The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

Net Earnings 4,189,111 3,792,974

4,259,856

1865. 1866. 1867.
Percentage of expenses 76 77.9 71
Rates of dividend

I►L 1864 the earnings were $14,759,038, and the
expenses $10,693,944, leaving the net earnings
$4,065,114. The percentage of expenses was 72.6,
and the rate of dividend 10 per cent. It has been
said of this road that it is one of the best con-
structed and best managed in the country, and
yet its expenses average 73 per cent. of its gross
receipts.

RISE iN THE VALUE OF LAND IN 7HE
UNITED STATES.

(From the Anglo-American 2 lazes.)
rlhe rise in the value of real estate in America is
very marked. Most persons thought that specula-
tion in land had been overdone. In the city of
New York the lot on which stands the sewing
machine establishment of Wilcox and Gibbs, at the
south corner of Bond-street and Broad-street, has
within a lifetime risen from ten dollars to 200,000,
the latter sum offered for it having been refused.
The island on which New York stands was once
sold for ten dollars ; and though probably the
most valuable tract of land in the world,
it is nearly all owned by some twelve capital-
ists. Many of the shrewdest speculators six
months ago thought there would be a sharp
decline in the price of land, but they have
been mistaken. It is thought that the rise in real
estate is in some measure due to the repudiators,
but along the line of the Union Pacific the increase
is in obedience to natural causes, and is immense.
Speculation is turning in that direction, and the lots
the company have announced they will offer during
the summer will in all probability be eagerly taken
up. In Chbago more money has last year been
made by speculation in land than in any previous
year in the history of the city. Some property was
soil on Wabash Avenue for $12,000, but the gen-
tleman, repenting of the bargain, bought it back for
$20,000, and the other day again sold it fors4o,ooo.
In St. Louis there is a perfect furore for build-
ing, and there has never even in that prosperous
town been seen so many good houses and stores in
course of erection. It is settled that the Mississippi
will be bridged at that point. Council Bluffs on the
left bank of the Missouri, opposite Omaha, on the
right bank, is progressing with great rapidity, as it
is fixed to be the depot whence the trains to San
Francisco will be made up. The Union Pacific
Company own lands in that city worth over
$200,000 for their buildings, and the bridge will
connect Council Bluffs with Omaha. At one time
it was feared that Belle Vue, seven miles below,
would be the spot chosen ; but the fact that Coun-
cil Bluffs is the terminus of six railroads from the
East settled the question. Omaha in two years
has increased in population from four thousand
to fifteen thousand, over twelve hundred build-
ings having been erected last year, a number
which will probably be exceeded in the present
year, many of them being of brick. Far West the
most rising town is Cheyenne (pronounced Shy-en),
but eight months old, yet numbering 4,000 in-
habitants. The Union Pacific Railway is completed
570 miles west of Omaha, giving to Chicago a rail
communication direct West of 1,060 miles. A
branch is to connect Cheyenne with Denver, ex-
tensive shops are being constructed, and it 15
thought that a Government arsensal will be there
located. The increase of population pouring along
the Union Pacific road may be conjectured from the
fact that for the last three months 20 cars filled
with emigrants have been dispatched each day.

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Births.

HALKETT—On the 17th inst, at Pitfirrane, Fife, the wife

of Sir P. Arthur ILtikett, Bart., of a daughter.'
PLowmAN —On the 19th inst., at The Terrace, Barnet',
Surrey, the wife of Richard Hay Plowman, Esq., of 6
daughter.
SPERMS—On the 18th inst., at 10, Lowndes-street, the wifc)
of Arch. A. Speirs, Esq., 31. P., prematurely, of a (laugh'
ter, stillborn.