The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-04 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the
week ending the 12th ult. amounted for local pas-
sengers to £5,532 ; for foreign passengers to £2,363 ;
for emigrants, to £442 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ;
for local freight and live stock, to £12,171 ; and
for foreign freight and live stock, to £l,B49—total,
£23,333, against. £26,185 in the corresponding week
of last year, showing a decrease of £2,852. The
total receipts from the Ist of January to the above
date amounted to £464,493, and for the same period
of 1865 to £454,373, showing an increase of
£10,120.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
The financial statement of this company for the
received
during of April shows that $57,709 had been
acres
during the month for the sale of £5
land and some town lots. The cash collected of
ili
April amounted to $91,192. In the traffic depart-
ment the total receipts on the railway for the month
of April amounted to $406,773 against $409,939 for
April, 1865, showing a decrease of $84,166.

ERIE.
The traffic receipts on this company's lines, in-
cluding the Buffalo division, for the month of April
bast, amounted to $153,295 and for April 1865 to
$1,538,314, showing a decrease of $385,019.

BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN.
The traffic returns on this company's line for the
week ending the 22d of April showed that 2,866
passengers were conveyed, the receipts being
$83,005 ; for parcels, $5,466 ; and for goods,
$97,392; total,
slBs,B63—being equivalent at the
present rate of exchange to $1,463. The number
of train miles run was 2,358 ; the receipts per train
mile, 12s. sd. ; and receipts per mile of line for the
week, £2 12s, 4id.

RAILWAY BILLS.
On Friday, in Lord Redesdale's Corarni‘tvtee, house
assed.
of Lords, the Hexham and Allendale
The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshirewicbconib
tional powers) was also passed. The
and Midland, to raise £42,000 by shares and £14,000e
by loan, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
(new lines), and the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire (Liverpool Extension) were passed.
In the Standing Order Committee, the Presteign,
Clun, and Bishop's Castle Bill, to raise £275,000 by
shares and £92,000 by loan, to make four railways,
was passed. The Ellesmere and Glyn Valley was
also passed. The East Glocestershire Bill and the
Hoylakc Bill, to raise £200,000 by shares and
£66,000 by loan, were passed. The Wrexham,
Mold, and Connah's Quay and Hoylake Railways
Bill was passed.
In the House of Commons, Group 3, the South

Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover (Lon-
don, Lewes, and Brighton) Bill was again heard,
and adjourned. Group 14.—The Midland (Ashby
and Nuneaton), the Midland (Branches, &c.), and
the London and North Western, and Midland
Counties Coalfields (Extension) were partly heard
and adjourned. Group 16.—The Swansea and
Clydach was heard and adjourned. In the case of.
the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction (northern
lines) the parties stated that they did not intend to
proceed with the bill ; the Vale of Neath (Transfer)
Bill was heard and adjourned. In Group 18, the
Caledonian and Scottish North Eastern Bill was
heard and adjourned. In Group 18A, the Caledo-
donian (Edinburgh Station) and the Caledonian
(Corstorphine Junction) Bills were again adjourned.
In Group 19, the Caledonian (Lanarkshire, &c.,
Branches) Bill was heard and adjourned.