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REMEMBER! WE WAIT SUPPER for you not. alter the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fall XI ARAN'S LL 'WHISKY v. COGNAC This BRANDY. ipn ce lebrated 014 IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest , BRANDY, 1' !I Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. tl 2Old in Bottles, 35. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by at' dents 4.), principal towns in England; or wholesale :' GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. li,xi ße rve the Red Se la. Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whiekv." LAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The II 1)01k „, ,, 0 1 11RT of DIRECTORS of the East and Westindia Of th 'ompany hereby give notice, that the Transfer Books day 4 said Companwill be shut on THURSDAY, the 15th J._ D ecember, 1864, and open again on MONDAY, the 2d " u arY, 1865. By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. tam. Billiter-s and West India Dock House, quare, Deo. 2, 1861. ROYAL SARDINIAN RAILWAY COMP AN Y. Roy A IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors of the ,13,„ SARDINIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. at their tf"„r11 Meeting, held on the 29th ult., made a further CALL u o 'l per Share (making L 9 paid), payable at the Banking b e f o ll lT of Messrs. Glyn. Mills, Currie, and Co. London, on or „'e the Ist day of January, 1865. thr,arebolders are therefore requested to pay as above on 4.. 6 hares held by them, and also to leave their Share Certi e4og egt with thereon the above-named Bankers, to have the payment „. 'fried t o th e Company ' s statutes, Calls no td u ly p a id are 'fried to int eres t a t th e ra t e of £lO p er cen t. p e r annum, and Vhares are liable to forfeiture. pa b ."%les will be delivered at the Company's Office after aia l i ta ti git of the above Call. for Interest at 6 per cent. r airead for the halt year ending the 81st instant on the £6 B'areh, Y Daid on Shares. th olders desirous of receiving Reports and Notices at c o ei r residences are requested to leave their addresses at the 111 PanY's Office. By order, C. DE TIVOLI, Secretary. 8 + Great Winchester-street, E.C„ Dec..s, 1864. N.B Sli ar ,. -- By the statutes Shareholders may pay up their during " in full. Interest at the rate of £6 per cent. per annum k3ha renolders construction will be paid on all Shares so paid uprivilege. of availintemselves of si; - Ipqnested desirous either now or a t a n y subsequent this pe p riod to t e - '1,,,Y the same to the Secretary, who will send them a form up for that purpose. fp notifying the above Call the Directors call attention to he7wing report addressed to them by the Company's Engl.- lio 'r on the progress of the works, and at the same time an tie4u,, co that Mr. James Caird, M. P., is engaged on an inspec te,,",ol the Company's lands, and the Board expect shortly to p e Ts r e his report as to the value and capabilities of that tion of the property of the Company. "2S, Great George-street, Westminster, S.W., 29th November, 1804. . To the Chairman and Directors of the Royal Sardinian Railway. wit kirentlemen,--I have to report that the works on Rail- Cagliari (the capital to Orlstano ; 2, Branch to ',."aa (the centre of the mineral district); * and 4, Porto 11,,,1.e8 to Ozieri, are in full progress, and your Contractors, t a ,'Bra. Smith, Knight, and Company, have made their ar t° Sements forcontinuing operations upon a scale calculated IvirMplete Railways 1 and 2, and that portion of Railway 4 th2ca lies between Porto Torres and the city of Sassari, by al);,?tutnn of next year. These lengths will form together th e " 9 0 miles, which I have no doubt will be completed in tirse of next year. €etti is forward position of matters is mainly owing to the ement that was at length e ff ected with the Italian Go b.,4utnent of the working plans, sections, drawings, and Qtfications having reference to the above-named Railways, 401 the preparations for the works that have been steadily „LIZ on for some time past. year Throughout the whole of the summer and autumn of this ti a ,_ your Contractors have been engaged in carrying mate -4,.'; and plant to the site of the Railways, in purchasing the v.,o7krequired for the works, and in erecting barracks for the "Thee finhese preparations having been made beforehand on a al e commensurate with the objeot in view, active operations conatruction of the Railways were commenced imme iigl on the setting in of the working season. There are sires Y upwards of 2,000 men at work upon the Railways 1 N ee „2 alone, and the numbers are rapidly increasing under a . 1 4 ojganised staff. The ommencement of operations has been hailed by the pcpabitants with great enthusiasm, and has given rise to 'Pular and joyous demonstrations along the line, which tae country.a been shared in by the civil and military authorit i e s o f e " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, " BENJ. PIERCY, C.E." 2 8 0 pp., cloth, lettered, price 35., VEGETABLE COOKERY.—Pactry, Pickling, &c. fe't. Cookery books This volume supplies a want long exist in abundance, but they relate almost exclusively to the preparation of dishes from animal food. i b is , o i sle vote s devoted entirely to the proper coo king of vegeta, to , pickling, the preparation of sauces, soups, beverages, &0., &c., and forms a complete treatise upon the subject. Vegetables, fruits, &c., constitute the half of our daily food : here is an essay upon the best possible preparation of his half. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster- t row, E.C. 93D REPRESENTATION of the W IZARD of the NORTH —TO-NIGHT, at Eight-93d Repre sentation of the WORLD of MAGIC.—Miss ANDERSON, the Second-sighted Svbll.—Prices, Is., 28., arid 38. To be secured at ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly. The Great Rope Tying Mystery and Cabin et Seances. by Miss Lizzie Anderson and Mr.. Sutton, will terminate the Programme every Evening and Saturday Afternoon. N R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY. TO-NIGHT, at Eight, when THE RIVAL COMPOSERS and THE BARD and HIS BIRTH DAY will be given. To cone ude with THE SEA or, MRS. ROSELEAr OUT OF TOWN, by JOHN PARRY.-ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUSTItA LION, 11, Regent-street. CATTLE SHOW!! CATTLE SHOW!!! T 0 X F 0 11. , 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury , Hall Company (limited). ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera Comiquel, is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the Song : "King of Bentia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, aed horns ; the side-splitting " Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; ar d final Minuet h en y. Principal characters by Misses Russell, henry, Barrie, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Wahnsley; Messrs. Greene and Lascelles. Grand Revival of NORMA (Norma, Miss Russell); Adel gisa, Madame Maria ) ; and S elections from MARTHA and LA TRAVIATA ; together with Locke's celebrated Music to MACBETH. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. THE DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. Talliltt. LE MONSTRI CHARHE, by M. SILVESTR E. '1 he I)'AUBANS in their famous Character Sketches. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, and all the procurable Talent of the day. Instrumental Solos, & c., Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CATTLE SHOW!! CATTLE SHOW!!! OANTERBURY HALL. ‘..1 The Oiford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). PERFUME and BOUQUET, the NEW OPTICAL ILLU SION, in whtch the whole resources of the establishment are brought into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell. The usual Operatic Selections, the Anthropophaginian , c. Comedy by Mr. W. Randall, T. Stacey, W. Hilton, and the Wondrous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and Kelley. Comic Illustrations of Negro character by LITTLE 808. Admission —Area, ed. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ROYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. Proprietor, G. W. NucErrr . (Close to the Great Eastern Terminus\ This Fpacious and magnificent Hall, capable of accom modating 2,5(0 persons, will vOSITIVELY OPEN on the 10th December. The Sentimental Company and the Band will be numerous and thoroughly efficient. The Comic element will comprise ANNIE ADAMS, the Queen of Comic; The Charming Little WELLY POWER ,j. F. ALEXANDER and Family; G. 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Th Offices (temporiry)-6, Old Jewry, E.C. th.-e object of this Association is to furnish the press and Public of England, the Contic ent of Europe, and the I, Bt ern world with a fuller and more regular rupply ot iSraPhic intelligence than the present system provices. h, n ue rapid and constant supply of early telegral hic news CO .° grown into a necessity, not only to the press of every .truntry, but to all persons engaged in commerce and public M atra. But In proportion to the recognition of its increasing tPortance, the anger and inconvenience tt rawin it 1 0110 one channel have bee. me more and more obvi g rue. t e ue danger arises from the fact that there are no meani of i s :ting the accuracy of the information which is thus put t - o ? . .circulation ; and the inconvenience is evident in the &- d - pence of the press and the public, both as regards wipe ',un and expense, ou a single source of supply. remedyg and inconvenience are universally felt, and a iti Would have been attempted long . since but for the itleost insurmountable difficulty of establishing an organise ut correspondence sufficiently Comprehensive to meet he Would of' so vast an enterprise. Such an und_e e rtakieg bles s have no legitimate title to the confidence of the public clu; sB it presented a marked superiority' in the scope and h a eter of its resources over the existing machinery. (LC' PreMoters of " The Telegraphic News Association 4_ pitted," after much preparation and expenditure,t 4en favoured by circumstances of an exceptional nature, With n a Position to undertake this responsib le function, e the certainty of being able to execute it in a com p lete th e ff ve ner. ute all points within itia n , n ge of the electric Distrib wire, whe d re at the most important at ue political and commercial, is to be obtained la sa u - rst hand, a staff of experienced correspondents a st ,,heen organised information established relationr . ; wtih ettil.entic sources of ensure a priority of intelii upon which implicit reliance may be placed, and whose (tesett discretion and activit offer the safest guarantees for k a rtteh and punctuality. Special arrangements have been Ilta l , n iur procuring early and accurate, and, In many in tie " 8 , exclusive information in connection with the Ame -11%41 Civil war and the progress of the new Mexican empire, ( ie I, f rum China and the East Indies intelligence will fre- Ori: . , y be transmitted via St. Peterburg when other sources 11,,Trmation are silent. tttia d 'd impartiality and complete neutrality will be main tli; in the language and substance of all telegrams issued stale will ation. A steady adherence to this vital prin lok.,w Hi, it is hoped, secure the confidence of statesmen,dip feNreta, the press, and the commercial community, and 131 th„, a ' n ,,a ll 3 , to establish the authority and extend the utility teq t atetnl estimate has been made of the probable financial 4,„ .of the undertaking, assuming the highest scale of arttinditure and the lowest of receipts. The conclusions iltt s lUd at justify the anticipation of a large return upon a 1 , 1 outlay. pall the purpose of accomplishing these objects, it is pro tsts,„._ o form an association ,to be called "The Telegraphic 4,007)3 Association (Limited)," with a capital of £50,000, in Ilep o 'Mares of £lO each, of which £1 will be payable on lik ei ßit and £1 on allotment, beyond which it is not considered TO' that any further call will be required. es l'e head office of the Association for England and the k ii . e rn world will be in London, and for the Contintnt of 4 0 13 e in. Brussels. tgqieations for shares, in the form annexed, to be made of the Rankers or to the secretary , or at the temporary offices uOMpany, 6, Old Jewry, London, 14:.C. POEM or APPLICATION FOR SNARES. To t , (To be retained by the Bankers.) 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NEWSPAPER , , Z/p7 - • • • a , _ _ • 1 ► 4S, . u nf, . • 4 1IV I tit+ . t i ll IS PC % "tr si • 44111 Kit , 4144 • • • '-`t. T - •ir • ) X 4? 4 . .' )41,4 it I As- 075 ' n • "‹ - a • Da 6 , , • - bladed WOW which she had duri. mission. Yesterday Mr Whitworth made an Shoeburyness with a now shell, designed , penetrate the Warrior. target. The distance was 600 yards. Owing to the target having been so much fired at, a very small space was considered sufficient to insure a distinct proof: o as to whether a 70-pound gun firing its proper charge of 121 b of powder was capable of penetrating through the inner skin. Hitherto it has been tha opinion of those most coon'• petent to deal with the question that 70-pounder guns, although capable of penetrating into armour plates, and damaging the side of the ship, were un.• equal to the task of getting ►hrough and bursting' the inner skin. On a previous occasion Air Whit- PR1CE.........1d STAMPED ....5d for candour, for incorruptible loyalty, and fur simple truthfulness. Such has been Lord Carlisle's character throughout an active public life; and for that character he will long be remembered with honour in a country which is always ready to ap preciate honesty and truthfulness in public men. The following beautiful lines, written a good many years ago by the late Earl, when Lord Morpeth, will be read now— we feel assured—with lively interest, not only as being (as they unquestionably are) abou► thn happiest effusion ef bia poetic genius, but as being (besides that) singularly impressive, read nowadays, as the four closing lines will be, immediately after the death of their noble writer, while America is still in the midst of:her disastrous war : There's nothing great or bright, thou glorious fall I Thou mayst not to the fancy's sense recall— The thunder•riven cloud, the lightning's leap, The stirring of the chambers of the deep, Earth's emerald green and many tinted dyes, The fleecy whiteness of the upper skies, The tread of armies thick'ning as they come, The boom of cannon and the beat of drum, The brow of beauty and the form of grace, The passion and the prowess of our race, The song of Homer in its loftiest hour, The unrosisted sweep of Roman power, Britannia's trident on the azure sea, America's young shout of liberty I Oh I may the wars that madden in thy deeps There spend their rage, nor climb th' encirling steeps; And till the conflict of thy surges cease, The nations on thy banks repose in Peace. worth fired two of these shells. One wrut through an old hole, consequently - no result was obtained. The second shell struck in the exact spot aimed af, made a penetration of about 17 inches, and bulged the hacking; hut it was thought by many that tho , shell did not burst, or if it had done so it woutel have gone through the inner skin, of the larger. It has since been dinovered that owing to a mistake in the construction of the powder-bag within the shell, only ;lb of powder was used instead of Litt.), the quantity the shell is able to contain. 'rho shell is art entirely new invention. It is of great strength and thickness, flat-headed, and at the point which comes in contact with the plate there is a steel bolt fitted sufficiently well to remain unmoved till ex pelled by the explosion of the powder which a per. cussion cap by a mechanical contrivance fires after the ehell has penetrated the target. In practice the shell is really a small gun, which fires a steel bolt after it has reached its destination. No. 1 steel shell struck the target 411 n from the top edge and 66in from the left edge, 7in from the joint—the shell passed through the plate, stuck in the backing the base of the shell being 3in below the face of the plate—the powder exploded, blowing the plug through-the backing and the skin along with the metal punched out. The shell remained perfect. No. 2 steelshell,passod through the plate into the backing - and buret, driving the plug forward through the backing against the skin, bulging it slightly—the skin at the point struck was supported by a -crossbeam about 20in square. The shell struck 40in from the left edge and 15in from the top one —a bolt was broken—the shell came back and wan picked up 74 yards in the'rear of the target, and in good condition. No. 3 steel shell struck an old shot which was standing out from the target, and broke up in consequence. No. 4 steel shell struck fair on a vertical stringer Oft bin from the left edge and 3ft 6in from the top edge. It penetrated the plate and backing, forcing the piece punched out against the skin, which was not bulged. The shell jumped back 104 yards, and was found in good con dition. Staff-Commander Moriarty has been appointed from the Marlborough, 121, screw three-decker, re. cently paid out of commission at Portsmouth, to the command of the Fox, screw transport frigate, vice Pullen, apponted to Keyham-yard. The Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering was brought into full opera. tion last week by the commencement of a series of twelve lectures " On the Principles cf Mechanics and Hydrostatics, Machinery, and the Elements of Mechanics," - by the Rev. B. Morgan Cowie, 13. D., rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, and Professor of Geometry in Gresham College. This course of lectures will terminate on the 7th of March. On Wednesday, the 7th inst., Dr. Percy, F.R.S., will commence a series of six lectures " On the Mecha nical and Chemical Properties of Iron." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1864. COMMODORE NUTT & MINNIE WARREN, Brideman and Bridesmaid of GEN. TOM THUMB, At ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly, December 12, 1861. P.S.—See future advertisements. spectrum was very fine. The sun was warm, but yet did not exercise any influence on the thermometer, upon the blackened bulb of which it Phone brightly. At 3h. 46m. there was a sudden chill to sense, the wind was still W.N.W., and Mr Coxwell, who watched the direction of mo tion of smoke, the angle we made with the known roads on passing thorn with great judgment, kept within i's influence so as to drive us inland, for he remarked if we sank to the lower current to the sea we must go. At 3h .58m we heard a cleck strike 4 ; we wore then a little south of Murstad, and Mr Coxwell, pointing towards Rochester, said " I think we shall cross the Medway near Woldham, the place where I was born." At 4h wo wore south of Gravesend and passing south of Cobham-park ; at 4h 17m we crossed the Medway, then over Woldham, changed our direction to S.W. nearly, and were on the ground at 41). 26m, at Delco Farm, near Rochester, and received assietance from Mr Matson, whose farm joined that on which we fell, for which we beg to thank him. The inhabitants at Gravesend and Rochester were greatly puzzled at our moving direotly opposite to that of the wind where they were, and some thought we had the power of guiding the balloon. During the ascent we hugged the river Thames all the way down. Mr Colwell felt that he dared not to ascend higher than ono mile on account of the loss of gas we should should have experiencejl in so doing till we could pass Gravesend, and when 'We did so it was too dark at 4h 23m. At my last observation it was very difficult to read the in struments, and it was then of no use to ascend higher or to remain longer from the earth. _ The balloon was seen ft om the Royal Observatory, Green wich, at 2 40, when 1,000 feet high—it was watched by Mr Nash till 3h Bm, and up to this time ho noticed that the balloon moved one half round between 2h 45m and 3h, and then back again in the contrary direction—and at 3h Bm, he could read the word " Mara" on the balloon distinctly with a telescope. Simultaneous meteorological observations were made at We Royal Observatory, 1 __l,4.enwich, by command of the Astronomer-Royal, under the superintendence of Mr Nash and also at my residence by Messrs Gair and Howe.—l am, Sir, &0., JAMES GLAISHER, Blackheath, Dec. 3. Death of the Earl of Carlisle, K.G. By a telegraphic despatch received last night we learn that the Earl of Carlisle died at Castle Howard yesterday afternoon, his lordship having experi enced a relapse on Saturday night, aftcr which he never rallied. Another illustrious name has thus to be added to the obituary of 1864. It cauuot be said that Lord Carlisle's death was unexpected, for his failing health had compelled him to resign the Irish Viceroyalty, which he had occupied with distin guished ability and universal popularity for eight years. Perhaps no nobleman has been more re-. apeoted and beloved than the Earl of Carlisle. Genial, kindly, liberal, affable—he was always ready to lecture at a mechanics' institute, always willing to be present and to assist at any meeting for the improvement and advantage of his country men. George William Frederic Howard, LG., seventh Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Murpeth, Northumberland, and Baron Dacro of Gillesland, a coheir to a moiety of the Barony of Greystock, was born in llill.street, Berkeley-square, April 18, 1802. He was the eldest son of the sixth Earl of Carlisle by the eldest daughter of the fifth Doke of Devonshire. As the Hon. George Howard he distinguished himself at Eton—the nursery of so many of our famous statesmen, and throughout his life he showed a warm affection for his old school. From Eton he went to Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1821 obtained the Newdigate prize for English verse (Paestum), and also the Chancellor's medal for _Latiu_verse (Eleusis). In 1823 he graduated as a first °lawman in classics, and proceeded M.A. in 1827. Lord Carlisle's political life commenced in 1826, when he was returned for the family borough of Morpeth; this seat he retained till 1830. The reform agitation of 1830 brought him out as a candidate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, in order to test the feeling of the people on the subject by the crucial example of the election for that great constituency. He was returned as a Liberal, and sat till 1841, and was again elected in 1846. From April, 1835, to September, 1841, Lord Morpeth was Chief Secretary for Ireland, and from July, 1846, to March, 1850, was Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. In March, 1850, he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and retained that office till the accession of Lord Derby's Ministry to office in 1852. The conciliatory and popular nobleman who was successful as Chief Secretary for Ireland was most likely to make an excellent Viceroy. Lord Carlisle (who had 'succeeded to his title in 1848) was ap pointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1855 ; he re tired with the Ministry in 1858, and was reappointed on its return to office in 1859. How well he ad. ministered this high office is known to everyone who is conversant with politics. He was fair and candid, active and zealous in the discharge of his duties, liberal and impartial in his hospitalities. Nothing could be more touching than Lord Car. lisle's farewell to Ireland. His health was broken, and a visit to his native county had not improved it, He felt himself compelled, against the wish of the Government, to retire from his office. He was attended to the steamer which was to take him from Kingstown by a sorrowing group of friends. He paid a final—a tearful—visit previously to his old college friend, the Right Hon, Alexander Macdou. nell, the resident commissioner of the Board of National Education in Ireland. The Lord Lieute nant was deeply affected as he bade farewell to the national schools of which his beloved friend was the mainstay, and which he himself had done so much to support. When the steamer bore Lord Carlisle from the shores of the land whose interests he had so carefully watched over—the land, it may be said, of his adoption—there was scarcely a dry eye on the quay. The earl stood, deeply effected, on the deck, and so long as.the land was in sight waved his hand in recognition of.the friends he left behind him. Seldom has there been a statesman who has re tired from office with such universal expressions of esteem and regard. Lord Wodehouse, his successor, and Sir Robert Peel, his chief secretary, have, it may be said, vied with each other in graceful and kindly eulogies of his character. As representing the Queen in Dublin society, Lord Carlisle was the most agreeable and pleasant of viceroys. If there must be a viceroy at all, he was a model one; he inaugurated flower shows, he danced at balls, he lectured at young men's institutes. A graceful and accomplished scholar, ho was an admirable lecturer ; he earned considerable reputa tion by his lectures on Pope, for instance, On the very ticklish subject of theology Lord Carlisle contrived to hold an even balance between the Protestants and Roman Catholics, as well as be tween High Church Protestanta and the Low Church Protestants. if he made a Dr. Gregg Bishop of Cork and a Dr. Verschoyle Bishop of Kilmore, he at any rate compensated for such eccentricities by recommending such eminent men as Dr. Beresford for the Primacy and Dr. Trench for the See of Dublin. In short, Lord Carlisle was an impartial, a just, and a liberal man ; and he quitted his post—it is strange to say it of nn Irish official—with the respect and affection of both parties in Church and State. Lord Carlisle was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1847, he was elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen in 1853, and he received the freedom of the city of Derry in 1863. The noble earl was never married, and he is sue ceeded in his title and estates by his brother, the Hon. and Rev. William George Howard, of Christ Church, Oxford, who was born in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, in 1808, and has been rector of Londesborough, Yorkshire, since 1832. The pre sent earl is not married, and the heir presumptive is the Hon. Charles Wentworth George Howard, M.P, for East Cumberland since 1840, who mar. ried a daughter of Lord Wensleydale and has issue. Lord William Howard, the second son of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, was " restored in blood" by Act of Parliament in 1603, and mar ried Elizabeth, sister and coheir of George, Lord Deese of Gillesland, and so became also owner of Naworth, and Hinderskelle, the site of Castle Howard. This Lord William, by the way, was the famous "Bald Willy," or "Belted Will." His great grandson, Charles, was the first Earl of Car lisle, and was Ambassador to the "Czar of Mus covy," and Governor, subsequently, of Jamaica. The third earl was First Lord of the Treasury; the fourth earl, Henry, married, as his second wife, the daughter of the fourth Lord Byron ; and, through this marriage the illustrious poet, Lord Byron, became connected with the Howards, being, moreover, a ward of Lord Carlise, whom he lam• peened and sneered at. Several most distinguished families are placed in mourning by the death of Lord Carlisle. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Lascelles are his sisters ; Sir Henry George Howard, K.C.8., late Minister at Turin, is his brother ; the Hon. and Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard, D.D., dean of Lichfield, is his uncle; and the Duke of Devonshire and the Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey, rector of Morpeth, brother of Earl Grey, are his brothers•in•law. Within the last week or two Lord Carlisle re signed his office of Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding, and was succeeded by Lord Wenlocks He had been a Privy Councillor since 1835, and a Knight of the Garter since 1855. Lord Carlisle was as fond as all true scholars arJ of classical quotations, and one from his dearly loved Horace may aptly conclude this notice as an illustration of his own character : "Cui pudor, et justitiszo soror, Incorrupta Fides, nudaque Veritas, Quando ullum invenient patem ?" To say that Lord Carlisle was a great orator or a distinguished statesman would be absurd. He was a graceful speaker, and a conscientious, liberal, zealous, and impartial administrator. But he may well be described in. Horace's words as unsurpassed THE CATTLE SHOW.—The WELLINGT ON, St. Jame&'s-street. - The WELLINGTON Three Shilling Dinner, as well as Dinners from the "Carte," served as usuil. By order. JOHN CATES, Manager. 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Sir,—At the last meeting of the British Association, the balloon committee were charged with experiments to be made at times in the year and at times in the day at which no experiments bad hitherto been made, particularly at night and in the winter months. No arrangement has, as yet, been made to take night observations; but those of the winter have been determined upon. The first of these took place from 'Woolwich Arsenal on the fi , st, day of this month. In consequence of the balloon prepared for these experiments having been wantonly de af-rued at Leicester at a Foresters' fete, we aro compelled to use the best balloon Mr Colwell has. With this we cannot hope to ascend more than one mile and a half or two miles, and if, as on this occasion, the course of tho balloon is to wards the sea, not even that elevation can be attempted, but at the coat of greatly abbreviated time for observation, and the sacrifice of all results excepting those connected with temperature. If, with the small balloon, our course should at any time be inland,'both objects can be secured by keeping the gas at the first part of the journey, and ascending to the limit to which the balloon will take us just before descending. Tho balloon left at 2h 37m p.m., with a temperature of 48 deg, which remained unchanged untii 600 ft were passed. It then declined gradually to 311 deg, at the height of 5,200 ft, by 3h 58m. On falling to 4,000 ft the temperature increased to 331 deg, and declined to 30 deg at 5,000 it by 3h 26m. On again descending to 4,200 ft there was an in crease of 2 deg, and a decline to 29 deg at the height of 5,400 ft, by 3h 42m; a gradual increase to 41 deg at 1,400 ft, then no change on descendin g through the next 6001 t, when the last observation was made at 4h 23m, and we were on on the ground at 413. 26m, when it was too dark to read the instruments. The temperature of the dew point, at that temperature at which the water in the air is deposited visibly upon sub stances cooled down to that degree, as the bright metallic cups of a hygrometer , was 8 deg. below that of the air from the earth to the height of 1,600 ft.; the air then became much more humid, and at 2,100 ft. the difference between these two temperatures was 5 deg. only. On passing into a W.N.W. wind at 2,300 ft. the difference between them became 11 dog., and was nearly 20 deg. at the height of 5,030 ft., where the air was very dry. On descending, the two temperatures approached each other, and at 4,0130 ft. high were separated by 10 dog. orly. On again a ture f to g the diff ere nce increased to 23 deg., the tempera oe air being 32 deg. and tha t of the dew-point 9 deg., and it continued dry at high elevations. On descending below 3,500 ft at 3h 53m the air again be came humid, and continued so at all lower elevations, par ticularly between the heights of 800 ft and 1,200 ft, where the two temperatures were nearly alike and the balloon was covered with water. Some stra ta of wet air were passed of no great thickness, withou t p erce p tible fog, depositing a good deal of moisture. The reading of a delicate blackened bulb thermometer, placed in the full rays of the sun, which read 66 deg before l e aving the earth, never read so much as one degree higher than another delicate thermome ter most carefully protected from the sun during the whole journey. The bulbs of these two thermometers wore within two inches of each other. No tinge of ozone was shown throughout the journey. When at the height of 3,000 ft, the conclusion from proving guns at Woolwich affected the balloon, and caused every rope to vibrate perceptibly, and all the instruments to shake—and this took place each time a report was heard, even up to the height of 5,000 ft. Once no less than three eohoes were hoard following the report, but usually one re port alone was heard. A very delicate magnet, lent to me by Captain Evans, R,N., F.R.S,, whioh vibrates in a little more than two seconds on the earth, was observed on 10 different occasions, and the time of vibratioc appeared to be lengthened not withstanding the lower temperature of the higher regons. Another magnet less delicately mounted, and which 1 have frequently used, also occupied a somewhat longer time in vibrating than on the earth. For an altitude of 20 degrees all round there was mist; th e remainder of the sky w as for the most part clear. On examining the sun with a spectroscope on the earth the colours of the spectrum were moderately bright. The line B at the red and and G at the violet end were the extreme limits, and there were not many besides the principal lines between. The wind was nearly W. near the earth. On reaching 1,100 feet wo entered a S.W. current, and thought we should cross the river Thames N. of Erith, but on pass ing above 2,000 feet we entered a W.N.W. current, and passed at 3h. some little distance S. of Erith. smoke from We were over Dartford at 3 h. 16m., and here we saw the Gravesend passing southwards, or S.S.W., till it reached 1,000 ft., and then to turn upon itself. At this time, at the height of 5,000 ft., we were moving W,N.W., or towards Cobham-park ;at 3h. 34m. we were S. of Greenhithe, an it d nearly over Darent - woo d. On examining the country had an appearance we had never seen before at the h rfeeight of a mile up to this time, all hills having been dwarfed to level plains, and all valleys having been raised so that the earth has appeared uniformly plain. On the contrary, now, every variation of surface, every hollow, every rise were clearly shown; the course of the river Darent was traced for miles, with every elevation of land near it, but we could not see anything moving on the earth. The sun was shin ing ; the sky was perfectly clear and of a deep blue; on exa miniLg the sun's spectrum, it was indeed different from be low; the colours were all far brighter, the lines very nume rous, extending from A at the red end to far b l eyond H The at the violet end, which line •wao m ade up of One ines, Great Burglary in Lombard-street. Yesterday a discovery was made of a robbery of bullion, bills of exchange, foreign notes, and other valuable securities, to a large amount in the whole, which is supposed to have been effected some time during Saturday or Sunday night, on the premises of Messrs. Baum, Sons, and Co., long established in Lombard.street as bullion dealers and moneychangers. The manner in which the burglary appears to have been effected, and many of the attendant circumstances, are mysteri ous, and for the present baffle all the more experi enced of the'City police. Thb premises of Messrs Baum are situated a few paces on the further side of Birchin.lane, going eastward from the Mansion bowie, and on the northern side of Lombard-street. fhey are upon the ground floor, with cellars below, and the rest of the house, which is very large and lofty, is let out as offices to merchants and others. At night the whole house is in the charge of a re spectable elderly woman, the widow of a sergeant of police, as housekeeper, and with her a niece and her husband reside, the three occupying the top most story. A watch dog has the run of the whole of the passages and staircases at nights, and is ac. oustomed to bark on the slightest unusual noise. He was found yesterday morning with a strap, which had been used in tying up some of the secu rities that had been stolen, hanging loosely round his neck, but he was still going at large about the house, and the circumstance of the strap, inexplic able itself, unless used in restraining the animal, which would only have made him the more noisy, is one of the mysterious incidents connected with the robbery. Messrs Baum . closed their premises for the night on Saturday evening about 9 o'clock. They had then in gold in an iron safe, securely locked to all appearance, and itself enclosed in a strong room equally well secured, 62} Spanish and one Isabella doubloon, 378! eagles (American), 48i guineas, 7 louis-d'or, 2441 napoleons, 7cz. of ster ling-gold, 4 of ancient gold, and 2oz. of melting gold. Of notes they had £7l Irish ; A.:48 _Scotch ; 2,678 French; 120 Belgian ; 2,647 thalers; 1,802 Russian roubles ; 1,745 florins (Dutch); 750 dodos (German) ; 225 Austrian; two five pound notes of the Leeds Banking Company ; £365 in Australian notes ; 465 rupee notes ; 99 Ca nadian dollar notes, 37 American : £1 Nova Scotia, 100 Spanish killer notes, £5 in Guernsey notes, and six Baden bonds of 35 florins. They, had likewise certificates for shares in the Thames and Mersey Marine Company, the Alliance Bank, the Mariquita Mining Company, and the Austrian New Loan, two Dutch and three Russian bonds, two Lombardo- Venetian bonds, one Portuguese bond, 57 gold and 37 silver watches, numbers of every description of foreign silver coins, and many bills of ex chan g e. Yesterday morning, about 9 o'clock, one of the part ners in the firm opened the premises, and shortly afterwards went to the strong-room, accompanied by a boy with a lighted candle. The room is guarded by double doors with formidable locks. On apply. ing his key to the lock of the outer door he found that the scutcheon had been torn off and the lock itself had been tampered • with. Looking round a corner of the room he discovered that a hole about 18in. square, and large enough to admit a boy of ordinary size, had been cut through the solid brick work, and an entrance thus made into the r oom. The iron safe was open, th r ee of the looks of the inner door of the room h a d b e en wrenched off , emp t y cashboxes were strewn a b ou t, and the place was in disorder in other respects. The way in which the iron safe appeared to have been opened was most inexplicable. The door, indeed, had been removed from its hinges, but alth oug h formidable crowbars were lying about there was no mark visible about the door to show that any of them had been used in prising it open, nor were there any - indication of re' cent use on the crowbars themselves. Not only had the door of the safe been removed by the hinges, but a most formidable look inside of it had been broken in pieces, and the wards scattered about. The safe was completely empty, and a couple of morticing chisels, such as are Used by joiners, and the points of which had been broken lay on the floor. How the thieves got into the p rem i ses remains to be ex. plained. The street door, which is common to the whale house, opens into a passage, on the right hand of which is a door communicating with the counting house of Messrs Baum. The street door cannot be unlocked from the outside. It is in two halves, opening inwards, and at night is secured by bolts and crossbars on the inside, there being no lock on the outside or the inside. A person leaving the house after it had been closed for the night might remove the crossbars and bolts inside the 'street door, but he co uld not fasten the door afte r him, ailda pass ing policeman would probably soon find that it was open as he went his round. To prevent such a discovery the thieves had recourse to an ex traordinary expedient. Before leaving they actually screwed a spring latch inside the door, and on closing the door behind them as they passed out it fastened itself on the inner side, and so presented after wards an appearance from the outside of being secure. The robbery and the mystery which hangs about it have excited a good deal of interest in the city. The Messrs Baum, or some of them, have been in business in Lembard.street for 30 or 40 years, and many of their ester friends and clients called on them is the course of yday to express their syme pathy with them on the occasion. They themselves estimate their loss, though they speak with diffi dence on that point, at less than ZlO,OOO. The firm has offered a reward of £2OO for the discovery and conviction of the burglars. The housekeeper and her nephew and niece, who are reported to be respectable people, are unabe tc top of the house , five or six stories from the base give any explanat ion of th e affair. They live at the ment, and had not been disturbed either on Satur. g t, but that was not at h n ight. T he . dog had barked a good deal at one part o f the day or Sunday all an unusual circumstance: ------- A Board of officers —composed of a field officer, 3d Bri gade (president), an engineer officer, and anassist.-surgeen, members—assembled at the Royal Engineer-office, Alder shot, on Wednesd a y , to report upon the double ball-court ereoted near Aand,C lines, North Camp. Naval and Military Intelligence. The deepening of the steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard by manual labour, with the spade and barrow, under contract, is being proceeded with as rapidly as circumstances will permit. The excava. tion varies from about Eft. to 2ft. in depth; and the result, when the work is finally completed, will be to give the basin a uniform depth of 291 t. over its floor at ordinary spring tides. During the time the basin is being kept dry, to allow of the necessary excavation being made to give it this increased depth, advantage is being taken by the authorities of the opportunity to lower the inverts at the en- trances to the dock connected with the basin—Nos. 7,8, and 11. No. 7 dock is having its invert lowered to 27ft. —that is to say, 2ft. above the new level of the steam basin new floor. This will give it the same depth of water as now exists over the invert of No.lo, or the Warrior dock, at present the largest in Portsmouth yard. No. 7 was originally con structed as a separate dock, having its entrance from the steam basin. On the plans being decided upon, however, some years afterwards for No. 10 dock, it was determined to make the latter a continuation of No. '7, and by this means obtain a south as well as north entrance to the steam basin from the bar bour, with the additional advantages of greater. depth of water and readier access. As the new dock was of larger dimensions in every way than No. 7 the unavoidable result was that a great difference existed in the depth of the new channel of entrance formed to the steam basin by this junction of the two docks, which, as our ships of war increased in size, power of engines, arid draught of water, could not fail to prove a bar to the efficiency of the steam basin, too serious to be allowed to exist. The time has'now arrived for its removal, and the lowering of the invert of No. 7 to the level of that of No. 10, at the opposite end of the channel, is the first step in the matter taken by the auV,o rities. The second and final step, the lowering of the floor of No. 7, which is now oft above that of No. 10, will follow immediately on the completion of the deepening of its invert. These two docks aro divided by a caisson at their junction, and with this caisson remuvtd they form cue long dock and channel to the steam basin of 670 ft in length. This deck or channel in the No. 10 portion is 80ft. wide between the entrance-gate piers at the coping, 100 ft. wide at the top of the lico of coping, and 4011. wide on the floor line. In the No. 7 portion the same measurements are respectively 80ft., 100 ft., and 35ft. No. 8 dock is 34611. Gin. in length from the casson to the head of the dock at the coping. It is 70ft. wide (at present) between the entrance-gates piers at the coping, 80ft. at the top of the line of coping, and 33ft. on the floor line. Its invert is now being lowered to an equal depth with Nos. 7 and 10, and its depth of flooring will follow with No. 7. No. 11 dock, now constructing by Messrs. George Smith and Co., of Pimlico, is also having its invert lowered from 22ft. 9in. to 27ft., the depths on Nos. 7,8, and 10. This invert of No. 11 was the commencement of a dock designed many years since, but it now must form the en trance to an enlarged dock, to the width and depth of which it must be adapted. The naval estimates for 18645 fix the cost of lowering this invert and altering the caisson at £4,494. The dock; when completed, will be sufficiently capacious to receive the Minotaur class of ship, providing that the pre sent intentions of the Admiralty engineers .to im prove the approaches are carried into effect. The Steam Basin into which all these docks open is as nearly as possible in the shape of a ship's rudder, the after part, or shoulder of the rudder, forming the northern extremity of the present boundary of Portsmouth dockyard. It was formally opened in the presence of her Majesty on the 25th of May, 1848, Colonel Irvine, C. 8., setting the last stone ; Mr Rolt, the present chairman of the Thames Ironworks Engineering and Shipbuilding Com pany, being the contractor. It has a length of jetty on its east face of 679 ft., on its south face of 460 ft., on its west face of 950 ft., and on its north face or shoulder of 560fc. ; 2,500 men were constantly en. gaged on the work from first to last ; and the quan- tities of material consumed were 1,155,208 cubic ft• of stone, 7,696,000 bricks, and 735,700 cubic feet of Memel and beech timber. In excavating it 984,500 tons of earth were removed. In excavating the floor of the basin at the present time to increase the depth of water a considerable number of blocks of atone have been recovered which had evidently fallen into the excavated basin from the barges when its walls were completing, and have remained ever since be low the surface of the basin floor. A large number of pile heads have also been laid bare by the new excavations, and these will, as a matter of course, have to be cut down to the new level. The Steam Basin and its connecting docks referred to is the only place in which the authorities of Portsmouth I yard can efficiently refit or repair the iron or other large ships of her Majesty's navy. Their limited capabilities have been much felt since the introduc tion of screw frigates and lincoof-battle ships, and this has induced the authorities not only to make arrangements for the extension of Portsmouth yard which has been the subject of special legislation, but also to deepen the floors and entrances of the existing docks and basin in order to utilise them as far as may be possible for future service. The ex. isting establishment at Portsmouth, to say nothing of its absurdly incongruous arrangement, will be entirely put in the shade by the additions it will receive in the works now about to commence. The present extent of Portsmouth dockyard (including all official residencies, &c., and everything, in is only 115 acres. fact, Bu within t the eex the tens ou io b nw n y walls) , i d l a l, r iat the efirat instance alone, comprise 177 acres. To efficiently carr y on the onerous duties cf this work Mr H. Wood , who h as been for many years Government Clerk of the Works, and Assistant of Civi l er has been,pro moted to the Eg Engineer, Superintending e Civil En g ineer, and another appointment has been made of an As , sistant Civil Engineer. rank The screw corvetteCadmus, 21, 400 horse power, got up steam yesterday in Chatham harbour, along side the dockyard, for the purpose of testing the working of her boilers and machinery sink, the al teration and repairs effected by the engineer depart ment. Her engines and screw worked satisfactorily, the propeller being a new Griffith screw, which has been supplied to her in lieu of the old Admiralty Bursting of a Reservoir in Cumberland. On Wednesday last, a disaster occurred at the seaport of Harrington, Cumberland, similar in some respects to that which spread such devastation around Sheffield in the early part of this year, though upon a much smaller scale, and fortunately unattended with any loss of life. About 11 o'clock on that day a reservoir, three acres in extent, situated at a short distance from Harrington, burst and de luged the mein street with a wide stream, some Oft or Eft in depth, which rushed down the street with a loud roar, the ion body of water finally emptying itself into the harbour. The reservoir was one recently constructed to sandy the new ironworks of Messrs Bain, Blair, and Patterson. It was constructed in a valley, the adjacent hills forming two aides, and the low end being shut in by en embankment about 300 ft in length and 20ft high. This bank was Erft thick at the top, and it gradually spread out towards the base, sloping on either side. It is about ten months since the construction of this reservoir commenced, and it was almost completed when this catastrophe occurred on Wed nesday. The recent heavy rains had filled it, and the by fall which carries tho ovoid .w into a beck, and so into the harbour, proved inadequate to carry off the surplus water, which flowed over the side of tho embankment, and washed away the earth on the outer side, and so gradually dimi nished the thickness of the embankment at one place until it was incapable of resisting the pressure from within, and the water burst through, making a chasm some loft wide. One of the members of the firm (Mr Patterson) was stand ing on the embankment when the disaster occurred, and just saved himself by a well• timed leap. A man who had been employed at the dam, as soon as he saw the danger that was impending, ran down to the town to give the alarm. At this time the pupils of the national school were breaking up for dinner and coming into the streets. They were at once hurried into cottages, where they would be out of harm's way. In a few minutes after the catastrophe oc curred. Tho torrent came rolling along in high waves of four or five feet in height down the main street, inundating houses alone its line of route, and sweeping off all mov ables that came in its way. It is stated that the [stream occupied several minutes in passing. Fortunately no one was injured, all the damage done being confined to pro perty, some people wore carried for some distance by the flood, and a little boy who had sought refuge at the railway bridge had a narrow escape from being•drowned. The Whitehaven 2Vews thus describes the ravages of the flood :—" On bursting the embankment the water had overflowed the beck below, and, forming a stream several yards in width, pursued its way down the valley, tearing up a number of trees in its course. The first obstacle was the bridge of the beck, the parapet of which, consisting of three or four feet of brick and stone work, was completely carried away. Nearly opposite this bridge is a row of newly:built cottages. These were completely inundated to the height of from four to five feet; the furniture was floated about, and in most instances the fires were put out. The schoolroom and two or three other houses next door, being situated on high ground, did not suffer muela,*. but at Mr Kendall's brewery the damage was serious, two brewings, we understand, being completely wasted. At a short distance from Mr Kendall's brewery are three newly-erected houses, occupied respec tively by Captain James M , Greavey, Mrs. Glover, and Mrs. Barnes. At this block of buildings the water seemed to have dashed with immense force. Two walls at the} back wore knocked down, the collars in front filled with water, the pressure of which raised the flooring of the pass sago and front room, and occasioned serious damage to the property. At Captain M'Greavey's the water rose in the parlour to the height of about 4ft. The water had got into the room out of the cellar by forcing up the hearthstone, which was shattered to pieces. The carpets, hearthrug, to,, were one mass of mud. In the back room similar hams was made. Mrs Glover's house presented a similar scene of destruction. The water had found vent from the cellar by forcing up the front room, up which it rushed, carrying a large seta out of its place, and knocking over a massive chiffonnier. The water here rose to the height of 3ft or 4ft• From the house of Mrs Barnes, a laundress, several baskets of clothes were washed away, and at a late hour had not been recovered. Considerable injury was also done to the woodwork of the house. The reason why this block of build ings suffered more than others is owing to their having cellars attached to them, which becoming filled with water could only find vent by forcing•up the ceilings above. Tho many street is in many parts torn up, and trenches 2ft or 3ft wide and several yards long, leaving exposed the water pipes. have been made by the action of the water. The foundation Of the iron railway bridge has also yielded to the flood. Several large stones, fragments of the beck bridge, wore found near the harbour, having been carried out bee tween 300 and 400 yards. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—ilomceopathic practitioners; and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc trine of homeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obt ‘ined no preparations of cocoa either at tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach the nut was either supplied is the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London; Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subjeot, and at length sucoeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined. by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps's Cocoa i s distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, Possess i n g _ a most deli cious aroma. 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