The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Brine and Co., Barnet and Lawrence-lane, manufac-
turers of paper-hangings—Palmer and Sons, Birmingham,
house agents—W. E. and F. Newton, Fleet-street, opti-
cians—Cheverton and Moorey, Newport, Isle of Wight,
builders—Bourne and Woolley, Birmingham, electro-plate
manufacturers—Brown, Wilkinson, and Co., Bucklersbury,
wool manufacturers—J. Price and P. Pratt, York, book-
binders—Lowe and Co., Coventry, watch manufacturers—
Shelley, Foote, and Co., Edgware-road, Berlin wool dealers
(as far as regards .T. H. D. Jebring)—Chew and Roberts,
Leicester, booksellers—Bull, Elliott, and Co., Liverpool,
export oilmen—Cunningham and Orr, Manchester, nursery-
men— W. Boore and G. Roe, Strand, silversmiths—H. J.
Dickinson and E. Sadler, billiard-table manufacturers, and
Marchmont-street, Brunswick-square, tobacconists —W.
Draper and Co., Bond-court, Walbrook, ironmongers—
Robson and Cray, Hexham, grocers—Bentley and Oldfield,
Denton, Lancaster, hat manufacturers—Houghton and
Francis, Leadenhall-street, merchants—Riley Brothers,
Cambridge-place-south, Ki❑gsland-road, sheet zinc manu-
facturers (as far as regards E. Riley)—D. Burton and W.
H. Fullarton, Mellor, Derby, and Leicester, cotton-
pinners.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Ao Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Ath Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Weok ending on Saturday the 13th lay of Dec., 1856.
1880 E DEPAITMENT.
A
Notes tamed • ..... 24,525,995

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities .. 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 10,050,995
Silver bu11i0n........

£24,525,99.5

£24,525,995
MARS'IIALL, Chief Cashier.
1856.

Dated the Dith day of December

BANKING DE
eroprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Kest ................ 3,226,673
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-

.2111TMENT.

Governmentsecurities

(includg.DeadWeight

Annuity) .. .. .. .:.. 10,640,867
Other securities ...... 16,828,728
Notes .. .. .......... 5,823,185
Gold and silver coin .. 641,531

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,300,625
ether deposits ...... 9,042,822
yen Day and other

811,191

£33,934,311

1 £33,934,311
1. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
~ 1856.

Dated the ISth day of Decemb:3i

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec.
16, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Posressions in America 37 31
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 36 4
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 4O 1i
Average of the above three descriptions 37 11

POSTAGE UPON NEWSPAPERS FOR PRUSSIA

On the Ist of January next, and thenceforward, Bri•
tish newspapers, posted in conformity with the autho-
, rised regulations, which newspapers, when sent by the
route of Belgium to the undermentioned countries have
hitherto been exempt in the United Kingdom from any
charge for postage, will be subject to a British postage
of one penny each, which must be paid in advance or
the newspapers cannot be forwarded :—Austrian domi.
nions, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Brunswick, Frankfort-
on-the-Maine, Hamburg, Hanover, Hesse, Lippe Pet-
mold, Lubeck, Mecklenburg Schwerin, Mecklenburg
Strelitz, Nassau, Norway, Oldenburg, Poland, Prussia,
Reuss, Russia, Saxe Altenburg, Saxe Coburg Gotha,
Saxe Meiningen, Saxe Weimar, Saxony, Schaumburg
Lippe, Schwartzburg Rudolstadt, Schwartzburg Son-
derhausen, Sweden, Switzerland, Wurtemburg. A British
rate of one penny each, in addition to the foreign rate to
which they are liable, must also be paid in advance upon
British newspapers posted in the United Kingdom, and
forwarded, via Belgium, to the undermentioned coun-
tries and places. The two charges will be as follows :
Foreign rate.
Brit. rate Per Per half-oz.
per News- according to
Newspap• paper. weight.
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Country or Place.

Belgrade 1
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*Beyrout
Botuschany
Bucharest
Canea
*Constantinople.
*Dardanelles
Galati
*Gallipoli
*Greece
Ibriali
lonian lslands
Jassy....
Larnaca
*Modena. • ••
Moldavia (other than
places specified)
•
Mostar
•
*Mitylene
*Naples •
*Parma
*Placentia
*Rhodes 1
Rutschuk 1
Salonica
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Samsoun ................. 1
Seres
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*Stnyrna .......... "
Tenedos
Tchestne ........ . . •
Trehizond
Taitch&
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Turkey (other than
places specified)
*"Tuscany
Varna
"Wallachia (other than
places specified)
Note.—Newspapers are not forwarded by the route of
Belgium to the countries and places against which an * is
affixed, unless specially directed via Belgium.
By command of the Postmaster-General.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.
General Post-office, December 18.

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CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—Yesterday.
Admissions on payment, 615; do. by season tickets,
328 ; !total visitors, 943.
ADVRRTISENENT. l SIGHT AND IlsAango SPECTACLES;
POWERFUL TELESCt FES, OPERA, RACK, AND PERSPECTIVD
GLASSES.—Messrs. S. and B. Solonions, opticians, 39, Albe-
marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel.
By ker Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per-
spective Glasses, to know the diataucce. These telescopes
possess such extraordinary powers that some three and 3-Inalf
inches, with an extra eye-piece, pill show distinctly Jupiter's
moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same
telescope can be seen a person's countenance three thjles and a
half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They .=-r° of
larger and all sizes, with increasing powers aceordingly.—Te.:
Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very 33nal I,
powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by whleb
a person can he seen and known 1i miles distant; they answer
every purpose ou the race-course, and at the opera houses,
country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles.
They aro invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamok eepers, and tourists. Opera,
:ace-cor,rse, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful
power. Newly-constrzeted Spectacle Lenses of the great-
est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived
feom this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is
preserved. and strengthened, and very aged persons are
enabled to employ their sight at the most minute ocer -
pation—can see with these lenses of a much less magnify•
ing power—and they do not require the frequent change,
to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance
Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world,
by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a
letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can read
small newspaper print with it; and those who have
not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deaf-
ness. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an ex-
traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for
deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass am
thing of the kind that has been, or probably over can be,
produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not por-
°eP it enables deaf peens to hear distinctly at church
andtaibtle ; n
public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singilag
,noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the
lissistatnce that possibly could be 'desired.-39, Albemarle' ,
street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel,