The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy The Royal British Bank,
South Sea-house, Threadneedle-street, 429, Strand, 97,
Goswell-road, 1, Shaftesbury-terrace, Pimlico, 32, Regent-
circus, and 311 and 312, Holborn, 77, Bridge-road, West-
Westminster-bridge, and 60, Stoues-en Southwark,
bankers, Dec. 22—R. Wollatt, tea and coffee dealer,
Crown-court, Philpot-lane—H. J. Betjemann, chair manu-
facturer, New Oxford-street—J. Stapp, cheesemonger,
Snow-hill, Dec. 23. At the Birmingh an District Court—
J. Edwardes, wine merchant, Wolverhampton, Dec. 31—
H. Horley, horse-dealer, Leamington Priors, Jan. 28. At
the Nottingham District Court- Lydia Johnson, nail ma-
nufacturer, Duffield—G. Newmarch, hatter, Nottingham,
Dec. 30. At the Liverpool District Court—J. P. Lace and
L. Addison, printers, Liverpool.
CERTIFICATES TO BEGRANTTD. -

At the Court of Bankruptcy—H. Warne, carpenter,
Mill-street, Hanover-square—W. A. Reeves, baker, Wal-
lingford—R. Wollatt, tea and coffee dealer, Crown-court,
Philpot-lane—J. Martin, licensed victualler. High-street,
Southwark, Dec. 23. At the Birmingham District Court
—C. Peverelle and F. Peverelle, hardware Sealers, Bir-
mingham—E. M. Davis, licensed victualler, Sutton Cold-
field, Dec. 29.
A RAILWAY JOURNEY IN INDIA.

(From, Fraser's Magazine.)
That brief whistle, that stropg silent pull, that gradual
e
glide, that monotonous rattle, have nothing intit,hteme,sarne
in the plains of Bengal, to distinguish themedfrao h
sounds and sensations so of, en experienced
tories of Lancashire, the red cliffs and
plains
dsf ortuhria,ednliacnceg:
waves of South Devon, the vine-bearing
The train travels
or the wild jungle of Western
2AOm
miles an hour. About
the rugged passes of Styria, the tropicalerea. hills of Havana,
at a rate varying
every eight milesfilmculrss
of iron rail still retains
its familiar look of
as stationone
ofw with some
eo
.m e uncouth The n g
entirely
sntarmaieglitWlineelook out as we.tri
" Hooghly," is written in
name,
circumstances
ittl white hi havete becomebu ga I o cev
coivriielinstaatlio. n,Thhue stationt
green open doors ;
its
those three characters
which suggest
ssturagnggeestfaatte eovfelrnyditatir;nthteo
the most careies traveller
English plain, business-like capital letters, looking as if
they were conscious of belonging to the conquering peo
pie ; the graceful Persian curling from riat to left, em-
blematic of the politeness, the facile dexterity, perhaps,
too, of the intrigue and instability of Central Asiatic,,
powerful enough to impress on a suscep,ible people a
manner which makes every peasant of Hindostan more
or less a gentleman, but unable to cope with the plain,
honest force which is represented by the Roman capitals;
and lastly, the mystical Bengalee, the vernacular of the
province, closely allied to every vernacular tongue all over
India, which here, at the Hooghly station, is read by thou-
sands ; while of the two conquering languages one is read
by hundreds, the other by units ; the language of the con-
quered million, yet containing in it the roots of more than
half the words spoken by conquering English, close akin to
the ancient Sanserit, that source beyond which the stream of
human language has not yet been traced. But the train
moves on, and, so far as it is concerned, the conquering
English has it all its own way. The ancient Sanscrit is
still represented by every one of the dull objects which
meet the traveller's eye. The ungraceful palm, so
strangely associated in European minds with Oriental
beauty; the green, melancholy palm ; the occasional
glimpses of the yellow, sluggish, corpse-bearing river—
these are the witnesses to the fact—so strange, yet so
forgotten—that where the English steam-engine now
travels, there, just one century ago, the Nawab of Ben-
gal was marching down on Calcutta to perpetrate the
Black Hole massacre—that tragedy from which the
Anklo-Indian empire took its birth. Here, centuries
ago, the Hindoo walked, and sat, and smoked, worship-
ping his god Permanence, even as he walks, and sits,
and smokes, and worships the same god to-day.

[ADVERTISEMENT. SIGH t AND IiSARING SPECTACLES,
POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIV 3
GLASSES, —Messrs. S. and B. Solomon, opticians, 39, Albe-
marle-street, Piccadilly. Obsefve—opposite the York Hotel.
lay ker Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable awl
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per.
spective Glasses, to know 'the distances. These telescopes
possess such extraordinary powers that some three and u-half
inches, with an extra eye-piece, Gill show distinctly Jupiter's
moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same
telescope can be seen a person's countenence three miles and a
half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of
larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly._ lie
Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, ne wly-invonte,l, very strci.'' ,
powerful waistcoat-pocket glass-, the size of a walnut, by whit'
a person can ho seen and known narks distant ; they answer,
every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses,
country scenery, and ships aro clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles.
They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sports!). en, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Oper,,,
:ace-corsse, camp, atd perspective glasses, with wended' I
power. Newly-constrazted Spectacle Lenses of the great-
est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived
from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired 's
preserved and strengttew,d, and very aged persons al e
enabled to employ their sight at the most miiinte ocet:-
.pation— eau see with these lenses of a much less rangnifi
ins power--and they do not rel.-air° the frequent change,
to the clangorous effects or 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"
floss. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an ex-
traordinary powerful, small,
newly-invented instrument for
deafness, entirely different from all others, to aurpeAs any-
thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever ;an be,
produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per-
ceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church
SOS
ass in rho earn ars
poi s
ibiy entirely
could
possibly
and. at
.public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing
noises
emboeveddes;irier—it3a9frords all the
, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly. Observe--opposite the York Hotel.
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