The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-04 00:00:00

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

The report of the directors states that the earnings
for the year 1866 amounted to $6,546,741, showing
a deficit as compared with 1865 of $634,467. The
expenses were $4,371,294, being $634,990 less than
in 1865 ; and the net earnings were $2,175,447,
against $2,174,924 in 1865. The passenger traffic
for the past half-year was $1,987,706, and for 1865
$2,722,262, showing the deficit in gross earnings to
be entirely in the passenger traffic, arising from the
effects of the late war. During the past year in
addition to the payment of interest on funded debt
and state tax, amounting to $1,306,995, they had
paid two dividends of 5 per cent each in February
and August, amounting with Government tax to
$2,459,679, and commenced the present year with a
balance in hand of $2,029,320, out of which the
dividend of February the Ist had since been paid,
leaving a balance of about $BOO,OOO. The total
amount of funded debt on the Ist of January was
$12,144,000, showing a reduction of $187,500. From
collections in the land department $993,500 con-
struction bonds were cancelled. The amount of can-
celled bonds on hand at the close of the year was
$3,084,334, of which $1,890,000 were in advance of
collections. The collections in the land department
were $2,056,206, and the expenses $106,617. The
operations of the laud department were quite satis-
factory, the sales being, for the year 1866, 158,015
acres, to 2,218 purchasers for $1,683,994, being an
average of $lO 65c. per acre. The total amount of
acres remaining unsold was 868,841, and the amount
of notes held by the company for land sold, and
which would be paid, was $8,356,256. The total
deeds issued to the end of December last had been
for 735,041 acres of laud. The total sales of land
had been 1,728,945 acres, for $3,429,549 in cash,
and $16,022,320 in notes—together, $19,451,869.

STATE OF TRADE.

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MANCHESTER, April 2.—The market for shipping
yarns has been rather quiet to-day, yet there has
been some business doing at the prices of Friday.
There is no change iu home trade yarns. The mar-
ket is quiet, with barely an average business doing.
Prices for most counts as on Friday. In cloth
there is a pretty general inquiry, but it is not attri-
buted so much to a desire to do business as to
obtain information as to the lowest prices before
the departure of to-day's mail. The actual de-
mand continues very small. Manufacturers are not
in so bad a position as they have been, being now
without any inconvenient pressure of stocks in
many cases, and consequently there are fewer very
anxious sellers. They resume their last week's quo-
tations of prices for most descriptions of cloth, but
these must be mostly taken as nominal, because
there has hardly been a business offering to-day
fairly to test them. There are telegrams from Cal-
cutta to-day reporting rather more favourably of
that market. There has been some demand for
doubled yarns for France within the last few days,
and Messrs. Du Fay and Co.'s tables give the ex-
ports for last year at 4,165,6031 b. of yarn, against
1,561,0861 b. in 1865 and 800,0001 b. in 1864, and
56,000,000 yards of cloth against 21,000,000 in 1865
and 19,000,000 in 1864. Messrs. John Slagg and
Co. report of to-day's cloth market:—" The aspect
of our market is unchanged since our last report.
We have continued absence of demand, but as there
is no great accumulation of stocks there is little pres-
sure to sell. To-day the business has been very
limited in amount, but we make no change in our
quotations."
NOTTINGHAM, 3d.—ln the hosiery business the
home trade, which has latterly been very quiet, has
been benefited by the brighter change of the wea-
ther, although it is not so active as is usually the
case at this time of the year, or as it should be com-
pared with former seasons. In the foreign trade'
there is little doing. Notwithstanding the large im-
portations of cotton into Liverpool yarns keep steady
in price. The workmen are not quite so fully em-
ployed as they have been of late. In the home de-
partment of the lace trade the improvement of the
past week has not been sustained ; but a good deal of
business is doing for exportation.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES AT WIGAN,

The town of Wigan was in a state of great ex-
citement during Monday afternoon and evening, in
consequence of a protracted struggle between the
London and North-Western and the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Companies, the one endeavour-
ing to secure, and the other to prevent, the estab-
lishment of a cross road to the station of the former.
When the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was
cut through Wigan it destroyed an old footpath in
the centre of the town through the Faggy fields, and
the company bad, in return for this path, to construct
a footbridge over their railway, and to form a new
road skirting their land for the convenience of the
public. Lately the London and North-Western Com-
pany have purchased adjoining laud in order to en-
large their station, and they have, at an angle of this
road, made an opening into it which has proved
of great utility to the residents in one quarter of
the town. By a bill introduced into Parliament this
session, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany asked powers to stop up this Faggy-lane to
make use of land they possessed beyond, but they
were opposed by the Town Council, on the ground
that the thoroughfare was of great benefit to the in-
habitants, as affording access to the London and
North-Western station, and a compromise which
was suggested--to close the road for its original
purpose, if the applicants would continue it at a high
level solely to the London and North-Western sta-
tion—was rejected, because, it was stated, that the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company refused to legalise
what they considered a trespass by an opposing com-
pany. The clause was therefore withdrawn, and on
Friday a contest was commenced, which culmi-
nated on Monday in something very nearly ap-
proaching a riot. On Friday the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company erected a strong barrier of
sleepers, which cut off completely the corner where
the path to the London and North-Western station
leaves the road, and this barrier the officials of the
other company, having taken the advice of their
superiors, proceeded to demolish. In the afternoon,
however, it was built up again, and this time the job
was well done, large sleepers being placed 4 f t.or sft.
in the earth and then bound together with nails and
bands until a solid mass of great strength was con-
structed. On Monday afternoon, shortly after 3
o'clock, a gang of workmen began the attack ou this
barrier, under the directions of the London and North
Western station master, but they had only removed
two or three sleepers when the engineer of the other
company appeared on the scene backed by a large