruz, with
which the company's line was connected, indepen-
dent of nearly 90,000- tons of merchant shipping
which visited the port, there must be an amount of
foreign traffic brought on the line which would re-
pay the expenditure incurred in the construction of
their railway. The proprietors of a short line of
railway connecting the station of the company in
the city of Mexico with its suburb, Tacubaya, had
proposed to transfer their property to the company
on terms to be hereafter settled. He would request
the shareholders to agree to the proposal, and
when the whole of the line came into their hands
the traffic would be such as to yield most
remunerative returns. They had a conces-
sion from the Government authorising them to
construct a street railway in the city of Mexico,
which in connection with their undertaking would
be productive of more advantage than if worked
separately by independent persons. They proposed
to adopt the system of locomotion which was used
in American cities generally. The directors had
entered into arrangements for expediting the con-
struction of the main line to the junction whence
the branch line would proceed to the city of Puebla.
It was highly desirable that they should get into pos-
session of the very large amount of traffic existing
between- Puebla and Mexico. The whole cost of
expediting the construction of the main line would
be about £200,000, and the result of that outlay
would be that the contractors would undertake to
complete the line between Mexico and the junction
by the middle of next year, and they would also
establish the communication between the junction
and the city of Puebla about the middle of next
year. They proposed raising money by debentures
for a considerable time. They apprehended the
Mexican contribution would be actually in excess
of what they believed at first it would be, and they
had no doubt the traffic on the new undertakings
would be ample.

Resolutions were passed adopting the report,