The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

SOUTH-EASTERN.

The gross receipts on this company's lines for
passengers, parcels, mails, goods, &c., amounted
during the four weeks ending the 15th January to
£71,251, less £1,921 for collecting and delivering
goods, which leaves £70,030. To this sum is added
£2,781 for rent and sundries, and £2,324 for steam
packet sell ice ; total, £75,206. The expenditure,
including rates, taxes, tolls, duty, and expenses of
steam-packet service, amounted to £34,689, leaving
a balance of £40,517. The total receipts for the
24 weeks ending as above amounted to £527,488,
and the expenditure to £222,oB2,leaving a balance
of £305,406.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER

HAMPTON.

The total receipts of this company for the half-
year ended' the 31st Dec., amounted to £121,013,
against £122,794, in the corresponding half of 1857.
The net receipts for the last half-year were £69,508,
against £69,614 for the corresponding half-year of
1857, showing a decrease of £lO5. The expendi-
ture for the past half-year was 42.57 per cent. of
the receipts, against 43.30 per cent. in 1857. After
paying the dividend on the Stratford and Moreton
Canal and the Chipping-Norton branch, £66,444
remained applicable for dividend. The directors
propose to pay the interest on debentures, a full
dividend of 6 per cent. per anniunaml the first gua-
ranteed stock, and 3 per cent. on the secend guaran-
teed stock, leaving a balance of £235.

NORTH-EASTERN.
The terms of an amalgamation between this com-
pany and the Newcastle and Carlisle Company, it
is understood, are settled, and will be submitted to
the shareholders of the former company at a special
meeting to be held at York on the 18th inst.

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TACLES.—POWERFITL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, AND
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opposite the York Hotel, W.—Opera, Race-course, Field,
andgseraneg Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasses,
verylB lenses, constructed
for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 12 and
ses, constracted of German glass. Will show dis-
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miles, and an object from eight to ten miles distant. Her
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night glasses in preference
are making use of them as day and
to all others ; they are also pre-
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and known
long, by which a per-
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object at 12 to 14 miles' nknown at 3f miles' and an
distancejupitees; and with an extra astro-
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Saturn's rings, and
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, with increasing powers, and
had of larger and all sizes
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are secured by her Majesty's
The Royal Exhibition, 1851.
small, powerful Waistcoat-pocketb
valuable, newly
invented, very
the size of a walnut, by which a
and known ono and a half mile distant. They answer
every every purrse on thr, Race-course and at the ope„.
houses. ountry scenery and ships are clearly seen
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stating the distance from the eyes they can read small print
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i ,is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear
n distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unplea-
movtration of singing noises in the ears is entirely re
be
deeiraeld. it affords all the assistance that possibly could
. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, Observe—
oppeolte_the:York Hotel, W.