The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-26 00:00:00

RUSSIAN CONQUEST IN CENTRAL ASIA.

general Kaufmann, Governor-General of Turkestan,
has made the very important announcement that the
Russsian Government designs no further conquest in
Central Asia, and that a time of peace will now follow.
It is rarely, indeed, that Russian diplomacy, formidable
for its reticence, makes an admission of this kind, and
considerable value must be attached to it. Affairs in Cen-
tral Asia are now comparatively quiet.

RAILWAY ITEMS.—The Illinois Central Railroad
Company gives notice that theannual meeting of the Stock-
holders will be held at the office of the company, in
Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday, May 26th.—At a meet-
ing of stockholders of the East Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, in Reading, the directors were authorized to
declare a stock dividend of 100 per coat. clear of all
taxes, payable to stockholders on the 12th of May, and
also to leaie the road for nine hundred and ninety-nine
years to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany.
The track of the Crawfordsville Railroad is laid to within
six miles of Indianapolis, and the road is being rapidly
pushed to completion, as track layers are at work from the
junction with the Terre Haute Road to meet those from
the west of Eagle Creek—The St. Louis Republican
states that the work on the Rockford, Rock Island, and
St. Louis Road, between White Hall and Shipman,
is progressing rapidly, and cars are expected to be run-
ning between the above points by the lst of October,—
Articles of association for the Lake Michigan, iVabash, and
Cincinnati Railroad were filed April 28. The capital is
$3,000,000 ; John U. Pettit, of Wabash, is President.—F.
IL Delano, President of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Company, has purchased the iron for 115 miles more of
that road; 1,250 tons have been shipped by rail, and aeo
already at La Crosse, and 8,000 tons are to be shipped by
water. The iron is the English rail, and that which ar-
rives first is to be used to complete the road to the Big
Woods, and the whole 115 miles are to be laid this season.—
A contract has been signed with General E. F. Winslow,
of lowa, to build the long-talked-of railroad from Ashley
to Mount Vernon, Illinois. The contract provides that
Winslow shall complete the road by the Ist of
January, 1870.--The Burlington and Missouri Rail-
-1 road Company has just received from the United
States Government and State of lowa, 375,000
acres of land, lying within twenty miles of its road.—
The Free Railroad Act, which-has just been adopted by
the Ohio Legislature, is novel as a source of railway en-
terprise. It provides that " whenever in any city of the
first class, having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabi-
tants, the city council thereof shall, by a resolution passed
by a majority of the members elected thereto, declare it to
be essential to the interest of such city that a line
f railroad, to be named in said resolution, should
be provided between termini designated therein,
one of which shall be such city, it shall be lawful
for a board of trustee., and they are hereby autho-
rised to borrow as a fund for that purpose, not to
exceed the sum of ten millions of dollars, and to i 5400
bonds therefor, in the name of said city, under the corpo-
rate seal thereof, bearing interest at a rate not to.exceed
seven and three-tenths per centum per annual," and th it,
" whenever there shall be between the termini design ited
in any resolution passed under this act a railroad alreartly
partially constructed, or rights of way acquireddthiefroeroinr,
which can be adopted as a part of the line provir sins°
the
said resolution, the trustees of said line may p I
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un for' he Lie out
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tho Chairman of the Senate Coat!
Before the close of the last session of Congress,
D which had been
Globe, at an increase on the pro i 1, rates •
ing reneu ed the contract for puhrtisinh.iw, the debates in the
• , peculiarly interesting to pr, ss-
• tors of the Globe is .
, paid previously. One item of. the p. roiosals of the pro-
prietors
i The reporting autl composition are paid for re/ a-
-1 men. The Corgrossional Globe is printed from stereotype
plates.
rately. An allowance is made of 2} mills par p tge, and
the result is about $208,000. Deduct for paper $18,003,
and the press work alone amounts to nearly $160,000.
These rates would give eight cents for each copy, includ-
ing paper and press work, if this work were done at the
Government Printing-office.— Tribune.
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-1 commended by the medical profession in preference to French
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Lion. Quotations on application 'to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
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T HE ATR E-R 0 YAL, HOLBORN.
H. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN.
Legitimate Success !—Fourth Week of "MONEY.''
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL.
At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) of
MONEY,
Parry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George Roney, W. H. Stephens.
Charles Coglan, Lin Rayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur. and E;
Dyas; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Adis:, Louisa Thorne, and Mrs
Charles Horsmaa

j")OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
AI, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. '2 Luke
and Relford; Mesdames Berton and Hughes.
After which. JOAN OF ARC: (Messrs Thorne. James, Fen
ton, Turner, Chamberlaine; Mesdames Baton, L. Maitland, &c.
To conclude with HUE AND DYE