The Canada Southern Railway

It is reported that Cyrus W. Field has made a proposition to finish the Canada Southern to Chicago. Mr. Field guarantees $3,500,000 cash, the estiinated cost of the extensión from Fayette to Chicago, and he will probably be associated with A. Liawrence Hopkins, at one time an active Vice-President of the Illinois Central. Both Field and Hopkins are well known in English Btock-speculating circles, and as the Canada Southern has an Euglish colonial charter, with all its guarantees to stockholders, there is not the slightest doubt, it is said, that the money will be raised. Mr. Field has asked until December 25th to complete his negotiations. It is understood that the directors have conditionally accepted Lis