The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE:

ILLINOIS CENTRAL—The financial statement for the
month of October showed that in the land department the
company had sold 9,135 acres for $109,916, and that the
cash collected during the month had been $209,625. in
the railway department the traffic receipts amounted for
the month of October to $621,849, against $661,391 in the
same month of 1861, shoWing a decrease of $39,512.
SUCCESS OF TIIE PACIFIC RAILWAY. We are grati-
fied to learn that the business of the Pacific Railroad,
since its completion to Kansas City, has surpassed
all expectations. The earnings for October were over
$205,000, and for November will be still larger. The
rolling stock of the road is not sufficient for the enormous
business which has been thrown upon it. Ono of the
directors, Mr. Wm. M. M'Pherson, is now in the East
with authority to make contracts for new engines and cars
to the amount of $600,000, which, it is hoped, will enable
the company to satisfy its patrons who are now complain-
ing of the want of sufficient facilities for forwatding
freight and passengers. We learn in addition that several
first-class coaches will be added to the road during the
present winter, which will lessen the crowding which is
now experienced upon every trip. Several fine sleeping
coaches designed for this road are now in course of con-
struction at Dayton, Ohio. In the spring it is the in-
tention of the company to run two through express trains
daily between St. Louis and Kansas City, enabling pas-
sengers to take their choice, to travel by daylight, or leave
hero in the afternoon and wake up at daylight in Kansas
City. This additional express train we believe will prove
a decided success and add immensely to the profits of the
road.—Missouri Democrat.

The half-yearly interest of the seven per cent.
loans of the Bay of Havana and Matanzas Railway and
those of the Matamoras and Sabinella Railroad will be paid
December 15, at the counting-house of Messrs. P. Henry
Schroder and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street.

The projected railroad between the city of Mexico
and Vera Cruz is 262 miles long. It was laid out by
colonet A. Talcott, an American engineer, and is being
constructed under his supervision with English capital.
The Baltimore Sun says of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad that there are now over 7,000 persons em-
ployed in the various departments. All the double track
on the main stem from Monocacy to North Mountain, and
on the western end of the road that had been destroyed
during the war, is now replaced, and much more double
track and sidelings have been added between Ellicott's
Mills and Martinsburgh. Large workshops at Martins-
burgh, Harper's Ferry, and other points, are in rapid
course of construction. The average amount of coal
brought to that city by the company reaches the extra-
ordinary figure of 70,000 tons per month. The freight
trains from the West number seven or eight every twenty-
four hours, and these are filled with all the products of the
West and Sooth-west.

The first sod of the European and North
American Railway, connecting Maine and New-Brunsvvick,
was turned on the 9th of November. The road will place
all the railway communications of the United States end
Canada in connection with Halifax bY a shorter, easier,
and more populated, and, in respect to climate, in a much
better line than any which has yet been surveyed. The
occasion was graced by the presence of the Ex-Premier
and of the present Premier of New Brunswick. The con-
tract has been awarded to the Maine Company, who have
undertaken the construction of the railroad in the Stato of
Maine.

The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company
have just executed a deed of trust for $30,000,000 to John
R. Pent, of the city of Now York. Under the Internal
Revenue laws this deed requires $30,000 worth of revenue
stamps. The company endeavoured to have the deed
made valid by affixing $l,OOO worth of stamps, but the
Revenue Commissioner has decided that nothing less than
the full amount will answer. An important suit to foreign
bondholders has just been decided 'at Baltimore. A Mr.
Jackson, a British subject resident in Ireland, holds bonds
of the Northern Central Railroad, running between Balti-
more and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The company Paid
him the interest, less 5 per cent., deducted to pay tb°
income tax levied by the United States. Mr. Jackson
brought a suit in the United States Circuit Court at Balti-
more to recover the 5 per cent., and did recover it
Chief Justice Chase, who presided, decided that American
tax laws imposed no income tax on foreign bondholders
This decision is of great interest to all foreign holders of
American securities.
The receipts of the Union Pacific Railway, E.D.,sverage
$l,OOO a day. On several occasions they have ran UP to
$1,700 a day. When it is remembered that the.-egion be-
tween Kansas City and Lawrence is bit recently
settled, and comparatively sparsely populated some idea
of tho futuro business of a road, a forty-mile division Of
which earns $l,OOO a day, may be formed. This road is
now graded toTopolca, and will in a fow months be in ope
ration to that point. In less than a year if will reach Fort